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Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
Born: June 2, 1850
Sciencean English physiologist regarded as a founder of endocrinology; coined the word "insulin"more…Dennis Gabor

Born: June 5, 1900
Sciencea Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holographymore…John Taverner
Born: January 1, 1495
Music.Westan English composer and organist, regarded as one of the most important English composers of his era. He is best-known for Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas and The Western Wynde Massmore…Leonardo da Vinci
Born: April 15, 1452
Art.WestSciencean Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.more…Otto Fritz Meyerhof

Born: April 12, 1884
Sciencea German physician and biochemist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.more…Jerzy Andrzejewski
Born: August 19, 1909
Lit.Westa prolific Polish writer whose works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartimemore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.