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Charles Le Brun
Born: February 24, 1619
Art.Westa French painter, physiognomist, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time.more…James Jeans
Born: September 11, 1877
Sciencean English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.more…Erik Gustaf Geijer
Born: January 12, 1783
Lit.Westa Swedish writer, historian, poet, romantic critic of political economy, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism.more…Tullio Levi-Civita
Born: March 29, 1873
Sciencean Italian mathematician, most famous for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativitymore…Giovanni Fattori
Born: September 6, 1825
Art.Westan Italian artist, one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. He was initially a painter of historical themes and military subjects.more…Niels Bohr

Born: October 7, 1885
Sciencea Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.