a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine. known for use of chloroform as anaesthetic in childbirth, design of obstetric forceps

an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms

a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.

a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.

a Hungarian poet. Generally not recognized during his lifetime, József was hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great "proletarian poet"