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Events on Monday 19 August 1929 1
1872 – 1929Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929)Died 19 August 1929, aged 57Russian impresario who founded the Ballets Russes. He commissioned landmark works from Stravinsky, Picasso and Nijinsky, and died in Venice.