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Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer (1770-1827)
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer (1732–1809)
Sun Yat-sen
Chinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Norwegian writer (1832–1910)
Nursultan Nazarbayev
President of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019
Thomas Sankara
President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987
Saparmyrat Nyýazow
President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006
Léopold Sédar Senghor
first president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)
Pedro I of Brazil
Emperor of Brazil (1822–31) and King of Portugal (1826)
France Prešeren
Slovene national poet, a Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent (1800–1849)
Yun Ch'iho
Korean independence activist (1864-1945)
Aram Khachaturian
Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)
Charles Gounod
French composer (1818–1893)
Mikhail Glinka
Russian composer
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
French army officer (1760-1836)
Liliʻuokalani
Liliʻuokalani (; Lydia Liliʻu Loloku Walania Kamakaʻeha; September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893, in a coup that was led by the Committee of Safety, composed of seven foreign residents (five Americans, one Scotsman, and one German) and six Hawaiian Kingdom subjects of American descent in Honolulu. The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography ''Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen'' (189
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
French poet and chansonnier (1780-1857)
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
Finland’s national poet, author of Finland’s national anthem, Swedish-speaking writer and poet (1804–77)
list of national anthems
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Sergey Mikhalkov
Soviet and Russian writer (1913–2009)
Amílcar Cabral
Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean politician (1924-1973)
Uzeyir Hajibeyov
Azerbaijani composer (1885–1948)
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
German scholar and poet (1798–1874)
Johannes R. Becher
German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)
Alexander Alexandrov
Russian Soviet composer
Mehmet Âkif Ersoy
Turkish poet and writer (1873–1936)
Vasile Alecsandri
Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat
Kalākaua
Kalākaua (David Laʻamea Kamanakapuʻu Māhinulani Nālaʻiaʻehuokalani Lumialani Kalākaua; November 16, 1836 – January 20, 1891), was the last king and penultimate monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, reigning from February 12, 1874, until his death in 1891. Succeeding Lunalilo, he was elected to the vacant throne of Hawaiʻi against Queen Emma. Kalākaua was known as the Merrie Monarch for his convivial personality – he enjoyed entertaining guests with his singing and ukulele playing. At his coronation and his birthday jubilee, the hula, which had hitherto been banned in public in the kingdom, b
Dino Merlin
Bosnian singer
Adam Oehlenschläger
Danish poet and playwright (1779–1850)
Francis Scott Key
American lawyer and poet who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner (1779-1843)
Dionysios Solomos
Greek poet (1798–1857)
Hanns Eisler
Austrian and German composer (1898–1962)
Johann Voldemar Jannsen
Estonian journalist and cultural activist (1819–1890)
Ferenc Erkel
Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (1810–1893)
Amata Kabua
former President of the Marshall Islands (1928-1996)
Mohammed Abdel Wahab
Egyptian singer, actor and composer (1896-1991)
Vincas Kudirka
Lithuanian writer, poet and physician (1858–1899)
Rikard Nordraak
Norwegian composer (1842–1866)
Paula von Preradović
Austrian writer, poet (1887-1951)
Hubert Parry
British composer, teacher and historian (1848–1918)
Aleksander Stavre Drenova
Albanian poet (1872–1947)
Vicente López y Planes
Argentine writer and politician (1785-1856)
Hu Han-min
Chinese politician (1879-1936)
Matthías Jochumsson
Icelandic poet (1835–1920)
Mikael Nalbandian
Armenian writer (1829-1866)
Naftali Herz Imber
Jewish poet, writer (1856–1909)
Józef Wybicki
Polish poet, author of the national anthem (1747–1822)
Tian Han
Chinese playwright, screenwriter, songwriter (1898-1968)
Zakaria Paliashvili
Georgian composer (1871–1933)
Josef Kajetán Tyl
Czech poet, playwright, publicist, writer, historic literature writer and lyricist (1808-1856)
Ferenc Kölcsey
Hungarian politician and writer (1790-1838)
Fredrik Pacius
German composer resided in Finland (1809-1891)
Charles Rogier
Belgian journalist, statesman (1800-1885)
Goffredo Mameli
poet, patriot and writer from Italy
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga
South African composer (1873-1905)
Rafael Núñez
author, lawyer, journalist, politician and President of Colombia (1825-1894)
Lunalilo
Lunalilo (William Charles Lunalilo; January 31, 1835 – February 3, 1874) was the sixth monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii from his election on January 8, 1873, until his death a year later.
Jimmie Davis
American singer, songwriter and 47th Governor of Louisiana (1899–2000)