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James Rennell
Born: December 3, 1742
Sciencean English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanographymore…Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
Born: April 10, 1651
Sciencea German mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher. He introduced the Tschirnhaus transformation and is considered by some to have been the inventor of European porcelain,more…Ferdinand Hodler
Born: March 14, 1853
Art.Westone of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic stylemore…Carl Reichenbach
Born: February 12, 1788
Sciencea chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, industrialist and philosopher, and a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.more…Friedrich Ernst Dorn
Born: July 27, 1848
Sciencea German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.more…Antonio Machado
Born: July 26, 1875
Lit.Westa Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.