an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays

a German painter. A member of the Nazarene movement, he also made four etchings

a German physicist and physical chemist

a German chemist. With his laboratory assistant Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use.

a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism

a Norwegian poet, playwright, journalist and theatre critic