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Louis Daguerre
Born: November 18, 1787
ScienceArt.Westa French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.more…George Johnstone Stoney
Born: February 15, 1826
Sciencean Irish physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity".more…William Hogarth
Born: November 10, 1697
Art.Westan English painter, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"more…Albert Szent-Györgyi

Born: September 16, 1893
Sciencea Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.more…Maurice Barrès
Born: August 19, 1862
Lit.Westa French novelist, journalist and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888.more…Guillaume Apollinaire
Born: August 26, 1880
Lit.Westa French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.