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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Born: August 4, 1792
Lit.Westone of the major English Romantic poetsmore…Denis Diderot
Born: October 5, 1713
ScienceLit.Westa French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédiemore…Frédéric Mistral
Born: September 8, 1830
Lit.Westa French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language.more…John Goodricke
Born: September 17, 1764
Sciencean English amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol (Beta Persei) in 1782.more…Eugenio Montale
Born: October 12, 1896
Lit.Westan Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literaturemore…Alfred North Whitehead
Born: February 15, 1861
Sciencean English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy,more…
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