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John Winston Ono Lennon

John Lennon

United Kingdom

9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980 (40 years old)

Co-founder of The Beatles and legendary songwriter whose creative partnership with Paul McCartney redefined popular music, whose 1971 anthem Imagine became humanity's universal prayer for global peace.

New York City, United States

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Bill Evans

William John Evans

United States

1929 – 1980 (51 years old)

American jazz pianist and composer whose impressionistic chord voicings, lyrical touch, and modal harmonies reshaped modern jazz, celebrated for 'Kind of Blue' and Village Vanguard trios.

New York City, United States

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Dahmane El Harrachi

دحمان الحراشي

Algeria

1926 – 1980 (54 years old)

Iconic Algerian Chaabi singer and composer from El Harrach whose melancholy immigrant anthems, foremost among them 'Ya Rayah' (O Traveler), captured the heartache of exile and became a global world music phenomenon.

Algiers, Algeria

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Marino Marini

Marino Marini

Italy

1901 – 1980 (79 years old)

Italian sculptor and painter celebrated for his tragic, expressive equestrian sculptures of horse and rider reflecting the existential trauma and loss of control of modern man.

Viareggio, Italy

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Clyfford Still

Clyfford Still

United States

1904 – 1980 (75 years old)

American Abstract Expressionist titan who pioneered monumental Color Field painting with rugged, palette-knife fissures of raw pigment and maintained uncompromising artistic autonomy.

Baltimore, United States

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Philip Guston

Phillip Goldstein

Canada

1913 – 1980 (66 years old)

American painter who transitioned from ethereal Abstract Expressionism to revolutionary, cartoonish Neo-Expressionist allegories of hooded Klansmen, cigarettes, and studio angst.

Woodstock, United States

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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka

Austria

1886 – 1980 (93 years old)

Austrian Expressionist painter, graphic artist, and dramatist renowned for his nervous, psychologically incisive portraits and panoramic, turbulent cityscapes.

Montreux, Switzerland

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Sonia Delaunay

Sarah Ilinitchna Stern

Russia

1885 – 1979 (94 years old)

Ukrainian-French artist and designer who co-founded Simultanism and Orphism, bringing pure geometric color rhythm to paintings, textiles, fashion, and theatrical decor.

Paris, France

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr.

United States

1922 – 1979 (56 years old)

Towering jazz double bassist, composer, and bandleader whose fiercely passionate compositions fused blues, gospel, and third-stream jazz.

Varanasi, India

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El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka

الحاج محمد العنقى

Algeria

1907 – 1978 (71 years old)

Algerian musical titan venerated as 'The Cardinal' (El Cardinal), who created and perfected the genre of Algerian Chaabi music, transforming centuries-old classical Andalusian poetry into the popular soul of the Casbah of Algiers.

Algiers, Algeria

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Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico

Greece

1888 – 1978 (90 years old)

Italian painter and writer who founded the Scuola Metafisica, famous for his haunting, dreamlike city squares, elongated shadows, faceless mannequins, and metaphysical silence.

Rome, Italy

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Carlos Chavez

Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez

Mexico

1899 – 1978 (79 years old)

Mexican composer and conductor who founded the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and authored the Sinfonia India, uniting pre-Columbian indigenous percussion with modern symphonic form.

Mexico City, Mexico

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Hannah Höch

Anna Therese Johanne Höch

Germany

1889 – 1978 (88 years old)

German Dada artist and the supreme pioneer of photomontage, famous for her subversive, witty, and feminist critiques of Weimar society, gender roles, and mass media.

West Berlin, Germany

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Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos (Maria Callas)

Μαρία Κάλλας

United States

2 December 1923 – 16 September 1977 (53 years old)

Revered as 'La Divina', the greatest dramatic soprano of the 20th century who resurrected the forgotten early 19th-century Italian bel canto repertoire (Norma, Lucia, Medea) through peerless vocal drama and tragic acting.

Paris, France

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Naum Gabo

Naum Neemia Pevsner

Russian Empire

1890 – 1977 (87 years old)

Russian-American sculptor and theorist who co-authored the Realistic Manifesto, pioneering kinetic sculpture and translucent spatial constructions utilizing nylon, perspex, and wire.

Waterbury, United States

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Abdel Halim Ali Shabana (Abdel Halim Hafez)

عبد الحليم حافظ

Egypt

21 June 1929 – 30 March 1977 (47 years old)

Legendary Egyptian singer and film superstar known as 'The Dark-Skinned Nightingale' (El-Andaleeb el-Asmar), whose impassioned romantic ballads and patriotic anthems captivated over 80 million listeners across the Arab world.

London, United Kingdom

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

United States

1898 – 1976 (78 years old)

American sculptor who originated the kinetic mobile and monumental outdoor stabiles, bringing motion and play into modern sculpture.

Roxbury, Connecticut, United States

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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Germany

1884 – 1976 (91 years old)

German Expressionist painter and graphic artist whose bold, monumental woodcuts and intensely saturated canvases forged the foundational visual vocabulary of Die Brücke.

West Berlin, Germany

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