27 January: Tribute to Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori (4 May 1655 – 27 January 1731) was an Italian maker of musical instruments famous for inventing the piano.
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27 January: Tribute to Victoria Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo (7 April 1890 – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer, publisher, and intellectual.
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27 January: Remembering Eugène Viollet-le-Duc on Birthday
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (27 January 1814 – 17 September 1879) Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was a French architect and theorist who lived in the 19th century. He is best known for his work on the restoration of medieval buildings, particularly Gothic cathedrals. He believed in the idea of “restauration,” which involved not only repairing and preserving historical buildings, but also making modifications and additions to them in order to make them usable for modern purposes.
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27 January in Indian and World History
27 January in Indian and World History is celebrated, observed, and remembered for various...
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27 January: Remembering Arkhip Kuindzhi on Birthday
Arkhip Kuindzhi (27 January 1842 – 24 July 1910) was a Russian Imperial landscape painter of Pontic Greek descent from the area of Mariupol (modern-day South Ukraine) active in the Russian Empire, especially in St. Petersburg. Kuindzhi was one of the best friends of Russian chemist Dmitry Mendeleev with whom he collaborated on color studies.
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27 January: Remembering Beatrice Tinsley on Birthday
Beatrice Tinsley (27 January 1941 – 23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist and professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die.
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