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This is a list of notable autodidacts. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. Some notables listed did receive formal educations, including some college, although not in the field(s) for which they became prominent.

Historical education levels

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Main article: Autodidacticism §&#;Historical education levels

Because of the large increase in years of education since , especially during the early 20th century, it is difficult to define autodidactism and to compare autodidacts during different time periods.

Artists and authors

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• Sardoine Mia, Congolese artist and painter
• Ellen Gould White, Adventist writer.
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a feminist writer, lecturer, and thinker at the turn of the 20th century
• Suzanne Valadon, self-taught artist of Bohemian Paris
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, self-taught scholar and poet of New Spain
• Benjamin Kidd (–), British sociologist, was not given a formal education.[

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  The ‘Better’ Nazi: Pascual Jordan and the Third Reich (Dieter Hoffmann, Mark Walker)Pages
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Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December

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Selected anniversaries in December

December 1:

• - Birth of Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. )
• - Birth of Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. )
• - Death of Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. )
• - Birth of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. )
• - Birth of Martin Rodbell, American forskare, Nobel laureate (d. )
• - Death of J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. )

December 2:

December 3:

December 4:

• – Death of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (b. )
• – Death of Rheticus, Austrian mathematician (b. )
• – Death of Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. )
• – Death of William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor (b. )
• – Birth of Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. )
• – Death of Osman Achmat