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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Born: February 25, 1841
Art.Westa French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist stylemore…Alexander Rodchenko
Born: December 5, 1891
Art.Westa Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian designmore…Howard Florey

Born: September 24, 1898
Sciencean Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, co-discoverer of penicillinmore…Henri de Saint-Simon
Born: October 17, 1760
Lit.Westa French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science.more…George Peacock
Born: April 9, 1791
Sciencean English mathematician and Anglican cleric. He founded what has been called the British algebra of logic.more…Caroline Herschel
Born: March 16, 1750
Sciencea German-born British astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.