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Pierre-Karl FABERGÉ
Russian jeweller
1846 - 1920 -
Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Alexander PUSHKIN
Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era
1799 - 1837 -
Johann STRAUSS
Austrian composer of light music
1825 - 1899 -
Fiodor (Fyodor) Dostoïevski (Dostoevsky)
Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist
1821 - 1881 -
Théodore GERICAULT
French painter and lithographer
1791 - 1824 -
Théodore CHASSERIAU
French Romantic painter
1819 - 1856 -
Claude Monet
French painter
1840 - 1926 -
Alexander Graham BELL
Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone
1847 - 1922 -
Emily BRONTE
English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature
1818 - 1848 -
Francisco de Goya
Spanish romantic painter and printmaker
1746 - 1828 -
Robert Todd LINCOLN
American lawyer and Secretary of War
1843 - 1926 -
Jacques-Louis DAVID
French painter in the Neoclassical style
1748 - 1825 -
William CAVENDISH-BENTINCK
British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and twice Prime Minister of Great Britain
1738 - 1809 -
Isaac SINGER
American inventor, actor, and entrepreneur, founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company
1811 - 1875 -
Thomas EDISON
American inventor and businessman
1847 - 1931 -
Jean François CHAMPOLLION
French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
1790 - 1832 -
Charles DICKENS
English writer and social critic
1812 - 1870 -
Richard WAGNER
German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist
1813 - 1883 -
Lord Byron
English romantic poet and peer
1788 - 1824