an English politician, philosopher, and writer

a German-Austrian ethologist. His work centered on investigations of the sensory perceptions of the honey bee and he was one of the first to translate the meaning of the waggle dance.

a Danish realist writer whose novels and short stories were informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization

a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II.

a French artist whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century

a French history painter and teacher