a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

an Italian sculptor considered to be an artist working in a post-Impressionist style.

a French physician and musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker.

a German mathematician. Having worked on mathematical analysis during his career, he is best known for introducing the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix.

an English novelist and poet, influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing.