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Theodor Billroth
Born: April 26, 1829
Sciencea German and Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.more…Fritz Pregl
Born: September 3, 1869
Sciencea Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physicianmore…Gustav Klimt
Born: July 14, 1862
Art.Westan Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art.more…Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born: October 21, 1772
Lit.Westan English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in Englandmore…George Stephenson
Born: June 9, 1781
Sciencean English civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways",more…Joseph Fourier
Born: March 21, 1768
Sciencea French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis,more…
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