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Carlo Carrà

Carlo Dalmazzo Carrà

Italy

1881 – 1966 (85 years old)

Italian painter who was a leading figure of Italian Futurism before joining Giorgio de Chirico to pioneer Metaphysical painting and a monumental classical revival.

Milan, Italy

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Gino Severini

Gino Severini

Italy

1883 – 1966 (82 years old)

Italian artist who connected Paris Cubism with Italian Futurism, famous for kaleidoscopic nightclub dancers, fractured war trains, and later classical frescoes.

Paris, France

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Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti

Switzerland

1901 – 1966 (64 years old)

Swiss sculptor and painter renowned for his elongated, thread-like bronze figures evoking human vulnerability and existential isolation.

Borgonovo (Stampa), Switzerland

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Kosaku Yamada

山田 耕筰

Japan

1886 – 1965 (79 years old)

Japanese composer and conductor who composed Japan's first symphony and first western-style opera, Kurofune (The Black Ships), and founded the Japan Philharmonic.

Tokyo, Japan

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Sam Cooke

Samuel Cook

United States

1931 – 1964 (33 years old)

'King of Soul' whose golden voice, songwriting brilliance, and civil rights anthem 'A Change Is Gonna Come' shaped Black music.

Glendale, California, United States

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Anita Malfatti

Anita Catarina Malfatti

Brazil

1889 – 1964 (74 years old)

Brazilian painter who introduced European expressionism and non-academic modern art to Brazil in her controversial 1917 Sao Paulo solo exhibition.

Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl)

Gerardo Murillo Cornado

Mexico

1875 – 1964 (88 years old)

Mexican painter and volcanologist who adopted the Nahuatl name 'Dr. Atl' (Water), father of modern Mexican landscape painting and mentor to Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Giorgio Morandi

Giorgio Morandi

Italy

1890 – 1964 (73 years old)

Italian painter and printmaker celebrated for his meditative, poetic still lifes of bottles, jars, and vases, rendered with exquisite tonal subtlety and architectural balance.

Bologna, Italy

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Mikhail Larionov

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov

Russian Empire

1881 – 1964 (82 years old)

Russian avant-garde painter, art theorist, and scenographer who pioneered Neo-Primitivism and formulated the revolutionary Rayonist manifesto in Moscow.

Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

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Mahmoud Said

محمود سعيد

Khedivate of Egypt

1897 – 1964 (67 years old)

Aristocratic Egyptian judge and master painter celebrated as the 'Father of Modern Egyptian Painting', who combined European classical glazing with sensual Alexandrian Mediterranean light, author of 'The Whirling Dervishes'.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Yasujiro Ozu

小津 安二郎

Japan

1903 – 1963 (60 years old)

Japanese filmmaker universally revered for Tokyo Story, Late Spring, and Early Summer, whose low-angle tatami shots, elliptical storytelling, and mono no aware elevated cinema to pure Zen philosophy.

Kamakura (Kanagawa), Japan

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Édith Giovanna Gassion (Édith Piaf)

Édith Piaf

France

19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963 (47 years old)

France's national chanteuse and international cultural icon whose raw, tremulous voice and passionate realism in La Vie en rose, Non, je ne regrette rien, and Hymne à l'amour voiced the soul of Paris.

Plascassier (Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes), France

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Remedios Varo

María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga

Spain

1908 – 1963 (54 years old)

Spanish-Mexican Surrealist master celebrated for her jewel-like, intricately rendered paintings uniting medieval alchemy, sacred geometry, astronomy, and mystic journeying.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Natalia Goncharova

Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

Russian Empire

1881 – 1962 (81 years old)

Russian avant-garde artist and Rayonist pioneer who synthesized traditional peasant icons with Cubo-Futurism and revolutionized theatrical design for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Paris, France

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Gabriele Münter

Gabriele Münter

Germany

1877 – 1962 (85 years old)

German Expressionist painter who co-founded Der Blaue Reiter, celebrated for her bold contours, saturated flat colors, and intimate domestic and Alpine landscapes.

Murnau am Staffelsee, Germany

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Franz Kline

Franz Josef Kline

United States

1910 – 1962 (51 years old)

American Abstract Expressionist painter renowned for his monumental, high-impact black-and-white canvases featuring muscular, architectural brushstrokes and dynamic spatial tension.

New York City, United States

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Candido Portinari

Candido Portinari

Brazil

1903 – 1962 (58 years old)

Brazilian painter and muralist who created the monumental War and Peace murals for the United Nations Headquarters in New York, capturing the soul of Brazilian laborers and drought refugees.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Cheikh Raymond

الشيخ ريمون (ريمون ليريس)

Algeria

1912 – 1961 (48 years old)

Revered Algerian Jewish virtuoso of the Andalusian Malouf tradition, master of the oud, whose concert orchestra united Jewish and Muslim musicians in the shared sacred heritage of Constantine.

Constantine, Algeria

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