an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication

a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.

a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director

a Jesuit German mathematician, a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by Aloysius Lilius, that is known as Gregorian calendar.

a Danish chemist, famous for the introduction of the concept of pH, a scale for measuring acidity and alkalinity.