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Eugenio Montale

Born: October 12, 1896
Lit.Westan Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literaturemore…Archibald Garrod
Born: November 25, 1857
Sciencean English physician who pioneered the field of inborn errors of metabolism.more…Thomas Hardy
Born: June 2, 1840
Lit.Westan English novelist and poet, influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworthmore…Henri Fantin-Latour
Born: January 14, 1836
Art.Westa French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.more…Nordahl Grieg
Born: November 1, 1902
Lit.Westa Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist and political activist. He was a popular author and a controversial public figure.more…Xavier Bichat
Born: November 14, 1771
Sciencea French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Bichat distinguished, without a microscope, 21 types of tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.