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Théophile Gautier
Born: August 30, 1811
Lit.Westa French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.more…Pafnuty Chebyshev
Born: May 16, 1821
Sciencea Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.more…Joseph Liouville
Born: March 24, 1809
Sciencea French mathematician and engineer.more…Knut Hamsun
Born: August 4, 1859
Lit.Westa Norwegian writer whose work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment.more…Francisco de Zurbarán
Born: November 7, 1598
Art.Westa Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes.more…Philippe Pinel
Born: April 20, 1745
Sciencea French physician, precursor of psychiatry and incidentally a zoologistmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.