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HENRY RAGAS
= AMERICAN =
= Jazz Pianist =
Born:
1 January 1891
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Died:
18 February 1919
28  

GIALDINO GIALDINI
= ITALIAN =
= Composer and Conductor =
Born:
10 November 1842
Pescia, Tuscany, ITALY
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Died:
6 March 1919
Pescia, Tuscany, ITALY
76  
AUGUSTE TOLBEQUE
= FRENCH =
= Cellist and Composer =
Born:
30 March 1830
Paris, FRANCE
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Died:
8 March 1919
88  
HENRY BLOSSOM
= AMERICAN =
= Lyricist =
Born: HENRY MARTYN BLOSSOM
10 May 1866
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Died:
23 March 1919
New York City, USA
52 Pneumonia

CAMILLE ERLANGER
= FRENCH =
= Opera Composer =
Born:
25 May 1863
Paris, FRANCE
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Died:
24 April 1919
Paris, FRANCE
55  

AUGUSTUS D. JUILLIARD
= AMERICAN of FRENCH descent =
= Music Patron =
Born:
19 April 1836
At Sea en route from FRANCE to the UNITED STATES
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Died:
25 April 1919
New York, USA
83  

JAMES REESE EUROPE
= AMERICAN =
= Jazz Musician, Composer and Band Leader =
Born:
22 February 1881
Mobile, Alabama, USA
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Died:
9 May 1919
Boston, USA
38 Stabbed in a Fight

ERNEST FORD
= ENGLISH =
= Conductor and Composer =
Born: ERNEST A. CLAIRE FORD
17 February 1858
Warminster, Wiltshire, ENGLAND
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Died:
2 June 1919
London, ENGLAND
61  

JULIAN ALEKSANDROVICH SCRIABIN
= RUSSIAN =
= Musical Prodigy, Pianist and Composer =
Born: YULIAN ALEKSANDROVICH SCHLOEZER
12 February 1908
RUSSIA
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Died:
22 June 1919
Kiev, RUSSIA
11 Drowned

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN I
= GERMAN-born AMERICAN JEW =
= Musical Theatre Impresario =
Born:
8 May 1847
Stettin (capital of the province of Pomerania),
KINGDOM OF PRUSSIA (now Szczecin, POLAND)
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Died:
1 August 1919
in Lenox Hill Hospital at Park Avenue
and 77th Street in Manhattan, New York,
USA
72  

FERDINAND THIERIOT
= GERMAN =
= Cellist and Composer =
Born:
7 April 1838
Hamburg, GERMANY
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Died:
4 August 1919
Hamburg, GERMANY
81  

RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO
= ITALIAN =
= Opera Composer =
Born: RUGGERO (or RUGGIERO) GIACOMO MARIA GIUSEPPE EMMANUELE
RAFFAELE DOMENICO VINCENZO FRANCESCO DONATO LEONCAVALLO

23 April 1857
Naples, ITALY
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Died:
9 August 1919
Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, ITALY
62  

CSÁTH GÉZA
= HUNGARIAN =
= Writer and Musician =
Born:
13 February 1887
Szabadka (Subotica), AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (today SERBIA)
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Died:
11 September 1919
Kelebija, KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES (today SERBIA)
32  

ADELINA PATTI
= ITALIAN =
= Opera Singer =
Born:
19 February 1843
Madrid, SPAIN
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Died:
27 September 1919
76  
SVEN AUGUST KÖRLING
= SWEDISH =
= Composer of Art Songs =
Born:
14 April 1842

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Died:
17 October 1919
77  

LUIGI ILLICA
= ITALIAN =
= Librettist =
Born:
9 May 1857
Castell'Arquato, ITALY
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Died:
16 December 1919
62  

LOUIS DIÉMER
= FRENCH =
= Pianist and Composer =
Born: LOUIS-JOSEPH DIÉMER
14 February 1843
Paris, FRANCE
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Died:
21 December 1919
Paris, FRANCE
76  

ACHILLES ALFERAKI
= RUSSIAN of GREEK descent =
= Statesman, Artist and Composer =
Born: ACHILLES NIKOLAYEVICH ALFERAKI
3 July 1846
Kharkov, RUSSIAN EMPIRE
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Died:
27 December 1919
Saint Petersburg, RSFSR,
SOVIET UNION
73  

MARIE VAN ZANDT
= AMERICAN =
= Operatic Soprano =
Born:
8 October 1858
New York City, USA
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Died:
31 December 1919
Cannes, FRANCE
61  
CHARLES McCARRON
= AMERICAN =
= Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist =
Born:
1891

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Died:
1919
28  
HENRY FORD
= AMERICAN =
= Jazz String Bass Player =
Born:
b. c. 1898
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Died:
c. 1919
21  
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