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Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Born: July 20, 1864
Lit.Westa Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumouslymore…Aubrey Beardsley
Born: August 21, 1872
Art.Westan English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.more…Max Born

Born: December 11, 1882
Sciencea German physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanicsmore…Nikolai Leskov
Born: February 16, 1831
Lit.Westa Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky.more…Vilhelm Bjerknes
Born: March 14, 1862
Sciencea Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting.more…Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Born: December 8, 1832
Lit.Westa Norwegian writer. The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debatemore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.