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George Peacock
Born: April 9, 1791
Sciencean English mathematician and Anglican cleric. He founded what has been called the British algebra of logic.more…Théodore Chassériau
Born: September 20, 1819
Art.Westa Dominican-born French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.more…Wilhelm Johannsen
Born: February 3, 1857
Sciencea Danish pharmacist, botanist, plant physiologist, and geneticist. He is best known for coining the terms gene, phenotype and genotype, and for his 1903 "pure line" experiments in genetics.more…Konrad Lorenz
Born: November 7, 1903
Sciencean Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.more…Alexander Scriabin
Born: December 25, 1872
Music.Westa Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. Before 1903, Scriabin was greatly influenced by the music of Frédéric Chopin and composed in a relatively tonal, late Romantic idiom.more…Joan Miró
Born: April 20, 1893
Art.Westa Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicistmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.