French physicist, engineer, and military officer known for Coulomb's law, describing electrostatic attraction and repulsion, and for pioneering work in friction and soil mechanics

French painter and printmaker known for his exuberant late Rococo style, producing over 550 paintings with an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism

Japanese artist renowned for his ukiyo-e woodblock prints, especially bijin ōkubi-e (large-headed pictures of beautiful women), and nature studies