The Most Influential People Across History
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Viktor Ivchenko
1912 - 1972 (60 years)
Viktor Ilarionovych Ivchenko was a Soviet film director and writer. He was the father of another film director, Borys Ivchenko. Ivchenko was born in the city of Bohodukhiv, Kharkov Governorate, on October 9, 1912. In 1933 he graduated from the Kharkiv Road-Construction College and in 1937 - the Kyiv Theater Institute. Ivchenko also was a play director of the Ukrainian Drama Theater of M.Zankovetska and a film director of the Dovzhenko Film Studios .
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John Klenner
1899 - 1955 (56 years)
John Klenner was a German-born American pianist and composer. He composed both classical and popular music and is best known for writing the song "Just Friends" with Sam M. Lewis in 1931. Compositions ConcertanteFantasia for viola and orchestraVocal"Down the River of Golden Dreams" "Heartaches" "Just Friends" "Round the Bend of the Road" "Smoke Dreams" "On the Street of Regret"
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Václav Kaprál
1889 - 1947 (58 years)
Václav Kaprál was a Czech composer, pianist, and pedagogue. Life Kaprál studied composition with Leoš Janáček in the Brno Organ School and with Vítězslav Novák in Prague. Later, he studied piano interpretation with Alfred Cortot in Paris . Kaprál composed about fifty opuses, mainly solo piano, vocal, and chamber music. He was the father of Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová.
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Isidor Seiss
1840 - 1905 (65 years)
Isidor Wilhelm Seiss was a German composer, conductor, pianist, piano pedagogue and philanthropist. His surname also appears as Seiß, and his first name also appears as Isidore. Biography Isidor Wilhelm Seiss was born in Dresden in 1840. His first musical studies were under Friedrich Wieck and Julius Otto , before going to Moritz Hauptmann in Leipzig from 1858 to 1860. He did some performing in Germany and Belgium, then became a piano teacher at the Cologne Conservatory in 1871, where he had a long career. He conducted the Cologne Musical Society.
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Hermann Weigert
1890 - 1955 (65 years)
Hermann Weigert was a German vocal coach, pianist, and conductor. He was a vocal coach and accompanist for the Metropolitan Opera for thirteen years. Recognized as an authority on the works of Richard Wagner, he served as a consultant to the Bayreuth Festival from 1951 until his death four years later. He was the husband, accompanist and, voice teacher of Swedish soprano Astrid Varnay, whose career he managed to international success. He also served as accompanist and vocal coach for soprano Kirsten Flagstad for many years.
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George Brown
1818 - 1880 (62 years)
George Brown was a British-Canadian journalist, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. He attended the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences. A noted Reform politician, he is best known as the founder and editor of the Toronto Globe, Canada's most influential newspaper at the time, and his leadership in the founding of the Liberal Party in 1867. He was an articulate champion of the grievances and anger of Upper Canada . He played a major role in securing national unity. His career in active politics faltered after 1865, but he remained a powerful spokesman for the Liberal Party.
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Henry Hiles
1826 - 1904 (78 years)
Henry Hiles was an English composer, organist, writer, and music educator. Life He was born in Shrewsbury, Hiles was the youngest of six sons. His eldest brother, John Hiles, was known as an arranger of organ music and for authoring several catechisms. He began studying the piano at the age of 4 and began studying the organ just a few years later.
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Rutland Barrington
1853 - 1922 (69 years)
Rutland Barrington was an English singer, actor, comedian and Edwardian musical comedy star. Best remembered for originating the lyric baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1877 to 1896, his performing career spanned more than four decades. He also wrote at least a dozen works for the stage.
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Mikhail Chulaki
1908 - 1989 (81 years)
Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki was a Soviet Russian composer and teacher. He studied under the composer Vladimir Shcherbachov at the Leningrad Conservatory, graduating in 1931. He held administrative and teaching positions, including at the Leningrad Conservatory , and taught composition at the Moscow Conservatory : among his composition pupils was the 15-year-old Mstislav Rostropovich, whom Chulaki did much to support both materially and as an artist. Before World War II he was artistic director of the Leningrad Philharmonic.
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Max von Schillings
1868 - 1933 (65 years)
Max von Schillings was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schillings' opera Mona Lisa was internationally successful and was performed at the Metropolitan Opera. The composer married Barbara Kemp, the soprano who sang the title role. Before Mona Lisa, Schillings had already written three operas: Ingwelde , Der Pfeifertag and Der Moloch .
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Egon Kornauth
1891 - 1959 (68 years)
Egon Kornauth was an Austrian composer and music teacher. Life Kornauth was born in Olmütz, Moravia. A cellist and pianist from his youth, he went in 1909 to Vienna, where he studied with Robert Fuchs, Guido Adler, Franz Schreker and Franz Schmidt.
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Franz Schroedter
1897 - 1968 (71 years)
Franz Schroedter was a German art director. Selected filmography The Black Count The Dance of Love and Happiness The New Paradise The Queen of Whitechapel The Men of Frau Clarissa The Cigarette Countess The Shadows of That Night The Shadow of the Mosque The Woman from the Orient The Voice of the Heart Strong Winds The Heart of Lilian Thorland Chamber Music Tragedy The Adventures of Sybil Brent The Elegant Bunch The Doll of Luna Park The Morals of the Alley The Flower Girl of Potsdam Square Roses from the South The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin Only a Dancing Girl The Flames Lie When She Start...
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Wassily Sapellnikoff
1867 - 1941 (74 years)
Wassily Sapellnikoff , was a Russian empire-born Russian pianist. Biography Sapellnikoff was born in Odessa. He studied at the Odessa Conservatory under Louis Brassin and Sophie Menter, and became professor of piano at Moscow Conservatory in 1897. He eventually moved to Leipzig and finally settled in Munich.
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Smiley Burnette
1911 - 1967 (56 years)
Lester Alvin Burnett , better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who is reported to have played proficiently over 100 musical instruments, sometimes more than one simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s.
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Myrtle Stedman
1883 - 1938 (55 years)
Myrtle Stedman was an American leading lady and later character actress in motion pictures who began in silent films in 1910. Biography Stedman was born Myrtle Lincoln in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at Mrs. Starett's School there and at the Chicago School of Acting. She and her family moved to Colorado because of her father's mining interests there.
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Albert S. Rogell
1901 - 1988 (87 years)
Albert S. Rogell was an American film director. Rogell directed more than a hundred movies between 1921 and 1958. He was the uncle of producer Sid Rogell. Filmography The Greatest Menace The Mask of Lopez The Dangerous Coward Galloping Gallagher The Fighting Sap Lightning Romance The Silent Stranger North of Nevada Geared to Go Thundering Hoofs Easy Money Super Speed The Snob Buster Cyclone Cavalier Crack o' Dawn The Circus Cyclone The Knockout Kid Fighting Fate The Fear Fighter Youth's Gamble Goat Getter The Patent Leather Pug The Wild Horse Stampede The Man from the West Red Hot Leather Th...
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Yakov Flier
1912 - 1977 (65 years)
Yakov Vladimirovich Flier was a Soviet concert pianist and teacher. Flier was born in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Russia. He studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Konstantin Igumnov. By the 1930s, he had become one of the most prominent Russian concert pianists. He mainly performed Romantic music, although he also played some works by contemporary Russian composers Dmitry Kabalevsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, German Galynin, Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin.
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William Garwood
1884 - 1950 (66 years)
William Davis Garwood, Jr. was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent film era in the 1910s. Between 1911 and 1913, Garwood starred in a number of early adaptions of popular films, including Jane Eyre and The Vicar of Wakefield , Lorna Doone , The Pied Piper of Hamelin , David Copperfield , The Merchant of Venice , and Little Dorrit , and Robin Hood . In total, he starred in more than 150 short and feature films.
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Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner
1759 - 1833 (74 years)
Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner was a German-born Swedish composer. Hæffner received his first musical education with the Schmalkalden organist Johann Gottfried Vierling. He studied in Leipzig from 1776, and then worked as a music conductor in theatres in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg from 1778 to 1780. He moved to Stockholm, Sweden in 1781 at the invitation of the German congregation there to assume the position of organist, which he held until 1793. The same year he was employed at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm as well as conductor of the orchestra for the Stenborg theatres. In 1786 H...
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Bobby Watson
1888 - 1965 (77 years)
Bobby Watson was an American theater and film actor, playing a variety of character roles, including, after 1942, Adolf Hitler. Life and career Born in Springfield, Illinois, Watson, who was of German descent, began his career at age 15 performing a vaudeville act at the Olympic Theatre in Springfield. As a teenager, he toured the U.S. midwest with the "Kickapoo Remedies Show", a traveling medicine show. He then appeared on Coney Island in a Gus Edwards show. In 1918, he first played on Broadway when he was a replacement in the role of Robert Street in Going Up and then created the role of the flamboyant dressmaker "Madame Lucy" in the hit musical Irene , later repeating the role.
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Leon Washington
1909 - 1973 (64 years)
Leon Diamond Washington was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Mississippi, Washington grew up in Chicago from the age of three. He started on clarinet before moving on to tenor saxophone, and studied under Santy Runyon. After finishing high school, he played professionally from 1926, joining Zinky Cohn's band and recording with Frankie Franko and Bernie Young & the Creolians . He played with Carroll Dickerson from 1934-35 at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, then played briefly with Louis Armstrong in 1935.
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Ruth Etting
1897 - 1978 (81 years)
Ruth Etting was an American singer and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me".
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Ludwig Rottenberg
1865 - 1932 (67 years)
Ludwig Rottenberg was an Austrian/German composer and conductor. Biography Rottenberg came from a German-speaking Jewish family in Czernowitz, the then-capital of Bukovina, which at the time was part of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy. He studied music in his birthplace, and later at the Vienna Conservatory.
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Maria Winetzkaja
1889 - 1956 (67 years)
Maria Winetzkaja , also seen as Maria Winetskaja, was an American mezzo-soprano opera singer born in Kishinev, in present-day Moldova. Early life Winetzkaja was born in Kishinev, in the Bessarabia Governorate of Imperial Russia, the daughter of Wolf Kleiner and Naomi Nemeroff Kleiner. She attended the Imperial Conservatory of Music at Kishinev on a scholarship as a girl, but interrupted her studies in March 1904 to move to the United States with her family. In 1913 she earned a degree at the Institute of Musical Arts in New York.
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Humphrey Procter-Gregg
1895 - 1980 (85 years)
Humphrey Procter-Gregg was an English composer and academic. Career He was born in Kirkby Lonsdale and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man and at Peterhouse Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He studied music with Charles Villiers Stanford , Charles Wood and Julius Harrison at the Royal College of Music in London and gained a studentship at La Scala in Milan.
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Ernest Hutcheson
1871 - 1951 (80 years)
Ernest Hutcheson was an Australian pianist, composer and teacher. Biography Hutcheson was born in Melbourne, and toured there as a child prodigy at the age of five. He later travelled to Leipzig and entered the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Stavenhagen and Bruno Zwintscher. He was part of the London music circuit in 1896 and 1897. Prior to the outbreak of World War I he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, but in 1914 he settled in New York City, where he made his US debut.
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Karel Boleslav Jirák
1891 - 1972 (81 years)
Karel Boleslav Jirák was a Czechoslovak composer and conductor. Jirák became a pupil of Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Vítězslav Novák at the Charles University and at music academy in Prague. From 1915-18 he was the Kapellmeister at the Hamburg Opera and worked from 1918 to 1919 as a conductor at the National Theatre in Brno and Ostrava.
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Lynne Roberts
1922 - 1978 (56 years)
Lynne Roberts, also credited as Mary Hart, born Theda May Roberts was an American film actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She appeared exclusively in what were referred to as B movies. Early years Born in El Paso, Texas, Roberts was the daughter of Hobart M. Roberts, a bookkeeper, and May Holland. The family moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s.
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Eugene Cruft
1887 - 1976 (89 years)
Eugene John Cruft was a British double bass player. He has been called the "leading double-bass player of his generation". Eugene Cruft was born in London, son of John Cruft , principal viola in the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Eugene Cruft started in the London Symphony Orchestra in 1912, and was principal double-bass player in the BBC Symphony Orchestra 1929-1947, as well as in several other orchestras such as the Royal Opera House and the Bath Festival Orchestra.
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Carlo Giorgio Garofalo
1886 - 1962 (76 years)
Carlo Giorgio Garofalo was an Italian composer, conductor and organist. Garofalo was born in Rome, Italy to Giovanni and Faustina Rinaldi Garofalo. He later attended the Vatican college where he studied organ and music composition. Garofalo followed classmate Pietro Yon to the United States where he, with the assistance of Yon, found employment as music director and organist at the Immaculate Conception Church in Boston.
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Philippe Janvier
1903 - 1967 (64 years)
Philippe Janvier was a French actor. Partial filmography L'ange gardien Adventure in Paris The Assault Mercadet as La BriveLes petites alliées Captain Benoit The Five Cents of Lavarede as Le conspirateurThe Atomic Monsieur Placido as L'impresarioThree Sailors
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David Holmes
1843 - 1906 (63 years)
David Holmes was a British trade unionist. Born in Manchester, Holmes worked as a weaver from the age of 8. When he was ten, he ran away from home to live with an uncle in Padiham. He continued weaving but also received some education at the local Unitarian chapel.
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Harry Lawrence Freeman
1869 - 1954 (85 years)
Harry Lawrence Freeman was an American neoromantic opera composer, conductor, impresario and teacher. He was the first African-American to write an opera that was successfully produced. Freeman founded the Freeman School of Music and the Freeman School of Grand Opera, as well as several short-lived opera companies which gave first performances of his own compositions. During his life, he was known as "the black Wagner."
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Moses ibn Tibbon
1195 - 1274 (79 years)
Moses ibn Tibbon was a Jewish physician, author and translator in Provence. The number of works written by Moses ibn Tibbon suggest that he reached a great age. He was the son of Samuel ibn Tibbon, a Jewish scholar and doctor who translated Maimonides into Hebrew.
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Arseny Avraamov
1886 - 1944 (58 years)
Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov was an avant-garde Russian composer and music theorist. He studied at the music school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, with private composition lessons from Sergey Taneyev. An avowed Communist, he refused to fight in World War I, and fled the country to work, among other things, as a circus artist. Returning in 1917, he was appointed Culture Minister for the People's Commissariat for Education. Allegedly, one of his first acts was to ask Vladimir Lenin if he could burn all the pianos in Russia.
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Alexander Kastalsky
1856 - 1926 (70 years)
Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastalsky was a Russian composer and folklorist. Kastalsky was born in Moscow to protoiereus Dmitri Ivanovich Kastalsky . He studied music theory, composition and the piano at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1887 he started teaching piano at Moscow Synodal School, and in 1891 became assistant precentor of the Moscow Synodal Choir. He was director of both from 1910–1918 until the school was dissolved and merged with the choral faculty of the Conservatory, and the choir was forced to move from sacred to folk repertory.
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Wilfred Bendall
1850 - 1920 (70 years)
Wilfred Ellington Bendall was an English composer, pianist, conductor, arranger and teacher. After musical studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Leipzig Conservatoire, he pursued a varied career, based mainly in London. He composed several operettas, and a quantity of choral music and song. His other musical activities included conducting in the theatre and concert hall, playing piano accompaniments for recitals, serving as secretary to the composer Arthur Sullivan, and holding a professorship at the Guildhall School of Music. He died in London, aged seventy.
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Walter Carroll
1869 - 1955 (86 years)
Walter Carroll was an English composer, music lecturer and author. He was born at 156 Great Ducie Street in the Cheetham district of Manchester. Early life and education He was a pupil at Longsight High School, Manchester. Leaving school at the age of 14, he went to work at the Manchester textile firm of J. N Phillips and Co., learning office routine and account keeping. Joining the choir of St. John Chrysostom Anglican church, Victoria Park in 1886, he studied with the organist there, Frederick Pugh. He composed music for the choir there and became the librarian. In 1887, he also joined the...
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Florica Musicescu
1887 - 1969 (82 years)
Florica Musicescu was a renowned Romanian pianist and musical pedagogue, daughter of the renowned composer, conductor and musicologist Gavriil Musicescu. She taught piano music for many decades at the Bucharest Conservatory . For her masterful guidance and mentorship, she is considered to be one of the founders of the Romanian School of Piano Music. Many of the famous pianists of the 20th century emerged from this school: Mihai Brediceanu, Paul Dan, Dan Grigore, Mindru Katz, Dinu Lipatti, Myriam Marbe, Radu Lupu, Svetla Protich, Madeleine Cantacuzene, Sorin Enăchescu, Maria Fotino, Corneliu G...
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Clara Kathleen Rogers
1844 - 1931 (87 years)
Clara Kathleen Barnett Rogers , was an English-born American composer, singer, writer and music educator. Early life and education Rogers was born in Cheltenham, England, into a musical family. Her grandfather, Robert Lindley, was a cellist; her father, John Barnett, was an opera composer and was the first music teacher his children had; her mother, Eliza, was a singer. At the age of twelve, her family moved to Germany to further the musical education of the children. Clara was denied acceptance to the Leipzig Conservatory, but that decision was changed in 1857 in view of her talent, making her the youngest student ever admitted.
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Hans Stieber
1886 - 1969 (83 years)
Hans Albert Oskar Stieber was a German conductor, composer and violinist. He was the founding director of the Hochschule für Theater und Musik in Halle an der Saale. Life Origin and family Stieber was born in Naumburg an der Saale in the Prussian Province of Saxony as the eldest of four sons of the lawyer Paul Stieber and his wife Elsbeth , née Biermann. His maternal great-grandmother Friederike Komitsch, née Schaffner, was an actress at the Schauspielhaus Berlin and married the actor Ludwig Devrient in her first marriage. His grandfather was the jurist Wilhelm Stieber and worked as a police director, privy councillor and head of the Central-Nachrichten-Bureaus at the in Berlin.
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Philip Sainton
1891 - 1967 (76 years)
Philip Prosper Sainton was a British–French composer, conductor, and violist. Biography He was born in Arques-la-Bataille, in Seine-Maritime, France, grandson to violinist Prosper Sainton and contralto Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, but the family soon moved to Godalming, Surrey in the UK. His father, Charles Prosper, was a painter and his mother, born Amy Foster, was a singer. He started his music studies learning the violin. In 1913 he entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied composition under Frederick Corder and viola under Lionel Tertis.
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Alicia Urreta
1930 - 1986 (56 years)
Alicia Urreta was a Mexican pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Alicia Urreta was born in Veracruz, Veracruz. In 1952 she entered the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City, studying harmony with Rodolfo Halffter, and other topics under Hernández Moncada, León Mariscal, and Sandor Roth. In 1969, she studied with Jean-Etienne Marie at Schola Cantorum of Paris, France. She also studied piano instruction from Alfred Brendel and Alicia de Larrocha. She later worked as a concert pianist for the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. She also taught at the University of Mexico and was an...
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M. R. Radha
1907 - 1979 (72 years)
Madras Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan was an Indian actor and politician active in Tamil plays and films. He was given the title "Nadigavel" by Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. He mostly played villain roles, but had also acted in several films as comedian.
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Ha Gil-jong
1941 - 1979 (38 years)
Ha Gil-jong was a South Korean film director, screenwriter and translator. Most famous for his youth classic, The March of Fools , Ha was also a very prominent social critic in his day. Biography He was born as the seventh child of a family with nine children in Choryang-dong, Busan, South Korea. His little brother Hah Myung-joong is an actor and film director. Ha lost his mother in 1945 and his father in 1950 when the Korean War occurred. Orphaned, Ha came to live with relatives. In 1956 he went to Seoul with one of his older brothers, and attended Jungdong High School in the following year.
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Henry Wylde
1822 - 1890 (68 years)
Henry Wylde was an English conductor, composer, teacher and music critic. Background Henry Wylde was born at Bushey, Hertfordshire, elder son of Henry Wylde and Martha Lucy née Paxton. His father, then the organist at St. Mary's Church, Watford, was himself a music teacher. Henry, the father, one of the Children of the Chapel Royal was for many years vicar choral of the Chapels Royal and cantor there and he was a soloist at the marriage of Queen Victoria.
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Emil Ermatinger
1873 - 1953 (80 years)
Emil Ermatinger was a Swiss professor for Germanic philology. Ermatinger studied classical philology in Zurich and Berlin. 1897 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Zurich. His doctoral advisor was the classical archaeologist and philologist Hugo Blümner. 1909 Ermatinger became a professor for Germanic philology at ETH Zurich. 1912 till 1943 he was professor at the University of Zurich. 1939 he was visiting professor at the Columbia University in New York City.
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Leonidas Warren Payne Jr.
1873 - 1945 (72 years)
Leonidas Warren Payne Jr. was an American linguist and professor of English at the University of Texas. He was a co-founder of the Texas Folklore Society along with John Lomax, edited the first anthology of Texas literature, and was one of the first to recognize the talent of e.e. cummings.
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Walther Davisson
1885 - 1973 (88 years)
Walther Davisson was a German violinist and conductor. Background Davisson was born in Frankfurt am Main. He studied in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory from 1900 to 1906 with Johann Naret-Koning and Adolf Rebner, in whose string quartet he played second violin from 1906 to 1913. He also taught violin in Frankfurt until 1918.
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Albertine Morin-Labrecque
1886 - 1957 (71 years)
Albertine Morin-Labrecque was a Canadian pianist, soprano, composer, and music educator. Her compositional output includes 4 ballets, 2 comic operas, the Chinese opera Pas-chu, 2 concertos for two pianos, the symphonic poem Le Matin, numerous symphonic works, and compositions for band. Her works have been published by a variety of companies. A square and a street in Montreal were named after her in 1984.
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