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George Cayley
Born: December 27, 1773
Sciencean English engineer, inventor, and aviator. Designed first successful human glider. Discovered the four aerodynamic forces of flight: weight, lift,more…Yevgeny Baratynsky
Born: March 2, 1800
Lit.Westa Russian poet, lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finestmore…James Thomson
Born: September 11, 1700
Lit.Westa Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia!"more…Dorothy Hodgkin
Born: May 12, 1910
Sciencea Nobel Prize-winning British chemist who advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography which became essential for structural biologymore…Charles Richet
Born: August 25, 1850
Sciencea French physiologist at the Collège de France known for his pioneering work in immunology.more…Carl Jung
Born: July 26, 1875
Sciencea Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychologymore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
