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Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn

Austrian composer

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

Ferenc Erkel

Hungarian composer

Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.

Johannes Ewald

Danish poet

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Indian author

Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.

Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Finnish-Swedish poet

Aram Khachaturian

Aram Khachaturian

Soviet Armenian composer

Dun Karm

Maltese poet

Becher, Johannes Robert

Johannes Robert Becher

German writer and government official

Nordraak, Rikard

Rikard Nordraak

Norwegian composer

Ferenc Kölcsey

Hungarian poet

Johan Nordahl Brun

Norwegian author

Johann Rudolf Wyss

Swiss writer and editor

Goffredo Mameli

Italian poet

Naphtali Herz Imber

Hebrew poet

Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, c. 1790.

Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle

French author

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