The Pulitzer Prize for Music was first awarded in 1943. Joseph Pulitzer did not call for such a prize in his will, but had arranged for a music scholarship to be awarded each year. This was eventually converted into a full fledged prize.
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August 28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer
November 30 - Clyfford Still, painter
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January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and ...