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Luis Buñuel
Spanish, later naturalized Mexican, filmmaker
1900 - 1983 -
Federico GARCÍA LORCA
Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director
1898 - 1936 -
Fred ASTAIRE
American actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, and television presenter
1899 - 1987 -
Nellie BLY
American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days
1864 - 1922 -
Robert SCHUMANN
German composer, pianist, and influential music critic
1810 - 1856 -
Jack LONDON
American novelist, journalist, and social activist
1876 - 1916 -
Vincent VAN GOGH
Dutch post-impressionist painter
1853 - 1890 -
Johann STRAUSS
Austrian composer of light music
1825 - 1899 -
Fiodor (Fyodor) Dostoïevski (Dostoevsky)
Russian novelist, philosopher, short story writer, essayist, and journalist
1821 - 1881 -
Alfred HITCHCOCK
English film director and producer
1899 - 1980 -
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion
1892 - 1973 -
Théodore CHASSERIAU
French Romantic painter
1819 - 1856 -
Giacomo PUCCINI
Italian opera composer
1858 - 1924 -
Paul ÉLUARD
French poet
1895 - 1952 -
Max LINDER
French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian of the silent film era
1883 - 1925 -
Antoni GAUDí
Catalan architect
1852 - 1926 -
Arthur CONAN DOYLE
Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes
1859 - 1930 -
H. G. WELLS
English writer, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre
1866 - 1946 -
F. Scott FITZGERALD
American author of novels and short stories
1896 - 1940 -
William FAULKNER
American writer and Nobel Prize laureate
1897 - 1962