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Johann Gottfried Galle
Born: June 9, 1812
Sciencea German astronomer from Radis, Germany, who with the assistance of a student, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at.more…Leo Tolstoy
Born: September 9, 1828
Lit.Westa Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.more…Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Born: May 25, 1803
Lit.Westan English writer and politicianmore…Frank Whittle
Born: June 1, 1907
Sciencean English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet enginemore…Yevgeny Baratynsky
Born: March 2, 1800
Lit.Westa Russian poet, lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finestmore…Charles Glover Barkla
Born: June 7, 1877
Sciencea British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays)more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
