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Who was born in 1760

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Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

17601836

French army officer, writer, and composer known for creating La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France

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Johan Gadolin

Johan Gadolin

17601852

Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist known for discovering yttrium and founding Finnish chemistry research

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Luigi Cherubini

Luigi Cherubini

17601842

Italian Classical and Romantic composer, conductor, and music educator whose operas and sacred music were highly praised by contemporaries like Beethoven and Rossini

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Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai

17601849

Japanese ukiyo-e artist, painter, and printmaker known for The Great Wave off Kanagawa and influencing European Impressionists

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon

Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon

17601825

French early socialist theorist who developed influential ideas about industrial society and scientific social organization