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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Born: May 10, 1788
Sciencea French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of lightmore…Joseph Roth
Born: September 2, 1894
Lit.Westan Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga Radetzky March (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empiremore…Masaccio
Born: December 21, 1401
Art.Westa Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissancemore…Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Born: January 1, 1622
Lit.Westa German author. He is best known for his 1669 picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus) and the accompanying Simplician Scriptures series.more…Henry Louis Le Chatelier
Born: October 8, 1850
Sciencea French chemist. He devised the principle used by chemical engineers to predict the effect a changing condition has on a system in chemical equilibriummore…Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Born: May 11, 1827
Art.Westa French sculptor and painter during the Second Empire under Napoleon IIImore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
