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ROSA MAYREDER = AUSTRIAN = = Feminist Writer, Artist and Musician = |
Born: 30 November 1858 Vienna, AUSTRIA | Died: 19 January 1938 Vienna, AUSTRIA |
79 | |
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NIKOLAI ZHILYAYEV = RUSSIAN = = Musicologist, = = and the teacher of several 20th-century Russian composers = |
Born: NIKOLAY SERGEYEVICH ZHILYAYEV 18 November 1881 | Died: 20 January 1938 |
56 | |
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CARL VENTH = GERMAN-AMERICAN = = Composer, Violinist, Conductor, Music Educator, and Scholar = |
Born: 16 February 1860 Cologne, GERMANY | Died: 29 January 1938 San Antonio, Texas, USA |
77 | |
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DOMINIQUE HECKMES = LUXEMBOURGIAN = = Composer and Music Critic = |
Born: 1 September 1878 | Died: 4 February 1938 |
59 | |
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GIANNI BETTINI = ITALIAN = = Inventor and a Pioneer Audiophile = = who invented several Phonograph improvements = |
Born: 1860 Novara, ITALY | Died: 27 February 1938 San Remo, ITALY |
78 | |
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BEN HARNEY = AMERICAN = = Songwriter, Entertainer, and Pioneer of Ragtime Music = |
Born: BENJAMIN ROBERTSON HARNEY 6 March 1872 Memphis, Tennessee, USA | Died: 2 March 1938 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
65 | Heart Attack |
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LYDA ROBERTI = RUSSIAN-born AMERICAN = = Stage and Film Actress, and Singer = |
Born: 20 May 1906 Warsaw, RUSSIAN EMPIRE (present-day Warsaw, POLAND) | Died: 12 March 1938 Glendale, California, USA |
31 | Heart Attack |
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CYRIL ROOTHAM = ENGLISH = = Composer, Educator and Organist = |
Born: CYRIL BRADLEY ROOTHAM 5 October 1875 Redland, Bristol, ENGLAND | Died: 18 March 1938 |
62 | |
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REINE DAVIES = AMERICAN = = Actress and Singer = |
Born: IRENE DOURAS 6 June 1883 Brooklyn, New York, USA | Died: 5 April 1938 Beverly Hills, California, USA |
51 | Heart Attack in the swimming pool |
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JOE "KING" OLIVER = AMERICAN = = Jazz Cornet Player and Bandleader = |
Born: JOSEPH NATHAN OLIVER 11 May 1885 Aben, Louisiana, USA | Died: 8 April 1938 Savannah, Georgia, USA |
52 | |
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FEODOR CHALIAPIN = RUSSIAN = = Operatic Bass = |
Born: FEODOR IVANOVICH CHALIAPIN 13 February 1873 Kazan, RUSSIA | Died: 12 April 1938 Paris, FRANCE |
65 | Leukemia |
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SIR RICHARD RUNCIMAN TERRY = ENGLISH = = Organist, Choir Director and Musicologist = |
Born: 3 January 1865 | Died: 18 April 1938 |
72 | |
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PAPA CHARLIE JACKSON = AMERICAN = = Bluesman and Songster = = who accompanied himself with a Banjo Guitar, a Guitar, or a Ukulele = |
Born: WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON 10 November 1887 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Died: 7 May 1938 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
50 | |
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JAMES WELDON JOHNSON = AMERICAN = = Songwriter, Author, Diplomat and Educationalist = |
Born: 17 June 1871 Jacksonville, Florida, USA | Died: 26 June 1938 Wiscasset, Maine, USA |
67 | Car hit by train |
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JAMES THORNTON = ENGLISH-born AMERICAN = = Songwriter and Vaudeville Comedian = |
Born: 5 December 1861 Dublin, IRELAND or Liverpool, ENGLAND | Died: 27 July 1938 New York City, New York, USA |
76 | |
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SIR LANDON RONALD = ENGLISH = = Conductor, Composer, Pianist, Teacher and Administrator = |
Born: LANDON RONALD RUSSELL 7 June 1873 Kensington, London, ENGLAND | Died: 14 August 1938 London, ENGLAND |
65 | |
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ROBERT JOHNSON = AMERICAN = = Blues Guitarist = |
Born: 8 May 1911 Hazlehurst, MS, USA | Died: 16 August 1938 Greenwood, MS, USA |
27 | Died of pneumonia after suspected strychnine poisoning |
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JAMES SCOTT = AFRICAN-AMERICAN = = Ragtime Composer = |
Born: JAMES SYLVESTER SCOTT 12 February 1885 Neosho, Missouri, USA | Died: 30 August 1938 Kansas City, Kansas, USA |
53 | |
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ORESTE CANDI = ITALIAN = = Luthier = |
Born: 27 November 1865 Minerbio near Bologna, ITALY | Died: 4 September 1938 Genova, ITALY |
72 | |
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AGUSTÍN MAGALDI = ARGENTINE = = Tango and Milonga Singer = |
Born: 1 December 1898 Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA | Died: 8 September 1938 Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA |
39 | Peritonitis |
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CON CONRAD = AMERICAN = = Songwriter and Producer = |
Born: CONRAD K. DOBER 18 June 1891 Manhattan, New York, USA | Died: 28 September 1938 Van Nuys, California, USA |
47 | |
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MAY IRWIN = CANADIAN = = Actress, Singer and Star of Vaudeville = |
Born: GEORGINA MAY CAMPBELL 27 June 1862 Whitby, Ontario, CANADA | Died: 22 October 1938 New York City, New York, USA |
76 | |
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FRED BARNES = ENGLISH = = Music Hall Entertainer = |
Born: FREDERICK JESTER BARNES 21 May 1885 219 Great Lister Street, Saltley, Birmingham, ENGLAND | Died: 23 October 1938 |
53 | Alcoholism and Tuberculosis |
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ALMA GLUCK = ROMANIAN-born AMERICAN = = Soprano = |
Born: REBA FEINSOHN 11 May 1884 ROMANIA | Died: 27 October 1938 Manhattan, New York City, USA |
54 | Liver Failure |
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KHADIJA GAYIBOVA = AZERBAIJANI = = Pianist = |
Born: KHADIJA OSMAN BEY QIZI MUFTIZADEH 24 May 1893 Tiflis (present-day capital of GEORGIA) | Died: 27 October 1938 Baku, AZERBAIJAN |
55 | Executed by firing squad |
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LEOPOLD GODOWSKY = POLISH AMERICAN = = Composer, Pianist and Teacher = |
Born: 13 February 1870 Žasliai in what was then RUSSIAN territory but is now part of LITHUANIA | Died: 21 November 1938 New York, USA |
68 | Stomach Cancer |
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MARIO PILATI = ITALIAN = = Composer = |
Born: 2 June 1903 Naples, ITALY | Died: 10 December 1938 Naples, ITALY |
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JAMES MILTON BLACK = AMERICAN = = Composer of Hymns, Choir Leader and Sunday School Teacher = |
Born: 19 August 1856 South Hill, New York, USA | Died: 21 December 1938 Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA |
82 | |
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OSKAR BÖHME = GERMAN = = Trumpeter and Composer = |
Born: 24 February 1870 Potschappel, a small town near Dresden, GERMANY | Died: 1938 Orenburg, RUSSIA |
68 | |
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MINNIE EGENER = AMERICAN = = Operatic Mezzo-Soprano = |
Born: 1881 | Died: 1938 New Orleans, USA |
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