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Luca Signorelli
Born: January 1, 1441
Art.Westan Italian Renaissance painter who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening.more…Stephen Spender
Born: February 28, 1909
Lit.Westan English poet, novelist and essayist whose work concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle.more…Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
Born: January 23, 1751
Lit.Westa Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movementmore…Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Born: August 2, 1905
Music.Westa German composer. Sometimes described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries.more…Georgius Agricola
Born: March 24, 1494
Sciencea German Humanist scholar, mineralogist generally referred to as the Father of Mineralogy.more…Charles Bell
Born: November 12, 1774
Sciencea Scottish surgeon, anatomist, physiologist, neurologist, artist, and philosophical theologian. He is noted for discovering the difference between sensory nerves and motor nerves in the spinal cord.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.