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Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Ferenc Erkel
Hungarian composer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
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
Nordraak, Rikard
Rikard Nordraak
Norwegian composer
Becher, Johannes Robert
Johannes Robert Becher
German writer and government official
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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