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Nostradamus (December 14, 1503 - July 2, 1566)

Michel de Nostredame (December 14, 1503 - July 2, 1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous world-wide. He is best known for his book Les...

Donatello (c. 1386 - December 13, 1466)

Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He became well recognized for his creation of the shallow relief style of sculpting, which made the sculpture seem much deeper than...

Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 - May 8, 1880)

Gustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless...

Robert Koch (December 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910)

Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the cholera vibrio (1883) and for his development of Koch's postulates.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (October 21, 1833 - December 10, 1896)

Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his...

Marin Sorescu (February 29, 1936 - December 8, 1996)

Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist.Is considered to be one of greatest contemporan Romanian writers.He was in the same time a very talented painter with mwny exibitions in the country and abroad.

Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926)

Rainer Maria Rilke is considered one of the German language's greatest 20th century poets. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety - themes that tend to position...

Joseph Conrad (3rd December 1857 - 3rd August 1924)

Joseph Conrad, english writer with polish origin, master of short prose.

Vasile Voiculescu (November 27, 1884 - April 26, 1963)

Vasile Voiculescu was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.

Eugène Ionesco (November 26, 1909 - March 29, 1994)

Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict in a tangible way the solitude of...

George Eliot (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880)

Mary Ann (Marian) Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological...

Petre Ispirescu (January 1830 - 21 November 1887)

Petre Ispirescu was a Romanian printer and publicist.He is especially known for his collections of Romanian folk stories.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9,1828 – November 20, 1910)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the...

Emil Racoviţă (November 15, 1868 - November 17, 1947)

Emil Racoviţă was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviţă was the first Romanian to have gone on a...

Nicolae Bălcescu (June 29, 1819 - November 29, 1852)

Nicolae Bălcescu was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution.