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Pierre Gassendi
Born: January 22, 1592
Sciencea French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.more…John Wilkinson
Born: January 1, 1728
Sciencean English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolutionmore…Masaccio
Born: December 21, 1401
Art.Westa Florentine artist who is regarded as the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissancemore…Wilhelm Leibl
Born: October 23, 1844
Art.Westa German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant lifemore…Adam Sedgwick
Born: March 22, 1785
Sciencea British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology; opposition to evolution and natural selectionmore…Georg Cantor
Born: March 3, 1845
Sciencea German mathematician. He played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
