a Dutch composer, music critic and music teacher. Pijper is considered to be among the most important Dutch composers of the first half of the 20th century.

a Swedish writer, historian, poet, romantic critic of political economy, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism.

a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".

a German chemist. Discoverer of uranium, zirconium, and other elements

a British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventative medicine.

a French mathematician known for de Moivre's formula, a formula that links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory