We center the most extraordinary and accomplished people throughout history.
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Benjamin Constant
Born: October 25, 1767
Lit.Westa Franco-Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion.more…Franco Alfano
Born: March 8, 1875
Music.Westan Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera Risurrezione (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926more…Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Born: February 25, 1841
Art.Westa French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist stylemore…Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Born: May 12, 1828
Art.WestLit.Westan English poet, illustrator, painter, and translatormore…Ernst Haeckel
Born: February 16, 1834
Sciencea German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.more…Otto Friedrich Müller
Born: November 2, 1730
Sciencea Danish naturalist and scientific illustrator.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
