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André Michel Lwoff
Born: May 8, 1902
Sciencea French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin.more…Erich Hückel
Born: August 9, 1896
Sciencea German physicist and physical chemistmore…Hermann Grassmann
Born: April 15, 1809
Sciencea German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher.more…Joshua Reynolds
Born: July 16, 1723
Art.Westan English painter, specializing in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century.more…François Arago
Born: February 26, 1786
Sciencea French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the Carbonari revolutionaries and politician.more…José-Maria de Heredia
Born: November 22, 1842
Lit.Westa Cuban-born French Parnassian poet. He was the fifteenth member elected for seat 4 of the Académie française in 1894.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
