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Shadi Abdel Salam

شادي عبد السلام

Egypt

March 15, 1930 – October 8, 1986 (56 years old)

Genius Egyptian film director, production designer, and costume creator whose 1969 masterpiece 'The Night of Counting the Years' (Al-Mummia) is universally recognized by film critics as one of the greatest Arab films ever made.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore

Great Britain

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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Mahieddine Bachtarzi

محي الدين باشتارزي

Algeria

1897 – 1986 (88 years old)

Towering father of modern Algerian theater and lyric tenor who founded the first Arab dramatic troupe in Algeria in 1923, directing over 400 theatrical productions.

Algiers, Algeria

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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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Cheikh Ahmed Guerftti

أحمد الكرفطي

Morocco

1908 – 1984 (76 years old)

Pioneering maestro of Jbala mountain music who codified the classical Aita Jabaliya repertoire and introduced the traditional reed flute (Ghayta/Nira) into modern northern broadcasting.

Tetouan, Morocco

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Mohamed Zmirli

محمد زميرلي

Algeria

1909 – 1984 (75 years old)

Sensitive master landscape painter of Blida and the Mitidja plain, renowned for his serene impressions of orange orchards, Chiffa gorges, and rural daily life.

Blida, Algeria

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Sylvain Ghrenassia

سيلفان غريناسيا

Algeria

1914 – 1984 (70 years old)

Eminent Jewish-Algerian violinist who was the primary solo instrumentalist in the legendary orchestra of Cheikh Raymond in Constantine.

Constantine, Algeria

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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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Mahmoud El-Meliguy

محمود المليجي

Egypt

1910 – 1983 (72 years old)

Towering screen legend dubbed the 'Marlon Brando of the East' and 'Emperor of Evil', whose unforgettable performance as Mohamed Abu Swailam in Youssef Chahine's The Land (Al-Ard) is a world cinema monument.

Cairo, Egypt

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Pitseolak Ashoona

Canada

c. 1904 – 1983 (79 years old)

Pioneering Cape Dorset graphic artist whose vibrant drawings and stonecut prints, capturing traditional nomadic Inuit life before settlement, created an artistic dynasty and won the Order of Canada.

Kinngait (Cape Dorset, Nunavut), Canada

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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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Mohamed Zerbout

محمد زربوط

Algeria

1936 – 1983 (47 years old)

Soulful Chaabi singer of Algiers famous for his heart-rending, melancholic delivery of 'Chouffou El Hali', whose emotional phrasing deeply influenced Guerouabi.

Algiers, Algeria

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