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Nikolai Leskov
Born: February 16, 1831
Lit.Westa Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky.more…Heinrich Heine
Born: December 13, 1797
Lit.Westa German poet, writer and literary critic, best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetrymore…Anatole France
Born: April 16, 1844
Lit.Westa French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of lettersmore…Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
Born: June 2, 1850
Sciencean English physiologist regarded as a founder of endocrinology; coined the word "insulin"more…Joseph von Fraunhofer
Born: March 6, 1787
Sciencea German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He made optical glass and achromatic telescope objective lenses, invented the spectroscope, and developed diffraction gratingmore…Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Born: April 5, 1804
Sciencea German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.