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Thomas Arne
Born: March 12, 1710
Music.Westan English composer. He is best known for the song "A-Hunting We Will Go" composed for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera, which has since become popular as a folk song and a nursery rhyme.more…Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
Born: May 11, 1752
Sciencea main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplinesmore…Théodore Rousseau
Born: April 15, 1812
Art.Westa French painter of the Barbizon schoolmore…Eugène Fromentin
Born: October 24, 1820
Lit.Westa French painter and writer, now better remembered for his writings.more…Samuel Butler
Born: December 4, 1835
Lit.Westan English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh,more…Erich Hückel
Born: August 9, 1896
Sciencea German physicist and physical chemistmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
