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(As "contemporary", I've arbitrarily chosen people born within about five years of 1813, Wagner's birth year.) MUSICIANS: Franz Liszt (1811-1886), famous pianist, composer, teacher and Wagner's father-in-law Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), famous Italian opera composer, who also wrote one of the greatest Requiems NON-MUSICIANS: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President Queen Victoria (1819-1901), British monarch from 1837, who met Wagner Gustav Courbet (1819-1877), French painter Charolotte Bronte (1816-1855), English novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English novelist George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans) (1819-1880), English novelist Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), English poet Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American author and philosopher Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist, formulated natural selection as the mechanism for the evolution of species Michail Bakunin (1814-1876), Russian anarchist Karl Marx (1818-1883), German economic philosopher, founder of Communism (died in the same year as Wagner) Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), American politician, President of the Confederacy during the American Civil War William Gladstone (1809-1898), British politician and four-times Prime Minister Frederck Douglass (1818-1895), American abolistionist reformer Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian and German statesman and Chancellor

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