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Johann Josef Loschmidt
Born: March 15, 1821
Sciencea notable Austrian scientist who performed ground-breaking work in chemistry, physics (thermodynamics, optics, electrodynamics), and crystal forms.more…Charlotte Brontë
Born: April 21, 1816
Lit.Westan English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.more…Ronald Fisher
Born: February 17, 1890
Sciencea British polymath who was active as a mathematician, statistician, biologist, and geneticist. "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science"more…Jakob Wassermann
Born: March 10, 1873
Lit.Westa German writer and novelist.more…George Grosz
Born: July 26, 1893
Art.Westa German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s.more…Multatuli
Born: March 2, 1820
Lit.Westa Dutch writer considered one of the Netherlands' greatest authorsmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.