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Fadila Dziria
Arts & Music
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Fadila Dziria

فضيلة الدزيرية (فضيلة مداني)
🇩🇿 Algeria
1917 – 1970 (53 years old)

The undisputed grand diva of classical Algiers vocal art (Assimi and Hawzi) whose golden voice, emotional warmth, and active clandestine support for the FLN made her a national treasure.

Algiers, Algeria
Ali Riahi
Arts & Music
24
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Ali Riahi

علي الرياحي
🇹🇳 Tunisia
March 30, 1912 – March 27, 1970 (57 years old)

Iconic Tunisian singer, lyricist, and composer acclaimed as The Nightingale of Tunisia, whose melodious vocal elegance, theatrical stage presence, and Western orchestration modernized North African popular chanson.

Tunis, Tunisia
Marc-Aurèle Fortin
Arts & Music
4
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Marc-Aurèle Fortin

Marc-Aurèle Fortin
🇨🇦 Canada
1888 – 1970 (81 years old)

Unique Quebec landscape painter renowned for his majestic, incandescent depictions of gigantic elm trees and horses dwarfing rustic French-Canadian farmhouses in Sainte-Rose and Charlevoix.

Laval (Quebec), Canada
Mark Rothko
Arts & Music
2,434
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Mark Rothko

Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz / Маркус Яковлевич Роткович
🇱🇻 Latvia
1903 – 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
Lawren Harris
Arts & Music
4
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Lawren Harris

Lawren Stewart Harris
🇨🇦 Canada
1885 – 1970 (84 years old)

Visionary artist and spiritual leader of the Group of Seven, whose luminous, austere paintings of Lake Superior, the Arctic, and the Rocky Mountains redefined the Canadian visual imagination.

Kleinburg (Vaughan, Ontario), Canada
Erich Heckel
Arts & Music
28
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Erich Heckel

Erich Heckel
🇩🇪 Germany
1883 – 1970 (86 years old)

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

Radolfzell, Germany
Cheikh Bouras
Arts & Music
6
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Cheikh Bouras

الشيخ بوراس
🇩🇿 Algeria
1900 – 1970 (70 years old)

Pioneering Bedouin singer and interpreter of classical Melhoun poetry, who popularized western Algerian folk traditions on national radio after independence.

Mazagran (Mostaganem), Algeria
Frederick Varley
Arts & Music
4
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Frederick Varley

Frederick Horsman Varley
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1881 – 1969 (88 years old)

The master portraitist of the Group of Seven whose haunting WWI battlefield paintings, notably For What?, and masterpiece Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, captured the emotional depths of the human spirit.

Kleinburg (Vaughan, Ontario), Canada
Otto Dix
Arts & Music
34
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Otto Dix

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix
🇩🇪 Germany
1891 – 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
Walter Gropius
Arts & Music
27
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Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius
🇩🇪 Germany
1883 – 1969 (86 years old)

German-American architect who founded the revolutionary Bauhaus school, designing the iconic Bauhaus Dessau complex and championing the International Style and total architecture.

Boston, United States
Mikio Naruse
Arts & Music
32
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Mikio Naruse

成瀬 巳喜男
🇯🇵 Japan
1905 – 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
32
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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins
🇺🇸 United States
1904 – 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
Arthur Lismer
Arts & Music
4
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Arthur Lismer

Arthur Lismer
🇬🇧 Great Britain
1885 – 1969 (83 years old)

English-born founding member of the Group of Seven who painted dramatic dazzle-camouflage troopships in Halifax during WWI and founded the Montreal Children's Art Centre.

Kleinburg (Vaughan, Ontario), Canada
Yahia Turki
Arts & Music
11
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Yahia Turki

يحيى التركي (يحيى بن الحاج عثمان)
🇹🇷 Turkey
1903 – 1969 (66 years old)

Revered 'Father of Tunisian Painting' and long-time president of the École de Tunis whose luminous, post-impressionist canvases captured the light, architectural harmonies, and everyday human dignity of the Medina of Tunis.

Tunis, Tunisia
Lili Labassi
Arts & Music
24
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Lili Labassi

ليلي العباسي (إيلي مويال)
🇩🇿 Algeria
c. 1897 – 1969 (72 years old)

Virtuoso Algerian violinist and composer from Sidi Bel Abbès who revolutionized classical Gharnati and Hawzi song with modern emotional intensity, composing the immortal ballad 'Al-Khadem'.

Paris, France
Hossein Behzad
Arts & Music
4
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Hossein Behzad

حسین بهزاد
🇮🇷 Iran
1894 – 13 October 1968 (74 years old)

Master miniaturist who revolutionized 20th-century Persian painting by introducing modern anatomy, shading, and expressive psychology into traditional forms.

Tehran, Iran
Cheikh Hamada
Arts & Music
5
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Cheikh Hamada

الشيخ حمادة
🇩🇿 Algeria
1889 – 1968 (79 years old)

The supreme patriarch of traditional Bedouin music and Gasba reed-flute poetry from the Dahra mountains, who profoundly influenced modern Algerian music from Chaabi to Raï.

Mostaganem, Algeria
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