Timeline

1400-1499

1483-11-10 Martin Luther ☆ Eisleben, County of Mansfeld, Holy Roman Empire.

1500-1599

1500 ca. Luis de Narváez ☆ Granada, Spain.

1500 ca. Luis de Milán ☆ Spain.

1510 ca. Alonso Mudarra ☆ Spain.

1520-04-03 Vincenzo Galilei ☆ Santa Maria a Monte, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.

1535 ca. Cesare Negri ☆ Milan, Italy.

1546-02-18 Martin Luther † Eisleben, County of Mansfeld, Holy Roman Empire.

1552 ca. Luis de Narváez † Valladolid, Spain.

1560 ca. Thomas Robinson ☆ England.

1561 ca. Luis de Milán † Valencia, Spain.

1563 ca. John Dowland ☆ London, Kingdom of England.

1571-09-28 Michael Praetorius ☆ Creuzburg, Germany.

1580-04-01 Alonso Mudarra † Seville, Spain.

1591-07-02 Vincenzo Galilei † Florence, Italy.

1600-1699

1605 ca. Cesare Negri † Milan, Italy.

1610 ca. Thomas Robinson † England.

1621-02-15 Michael Praetorius † Wolfenbüttel, Germany.

1626 ca. Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz ☆ Santa Maria de Ribarredonda, Spain.

1626-02-20 John Dowland † London, Kingdom of England.

1640-04-04 Gaspar Sanz ☆ Calanda, Bajo Aragón, Spain.

1652 Robert de Visée ☆ La Flèche, France.

1654-03-06 Lodovico Roncalli ☆ Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.

1659-09-10 ca. Henry Purcell ☆ Westminster, London, England.

1667 Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz † Spain.

1681-03-24 Georg Philipp Telemann ☆ Magdeburg, Germany.

1681-09-28 Johann Mattheson ☆ Hamburg, Germany.

1685-02-23 G.F. Händel ☆ Halle (Saale), Germany.

1685-03-31 J.S. Bach ☆ Eisenach, Germany.

1685-10-26 Domenico Scarlatti ☆ Naples, Kingdom of Naples.

1687 Silvius Leopold Weiss ☆ Grodków, Poland.

1695-11-21 Henry Purcell † Marsham Street, London, England.

1700-1799

1710 Gaspar Sanz † Madrid, Spain.

1711-01-01 John Francis Wade ☆ England, United Kingdom.

1713-08-25 Lodovico Roncalli † Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy.

1730-02-15 Robert de Visée † Paris, France.

1740 ca. Fernando Ferrandiere ☆ Toro, Spain.

1740-02-04 Carl Michael Bellman ☆ Stockholm, Sweden.

1747-03-31 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz ☆ Lüneburg, Germany.

1750 Silvius Leopold Weiss † Saxony, Germany.

1750-07-28 J.S. Bach † Leipzig, Germany.

1755 ca. Antonio Borghese ☆ Rome, Italy.

1756-01-27 W.A. Mozart ☆ Getreidegasse 9, Salzburg, Austria.

1757-07-23 Domenico Scarlatti † Madrid, Spain.

1758-08-20 Josep Gallés ☆ Castellterçol, Moianès, Catalonia, Spain.

1759-04-14 G.F. Händel † London, United Kingdom.

1764-04-17 Johann Mattheson † Hamburg, Germany.

1767-06-25 Georg Philipp Telemann † Hamburg, Germany.

1768-06-04 Francesco Molino ☆ Ivrea, Italy.

1768-09-03 Filippo Gragnani ☆ Livorno, Italy.

1770 ca. Bernhard Flies ☆ Berlin, Germany.

1770-02-09 Ferdinando Carulli ☆ Naples (Napoli), Italy.

1774-03-05 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse ☆ Altona in Holstein, Germany..

1776-03-31 Joseph Küffner ☆ Würzburg, Germany.

1778-02-14 Fernando Sor ☆ Barcelona, Spain.

1781-07-27 Mauro Giuliani ☆ Bisceglie, Italy.

1781-09-05 Anton Diabelli ☆ Mattsee, Austria.

1782-10-27 Niccolo Paganini ☆ Genoa, Italy.

1783-12-08 Antoine Meissonnier ☆ Marseille, France.

1784-04-08 Dionisio Aguado ☆ Madrid, Spain.

1786-08-16 John Francis Wade † Lancshire, United Kindgdom.

1787-11-25 Franz Xaver Gruber ☆ Hochburg-Ach, Upper Austria, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

1789-06-27 Friedrich Silcher ☆ Schnait, Germany.

1790-11-07 Luigi Legnani ☆ Ravenna, Italy.

1791-12-05 W.A. Mozart † Vienna, Austria.

1792-04-08 Matteo Carcassi ☆ Florence, Italy.

1792-12-26 Franz Hünten ☆ Koblenz, Germany.

1795-02-11 Carl Michael Bellman † Stockholm, Sweden.

1797-01-31 Franz Schubert ☆ Himmelpfortgrund, Vienna, Austria.

1797-10-13 Thomas Haynes Bayly ☆ Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom.

1800-1899

1800-06-10 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz † Schwedt/Oder, Germany.

1801-03-02 Andreas Peter Berggreen ☆ Copenhagen, Denmark.

1805-06-27 Napoléon Coste ☆ Amondans (Doubs), near Besançon, France.

1806-08-17 Johann Kaspar Mertz ☆ Pressburg, Kingdom of Hungary (Bratislava, Slovakia).

1808-12-06 Johan Christian Gebauer ☆ Copenhagen, Denmark.

1809-02-03 Felix Mendelssohn ☆ Hamborg, Germany.

1810-03-17 Frédéric Chopin ☆ Żelazowa Wola, Poland.

1810-06-08 Robert Schumann ☆ Zwickau, Kingdom of Saxony.

1811 Antonio Cano ☆ Lorca, Spain.

1816 ca. Fernando Ferrandiere † .

1817-10-02 Gunnar Wennerberg ☆ Lidköping, Sweden.

1818-06-17 Charles Gounod ☆ Latin Quarter of Paris, France.

1820-07-28 Filippo Gragnani † .

1822-04-25 James Lord Pierpont ☆ Boston, United States.

1826-07-04 Stephen Foster ☆ Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, United States.

1828-10-16 George R. Poulton ☆ Cricklade, England.

1828-11-19 Franz Schubert † Vienna, Austria.

1829-05-08 Mauro Giuliani † Naples, Italy.

1835-03-13 José Ferrer y Esteve ☆ Torroella de Montgrí, Catalonia, Girona, Spain.

1836-11-09 Szentirmay Elemér ☆ Sopronhorpács, Hungary.

1836-12-24 Josep Gallés † Vic, Osona, Catalonia, Spain.

1839-04-22 Thomas Haynes Bayly † .

1839-10-10 Fernando Sor † Paris, France.

1840-05-27 Niccolo Paganini † Nice, France.

1841-02-17 Ferdinando Carulli † Paris, France.

1842-10-08 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse † Copenhagen, Denmark.

1845-05-12 Gabriel Fauré ☆ Pamiers, France.

1847 Francesco Molino † Paris, France.

1847-11-04 Felix Mendelssohn † Leipzig, Germany.

1848-07-12 Oscar Chilesotti ☆ Bassano del Grappa, Italy.

1848-12-30 Annie F. Harrison ☆ Calcutta, British India.

1849-10-17 Frédéric Chopin † Paris, France.

1849-12-29 Dionisio Aguado † Madrid, Spain.

1851 Bernhard Flies † .

1852-11-21 Francisco Tarrega ☆ Villarreal, Castellón, Spain.

1853-01-16 Matteo Carcassi † Paris, France.

1856-07-29 Robert Schumann † Endenich, Rhine Province, now part of Bonn, Germany.

1856-09-09 Joseph Küffner † Würzburg, Germany.

1856-10-14 Johann Kaspar Mertz † Vienna, Austria.

1857-05-06 Antoine Meissonnier † Paris, France.

1858-04-08 Anton Diabelli † Vienna , Austria.

1859-02-01 Victor Herbert ☆ Guernsey, United Kingdom.

1860-05-29 Isaac Albeniz ☆ Camprodon, Catalonia, Spain.

1860-08-26 Friedrich Silcher † Tübingen, Germany.

1861-10-14 Bjarni Thorsteinsson ☆ Mel í Hraunhreppi á Mýrum, Iceland.

1863-03-20 Ernesto Nazareth ☆ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1863-06-07 Franz Xaver Gruber † Hallein, Salzburg, Empire of Austria, German Confederation.

1864-01-13 Stephen Foster † New York City, United States.

1867 George R. Poulton † Lansingburgh, New York, United States.

1867-07-02 Fridolf Lundberg ☆ Sweden.

1867-07-27 Enrique Granados ☆ Lleida, Spain.

1868-11-24 Scott Joplin ☆ Texarkana, Texas, United States.

1871-03-11 Isolfur Palsson ☆ Syðra-Seli, Stokkseyrarhreppur, Iceland.

1871-05-23 Santiago Lope ☆ Ezcaray, La Rioja, Spain.

1872-03-05 Joaquín Malats ☆ Barcelona, Spain.

1875-01-02 Joaquín Valverde ☆ Madrid, Spain.

1877-01-30 Sigfus Einarsson ☆ Skúmsstaðir Eyrarbakki, Iceland.

1877-08-05 Luigi Legnani † Ravenna, Italy.

1878-02-22 Franz Hünten † Koblenz, Germany.

1878-04-28 Daniel Fortea ☆ Benlloc, Spain.

1880-07-31 Manuel Penella ☆ Valencia, Spain.

1880-09-19 Zequina Abreu ☆ Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, São Paulo, Brazil.

1880-11-08 Andreas Peter Berggreen † Copenhagen, Denmark.

1880-11-27 Fridrik Bjarnason ☆ Stokkseyri, Iceland.

1881-01-13 Sigvaldi Kaldalóns ☆ Garðastræti, Vaktarabær in the Grjóti neighbourhood of Reykjavík.

1882-12-09 Joaquin Turina ☆ Seville, Spain.

1883-01-14 Napoléon Coste † Paris, France.

1883-11-02 Joâo Pernambuco ☆ Jatobá, Brazil.

1885-03-30 Quintín Esquembre ☆ Villena, Alicante, Spain.

1885-05-05 Agustín Barrios ☆ San Juan Bautista, Paraguay.

1885-12-06 Birger Sjöberg ☆ Vänersborg, Sweden.

1887-08-02 Fritz Jöde ☆ Hamburg, Germany.

1888-05-11 Irving Berlin ☆ Tyumen, Russia.

1889-04-29 Duke Ellington ☆ Washington, D.C., United States.

1890-03-12 Evert Taube ☆ Gothenburg, Sweden.

1890-07-16 Mabel Wayne ☆ Brooklyn, New York, United States.

1890-12-11 Carlos Gardel ☆ Toulouse, France.

1893-08-05 James Lord Pierpont † Winter Haven, Florida, United States.

1893-10-18 Charles Gounod † Saint-Cloud, France.

1894-05-10 Dimitri Tiomkin ☆ Kremenchuk, Ukraine.

1894-07-02 Turner Layton ☆ Washington, D.C., United States.

1894-07-10 Jimmy McHugh ☆ Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

1894-08-11 Hugh Williams ☆ Vienna, Austria.

1895-08-16 Jacinto Guerrero ☆ Ajofrín, Toledo, Spain.

1897 Antonio Cano † Madrid, Spain.

1897 ca. Antonio Borghese † London, England.

1897-01-14 Jose Barroso ☆ Tehuacan, Mexico.

1897-07-27 De Maurizi ☆ Toulon, France.

1898-06-16 Emil Thoroddsen ☆ Keflavík, Iceland.

1898-09-26 George Gershwin ☆ New York, New York, United States.

1898-09-27 Vincent Youmans ☆ New York City, United States.

1898-10-24 Lorenzo Barcelata ☆ Tlalixcoyan, Veracruz, Mexico.

1899-11-22 Hoagy Carmichael ☆ Bloomington, Indiana, United States.

1900-1999

1901-08-24 Gunnar Wennerberg † Läc­kö slott, Swe­den.

1902-01-04 Manning Sherwin ☆ Philadelphia, United States.

1902-05-18 Meredith Willson ☆ Mason City, Iowa, United States.

1904-03-01 Glenn Miller ☆ Clarinda, Iowa, United States.

1904-12-17 Dmitry Kabalevsky ☆ Moscow, Russia.

1905-02-15 Harold Arlen ☆ Buffalo, New York.

1905-03-14 Saverio Seracini ☆ Prato, Toscana, Italy.

1905-12-31 Jule Styne ☆ London, England.

1906-04-05 Fernando Germani ☆ Rome, Italy.

1906-09-25 Santiago Lope † Burjasot, Valencia, Spain.

1908-04-15 eden ahbez ☆ Brooklyn, New York, United States.

1908-10-03 Szentirmay Elemér † Budapest, Hungary.

1909-05-18 Isaac Albeniz † Cambo-les-Bains, France.

1909-12-15 Francisco Tarrega † Barcelona, Spain.

1911-12-03 Nino Rota ☆ Milan, Italy.

1912-02-02 Burton Lane ☆ New York, United States.

1912-10-22 Joaquín Malats † Barcelona, Spain.

1913-06-18 Sammy Cahn ☆ Manhattan, New York City, United States.

1914-07-03 George Bruns ☆ Sandy, Oregon, United States.

1914-07-26 Ralph Blane ☆ Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States.

1914-08-11 Hugh Martin ☆ Birmingham, Alabama, United States.

1916-02-07 José Ferrer y Esteve † Barcelona, Spain.

1916-03-24 Enrique Granados † the English Channel.

1916-06-23 Oscar Chilesotti † Bassano del Grappa, Italy.

1917-04-01 Scott Joplin † The Manhattan Psychiatric Center, New York, United States.

1917-10-21 Dizzy Gillespie ☆ Cheraw, South Carolina, United States.

1918-11-04 Johan Christian Gebauer † Frederiksberg, Denmark.

1918-11-04 Joaquín Valverde † Mexico City, Mexico.

1921-06-15 Erroll Garner ☆ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

1921-12-02 Álvaro Carrillo ☆ San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.

1922-04-29 Toots Thielemans ☆ Brussels, Belgium.

1922-10-17 Luiz Bonfá ☆ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1922-10-31 César Portillo de la Luz ☆ Havana, Cuba.

1924-04-16 Henry Mancini ☆ Little Italy, Ohio, United States.

1924-05-26 Victor Herbert † New York, United States.

1924-07-28 Irving Burgie ☆ Brooklyn, New York, United States.

1924-08-11 Fridolf Lundberg † Gothenburg, Sweden.

1924-11-04 Gabriel Fauré † Paris, France.

1924-11-25 Paul Desmond ☆ San Francisco, California, United States.

1928-04-04 Monty Norman ☆ London, United Kingdom.

1929-04-30 Birger Sjöberg † Växjö, Sweden.

1929-10-13 Bernie Baum ☆ New York City, United States.

1930-02-22 Venancio García Velasco ☆ Astorga, Spain.

1930-03-22 Eythor Thorlaksson ☆ Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.

1930-10-06 Stanley Myers ☆ Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.

1932-02-24 Michel Legrand ☆ Ménilmontant, Paris, France.

1934-02-04 Ernesto Nazareth † Colônia Juliano Moreira, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1935-01-22 Zequina Abreu † São Paulo, Brazil.

1935-06-24 Carlos Gardel † Medellín, Colombia.

1937-07-11 George Gershwin † Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.

1938-08-02 Bjarni Thorsteinsson † Siglufjörður, Iceland.

1938-11-09 Bill Martin ☆ Govan, Glasgow, Scotland.

1939-01-14 Manuel Penella † Cuernavaca, Mexico.

1939-05-10 Sigfus Einarsson † Reykjavík, Iceland.

1939-12-10 Hugh Williams † New York City, United States.

1940-10-09 John Lennon ☆ Liverpool, England.

1941 Isolfur Palsson † Reykjavík, Iceland.

1941-10-13 Paul Simon ☆ Newark, New Jersey, United States.

1942-06-18 Paul McCartney ☆ Liverpool, England.

1943-07-13 Lorenzo Barcelata † Mexico City, Mexico.

1944-02-12 Annie F. Harrison † Easthampton, Berkshire, England.

1944-04-30 Sigfus Olafsson ☆ Reykjavík, Iceland.

1944-06-02 Marvin Hamlisch ☆ Manhattan, New York, United States.

1944-07-07 Emil Thoroddsen † Reykjavík, Iceland.

1944-08-07 Agustín Barrios † San Salvador, El Salvador.

1944-12-15 Glenn Miller † .

1945-01-18 Benard Ighner ☆ Houston, Texas, United States.

1946-04-05 Vincent Youmans † Denver, Colorado, United States.

1946-07-28 Sigvaldi Kaldalóns † Reykjavík, Iceland.

1947-10-16 Joâo Pernambuco † Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1949-01-14 Joaquin Turina † Madrid, Spain.

1950-05-13 Stevie Wonder ☆ Saginaw, Michigan, United States.

1951-09-07 Morris Albert ☆ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1951-09-15 Jacinto Guerrero † Madrid, Spain.

1952-12-12 Thorbjørn Egner ☆ Oslo, Norway.

1953-03-05 Daniel Fortea † Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

1962-05-28 Fridrik Bjarnason † Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.

1964-02-17 Sveinn Eythorsson ☆ Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.

1965-04-02 Quintín Esquembre † Madrid, Spain.

1969-04-03 Álvaro Carrillo † Mexico City, Mexico.

1969-05-09 Saverio Seracini † Torino, Italy.

1969-05-23 Jimmy McHugh † Beverly Hills, California, United States.

1969-10-08 De Maurizi † .

1970-10-19 Fritz Jöde † Hamburg, Germany.

1974-05-24 Duke Ellington † New York, New York, United States.

1974-07-26 Manning Sherwin † Los Angeles, California, United States.

1976-01-31 Evert Taube † Stockholm, Sweden.

1977-01-02 Erroll Garner † Los Angeles, California, United States.

1977-05-30 Paul Desmond † New York City, United States.

1978-02-06 Turner Layton † London, England.

1978-06-19 Mabel Wayne † Glen Cove, New York, United States.

1979-04-10 Nino Rota † Rome, Italy.

1979-11-11 Dimitri Tiomkin † London, United Kingdom.

1980-12-08 John Lennon † New York City, United States.

1981-12-27 Hoagy Carmichael † Rancho Mirage, California, United States.

1983-05-23 George Bruns † Portland, Oregon, United States.

1984-06-15 Meredith Willson † Santa Monica, California, United States.

1984-09-14 Venancio García Velasco † Madrid, Spain.

1986-02-19 Jose Barroso † Burbank, Los Angeles, United States.

1986-04-23 Harold Arlen † New York City, United States.

1987-02-14 Dmitry Kabalevsky † Moscow, Russia.

1989-09-22 Irving Berlin † New York City, United States.

1990-12-24 Thorbjørn Egner † Oslo, Norway.

1993-01-06 Dizzy Gillespie † Englewood, New Jersey, United States.

1993-01-15 Sammy Cahn † Los Angeles, California, United States.

1993-08-28 Bernie Baum † Bronx, New York, United States.

1993-11-09 Stanley Myers † Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.

1994-06-14 Henry Mancini † Los Angeles, California, United States.

1994-09-20 Jule Styne † Manhattan, New York, United States.

1995-03-04 eden ahbez † Brooklyn, New York, United States.

1995-11-13 Ralph Blane † Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States.

1997-01-05 Burton Lane † New York, United States.

1998-06-10 Fernando Germani † Rome, Italy.

2000-2099

2001-01-12 Luiz Bonfá † Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2011-03-11 Hugh Martin † Encinitas, California, United States.

2012-08-06 Marvin Hamlisch † Westwood, Los Angeles, California, United States.

2013-05-04 César Portillo de la Luz † Havana, Cuba.

2016-08-22 Toots Thielemans † Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium.

2017-08-14 Benard Ighner † Houston, Texas, United States.

2018-12-14 Eythor Thorlaksson † Reykjavík, Iceland.

2019-01-26 Michel Legrand † Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

2019-11-29 Irving Burgie † Queens, New York City, United States.

2020-03-26 Bill Martin † London, England.

2021-01-28 Sigfus Olafsson † Selfoss, Iceland.

2022-07-11 Monty Norman † Slough, United Kingdom.