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Carl Orff
Born: July 10, 1895
Music.Westa German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.more…Arthur Stoll
Born: January 8, 1887
Sciencea Swiss biochemist. The son of a teacher and school headmaster, he studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich, with a PhD in 1911, where he studied with Richard Willstätter.more…August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Born: April 2, 1818
Sciencea German poet. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national anthem of Germany, and a number of popular children's songsmore…Eduard Mörike
Born: September 8, 1804
Lit.Westa German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songsmore…Victorien Sardou
Born: September 5, 1831
Lit.Westa French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play.more…Max Born
Born: December 11, 1882
Sciencea German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanicsmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
