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John Milton
Born: December 9, 1608
Lit.Westan English poet and intellectual. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667).more…Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Born: January 22, 1729
Lit.Westa German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic, and a representative of the Enlightenment eramore…William Henry Perkin
Born: March 12, 1838
Sciencea British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from anilinemore…James Watt
Born: January 19, 1736
Sciencea Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's Newcomen steam engine, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolutionmore…Charles Perrault
Born: January 12, 1628
Lit.Westan iconic French author. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, "The Sleeping Beauty", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Bluebeard"more…Nicolas Dalayrac
Born: June 8, 1753
Music.Westa French composer of the Classical periodmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.