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Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

  • Nikola TeslaNikola Tesla was born on the 10th of July 1856 in Smiljan, a village then in the Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire and now in Croatia.
  • Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy spent the last hours of his life on a train, preaching love, non-violence, and Georgism to fellow passengers, before pneumonia stopped him at a…
  • Victor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was born on the 26th of February 1802 in Besançon, a city in eastern France. His father Joseph Léopold Sigisbert Hugo served as a general…
  • Antonín DvořákAntonín Leopold Dvořák entered the world on the 8th of September 1841 in Nelahozeves, a small village near Prague. His father František worked as an…
  • Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky was born on the 7th of December 1928 in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Ashkenazi Jewish…
  • Louis PasteurOn the 6th of July 1885, Louis Pasteur faced a choice that could have ended in his prosecution. A 9-year-old boy named Joseph Meister had been badly mauled…
  • Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Karl Grimm entered the world on the 4th of January 1785 in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel. His father Philipp worked as a lawyer but died while Jacob was…
  • Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on the 11th of December 1918 in Kislovodsk. His father Isaakiy Semyonovich Solzhenitsyn died in a hunting accident…
  • Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
  • Dmitri MendeleevDmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev entered the world in 1834 within the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani near Tobolsk. His father Ivan Pavlovich Mendeleev worked as a…
  • Ilya RepinIlya Yefimovich Repin was born on the 5th of August 1844 in the town of Chuguev, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Yefim Vasilyevich Repin, had…
  • Theodor MommsenTheodor Mommsen entered the world on the 30th of November 1817 in Garding, a small town within the Duchy of Schleswig. His father served as a Lutheran…