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William Ramsay
Born: October 2, 1852
Sciencea Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air"more…Henry Raeburn
Born: March 4, 1756
Art.Westa Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland.more…Hermann Hesse
Born: July 2, 1877
Lit.Westa German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Gamemore…Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Born: April 9, 1806
Sciencean English civil engineer "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, who changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs."more…Paul Éluard
Born: December 14, 1895
Lit.Westa French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movementmore…Sigmund Freud
Born: May 6, 1856
Sciencean Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies in the psyche through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalystmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.