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Miles Dewey Davis III
Arts & Music
40
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 995

Miles Dewey Davis III

Miles Davis
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
26 May 1926 โ€“ 28 September 1991 (65 years old)

Visionary trumpeter and bandleader who spearheaded almost every major development in modern jazzโ€”from bebop and cool jazz (Birth of the Cool) to modal jazz (Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album in history) and jazz-rock fusion (Bitches Brew).

Santa Monica (California), United States
Bachir Hadj Ali
Arts & Music
15
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Bachir Hadj Ali

ุจุดูŠุฑ ุญุงุฌ ุนู„ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1920 โ€“ 1991 (70 years old)

Visionary Algerian communist leader, poet, and musicologist whose profound studies on Algerian Andalusian and Chaabi music preserved national heritage, while his poems documented the agony of political torture.

Algiers, Algeria
Mohamed Khadda
Arts & Music
10
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mohamed Khadda

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุฎุฏุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1930 โ€“ 1991 (61 years old)

Pioneering visual artist and theorist regarded as a foundational father of contemporary non-figurative art in Algeria, famous for infusing Arabic calligraphy and Berber motifs into lyric abstraction.

Algiers, Algeria
Hedi Jouini
Arts & Music
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Hedi Jouini

ุงู„ู‡ุงุฏูŠ ุงู„ุฌูˆูŠู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
November 1, 1909 โ€“ November 30, 1990 (81 years old)

Legendary Tunisian singer, oud virtuoso, and composer often heralded as the father of modern Tunisian popular song, whose vast repertoire bridged Andalusian malouf melodies with flamenco, tango, and modern chanson.

Tunis, Tunisia
Willy Vandersteen
Arts & Music
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Willy Vandersteen

Willebrord Jan Frans Maria Vandersteen
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1913 โ€“ 1990 (77 years old)

Flemish comic strip titan revered as 'the Bruegel of the comic strip' who created Suske en Wiske (Bob et Bobette), De Rode Ridder, and Bessy, selling hundreds of millions of albums across the Low Countries.

Kalmthout (Antwerp), Belgium
Oulaya
Arts & Music
19
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Oulaya

ุนูู„ูŠู‘ุฉ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
November 4, 1936 โ€“ March 19, 1990 (53 years old)

Eminent Tunisian songstress celebrated as the Voice of the Era whose dynamic vocal range, dramatic phrasing, and collaborations with Egyptian and Maghrebi masters established her among the greatest Arab singers of the twentieth century.

Tunis, Tunisia
Mohamed Reggab
Arts & Music
1
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mohamed Reggab

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ุฑูƒุงุจ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1942 โ€“ 1990 (48 years old)

Pioneering Moroccan filmmaker whose 1982 social realist masterpiece Le Coiffeur du quartier des pauvres (The Barber of the Poor Quarter) is recognized as a landmark achievement of North African militant cinema.

Safi, Morocco
Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall
Arts & Music
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall

ุงู„ุณูŠู…ุงู„ูŠ ูˆู„ุฏ ุฃุญู…ุฏ ูุงู„
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania
1928 โ€“ 1990 (62 years old)

Master of traditional Moorish music and supreme virtuoso of the four-stringed tidinit lute, who modernised traditional modal systems and composed Mauritania's first national anthem.

Nouakchott, Mauritania
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