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Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Born: July 14, 1800
Sciencea French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic and molecular weights by measuring vapor densitiesmore…Jan van Goyen
Born: January 13, 1596
Art.Westa Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, winter landscape, cityscapes, architectural views and landscapes with peasants.more…Leconte de Lisle
Born: October 22, 1818
Lit.Westa French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.more…Georg Büchner
Born: October 17, 1813
Lit.Westa German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, had it not been for his death at 23, he might have joined such central figures as Goethe and Schiller at the summit of their professionmore…Rafael Alberti
Born: December 16, 1902
Lit.Westa Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Literature,more…Louis Jacques Thénard
Born: May 4, 1777
Sciencea French chemist.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.