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November 28, 1935

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Notable Births

1935Frik du Preez, South African rugby player[†]

Frederik Christoffel Hendrik "Frik" du Preez is a former South African rugby union player.

1935Randolph Stow, Australian-English author and poet (died 2010)[†]

Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian-born writer, novelist and poet.

Notable Deaths

Erich von Hornbostel

1935Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist and scholar (born 1877)[†]

Erich Moritz von Hornbostel was an Austrian ethnomusicologist, comparative musicologist, and scholar of music. He is remembered for his pioneering work in the field of ethnomusicology, and for the Sachs–Hornbostel system of musical instrument classification which he co-authored with Curt Sachs. He is also known as the father of the "Berlin School of Ethnomusicology" in conjunction with Carl Stumpf.