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Georges Braque
Born: May 13, 1882
Art.Westa major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptormore…J. J. Thomson
Born: December 18, 1856
Sciencea British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.more…James Joseph Sylvester
Born: September 3, 1814
Sciencean English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.more…Nicolas Dalayrac
Born: June 8, 1753
Music.Westa French composer of the Classical periodmore…James Thomson
Born: September 11, 1700
Lit.Westa Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"more…Kostis Palamas
Born: January 13, 1859
Lit.Westa Greek poet who wrote the words to the Olympic Hymn. He was a central figure of the Greek literary generation of the 1880smore…
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