a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe.

a Hungarian physician and scientist, He discovered that the incidence of puerperal fever ("childbed fever") could be drastically reduced by requiring hand disinfection in obstetrical clinics

a German-British electrical engineer and businessman.

a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.

a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids and measured the distance from the Earth to the Sun

a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting historical scenes. He became famous for his melodramatic depictions that often portrayed subjects from English and French history