a German writer and poet from Munich.

an English inventor, whose steel-making process would become the most important technique for making steel in the nineteenth century for almost one hundred years from 1856 to 1950.

a Russian author and social critic who was arrested and exiled under Catherine the Great.

a Swedish chemist and mineralogist noted for his 1775 Dissertation on Elective Attractions, containing the largest chemical affinity tables ever published

a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design

a Polish mathematician who is considered by many one of the 20th-century's most important and influential mathematicians