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ALBERT NIEMANN = GERMAN = = Wagnerian Tenor = |
Born: ALBERT WILHELM KARL NIEMANN 15 January 1831 Erxleben, near Magdeburg, GERMANY | Died: 13 January 1917 Berlin, GERMANY |
85 | |
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PAUL RUBENS = ENGLISH = = Composer = |
Born: PAUL ALFRED RUBENS 29 April 1875 Kensington, London, ENGLAND | Died: 5 February 1917 Falmouth, ENGLAND |
41 | Consumption |
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ÉMILE PESSARD = FRENCH = = Composer = |
Born: ÉMILE LOUIS FORTUNÉ PESSARD 29 May 1843 Paris, FRANCE | Died: 10 February 1917 Paris, FRANCE |
73 | |
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ANTONINA MILIUKOVA = RUSSIAN = = Widow of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky = |
Born: ANTONINA IVANOVNA MILIUKOVA 5 July 1848 | Died: 1 March 1917 |
68 | |
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JULIUS BECHGAARD = DANISH = = Composer = |
Born: JULIUS ANDREAS BECHGAARD 22 December 1843 Copenhagen, DENMARK | Died: 4 March 1917 Frederiksberg, DENMARK |
73 | |
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SPYRIDON SAMARAS = GREEK = = Composer = |
Born: SPYRIDON-FILISKOS SAMARAS 17 November 1861 Corfu, GREECE | Died: 25 March 1917 Athens, GREECE |
55 | |
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SCOTT JOPLIN = AFRICAN-AMERICA = = Ragtime Composer and Pianist = |
Born: c. late 1867 or early 1868 Northeast Texas, USA | Died: 1 April 1917 New York City, USA |
49 | Dementia |
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FLORENCE FARR = BRITISH = = West End leading actress, composer and director. = She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, leader of the occult order, The Golden Dawn and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw |
Born: FLORENCE BEATRICE EMERY (née) FARR 7 July 1860 Bickley, Kent, UK | Died: 29 April 1917 Colombo, CEYLON (SRI LANKA) |
56 | |
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EDOUARD DE RESZKE = POLISH = = Operatic Bass = |
Born: 22 December 1853 Warsaw, POLAND | Died: 25 May 1917 Garnek, near Częstochowa, POLAND |
63 | |
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TERESA CARREÑO = VENEZUELAN = = Pianist, Singer, Composer, and Conductor = |
Born: MARÍA TERESA CARREÑO GARCÍA DE SENA 22 December 1853 Caracas, VENEZUELA | Died: 12 June 1917 New York City, USA |
63 | |
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PHILIPP SCHARWENKA = GERMAN = = Composer and Teacher of Music = |
Born: LUDWIG PHILIPP SCHARWENKA 16 February 1847 Samter, Grand Duchy of Posen | Died: 16 July 1917 Bad Nauheim, GERMANY |
70 | |
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BASIL HOOD = BRITISH = = Librettist and Lyricist = |
Born: BASIL WILLETT CHARLES HOOD 5 April 1864 Yorkshire, ENGLAND | Died: 7 August 1917 London, ENGLAND |
53 | |
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PAVEL GERDT = RUSSIAN = = Ballet Dancer = |
Born: PAVEL ANDREYEVICH GERDT 22 November 1844 near St. Peterburg, RUSSIA | Died: 12 August 1917 Vamaloki, FINLAND |
72 | |
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MARIE HANFSTÄNGL = GERMAN = = Operatic Soprano = |
Born: MARIE SCHROEDER 30 April 1848 Breslau, GERMANY | Died: 5 September 1917 Munich, GERMANY |
69 | |
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CHARLES-ÉDOUARD LEFEBVRE = FRENCH = = Composer = |
Born: 19 June 1843 Paris, FRANCE | Died: 8 September 1917 Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, FRANCE |
74 | |
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EVIE GREENE = ENGLISH = = Actress and Singer = |
Born: EDITH ELIZABETH ("EVIE") GREENE 1875 Portsmouth, ENGLAND | Died: 11 September 1917 Parnholt, Southsea, Hampshire, ENGLAND |
42 | |
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EDUARDO DI CAPUA = ITALIAN = = Singer and Songwriter = |
Born: 12 March 1865 Naples, ITALY | Died: 3 October 1917 Naples, ITALY |
52 | |
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FRED BILLINGTON = ENGLISH = = Singer and Actor with the d'Oyley Carte = |
Born: 1 July 1854 Lockwood, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, ENGLAND | Died: 2 November 1917 between Cambridge and London, ENGLAND |
63 | |
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LUDWIG MINKUS = AUSTRIAN = = Composer of Ballet Music, a Violin Virtuoso and Teacher = |
Born: ALOYSIUS BERNHARD PHILIPP MINKUS 23 March 1826 in the Innere Stadt district of Vienna, the capital of the AUSTRIAN EMPIRE | Died: 7 December 1917 Gentzgasse, Vienna, AUSTRIA |
91 | Pneumonia |
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NAT M. WILLS = AMERICAN = = Singer, Comedian, and Actor = |
Born: LOUIS McGRATH WILLS 11 July 1873 Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA | Died: 9 December 1917 |
44 | of carbon monoxide poisoning |
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