We center the most extraordinary and accomplished people throughout history.
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Bertolt Brecht
Born: February 10, 1898
Lit.Westa German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poetmore…Domenico Ghirlandaio
Born: June 2, 1449
Art.Westan Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Many apprentices passed through Ghirlandaio's workshop, including the famous Michelangelomore…Max Ernst
Born: April 2, 1891
Art.Westa German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet.more…John Dollond
Born: June 21, 1706
Sciencean English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doubletsmore…Walther Nernst
Born: June 25, 1864
Sciencea German chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid state physics.more…Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Born: April 9, 1806
Sciencean English civil engineer "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, who changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs."more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
