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326 famous people found
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Joseph Bienaimé CAVENTOU
French pharmacist
1795 - 1877 -
Jean-Baptiste GUIMET
French industrial chemist
1795 - 1871 -
Pierre GOURJU
French scholar
1762 - 1814 -
Denis POISSON
French mathematician, geometer, and physicist
1781 - 1840 -
Jean-Baptiste AUCLERC DESCOTTES
French politician
1737 - 1826 -
Jean Philippe DE CHESEAUX
Astronomer from Lausanne in Switzerland
1718 - 1751 -
Marcel DE SERRES
French caver, geologist and naturalist
1780 - 1862 -
Antide JANVIER
French clockmaker
1751 - 1835 -
Joseph Ignace GUILLOTIN
French physician and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France, as a less painful method of execution
1738 - 1814 -
Déodat GRATET DE DOLOMIEU
French geologist
1750 - 1801 -
Jean-Louis PONS
French astronomer
1761 - 1831 -
Henri BRACONNOT
French chemist and pharmacist
1780 - 1855 -
John GOODRICKE
English amateur astronomer
1764 - 1786 -
Joseph CHALEY
French civil engineer and a pioneer designer of suspension bridges
1796 - 1861 -
Augustin THIERRY
French historian
1795 - 1856 -
Guillaume DU BELLAY
French diplomat and general under King Francis I
1491 - 1543 -
Thomas SYDENHAM
English physician
1624 - 1689 -
Antonie VAN LEEUWENHOEK
Dutch tradesman and scientist
1632 - 1723 -
Anders CELSIUS
Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician
1701 - 1744 -
William EUSTIS
American physician, politician, and statesman
1753 - 1825