Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet from Calcutta who in 1913 became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
| Lived | 1861 – 1941 |
| Known as | Poet |
| Birthplace or main place | Kolkata |
| Places on the map | Kolkata |
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Who ruled these places in his lifetime
| Place | At birth (map of 1815) | At death (map of 1938) |
|---|---|---|
| Kolkata | British East India Company | British Raj |
From the border maps nearest to each date; borders are approximate.
Events in his lifetime
| Year | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 | The capital moves to Delhi | Kolkata |
Further reading
Contemporaries
| Lived | Person | |
|---|---|---|
| 1856 – 1939 | Sigmund Freud | Founder of psychoanalysis |
| 1869 – 1948 | Mahatma Gandhi | Leader of Indian independence |
| 1867 – 1934 | Marie Curie | Physicist and chemist |
| 1874 – 1965 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister |
| 1876 – 1948 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Founder of Pakistan |
| 1878 – 1953 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader |
| 1879 – 1955 | Albert Einstein | Physicist |
| 1866 – 1925 | Sun Yat-sen | Founder of the Republic of China |
| 1881 – 1938 | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Founder of the Republic of Turkey |
| 1870 – 1924 | Vladimir Lenin | Bolshevik leader |
Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.