When is Romain Rolland's birthday?

Romain Rolland's birthday is January 29. He was born on January 29, 1866 in Clamecy, France.

How old was Romain Rolland when he died?

Romain Rolland died on December 30, 1944, aged 78.

Who shares a birthday with Romain Rolland?

Famous people who share Romain Rolland's January 29 birthday include Anton Chekhov, William McKinley, Oprah Winfrey, Olga Tokarczuk and Ismail Haniyeh.

Literature · Music · Scholarship · 1866–1944

Romain Rolland — Age, Birthday & Biography

Born: 29 January 1866 · Died: 30 December 1944 · Age: 78

French novelist of Jean-Christophe and biographer of Beethoven, a committed pacifist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Did you know?He was a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi and wrote a biography of the Indian leader.

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Date of birth29 January 1866
Date of death30 December 1944
Age at death78
Cause of deathTuberculosis
NationalityFrench
BirthplaceClamecy, France
Occupationwriter, playwright, essayist

Editor's Take:

Romain Rolland was a French writer who believed art could unite humanity. His ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe follows a German musician inspired partly by Beethoven. He wrote admiring biographies of Beethoven, Michelangelo and Tolstoy. During the First World War he lived in Switzerland and called for peace in his essay Above the Battle. Many in France saw this as betrayal. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915. He later wrote about Gandhi and corresponded with Freud.

Key Milestones

1903: Life of Beethoven – biography
1904: Jean-Christophe – novel begins
1915: Above the Battle – anti-war essays
1915: Nobel Prize in Literature

Romain Rolland (French:; 29 January 1866 – 30 December 1944) 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…

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Romain Rolland: The Voice of Peace

French writer, 1866–1944

Romain Rolland was born in Clamecy, France, on 29 January 1866.

He taught music history at the Sorbonne.

His ten-volume novel Jean-Christophe appeared between 1904 and 1912.

He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1915.

Career highlights

1903Life of Beethoven: biography
1904Jean-Christophe: novel begins
1915Above the Battle: anti-war essays
1915Nobel Prize: in Literature
1924Gandhi: biography

Did you know?He coined the phrase "oceanic feeling", which Freud later discussed in Civilization and Its Discontents.

Age at death: 78
Years since death: 81

Family

Father: Émile Rolland
Spouses: Clothilde Bréal, Marie Romain Rolland

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When is Romain Rolland's birthday?: Romain Rolland's birthday is January 29. He was born on January 29, 1866 in Clamecy, France.
How old was Romain Rolland when he died?: Romain Rolland died on December 30, 1944, aged 78.
Who shares a birthday with Romain Rolland?: Famous people who share Romain Rolland's January 29 birthday include Anton Chekhov, William McKinley, Oprah Winfrey, Olga Tokarczuk and Ismail Haniyeh.

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