# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/svend-asmussen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:41:14.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/svend-asmussen"
name: "Svend Asmussen"
slug: "svend-asmussen"
description: "Svend Asmussen was a Danish jazz violinist, known as \"The Fiddling Viking\". A Swing-style virtuoso, he played and recorded with many other notable jazz musicians, including Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli. He played publicly until 2010 when he had a blood clot, his career having spanned eight decades."
tagline: "Danish jazz violinist (1916-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Svend_Asmussen_Se.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1916-02-28"
deathDate: "2017-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.080645161290323
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump