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Name | Dates | Age | Cause of Death |
ELFRIDA ANDRÉE = SWEDISH = = Organist, Composer and Conductor = |
Born: 19 February 1841 Visby, SWEDEN | Died: 11 January 1929 Gothenburg, SWEDEN |
87 | |
ADOLPH BRODSKY = RUSSIAN EMPIRE = = Violinist = |
Born: ADOLPH DAVIDOVICH BRODSKY 2 April 1851 Taganrog on the Sea of Azov, RUSSIA | Died: 22 January 1929 |
77 | |
JACQUES BOUHY = BELGIAN = = Operatic Baritone = |
Born: JACQUES-JOSEPH-ANDRÉ BOUHY 18 June 1848 Pepinster, BELGIUM | Died: 24 January 1929 Paris, FRANCE |
80 | |
LA GOULUE = FRENCH = = Can-Can Dancer = |
Born: LOUISE WEBER 13 July 1866 Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine FRANCE | Died: 30 January 1929 |
62 | |
ANDRÉ MESSAGER = FRENCH = = Conductor and Composer = |
Born: ANDRÉ CHARLES PROSPER MESSAGER 30 December 1853 Montluçon, FRANCE | Died: 24 February 1929 |
75 | |
PINETOP SMITH = AMERICAN = = Jazz Pianist = |
Born: CLARENCE SMITH 11 June 1904 Troy, Alabama, USA | Died: 15 March 1929 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
24 | Shot, during a fight in a dance hall |
ÉDOUARD SCHURÉ = FRENCH = = Poet and Music Critic = |
Born: 21 January 1841 Strasbourg, FRANCE | Died: 7 April 1929 Paris, FRANCE |
88 | |
ANTONIO SMAREGLIA = AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN of CROATIAN and ITALIAN ethnicity = = Opera Composer = |
Born: 5 May 1854 Pola (on the Istrian peninsula, then located in AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, now in CROATIA) | Died: 15 April 1929 Grado, ITALY |
74 | |
BIRGER SJÖBERG = SWEDISH = = Poet and Songwriter = |
Born: 6 December 1885 Vänersborg, SWEDEN | Died: 30 April 1929 Växjö, SWEDEN |
43 | |
LILLI LEHMANN = GERMAN = = Operatic Soprano = |
Born: ELISABETH MARIA LEHMANN 24 November 1848 Würzburg, GERMANY | Died: 17 May 1929 Berlin, GERMANY |
80 | |
DON MURRAY = AMERICAN = = Jazz Clarinettist and Saxophonist = |
Born: 7 June 1904 Joliet, Illinois, USA | Died: 2 June 1929 Los Angeles, USA |
24 | Car accident |
HARRY FRAZEE = AMERICAN = = Producer of Broadway musicals = |
Born: HARRY HERBERT FRAZEE 29 June 1880 Peoria, Illinois, USA | Died: 4 June 1929 New York City, New York, USA |
48 | |
DUSTIN FARNUM = AMERICAN = = Singer, Dancer and Actor = |
Born: DUSTIN LANCY FARNUM 27 May 1874 Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, USA | Died: 3 July 1929 New York City, New York, USA |
55 | Kidney Failure |
EMILE BERLINER = GERMAN-born AMERICAN = = Inventor of the Gramophone = |
Born: 20 May 1851 Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover, GERMANY | Died: 3 August 1929 Washington D.C. USA |
78 | |
SERGEI DIAGHILEV = RUSSIAN = = Ballet Impresario = |
Born: SERGEI PAVLOVICH DIAGHILEV 31 March 1872 Selishchi, Novgorod Governorate, RUSSIAN EMPIRE | Died: 19 August 1929 Venice, ITALY |
57 | |
CHRIS KELLY = AMERICAN = = Jazz Musician = |
Born: 1890 Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, USA | Died: 19 August 1929 |
39 | |
META SEINEMEYER = GERMAN = = Operatic Soprano = |
Born: 5 September 1895 Berlin, GERMANY | Died: 19 August 1929 Dresden, GERMANY |
33 | Leukemia |
LUCY BROADWOOD = ENGLISH = = Folk Song collector and researcher = |
Born: LUCY ETHELDRED BROADWOOD 9 August 1858 Melrose, SCOTLAND | Died: 22 August 1929 Dropmore, Kent, ENGLAND |
71 | |
FREDERICK FREEMAN PROCTOR = AMERICAN = = Vaudeville Impresario = |
Born: 17 March 1851 Dexter, Maine, USA | Died: 4 September 1929 Larchmont, New York, USA |
78 | |
FREDERICK WEATHERLY = ENGLISH = = Songwriter = |
Born: FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY 4 October 1848 Portishead, Somerset, ENGLAND | Died: 7 September 1929 Bath, ENGLAND |
80 | |
JEANNE EAGELS = AMERICAN = = Ziegfeld girl and actress = |
Born: EUGENIA EAGLES 26 June 1890 Kansas City, Missouri, USA | Died: 3 October 1929 New York City, New York, USA |
39 | |
HENRI BERGER = GERMAN-born HAWAIIAN = = Composer and Royal Bandmaster of Hawaii = |
Born: HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM BERGER 4 August 1844 Berlin, GERMANY | Died: 14 October 1929 Honolulu, HAWAII |
85 | |
ADA CROSSLEY = AUSTRALIAN = = Singer = |
Born: ADA JEMIMA CROSSLEY 3 March 1874 Tarraville, Gippsland, Victoria, AUSTRALIA | Died: 17 October 1929 London, ENGLAND |
55 | |
A. M. WILLNER = AUSTRIAN = = Composer and Librettist = |
Born: ALFRED MARIA WILLNER 11 July 1859 Vienna, AUSTRIA | Died: 27 October 1929 Vienna, AUSTRIA |
70 | |
BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON = AMERICAN = Blues Musician = |
Born: LEMON HENRY JEFFERSON 24 September 1893 Coutchman, Texas, USA | Died: 19 December 1929 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
36 | |
HANS KREISSIG = GERMAN-born AMERICAN = = Pianist, Music Teacher, and Conductor = |
Born: 23 May 1857 | Died: 28 December 1929 Dallas, USA |
72 | |
ANTONIO CHACÓN = SPANISH = = Flamenco Cantaor Singer = |
Born: 1869 Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz Province, SPAIN | Died: 1929 Madrid, SPAIN |
60 | |
CARL HERMAN UNTHAN = PRUSSIAN-born = = Disabled Violinist = |
Born: 5 April 1848 | Died: 1929 |
81 |
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