a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists.

a Norwegian mathematician and chemist. Guldberg is best known as a pioneer in physical chemistry.

a Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed in a relatively tonal, late Romantic idiom.

a German Expressionist poet and playwright. His works were banned when the Nazis came to power and he went into exile in France. There he was imprisoned as a "foreign enemy".

a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet

an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist