10 January 1821 · 5 March 1844 · 1848 · 11 January 1877 The words of the anthem were written by a boy from this townSlová hymny napísal chlapec z tohto mesta

Janko Matúška was born in Dolný Kubín on 10 January 1821. As a student at the Lutheran lyceum in Bratislava he joined the walkout of March 1844: after the church authorities removed Ľudovít Štúr from his teaching post, about two dozen students left the school in protest and set out for Levoča. For that departure Matúška wrote a poem on 5 March 1844 and fitted it to a folk tune — Nad Tatrou sa blýska, "Lightning over the Tatras" — whose first two stanzas are the national anthem of Slovakia today. Four years later the revolution of 1848 abolished serfdom, the legal duty of a peasant to work his lord's land, and remade every village in the county. Matúška came home, worked in the court office in Dolný Kubín from 1870, and died in the town on 11 January 1877.Janko Matúška sa narodil v Dolnom Kubíne 10. januára 1821. Ako študent bratislavského evanjelického lýcea sa v marci 1844 pridal k odchodu študentov: keď cirkevný konvent odvolal Ľudovíta Štúra z učiteľského miesta, asi dve desiatky študentov na protest opustili školu a vybrali sa do Levoče. Na ten odchod napísal Matúška 5. marca 1844 báseň a podložil ju ľudovou melódiou — Nad Tatrou sa blýska — a jej prvé dve slohy sú dnes štátnou hymnou Slovenska. O štyri roky neskôr zrušila revolúcia roku 1848 poddanstvo, teda povinnosť sedliaka pracovať na panskom, a zmenila každú dedinu v stolici. Matúška sa vrátil domov, od roku 1870 pracoval v Dolnom Kubíne na súde a 11. januára 1877 tu zomrel.