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Inji Aflatoon
Arts & Music
17
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Inji Aflatoon

ุฅู†ุฌูŠ ุฃูู„ุงุทูˆู†
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
April 16, 1924 โ€“ April 17, 1989 (65 years old)

Revolutionary Egyptian visual artist and Marxist feminist pioneer whose expressive, vibrant canvases portrayed the dignity of working-class laborers, peasants, and her own five-year incarceration as a political prisoner.

Cairo, Egypt
Roy Eldridge
Arts & Music
32
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Roy Eldridge

David Roy Eldridge
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States
1911 โ€“ 1989 (78 years old)

American jazz trumpet virtuoso known as 'Little Jazz', whose blistering upper-register fireworks and harmonic daring served as the vital bridge between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie.

Valley Stream, United States
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalรญ i Domรจnech, 1st Marquess of Dalรญ de Pรบbol
Arts & Music
46
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalรญ i Domรจnech, 1st Marquess of Dalรญ de Pรบbol

Salvador Dalรญ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
11 May 1904 โ€“ 23 January 1989 (84 years old)

Legendary Spanish surrealist painter whose flamboyant theatricality, flawless technical draftsmanship, and hallucinatory dreamscapesโ€”like The Persistence of Memory and melting watchesโ€”made him one of the 20th century's most indelible icons.

Figueres (Catalonia), Spain
Mohamed Abdelwahab Agoumi
Arts & Music
3
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Mohamed Abdelwahab Agoumi

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ูˆู‡ุงุจ ุฃูƒูˆู…ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1918 โ€“ 1989 (71 years old)

Pioneering academic composer who studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, father of modern Moroccan symphonic orchestration, and long-time Inspector-General of National Music Education.

Rabat, Morocco
Moulay Ahmed Loukili
Arts & Music
4
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Moulay Ahmed Loukili

ู…ูˆู„ุงูŠ ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ูˆูƒูŠู„ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1909 โ€“ 1988 (79 years old)

The supreme patriarch of Moroccan-Andalusian classical music (Al-Ala) in the 20th century, long-time director of the National Andalusian Orchestra of Radio Tรฉlรฉvision Marocaine (RTM).

Rabat, Morocco
Pierre Boucherle
Arts & Music
4
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Pierre Boucherle

ุจูŠูŠุฑ ุจูˆุดุงุฑู„
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1894 โ€“ 1988 (94 years old)

The visionary founder of the Tunis School of Painting in 1949, who united Muslim, Jewish, and European artists in a shared quest for an authentic, pluralistic Tunisian modern art identity.

Tunis, Tunisia
Luis Barragan
Arts & Music
33
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Luis Barragan

Luis Ramiro Barragรกn Morfรญn
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Mexico
1902 โ€“ 1988 (86 years old)

Mexican architect who won the 1980 Pritzker Architecture Prize, world-famous for his poetic emotional architecture utilizing vivid color walls, tranquil water features, and dramatic sunlight.

Mexico City, Mexico
Qamrul Hassan
Arts & Music
2
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Qamrul Hassan

เฆ•เฆพเฆฎเฆฐเงเฆฒ เฆนเฆพเฆธเฆพเฆจ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1921-12-02 โ€“ 1988-02-02 (66 years old)

Renowned master painter and folk modernist who designed the final geometric specifications of the National Flag and State Emblem of Bangladesh, famous for his iconic anti-authoritarian poster 'This Monster Must Be Annihilated'.

Dhaka, Bangladesh
Hassan El-Hassani
Arts & Music
20
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Hassan El-Hassani

ุญุณู† ุงู„ุญุณู†ูŠ (ุญุณู† ุจู† ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1916 โ€“ 1987 (71 years old)

Beloved comedic actor and satirical genius whose folk character 'Boubaghla' and appearances in films like 'Chronicle of the Years of Fire' made him the quintessential voice of rural Algerian wisdom.

Mรฉdรฉa, Algeria
Naji al-Ali
Arts & Music
3
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Naji al-Ali

ู†ุงุฌูŠ ุงู„ุนู„ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Palestine
c. 1937 โ€“ 29 August 1987 (50 years old)

World-renowned Palestinian political cartoonist whose iconic ten-year-old character 'Handala' became the global symbol of Palestinian defiance.

Woking, United Kingdom
Ammar Farhat
Arts & Music
18
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Ammar Farhat

ุนู…ุงุฑ ูุฑุญุงุช
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1911 โ€“ March 2, 1987 (76 years old)

Self-taught Tunisian master painter of the ร‰cole de Tunis whose deeply empathetic, vibrant canvases documented the celebrations, labor, and spiritual traditions of Tunisia's working classes and bedouin communities.

Tunis, Tunisia
Edgar P. Jacobs
Arts & Music
3
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Edgar P. Jacobs

Edgard Fรฉlix Pierre Jacobs
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium
1904 โ€“ 1987 (82 years old)

Belgian comic strip master and operatic baritone who collaborated with Hergรฉ on Tintin and created the landmark science-fiction series Blake and Mortimer, author of The Yellow 'M'.

Lasne (Walloon Brabant), Belgium
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