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Italo Svevo
Born: December 19, 1861
Lit.Westan Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.more…Johannes V. Jensen
Born: January 20, 1907
Sciencea Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century.more…Alessandro Manzoni
Born: March 7, 1785
Lit.Westan Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed, generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literaturemore…Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein
Born: July 1, 1740
Sciencean Austrian mineralogist and mining engineer. During his time in Transylvania he discovered tellurium in 1782more…Marcello Malpighi
Born: March 10, 1628
Sciencean Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "Founder of microscopical anatomy, histology & Father of physiology and embryology"more…Angelica Kauffman
Born: October 30, 1741
Art.Westa Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Romemore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
