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Manuel Ponce
Arts & Music
2
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Manuel Ponce

Manuel Marรญa Ponce Cuรฉllar
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1882 โ€“ 1948 (65 years old)

Mexican composer and pianist revered as the father of Mexican musical nationalism, world-famous for the romantic song Estrellita and his guitar masterworks composed for Andres Segovia.

Mexico City, Mexico
Kurt Schwitters
Arts & Music
4
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Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1887 โ€“ 1948 (60 years old)

German avant-garde polymath who created 'Merz'โ€”a total art philosophy utilizing street detritus, ticket stubs, and discarded refuse to construct visionary collages and walk-in architectural installations.

Kendal, United Kingdom
Pierre Bonnard
Arts & Music
4
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Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Second French Empire
1867 โ€“ 1947 (79 years old)

French Post-Impressionist painter and founding member of Les Nabis whose dazzling, sun-soaked color harmonies and intimate bathroom scenes of his wife Marthe revolutionized modern colorism.

Le Cannet, France
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
Arts & Music
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 970

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

ะ’ะฐัะธะปะธะน ะ’ะฐัะธะปัŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะšะฐะฝะดะธะฝัะบะธะน
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
16 December 1866 โ€“ 13 December 1944 (77 years old)

Visionary Russian painter and Bauhaus master universally recognized as the pioneer of pure non-objective abstract art, who linked visual color and geometry to musical synesthesia in his landmark treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

Neuilly-sur-Seine (Paris), France
Asmahan
Arts & Music
3
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Asmahan

ุฃุณู…ู‡ุงู† (ุขู…ุงู„ ุงู„ุฃุทุฑุด)
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡พ Ottoman / Syrian
1912 โ€“ 1944 (31 years old)

Legendary Syrian-Egyptian singer and actress, sister of Farid al-Atrash, whose soaring, operatic vocal range and glamorous cinema roles made her one of the supreme divas of the Arab Golden Age before her mysterious death at age thirty-one.

Cairo, Egypt
Edvard Munch
Arts & Music
10
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Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
12 December 1863 โ€“ 23 January 1944 (80 years old)

Norwegian master painter and printmaker whose psychological series The Frieze of Lifeโ€”anchored by the immortal, harrowing icon The Scream (1893)โ€”expressed modern humanity's existential dread, alienation, and raw psychological trauma.

Ekely (Oslo), Norway
Fats Waller
Arts & Music
3
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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright Waller
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1904 โ€“ 1943 (39 years old)

American jazz pianist, organist, and entertainer who perfected Harlem stride piano and composed enduring American standards including 'Ain't Misbehavin'' and 'Honeysuckle Rose'.

Kansas City, United States
Maurice Denis
Arts & Music
3
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Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท French Third Republic
1870 โ€“ 1943 (72 years old)

Theoretician of Les Nabis whose 1890 definition of a painting ('a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order') became the foundation of 20th-century abstract art theory.

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff
Arts & Music
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 930

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff

ะกะตั€ะณะตะน ะ’ะฐัะธะปัŒะตะฒะธั‡ ะ ะฐั…ะผะฐะฝะธะฝะพะฒ
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
1 April 1873 โ€“ 28 March 1943 (69 years old)

Russian composer, legendary virtuoso pianist, and conductor whose lush romanticism, titanic keyboard technique, and sweeping orchestral melodies produced the Second and Third Piano Concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Beverly Hills (California), United States
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