Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

United States

1960 – 1988 (27 years old)

Groundbreaking American Neo-Expressionist painter who rose from graffiti pioneer to international art icon.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

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Chet Baker

Chesney Henry Baker Jr.

United States

1929 – 1988 (58 years old)

American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose delicate lyricism, whispery vocals, and cool jazz aesthetic made him an international icon.

Inglewood, California, United States

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André Masson

André-Aimé-René Masson

France

1896 – 1987 (91 years old)

French painter and graphic artist who pioneered automatic drawing in Surrealism and whose sand paintings and expressive gestures directly inspired American Abstract Expressionism.

Paris, France

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Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola

United States

1928 – 1987 (58 years old)

American Pop Art icon whose silk-screens of Campbell's soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, and consumer culture redefined the boundaries of art.

Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, United States

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore

United Kingdom

1898 – 1986 (88 years old)

English sculptor renowned for his monumental undulating bronze figures of reclining women and mother-and-child motifs.

Perry Green, Much Hadham, United Kingdom

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

United States

15 November 1887 – 6 March 1986 (98 years old)

Iconic American modernist painter renowned for her revolutionary close-up paintings of enlarged flowers, soaring New York skyscrapers, and evocative desert landscapes of Ghost Ranch in New Mexico.

Santa Fe (New Mexico), United States

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M'hamed Issiakhem

محمد إسياخم

Algeria

1928 – 1985 (57 years old)

Towering pioneer of modern Algerian painting, graphic designer, and monumental muralist celebrated for his tragic, haunting expressionist depictions of suffering women, motherhood, and revolutionary scars.

Algiers, Algeria

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Marc Chagall

Moishe Segal / Марк Захарович Шагал

Belarus

1887 – 1985 (97 years old)

Russian-French early modernist whose dreamlike paintings and stained glass drew on Jewish folklore, love, and spiritual poetry.

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

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Lee Krasner

Lena Krasner

United States

1908 – 1984 (75 years old)

American Abstract Expressionist titan who pioneered gestural all-over abstraction, revolutionary torn-canvas collages, and sustained a ferocious creative independence.

New York City, United States

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.

United States

1939 – 1984 (44 years old)

'Prince of Motown' whose socially conscious masterpiece What's Going On revolutionized soul music and American consciousness.

Santa Monica, California, United States

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà

Spain

1893 – 1983 (90 years old)

Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist whose whimsical Surrealist dreamscapes and biomorphic forms redefined modern art.

Barcelona, Spain

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Alberto Ginastera

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera

Argentina

1916 – 1983 (67 years old)

Argentine classical composer acclaimed as the greatest South American composer of the twentieth century, celebrated for Danzas Argentinas, the ballet Estancia, and innovative neo-expressionist operas.

Geneva, Switzerland

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield

United States

1913 – 1983 (70 years old)

'Father of Modern Chicago Blues' whose amplified electric sound laid the foundation for modern rock and roll.

Alsip, Illinois, United States

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Chabuca Granda

María Isabel Granda y Larco

Peru

1920 – 1983 (62 years old)

Peruvian singer-songwriter and poet universally revered as the queen of musica criolla, world-famous for the iconic waltz La flor de la canela.

Lima, Peru

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Wifredo Lam

Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla

Cuba

1902 – 1982 (79 years old)

Cuban modernist painter who fused European Cubism and Surrealism with Afro-Cuban spirituality, Santería symbolism, and anti-colonial consciousness.

Paris, France

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Christian Schad

Christian Schad

Germany

1894 – 1982 (87 years old)

German artist celebrated as a pioneer of photograms (Schadographs) in Dada Geneva and the supreme master of chillingly polished, hyper-precise Neue Sachlichkeit portraiture.

Stuttgart, Germany

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk

United States

1917 – 1982 (64 years old)

Visionary jazz composer and pianist whose dissonant harmonies, angular melodies, and percussive stride redefined bebop and modern jazz.

Hartsdale, New York, United States

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Robert Nesta Marley

Bob Marley

Jamaica

6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981 (36 years old)

Global musical and spiritual prophet who brought Jamaican reggae and Rastafari consciousness to the world stage, uniting humanity with anthems of liberation, peace, and love in Exodus, Redemption Song, and One Love.

Miami (Florida), United States

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