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Who was born in 1854

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James George Frazer

James George Frazer

18541941

Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist known for his influential work on mythology and comparative religion, particularly "The Golden Bough"

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Henri Poincaré

Henri Poincaré

18541912

French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science, known as "The Last Universalist" and "the Gauss of modern mathematics"

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Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

18541891

French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes who influenced modern literature and prefigured surrealism, also a world traveler and arms trader

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

18541900

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete known for his wit, contributions to Aestheticism, and iconic works like *The Picture of Dorian Gray*

Karl Kautsky

Karl Kautsky

18541938

Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist, economist, philosopher, and journalist, widely known as the 'Pope of Marxism' for his authoritative promulgation of orthodox Marxism and his influence on the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Second International.

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Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier

18541941

French chemist who won the 1912 Nobel Prize for developing catalytic hydrogenation methods that transformed organic chemistry