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Name Dates Age Cause of Death
JAMES LORRAINE GEDDES
= SCOTTISH AMERICAN =
= Songwriter =
Born:
19 March 1827
Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
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Died:
21 February 1887
Ames, Iowa, USA
59  

ALEKSANDR BORODIN
= RUSSIAN =
= Composer =
Born: ALEXANDER PORFIRYEVICH BORODIN
12 November 1833
Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA
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Died:
27 February 1887
Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA
53  
WILHELM TROSZEL
= POLISH =
= Operatic Bass and Composer =
Born:
26 August 1823
Varsavia, POLAND
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Died:
2 March 1887
63  

LUDVIG MATHIAS LINDEMAN
= NORWEGIAN =
= Composer =
Born:
28 November 1812
Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, NORWAY
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Died:
11 March 1887
Oslo, NORWAY
74  

JOHN CEIRIOG HUGHES
= WELSH =
= Lyricist and Collector of Folk Tunes =
Born:
25 September 1832
at Penybryn farm overlooking the village of
Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, in the Ceiriog Valley,
which was then in Denbighshire but today is part
of Wrexham County Borough, in north-east WALES
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Died:
23 April 1887
at Caersws railway station, MID-WALES
54  
FRANCESCO MALIPIERO
= ITALIAN =
= Composer =
Born:
9 January 1824

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Died:
12 May 1887
63  
FILIPPO FILIPPI
= ITALIAN =
= Music Critic =
Born:
13 January 1830
Vicenza, ITALY
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Died:
24 June 1887
57  

LOUIS MÉRANTE
= FRENCH =
= Dancer and Choreographer =
Born: LOUIS ALEXANDRE MÉRANTE
23 July 1828
Paris, FRANCE
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Died:
17 July 1887
Courbevoie, near Paris, FRANCE
58  

ROBERT STOEPEL
= GERMAN =
= Conductor and Composer =
Born: ROBERT AUGUSTE STOEPEL
1821
Berlin, GERMANY
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Died:
1 October 1887
37th Street, New York, USA
66  

MATTEO SALVI
= ITALIAN =
= Opera Composer =
Born:
24 November 1816
in Botta di Sedrina (Provincia di Bergamo), ITALY
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Died:
18 October 1887
Rieti, ITALY
70  

GEORGE MACFARREN
= ENGLISH =
= Composer
Born: Sir GEORGE ALEXANDER MacFARREN
2 March 1813
London, ENGLAND
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Died:
31 October 1887
74  

JENNY LIND
= SWEDISH =
= Singer, "the Swedish Nightingale" =
Born: JOHANNA MARIA LIND
6 October 1820
Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Died:
2 November 1887
at Wynd's Point, Herefordshire,
on the Malvern Hills near the British Camp,
ENGLAND
67  
EDUARD MARXSEN
= GERMAN =
= Pianist and Composer =
Born:
23 July 1806

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Died:
18 November 1887
81  
THOMAS PHILANDER RYDER
= AMERICAN =
= Composer, Organist, Teacher, Conductor, =
= and Organ Builder =
Born:
29 June 1836
Cohasset, Massachusetts, USA
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Died:
2 December 1887
Somerville, Massachusetts, USA
51  

ELIZA R. SNOW
= AMERICAN =
= Lyricist =
Born: ELIZA ROXCY SNOW YOUNG
21 January 1804
Becket, Massachusetts, USA
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Died:
5 December 1887
Salt Lake City, USA
83  

GEORG UNGER
= GERMAN =
= Operatic Tenor =
Born:
1837
Leipzig, GERMANY
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Died:
1887
50  
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