a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.

a Hungarian poet. Generally not recognized during his lifetime, József was hailed during the communist era of the 1950s as Hungary's great "proletarian poet"

an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology

a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's Newcomen steam engine, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution

a French painter and lithographer, whose best-known painting is The Raft of the Medusa. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement

a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously