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Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale
- Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber was born on the 22nd of March 1948 at Westminster Hospital in London. His father William worked as a composer and organist while his…
- John GielgudOn the 14th of April 1904, Sir Arthur John Gielgud was born in a house on Cromwell Road in South Kensington. He entered the world as the third child of Frank…
- Francis Ford CoppolaFrancis Ford Coppola was born on the 7th of April 1939 in Detroit, Michigan. His father Carmine worked as a flautist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra…
- Arthur MillerArthur Asher Miller was born on the 17th of October 1915 in Harlem, Manhattan. He grew up as the second child of Augusta and Isidore Miller.
- Ingmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was born on the 14th of July 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden. He grew up as the son of a Lutheran minister named Erik Bergman and his wife Karin.
- Akira KurosawaOn the 23rd of March 1910, Akira Kurosawa was born in Tokyo to a samurai family. His father Isamu worked as the director of the Army's Physical Education…
- Judi DenchJudi Dench was born in the Heworth area of York on the 9th of December 1934. Her father, Reginald Arthur Dench, practiced medicine there while her mother…
- Sofia GubaidulinaOn the 24th of October 1931, a girl named Sofia Gubaidulina was born in the city of Chistopol within the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar was born on the 7th of April 1920 in Benares, now known as Varanasi. He grew up as the youngest of seven brothers in a Bengali Hindu family.
- Alfred SchnittkeAlfred Schnittke was born in Engels on the 24th of November 1934. His family moved to Vienna in 1946 when his father received a posting there.