Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

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Carlos Gardel

Charles Romuald Gardès

France

1890 – 1935 (44 years old)

The 'King of Tango' whose baritone voice, elegant charisma, and songs like 'Por una cabeza' defined Argentine tango.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Chiquinha Gonzaga

Francisca Edwiges Neves Gonzaga

Brazil

1847 – 1935 (87 years old)

Afro-Brazilian composer, pianist, and conductor who became the first female orchestral conductor in Brazil, composed the first carnival march (O Abre Alas), and founded Brazil's society of theatrical authors.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Max Liebermann

Max Liebermann

Germany

1847 – 1935 (87 years old)

Leader of German Impressionism and President of the Prussian Academy of Arts whose sun-dappled Wannsee garden canvases and working-class realism defined modern German painting.

Berlin, Germany

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Dassine Oult Yemma

ⴷⴰⵙⵉⵏ ⵓⵍⵜ ⵢⵎⵎⴰ

Algeria

c. 1875 – c. 1935 (60 years old)

The supreme poetess and virtuoso of the sacred single-string violin (Imzad) in Tuareg culture, whose artistic salon (Ahal) shaped the cultural soul of the Hoggar.

Tamanrasset, Algeria

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst

Great Britain

1874 – 1934 (59 years old)

English composer and educator world-renowned for his monumental orchestral suite The Planets.

Chichester, United Kingdom

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Mahmoud Mokhtar

محمود مختار

Egypt

January 26, 1891 – March 28, 1934 (43 years old)

Pioneering sculptor universally celebrated as the father of modern Egyptian sculpture, who revitalized monumental stone carving after a two-thousand-year hiatus, immortalized by his monumental statue 'Nahdat Misr' (Egypt's Renaissance).

Cairo, Egypt

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Adolf Loos

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos

Austria

1870 – 1933 (62 years old)

Austrian architect and uncompromising polemicist who authored 'Ornament and Crime', pioneered the spatial 'Raumplan' concept, and shaped European modernist architecture.

Kalksburg (Vienna), Austria

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Juan Francisco González

Juan Francisco González Escobar

Chile

1853-09-25 – 1933-03-04 (79 years old)

Revolutionary master painter considered the greatest colorist and impressionist in Chilean art history, renowned for over 4,000 luminous, rapid-sketch oil canvases of flowers, adobe streets, and fruits.

Santiago, Chile

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Maâlma Yamna

المعلمة يمنة بنت الحاج المحفوظ

Algeria

1859 – 1933 (74 years old)

Pioneering matriarch of female professional musicians (Mesemaat) in Algiers, who in the early 1900s became one of the first Algerian artists to record on Gramophone discs.

Algiers, Algeria

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J. E. H. MacDonald

James Edward Hervey MacDonald

Great Britain

1873 – 1932 (59 years old)

Founding member and elder statesman of the Group of Seven, whose radiant autumn landscape The Solemn Land captured the spiritual majesty of Algoma, and who served as Principal of OCA.

Toronto, Canada

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Tom Roberts

Thomas William Roberts

United Kingdom

1856-03-08 – 1931-09-14 (75 years old)

Master painter and foundational leader of the Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionism whose iconic national canvases include 'Shearing the Rams' and the monumental Federation painting 'The Big Picture'.

Illawarra, Tasmania, Australia

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Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bismark Beiderbecke

United States

1903 – 1931 (28 years old)

Pioneering American jazz cornetist and composer whose pure tone, lyrical phrasing, and Debussy-inspired harmonies created an influential alternative to Louis Armstrong's hot jazz.

Queens, New York, United States

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Ilya Repin

Илья Ефимович Репин

Ukraine

1844 – 1930 (86 years old)

Foremost Russian realist painter of the Peredvizhniki (Wanderers), renowned for Barge Haulers on the Volga and Ivan the Terrible.

Repino (Kuokkala), Russia

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Otto Mueller

Otto Mueller

Germany

1874 – 1930 (55 years old)

German Expressionist painter and lithographer celebrated for his lyrical, melancholic depictions of nudes in nature and sympathetic portrayals of Romani culture.

Breslau, Poland

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Julius Mordecai Pincas

Jules Pascin

Bulgaria

1885 – 1930 (45 years old)

Bulgarian-born School of Paris master draughtsman and painter whose delicate, shimmering pastel nudes and restless wanderings across Europe and the Americas made him a tragic legend.

Paris, France

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Habiba Msika

حبيبة مسيكة (مارغريت مسيكة)

Tunisia

c. 1903 – 1930 (27 years old)

Electrifying 1920s Tunisian Jewish vocal superstar, actress, and feminist pioneer who wrapped herself in the Tunisian national flag on stage, recorded for Baidaphon, and became a mythic martyr of artistic freedom.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Habiba Messika

حبيبة مسيكة

Tunisia

1903 – February 21, 1930 (27 years old)

Mythic Tunisian Jewish singer, stage actress, and nationalist icon whose defiant performances, theatrical magnetism, and tragic death at age 27 turned her into an enduring legend of female liberation and artistic passion.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Daoud Corm

داود قرم

Lebanon

1852 – 1930 (78 years old)

Founding pioneer of modern easel painting in Lebanon who studied in Rome and served as official court portraitist to Khedive Abbas II in Cairo.

Ghosta, Lebanon

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