We center the most extraordinary and accomplished people throughout history.
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Thomas Couture
Born: December 21, 1815
Art.Westa French history painter and teachermore…Matthew Boulton
Born: September 3, 1728
Sciencean English manufacturer and business partner of Scottish engineer James Watt.more…Natalia Goncharova
Born: July 3, 1881
Art.Westa Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designermore…Paul Ulrich Villard
Born: September 28, 1860
Sciencea French chemist and physicist. He discovered gamma rays in 1900 while studying the radiation emanating from radium.more…Stefan George
Born: July 12, 1868
Lit.Westa German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelairemore…Andrea del Sarto
Born: July 16, 1486
Art.Westan Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
