a Russian novelist known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution primarily in his most famous novel, And Quiet Flows the Don.

a Dutch biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—are different forms of the same animal.

a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, also known for his liberal views.

a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.

an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms

a French surrealist painter.