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Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar was an Indian scientist, famously dubbed as the ‘Father of research laboratories’

Aryabhata was an ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer

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Maurice Chevalier was a French actor and singer best known for the song ‘Thank Heaven for Little Girls’

Ptolemy was a prominent Greek astronomer and geographer

Francesca Caccini was a famous music composer of the Baroque era

Plotinus was one of the most important philosophers of the ancient world

Pontius Pilate was the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judaea and presided over the trial of Jesus

Heinrich Hertz was a German scientist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves

Anna Comnena was the Greek princess and scholar who wrote the ‘Alexiad’

John Farmer was a great music composer in his short career span

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