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Members of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
- Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the 22nd of November 1913. His father Robert Victor Britten worked as a…
- James ChadwickJames Chadwick was born on the 20th of October 1891 in Cheshire, England. His father John Joseph Chadwick worked as a cotton spinner while his mother Anne…
- Charles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin was born on the 12th of February 1809 at his family's home, The Mount, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the fifth of six children of…
- Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
- Salvador DalíOn the 11th of May 1904, a boy named Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia. He arrived at 8:45 am on the first floor of Carrer Monturiol 20.
- Marc ChagallIn 1887, Moishe Shagal was born into a Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk. The town held about 66,000 people at that time.
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
- Svante ArrheniusSvante August Arrhenius was born on the 19th of February 1859 at Vik near Uppsala in Sweden. His father Svante Gustav worked as a land surveyor for Uppsala…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898. His father Jean Dumézil served as a highly educated general in the French Army.
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky was born on the 30th of March 1892 in Hanover. His parents, Arnold and Caecilie (Solling) Panofsky, were a rentier mining family from Upper…