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Born May 4, 1767 • India
Died January 6, 1847 (aged 79)
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Tansen
Indian musician and poet
The sound of the sarod
Amjad Ali Khan
Indian musician and composer
Ali Akbar Khan
Ali Akbar Khan
composer and musician
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Purandaradasa
Indian poet and composer
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Nammazhvar
South Indian poet-saint
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
American poet, songwriter, and singer
Gulzar
Gulzar
writer, film producer, and director
Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt.
Gil Scott-Heron
American poet and musician
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Bengali author
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
Engraved portrait of John Newton wearing clerical robes and a white neckband, with curled white hair, facing slightly to the right.
John Newton
English clergyman and writer
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Tallis, Thomas
Thomas Tallis
English composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
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Jackson Mac Low
American composer, poet, and performance artist
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Thomas Campion
English poet and musician
Vysotsky, Vladimir
Vladimir Vysotsky
Soviet actor, singer, and author
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Spanish composer
Bellman, detail of an oil painting by P. Krafft, 1779; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Carl Michael Bellman
Swedish poet and musician
Archie Shepp, 1982
Archie Shepp
American musician and educator

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