Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".

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Who was born first?

• Romain Rolland and Benedetto Croce were born the same year
• Romain Rolland and Voltairine de Cleyre were born the same year
• Romain Rolland and Gopal Krishna Gokhale were born the same year
• Romain Rolland and Lev Shestov were born the same year
• Romain Rolland and J. M. E. McTaggart were born the same year

Timeline

1. Benedetto CroceFebruary 25, 1866 – November 20, 1952
2. Gopal Krishna GokhaleMay 9, 1866 – February 19, 1915
3. J. M. E. McTaggartSeptember 3, 1866 – January 18, 1925
4. Lev ShestovJanuary 24, 1866 – November 19, 1938
5. Romain Rolland (this page)January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944
6. Voltairine de CleyreNovember 17, 1866 – June 1912

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