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A. Y. Jackson
Arts & Music
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A. Y. Jackson

Alexander Young Jackson
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada
1882 โ€“ 1974 (91 years old)

Montreal-born founder of the Group of Seven who bridged French and English Canadian art, traveling thousands of miles by snowshoe and boxcar to paint the rural villages of Charlevoix and the Arctic.

Kleinburg (Vaughan, Ontario), Canada
Louis Kahn
Arts & Music
27
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Louis Kahn

Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช Estonia
1901 โ€“ 1974 (73 years old)

Estonian-born American architect celebrated for his monumental, poetic brick and concrete structures that fused archaic spirituality, geometric purity, and natural daylight.

New York City, United States
Ramses Wissa Wassef
Arts & Music
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Ramses Wissa Wassef

ุฑู…ุณูŠุณ ูˆูŠุตุง ูˆุงุตู
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1911 โ€“ 1974 (63 years old)

Visionary Egyptian architect, educator, and humanist who founded the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre in Harrania, proving that rural Egyptian village children possessed innate artistic genius when freed from rigid academic imitation.

Harrania, Giza, Egypt
Ben Webster
Arts & Music
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Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1909 โ€“ 1973 (64 years old)

American swing tenor saxophonist dubbed 'The Brute', celebrated for his breathy, sensual ballad tone with Duke Ellington's orchestra and soaring European jazz residencies.

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Victor Jara
Arts & Music
27
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Victor Jara

Vรญctor Lidio Jara Martรญnez
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chile
1932 โ€“ 1973 (40 years old)

Chilean singer-songwriter, theater director, and political activist who personified the Nueva Cancion movement, murdered during the 1973 military coup for singing songs of social liberation.

Santiago, Chile
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
Arts & Music
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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso

Pablo Picasso
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
25 October 1881 โ€“ 8 April 1973 (91 years old)

Supreme protean colossus of 20th-century art who shattered Renaissance perspective with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, co-invented Cubism with Braque, and painted the world's greatest anti-war monument, Guernica.

Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes), France
Ismail Yassine
Arts & Music
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Ismail Yassine

ุฅุณู…ุงุนูŠู„ ูŠุงุณูŠู†
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1912 โ€“ 1972 (59 years old)

Undisputed monarch of Egyptian slapstick comedy and monologist whose unmistakable wide-mouthed facial expressions, physical humor, and dedicated film series dominated Arab cinema for three decades.

Cairo, Egypt
Jamini Roy
Arts & Music
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Jamini Roy

เฆฏเฆพเฆฎเฆฟเฆจเง€ เฆฐเฆพเฆฏเฆผ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1887 โ€“ 1972 (85 years old)

Indian painter who renounced Western academic oil painting to create a bold, indigenous modernist style rooted in rural Bengali Kalighat folk patua scrolls and earthen mineral pigments.

Kolkata, India
Ali Ben Ayed
Arts & Music
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Ali Ben Ayed

ุนู„ูŠ ุจู† ุนูŠุงุฏ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1930 โ€“ 1972 (41 years old)

Visionary giant who revolutionized modern Tunisian dramatic arts as director of the Tunis Municipal Troupe from 1958 to 1971, directing immortal adaptations of Hamlet, Oedipus Rex, and Caligula.

Tunis, Tunisia
Louis Daniel Armstrong
Arts & Music
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Louis Daniel Armstrong

Louis Armstrong
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
4 August 1901 โ€“ 6 July 1971 (69 years old)

Founding father of jazz whose brilliant cornet/trumpet virtuosity, rhythmic swing, gravelly baritone vocals, and joyful charisma transformed jazz from collective folk improvisation into an individual soloist's art in West End Blues and What a Wonderful World.

Queens (New York City), United States
Jilali Gharbaoui
Arts & Music
25
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Jilali Gharbaoui

ุงู„ุฌูŠู„ุงู„ูŠ ุงู„ุบุฑุจุงูˆูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1930 โ€“ 1971 (41 years old)

Tragic genius celebrated as Morocco's first purely non-figurative abstract painter, whose electrifying gestural brushstrokes and violent search for light anticipated European Informel painting.

Fez, Morocco
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Arts & Music
32
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Russia
17 June 1882 โ€“ 6 April 1971 (88 years old)

Russian-born composer whose groundbreaking ballets for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russesโ€”The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Springโ€”exploded traditional rhythm and harmony, redefining 20th-century music.

New York City, United States
Fadila Dziria
Arts & Music
16
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Fadila Dziria

ูุถูŠู„ุฉ ุงู„ุฏุฒูŠุฑูŠุฉ (ูุถูŠู„ุฉ ู…ุฏุงู†ูŠ)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1917 โ€“ 1970 (53 years old)

The undisputed grand diva of classical Algiers vocal art (Assimi and Hawzi) whose golden voice, emotional warmth, and active clandestine support for the FLN made her a national treasure.

Algiers, Algeria
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