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1934 – 2013Van Cliburn (1934-2013)Died 27 February 2013, aged 78Van Cliburn was an American pianist who won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War, becoming a celebrated cultural figure in both the US and Soviet Union. He died at his home in Texas of bone cancer.