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Name Dates Age Cause of Death

ELFRIDA ANDRÉE
= SWEDISH =
= Organist, Composer and Conductor =
Born:
19 February 1841
Visby, SWEDEN
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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
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Died:
22 January 1929
77  

JACQUES BOUHY
= BELGIAN =
= Operatic Baritone =
Born: JACQUES-JOSEPH-ANDRÉ BOUHY
18 June 1848
Pepinster, BELGIUM
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Died:
24 January 1929
Paris, FRANCE
80  

LA GOULUE
= FRENCH =
= Can-Can Dancer =
Born: LOUISE WEBER
13 July 1866
Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine
FRANCE
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Died:
30 January 1929
62  

ANDRÉ MESSAGER
= FRENCH =
= Conductor and Composer =
Born: ANDRÉ CHARLES PROSPER MESSAGER
30 December 1853
Montluçon, FRANCE
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Died:
24 February 1929
75  
PINETOP SMITH
= AMERICAN =
= Jazz Pianist =
Born: CLARENCE SMITH
11 June 1904
Troy, Alabama, USA
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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
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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)
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Died:
15 April 1929
Grado, ITALY
74  

BIRGER SJÖBERG
= SWEDISH =
= Poet and Songwriter =
Born:
6 December 1885
Vänersborg, SWEDEN
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Died:
30 April 1929
Växjö, SWEDEN
43  

LILLI LEHMANN
= GERMAN =
= Operatic Soprano =
Born: ELISABETH MARIA LEHMANN
24 November 1848
Würzburg, GERMANY
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Died:
17 May 1929
Berlin, GERMANY
80  
DON MURRAY
= AMERICAN =
= Jazz Clarinettist and Saxophonist =
Born:
7 June 1904
Joliet, Illinois, USA
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Died:
19 August 1929
Venice, ITALY
57  
CHRIS KELLY
= AMERICAN =
= Jazz Musician =
Born:
1890
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, USA
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Died:
19 August 1929
39  
META SEINEMEYER
= GERMAN =
= Operatic Soprano =
Born:
5 September 1895
Berlin, GERMANY
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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
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Died:
22 August 1929
Dropmore, Kent, ENGLAND
71  

FREDERICK FREEMAN PROCTOR
= AMERICAN =
= Vaudeville Impresario =
Born:
17 March 1851
Dexter, Maine, USA
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Died:
4 September 1929
Larchmont, New York, USA
78  

FREDERICK WEATHERLY
= ENGLISH =
= Songwriter =
Born: FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY
4 October 1848
Portishead, Somerset, ENGLAND
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Died:
7 September 1929
Bath, ENGLAND
80  

JEANNE EAGELS
= AMERICAN =
= Ziegfeld girl and actress =
Born: EUGENIA EAGLES
26 June 1890
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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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
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Died:
14 October 1929
Honolulu, HAWAII
85  

ADA CROSSLEY
= AUSTRALIAN =
= Singer =
Born: ADA JEMIMA CROSSLEY
3 March 1874
Tarraville, Gippsland, Victoria,
AUSTRALIA
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Died:
17 October 1929
London, ENGLAND
55  
A. M. WILLNER
= AUSTRIAN =
= Composer and Librettist =
Born: ALFRED MARIA WILLNER
11 July 1859
Vienna, AUSTRIA
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Died:
27 October 1929
Vienna, AUSTRIA
70  

BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON
= AMERICAN
= Blues Musician =
Born: LEMON HENRY JEFFERSON
24 September 1893
Coutchman, Texas, USA
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Died:
19 December 1929
Chicago, Illinois, USA
36  
HANS KREISSIG
= GERMAN-born AMERICAN =
= Pianist, Music Teacher, and Conductor =
Born:
23 May 1857

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Died:
28 December 1929
Dallas, USA
72  
ANTONIO CHACÓN
= SPANISH =
= Flamenco Cantaor Singer =
Born:
1869
Jerez de la Frontera,
Cádiz Province, SPAIN
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Died:
1929
Madrid, SPAIN
60  

CARL HERMAN UNTHAN
= PRUSSIAN-born =
= Disabled Violinist =
Born:
5 April 1848

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Died:
1929
81  
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