Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Hadj M'rizek

الحاج مريزق (عمر ضرابحة)

Algeria

c. 1912 – 1955 (43 years old)

Charismatic master of Algerian Chaabi music who popularized the modern tempo of Hawzi and Medh ballads, serving as honorary vice-president of Mouloudia Club d'Alger (MCA).

Algiers, Algeria

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Yves Tanguy

Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy

France

1900 – 1955 (55 years old)

French-American Surrealist painter acclaimed for his hallucinatory, boundless dreamscapes populated by enigmatic biomorphic forms, mineral stones, and infinite horizons.

Woodbury, United States

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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse

Henri Matisse

France

31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954 (84 years old)

Titan of 20th-century modern art and undisputed leader of the Fauves ('Wild Beasts') whose radiant decorative harmonies in The Dance (La Danse) and late gouache cut-outs revolutionized color and line.

Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), France

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Armando Reveron

Armando Julio Reverón Travieso

Venezuela

1889 – 1954 (65 years old)

Venezuelan post-impressionist painter and sculptor known as 'The Painter of Light', who constructed 'El Castillete' on the Caribbean coast and explored blinding blinding tropical illumination in white and sepia canvases.

Caracas, Venezuela

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Azouaou Mammeri

أزواو معمري

Algeria

1890 – 1954 (64 years old)

Pioneer of modern easel painting in Algeria, uncle of writer Mouloud Mammeri, who exhibited in Paris and Rabat and captured the sunlight on mountain villages.

Beni Yenni (Tizi Ouzou), Algeria

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Jazep Drazdovic

Язэп Драздовіч

Belarus

1888-10-31 – 1954-09-15 (65 years old)

Fascinating visionary painter, astronomer, and ethnographer dubbed the 'Belarusian Da Vinci', renowned for his fantastical cosmic paintings of life on the Moon, Saturn, and Mars.

Sharkowshchyna, Belarus

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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón

Frida Kahlo

Mexico

6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 (47 years old)

Celebrated Mexican painter renowned for uncompromising, vividly symbolic self-portraits exploring identity, chronic physical suffering, Mexican indigenous culture, and profound emotional vulnerability.

Coyoacán (Mexico City), Mexico

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Cheikh El Madani

الشيخ المدني

Algeria

1888 – 1954 (66 years old)

Celebrated master of Bedouin vocal improvisation and epic qasidas in western Algeria, rival and artistic counterpart to Cheikh Hamada.

Mostaganem, Algeria

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Francis Picabia

Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia

France

1879 – 1953 (74 years old)

French avant-garde painter, poet, and iconoclast who bridged Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism through mechanistic portraits, radical nihilism, and stylistic mutability.

Paris, France

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Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin

Ukraine

1885 – 1953 (67 years old)

Russian avant-garde visionary and father of Constructivism, renowned for his 'corner-counter reliefs' and his colossal, kinetic design for the Monument to the Third International.

Moscow, Russia

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt

Belgium

1910 – 1953 (43 years old)

Romani-French guitar virtuoso who overcame severe hand injuries to invent Gypsy Jazz (jazz manouche).

Samois-sur-Seine, France

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Mojżesz Kisling

Moïse Kisling

Poland

1891 – 1953 (62 years old)

Polish-French master of the School of Paris whose luminous porcelain nudes, expressive portraits with enormous liquid eyes, and flamboyant generosity made him the beloved center of Montparnasse.

Sanary-sur-Mer, France

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Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev

Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев

Russia

23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953 (61 years old)

Prodigious Russian and Soviet composer whose razor-sharp wit, motoric rhythms, and lyricism produced enduring masterpieces across genres—including Romeo and Juliet (Dance of the Knights), Peter and the Wolf, and the Classical Symphony.

Moscow, Russia

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Simeón Roncal

Simeón Roncal Romero

Bolivia

1870-04-21 – 1953-01-13 (82 years old)

Master composer and pianist regarded as the national father of Bolivian classical music, who elevated folk rhythms and the Bolivian cueca into concert hall masterpieces.

Sucre, Bolivia

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Abanindranath Tagore

অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর

India

1871 – 1951 (80 years old)

Indian artist and writer who founded the influential Bengal School of Art, creating the iconic patriotic painting Bharat Mata and championing pan-Asian aesthetic indigenism against British academicism.

Kolkata, India

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Cheikh Khelifa Belkacem

الشيخ خليفة بلقاسم

Algeria

1907 – 1951 (44 years old)

Pioneering master of modern Chaabi music whose dazzling mandole fingerwork and rhythmic innovation revolutionized the Casbah musical landscape in the 1930s.

Algiers, Algeria

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg

Austria

1874 – 1951 (76 years old)

Austrian-American modern composer and pioneer of atonality and the twelve-tone serial technique.

Vienna, Austria

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Houcine Slaoui

الحسين السلاوي

Morocco

1921 – 1951 (30 years old)

Legendary Moroccan troubadour and modern folk music pioneer whose witty social satires and hits like 'Dakhelkan' immortalized the impact of World War II and American troops in Morocco.

Salé, Morocco

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