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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Born: August 4, 1792
Lit.Westone of the major English Romantic poetsmore…Wilhelm Johannsen
Born: February 3, 1857
Sciencea Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments in genetics.more…Leo Tolstoy
Born: September 9, 1828
Lit.Westa Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.more…Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Born: November 1, 1636
Lit.Westa French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose.more…Henri Becquerel

Born: December 15, 1852
Sciencea French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity.more…George Cayley
Born: December 27, 1773
Sciencean English engineer, inventor, and aviator. Designed first successful human glider. Discovered the four aerodynamic forces of flight: weight, lift,more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.