Historical Archives & Public Figures

Lovis Corinth

Kingdom of Prussia

1858 – 1925 (66 years old)

German master painter and president of the Berlin Secession whose style dramatically evolved from robust naturalism into feverish, tragic late Expressionist masterpieces.

Stahnsdorf (Berlin), Germany

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie

France

1866 – 1925 (59 years old)

Eccentric French avant-garde composer and pianist whose Gymnopédies and Furniture Music anticipated minimalism and ambient sound.

Arcueil (Paris), France

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John Singer Sargent

Italy

1856 – 1925 (69 years old)

Foremost portrait painter of his generation, celebrated for dazzling bravura brushwork and the controversial Portrait of Madame X.

Brookwood, Surrey, United Kingdom

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Italy

22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924 (65 years old)

Italian operatic titan regarded as the heir to Verdi, whose heart-wrenching theatrical masterworks—La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot (Nessun dorma)—rank among the most frequently performed operas in history.

Brussels, Belgium

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Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré

France

1845 – 1924 (79 years old)

Refined French master of melody and harmony whose Requiem and chamber songs linked late Romanticism to 20th-century modernism.

Paris, France

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Liubov Popova

Liubov Sergeyevna Popova

Russian Empire

1889 – 1924 (35 years old)

Pioneering Russian avant-garde artist and Constructivist who created explosive 'Painterly Architectonics' before dedicating her genius to functional Soviet textile, poster, and theater design.

Moscow, Soviet Union

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Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan

United States

1856 – 1924 (67 years old)

American architect acclaimed as the 'Father of the Modern Skyscraper', mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and creator of the immortal architectural principle 'form follows function'.

Chicago, United States

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Sayed Darwish

سيد درويش

Egypt

1892 – 1923 (31 years old)

The father of modern Egyptian and Arab music, composer of Egypt's national anthem Bilady, Bilady, and national theatrical pioneer.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles Camille Saint-Saëns

France

1835 – 1921 (86 years old)

French Romantic composer, organist, and polymath celebrated for The Carnival of the Animals, Samson and Delilah, and the Organ Symphony.

Paris, France

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Fernand Khnopff

Belgium

1858 – 1921 (63 years old)

Leading Belgian Symbolist painter and founding member of Les XX whose enigmatic, melancholic masterworks like 'The Caress' and 'I Lock My Door Upon Myself' explored solipsism and silence.

Brussels, Belgium

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Errico 'Enrico' Caruso

Enrico Caruso

Italy

25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921 (48 years old)

Legendary Italian operatic tenor whose baritonal warmth, thrilling high notes, and passionate Italian delivery in Pagliacci (Vesti la giubba) made him the world's first global gramophone recording superstar.

Naples, Italy

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Max Bruch

Max Christian Friedrich Bruch

Prussia

1838 – 1920 (82 years old)

German Romantic composer and conductor whose Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor and Hebrew melody 'Kol Nidrei' for cello and orchestra remain beloved staples of the concert repertoire.

Berlin, Germany

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Max Klinger

Kingdom of Saxony

1857 – 1920 (63 years old)

German Symbolist painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose dreamlike print cycle 'A Glove' and polychrome marble monument to Beethoven pioneered modern psychological fantasy.

Naumburg, Germany

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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani

Amedeo Modigliani

Italy

12 July 1884 – 24 January 1920 (35 years old)

Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France, universally celebrated for his portraits and nude studies characterized by elongated necks, mask-like faces, and almond-shaped melancholic eyes.

Paris, France

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

France

1841 – 1919 (78 years old)

Leading French Impressionist painter whose luminous works celebrated human warmth, sensuality, and vibrant outdoor leisure.

Essoyes, France

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Egon Schiele

Austria

1890 – 1918 (28 years old)

Austrian Expressionist painter celebrated for his raw, psychologically charged, and uncompromisingly honest figurative works.

Vienna, Austria

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Otto Wagner

Otto Koloman Wagner

Austria

1841 – 1918 (76 years old)

Austrian architect and urban planner who led the Vienna Secession toward modernism, celebrated for the Austrian Postal Savings Bank and the Vienna Stadtbahn transit system.

Vienna, Austria

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Achille-Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

France

22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918 (55 years old)

French musical pioneer whose shimmering orchestral colors, non-functional harmony, and evocative sensuality in Clair de Lune, La Mer, and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune dissolved 19th-century tonality and opened modern music.

Paris, French Third Republic

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