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1861 – 1941Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)Died 7 August 1941, aged 80Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, composer and philosopher, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.