Ludwig van Beethoven16 December 1770, Austrian, German
Composer
Duke Ellington29 April 1899, American
Composer, Pianist and Bandleader
Fred Astaire10 May 1899, American
Dancer
Frédéric Chopin01 March 1810, Polish
Composer
Richard Wagner22 May 1813, German
Composer, conductor, theatre director
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky07 May 1840, Russian
Composer
Claude Debussy22 August 1862, French
Composer
Franz Liszt22 October 1811, German, Hungarian
Composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
George Gershwin26 September 1898, American
Composer
Cole Porter09 June 1891, American
Composer, Songwriter
Giuseppe Garibaldi04 July 1807, Italian
Italian Nationalist
Erik Satie17 May 1866, French
Musician
Johannes Brahms07 May 1833, German
Composer and pianist
Antonín Dvořák08 September 1841, Czech
Composer
Robert Schumann08 June 1810, German
Composer, Aesthete and Music Critic
Florence Foster Jenkins19 July 1868, American
Socialite
Giuseppe Verdi10 October 1813, Italian
Composer
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875, French
Composer
Jimmy Durante10 February 1893, American
Actor, Comedian, Singer, Pianist
Sergei Prokofiev23 April 1891, Ukrainian
Composer and pianist
Giacomo Puccini22 December 1858, Belgian, Italian
Composer
Scott Joplin24 November 1868, American
Composer and Pianist
Edward Elgar02 June 1857, British
Composer
Kazi Nazrul Islam24 May 1899, Bangladeshi, Indian
National Poet of Bangladesh
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835, French
Composer, Organist, Pianist
Edvard Grieg15 June 1843, Norwegian
Pianist and music composer
Jean Sibelius08 December 1865, Finnish
Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams12 October 1872, British
Composer
Stephen Foster04 July 1826, American
Composer, Lyricist
Hector Berlioz11 December 1803, French
Music Composer
John Philip Sousa06 November 1854, American
Conductor, Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov18 March 1844, Russian
Composer
Gabriel Fauré12 May 1845, French
French Composer & Pianist
Georges Bizet25 October 1838, French
Composer
Modest Mussorgsky21 March 1839, Russian
Composer
Carl Orff10 July 1895, German
Composer
Anton Bruckner04 September 1824, Austrian
Composer
Buddy Bolden06 September 1877, American
Musical Artist
Charles Ives20 October 1874, American
Composer
George M. Cohan03 July 1878, American
American playwright
Arthur Sullivan13 May 1842, British
Composer
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Percy Grainger08 July 1882, Australian, American
Musician, Composer, arranger and pianist
Nadia Boulanger16 September 1887, French
Musician
Paul Hindemith16 November 1895, German
Composer
Vincenzo Bellini03 November 1801, Italian
Opera Composer
Alban Berg09 February 1885, Austrian
Composer
Mikhail Glinka01 June 1804, German, Russian
Composer
Max Bruch06 January 1838, German
Composer and Conductor
Frederick Delius29 January 1862, British
Composer
Heitor Villa-Lobos05 March 1887, Brazilian
Latin American Composer
Charles Gounod17 June 1818, French
Composer
Manuel de Falla23 November 1876, Spanish
Classical music composer
Amy Beach05 September 1867, American
Pianist, Music Composer
Ferruccio Busoni01 April 1866, German, Italian
Composer
Hugo Wolf13 March 1860, Slovenian
Composer
Paul Dukas01 October 1865, French
Composer
Enrique Granados27 July 1867, Spanish
Pianist and Composer
Max Reger19 March 1873, German
Composer
Louis Moreau Gottschalk08 May 1829, American
Composer
Ernest Bloch24 July 1880, Swiss
Composer
Ruggero Leoncavallo23 April 1857, Italian
Composer
Edward MacDowell18 December 1860, American
Composer and Pianist
Sigmund Romberg29 July 1887, American
Composer
Silvestre Revueltas31 December 1899, Mexican
Music composer, violinist and teacher
Clara Wieck Schumann13 September 1819, German
Musician & Composer
Edgard Varese22 December 1883, American
Composer
Isaac Albeniz29 May 1860, Spanish
Pianist
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky17 June 1882, American
Composer
Zoltan Kodaly16 December 1882, Hungarian
Composer
Adolf von Henselt12 May 1814, German
Composer
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel14 November 1805, German
Musician and Composer
Aleksandr Borodin12 November 1833, Russian
Composer, Chemist
Bedrich Smetana02 March 1824, Austrian, Czech
Composer
Cesar Franck10 December 1822, French
Composer, pianist, organist and music teacher
Andres Segovia21 February 1893, Spanish
Guitarist
Carlos Chavez13 June 1899, Mexican
Composer, conductor
Teresa Carreno22 December 1853, Venezuelan
Singer, Pianist, Composer
Richard Georg Strauss11 June 1864, German
Composer
Gustavus Theodore von Holst21 September 1874, British
Composer
Cesar Cui18 January 1835, Lithuanian, Russian
Composer, Writer and Critic
Leos Janacek03 July 1854, Czech
Composer
Edmond Dédé20 November 1827, American
Violinist and Orchestra Conductor
Karl Lawrence King21 February 1891, American
Musician (Composer)
Aleksandr Scriabin06 January 1872, Russian
Russian Symbolist Composer
John Ella19 December 1802, British
Violinist
Franz Schubert31 January 1797, Austrian
Composer, Pianist
Clara Schumann13 September 1819, German
Pianist, Composer, Music educator
Richard Strauss11 June 1864, German
Composer, Conductor, Librettist, Writer
Irving Berlin11 May 1888, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Jack Frost25 November 1893, American
Composer
Ethel Waters31 October 1896, American
Actor, Singer, Jazz musician, Stage actor
Eddie Cantor31 January 1892, American
comedian
Fanny Crosby24 March 1820, American
composer, poet, singer, writer, teacher,
Jelly Roll Morton20 October 1890, American
Pianist, Bandleader, Composer, Conductor, Jazz