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Amedeo Modigliani
Born: July 12, 1884
Art.Westan Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern stylemore…William Huggins
Born: February 7, 1824
Sciencean English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife, Margaretmore…Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin
Born: August 14, 1866
Sciencea Belgian mathematician. He is best known for proving the prime number theorem. The king of Belgium ennobled him with the title of baron.more…Willem Bilderdijk
Born: September 7, 1756
Lit.Westa Dutch poet, historian, lawyer, and linguist.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…George Boole
Born: November 2, 1815
Sciencea largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician. Boolean logic is credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
