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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Arts & Music
15
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 960

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

ะ˜ะณะพั€ัŒ ะคั‘ะดะพั€ะพะฒะธั‡ ะกั‚ั€ะฐะฒะธะฝัะบะธะน
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
Mark Rothko
Arts & Music
2,412
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 153

Mark Rothko

Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz / ะœะฐั€ะบัƒั ะฏะบะพะฒะปะตะฒะธั‡ ะ ะพั‚ะบะพะฒะธั‡
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป Latvia
1903 โ€“ 1970 (66 years old)

American Abstract Expressionist giant renowned for his luminous, contemplative Color Field paintings evoking profound human emotion.

East Marion, Long Island, New York, United States
Erich Heckel
Arts & Music
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Erich Heckel

Erich Heckel
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1883 โ€“ 1970 (86 years old)

German Expressionist painter and printmaker, founding member of Die Brรผcke, celebrated for his empathetic depictions of human vulnerability, introspective portraits, and masterly woodcuts.

Radolfzell, Germany
Otto Dix
Arts & Music
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Otto Dix

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1891 โ€“ 1969 (77 years old)

German painter and printmaker renowned for his uncompromising, pitiless depictions of the horrors of trench warfare and the decadent, scarred society of the Weimar Republic.

Singen, Germany
Mikio Naruse
Arts & Music
0
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Mikio Naruse

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๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
1905 โ€“ 1969 (63 years old)

Japanese filmmaker regarded alongside Ozu, Kurosawa, and Mizoguchi as one of the four pillars of Japanese cinema, renowned for Floating Clouds and When a Woman Ascends the Stairs.

Koto (Tokyo), Japan
Coleman Hawkins
Arts & Music
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1904 โ€“ 1969 (64 years old)

American jazz titan known as 'Hawk' and 'Bean', who single-handedly transformed the saxophone into a primary, expressive jazz solo instrument with his landmark 1939 'Body and Soul'.

New York City, United States
Ahmed Cherkaoui
Arts & Music
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ahmed Cherkaoui

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ุดุฑู‚ุงูˆูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1934 โ€“ 1967 (32 years old)

Pioneering Moroccan painter who founded modern Moroccan abstract art by fusing traditional Amazigh pottery signs, tattoos, and Arabic calligraphy with European post-war lyrical abstraction.

Boujad, Morocco
John William Coltrane
Arts & Music
12
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 990

John William Coltrane

John Coltrane
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
23 September 1926 โ€“ 17 July 1967 (40 years old)

Titan of the tenor and soprano saxophone whose torrents of sound ('sheets of sound'), harmonic breakthrough Giant Steps, and sacred modal masterpiece A Love Supreme transformed jazz into a spiritual quest.

Huntington (Long Island, New York), United States
Bud Powell
Arts & Music
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph Powell
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1924 โ€“ 1966 (41 years old)

American jazz pianist who translated the lightning bebop syntax of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to the keyboard, laying the foundation for all modern jazz piano.

New York City, United States
Nandalal Bose
Arts & Music
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Nandalal Bose

เฆจเฆจเงเฆฆเฆฒเฆพเฆฒ เฆฌเฆธเง
๐ŸŒ British India
1882 โ€“ 1966 (83 years old)

Pioneering modern Indian artist who decorated the original manuscript of the Constitution of India and created the iconic linocut of Mahatma Gandhi on the Dandi Salt March.

Santiniketan (West Bengal), India
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