a French Neoclassical painter. He was influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style

a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement

a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. He was among the first major keyboard composers of Europe.

a Dutch-American theoretical physicist. Electron spin Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process Quantum Boltzmann equation

a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. He was one of the pioneers in studying the problem of friction, which is the resistance to motion when bodies make contact.

a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate