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Who was born in 1864

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Wilhelm Wien

Wilhelm Wien

18641928

German physicist and Nobel laureate who formulated Wien's displacement law, calculating blackbody emission

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Jules Renard

Jules Renard

18641910

French author, poet, and diarist, member of the Académie Goncourt, best known for 'Poil de carotte' and 'Les Histoires Naturelles', celebrated for his wit and observational prose

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Max Weber

Max Weber

18641920

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist who was a central figure in the development of sociology and the social sciences

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Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss

18641949

German composer and conductor known for his influential tone poems and operas, a leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern musical periods

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Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erik Axel Karlfeldt

18641931

Swedish poet known for his symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism, posthumously awarded the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature after having refused it in 1919 due to his position as permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy

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Eleftherios Venizelos

Eleftherios Venizelos

18641936

Greek politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister for over 12 years, leading the national liberation movement and the Liberal Party

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Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

18641936

Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, and academic, celebrated for his existential philosophy and Modernist novels

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

18641901

French painter, illustrator, and graphic designer renowned for capturing the vibrant life of fin-de-siècle Paris, particularly its cabarets and theatrical scenes