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Died. Jean Sibelius, 91, world-famed Finnish composer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; near Helsinki (see Music).
Died. Ch'ih Pai-shih, 97, China's best-known contemporary painter, who took up art as a hobby while working as a carpenter, gained worldwide fame in the '20s, sold his work on commission and by the square foot (price range: 50¢-$2), and often signed his paintings with odd names: The Old Vagabond, The Disciple of Lu Pan (god of carpenters), The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only the rich have known landscapes, but every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab") in the Sung Dynasty tradition.