a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille

a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin.

a Swiss biochemist. The son of a teacher and school headmaster, he studied chemistry at the ETH Zurich, with a PhD in 1911, where he studied with Richard Willstätter.

a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions.

a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.

a Jesuit German mathematician, a member of the Vatican commission that accepted the proposed calendar invented by Aloysius Lilius, that is known as Gregorian calendar.