Uzeyir Hajibayov

Uzeyir Hajibayov was born on September 17, 1885 in Agjabedi, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]. He was a composer and writer, known for Arshin Takes a Wife (1945), Arshin mal-alan (1937) and The Cloth Peddler (1917). He was previously married to Maleyka Khanum Teregulova. He died on November 23, 1948 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan].