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During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

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Georg Solti
Age: 84 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 21
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
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