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Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Born: January 23, 1751
Lit.Westa Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movementmore…Madame de La Fayette
Born: March 18, 1634
Lit.Westa French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.more…Walter de la Mare
Born: April 25, 1873
Lit.Westan English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners",more…Étienne Méhul
Born: June 22, 1763
Music.Westa French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution"more…Dmitri Ivanovsky
Born: October 28, 1864
Sciencea Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of viruses (1892) and one of the founders of virology.more…Hans Christian Andersen
Born: April 2, 1805
Lit.Westa Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
