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- Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov entered the world on the 22nd of April 1899 in Saint Petersburg. His family belonged to an ancient Russian nobility granted a…
- Carolus ClusiusCharles de l'Écluse arrived in Marburg during the early 1540s with a stack of legal texts and a father's demand for a career in civil law.
- Felice RomaniGiuseppe Felice Romani entered the world on the 31st of January 1788 within a bourgeois family in Genoa. He pursued studies in law and literature at both…
- Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak was born on the 30th of May 1890 in Moscow into a wealthy Jewish family. His father Leonid Pasternak worked as a post-Impressionist painter…