LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.leiden.nl/

Population:
118,423 (2005)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
University of Leiden	1575

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jan Josephs van Goyen	Painter	13-Jan-1596	27-Apr-1656	Landscape painter at The Hague
Willem Johan Kolff	Scientist	14-Feb-1911	11-Feb-2009	Artificial kidney, artificial heart
Lucas van Leyden	Engraver	1489	8-Aug-1533	Dutch Renaissance engraver, painter
Rembrandt	Painter	15-Jul-1606	4-Oct-1669	Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
Jan Steen	Painter	1626	3-Feb-1679	Dutch subject painter
Johannes Diderik van der Waals	Physicist	23-Nov-1837	9-Mar-1923	Investigated states of matter

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Willem de Sitter	Astronomer	6-May-1872	19-Nov-1934	Expanding space
Willem Einthoven	Scientist	21-May-1860	28-Sep-1927	Invented the electrocardiograph
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Physicist	21-Sep-1853	21-Feb-1926	Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
Lucas van Leyden	Engraver	1489	8-Aug-1533	Dutch Renaissance engraver, painter
Jan Hendrik Oort	Astronomer	28-Apr-1900	5-Nov-1992	Theory of the origin of comets
Perizonius	Scholar	26-Oct-1651	6-Apr-1715	Animadversiones Historicae
Joseph Scaliger	Scholar	5-Aug-1540	21-Jan-1609	De emendatione temporum
Jan Steen	Painter	1626	3-Feb-1679	Dutch subject painter

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