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Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British scientist and the chief designer of the Mathematica software application and the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. Read moreSpoiler
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John Locke FRS (1632 - 1704)
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John Locke FRS (29 August 1632 - 28 October 1704), widely known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Read more[spoiler][/spo...
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Jan Sniadecki (1756 - 1830)
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Jan Sniadecki (August 29, 1756 - November 9, 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Read more
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer, artist, and politician. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on bota...
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Billy Boyd
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Billy Boyd (born 28 August 1968) is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Read more
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Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801 - 1877)
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Antoine Augustin Cournot (28 August 1801 - 31 March 1877) was a French philosopher and mathematician. Read more
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Secondo Campini (1904 - 1980)
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Secondo Campini (August 28, 1904 - February 7, 1980) was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine. The "Thermojet" that Campini developed to propel this aircraft is substantially different from the jet engines of today. Campini's engine used an ordinary piston engi...
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Vonda Neel McIntyre
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Vonda Neel McIntyre (born Louisville, Kentucky, on August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author. McIntyre's debut novel, The Exile Waiting, was published in 1975. She has also written a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels, including Enterprise: The First Adventure and The Entropy E...
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Sergei Krikalev
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Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev (born August 27, 1958) is a Russian cosmonaut and mechanical engineer. As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran of six space flights and currently has spent more time in space than any other human being. Read more
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Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 - 1777)
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Johann Heinrich Lambert (August 26, 1728 - September 25, 1777) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Read more
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Edward Witten
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Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is currently the Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Read more Twistor theory Superstrings
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Sigmund Jähn
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Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (born 13 February 1937) is a German pilot who became the first German to fly in space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos programme. Read more
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Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740 - 1810)
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Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (26 August 1740 - 26 June 1810) and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier (6 January 1745 - 2 August 1799) were the inventors of the Montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique. Read more
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Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich
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Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (born 25 August 1964) is a Russian mathematician. He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. Read more
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). Read more[video=http://www.yout...
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