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Ernest Solvay
Born: April 16, 1838
Sciencea Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist.more…Fritz Pregl

Born: September 3, 1869
Sciencea Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physicianmore…Edward Jenner
Born: May 17, 1749
Sciencea British physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first ever vaccinemore…Francis William Aston

Born: September 1, 1877
Sciencea British chemist and physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elementsmore…Fernando Pessoa
Born: June 13, 1888
Lit.Westa Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.more…Rudolf Diesel
Born: March 18, 1858
Sciencea German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the diesel engine, which burns diesel fuel; both are named after him.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.