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Georges Braque
Born: May 13, 1882
Art.Westa major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptormore…Johann Bernoulli
Born: August 6, 1667
Sciencea Swiss mathematician and one of the many prominent mathematicians in the family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating Leonhard Euler in the pupil's youthmore…Joseph Liouville
Born: March 24, 1809
Sciencea French mathematician and engineer.more…Archer Martin

Born: March 1, 1910
Sciencea British chemist, co-inventor of partition chromatographymore…Pierre Puget
Born: October 16, 1620
Art.Westa French Baroque painter, sculptor, architect and engineer. His sculpture expressed emotion, pathos and drama, setting it apart from the more classical and academic sculpture of the Style Louis XIV.more…Louis Pasteur
Born: December 27, 1822
Sciencea French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurizationmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.