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  • Conway Twitty (September 1, 1933 - June 5, 1993) was one of the United States' most successful rock and country music artists of the twentieth ...
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  • Zoltán Kodály ( ˈzoltaːn ˈkodaːj ) (December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist ...
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  • Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an important twentieth century female American pop singer, drummer, and with her ...
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  • Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and comedian. She was a member of the famed pioneer ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated ...
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  • category:image wanted Little Walter (born Marion Walter Jacobs) (May 1, 1930 – February 15, 1968) was a blues singer, harmonica player, and ...
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  • Category:image wanted [[File:Abbott and Costello circa 1940s.JPG|thumb|200px|Photo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello from their NBC Radio program.]] ...
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  • Laurel and Hardy were an American-based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the twentieth century for their work in motion ...
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  • Baron Samuel von Pufendorf (January 8, 1632 – October 13, 1694), was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian ...
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  • The Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California, during the early 1970s. With five number one singles and six ...
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  • Pope Saint Gelasius I (reigned 492 - 496 C.E.) was an important pope of the late fifth century who strongly affirmed the primacy of Rome and ...
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  • category:image wanted Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937, Littlefield, Texas – February 13, 2002, Chandler, Arizona) was one of the most ...
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  • category:image wantedWells, Kitty {{Infobox musical artist |Name = Kitty Wells |Img = |Img_capt = |Img_size = (Only use for images smaller ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Drysdale, Don {{Infobox MLB retired |name=Don Drysdale |position=Pitcher |bats=Right |throws=Right |birthdate=1936|7|23Van ...
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  • Semi-Pelagianism is a Christian theological understanding about salvation, the process of restoring the relationship between humanity and God ...
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  • William Wells (June 10, 1907 or 1909 – November 12, 1985), known as Dicky Wells (sometimes Dickie Wells), was an African-American jazz trombonist ...
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  • category:Image wanted Brautigan, Richard Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – September 14, 1984) was an American writer, best known for ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 30, 1971) and Richard A. Loeb ...
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  • Loretta Lynn born Loretta Webb (April 14, 1932 - October 4, 2022) was an American country music performer. One of the leading country vocalists ...
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  • Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a multiple Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, dancer ...
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  • The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the twentieth century and remains a leading ...
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  • category:image wanted Dusty Springfieldcategory:image wanted {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Dusty Springfield | Img = ...
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  • Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were notorious outlaws, robbers, and criminals ...
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  • Dolly Rebecca Parton (January 19, 1946 - ) is an American country music singer/songwriter, author, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist ...
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  • Alfred Garyevich Schnittke (Russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке) (November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a twentieth ...
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  • The trio of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash are a folk rock/rock supergroup known as Crosby, Stills, & Nash (CSN). The group ...
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  • Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo ("conversation with the gods") is the name of a priestess in Haitian ...
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  • category:image wanted Leiber and Stoller Jerry Leiber (April 25, 1933 - August 22, 2011) and Mike Stoller (March 13, 1933 - ) were a songwriting ...
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  • Old-time music is a form of North American folk music, with roots in the folk musics of many countries, including England, Scotland and Ireland ...
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  • Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American, entertainment writer and television host, best known as the ...
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  • Fritz Kreisler (February 2, 1875 - January 29, 1962) was an Austria-born American violinist and composer. Noted for his sweet tone and expressive ...
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  • Martha and the Vandellas (known from 1967 to 1972 as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) were among the most successful Motown recording groups ...
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  • Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813 – March 29 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr., (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American singer and guitarist, with ...
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  • Rebecca Helferich Clarke (August 27, 1886 – October 13, 1979) was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music ...
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  • Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American classical composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging ...
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  • The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic descent who have lived the majority of their lives outside Korea or, simply ...
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  • Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional ...
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  • 10 (ten) is a natural number A natural number is any number that is a positive integer, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, and so forth. Often, the number 0 ...
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  • Random access memory (also hyphenated as random-access memory), usually known by its acronym RAM, is a class of media used in computers for data ...
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  • George Balanchine (January 22, 1904 — April 30, 1983) was one of the twentieth century's foremost choreographers and one of the founders ...
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  • Tertullian (/tərˈtʌliən/; Latin: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; 155 – 220 C.E.) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage ...
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  • category:Image wanted [[Image:Gretsch G6122-1958.jpg|thumb|125px|The Gretsch Chet Atkins "Country Gentleman" model guitar]]Chester Burton ...
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  • Les Paul (born Lester William Polsfuss) (June 9, 1915 - August 14, 2009) was an American jazz and country guitarist, one of the key developers ...
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  • Petrus Ramus, or Pierre de la Ramée (1515 - August 24, 1572), was a French humanist philosopher, logician, and educational reformer, known for ...
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  • Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed "The Big O," was an influential American singer-songwriter and ...
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  • category:image wanted Haggard, Merle {{Infobox musical artist | Name = Merle Haggard | | Img = Merle Haggard in ...
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  • Category:Image wanted Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American poet, songwriter, musician ...
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  • Joan Crawford (March 23, 1904 - May 10, 1977) was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest ...
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  • The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers—Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, they were raised in ...
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