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Maurice Maeterlinck

Born: August 29, 1862
Lit.Westa Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in Frenchmore…Frédéric Mistral

Born: September 8, 1830
Lit.Westa French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language.more…Elias Lönnrot
Born: April 9, 1802
Lit.Westa Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for creating the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, from short ballads and lyric poemsmore…Camille Pissarro
Born: July 10, 1830
Art.Westa Danish-French painter who made contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionismmore…Barbara Hepworth
Born: January 10, 1903
Art.Westan English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpturemore…Francis William Aston

Born: September 1, 1877
Sciencea British chemist and physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elementsmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.