Władysław Szpilman (5 December 1911 – 6 July 2000) was a Polish pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent. Szpilman is widely known as the central figure in the 2002 Roman Polanski film The Pianist, which was based on Szpilman's autobiographical account of how he survived the German occupation of Warsaw and the Holocaust.
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5 December 1911 Sosnowiec, Poland
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6 July 2000 (aged 88) Warsaw, Poland
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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