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Dmitry Bortniansky
Born: October 28, 1751
Music.Westa Russian Imperial composermore…Reinhard Sorge
Born: January 29, 1892
Lit.Westa German dramatist and poet. He is best known for writing the Expressionist play The Beggar (Der Bettler), killed in action during WWI in the summer of 1916more…André-Louis Debierne
Born: July 14, 1874
Sciencea French chemist often considered the discoverer of the element actiniummore…Max Planck
Born: April 23, 1858
Sciencea German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.more…Johann Rudolf Glauber
Born: March 10, 1604
Sciencea German-Dutch alchemist and chemist. Some historians of science have described him as one of the first chemical engineers.more…Bernard Mandeville
Born: November 15, 1670
Lit.Westan Anglo-Dutch philosopher, political economist and satiristmore…
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