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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Born: June 18, 1845
Sciencea French physician, discoverer of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasismore…William Makepeace Thackeray
Born: July 18, 1811
Lit.Westa British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British societymore…Paul Éluard
Born: December 14, 1895
Lit.Westa French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movementmore…Samuel Richardson
Born: August 19, 1689
Lit.Westan English writer and printer known for three epistolary novelsmore…Mary Shelley
Born: August 30, 1797
Lit.Westan English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fictionmore…Albrecht Penck
Born: September 25, 1858
Sciencea German geographer and geologist and the father of Walther Penckmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
