Wikipedia:WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Recent deaths#Brian

In the following table, the second column shows an image if available, - many articles received an unfree image from Storye book. The following column have the date of the person's birth, the date of death, the day the article expansion began, the appearence on the Main page among the recent deaths (RD). The eighths column shows interlanguage links (de stands for German, a + notes that there's another language, and ++ that there are even more other languages), and the last column contains notes, such as that the article was new, and a DYK entry with a preceding date. Only columns 1 to 4 and the last get archived. (updated 1 March 2025)

In the following table, the second column shows an image if available, the third the date of the person's birth, the fourth the date of death, and the last column contains notes, such as that the article was new, and a DYK entry with date. The former more detailed table was archived in 2023 because Wikipedia's style changed.

The table goes initially generally by date of death, 2006 · 2009 · 2011 · 2012 · 2014 · 2015 · 2018 · 2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023.

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| {{sortname|Anne|Buydens|}} || File:Kirk & Ann attend Jefferson awards.jpg || {{sortdate|23 Apr 1919}} || {{sortdate|29 Apr 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Anthony|Payne}} || || {{sortdate|2 Aug 1936}} || {{sortdate|30 Apr 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Karl-Günther von|Hase}} || File:Karl-Günther von Hase thumb.jpg || {{sortdate|15 Sep 1917}} || {{sortdate|9 May 2021}} || {{sortdate|12 Jun 2021}} ... that Karl-Günther von Hase (pictured), who had served as spokesman of the German government under three chancellors, became director of the ZDF broadcaster?

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| {{sortname|Raimund|Hoghe}} || || {{sortdate|12 May 1949}} || {{sortdate|14 May 2021}} || {{sortdate|9 Jun 2021}} ... that Raimund Hoghe, who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel (The Hunchback)? (new)

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| {{sortname|Carla|Fracci}} || || {{sortdate|20 Aug 1936}} || {{sortdate|27 May 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Robert|Rutman}} || || {{sortdate|15 May 1931}} || {{sortdate|2 Jun 2021}} || {{sortdate|12 Dec 2016}} ... that Robert Rutman invented the steel cello, a giant sheet metal instrument?

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| {{sortname|Friederike|Mayröcker}} || File:Mayröcker Friederike-5784 (17828490214).jpg || {{sortdate|20 Dec 1924}} || {{sortdate|4 Jun 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gottfried|Böhm}} || File:Gottfried Böhm 2015.jpg || {{sortdate|23 Jan 1920}} || {{sortdate|9 Jun 2021}} || {{sortdate|10 Feb 2020}} ... that Maria, Königin des Friedens (pictured), a Brutalist pilgrimage church in Neviges, Germany, has become architect Gottfried Böhm's signature building? (new)

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| {{sortname|Gianna|Rolandi}} || || {{sortdate|16 Aug 1952}} || {{sortdate|20 Jun 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Louis|Andriessen}} || File:Louis Andriessen, Bestanddeelnr 932-5716.jpg || {{sortdate|6 Jun 1939}} || {{sortdate|1 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Bill|Ramsey|dab=singer}} || File:Bill Ramsey by Steschke.jpg || {{sortdate|17 Apr 1931}} || {{sortdate|2 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Didi|Contractor}} || File:Didi aka Delia Narayan Contractor, H2019030865834 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|1929}} || {{sortdate|5 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Michael|Horovitz}} || || {{sortdate|4 Apr 1935}} || {{sortdate|7 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Esther|Béjarano}} || File:2018-01-27 - Ester Bejarano - 3080.jpg || {{sortdate|15 Dec 1924}} || {{sortdate|10 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Heribert|Beissel}} || File:Klassische Philharmonie Bonn 2011.jpg || {{sortdate|27 Mar 1933}} || {{sortdate|11 Jun 2021}} || {{sortdate|15 Sep 2021}} ... that the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn (pictured), a symphony orchestra founded and conducted by Heribert Beissel, has a tradition of playing a concert series at more than ten major halls of Germany? (new)

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| {{sortname|Hans|Drewanz}} || || {{sortdate|2 Dec 1929}} || {{sortdate|22 Jun 2021}} || {{sortdate|17 Sep 2021}} ... that when conductor Hans Drewanz, a personal assistant to Georg Solti at the Oper Frankfurt, became Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt, he was the youngest GMD in Germany?

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| {{sortname|Jean|Kraft}} || || {{sortdate|9 Jan 1927}} || {{sortdate|15 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Alfred|Biolek}} || File:Alfred Biolek by Stuart Mentiply.jpg || {{sortdate|10 Jul 1934}} || {{sortdate|23 Jul 2021}} || {{sortdate|29 Aug 2021}} ... that in Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek (pictured) in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance? (new)

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| {{sortname|Herbert|Köfer}} || File:Herbert Köfer 2008 (aka).jpg || {{sortdate|17 Feb 1921}} || {{sortdate|24 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ben|Wagin}} || || {{sortdate|25 Mar 1930}} || {{sortdate|28 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Martin|Perscheid}} || File:CCXP Cologne 2019 Artists' Alley Martin Perscheid 2.jpg || {{sortdate|16 Feb 1966}} || {{sortdate|31 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jerzy|Matuszkiewicz}} || File:Jerzy Matuszkiewicz 2.jpg || {{sortdate|10 Apr 1928}} || {{sortdate|31 Jul 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Kazimierz|Kowalski}} || || {{sortdate|30 Jul 1951}} || {{sortdate|1 Aug 2021}} || {{sortdate|26 Aug 2021}} ... that when bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski was general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź, Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor was broadcast worldwide?

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| {{sortname|Karl Heinz|Bohrer}} || || {{sortdate|26 Sep 1932}} || {{sortdate|4 Aug 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Peter|Fleischmann}} || File:Peter Fleischmann at Deutsches Filminstitut, gesturing.jpg || {{sortdate|26 Jul 1937}} || {{sortdate|11 Aug 2021}} || {{sortdate|14 Sep 2011}} ... that Peter Fleischmann directed the cult film The Hamburg Syndrome, that foresaw a similar scenario to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as 1979?

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| {{sortname|Kurt|Biedenkopf}} || File:Biedenkopf Geburtstag - a100129 122935TWK - Portrait.jpg || {{sortdate|28 Jan 1930}} || {{sortdate|12 Aug 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Franz Josef|Altenburg}} || || {{sortdate|15 Mar 1941}} || {{sortdate|18 Aug 2021}} || {{sortdate|9 Sep 2021}} ... that the ceramicist Franz Josef Altenburg was honoured with an exhibition of his art at Austria's Kaiservilla where he was born?

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| {{sortname|Gunilla|Bergström}} || File:Gunilla Bergström 01.JPG || {{sortdate|3 Jul 1942}} || {{sortdate|25 Aug 2021}} || {{sortdate|30 Jan 2010}} ... that the Alfie Atkins children's book series by Swedish author Gunilla Bergström has been translated into twenty-nine different languages and sold over eight million copies worldwide?

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| {{sortname|Siegfried|Matthus}} || || {{sortdate|13 Apr 1939}} || {{sortdate|27 Aug 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Teresa|Żylis-Gara}} || File:Teresa Zylis Gara (cropped).png || {{sortdate|23 Jan 1930}} || {{sortdate|28 Aug 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gerhard|Erber}} || || {{sortdate|21 Nov 1934}} || {{sortdate|4 Sep 2021}} || {{sortdate|19 Jul 2020}} ... that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain?

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| {{sortname|Amanda|Holden|dab=writer}} || || {{sortdate|19 Jan 1948}} || {{sortdate|9 Sep 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jean-Paul|Jeannotte}} || || {{sortdate|9 Mar 1926}} || {{sortdate|9 Sep 2021}} || {{sortdate|25 Sep 2021}} ... that Jean-Paul Jeannotte, founder and first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal, performed the role of Bobino more than 100 times, in the premiere on CBC TV and on stages on a Canada tour? (new)

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| {{sortname|Norman|Bailey|dab=bass-baritone}} || || {{sortdate|23 Mar 1933}} || {{sortdate|15 Sep 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Sylvano|Bussotti}} || || {{sortdate|1 Oct 1931}} || {{sortdate|19 Sep 2021}} || {{sortdate|24 Oct 2021}} ... that the title of La Passion selon Sade, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti, caused a scandal at its premiere and had to be changed for the next performance? (new)

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| {{sortname|András|Ligeti}} || || {{sortdate|5 Aug 1953}} || {{sortdate|19 Sep 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Karan|Armstrong}} || File:Karan Armstrong 1974.JPG || {{sortdate|14 Dec 1941}} || {{sortdate|28 Sep 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Eberhard|Jüngel}} || || {{sortdate|5 Dec 1934}} || {{sortdate|28 Sep 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Carlisle|Floyd}} || File:Carlisle Floyd with National Medal of Arts award.jpg || {{sortdate|11 Jun 1926}} || {{sortdate|30 Sep 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Eberhard|Panitz}} || File:PortraitEpanitz1962 1.jpg || {{sortdate|16 Apr 1932}} || {{sortdate|1 Oct 2021}} || {{sortdate|28 Oct 2021}} ... that Eberhard Panitz wrote his novel, My Father's Tram, with autobiographic elements around his father—a tram conductor in Dresden?

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| {{sortname|Mordechai|Geldman}} || File:Z21. מרדכי גלדמן - תמונה.JPG || {{sortdate|16 Apr 1946}} || {{sortdate|8 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Evelyn|Richter}} || || {{sortdate|31 Jan 1930}} || {{sortdate|10 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Luis de|Pablo}} || File:Luis de Pablo.jpg || {{sortdate|28 Jan 1930}} || {{sortdate|10 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gerd|Ruge}} || File:Gerd-Ruge.jpg || {{sortdate|9 Aug 1928}} || {{sortdate|15 Oct 2021}} || {{sortdate|15 Nov 2021}} ... that German reporter Gerd Ruge received a twelve year entry ban to the Soviet Union for having helped Russian author Boris Pasternak financially?

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| {{sortname|Edita|Gruberová}} || File:2013 Edita Gruberová (8728833715).jpg || {{sortdate|23 Dec 1946}} || {{sortdate|18 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hans|Haselböck}} || File:2018-X20 Hans Haselböck.jpg || {{sortdate|26 Jul 1928}} || {{sortdate|20 Oct 2021}} || {{sortdate|4 Nov 2021}} ... that Hans Haselböck (pictured), later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy, began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, on 4 November 1949?

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| {{sortname|Bernard|Haitink}} || File:Bernard Haitink 1984b.jpg || {{sortdate|4 Mar 1929}} || {{sortdate|21 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Udo|Zimmermann}} || File:Udo Zimmermann.jpg || {{sortdate|6 Oct 1943}} || {{sortdate|22 Oct 2021}} || {{sortdate|19 Nov 2018}} ... that Udo Zimmermann composed two operas about the resistance group White Rose, one while he was a student?

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| {{sortname|Alfredo|Diez Nieto}} || || {{sortdate|25 Oct 1918}} || {{sortdate|25 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Nelson|Freire}} || || {{sortdate|18 Oct 1944}} || {{sortdate|31 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Doğan Akhanlı|}} || File:Pressegespräch mit Dogan Akhanli, Oktober 2017-3615.jpg || {{sortdate|18 Mar 1957}} || {{sortdate|31 Oct 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Aga|Mikolaj}} || || {{sortdate|7 Mar 1971}} || {{sortdate|11 Nov 2021}} || {{sortdate|18 Apr 2021}} ... that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"?

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| {{sortname|Hermann|Bausinger}} || File:Hermann Bausinger im Literaturhaus Heilbronn.jpg || {{sortdate|17 Sep 1926}} || {{sortdate|24 Nov 2021}} || {{sortdate|20 Dec 2021}} ... that the cultural scholar Hermann Bausinger wrote a book about the history of literature from Swabia from the 18th century to the present, published for his 90th birthday?

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| {{sortname|Dieter B.|Herrmann}} || File:Dieter B. Herrmann (2015).jpg || {{sortdate|3 Jan 1939}} || {{sortdate|25 Nov 2021}} ||

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| {{sortname|Rudolf|Pohl}} || || {{sortdate|5 Nov 1924}} || {{sortdate|1 Dec 2021}} || {{sortdate|1 Jan 2022}} ... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s? (new)

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| {{sortname|Christine|Haidegger}} || File:Christine Haidegger A.JPG || {{sortdate|27 Feb 1942}} || {{sortdate|5 Dec 2021}} || {{sortdate|15 Jan 2022}} ... that the novel Mama Dear by Christine Haidegger (pictured) details her childhood in post–World War II Austria?

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| {{sortname|Günther|Rühle}} || || {{sortdate|3 Jun 1924}} || {{sortdate|10 Dec 2021}} || {{sortdate|20 Dec 2021}} ... that Günther Rühle wrote two books covering the history of theatre in Germany, its events and its people, from 1887 to 1966? (new)

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| {{sortname|Stefan|Keil}} || || {{sortdate|20 Mar 1958}} || {{sortdate|16 Dec 2021}} || {{sortdate|7 Jan 2022}} ... that when Stefan Keil moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia, as the German consul general, one of his first appearances was at the European Christmas market, dressed as Saint Nicholas? (new)

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| {{sortname|George Alexander|Albrecht}} || || {{sortdate|15 Feb 1935}} || {{sortdate|21 Dec 2021}} || {{sortdate|9 Jan 2022}} ... that in Die Schneekönigin, an opera for children by George Alexander Albrecht after Andersen's "The Snow Queen", members of a children's choir play the roles of birds and ice crystals?
... that after George Alexander Albrecht collapsed when conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony during a New Year's concert, he returned to composing and began hospice work? (new)

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| {{sortname|Gwendolyn|Killebrew}} || || {{sortdate|26 Aug 1941}} || {{sortdate|24 Dec 2021}} || {{sortdate|31 Mar 2014}} ... that soon after starting her career at the Met, Gwendolyn Killebrew appeared as a valkyrie in Wagner's Die Walküre in a live broadcast alongside Birgit Nilsson in the title role?

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| {{sortname|Herbert|Achternbusch}} || File:Herbert Achternbusch 8252.jpg || {{sortdate|23 Nov 1938}} || {{sortdate|10 Jan 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Erwin|Eisch}} || File:Erwin Eisch in 2008.jpg || {{sortdate|18 Apr 1927}} || {{sortdate|25 Jan 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Heinz Werner|Zimmermann}} || || {{sortdate|11 Aug 1930}} || {{sortdate|25 Jan 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Georg Christoph|Biller}} || File:Georg Christoph Biller Ankündigung Benefizkonzert 01.jpg || {{sortdate|20 Sep 1955}} || {{sortdate|27 Jan 2022}} || {{sortdate|18 Apr 2010}} ... that Georg Christoph Biller is the Thomaskantor, the conductor of the Thomanerchor in Leipzig, the 16th successor of Johann Sebastian Bach in this position?
(new) ... that in 2002, Georg Christoph Biller and others conceived the Forum Thomanum as a new music educational campus for the Thomanerchor, Bach's choir dating back to 1212?

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| {{sortname|Hans|Neuenfels}} || File:Oliver Mark - Hans Neuenfels, Berlin 2006.jpg || {{sortdate|31 May 1941}} || {{sortdate|6 Feb 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|George|Crumb}} || File:George Crumb.jpg || {{sortdate|24 Oct 1924}} || {{sortdate|6 Feb 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Franz|Grave}} || || {{sortdate|25 Nov 1932}} || {{sortdate|19 Feb 2022}} || {{sortdate|17 Mar 2022}}... that Franz Grave, the first bishop of Essen born in Essen, focused on intercultural dialogue with Latin America? (new)

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| {{sortname|Peter|Merseburger}} || File:Peter Merseburger.jpg || {{sortdate|9 May 1928}} || {{sortdate|19 Feb 2022}} || {{sortdate|31 Mar 2022}} ... that Peter Merseburger refused to host a 1974 edition of German political TV magazine Panorama after a report by Alice Schwarzer (pictured) on an abortion was cancelled by authorities?
... that after a career as political journalist, Peter Merseburger wrote biographies of Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein and chancellor Willy Brandt? (new)

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| {{sortname|Christian|Herwartz}} || File:Christian Herwartz 2008 1 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|16 Apr 1943}} || {{sortdate|20 Feb 2022}} || {{sortdate|13 Apr 2022}} ... that Christian Herwartz, a Jesuit who lived in an open community in Berlin from 1978 to 2016, held "street exercises" and peace prayers? (new)

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| {{sortname|Antonietta|Stella}} || File:Antonietta Stella.JPG || {{sortdate|15 Mar 1929}} || {{sortdate|23 Feb 2022}} ||

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| |{{sortname|Eleonore|Schönborn}} || || {{sortdate|14 Apr 1920}} || {{sortdate|25 Feb 2022}} || {{sortdate|28 Mar 2022}} ... that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement?

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| {{sortname|Yvonne|Ciannella}} || || {{sortdate|25 Jul 1926}} || {{sortdate|1 Mar 2022}} || {{sortdate|6 Feb 2016}} ... that Yvonne Ciannella, who performed the title roles of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's Suor Angelica, recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"?

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| {{sortname|Inge|Deutschkron}} || || {{sortdate|23 Aug 1923}} || {{sortdate|9 Mar 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Maks|Levin}} || || {{sortdate|7 Jul 1981}} || {{sortdate|13 Mar 2022}} || {{sortdate|25 Apr 2022}} ... that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel{{-?}} (new)

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| |{{sortname|Oksana|Shvets}} || || {{sortdate|10 Feb 1955}} || {{sortdate|17 Mar 2022}} || {{sortdate|15 Apr 2022}} ... that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors? (new)

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| {{sortname|Artem|Datsyshyn}} || || {{sortdate|26 Jan 1979}} || {{sortdate|17 Mar 2022}} || {{sortdate|16 Apr 2022}} ... that Artem Datsyshyn, the National Opera of Ukraine's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère, is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"? (new)

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| {{sortname|Michail|Jurowski}} || || {{sortdate|25 Dec 1945}} || {{sortdate|19 Mar 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Serhiy|Kot}} || || {{sortdate|22 Jun 1958}} || {{sortdate|28 Mar 2022}} || {{sortdate|16 May 2022}} ... that Serhiy Kot was editor for Ukrainian Question, a book collection of articles about the status of Ukraine in the 1930s? (new)

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| {{sortname|Birgit|Nordin}} || || {{sortdate|22 Feb 1934}} || {{sortdate|7 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hellmuth|Matiasek}} || || {{sortdate|15 May 1931}} || {{sortdate|7 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Philippe|Boesmans}} || || {{sortdate|17 May 1936}} || {{sortdate|10 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Larysa| Khorolets}} || File:Л.Хоролець.JPG || {{sortdate|25 Aug 1948}} || {{sortdate|12 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Radu|Lupu}} || File:Radu Lupu-20120428-RM-181610.jpg || {{sortdate|30 Nov 1945}} || {{sortdate|17 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Harrison|Birtwistle}} || File:Harrison Birtwistle (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|15 Jul 1934}} || {{sortdate|17 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Renate|Holm}} || || {{sortdate|10 Aug 1931}} || {{sortdate|21 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ursula|Lehr}} || File:Prof. Dr. Ursula Lehr (cropped).jpeg || {{sortdate|5 Jun 1930}} || {{sortdate|25 Apr 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Qin|Yi}} || File:Qin Yi.jpg || {{sortdate|4 Feb 1922}} || {{sortdate|9 May 2022}} || {{sortdate|31 Mar 2015}}... that Premier Zhou Enlai called Qin Yi the most beautiful woman in China?

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| {{sortname|William|Bennett|dab=flautist|}} || || {{sortdate|7 Feb 1936}} || {{sortdate|11 May 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Teresa|Berganza}} || File:Teresa Berganza 1957.jpg || {{sortdate|16 Mar 1933}} || {{sortdate|13 May 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Klara|Höfels}} || File:Klara Höfels.jpg || {{sortdate|5 Apr 1945}} || {{sortdate|15 May 2022}} || {{sortdate|14 Jun 2022}} ... that actress Klara Höfels, known for her roles in television crime series, also produced, directed, and starred in world premieres of theatre projects in Berlin? (new)

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| {{sortname|Thomas|Resetarits}} || || {{sortdate|25 Nov 1939}} || {{sortdate|18 May 2022}} || {{sortdate|22 Jun 2022}} ... that Burgenland Croat sculptor Thomas Resetarits created Stations of the Cross (example sculpture pictured)? (new)

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| {{sortname|Horst|Sachtleben}} || || {{sortdate|24 Sep 1930}} || {{sortdate|22 May 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Victor von|Halem}} || || {{sortdate|26 Mar 1940}} || {{sortdate|28 May 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Friedrich Christian|Delius}} || File:F.C. Delius.jpg || {{sortdate|13 Feb 1943}} || {{sortdate|30 May 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Kai|Bumann}} || || {{sortdate|16 Aug 1961}} || {{sortdate|2 Jun 2022}} || {{sortdate|14 Sep 2022}} ... that the Swiss Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1969 for members from all four Swiss language regions, and meets twice a year for rehearsals and a tour program? (new)

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| {{sortname|Erasmus|Schöfer}} || File:Schoefer erasmus koeln 150608.jpg || {{sortdate|4 Jun 1931}} || {{sortdate|7 Jun 2022}} || {{sortdate|24 Jul 2022}} ... that Erasmus Schöfer chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification, in a tetralogy of novels? (news)

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| {{sortname|Christof|May}} || || {{sortdate|8 Apr 1973}} || {{sortdate|8 Jun 2022}} || (new)

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| {{sortname|Ivonne|Haza}} || || {{sortdate|15 Feb 1935}} || {{sortdate|16 Jun 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hans-Dieter|Bader}} || || {{sortdate|16 Feb 1938}} || {{sortdate|18 Jun 2022}} || {{sortdate|3 May 2016}} ... that Hans-Dieter Bader performed the title role of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly, recorded live at the Staatsoper Hannover, "as written", while Plácido Domingo had to cut and change the part?

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| {{sortname|Wilma|Schmidt}} || || {{sortdate|27 Jun 1926}} || {{sortdate|18 Jun 2022}} || {{sortdate|20 Jul 2022}} ... that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic repertoire, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier{{-?}} (new)

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| {{sortname|Kurt|Equiluz}} || || {{sortdate|13 Jun 1929}} || {{sortdate|20 Jun 2022}} || {{sortdate|10 Apr 2010}} ... that tenor Kurt Equiluz was the Evangelist in the first recording of Bach's St John Passion on period instruments with the Concentus Musicus Wien, Vienna?

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| {{sortname|Ernst|Jacobi}} || || {{sortdate|11 Jul 1933}} || {{sortdate|23 Jun 2022}} || {{sortdate|19 Jul 2022}} ... that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor?

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| {{sortname|Katja|Husen}} || File:Katja husen 2006 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|12 Jun 1976}} || {{sortdate|28 Jun 2022}} || {{sortdate|1 Aug 2022}} ... that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth, a member of the Hamburg Parliament, and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg? (new)

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| {{sortname|Richard|Taruskin}} || File:Taruskin-2014 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|2 Apr 1945}} || {{sortdate|1 Jul 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Peter|Brook}} || File:Peter Brook.JPG || {{sortdate|21 Mar 1925}} || {{sortdate|2 Jul 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Alfred|Koerppen}} || File:Alfred-Koerppen-5.jpg || {{sortdate|16 Dec 1926}} || {{sortdate|5 Jul 2022}} || {{sortdate|6 Sep 2021}} ... that Alfred Koerppen, who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover, wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil?

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| {{sortname|Hans-Joachim|Hespos}} || || {{sortdate|13 Mar 1938}} || {{sortdate|18 Jul 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Alice|Harnoncourt}} || File:Alice Harnoncourt (1980).jpg || {{sortdate|26 Sep 1930}} || {{sortdate|20 Jul 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ruslana|Pysanka}} || File:Ruslana Pysanka Feb 2015.png || {{sortdate|17 Nov 1965}} || {{sortdate|20 Jul 2022}} || {{sortdate|10 Aug 2022}} ... that Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program together with Volodymyr Zelenskyy from 2008, died as a refugee in Germany?

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| {{sortname|Stefan|Soltész}} || || {{sortdate|6 Jan 1949}} || {{sortdate|22 Jul 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Maria|Frisé}} || || {{sortdate|1 Jan 1926}} || {{sortdate|31 Jul 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Anastasiya|Kobzarenko}} || || {{sortdate|8 May 1934}} || {{sortdate|1 Aug 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Eike Christian|Hirsch}} || File:2015-03-12 Agostino Steffani Oper Lajos Rovatkay Richard Wagner-Verband Hannover (16) , Eike Christian Hirsch.JPG || {{sortdate|6 Apr 1937}} || {{sortdate|7 Aug 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Zofia|Posmysz}} || File:Zofia Posmysz (Auschwitz Nr 7566).jpg || {{sortdate|23 Aug 1923}} || {{sortdate|8 Aug 2022}} || {{sortdate|16 Mar 2018}} ... that Zofia Posmysz (pictured), Auschwitz inmate No. 7566, wrote an audio play on her memories, which became the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, a 1963 film, and a 1968 opera?

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| {{sortname|Jean-Jacques|Sempé}} || File:Salon du livre de Paris 2011 - Jean-Jacques Sempé - 005.jpg || {{sortdate|17 Aug 1932}} || {{sortdate|11 Aug 2022}} || {{sortdate|4 Sep 2022}} ... that The Story of Mr Sommer, a 1991 novella by Patrick Süskind with illustrations by Sempé, has been described as "a children's tale for adults"? (new)

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| {{sortname|Matti|Lehtinen}} || File:Matti-Lehtinen.jpg || {{sortdate|24 Apr 1922}} || {{sortdate|17 Aug 2022}} || {{sortdate|7 Sep 2022}} ... that Matti Lehtinen, a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy, was the voice of God at age 93? (new)

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| {{sortname|Theo|Sommer}} || File:Theo Sommer (1967).jpg || {{sortdate|10 Jun 1930}} || {{sortdate|22 Aug 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ruth|Lapide}} || || {{sortdate|1929}} || {{sortdate|30 Aug 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Lars|Vogt}} || File:Lars Vogt (2018).jpg || {{sortdate|8 Sep 1970}} || {{sortdate|5 Sep 2022}} || ... that concerts of the Spannungen festival of chamber music, founded by pianist Lars Vogt in 1998, are played in a power plant?
... that the eight original Francis turbines of Kraftwerk Heimbach (pictured), a hydro-electric power station that opened in 1905 as then the largest in Europe, served until 1974? (new)

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| {{sortname|Mariella|Mehr}} || || {{sortdate|26 Sep 1947}} || {{sortdate|5 Sep 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jörg|Faerber}} || || {{sortdate|18 Jun 1929}} || {{sortdate|13 Sep 2022}} || {{sortdate|2 Apr 2013}} ... that Jörg Faerber was the artistic director of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn for more than four decades and recorded piano concertos by Shostakovich and Haydn with Martha Argerich?

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| {{sortname|Barbara|Stamm}} || File:Barbara-stamm-csu.jpg || {{sortdate|29 Oct 1944}} || {{sortdate|5 Oct 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Leon|Schidlowsky}} || || {{sortdate|21 Jul 1931}} || {{sortdate|10 Oct 2022}} || {{sortdate|28 Dec 2022}} ... that Leon Schidlowsky wrote the Misa sine nomine in memory of Víctor Jara for speaker, choirs, organ and percussion, juxtaposing mass texts with contemporary poetry and Torah verses? (new)

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| {{sortname|Bernardo|Adam Ferrero}} || File:Bernardo adam 2.jpg || {{sortdate|28 Feb 1942}} || {{sortdate|12 Oct 2022}} || {{sortdate|4 Dec 2022}} ... that Bernardo Adam Ferrero wrote compositions such as Danzas alicantinas for Spanish civil and military bands that he conducted?

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| {{sortname|Mariana|Nicolesco}} || || {{sortdate|28 Nov 1948}} || {{sortdate|14 Oct 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Michael|Ponti}} || || {{sortdate|29 Oct 1937}} || {{sortdate|17 Oct 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Galina|Pisarenko}} || || {{sortdate|24 Jan 1934}} || {{sortdate|23 Oct 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Libor|Pešek}} || File:Libor Pešek (2019).jpg || {{sortdate|22 Jun 1933}} || {{sortdate|23 Oct 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Pierre|Soulages}} || File:655446-artiste-pierre-soulages (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|24 Dec 1919}} || {{sortdate|26 Oct 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hannah|Pick-Goslar}} || || {{sortdate|12 Nov 1928}} || {{sortdate|28 Oct 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Werner|Schulz}} || File:Flickr - boellstiftung - Strategiedebatte (5).jpg || {{sortdate|22 Jan 1950}} || {{sortdate|9 Nov 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Wolf|Schneider}} || File:Wolf Schneider 2437.jpg || {{sortdate|7 May 1925}} || {{sortdate|10 Nov 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Azio|Corghi}} || || {{sortdate|9 Mar 1937}} || {{sortdate|17 Nov 2022}} || {{sortdate|17 Dec 2022}} ... that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster?

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| {{sortname|Ned|Rorem}} || || {{sortdate|23 Oct 1923}} || {{sortdate|18 Nov 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Michael|Hampe}} || || {{sortdate|3 Jun 1935}} || {{sortdate|18 Nov 2022}} || {{sortdate|11 Apr 2021}} ... that Michael Hampe, who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival?

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| {{sortname|Hans Magnus|Enzensberger}} || File:Hans Magnus Enzensberger (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|11 Nov 1929}} || {{sortdate|24 Nov 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jens|Bullerjahn}} || File:Jens Bullerjahn (Martin Rulsch) 2.jpg || {{sortdate|15 Jul 1962}} || {{sortdate|26 Nov 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Christiane|Hörbiger}} || File:Christiane Hörbiger, ROMY 2009 a.jpg || {{sortdate|13 Oct 1938}} || {{sortdate|30 Nov 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Volodymyr|Kozhukhar}} || || {{sortdate|16 Mar 1941}} || {{sortdate|3 Dec 2022}} || {{sortdate|12 Jan 2023}} ... that Volodymyr Kozhukhar, chief conductor of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, led Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba and Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite?

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| {{sortname|Quentin Oliver|Lee}} || || {{sortdate|28 Jan 1988}} || {{sortdate|1 Dec 2022}} || {{sortdate|30 Dec 2022}} ... that Quentin Oliver Lee landed a title role in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway after a casting agent had spotted him singing in a subway station?

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| {{sortname|Wolf|Erlbruch}} || || {{sortdate|30 Jun 1948}} || {{sortdate|11 Dec 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Werner|Leich}} || || {{sortdate|31 Jan 1927}} || {{sortdate|17 Dec 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Dieter|Henrich}} || || {{sortdate|5 Jan 1927}} || {{sortdate|17 Dec 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Wim|Henderickx}} || || {{sortdate|17 Mar 1962}} || {{sortdate|18 Dec 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Manfred|Messerschmidt}} || || {{sortdate|1 Oct 1926}} || {{sortdate|19 Dec 2022}} ||

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| Pope Benedict XVI || File:Papst Benedikt XVI in Berlin 2011.jpg || {{sortdate|16 Apr 1927}} || {{sortdate|31 Dec 2022}} ||

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| {{sortname|Kurt|Horres}} || || {{sortdate|28 Nov 1932}} || {{sortdate|2 Jan 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Andrew|Downes|dab=composer}} || || {{sortdate|20 Aug 1950}} || {{sortdate|2 Jan 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Rosi|Mittermaier}} || File:Rosi Mittermaier 2 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|5 Aug 1950}} || {{sortdate|4 Jan 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Siegfried|Kurz}} || || {{sortdate|18 Jul 1930}} || {{sortdate|8 Jan 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hans|Krieger}} || || {{sortdate|13 Mar 1933}} || {{sortdate|9 Jan 2023}} || {{sortdate|4 Dec 2011}} ... that Hans Krieger, an award-winning German essayist, influential in papers such as Die Zeit, wrote the text for a Christmas cantata by Graham Waterhouse that premieres today?

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| {{sortname|Lothar|Blumhagen}} || || {{sortdate|16 Jul 1927}} || {{sortdate|10 Jan 2013}} ||

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| {{sortname|José|Evangelista}} || || {{sortdate|5 Aug 1943}} || {{sortdate|10 Jan 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Carl|Hahn}} || || {{sortdate|1 Jul 1926}} || {{sortdate|14 Jan 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Clytus|Gottwald}} || || {{sortdate|20 Nov 1925}} || {{sortdate|18 Jan 2023}} || {{sortdate|19 Jul 2012}} ... that Clytus Gottwald has arranged compositions for an a cappella group of up to 16 voices, re-creating them "in a magical choral world"?

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| {{sortname|Melitta|Muszely}} || File:Melitta Muszely "Tales of Hoffmann", Komische Oper Berlin (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|13 Sep 1927}} || {{sortdate|18 Jan 2023}} || {{sortdate|19 Mar 2019}} ... that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80?

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| {{sortname|Gero|Storjohann}} || File:Gero Storjohann.jpg || {{sortdate|12 Feb 1958}} || {{sortdate|29 Jan 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jürgen|Flimm}} || || {{sortdate|17 July 1941}} || {{sortdate|4 Feb 2023}}

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| {{sortname|Friedrich|Cerha}} || File:Friedrich Cerha 2006.jpg || {{sortdate|17 Feb 1926}} || {{sortdate|14 Feb 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Nadja|Tiller}} || File:Nadja Tiller (2009).jpg || {{sortdate|16 Mar 1929}} || {{sortdate|21 Feb 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Günther von|Lojewski}} || || {{sortdate|11 Jul 1935}} || {{sortdate|26 Feb 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Mary|Bauermeister}} || File:Mary Bauermeister 2012.jpg || {{sortdate|7 Sep 1934}} || {{sortdate|2 Mar 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Heinz|Schwarz}} || || {{sortdate|24 Jul 1928}} || {{sortdate|6 Mar 2023}} || {{sortdate|27 Apr 2023}} ... that Heinz Schwarz attended all CDU party conventions from the first ever in 1950 to 2020?

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| {{sortname|Marek|Kopelent}} || || {{sortdate|28 Apr 1932}} || {{sortdate|12 Mar 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Antje|Vollmer}} || File:Antje Vollmer (8592931976).jpg || {{sortdate|31 May 1941}} || {{sortdate|15 Mar 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|James|Bowman|dab=countertenor}} || || {{sortdate|6 Nov 1941}} || {{sortdate|27 Mar 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Horst|Milde}} || || {{sortdate|6 Apr 1923}} || {{sortdate|29 Mar 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Andreas K. W.|Meyer}} || || {{sortdate|2 Jun 1958}} || {{sortdate|8 Apr 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Huub|Oosterhuis}} || File:Huub Oosterhuis Portrait.jpg || {{sortdate|1 Nov 1933}} || {{sortdate|9 Apr 2023}} || {{sortdate|7 Sep 2019}} ... that the melody of the Christian hymn "Ik sta voor U in leegte en gemis" is written without bar lines, reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions?
... that the 1965 song "Wie als een God wil leven" written by Huub Oosterhuis was listed in 2013 among hymns in German successful with young people?

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| {{sortname|Karl|Berger}} || || {{sortdate|30 Mar 1935}} || {{sortdate|9 Apr 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Irma|Blank}} || File:Irma Blank cr.jpg || {{sortdate|1934}} || {{sortdate|14 Apr 2023}} || (new) {{sortdate|21 May 2023}} ... that the art of Irma Blank (pictured), of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?

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| {{sortname|Martin|Petzold}} || || {{sortdate|25 Jun 1955}} || {{sortdate|19 Apr 2023}} || {{sortdate|13 Sep 2012}} ... that tenor Martin Petzold, a former member of the boys' choir Thomanerchor, sang Bach's Evangelist parts with the group?

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| {{sortname|Sergio|Rendine}} || || {{sortdate|7 Sep 1954}} || {{sortdate|21 Apr 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Manfred|Weiss|dab=composer}} || || {{sortdate|12 Feb 1935}} || {{sortdate|25 Apr 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Menahem|Pressler}} || File:Menahem Pressler 2009 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|16 Dec 1936}} || {{sortdate|6 May 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Grace|Bumbry}} || File:Grace Bumbry 2009.jpg || {{sortdate|4 Jan 1937}} || {{sortdate|7 May 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Soňa|Červená}}15px || File:Soňa-Červená2012d.jpg || {{sortdate|9 Sep 1925}} || {{sortdate|7 May 2023}} || {{sortdate|29 Jun 2023}} ... that international opera singer Soňa Červená (pictured) won the Alfréd Radok Award for Best Actress at age 83?

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| {{sortname|Günter|Wewel}} || || {{sortdate|29 Nov 1934}} || {{sortdate|9 May 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Sibylle|Lewitscharoff}} || File:Sibylle Lewitscharoff-KS01.jpg || {{sortdate|16 Apr 1954}} || {{sortdate|13 May 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Maria|Mies}}15px || || {{sortdate|6 Feb 1931}} || {{sortdate|15 May 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Javier|Álvarez|dab=composer}} || File:Javier Álvarez Fuentes.jpeg || {{sortdate|8 May 1956}} || {{sortdate|23 May 2023}} ||

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| |{{sortname|Mordechai|Rechtman}} || File:Israel Philharmonic OrchestraDSCN1981.JPG || {{sortdate|16 May 1926}} || {{sortdate|27 May 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Harald zur|Hausen}} || File:Harald zur Hausen 03.jpg || {{sortdate|11 Mar 1936}} || {{sortdate|29 May 2023}} || {{sortdate|13 Oct 2008}} ... that virologist Harald zur Hausen is recipient of both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008?

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| {{sortname|Kurt|Widmer}} || || {{sortdate|28 Dec 1940}} || {{sortdate|31 May 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Françoise|Gilot}} || File:Françoise Gilot.jpg || {{sortdate|26 Nov 1921}} || {{sortdate|6 Jun 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Suna|Kan}} || || {{sortdate|21 Oct 1936}} || {{sortdate|11 Jun 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Cornel|Țăranu}} || || {{sortdate|20 Jun 1934}} || {{sortdate|18 Jun 2023}} || (new) that Romanian musicologist Cornel Țăranu completed unfinished scores by George Enescu, namely those which Enescu himself did not wish to publish?

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| {{sortname|Bernd|Schroeder}} || File:Elke Heidenreich + Bernd Schroeder auf dem Blauen Sofa (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|6 Jun 1944}} || {{sortdate|18 Jun 2023}} || {{sortdate|28 Feb 2020}} ... that Alte Liebe (Old Love) is a novel about a couple married for 40 years, told by a couple married longer but separated, with chapters written alternately by wife and husband?

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| {{sortname|Gabriele|Schnaut}}15px || || {{sortdate|24 Feb 1951}} || {{sortdate|19 Jun 2023}} || {{sortdate|17 Dec 2013}} ... that Gabriele Schnaut recorded alto parts in Bach cantatas in the 1970s, and appeared as Waltraute and Second Norne in the Jahrhundertring film in 1980, as Isolde in 1985, and as Turandot in 2002?

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| {{sortname|Doris|Stockhausen}} || || {{sortdate|28 Feb 1924}} || {{sortdate|20 Jun 2023}} || {{sortdate|28 Feb 2021}} ... that Doris Stockhausen{{`s}} husband}} dedicated several compositions to her, beginning with Chöre für Doris in 1950 before they married?

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| {{sortname|Peter|Brötzmann}} || File:Peter Broetzmann 05N2754.jpg || {{sortdate|6 Mar 1941}} || {{sortdate|22 Jun 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Rachel|Yakar}}15px || || {{sortdate|3 Mar 1936}} || {{sortdate|24 Jun 2023}} || {{sortdate|17 Nov 2023}} ... that soprano Rachel Yakar, who received international attention in 1977 as Poppea with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, was also described as an "ideal" Mélisande and "a Mozartian at heart and in style"?

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| {{sortname|Clarence|Barlow}} || File:Clarence Barlow.jpg || {{sortdate|27 Dec 1945}} || {{sortdate|29 Jun 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Anthony|Gilbert|dab=composer}} || || {{sortdate|26 Jul 1934}} || {{sortdate|5 Jul 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Graham|Clark|dab=tenor}}15px || || {{sortdate|10 Nov 1941}} || {{sortdate|6 Jul 2023}} || {{sortdate|17 Sep 2023}} ... that the tenor Graham Clark appeared at the Bayreuth Festival in 16 seasons, portraying the characters Loge and Mime in the 1988 Ring cycle?

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| {{sortname|Violeta|Hemsy de Gainza}} || File:Violeta Hemsy de Ganza - pianist 01a.jpg || {{sortdate|25 Jan 1929}} || {{sortdate|7 Jul 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ernst-Ludwig|Petrowsky}} || File:Ernst-ludwig petrowsky jazzsaxofonist berlin jazzclub aufsturz 170206 01.jpg || {{sortdate|10 Dec 1933}} || {{sortdate|10 Jul 2023}} || {{sortdate|27 Jul 2023}} ... that in 1973 Luten Petrowsky (pictured) played the saxophone in a quartet that made the first record with jazz musicians from both East and West Germany?

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| {{sortname|Christian|Quadflieg}} || File:5183a Christian Quadflieg.JPG || {{sortdate|11 Apr 1945}} || {{sortdate|16 Jul 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Valentin|Gheorghiu}} || || {{sortdate|21 Mar 1928}} || {{sortdate|17 Jul 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Heide|Simonis}} || File:Heide Simonis.jpg || {{sortdate|4 Jul 1943}} || {{sortdate|12 Jul 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Silvana|Lattmann}} || File:SilvanaLattmann.png || {{sortdate|8 Nov 1918}} || {{sortdate|19 Jul 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Martin|Walser}} || File:Martin Walser Frankfurter Buchmesse 2013 1.JPG || {{sortdate|24 Mar 1927}} || {{sortdate|28 Jul 2023}} ||

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| |{{sortname|Nancy Van de|Vate}} || || {{sortdate|30 Dec 1930}} || {{sortdate|29 Jul 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Mariana|Sîrbu}} || File:Mariana Sîrbu in 1970.png || {{hs|1948}} 1948 or 1949 || {{sortdate|1 Aug 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hélène|Carrère d'Encausse}} || File:Hélène Carrère d’Encausse par Claude Truong-Ngoc sept 2013.jpg || {{sortdate|30 Jul 1929}} || {{sortdate|5 Aug 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Renata|Scotto}} || File:Renata Scotto 1967.jpg || {{sortdate|24 Feb 1934}} || {{sortdate|16 Aug 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Berit|Lindholm}}15px || File:Lindholm Portrait2.jpg || {{sortdate|18 Oct 1934}} || {{sortdate|12 Aug 2023}} || {{sortdate|30 Aug 2023}}

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| {{sortname|Gloria|Coates}} || File:Maximiliano de Brito, Gloria Coates, Renato Mismetti, in Bayreuth (cropped) (1a).jpg || {{sortdate|10 Oct 1933}} || {{sortdate|19 Aug 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Robert|Hale|dab=bass-baritone}} || || {{sortdate|22 Aug 1933}} || {{sortdate|23 Aug 2023}} || {{sortdate|14 Oct 2023}} ... that when Robert Hale performed as Wagner's Wotan in Washington, a reviewer noted that he commanded "the spirit, from tragic grandeur to ironic detachment, from flooding tenderness to grim rage"?

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| {{sortname|Milka|Stojanović}} || || {{sortdate|13 Jan 1937}} || {{sortdate|1 Sep 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Walter|Arlen}} || || {{sortdate|31 Jul 1920}} || {{sortdate|2 Sep 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Anatol|Ugorski}} || || {{sortdate|28 Sep 1942}} || {{sortdate|5 Sep 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Margherita|Rinaldi}} || File:Margherita Rinaldi.jpg || {{sortdate|12 Jan 1935}} || {{sortdate|7 Sep 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Stephen|Gould|dab=tenor}}15px || File:Stephen Gould, Ensaio Tristán e Isolda, Palacio da ópera, A Coruña (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|24 Jan 1962}} || {{sortdate|19 Sep 2023}} || {{sortdate|7 Feb 2024}} ... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?

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| {{sortname|Felix|Ayo}} || || {{sortdate|1 Jul 1933}} || {{sortdate|24 Sep 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|François|Glorieux}} || || {{sortdate|27 Aug 1932}} || {{sortdate|23 Sep 2023}} || {{sortdate|29 Nov 2023}} (new) ... that François Glorieux was a Belgian pianist and improvisor, conductor of the BBC Radio Orchestra and Stan Kenton's band, and arranger for Michael Jackson?

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| {{sortname|Russell|Sherman}} || || {{sortdate|25 Mar 1930}} || {{sortdate|30 Sep 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Claus|Wisser}} || || {{sortdate|30 Jun 1942}} || {{sortdate|4 Oct 2023}} || {{sortdate|30 Jun 1918}} ... that Claus Wisser founded the services company Wisag, and co-founded the Rheingau Musik Festival which staged a concert of Orff's Carmina Burana for his 60th birthday?

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| {{sortname|Jacqueline|Dark}} || || {{sortdate|1967}} || {{sortdate|4 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Maurice|Bourgue}} || || {{sortdate|6 Nov 1939}} || {{sortdate|6 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Reiner|Goldberg}} || || {{sortdate|17 Oct 1939}} || {{sortdate|7 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jorge|Lavelli}} || || {{sortdate|11 Nov 1932}} || {{sortdate|9 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hatto|Beyerle}} || || {{sortdate|20 Jun 1933}} || {{sortdate|15 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Carmen|Petra Basacopol}} || File:Carmen Petra Basacopol in 1970.png || {{sortdate|5 Sep 1926}} || {{sortdate|15 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Carla|Bley}} || File:Carla Bley KK.jpg || {{sortdate|11 May 1936}} || {{sortdate|17 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|István|Láng}} || || {{sortdate|1 Mar 1933}} || {{sortdate|23 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Zdeněk|Mácal}} || File:Zdeněk Mácal 1982 Bamberg-19820424-RM-103444 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|8 Jan 1936}} || {{sortdate|25 Oct 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Lea|Ackermann}} || File:Lea Ackermann 2012-04-13 (cropped).JPG || {{sortdate|2 Feb 1937}} || {{sortdate|31 Oct 2023}} || {{sortdate|23 Nov 2023}} ... that Lea Ackermann (pictured), a German nun of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, fought against forced prostitution and sex tourism in East Africa?

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| {{sortname|Ryland|Davies}} || || {{sortdate|9 Feb 1943}} || {{sortdate|5 Nov 2023}} || {{sortdate|9 Jan 2024}} ... that a 1974 recording of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Ryland Davies as Ferrando was used in a 1995 film by the Salzburg Marionette Theatre?

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| {{sortname|Harald|Heckmann}} || || {{sortdate|6 Dec 1924}} || {{sortdate|5 Nov 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Claude|Kahn}} || File:Claude Kahn en 2015 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|9 Nov 1935}} || {{sortdate|17 Nov 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Colette|Maze}} || || {{sortdate|16 Jun 1914}} || {{sortdate|19 Nov 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Douglas|Ahlstedt}} || || {{sortdate|16 Mar 1945}} || {{sortdate|24 Nov 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Medea|Amiranashvili}} || || {{sortdate|10 Oct 1935}} || {{sortdate|2 Dec 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Wolfgang|Wieland}} || || {{sortdate|16 Mar 1948}} || {{sortdate|5 Dec 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gunther|Emmerlich}} || File:Gunther Emmerlich (2015).png || {{sortdate|18 Sep 1944}} || {{sortdate|19 Dec 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Rebekka|Habermas}} || File:Rebekka Habermas010.JPG || {{sortdate|3 Jul 1959}} || {{sortdate|21 Dec 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Heike|Matthiesen}} || File:Heike Matthiesen.jpg || {{sortdate|27 Jun 1964}} || {{sortdate|22 Dec 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hermann|Baumann|dab=musician}} || File:Hermann Baumann 1984.jpg || {{sortdate|1 Aug 1934}} || {{sortdate|29 Dec 2023}} ||

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| {{sortname|Chris|Karrer}} || || {{sortdate|20 Jan 1946}} || {{sortdate|2 Jan 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Tamara|Milashkina}} || File:RIAN archive 855343 Viktor Nechipaylo and Tamara Milashkina in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff opera (cropped 1).jpg || {{sortdate|13 Sep 1934}} || {{sortdate|10 Jan 2024}} || {{sortdate|23 Apr 2013}} ... that the Soviet soprano Tamara Milashkina performed Tchaikowsky operas alongside her husband Vladimir Atlantov at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1975?

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| {{sortname|Romuald|Twardowski}} || File:Romuald Twardowski.jpg || {{sortdate|17 Jun 1930}} || {{sortdate|13 Jan 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gerd|Uecker}} || || {{sortdate|15 Sep 1946}} || {{sortdate|17 Jan 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ewa|Podleś}} || File:Ewa Podleś.jpg || {{sortdate|26 Apr 1952}} || {{sortdate|19 Jan 2024}}

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| {{sortname|Oskar|Negt}} || File:Oskar Negt2.jpg || {{sortdate|1 Aug 1934}} || {{sortdate|2 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Helga|Paris}} || File:Helga Paris 2012.jpg || {{sortdate|21 May 1938}} || {{sortdate|5 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Seiji|Ozawa}} || File:Seiji Ozawa 1963.jpg || {{sortdate|1 Sep 1935}} || {{sortdate|6 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Alfred|Grosser}} || File:Alfred-grosser-2010-ffm-018.jpg || {{sortdate|1 Feb 1925}} || {{sortdate|7 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Johanna von|Koczian}} || || {{sortdate|30 Oct 1933}} || {{sortdate|10 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ladislav|Burlas}} || || {{sortdate|3 Apr 1927}} || {{sortdate|11 Feb 2024}} || {{sortdate|3 Apr 2024}} ... that Ladislav Burlas, a musicologist at the Slovak Academy of Sciences for almost 40 years, wrote more than 150 works during his career?

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| {{sortname|Ira von|Fürstenberg}} || File:Ira von Fürstenberg - I Baroni cropped.png || {{sortdate|17 Apr 1940}} || {{sortdate|19 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Rudolf|Jansen}} || File:Rudolf Jansen.jpg || {{sortdate|19 Jan 1940}} || {{sortdate|12 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gabriela|Grillo}} || || {{sortdate|19 Aug 1952}} || {{sortdate|25 Feb 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Günther|Leib}} || || {{sortdate|12 Apr 1927}} || {{sortdate|3 Mar 2024}} || {{sortdate|8 Aug 2018}} ... that Günther Leib, who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival, was called a "first rate Beckmesser" by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera?

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| {{sortname|Françoise|Garner}} || || {{sortdate|17 October 1933}} || {{sortdate|7 Mar 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Guy|Touvron}} || File:Guy Touvron en concert (Valence 18-11-2017).jpg || {{sortdate|15 Feb 1950}} || {{sortdate|9 Mar 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Aribert|Reimann}} || File:Aribert Reimann.jpg || {{sortdate|4 Mar 1936}} || {{sortdate|9 Mar 2024}} || {{sortdate|22 Aug 2017}} ... that Aribert Reimann composed Medea for the Vienna State Opera, based on the drama by Franz Grillparzer?

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| {{sortname|Maurizio|Pollini}} || File:Maurizio Pollini 75.jpg || {{sortdate|5 Jan 1942}} || {{sortdate|23 Mar 2024}} || {{sortdate|24 Feb 2019}} ... that ... sofferte onde serene ... ("serene waves suffered") is a composition for piano and tape written by Luigi Nono in collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini?

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| {{sortname|Péter|Eötvös}} || File:Eötvös Péter.PNG || {{sortdate|2 Jan 1944}} || {{sortdate|24 Mar 2024}} || {{sortdate|28 Oct 2018}} ... that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors?

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| {{sortname|Judith|Hemmendinger}} || || {{sortdate|2 Oct 1922}} || {{sortdate|24 Mar 2024}} || {{sortdate|14 Dec 2016}} ... that at age 22, Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp, among them Elie Wiesel?

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| {{sortname|Hans Joachim|Meyer}} || File:Hans Joachim Meyer cautiously sharpened.jpg || {{sortdate|13 Oct 1936}} || {{sortdate|29 Mar 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Notker|Wolf}} || File:DSC 5696 b.jpg || {{sortdate|21 Jun 1940}} || {{sortdate|2 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gerhard|Lohfink}} || || {{sortdate|29 Aug 1934}} || {{sortdate|2 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Kalevi|Kiviniemi}} || File:Kalevi Kiviniemi JWiki.jpg || {{sortdate|30 Jun 1959}} || {{sortdate|3 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Joe|Viera}} || || {{sortdate|4 Sep 1932}} || {{sortdate|7 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Michael|Boder}} || || {{sortdate|9 Nov 1958}} || {{sortdate|7 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Dieter|Rexroth}} || || {{sortdate|6 May 1941}} || {{sortdate|9 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Samuel|Kummer}} || File:Samuel Kummer.jpg || {{sortdate|10 Mar 1938}} || {{sortdate|13 Apr 2024}} || {{sortdate|30 May 2024}} ... that for his first recital as the organist of the restored Frauenkirche in Dresden, Samuel Kummer chose music by Bach, Brahms, Max Reger, Louis Vierne, and Samuel Kummer?

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| {{sortname|Lorenzo|Palomo}} || File:Lorenzo Palomo.png || {{sortdate|10 Mar 1938}} || {{sortdate|13 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Andrew|Davis|dab=conductor}} || File:Andrew Davis portrait photograph (S1569 fl0160 it0006).jpg || {{sortdate|2 Feb 1944}} || {{sortdate|20 Apr 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Peter|Demetz}} || File:Peter Demetz 2012 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|21 Oct 1922}} || {{sortdate|30 Apr 2024}} || {{sortdate|5 Jun 2024}} ... that Peter Demetz, who taught German literature at Yale University from 1956 to 1991, was born in Prague where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949?

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| {{sortname|Gerhard|Müller|dab=Lutheran theologian}} || || {{sortdate|10 May 1929}} || {{sortdate|10 May 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Willi|Brokmeier}} || || {{sortdate|8 Apr 1928}} || {{sortdate|18 May 2024}} || {{sortdate|22 Sep 2021}} ... that Willi Brokmeier, who participated in the world premiere of Die Soldaten at the Cologne Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan?

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| {{sortname|Rolf-Ernst|Breuer}} || || {{sortdate|3 Nov 1937}} || {{sortdate|22 May 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hugues|Gall}} || || {{sortdate|18 Mar 1940}} || {{sortdate|25 May 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Alexander|Lang}} || || {{sortdate|24 Sep 1941}} || {{sortdate|31 May 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jürgen|Moltmann}} || File:Jürgen Moltmann im Hospitalhof Stuttgart. März 2016 (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|8 Apr 1926}} || {{sortdate|3 Jun 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Éric|Tappy}} || || {{sortdate|19 May 1931}} || {{sortdate|11 Jun 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jodie|Devos}} || || {{sortdate|10 Oct 1988}} || {{sortdate|16 Jun 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gerhard|Klingenberg}} || File:Nestroy 2010 (08) Gerhard Klingenberg (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|11 May 1929}} || {{sortdate|18 Jun 2024}} || {{sortdate|23 Jul 2024}} ... that during his tenure as the manager of Austria's Burgtheater from 1971 to 1976, Gerhard Klingenberg often directed plays with analogies of a divided Europe?

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| {{sortname|Lothar|Gall}} || || {{sortdate|3 Dec 1936}} || {{sortdate|20 Jun 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Margarita|Voites}} || File:Margarita Voites 80.jpg || {{sortdate|30 Oct 1936}} || {{sortdate|20 Jun 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Lando|Bartolini}} || || {{sortdate|11 Apr 1937}} || {{sortdate|28 Jun 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Martti|Wallén}} || || {{sortdate|20 Nov 1948}} || {{sortdate|29 Jun 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Liana|Isakadze}} || File:Liana Isakadze (1967).jpg || {{sortdate|2 Aug 1946}} || {{sortdate|5 Jul 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Marina|Kondratyeva}} || File:RIAN archive 503819 Marina Kondratyeva and Maris Liepa in scene from Giselle.jpg || {{sortdate|1 Feb 1934}} || {{sortdate|8 Jul 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Thomas|Hoepker}} || File:Thomas Hoepker (2009) by Guenter Prust.jpg || {{sortdate|10 Jun 1936}} || {{sortdate|10 Jul 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ruth|Hesse}} || || {{sortdate|18 Sep 1936}} || {{sortdate|13 Jul 2024}} || {{sortdate|2 Jun 2019}} ... that a critic at The Musical Times described Ruth Hesse{{`s}} performance as the Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten as "tirelessly ingenious"?

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| {{sortname|Sarah|Gibson|dab=composer}} || File:HOCKET duo (1).jpg || {{sortdate|21 May 1986}} || {{sortdate|14 Jul 2024}} || {{sortdate|8 Aug 2024}} ... that Sarah Gibson, who formed a piano duo with Thomas Kotcheff, composed warp & weft inspired by the art of Miriam Schapiro, to be played today by the BBC Philharmonic at The Proms?

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| {{sortname|April|Cantelo}} || || {{sortdate|2 Apr 1928}} || {{sortdate|16 Jul 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Eugene|Sârbu}} || File:Eugene Sârbu in 1970.png || {{sortdate|6 Sep 1950}} || {{sortdate|21 Jul 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jerzy|Artysz}} || || {{sortdate|18 Nov 1928}} || {{sortdate|22 Jul 2024}} || {{sortdate|28 Aug 2024}} ... that Jerzy Artysz was given a gala concert on his 70th birthday by the Chopin University of Music?

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| {{sortname|Elena|Mauti Nunziata}} || File:Mauti Nunziata (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|28 Aug 1946}} || {{sortdate|22 Jul 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Wolfgang|Rihm}} || File:Rihm Wolfgang Philharmonie koeln 0806 2007 - cropped.jpg || {{sortdate|13 Mar 1952}} || {{sortdate|27 Jul 2024}} || {{sortdate|26 Aug 2024}} ... that Wolfgang Rihm said of the music of his 1987 opera Oedipus: "Sound is a weapon here – or a scalpel?" (earlier: Die Hamletmaschine (opera), Dionysos

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| {{sortname|Jürgen|Ahrend}} || File:Jürgen Ahrend 2019.jpg || {{sortdate|28 Apr 1930}} || {{sortdate|1 Aug 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Antônio|Meneses}} || File:Capricci A. Piatti - Garda Lake Music Academy Master 2016 3-17 cropped.png || {{sortdate|23 Aug 1957}} || {{sortdate|3 Aug 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Miguel Ángel|Gómez Martínez}} || File:Miguel-angel-gomez-martinez.jpg || {{sortdate|17 Sep 1949}} || {{sortdate|4 Aug 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Kasper|König}} || File:Kasper König.jpg || {{sortdate|21 Nov 1943}} || {{sortdate|9 Aug 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Celestina|Casapietra}} || || {{sortdate|23 Aug 1938}} || {{sortdate|10 Aug 2024}} || {{sortdate|24 May 2019}} ... that Celestina Casapietra, an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera, and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s?

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| {{sortname|Maryvonne|Le Dizès}} || || {{sortdate|25 Jun 1940}} || {{sortdate|9 Aug 2024}} || {{sortdate|3 Oct 2024}} ... that Maryvonne Le Dizès commissioned a trio for saxophone, trombone and violin during her time as a violinist with the Ensemble intercontemporain?

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| {{sortname|Christof|Nel}} || || {{sortdate|7 Apr 1944}} || {{sortdate|6 Aug 2024}} || {{sortdate|10 Nov 2019}} ... that Christof Nel staged the world premiere of Thomas Brasch's play Rotter and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's opera Kullervo?

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| {{sortname|Alexander|Goehr}} || File:Composer Alexander Goehr.jpg || {{sortdate|10 Aug 1932}} || {{sortdate|26 Aug 2024}} || {{sortdate|7 Mar 2025}} ... that Alexander Goehr formed New Music Manchester, described as a "distinctive, progressive force", with Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Elgar Howarth and John Ogdon?
1 Nov 2016 ... that the opera Behold the Sun by Alexander Goehr, about the Anabaptists in Münster, was premiered in an abridged version in German, but the BBC aired it in full in English?

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| {{sortname|Friedrich|Schorlemmer}} || File:Friedrich Schorlemmer.jpg || {{sortdate|16 May 1944}} || {{sortdate|9 Sep 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Caterina|Valente}} || File:Caterina5.jpg || {{sortdate|14 Apr 1931}} || {{sortdate|9 Sep 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Beppe|Menegatti}} || File:Beppe Menegatti (3a).jpg || {{sortdate|6 Sep 1929}} || {{sortdate|17 Sep 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Benny|Golson}} || File:Benny-golson05.jpg || {{sortdate|27 Jan 1928}} || {{sortdate|21 Sep 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Norbert|Lohfink}} || || {{sortdate|28 Jul 1928}} || {{sortdate|23 Sep 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Siegfried|Lorenz|dab=baritone}} || || {{sortdate|30 Aug 1945}} || {{sortdate|24 Aug 2024}} || {{sortdate|12 Feb 2018}} ... that Siegfried Lorenz, the first lyrical baritone of the Berlin State Opera, recorded 151 songs by Schubert and sang "with an enviable control of line and dynamics", according to Alan Blyth?

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| {{sortname|Michael|Sladek}} || File:Michael Sladek (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|27 Jan 1928}} || {{sortdate|24 Sep 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Stoika|Milanova}} || || {{sortdate|5 Aug 1945}} || {{sortdate|29 Sep 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Rohan de|Saram}} || || {{sortdate|9 March 1939}} || {{sortdate|29 Sep 2024}} || {{sortdate|7 Dec 2024}} ... that cellist Rohan de Saram's background as a geta bera drummer inspired Luciano Berio's Sequenza XIV{{-?}}

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| {{sortname|Helmut|Bauer|dab=bishop}} || || {{sortdate|18 Mar 1933}} || {{sortdate|5 Oct 2024}} || {{sortdate|20 Nov 2024}} ... that Helmut Bauer confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?

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| {{sortname|Amaury du|Closel}} || || {{sortdate|6 Feb 1956}} || {{sortdate|7 Oct 2024}} || {{sortdate|25 Nov 2024}} ... that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes?

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| {{sortname|Leif|Segerstam}} || File:Leif Segerstam.jpg || {{sortdate|2 Mar 1944}} || {{sortdate|9 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Barbara|Owen|dab=organist}} || || {{sortdate|25 Jan 1933}} || {{sortdate|14 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Garbis|Aprikian}} || || {{sortdate|1926}} || {{sortdate|15 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{nowrap|{{sortname|Janusz|Olejniczak}}}} || File:Janusz-Olejniczak 2009-05-29 Adam-Bielawski.jpg || {{sortdate|2 Oct 1952}} || {{sortdate|20 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Walter|Jacob}} || || {{sortdate|13 Mar 1930}} || {{sortdate|20 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Barbara|Kolb}} || || {{sortdate|10 Feb 1939}} || {{sortdate|21 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Edzard|Reuter}} || File:21. Internationales Management-Gespräch-Edzard Reuter-HSGN 028-00882.jpg || {{sortdate|16 Feb 1928}} || {{sortdate|27 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Franz|Kamphaus}} || File:Altbischof Kamphaus.jpg || {{sortdate|2 Feb 1932}} || {{sortdate|28 Oct 2024}} || {{sortdate|2 Feb 2014}}... that Bishop Franz Kamphaus}} opposed the pope, "convinced that our way of counselling women would save the lives of many more children"?

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| {{sortname|Christine|Görner}} || || {{sortdate|15 Jun 1930}} || {{sortdate|30 Oct 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Madeleine|Riffaud}} || || {{sortdate|23 Aug 1924}} || {{sortdate|6 Nov 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Johannes|Beutler}} || || {{sortdate|3 Oct 1933}} || {{sortdate|6 Nov 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Barbara|Aland}} || File:Barbara_Aland.jpg || {{sortdate|12 Apr 1937}} || {{sortdate|10 Nov 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jürgen|Becker|dab=poet}} || || {{sortdate|10 Jul 1932}} || {{sortdate|7 Nov 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Odile|Bailleux}} || || {{sortdate|30 Dec 1939}} || {{sortdate|19 Nov 2024}} ||

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| {{nowrap|{{sortname|Marianne|Preger-Simon}}}} || || {{sortdate|6 Mar 1929}} || {{sortdate|22 Nov 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Siegfried|Thiele}} || || {{sortdate|28 Mar 1934}} || {{sortdate|24 Nov 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Michael|Ruetz}} || || {{sortdate|4 Apr 1940}} || {{sortdate|2 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Thomas|Hertel}} || || {{sortdate|1951}} || {{sortdate|9 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Wolfgang|Becker|dab=director, born 1954}} || File:MJK 71083 Wolfgang Becker (arte-Empfang, Berlinale 2020).jpg || {{sortdate|22 Jun 1954}} || {{sortdate|12 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Sigrid|Kehl}} || || {{sortdate|23 Nov 1929}} || {{sortdate|18 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Helmut|Schlesinger}} || File:Helmut Schlesinger portrait.jpg || {{sortdate|31 Feb 1985}} || {{sortdate|23 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Dada|Masilo}} || File:InfectingTheCity2012 Death&Maidens DadaMasilo SydelleWillowSmith 20120306 (45) (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|21 Feb 1985}} || {{sortdate|29 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Loretta|Di Franco}} || || {{sortdate|28 Oct 1942}} || {{sortdate|30 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Tom|Johnson|dab=composer}} || || {{sortdate|18 Nov 1939}} || {{sortdate|31 Dec 2024}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jean-Michel|Defaye}} || || {{sortdate|18 Dec 1932}} || {{sortdate|1 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Wilhelm|Brückner|dab=luthier}} || File:Geigenbauer Wilhelm Brückner.jpg || {{sortdate|30 Sep 1932}} || {{sortdate|2 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hans Dieter|Beck}} || File:Hans Dieter Beck 2022.jpg || {{sortdate|9 Apr 1932}} || {{sortdate|3 Jan 2025}} || {{sortdate|14 Feb 2025}} ... that Hans Dieter Beck (pictured), a co-head of the publisher C. H. Beck, rode a bicycle to work until he was 92?

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| {{sortname|Ayla|Erduran}} || File:Ayla Erduran (3x4 cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|22 Aug 1934}} || {{sortdate|7 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Otto|Schenk}} || File:Nestroy 2010 (06) Otto Schenk.jpg || {{sortdate|12 Jun 1930}}} || {{sortdate|9 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Walter|Deutsch}} || || {{sortdate|29 Apr 1923}} || {{sortdate|13 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Elgar|Howarth}} || File:Elgar Howarth, Halesworth, Suffolk, December 2012.jpeg || {{sortdate|4 Nov 1935}} || {{sortdate|13 Jan 2025}} || DYK with Goehr

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| {{sortname|Claire|van Kampen}} || File:Claire van Kampen at 2016 Cannes Film Festival.jpg || {{sortdate|3 Nov 1953}} || {{sortdate|18 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|André|Soltner}} || || {{sortdate|20 Nov 1932}} || {{sortdate|18 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Gabriel|Yacoub}} || File:2011-11-13 Lyon Sur scène 1 (cropped).JPG || {{sortdate|4 Feb 1952}} || {{sortdate|22 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Kazuyoshi|Akiyama}} || File:KazuyoshiAkiyama.jpg || {{sortdate|2 Jan 1941}} || {{sortdate|26 Jan 2025}} || {{sortdate|7 Mar 2025}} ... that in 1994 Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducted the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron with Japanese musicians.

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| {{sortname|Horst|Janson|dab=actor}} || File:Horst Janson by Stuart Mentiply.jpg || {{sortdate|4 Oct 1935}} || {{sortdate|28 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|İlhan|Usmanbaş}} || || {{sortdate|23 Oct 1921}} || {{sortdate|30 Jan 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Helga|de Alvear}} || File:Helga de Alvear.jpg || {{sortdate|1936}} || {{sortdate|2 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Paul|Plishka}} || || {{sortdate|28 Aug 1941}} || {{sortdate|3 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ana María|Iriarte}} || File:Iriarte-ana-maria Antonio Castro 2008.jpg || {{sortdate|23 Jun 1927}} || {{sortdate|4 Feb 2025}} || {{sortdate|17 Mar 2025}} ... that Ana María Iriarte (pictured) made her professional opera debut in 1945, retired from the stage in 1960, and created a foundation promoting zarzuela in 2006?

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| {{nowrap|{{sortname|Hans-Peter|Lehmann}}}} || File:2014-03-31 Der ehemalige Opernintendant und Regisseur Professor Hans-Peter Lehmann, Mitglied im Freundeskreis Hannover.jpg || {{sortdate|15 Dec 1934}} || {{sortdate|5 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Edith|Mathis}} || File:Edith Mathis 1969 - cropped.jpg || {{sortdate|11 Feb 1938}} || {{sortdate|9 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Maria|Tipo}} || File:Augusto De Luca - Ritratto a Maria Tipo (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|23 Dec 1931}} || {{sortdate|10 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Sigrid|Metz-Göckel}} || File:Sigrid Metz-Goeckel.01.jpg || {{sortdate|18 Aug 1940}} || {{sortdate|11 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Vladimír|Válek}} || || {{sortdate|2 Sep 1935}} || {{sortdate|16 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ilkka|Kuusisto}} || File:Ilkka Kuusisto.jpg || {{sortdate|26 Apr 1933}} || {{sortdate|20 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ricardo|Kanji}} || || {{sortdate|1 Mar 1948}} || {{sortdate|24 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Simon|Lindley}} || || {{sortdate|10 Oct 1948}} || {{sortdate|25 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ferenc|Rados}} || || {{sortdate|26 Oct 1934}} || {{sortdate|25 Feb 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Jean-Louis|Pichon}} || || {{sortdate|18 Sep 1948}} || {{sortdate|4 Mar 2025}}? ||

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| {{sortname|Edesio|Alejandro}} || || {{sortdate|28 Mar 1958}} || {{sortdate|5 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hans Peter|Korff}} || File:Hans-Peter Korff..jpg || {{sortdate|24 Aug 1942}} || {{sortdate|9 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Sofia|Gubaidulina}} || File:Sofia Gubaidulina July1981 Sortavala ©DSmirnov.jpg || {{sortdate|24 Oct 1931}} || {{sortdate|13 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Manfred|Schukowski}} || || {{sortdate|16 Jan 1928}} || {{sortdate|14 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Alan|Cuckston}} || || {{sortdate|2 Jul 1940}} || {{sortdate|22 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Ray|Barra}} || || {{sortdate|3 Jan 1930}} || {{sortdate|27 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Hans-Josef|Klauck}} || || {{sortdate|4 Jun 1946}} || {{sortdate|27 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Enrique|Bátiz}} || File:Enrique Bátiz (cropped).jpg || {{sortdate|4 May 1942}} || {{sortdate|30 Mar 2025}} ||

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| {{sortname|Barbara|Frischmuth}} || File:2013 Barbara Frischmuth (9161049774) cropped.jpg || {{sortdate|5 Jul 1941}} || {{sortdate|30 Mar 2025}} || plan

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