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Who was born in 1862

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Aristide Briand

Aristide Briand

18621932

French statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for his eleven terms as Prime Minister and his dedication to international reconciliation during the interwar period

Siegbert Tarrasch

Siegbert Tarrasch

18621934

German physician, writer, and chess theoretician, considered one of the strongest players and most influential theoreticians of the late 19th and early 20th century

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Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

18621931

Austrian writer and dramatist known for his psychological dramas and narratives dissecting turn-of-the-century Viennese bourgeois life, a significant figure in Viennese Modernism

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Philipp Lenard

Philipp Lenard

18621947

Hungarian-German physicist who won the 1905 Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on cathode rays and the photoelectric effect

Allvar Gullstrand

Allvar Gullstrand

18621930

Swedish ophthalmologist and physician awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational work on the dioptrics of the eye

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William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg

18621942

British physicist, mathematician, chemist, and crystallographer who uniquely shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his son for their work in X-ray crystallography

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Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

18621949

Belgian playwright and Nobel Prize winner known for Symbolist dramas exploring death and the meaning of life

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

18621918

French classical composer, pianist, and music critic who was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pioneering an evocative style often associated with Impressionism