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Rabindranath Tagore

1861 - 1941

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Rabindranath Thakur (Bengali: [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali. In 1913, Tagore became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rabindranath Tagore is the 67th most popular writer (down from 63rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from India (down from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Indian Writer.

Rabindranath Tagore is most famous for his poetry and novels. He is also known for being the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rabindranath Tagore ranks 67 out of 7,302. Before him are Henrik Ibsen, Stendhal, Ayn Rand, Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, and Selma Lagerlöf. After him are Jorge Luis Borges, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Mann, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, and Romain Rolland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Rabindranath Tagore ranks 1. After him are Mehmed VI, Fridtjof Nansen, Rudolf Steiner, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Georges Méliès, Edith Roosevelt, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Georgy Lvov, and Erich von Falkenhayn. Among people deceased in 1941, Rabindranath Tagore ranks 3. Before him are James Joyce, and Wilhelm II, German Emperor. After him are Henri Bergson, Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Walther Nernst, Emanuel Lasker, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, and Paul Sabatier.

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In India

Among people born in India, Rabindranath Tagore ranks 8 out of 1,861. Before him are Indira Gandhi (1917), Narendra Modi (1950), Mumtaz Mahal (1593), George Orwell (1903), Ashoka (-304), and Rajneesh (1931). After him are Swami Vivekananda (1863), Kālidāsa (400), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Ramakrishna (1836), Pratibha Patil (1934), and Mahavira (-599).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Rabindranath Tagore ranks 2. Before him are George Orwell (1903). After him are Kālidāsa (400), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Valmiki (-80), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Salman Rushdie (1947), Ghalib (1797), Jim Corbett (1875), Tulsidas (1532), Savitribai Phule (1831), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811).

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