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Johan Christian Fabricius
Born: January 7, 1745
Sciencea Danish zoologist, specializing in "Insecta". He is considered one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century,more…Immanuel Kant
Born: April 22, 1724
Sciencea German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.more…Friedrich Bessel
Born: July 22, 1784
Sciencea German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallaxmore…Hermann Kolbe
Born: September 27, 1818
Sciencea major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistrymore…Percy Bysshe Shelley
Born: August 4, 1792
Lit.Westone of the major English Romantic poetsmore…António Egas Moniz

Born: November 29, 1874
Sciencea Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern psychosurgery,more…
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