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Ilya Frank
Born: October 23, 1908
Sciencea Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union.more…Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Born: July 2, 1724
Lit.Westa German poet. One of his major contributions to German literature was to open it up to exploration outside of French modelsmore…Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Born: May 28, 1789
Lit.Westa Danish novelist and poetmore…Ford Madox Brown
Born: April 16, 1821
Art.Westa British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style.more…Aristide Maillol
Born: December 8, 1861
Art.Westa French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.more…Nehemiah Grew
Born: September 26, 1641
Sciencean English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".more…
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