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AUGUST WILHELMJ = GERMAN = = Violinist & Teacher = |
Born: 21 September 1845 Usingen, GERMANY | Died: 22 January 1908 London, ENGLAND |
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EDWARD MACDOWELL = AMERICAN = = Composer & Pianist = |
Born: EDWARD ALEXANDER MacDOWELL 18 December 1860 New York City, USA | Died: 23 January 1908 New York City, USA |
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PAULINE LUCCA = GERMAN = = Operatic Soprano = |
Born: 25 April 1841 Vienna, AUSTRIA | Died: 28 February 1908 |
66 | |
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WALTER SLAUGHTER = ENGLISH = = Conductor and Composer = |
Born: WALTER ALFRED SLAUGHTER 17 February 1860 Fitzroy Square, London, UK | Died: 2 March 1908 London, UK |
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CLARA NOVELLO = ENGLISH = = Soprano = |
Born: CLARA ANASTASIA NOVELLO 10 June 1818 | Died: 12 March 1908 |
89 | |
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LOUIS CHAUVIN = AMERICAN = = Ragtime Musician = |
Born: 13 March 1881 St. Louis, Missouri, USA | Died: 26 March 1908 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
27 | His death certificate lists causes of death as "multiple sclerosis, probably syphilitic", and starvation due to coma, a modern diagnosis would probably conclude he had a neurosyphilitic sclerosis and not link it to multiple sclerosis |
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LUDOVIC HALÉVY = FRENCH-JEWISH = = Author and Playwright = |
Born: 1 January 1834 Paris, FRANCE | Died: 7 May 1908 Paris, FRANCE |
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MELESIO MORALES = MEXICAN = = Composer = |
Born: 4 December 1838 Mexico City, MEXICO | Died: 12 May 1908 Mexico City, MEXICO |
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JOSEF WAGNER = AUSTRIAN = = Military Bandmaster and Composer = |
Born: JOSEF FRANZ WAGNER 20 March 1856 | Died: 5 June 1908 |
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NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV = RUSSIAN = = Composer = |
Born: NIKOLAI ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV 18 March 1844 Tikhvin, RUSSIA | Died: 21 June 1908 Lubensk estate near Luga (modern day Plyussky District of Pskov Oblast) RUSSIA |
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PHOEBE KNAPP = AMERICAN = = Composer of Hymns = |
Born: 9 March 1839 New York City, USA | Died: 10 July 1908 Poland, Maine, USA |
69 | |
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WILLIAM MASON = AMERICAN = = Pianist and Composer = |
Born: 24 January 1829 Boston, USA | Died: 14 July 1908 New York City, USA |
79 | |
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JAIME NUNÓ = CATALAN = = Composer of Mexico's National Anthem = |
Born: JAIME NUNÓ ROCA 8 September 1824 Sant Joan de les Abadesses, a town in the province of Girona, in Catalonia, SPAIN | Died: 18 July 1908 New York, USA |
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FEDERICO CHUECA = SPANISH = = Zarzuela Composer = |
Born: 5 May 1846 Madrid, SPAIN | Died: 20 July 1908 |
62 | |
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IRA D. SANKEY = AMERICAN = = Gospel Singer and Composer = |
Born: IRA DAVID SANKEY 28 August 1840 Edinburgh, on the outskirts of New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA | Died: 13 August 1908 Brooklyn, USA |
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LOUISA BASSANO = ENGLISH = = Opera Singer = |
Born: 19 February 1818 | Died: 20 August 1908 |
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TONY PASTOR = AMERICAN = = Vaudeville Founder & Theater Impresario = |
Born: 28 May 1837 Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. | Died: 26 August 1908 Elmhurst, New York, U.S.A. |
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PABLO DE SARASATE = SPANISH = = Violinist, Composer and Conductor = |
Born: PABLO MARTÍN MELITÓN DE SARASATE Y NAVASCUÉS 10 March 1844 Pamplona, SPAIN | Died: 20 September 1908 Biarritz, FRANCE |
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ATANAS BADEV = BULGARIAN = = Composer and Music Teacher = |
Born: January 1860 Prilep, OTTOMAN EMPIRE, present day REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA | Died: 21 September 1908 Sofia, BULGARIA |
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KATTI LANNER = VIENNESE = = Ballet Dancer and Choreographer = |
Born: KATHARINA JOSEPHA LANNER 14 September 1829 Vienna, AUSTRIA | Died: 15 November 1908 Clapham, London, UK |
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ALBERT DIETRICH = GERMAN = = Conductor and Composer = |
Born: ALBERT HERMANN DIETRICH 28 August 1829 Golk, near Meissen, GERMANY | Died: 20 November 1908 Berlin, GERMANY |
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ALOIS KAISER = AMERICAN = = Chazzan and Composer = |
Born: 10 November 1840 Szobotist, HUNGARY | Died: 1908 Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
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