Elton John25 March 1947, British
Singer
Ludwig van Beethoven16 December 1770, Austrian, German
Composer
Ennio Morricone10 November 1928, Italian
Composer
Paul McCartney18 June 1942, British
Singer-songwriter
David Foster01 November 1949, Canadian
Musician
Phil Collins30 January 1951, British
Drummer
John Denver31 December 1943, American
Singer-songwriter
John Williams08 February 1932, American
Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach31 March 1685, German
Composer
Luther Vandross20 April 1951, American
Singer
Rick Rubin10 March 1963, American
Record Producer
Andrew Lloyd Webber22 March 1948, British
Composer
Frédéric Chopin01 March 1810, Polish
Composer
Bryan Adams05 November 1959, Canadian
Singer
Danny Elfman29 May 1953, American
Composer
David McCallum19 September 1933, British, American, Scottish
Actor
John Coltrane23 September 1926, American
Saxophonist, Composer
Richard Wagner22 May 1813, German
Composer, conductor, theatre director
Neil Sedaka13 March 1939, American
Singer
Bret Michaels15 March 1963, American
Singer
Stephen Sondheim22 March 1930, American
American composer
Claude Debussy22 August 1862, French
Composer
Sergei Rachmaninoff01 April 1873, American, Russian
Pianist
Franz Liszt22 October 1811, German, Hungarian
Composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Django Reinhardt23 January 1910, French
Musician
Yanni14 November 1954, Greek
Pianist, Keyboardist, Music Composer
André Previn06 April 1929, German, American
Musician
Giuseppe Garibaldi04 July 1807, Italian
Italian Nationalist
Jean-Michel Jarre24 August 1948, French
Composer
Gustav Mahler07 July 1860, Austrian
Composer
George Frideric Handel23 February 1685, German, British
Composer
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Erik Satie17 May 1866, French
Musician
Johannes Brahms07 May 1833, German
Composer and pianist
Joseph Haydn31 March 1732, Austrian
Composer
Robby Benson21 January 1956, American
Actor
Ludovico Einaudi23 November 1955, Italian
Pianist, Composer
Maurice Ravel07 March 1875, French
Composer
Jeff Richmond07 January 1961, American
Composer, Director
Dizzy Gillespie21 October 1917, American
Bandleader
Giuseppe Verdi10 October 1813, Italian
Composer
Pat Metheny12 August 1954, American
Guitarist
Sergei Prokofiev23 April 1891, Ukrainian
Composer and pianist
Edward Elgar02 June 1857, British
Composer
Giacomo Puccini22 December 1858, Belgian, Italian
Composer
Gopi Sundar30 May 1977, Indian
Music Director
Thomas McDonell02 May 1986, American
Actor
Arnold Schoenberg13 September 1874, Austrian
Composer
Aaron Copland14 November 1900, American
Composer, teacher, writer
Camille Saint-Saëns09 October 1835, French
Composer, Organist, Pianist
John Philip Sousa06 November 1854, American
Conductor, Composer
Theodor W. Adorno11 September 1903, German
Philosopher
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
Tom Fletcher17 July 1985, British
Musician
Benjamin Britten22 November 1913, British
Composer, conductor and pianist
Jean Sibelius08 December 1865, Finnish
Composer
Hiroyuki Sawano12 September 1980, Japanese
Composer
Adrian Belew23 December 1949, American
Guitarist, Singer, Composer, Songwriter
Gioachino Rossini01 March 1792, Italian
Composer
Rostam Batmanglij28 November 1983, American
Musician
Fats Waller21 May 1904, American
Jazz Pianist
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov18 March 1844, Russian
Composer
Johann Pachelbel01 September 1653, German
Composer, Organist and Teacher
Arthur Sullivan13 May 1842, British
Composer
Pete Ham27 April 1947, British
Singer
Samuel Barber09 March 1910, American
Composer
Henry Purcell10 September 1659, British
Composer
A.B. Quintanilla13 December 1963, American
Record Producer
Claudio Monteverdi15 May 1567, Italian
Composer
Georges Bizet25 October 1838, French
Composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen22 August 1928, German
Composer
Modest Mussorgsky21 March 1839, Russian
Composer
Hariprasad Chaurasia01 July 1938, Indian
Indian Classical Flautist
Gaetano Donizetti29 November 1797, Italian
Composer
Domenico Scarlatti26 October 1685, Italian
Musical Composer
Carl Orff10 July 1895, German
Composer
Anton Bruckner04 September 1824, Austrian
Composer
Kurt Weill02 March 1900, German
Composer
E. T. A. Hoffmann24 January 1776, Prussian
Author
Charles Ives20 October 1874, American
Composer
Justin Hurwitz22 January 1985, American
Composer
Goran Bregović22 March 1950, Yugoslav
Musician
Ólafur Arnalds03 November 1986, Icelander
Musician
Jean-Baptiste Lully28 November 1632, French, Italian
Composer
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina03 February 1525, Italian
Composer
Francis Poulenc07 January 1899, French
Musician
Michael Blakey08 December 1958, British
Record Producer
Paul Bowles30 December 1910, American
Writer, Music Composer
Vincenzo Bellini03 November 1801, Italian
Opera Composer
Mikhail Glinka01 June 1804, German, Russian
Composer
Alban Berg09 February 1885, Austrian
Composer
Paul Hindemith16 November 1895, German
Composer
Pablo Casals29 December 1876, Spanish
Musician
Ferruccio Busoni01 April 1866, German, Italian
Composer
Nam Woo-hyun08 February 1991, South Korean
Singer-songwriter