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John Everett Millais
Born: June 8, 1829
Art.Westan English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoodmore…Frederick Soddy

Born: September 2, 1877
Sciencean English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions.more…Joseph Fourier
Born: March 21, 1768
Sciencea French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis,more…Ernest Solvay
Born: April 16, 1838
Sciencea Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist.more…Mikhail Larionov
Born: June 3, 1881
Art.Westan avant-garde Russian painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian artmore…Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Born: May 8, 1639
Art.Westan Italian artist working in the High Baroque and early Rococo periodsmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.