a Dutch writer considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authors

a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist generally referred to as the Father of Mineralogy.

a French naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu

an Italian mathematician and glottologist. The author of over 200 books and papers, he was a founder of mathematical logic and set theory, to which he contributed much notation.

a Swedish chemist and metallurgist who discovered manganese in 1774

a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director