an Italian chemical engineer and Nobel laureate. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 with Karl Ziegler for work on high polymers

a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him

a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story

a German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher

a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French

a British-American artist who painted famous historical scenes such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky.