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Where well-known writers, scientists, artists and leaders of the past were born, and when they lived. 757 facts.
Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten in 1862 and died in 1918.
Source: Wikipedia: Gustav Klimt (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q34661 (CC0)
Alfred Russel Wallace was born in Usk in 1823 and died in 1913.
Source: Wikipedia: Alfred Russel Wallace (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q160627 (CC0)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz in 1729 and died in 1781.
Source: Wikipedia: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q34628 (CC0)
Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes in 1840 and died in 1897.
Source: Wikipedia: Alphonse Daudet (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q228546 (CC0)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca was born in Madrid in 1600 and died in 1681.
Source: Wikipedia: Pedro Calderón de la Barca (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q170800 (CC0)
Guru Nanak was born in Nankana Sahib in 1469 and died in 1539.
Source: Wikipedia: Guru Nanak (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q83322 (CC0)
Empedocles was born in Akragas in 493 BC and died in 433 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Empedocles (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q83375 (CC0)
Cato the Elder was born in Tusculum in 233 BC and died in 148 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Cato the Elder (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q180081 (CC0)
Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure in 1875 and died in 1937.
Source: Wikipedia: Maurice Ravel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1178 (CC0)
Albert Abraham Michelson was born in Strzelno in 1852 and died in 1931.
Source: Wikipedia: Albert A. Michelson (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q127234 (CC0)
Ibn al-Haytham was born in Basra in 965 and died in 1039.
Source: Wikipedia: Ibn al-Haytham (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11104 (CC0)
Thomas Robert Malthus was born in Westcott in 1766 and died in 1834.
Source: Wikipedia: Thomas Robert Malthus (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q13526 (CC0)
Menander was born in Kephisia in 340 BC and died in 290 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Menander (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q118992 (CC0)
Fernando Pessoa was born in Lisbon in 1888 and died in 1935.
Source: Wikipedia: Fernando Pessoa (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q173481 (CC0)
Giacomo Casanova was born in Venice in 1725 and died in 1798.
Source: Wikipedia: Giacomo Casanova (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q83321 (CC0)
Lucian of Samosata was born in Samosata in 120 and died in 180.
Source: Wikipedia: Lucian (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q177847 (CC0)
Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne in 1819 and died in 1880.
Source: Wikipedia: Jacques Offenbach (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41555 (CC0)
Georges Bizet was born in Rue Louise-Émilie-de-La-Tour-d'Auvergne in 1838 and died in 1875.
Source: Wikipedia: Georges Bizet (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q56158 (CC0)
Anne Boleyn was born in Blickling Hall in 1501 and died in 1536.
Source: Wikipedia: Anne Boleyn (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q80823 (CC0)
Paul Heyse was born in Berlin in 1830 and died in 1914.
Source: Wikipedia: Paul Heyse (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q76487 (CC0)
Baháʼu'lláh was born in Mirza Bozorg Nuri House in 1817 and died in 1892.
Source: Wikipedia: Baháʼu'lláh (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q101054 (CC0)
Niccolò Paganini was born in Genoa in 1782 and died in 1840.
Source: Wikipedia: Niccolò Paganini (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q66075 (CC0)
Béla Bartók was born in Sânnicolau Mare in 1881 and died in 1945.
Source: Wikipedia: Béla Bartók (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q83326 (CC0)
Svante August Arrhenius was born in Wik Castle in 1859 and died in 1927.
Source: Wikipedia: Svante Arrhenius (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q80956 (CC0)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange was born in Turin in 1736 and died in 1813.
Source: Wikipedia: Joseph-Louis Lagrange (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q80222 (CC0)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born in Izhevskoe in 1857 and died in 1935.
Source: Wikipedia: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q41239 (CC0)
Peter Abelard was born in Le Pallet in 1079 and died in 1142.
Source: Wikipedia: Peter Abelard (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q4295 (CC0)
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and died in 1944.
Source: Wikipedia: Wassily Kandinsky (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q61064 (CC0)
Georg Simon Ohm was born in Erlangen in 1789 and died in 1854.
Source: Wikipedia: Georg Ohm (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q1585 (CC0)
Robert Hooke was born in Freshwater in 1635 and died in 1703.
Source: Wikipedia: Robert Hooke (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q46830 (CC0)
Husayn ibn Ali was born in Medina in 626 and died in 680.
Source: Wikipedia: Husayn ibn Ali (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q112128 (CC0)
Alexander Blok was born in Saint Petersburg in 1880 and died in 1921.
Source: Wikipedia: Alexander Blok (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q164765 (CC0)
Sándor Petőfi was born in Kiskőrös in 1823 and died in 1849.
Source: Wikipedia: Sándor Petőfi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q81219 (CC0)
Humphry Davy was born in Penzance in 1778 and died in 1829.
Source: Wikipedia: Humphry Davy (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q131761 (CC0)
Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury in 1564 and died in 1593.
Source: Wikipedia: Christopher Marlowe (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q28975 (CC0)
Johann Gottfried Herder was born in Morąg in 1744 and died in 1803.
Source: Wikipedia: Johann Gottfried Herder (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q155547 (CC0)
Pindar was born in Cynocephalus in 516 BC and died in 436 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Pindar (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q134929 (CC0)
John Donne was born in London in 1572 and died in 1631.
Source: Wikipedia: John Donne (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q140412 (CC0)
Empress Dowager Cixi was born in Beijing in 1835 and died in 1908.
Source: Wikipedia: Empress Dowager Cixi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q47842 (CC0)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was born in Leiden in 1837 and died in 1923.
Source: Wikipedia: Johannes Diderik van der Waals (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q131721 (CC0)
William Henry Bragg was born in Wigton in 1862 and died in 1942.
Source: Wikipedia: William Henry Bragg (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q133747 (CC0)
Edmund Husserl was born in Prostějov in 1859 and died in 1938.
Source: Wikipedia: Edmund Husserl (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q58586 (CC0)
Aryabhata was born in Pataliputra in 476 and died in 550.
Source: Wikipedia: Aryabhata (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q11359 (CC0)
Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon in 1832 and died in 1923.
Source: Wikipedia: Gustave Eiffel (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q20882 (CC0)
Pliny the Younger was born in Como in 61 and died in 113.
Source: Wikipedia: Pliny the Younger (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q168707 (CC0)
Ambrose Bierce was born in Meigs County in 1842 and died in 1914.
Source: Wikipedia: Ambrose Bierce (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q191050 (CC0)
Fatima was born in Mecca in 604 and died in 632.
Source: Wikipedia: Fatima (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q180123 (CC0)
Alfred de Musset was born in Paris in 1810 and died in 1857.
Source: Wikipedia: Alfred de Musset (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q179680 (CC0)
Huldrych Zwingli was born in Wildhaus in 1484 and died in 1531.
Source: Wikipedia: Huldrych Zwingli (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q123034 (CC0)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born in Angoulême in 1736 and died in 1806.
Source: Wikipedia: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q81716 (CC0)
Alfred North Whitehead was born in Ramsgate in 1861 and died in 1947.
Source: Wikipedia: Alfred North Whitehead (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q183372 (CC0)
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1792 and died in 1856.
Source: Wikipedia: Nikolai Lobachevsky (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q129199 (CC0)
Xenophanes was born in Colophon in 569 BC and died in 477 BC.
Source: Wikipedia: Xenophanes (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q131671 (CC0)
J. M. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir in 1860 and died in 1937.
Source: Wikipedia: J. M. Barrie (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q81796 (CC0)
Juvenal was born in Aquino in 55 and died in 200.
Source: Wikipedia: Juvenal (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q193800 (CC0)
José Martí was born in Havana in 1853 and died in 1895.
Source: Wikipedia: José Martí (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q103285 (CC0)
Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala in 1701 and died in 1744.
Source: Wikipedia: Anders Celsius (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q81130 (CC0)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin was born in Belfast in 1825 and died in 1907.
Source: Wikipedia: Lord Kelvin (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q122701 (CC0)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff was born in Rotterdam in 1852 and died in 1911.
Source: Wikipedia: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q102822 (CC0)
Hans Christian Ørsted was born in Rudkøbing in 1777 and died in 1851.
Source: Wikipedia: Hans Christian Ørsted (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Data: Wikidata Q44412 (CC0)