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Albert Hofmann
Born: January 11, 1906
Sciencea Swiss chemist known best for being the first known person to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).more…Wilhelm Wien

Born: January 13, 1864
Sciencea German physicist who used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement lawmore…George Meredith
Born: February 12, 1828
Lit.Westan English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but he gradually established a reputation as a novelistmore…Pierre Gassendi
Born: January 22, 1592
Sciencea French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.more…John Flaxman
Born: July 6, 1755
Art.Westa British sculptor and draughtsman, and a leading figure in British and European Neoclassicismmore…Irène Joliot-Curie

Born: September 12, 1897
Sciencea French chemist, physicist and politician, the elder daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.