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Friedrich Rückert
Born: May 16, 1788
Lit.Westa German poet, translator, and professor of Oriental languages.more…Ford Madox Ford
Born: December 17, 1873
Lit.Westan English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.more…Andrey Kolmogorov
Born: April 25, 1903
Sciencea Soviet mathematician who contributed to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic and many other fieldsmore…Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Born: January 1, 1617
Art.Westa Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children.more…Gustav Klimt
Born: July 14, 1862
Art.Westan Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art.more…Joseph Black
Born: April 16, 1728
Sciencea Scottish physicist and chemist, known for his discoveries of magnesium, latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide.more…
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