Rabindranath TagoreFRAS (; Bengalis) also written Ravīndranātha Thākura (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquetGurudev, was a Bengalipolymath who reshapedBengali literature and music, as well as Indian art withContextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjaliand its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal"
1564 - 1616
1803 – 1882
1854 – 1900
1942 – 2016
1928 – 2014
1835 – 1910
1869 – 1948
1884 – 1962
1898 – 1963
1929 – 1993
1879 – 1955
1809 – 1865
1807 – 1870
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1795 – 1821
1755 – 1793
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1989 – 2011
1943 – 2001
1815 – 1902
1929 – 1994
1767 – 1848