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William Blake
Born: November 28, 1757
Art.Westan English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his life, he is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.more…Albrecht Dürer
Born: May 21, 1471
Art.Westa German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissancemore…Ernst Zermelo
Born: July 27, 1871
Sciencea German logician and mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematicsmore…Thomas Otway
Born: March 3, 1652
Lit.Westan English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).more…James Thomson (engineer)
Born: February 16, 1822
Sciencea British engineer and physicist, born in Belfast, and older brother of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin).more…Zygmunt Krasiński
Born: February 19, 1812
Lit.Westa Polish poet, one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who influenced national consciousness in the period of Partitions of Polandmore…
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