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Georg Trakl
Born: February 3, 1887
Lit.Westan Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.more…Hermann Broch
Born: November 1, 1886
Lit.Westan Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fictionmore…Jacopo Corsi
Born: July 17, 1561
Music.Westan Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque and one of Florence's leading patrons of the arts, after only the Medicismore…Walther Flemming
Born: April 21, 1843
Sciencea German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics.more…Charles Wheatstone
Born: February 6, 1802
Sciencean English scientist and inventor. He is best known for his contributions in the development of the Wheatstone bridge, which is used to measure an unknown electrical resistancemore…John Goodricke
Born: September 17, 1764
Sciencean English amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol (Beta Persei) in 1782.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
