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Gustav MAHLER
Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer
1860 - 1911 -
Leconte de Lisle
French poet
1818 - 1894 -
Oliver HARDY
American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy
1892 - 1957 -
Virginia WOOLF
English writer
1882 - 1941 -
Spencer TRACY
American theatrical and film actor
1900 - 1967 -
Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator
1864 - 1901 -
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer, poet, journalist and aviator
1900 - 1944 -
George SAND
French novelist
1804 - 1876 -
Arthur RIMBAUD
French Poet
1854 - 1891 -
Charles PEGUY
French poet, essayist, and editor
1873 - 1914 -
Marcel PAGNOL
French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker
1895 - 1974 -
Jean-François MILLET
French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school
1814 - 1875 -
Guy de MAUPASSANT
French writer and considered one of the fathers of the modern short story
1850 - 1893 -
Karl MARX
German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary
1818 - 1883 -
Laura INGALLS WILDER
American author who wrote the Little House series of books based on her childhood in a pioneer family
1867 - 1957 -
Heinrich HEINE
Journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German romantic poets
1797 - 1856 -
Pierre de COUBERTIN
French pedagogue and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and considered father of the modern Olympic Games
1863 - 1937 -
Maurice CHEVALIER
French actor, singer, and popular vaudeville entertainer
1888 - 1972 -
Hector BERLIOZ
French Romantic composer
1803 - 1869 -
Charles BAUDELAIRE
French poet, critic, and translator
1821 - 1867