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Gideon Mantell
Born: February 3, 1790
Sciencean English obstetrician, geologist and paleontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaursmore…John Flamsteed
Born: August 19, 1646
ScienceFirst Astronomer Royalmore…François Boucher
Born: September 29, 1703
Art.Westa French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style, perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th centurymore…Hans Fallada
Born: July 21, 1893
Lit.Westa German writer of the first half of the 20th centurymore…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…Hermann Hankel
Born: February 14, 1839
Sciencea German mathematician. Having worked on mathematical analysis during his career, he is best known for introducing the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.