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 JOAQUÍN TURINA = SPANISH = = Composer = |
Born: 9 December 1882 Seville, SPAIN | Died: 14 January 1949 Madrid, SPAIN |
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CHARLES PRICE JONES Sr. = AMERICAN = = Religious Leader and Hymn-Writer = |
Born: 9 December 1865 Floyd County, Georgia, USA | Died: 19 January 1949 Los Angeles, California, USA |
83 | |
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HERBERT STOTHART = AMERICAN = = Songwriter, Arranger, Conductor, and Composer = |
Born: HERBERT P. STOTHART 11 September 1885 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | Died: 1 February 1949 Los Angeles, California, USA |
63 | |
 GIOVANNI ZENATELLO = ITALIAN = = Opera Tenor = |
Born: 22 February 1876 Verona, ITALY | Died: 11 February 1949 New York City, New York, USA |
73 | |
 SOL BLOOM = AMERICAN = = Entertainment Impresario and = = Sheet Music Publisher in Chicago = = and Politician from New York = |
Born: 9 March 1870 Pekin, Illinois, USA | Died: 7 March 1949 Washington, D.C., USA |
78 | |
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IRVING FAZOLA = AMERICAN = = Jazz Clarinetist = |
Born: IRVING HENRY PRESTOPNIK 10 December 1912 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Died: 20 March 1949 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
36 | Heart Attack |
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GRIGORAS DINICU = ROMANIAN = = Violinist and Composer = |
Born: GRIGORAŞ IONICĂ DINICU 3 April 1889 Bucharest, ROMANIA | Died: 28 March 1949 Bucharest, ROMANIA |
59 | Laryngeal Cancer |
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ERWIN LENDVAI = HUNGARIAN = = Composer and Choral Conductor = |
Born: 4 June 1882 Budapest, HUNGARY | Died: 31 March 1949 either Epsom, Surrey or London, ENGLAND |
66 | |
 BASIL HARWOOD = ENGLISH = = Organist and Composer = |
Born: 11 April 1859 Woodhouse, Gloucestershire, ENGLAND | Died: 3 April 1949 London, ENGLAND |
89 | |
 EMILIO DE GOGORZA = AMERICAN = = Operatic Baritone = |
Born: 29 May 1872 Brooklyn, New York, USA | Died: 10 May 1949 New York City, New York, USA |
74 | Lung Cancer |
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DYNAM-VICTOR FUMET = FRENCH = = Organist and Composer = |
Born: 4 May 1867 Toulouse, FRANCE | Died: 2 June 1949 |
82 | |
 MARIA CEBOTARI = ROMANIAN = = Operatic Soprano and Actress = |
Born: 10 February 1910 Chișinău, Bessarabia Governorate, RUSSIAN EMPIRE (now MOLDOVA) | Died: 9 June 1949 Vienna, AUSTRIA |
39 | Cancer |
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RAMÓN MONTOYA = SPANISH = = Flamenco Guitarist and Composer = |
Born: 2 November 1879 Madrid, SPAIN | Died: 20 June 1949 Madrid, SPAIN |
69 | |
 BUNK JOHNSON = AMERICAN = = Jazz Trumpeter = |
Born: WILLIAM GARY JOHNSON 27 December 1879 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA | Died: 7 July 1949 New Iberia |
69 | |
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FRITZ HART = ENGLISH = = Composer, Conductor, Teacher = = and unpublished novelist = |
Born: FRITZ BENNICKE HART 11 February 1874 Brockley, Greenwich, ENGLAND | Died: 9 July 1949 Honolulu, HAWAII |
75 | |
 VÍTĚZSLAV NOVÁK = CZECH = = Composer = |
Born: VIKTOR NOVÁK 5 December 1870 Kamenice nad Lipou, a small town in Southern Bohemia, CZECH REPUBLIC | Died: 18 July 1949 Skuteč in Eastern Bohemia, CZECH REPUBLIC |
78 | |
 WALTER WIDDOP = BRITISH = = Operatic Tenor = |
Born: 19 April 1892 Norland, near Halifax, Yorkshire, ENGLAND | Died: 6 September 1949 Hampstead, London, ENGLAND |
57 | |
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RICHARD STRAUSS = GERMAN = = Composer = |
Born: RICHARD GEORG STRAUSS 11 June 1864 Munich, GERMANY | Died: 8 September 1949 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, GERMANY |
85 | |
 MICHAEL HAYVORONSKY = UKRAINIAN = = Composer, Musician, Conductor, Teacher, Violinist, and Critic = |
Born: MYKHAILO OREST HAIVORONSKY 15 September 1892 Zalischyky, (then part of the AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE) now UKRAINE | Died: 11 September 1949 New York City, USA |
56 | |
 HARRY T. BURLEIGH = AFRICAN-AMERICAN = = Classical Composer, Arranger, and Professional Singer = |
Born: HENRY THACKER BURLEIGH 2 December 1866 Erie, Pennsylvania, USA | Died: 12 September 1949 New York, New York, USA |
82 | |
 NIKOS SKALKOTTAS = GREEK = = Composer, student of Arnold Schoenberg = |
Born: 21 March 1904 Chalcis, Euboea, GREECE | Died: 19 September 1949 GREECE |
45 | |
 PIERRE DE BRÉVILLE = FRENCH = = Composer = |
Born: PIERRE ONFROY DE BRÉVILLE 21 February 1861 Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, FRANCE | Died: 24 September 1949 Paris, FRANCE |
88 | |
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NANCY DALBERG = DANISH = = Composer = |
Born: 6 July 1881 | Died: 28 September 1949 |
68 | |
 BUDDY CLARK = AMERICAN = = Singer = |
Born: SAMUEL GOLDBERG 26 July 1912 Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA | Died: 1 October 1949 Los Angeles, California, USA |
37 | Plane Crash |
 CHRIS SMITH = AMERICAN = = Composer and Popular Vaudeville Performer = |
Born: CHRISTOPHER M. SMITH 12 October 1879 Charleston, South Carolina, USA | Died: 4 October 1949 New York City, USA |
69 | |
 EDMUND EYSLER = AUSTRIAN = = Composer = |
Born: EDMUND SAMUEL EYSLER 12 March 1874 Hernals (until 1892 an independent municipality, since then a district of Vienna) AUSTRIA | Died: 4 October 1949 Vienna, AUSTRIA |
75 | |
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SAM COLLINS = AMERICAN = = Blues Singer and Guitarist = |
Born: 11 August 1887 Louisiana, USA | Died: 20 October 1949 Chicago, Illinois, USA |
62 | Heart Disease |
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GINETTE NEVEU = FRENCH = = Violinist = |
Born: 11 August 1919 Paris, FRANCE | Died: 28 October 1949 |
30 | Plane Crash, she was on board an Air France flight from Paris en route to another series of concert engagements when it crashed on a mountain after two failed attempts to make a landing at the São Miguel Island airport in the Azores |
 BILL "BOJANGLES" ROBINSON = AMERICAN = = Tap Dancer, Singer and Actor = |
Born: LUTHER ROBINSON 25 May 1878 Richmond, Virginia, USA | Died: 25 November 1949 New York City, New York, USA |
71 | |
 LEAD BELLY = AMERICAN = = Folk and Blues Musician = |
Born: HUDDIE WILLIAM LEDBETTER 20 January 1889 Mooringsport, Louisiana, USA | Died: 6 December 1949 New York City, New York, USA |
60 | |
 FIDDLIN' JOHN CARSON = AMERICAN = = Old-time Fiddler and an early-recorded Country Musician = |
Born: JOHN CARSON 23 March 1868 Fannin County, Georgia, USA | Died: 11 December 1949 Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
81 | |
 IVIE ANDERSON = AMERICAN = = Jazz Singer = |
Born: 10 July 1905 Gilroy, California, USA | Died: 28 December 1949 Los Angeles, California, USA |
44 | Asthma |
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EUPHEMIA ALLEN = BRITISH = = Composer = |
Born: 1861 United Kingdom | Died: 1949 |
88 | |
 ALICE CUCINA = ITALIAN = = Operatic Contralto = |
Born: 1870 | Died: 1949 |
79 | |
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KING SOLOMON HILL = AMERICAN = = Blues Musician = |
Born: JOE HOLMES 1897 McComb, Mississippi, USA | Died: 1949 Sibley, Louisiana, USA |
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