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Louis Jacques Thénard
Born: May 4, 1777
Sciencea French chemist.more…Paul Ehrlich

Born: March 14, 1854
Sciencea German physician and scientist. The methods he developed made it possible to distinguish between types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose many blood diseasesmore…Hendrik Conscience
Born: December 3, 1812
Lit.Westa Belgian author, considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French languagemore…Ernst Haeckel
Born: February 16, 1834
Sciencea German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.more…William Holman Hunt
Born: April 2, 1827
Art.Westan English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid color, and elaborate symbolismmore…Fritz Pregl

Born: September 3, 1869
Sciencea Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physicianmore…
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