We center the most extraordinary and accomplished people throughout history.
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Hans Fallada
Born: July 21, 1893
Lit.Westa German writer of the first half of the 20th centurymore…Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
Born: February 2, 1903
Sciencea Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics.more…Carl Gustaf Mosander
Born: September 10, 1797
Sciencea Swedish chemist. He discovered the rare earth elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.more…Ignazio Silone
Born: May 1, 1900
Lit.Westan Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-Fascist novelsmore…Dmitri Ivanovsky
Born: October 28, 1864
Sciencea Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of viruses (1892) and one of the founders of virology.more…Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Born: April 4, 1758
Art.Westa French Romantic painter and draughtsman best known for his allegorical paintings and portraits such as Madame Georges Anthony and Her Two Sons (1796).more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
