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Henry Moseley
Born: November 23, 1887
Sciencean English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number.more…Abbé Prévost
Born: April 1, 1697
Lit.Westa French priest, author, and novelistmore…Francesco Guardi
Born: October 5, 1712
Art.Westan Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of paintingmore…Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Born: February 1, 1874
Lit.Westan Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.more…Charles Péguy
Born: January 7, 1873
Lit.Westa French poet, essayist, and editor. His two main philosophies were socialism and nationalismmore…Karl Weierstrass
Born: October 31, 1815
Sciencea German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis".more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.