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Theodor Svedberg
Born: August 30, 1884
Sciencea Swedish chemist and Nobel laureate for his research on colloids and proteins using the ultracentrifugemore…Theo van Doesburg
Born: August 30, 1883
Art.Westa Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.more…Pyotr Kapitsa
Born: July 8, 1894
Sciencea leading Soviet physicist, engineer and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.more…Horace Walpole
Born: September 24, 1717
Lit.Westan English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician.more…Prosper Mérimée
Born: September 28, 1803
Lit.Westa French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short storymore…Rosa Bonheur
Born: March 16, 1822
Art.Westa French artist known best as a painter of animals (animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
