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Where well-known writers, scientists, artists and leaders of the past were born, and when they lived. 757 facts.
Robert Bunsen was born in Göttingen in 1811 and died in 1899.
Source: Wikipedia: Robert Bunsen (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q71031 (CC0)
Charles Glover Barkla was born in Widnes in 1877 and died in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Charles Barkla (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q160522 (CC0)
Eduard Buchner was born in Munich in 1860 and died in 1917.
Source: Wikipedia: Eduard Buchner (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q43917 (CC0)
Gerolamo Cardano was born in Pavia in 1501 and died in 1576.
Source: Wikipedia: Gerolamo Cardano (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q184530 (CC0)
Diophantus of Alexandria was born in Alexandria in 200 and died in 284.
Source: Wikipedia: Diophantus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q178217 (CC0)
Snorri Sturluson was born in Hvammur in 1179 and died in 1241.
Source: Wikipedia: Snorri Sturluson (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q102323 (CC0)
Báb was born in Shiraz in 1819 and died in 1850.
Source: Wikipedia: Báb (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q104273 (CC0)
Humayun was born in Kabul in 1508 and died in 1556.
Source: Wikipedia: Humayun (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q486188 (CC0)
Al-Shafi'i was born in Gaza City in 767 and died in 820.
Source: Wikipedia: Al-Shafi'i (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q294281 (CC0)
John of Damascus was born in Damascus in 675 and died in 749.
Source: Wikipedia: John of Damascus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q51884 (CC0)
Camille Saint-Saëns was born in 11th arrondissement of Paris in 1835 and died in 1921.
Source: Wikipedia: Camille Saint-Saëns (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q150445 (CC0)
Masaccio was born in San Giovanni Valdarno in 1401 and died in 1428.
Source: Wikipedia: Masaccio (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5811 (CC0)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born in Naples in 1598 and died in 1680.
Source: Wikipedia: Gian Lorenzo Bernini (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q160538 (CC0)
Rudolf Clausius was born in Koszalin in 1822 and died in 1888.
Source: Wikipedia: Rudolf Clausius (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q30693 (CC0)
Luigi Galvani was born in Bologna in 1737 and died in 1798.
Source: Wikipedia: Luigi Galvani (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1589 (CC0)
Leucippus was born in Miletus in 500 BC and died in 500 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Leucippus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q165589 (CC0)
Charles Sanders Peirce was born in Cambridge in 1839 and died in 1914.
Source: Wikipedia: Charles Sanders Peirce (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q187520 (CC0)
Ole Rømer was born in Aarhus in 1644 and died in 1710.
Source: Wikipedia: Ole Rømer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q160187 (CC0)
Philipp Melanchthon was born in Bretten in 1497 and died in 1560.
Source: Wikipedia: Philipp Melanchthon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q76325 (CC0)
Camillo Golgi was born in Corteno Golgi in 1843 and died in 1926.
Source: Wikipedia: Camillo Golgi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q150630 (CC0)
Christine de Pizan was born in Venice in 1364 and died in 1430.
Source: Wikipedia: Christine de Pizan (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q234816 (CC0)
Quintilian was born in Calagurris in 35 and died in 96.
Source: Wikipedia: Quintilian (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q193769 (CC0)
Charles Gounod was born in Paris in 1818 and died in 1893.
Source: Wikipedia: Charles Gounod (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q180278 (CC0)
Alexander Scriabin was born in Moscow in 1872 and died in 1915.
Source: Wikipedia: Alexander Scriabin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q185647 (CC0)
Georges Seurat was born in former 5th arrondissement of Paris in 1859 and died in 1891.
Source: Wikipedia: Georges Seurat (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q34013 (CC0)
Paolo Veronese was born in Verona in 1528 and died in 1588.
Source: Wikipedia: Paolo Veronese (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q9440 (CC0)
Gustave Doré was born in Strasbourg in 1832 and died in 1883.
Source: Wikipedia: Gustave Doré (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q6682 (CC0)
Nicolas Carnot was born in Paris in 1796 and died in 1832.
Source: Wikipedia: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q181685 (CC0)
Carl Wilhelm Scheele was born in Stralsund in 1742 and died in 1786.
Source: Wikipedia: Carl Wilhelm Scheele (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q70538 (CC0)
Claude Bernard was born in Saint-Julien in 1813 and died in 1878.
Source: Wikipedia: Claude Bernard (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q208230 (CC0)
Henri Moissan was born in Paris in 1852 and died in 1907.
Source: Wikipedia: Henri Moissan (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q102804 (CC0)
Adolf von Baeyer was born in Berlin in 1835 and died in 1917.
Source: Wikipedia: Adolf von Baeyer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q57078 (CC0)
Victor Grignard was born in Cherbourg in 1871 and died in 1935.
Source: Wikipedia: Victor Grignard (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q104582 (CC0)
Ulugh Beg was born in Soltaniyeh in 1394 and died in 1449.
Source: Wikipedia: Ulugh Beg (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q486088 (CC0)
Stefan Banach was born in Kraków in 1892 and died in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Stefan Banach (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q180217 (CC0)
Abdelkader El Djezairi was born in Guittena in 1808 and died in 1883.
Source: Wikipedia: Emir Abdelkader (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q179825 (CC0)
Andrea Palladio was born in Padua in 1508 and died in 1580.
Source: Wikipedia: Andrea Palladio (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q177692 (CC0)
Amir Khusrau was born in Patiyali in 1253 and died in 1325.
Source: Wikipedia: Amir Khusrau (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q207817 (CC0)
Elias Lönnrot was born in Sammatti (Finland : Kunta) in 1802 and died in 1884.
Source: Wikipedia: Elias Lönnrot (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q153159 (CC0)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Wrocław in 1906 and died in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q76326 (CC0)
Ibn Taymiyyah was born in Harran in 1263 and died in 1328.
Source: Wikipedia: Ibn Taymiyya (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q491558 (CC0)
Gaetano Donizetti was born in Bergamo in 1797 and died in 1848.
Source: Wikipedia: Gaetano Donizetti (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q101698 (CC0)
Alfonso X of Castile and Leon was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in 1284.
Source: Wikipedia: Alfonso X of Castile (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47595 (CC0)
William Morris was born in Walthamstow in 1834 and died in 1896.
Source: Wikipedia: William Morris (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q182589 (CC0)
Aleister Crowley was born in Leamington Spa in 1875 and died in 1947.
Source: Wikipedia: Aleister Crowley (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q172684 (CC0)
Francis William Aston was born in Harborne in 1877 and died in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Francis William Aston (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q102291 (CC0)
Léon Foucault was born in Paris in 1819 and died in 1868.
Source: Wikipedia: Léon Foucault (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q187966 (CC0)
Hero of Alexandria was born in Alexandria in 10 and died in 75.
Source: Wikipedia: Hero of Alexandria (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q161853 (CC0)
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan in 1718 and died in 1799.
Source: Wikipedia: Maria Gaetana Agnesi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q200392 (CC0)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born in Perinaldo in 1625 and died in 1712.
Source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Domenico Cassini (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q14279 (CC0)
Apollonius of Perga was born in Perge in 261 BC and died in 189 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Apollonius of Perga (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q180109 (CC0)
Pierre de Ronsard was born in La Possonnière Castle in 1524 and died in 1585.
Source: Wikipedia: Pierre de Ronsard (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q49752 (CC0)
Theodor Fontane was born in Neuruppin in 1819 and died in 1898.
Source: Wikipedia: Theodor Fontane (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q76632 (CC0)
Edmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield in 1552 and died in 1599.
Source: Wikipedia: Edmund Spenser (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q4352055 (CC0)
Aleksey Tolstoy was born in Pugachyov in 1883 and died in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q192279 (CC0)
Rubén Darío was born in Ciudad Dario in 1867 and died in 1916.
Source: Wikipedia: Rubén Darío (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q173767 (CC0)
John James Audubon was born in Les Cayes in 1785 and died in 1851.
Source: Wikipedia: John James Audubon (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q182882 (CC0)
Nestor Makhno was born in Huliaipole in 1888 and died in 1934.
Source: Wikipedia: Nestor Makhno (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47900 (CC0)
Fra Angelico was born in Vicchio in 1390 and died in 1455.
Source: Wikipedia: Fra Angelico (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q5664 (CC0)
Arthur Eddington was born in Kendal in 1882 and died in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Arthur Eddington (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q215022 (CC0)