an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his career, in the 1920s and 1930s, one of the most widely translated and most popular writers in the world.

a Swedish chemist. He discovered the rare earth elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium.

an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera

a Danish zoologist, specializing in "Insecta". He is considered one of the most important entomologists of the 18th century,

a French sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing