Birthdays


1 December

1709 Birthday of Franz Xaver Richter 315 years
1729 Birthday of Giuseppe Sarti 295 years
1784 Birthday of François-Henri-Joseph Castil-Blaze 240 years
1806 Birthday of Friedrich Burgmüller 218 years
1809 Birthday of Josef Gung'l 215 years
1823 Birthday of Ernest Reyer 201 years
1847 Birthday of Agathe Backer-Grøndahl 177 years
1850 Birthday of Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller 174 years
1878 Birthday of René Jullien 146 years
1896 Birthday of Petko Staynov 128 years
1912 Birthday of Sirvart Karamanuk 112 years
1925 Birthday of Lilcho Borrisov 99 years
1927 Birthday of Richard Nanes 97 years
1937 Birthday of Gordon Crosse 87 years
1955 Birthday of Timo-Juhani Kyllönen 69 years

2 December

1578 Birthday of Agostino Antonio Agazzari 446 years
1708 Birthday of Marianus Königsperger 316 years
1856 Birthday of Robert Kajanus 168 years
1866 Birthday of Harry T. Burleigh 158 years
1868 Birthday of Stefan Jaray-Janetschek 156 years
1870 Birthday of Francis Casadesus 154 years
1874 Birthday of Johannes Hannsen 150 years
1879 Birthday of Rudolf Friml 145 years
1884 Birthday of Roger de Francmesnil 140 years
1899 Birthday of Sir John Barbirolli 125 years
1901 Birthday of Staf Nees 123 years
1908 Birthday of Werner Eisbrenner 116 years
1924 Birthday of Else Marie Pade 100 years
1935 Birthday of Jürg Wyttenbach 89 years
1937 Birthday of Katherine Hoover 87 years

3 December

1729 Birthday of Padre Antonio Soler 295 years
1750 Birthday of Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel 274 years
1787 Birthday of Heinrich Eduard Josef von Lannoy 237 years
1843 Birthday of Franz Xaver Neruda 181 years
1857 Birthday of Mathilde Kralik von Meyrswalden 167 years
1857 Birthday of Mathilde von Meyrswalden 167 years
1865 Birthday of Gustav Jenner 159 years
1883 Birthday of Anton von Webern 141 years
1889 Birthday of Cyrillus Kreek 135 years
1895 Birthday of Juri Nikolski 129 years
1898 Birthday of Lev Knipper 126 years
1908 Birthday of Halsey Stevens 116 years
1910 Birthday of Philip B. Catelinet 114 years
1911 Birthday of Nino Rota 113 years
1914 Birthday of Irving Fine 110 years
1926 Birthday of Hans Otte 98 years
1929 Birthday of Paul Harris Turok 95 years
1938 Birthday of José Serebrier 86 years
1947 Birthday of Martin Schlumpf 77 years
1952 Birthday of Elmar Lampson 72 years

4 December

1660 Birthday of André Campra 364 years
1667 Birthday of Tommaso Bernardo Gaffi 357 years
1667 Birthday of Michel Pignolet de Montéclair 357 years
1838 Birthday of Melesio Morales 186 years
1849 Birthday of Ernesto Köhler 175 years
1860 Birthday of Hannah Løvenskiold 164 years
1879 Birthday of Sir Herbert Hamilton Harty 145 years
1913 Birthday of Johann Cilenšek 111 years
1927 Birthday of John Jeffreys 97 years
1929 Birthday of Wilhelm Georg Berger 95 years
1930 Birthday of Paul Heinz Dittrich 94 years
1930 Birthday of Roman Ledeniov 94 years

5 December

1595 Birthday of Henry Lawes 429 years
1639 Birthday of Johann Christoph Pezel 385 years
1687 Birthday of Francesco Geminiani 337 years
1870 Birthday of Vítězslav Novák 154 years
1886 Birthday of Alberto Curci 138 years
1892 Birthday of Gaston Singéry 132 years
1901 Birthday of Hanns Jelinek 123 years
1911 Birthday of Władysław Szpilman 113 years
1917 Birthday of Thomas Christopher Kelly 107 years
1919 Birthday of Elliot Weisgarber 105 years
1928 Birthday of Claude Langevin 96 years
1932 Birthday of Akira Tamba 92 years
1933 Birthday of Bernard van Beurden 91 years
1939 Birthday of Frederik van Rossum 85 years
1949 Birthday of Roussi Tarmakov 75 years
1960 Birthday of Osvaldo Golijov 64 years

6 December

1550 Birthday of Oratio Tiberio Vecchi 474 years
1775 Birthday of Nicolò Isouard 249 years
1776 Birthday of Paul Struck 248 years
1872 Birthday of Mikuláš Moyzes 152 years
1881 Birthday of Robert Amson 143 years
1887 Birthday of Joseph Lamb 137 years
1895 Birthday of Henriette Hilda Bosmans 129 years
1896 Birthday of Helma Autenrieth 128 years
1897 Birthday of John Fernström 127 years
1903 Birthday of Mykola Kolessa 121 years
1919 Birthday of Gideon Klein 105 years
1920 Birthday of Dave Brubeck 104 years
1922 Birthday of Ernst Pfiffner 102 years
1927 Birthday of Jacques Bondon 97 years
1929 Birthday of Mark Kopytman 95 years
1933 Birthday of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki 91 years
1954 Birthday of Beat Furrer 70 years
1955 Birthday of Bright Sheng 69 years
1972 Birthday of Sebastian Fagerlund 52 years

7 December

1637 Birthday of Bernardo Pasquini 387 years
1648 Birthday of Giovanni Maria Capelli 376 years
1750 Birthday of Pierre-Jean Porro 274 years
1840 Birthday of Hermann Goetz 184 years
1863 Birthday of Pietro Mascagni 161 years
1879 Birthday of Karl Klingler 145 years
1887 Birthday of Ernst Toch 137 years
1916 Birthday of Jean Carignan 108 years
1926 Birthday of Wolfgang Ludewig 98 years
1945 Birthday of Bernd Erich Brinkmann 79 years
1954 Birthday of Michael Jon Fink 70 years
1957 Birthday of Chaya Czernowin 67 years
1957 Birthday of Máximo Diego Pujol 67 years

8 December

1642 Birthday of Johann Christoph Bach 382 years
1731 Birthday of Franz Xaver Duschek 293 years
1791 Birthday of Peter von Lindpaintner 233 years
1855 Birthday of Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß-Köstritz 169 years
1865 Birthday of Jean Sibelius 159 years
1877 Birthday of Paul Ladmirault 147 years
1882 Birthday of Manuel Maria Ponce 142 years
1890 Birthday of Bohuslav Martinů 134 years
1905 Birthday of Ernst Hermann Meyer 119 years
1919 Birthday of Mieczysław Samuilovitch Vainberg 105 years
1931 Birthday of Hillar Kareva 93 years
1974 Birthday of Elena Langer 50 years

9 December

1549 Birthday of Costanzo Antegnati 475 years
1634 Birthday of Andreas Oswald 390 years
1728 Birthday of Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi 296 years
1745 Birthday of Maddalena Laura Lombardini 279 years
1745 Birthday of Maddalena Laura Sirmen 279 years
1754 Birthday of Étienne Ozi 270 years
1796 Birthday of Emilie Zumsteeg 228 years
1835 Birthday of Rudolph Barth 189 years
1837 Birthday of Emil Waldteufel 187 years
1859 Birthday of Algernon Bennet Langton Ashton 165 years
1882 Birthday of Joaquín Turina 142 years
1893 Birthday of Paul Benoit 131 years
1927 Birthday of Pierre Henry 97 years
1938 Birthday of William Thomas McKinley 86 years
1939 Birthday of Geoffrey Hanson 85 years
1952 Birthday of Albert Glinsky 72 years
1953 Birthday of Cornelis de Bondt 71 years

10 December

1643 Birthday of Johann Adam Reincken 381 years
1795 Birthday of Caspar Kummer 229 years
1813 Birthday of Errico Petrella 211 years
1822 Birthday of César Franck 202 years
1823 Birthday of Fürchtegott Theodor Kirchner 201 years
1868 Birthday of Louis Victor Saar 156 years
1870 Birthday of Paul Büttner 154 years
1871 Birthday of Charles Morac 153 years
1908 Birthday of Olivier Messiaen 116 years
1913 Birthday of Morton Gould 111 years
1925 Birthday of Zdeněk Šesták 99 years
1936 Birthday of Martha Mier 88 years
1951 Birthday of Milan Svoboda 73 years

11 December

1566 Birthday of Manuel Cardoso 458 years
1758 Birthday of Karl Friedrich Zelter 266 years
1803 Birthday of Hector Berlioz 221 years
1856 Birthday of Friedrich Wilhelm Rohde 168 years
1864 Birthday of Adele aus der Ohe 160 years
1876 Birthday of Mieczysław Karłowicz 148 years
1892 Birthday of Paul Fiévet 132 years
1892 Birthday of Leo Ornstein 132 years
1905 Birthday of Heikki Aaltoila 119 years
1908 Birthday of Elliott Carter 116 years
1932 Birthday of János Komives 92 years
1937 Birthday of Jan Bach 87 years
1966 Birthday of Thomas Zaufke 58 years

12 December

1685 Birthday of Lodovico Giustini 339 years
1852 Birthday of Adolf Schulz-Evler 172 years
1853 Birthday of Guadalupe Olmedo 171 years
1887 Birthday of Kurt Magnus Atterberg 137 years
1892 Birthday of Josef Suder 132 years
1894 Birthday of Marcelle Fanny Henriette Soulage 130 years
1902 Birthday of Antonio José Martínez Palacios 122 years
1907 Birthday of Fred Elizalde 117 years
1924 Birthday of Francis Miroglio 100 years
1930 Birthday of Friedrich Voss 94 years

13 December

1740 Birthday of Franz Xaver Schnizer 284 years
1767 Birthday of August Eberhard Müller 257 years
1838 Birthday of Alexis de Castillon 186 years
1843 Birthday of George Stephănescu 181 years
1850 Birthday of Iver Holter 174 years
1890 Birthday of Gerhard Strecke 134 years
1902 Birthday of Paul Kurzbach 122 years
1908 Birthday of Victor Babin 116 years
1930 Birthday of Wesley Fuller 94 years
1938 Birthday of Alvin Curran 86 years
1938 Birthday of Volker Heyn 86 years
1947 Birthday of Karl Aage Rasmussen 77 years
1954 Birthday of Lárus Halldór Grímsson 70 years

14 December

1681 Birthday of Giuseppe Valentini 343 years
1730 Birthday of Capel Bond 294 years
1778 Birthday of Nikolaus Kraft 246 years
1789 Birthday of Maria Szymanowska-Wolowska 235 years
1821 Birthday of Wilfred d'Indy 203 years
1841 Birthday of Louise Pauline Marie Héritte-Viardot 183 years
1873 Birthday of Joseph Jongen 151 years
1875 Birthday of Dobri Hristov 149 years
1883 Birthday of Manolis Kalomiris 141 years
1953 Birthday of René Eespere 71 years

15 December

1567 Birthday of Johann Christoph Demantius 457 years
1657 Birthday of Michel-Richard Delalande 367 years
1765 Birthday of Philipp Jacob Pfeffinger 259 years
1831 Birthday of Friedrich Gustav Jansen 193 years
1882 Birthday of Germán Álvarez Beigbeder 142 years
1889 Birthday of Kai Senstius 135 years
1898 Birthday of Fritz Werner 126 years
1905 Birthday of Ferenc Farkas 119 years
1932 Birthday of Igor Štuhec 92 years
1937 Birthday of Horst Schiffbauer 87 years
1939 Birthday of Nicolaus A. Huber 85 years

16 December

1748 Birthday of Ferdinand Philippe Joseph Staes 276 years
1767 Birthday of Franz Alexander Pössinger 257 years
1770 Birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven 254 years
1775 Birthday of François-Adrien Boieldieu 249 years
1843 Birthday of Philipp Fahrbach (der Jüngere) 181 years
1847 Birthday of Augusta Holmès 177 years
1863 Birthday of Hermann Wenzel 161 years
1869 Birthday of Alfred Hill 155 years
1871 Birthday of Carlo Alfredo Mussinelli 153 years
1882 Birthday of Zoltán Kodály 142 years
1899 Birthday of Noël Coward 125 years
1910 Birthday of Stanojlo Rajičić 114 years
1915 Birthday of Georgy Sviridov 109 years
1926 Birthday of Karl Norbert Schmid 98 years
1928 Birthday of Tiberiu Olah 96 years
1932 Birthday of Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin 92 years
1953 Birthday of Niels Johannes Legarth Iversen 71 years
1956 Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rieu 68 years
1964 Birthday of Richard Rijnvos 60 years

17 December

1749 Birthday of Domenico Cimarosa 275 years
1840 Birthday of Christian Frederik Emil Horneman 184 years
1854 Birthday of Philipp Wolfrum 170 years
1861 Birthday of Fritz Volbach 163 years
1900 Birthday of Lucijan Marija Skerjanc 124 years
1965 Birthday of Robert Davidson 59 years

18 December

1562 Birthday of Philipp Dulichius 462 years
1707 Birthday of Charles Wesley 317 years
1861 Birthday of Edward Alexander Mac Dowell 163 years
1905 Birthday of Richard Sturzenegger 119 years
1967 Birthday of Christopher Theofanidis 57 years

19 December

1676 Birthday of Louis-Nicolas Clérambault 348 years
1751 Birthday of Giuseppe Giordani 273 years
1802 Birthday of John Ella 222 years
1817 Birthday of Charles Dancla 207 years
1825 Birthday of George Frederick Bristow 199 years
1854 Birthday of Robert Vollstedt 170 years
1864 Birthday of Adolf Sandberger 160 years
1879 Birthday of Otto Olsson 145 years
1882 Birthday of Walter Braunfels 142 years
1894 Birthday of Paul Dessau 130 years
1907 Birthday of Fried Walter 117 years
1928 Birthday of Michael Hurd 96 years
1932 Birthday of Aubert Lemeland 92 years
1937 Birthday of Nikolai Badinski 87 years
1937 Birthday of Osvaldas Balakauskas 87 years
1938 Birthday of Karel Svoboda 86 years
1941 Birthday of Peter Herrmann 83 years
1947 Birthday of Jean-Louis Florentz 77 years
1951 Birthday of John Buckley 73 years
1967 Birthday of Rebecca Saunders 57 years

20 December

1729 Birthday of František Xaver Pokorný 295 years
1754 Birthday of Joseph Schubert 270 years
1758 Birthday of Othon Vandenbroek 266 years
1826 Birthday of Albert Rubenson 198 years
1867 Birthday of Fini Henriques 157 years
1871 Birthday of Henry Kimball Hadley 153 years
1893 Birthday of Francesco Ticciati 131 years
1909 Birthday of Vagn Holmboe 115 years
1919 Birthday of Eduardas Balsys 105 years
1931 Birthday of Josef Maria Horváth 93 years
1934 Birthday of Gordon Peter Getty 90 years
1937 Birthday of Željko Brkanović 87 years
1938 Birthday of John Harbison 86 years
1957 Birthday of Arturs Maskats 67 years

21 December

1628 Birthday of Samuel Capricornus 396 years
1782 Birthday of Benôit Tranquille Berbiguier 242 years
1826 Birthday of Ernst Pauer 198 years
1847 Birthday of Theodor Espen 177 years
1847 Birthday of Carl Gänschals 177 years
1850 Birthday of Zdeněk Fibich 174 years
1859 Birthday of Max Fiedler 165 years
1872 Birthday of Lorenzo Perosi 152 years
1873 Birthday of Blagoje Bersa 151 years
1895 Birthday of Paul Höffer 129 years
1896 Birthday of Leroy Robertson 128 years
1905 Birthday of Albert Reiter 119 years
1911 Birthday of Paul Burkhard 113 years
1928 Birthday of Thomas Rajna 96 years
1931 Birthday of David Nathaniel Baker 93 years
1932 Birthday of Ilja Zeljenka 92 years
1935 Birthday of Meinrad Schmitt 89 years
1936 Birthday of Éric Gaudibert 88 years
1938 Birthday of Roland Coryn 86 years
1939 Birthday of Vyacheslav Nagovitsin 85 years
1940 Birthday of Frank Zappa 84 years
1945 Birthday of Vyacheslav Grokhovsky 79 years
1953 Birthday of Yinam Leef 71 years
1968 Birthday of Boris Yoffe 56 years

22 December

1723 Birthday of Carl Friedrich Abel 301 years
1802 Birthday of Ludwig Wilhelm Reuling 222 years
1805 Birthday of Gustav Krug 219 years
1819 Birthday of Franz Abt 205 years
1821 Birthday of Giovanni Bottesini 203 years
1840 Birthday of Izydor Lotto 184 years
1846 Birthday of Andreas Hallén 178 years
1847 Birthday of Bernhard Köhler 177 years
1848 Birthday of Herman Emil Hutter 176 years
1853 Birthday of Teresa Carreño 171 years
1858 Birthday of Giacomo Puccini 166 years
1866 Birthday of Mieczysław Surzyński 158 years
1874 Birthday of Franz Schmidt 150 years
1875 Birthday of Antoine Mariotte 149 years
1883 Birthday of Edgar Varèse 141 years
1885 Birthday of Joseph Deems Taylor 139 years
1900 Birthday of Alan Bush 124 years
1921 Birthday of Robert Kurka 103 years
1925 Birthday of Thomas Christian David 99 years
1948 Birthday of Lubomyr Melnyk 76 years
1968 Birthday of Emre Araci 56 years

23 December

1644 Birthday of Tomás de Torrejón y Valesco 380 years
1689 Birthday of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier 335 years
1709 Birthday of Jean-Noël Hamal 315 years
1783 Birthday of Heinrich Alois Präger 241 years
1801 Birthday of Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti 223 years
1859 Birthday of Richard Bartmuß 165 years
1876 Birthday of Hans Moth 148 years
1896 Birthday of Lucie Vellere 128 years
1898 Birthday of Sergei Barsukov 126 years
1905 Birthday of Árni Björnsson 119 years
1905 Birthday of Amédée Borsari 119 years
1906 Birthday of Ross Lee Finney 118 years
1913 Birthday of Hans Henkemans 111 years
1925 Birthday of Carlos Riesco Grez 99 years
1941 Birthday of Carlos Cruz de Castro 83 years
1942 Birthday of Friedrich Schenker 82 years
1943 Birthday of Ross Edwards 81 years
1945 Birthday of Georges Aperghis 79 years
1952 Birthday of Hans Abrahamsen 72 years
1952 Birthday of Alexander Brincken 72 years
1981 Birthday of Michael Em Walter 43 years

24 December

1625 Birthday of Johann Rudolf Ahle 399 years
1679 Birthday of Domenico Sarri 345 years
1726 Birthday of Johann Ernst Hartmann 298 years
1773 Birthday of Joseph Woelfl 251 years
1805 Birthday of Sebastian Lee 219 years
1824 Birthday of Peter Cornelius 200 years
1858 Birthday of Ludvig Holm 166 years
1859 Birthday of Roman Statkowski 165 years
1863 Birthday of Enrique Fernández Arbós 161 years
1877 Birthday of Louis Dumas 147 years
1881 Birthday of Charles Wakefield Cadman 143 years
1906 Birthday of Franz Waxman 118 years
1910 Birthday of Yiannis Papaioannou 114 years
1913 Birthday of Karl Michael Komma 111 years
1921 Birthday of Gerard Victory 103 years
1931 Birthday of Mauricio Kagel 93 years
1938 Birthday of Mesias Maiguashca 86 years
1945 Birthday of Luca Lombardi 79 years
1950 Birthday of Libby Larsen 74 years
1953 Birthday of Hans-Jürgen von Bose 71 years

25 December

1583 Birthday of Orlando Gibbons 441 years
1696 Birthday of Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar 328 years
1711 Birthday of Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville 313 years
1725 Birthday of Esteban Salas y Castro 299 years
1728 Birthday of Johann Adam Hiller 296 years
1741 Birthday of Anton Zimmermann 283 years
1745 Birthday of Chevalier de Saint-Georges 279 years
1775 Birthday of Antun Sorkočević 249 years
1831 Birthday of Johann von Herbeck 193 years
1843 Birthday of Gustav Jensen 181 years
1872 Birthday of Amédée de Montrichard 152 years
1885 Birthday of Mana-Zucca 139 years
1908 Birthday of Jan Seidel 116 years
1935 Birthday of Günter Friedrichs 89 years
1937 Birthday of Jeannot Heinen 87 years
1938 Birthday of David Borden 86 years
1949 Birthday of Bernhard Hemmerle 75 years
1956 Birthday of Bruno Karrer 68 years
1958 Birthday of Lorre Lynn Trytten 66 years
1982 Birthday of Marijn Simons 42 years

26 December

1687 Birthday of Georg Johann Pisendel 337 years
1752 Birthday of Johann Mederitsch 272 years
1762 Birthday of Franz Wilhelm Tausch 262 years
1793 Birthday of Franz Hünten 231 years
1812 Birthday of Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar 212 years
1849 Birthday of Gräfin Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach 175 years
1879 Birthday of Julius Weismann 145 years
1884 Birthday of Dina Appeldorn 140 years
1885 Birthday of Arnold Mendelssohn 139 years
1901 Birthday of Victor Hely-Hutchinson 123 years
1916 Birthday of Helmut Eder 108 years
1926 Birthday of Earle Brown 98 years
1964 Birthday of Ian Wilson 60 years
1970 Birthday of Tobias Klaus Giesen 54 years

27 December

1734 Birthday of Stephen Paxton 290 years
1800 Birthday of John Goss 224 years
1856 Birthday of André Gedalge 168 years
1864 Birthday of Joseph Lauber 160 years
1874 Birthday of Max (Markus Wolf) Ettinger 150 years
1880 Birthday of Ernst Boehe 144 years
1904 Birthday of Konrad Wölki 120 years
1930 Birthday of Jacqueline Fontyn 94 years
1960 Birthday of Gerald Eckert 64 years
1968 Birthday of Thomas Heinisch 56 years

28 December

1731 Birthday of Johann Christian Cannabich 293 years
1753 Birthday of Johan Wikmanson 271 years
1775 Birthday of João Domingos Bomtempo 249 years
1812 Birthday of Julius Rietz 212 years
1896 Birthday of Roger Sessions 128 years
1907 Birthday of Roman Palester 117 years
1927 Birthday of Helmut Barbe 97 years
1928 Birthday of Kamilló Lendvay 96 years
1959 Birthday of Daniel Léo Simpson 65 years
1968 Birthday of Natalia Solomonoff 56 years

29 December

1863 Birthday of Raffaele Calace 161 years
1876 Birthday of Pablo Casals 148 years
1880 Birthday of Julien-Fernand Vaubourgoin 144 years
1903 Birthday of Erhard Mauersberger 121 years
1912 Birthday of Peggy Glanville-Hicks 112 years
1940 Birthday of Thomas Jahn 84 years

30 December

1566 Birthday of Alessandro Piccinini 458 years
1678 Birthday of William Croft 346 years
1749 Birthday of Anton Kraft 275 years
1756 Birthday of Paul Wranitzky 268 years
1850 Birthday of Wilhelm Rudnick 174 years
1853 Birthday of André Messager 171 years
1859 Birthday of Josef Bohuslav Foerster 165 years
1884 Birthday of Karl Heinrich David 140 years
1888 Birthday of Ilse Fromm-Michaels 136 years
1902 Birthday of August Blank 122 years
1904 Birthday of Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky 120 years
1910 Birthday of Paul Bowles 114 years
1913 Birthday of Svend Simon Schultz 111 years
1930 Birthday of Nancy van de Vate 94 years
1932 Birthday of Harrison Leslie Adams 92 years
1943 Birthday of Rolf Gehlhaar 81 years
1946 Birthday of Genevieve Calame 78 years
1952 Birthday of Tina Davidson 72 years
1954 Birthday of Stephen Jaffe 70 years

31 December

1743 Birthday of Georg Anton Kreusser 281 years
1799 Birthday of Thomas Täglichsbeck 225 years
1894 Birthday of Ernest John Moeran 130 years
1899 Birthday of Silvestre Revueltas 125 years
1909 Birthday of Ludmila Frajt 115 years
1962 Birthday of Jennifer Higdon 62 years