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Francis Baily
Born: April 28, 1774
Sciencean English astronomer. He is most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun; also a major figure in the early history of the Royal Astronomical Societymore…Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Born: May 25, 1803
Lit.Westan English writer and politicianmore…Vladimir Korolenko
Born: July 27, 1853
Lit.Westa Ukrainian-born Russian writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian of Ukrainian and Polish originmore…Reinhard Sorge
Born: January 29, 1892
Lit.Westa German dramatist and poet. He is best known for writing the Expressionist play The Beggar (Der Bettler), killed in action during WWI in the summer of 1916more…Michel Rolle
Born: April 21, 1652
Sciencea French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination (1690).more…Alfred Döblin
Born: August 10, 1878
Lit.Westa German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatzmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
