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Paul Delaroche
Born: July 17, 1797
Art.Westa French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English and French historymore…Hans Geiger
Born: September 30, 1882
Sciencea German physicist. He is best known as the co-inventor of the detector component of the Geiger counter and for the Geiger–Marsden experiment which discovered the atomic nucleus.more…Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Born: January 10, 1797
Lit.Westa 19th-century German poet, novelist, and composer of Classical music. She was also the author of the novella Die Judenbuche.more…Marie Curie
Born: November 7, 1867
Sciencea Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.more…Franz Kafka
Born: July 3, 1883
Lit.Westa German-speaking Bohemian novelist, short-story writer and insurance officer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literaturemore…Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers
Born: October 11, 1758
Sciencea German physician and astronomer.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.