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Who was born in 1852

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Joseph Joffre

Joseph Joffre

18521931

French general and military personnel renowned for his leadership as Commander-in-Chief of French forces on the Western Front in World War I, notably at the First Battle of the Marne

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

18521934

Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist who pioneered modern neuroscience and won the Nobel Prize for his work on the nervous system's structure

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Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí

18521926

Catalan architect and designer, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme and creator of the iconic Sagrada Família church

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Henri Moissan

Henri Moissan

18521907

French chemist and Nobel laureate known for isolating fluorine, discovering moissanite, and developing the electric arc furnace

H. H. Asquith

H. H. Asquith

18521928

British politician and barrister who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916, leading the last Liberal Party majority government

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Emil Fischer

Emil Fischer

18521919

German chemist and 1902 Nobel Prize winner who discovered Fischer esterification, developed the Fischer projection, and proposed the lock and key mechanism of enzyme action

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Emperor Meiji

Emperor Meiji

18521912

Emperor of Japan who presided over the Meiji Restoration, transforming Japan from a feudal state into a major imperial power

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Henri Becquerel

Henri Becquerel

18521908

French experimental physicist who discovered spontaneous radioactivity and won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics