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Cheikh El Afrit
Arts & Music
20
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Cheikh El Afrit

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ุงู„ุนูุฑูŠุช
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1897 โ€“ July 2, 1939 (42 years old)

Renowned Tunisian Jewish singer and oud virtuoso whose mastery of Andalusian malouf, witty popular songs, and soulful delivery made him a legendary fixture of the royal Bardo court and 1930s cafรฉ culture.

Tunis, Tunisia
Mohamed Ben Ali R'bati
Arts & Music
1
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Mohamed Ben Ali R'bati

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุนู„ูŠ ุงู„ุฑุจุงุทูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1861 โ€“ 1939 (78 years old)

Recognized as Morocco's earliest modern easel and watercolor painter, whose enchanting figurative scenes of Tangier and traditional life were exhibited at the Goupil Gallery in London in 1916.

Tangier, Morocco
Joseph Maurice Ravel
Arts & Music
36
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Joseph Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
7 March 1875 โ€“ 28 December 1937 (62 years old)

French composer and supreme orchestral wizard celebrated for his precision craftsmanship, Basque-Spanish elegance, and dazzling sonic imagination in Bolรฉro, Pavane pour une infante dรฉfunte, and Daphnis et Chloรฉ.

Paris, France
Dawood Hosni
Arts & Music
8
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Dawood Hosni

ุฏุงูˆุฏ ุญุณู†ูŠ (ุฏูŠููŠุฏ ุญุงูŠูŠู… ู„ูŠููŠ)
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1870 โ€“ 1937 (67 years old)

Pioneering Jewish-Egyptian musical genius who composed the first complete modern Arabic operetta (Sabah, 1919), recorded over 500 classical taqatiq, and discovered and trained young Umm Kulthum and Asmahan.

Cairo, Egypt
Paul Signac
Arts & Music
29
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Paul Signac

Paul Signac
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1863 โ€“ 1935 (71 years old)

Co-founder of Neo-Impressionism / Pointillism alongside Georges Seurat, president of the Sociรฉtรฉ des Artistes Indรฉpendants, and author of 'From Eugรจne Delacroix to Neo-Impressionism'.

Paris, France
Chiquinha Gonzaga
Arts & Music
28
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Chiquinha Gonzaga

Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazil
1847 โ€“ 1935 (87 years old)

Afro-Brazilian composer, pianist, and conductor who became the first female orchestral conductor in Brazil, composed the first carnival march (O Abre Alas), and founded Brazil's society of theatrical authors.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dassine Oult Yemma
Arts & Music
1
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Dassine Oult Yemma

โดทโดฐโต™โต‰โต โต“โตโตœ โตขโตŽโตŽโดฐ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
c. 1875 โ€“ c. 1935 (60 years old)

The supreme poetess and virtuoso of the sacred single-string violin (Imzad) in Tuareg culture, whose artistic salon (Ahal) shaped the cultural soul of the Hoggar.

Tamanrasset, Algeria
Mahmoud Mokhtar
Arts & Music
20
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Mahmoud Mokhtar

ู…ุญู…ูˆุฏ ู…ุฎุชุงุฑ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
January 26, 1891 โ€“ March 28, 1934 (43 years old)

Pioneering sculptor universally celebrated as the father of modern Egyptian sculpture, who revitalized monumental stone carving after a two-thousand-year hiatus, immortalized by his monumental statue 'Nahdat Misr' (Egypt's Renaissance).

Cairo, Egypt
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