| RO | United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988) |
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| RO | Austrian physician who developed a rotational method for testing the middle ear (1876-1936) |
| RO | United States explorer who accompanied Peary's expedition to the North Pole and who led many other Arctic trips (1875-1946) |
| RO | United States humorist (1889-1945) |
| RO | Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691) |
| RO | Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858) |
| RO | English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning noted for his dramatic monologues (1812-1889) |
| RO | United States athlete who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon (born in 1930) |
| RO | German chemist who with Kirchhoff pioneered spectrum analysis but is remembered mainly for his invention of the Bunsen burner (1811-1899) |
| RO | celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796) |
| RO | United States chemist honored for synthesizing complex organic compounds (1917-1979) |
| RO | United States humorist (1889-1945) |