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Carlo Carrà
Born: February 11, 1881
Art.Westan Italian painter and a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th centurymore…Alessandro Volta
Born: February 18, 1745
Sciencean Italian physicist, chemist and lay Catholic who was a pioneer of electricity and power who is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methanemore…Alfred Jarry
Born: September 8, 1873
Lit.Westa French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896). He also coined the term and philosophical concept of pataphysics.more…Adolf von Baeyer
Born: October 31, 1835
Sciencea German chemist who synthesised indigo and developed a nomenclature for cyclic compounds (that was subsequently extended and adopted as part of the IUPAC organic nomenclature).more…Patrick Manson
Born: October 3, 1844
Sciencea Scottish physician who made important discoveries in parasitology, and was a founder of the field of tropical medicine.more…Theodor Billroth
Born: April 26, 1829
Sciencea German and Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.