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Gustave Eiffel
Born: December 15, 1832
Sciencea French civil engineer, best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, designed and built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to the Statue of Liberty.more…Peter Benoit
Born: August 17, 1834
Music.Westa Flemish composer of Belgian nationality.more…Lewis Carroll
Born: January 27, 1832
Lit.Westan English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).more…Jacques Monod
Born: February 9, 1910
Sciencea French biochemist, discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesismore…Henri Barbusse
Born: May 17, 1873
Lit.Westa French novelist and a member of the French Communist Party. He was a lifelong friend of Albert Einsteinmore…Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner
Born: December 13, 1780
Sciencea German chemist who is best known for work that foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
