Notable Musicians

This list is comprised of some of the most recognizable names from the world of music. Included are composers, musicians and singers.
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NameLifespanOther Names
Arion?-5xx BC
Guido of Arezzoc. 991-c. 1035
Hildegard of Bingen1098-1179(Hildegardis)
Amir Khusrau1253-1325
Guillaume de Machautc. 1300-1377
Josquin des Prezc. 1450-1521
Jacquet of Mantua1483-1559(Jacques)
Clément Janequinc. 1485-1558
Claudin de Sermisyc. 1490-1562
Jacquet de Berchemc. 1505-15xx(Giachet)
Jacques Arcadeltc. 1507-1568
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinac. 1525-1594
Orlande de Lassusc. 1532-1594(Orlando, Roland)
Luzzasco Luzzaschic. 1545-1607
Tomás Luis de Victoria1548-1611
Giovanni Gabrielic. 1554-1612
Jacopo Peri1561-1633
Claudio Monteverdi1567-1643
Heinrich Schütz1585-1672
Francesco Cavalli1602-1676
Jean-Baptiste Lully1632-1687(Giovanni, Battista)
Dieterich Buxtehude1637-1707
Marc-Antoine Charpentier1643-1704
Arcangelo Corelli1653-1713
Johann Pachelbel1653-1706
Ludovico Roncalli1654-1713(Giuseppe, Antonio, Filippo)
Henry Purcell1659-1695
Alessandro Scarlatti1660-1725(Pietro, Gaspare)
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet1665-1729
François Couperin1668-1733
Turlough O'Carolan1670-1738
Tomaso Albinoni1671-1751
Jeremiah Clarkec. 1674-1707
Antonio Vivaldi1678-1741(Lucio)
Jan Dismas Zelenka1679-1745
Georg Philipp Telemann1681-1767
Jean-Philippe Rameau1683-1764
Georg Friedrich Händel1685-1759(George, Frideric)
Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750
Domenico Scarlatti1685-1757(Giuseppe)
Giuseppe Tartini1692-1770
Louis-Claude Daquin1694-1772
Johann Adolph Hasse1699-1783
Michel Blavet1700-1768
Farinelli1705-1782(Carlo)
Johann Adolf Scheibe1708-1776(Adolph)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi1710-1736
Thomas Arne1710-1778(Augustine)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach1714-1788
Christoph Willibald Gluck1714-1787
Leopold Mozart1719-1787(Johann, Georg)
Dismas Hataš1724-1777
Niel Gow1727-1807
Pasquale Anfossi1727-1797
Joseph Haydn1732-1809
François-Joseph Gossec1734-1829
Johann Christian Bach1735-1782
Luigi Boccherini1743-1805(Ridolfo)
Charles Dibdin1745-1814
Antonio Salieri1750-1825
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756-1791
Luigi Cherubini1760-1842
Michał Kleofas Ogiński1765-1833
Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827
Niccolò Paganini1782-1840(Nicolò)
Carl Maria von Weber1786-1826
Carl Czerny1791-1857
Gioachino Rossini1792-1868
Franz Berwald1796-1868(Adolf)
Franz Schubert1797-1828(Peter)
Gaetano Donizetti1797-1848
Fromental Halévy1799-1862(Jacques, François, Élie)
Ferdo Livadić1799-1879(Ferdinand)
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad1801-1878
Vincenzo Bellini1801-1835
Adolphe Adam1803-1856(Charles)
Hector Berlioz1803-1869
Johann Strauss I1804-1849
Mikhail Glinka1804-1857
Fanny Mendelssohn1805-1847
Maria Malibran1808-1836
Felix Mendelssohn1809-1847
Frédéric Chopin1810-1849(Fryderyk, Franciszek, François)
Robert Schumann1810-1856(Alexander)
Franz Liszt1811-1886(Ferenc)
Richard Wagner1813-1883(Wilhelm)
Giuseppe Verdi1813-1901
Adolf von Henselt1814-1889(Adolph, Georg, Martin)
Charles Gounod1818-1893(François)
Jacques Offenbach1819-1880
Clara Schumann1819-1896
Jenny Lind1820-1887(Johanna)
César Franck1822-1890
Bedřich Smetana1824-1884
Anton Bruckner1824-1896(Josef)
Hervé1825-1892(Louis, Auguste, Florimond)
Johann Strauss II1825-1899
Anton Rubinstein1829-1894
Henry Clay Work1832-1884
Johannes Brahms1833-1897
Alexander Borodin1833-1887
Ema Pukšec1834-1889
César Cui1835-1918
Camille Saint-Saëns1835-1921(Charles)
Léo Delibes1836-1891(Clément, Philibert)
Mily Balakirev1837-1910
Adolf Jensen1837-1879
Georges Bizet1838-1875
Modest Mussorgsky1839-1881
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893(Peter)
Antonín Dvořák1841-1904(Leopold)
Jules Massenet1842-1912
Arthur Sullivan1842-1900
Edvard Grieg1843-1907(Hagerup)
Pablo de Sarasate1844-1908
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844-1908(Nicolas)
Gabriel Fauré1845-1924(Urbain)
Hubert Parry1848-1918(Charles, Hastings)
Adolph Brodsky1851-1929(Adolf)
Leoš Janáček1854-1928
Engelbert Humperdinck1854-1921
John Philip Sousa1854-1932
Ruggero Leoncavallo1857-1919(Ruggiero)
Edward Elgar1857-1934(William)
Giacomo Puccini1858-1924
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov1859-1935
Emanuil Manolov1860-1902
Isaac Albéniz1860-1909(Manuel, Francisco)
Gustave Charpentier1860-1956
Gustav Mahler1860-1911
Edward MacDowell1860-1908(Alexander)
Frederick Delius1862-1934(Theodore, Albert)
Claude Debussy1862-1918(Achille)
Meliton Balanchivadze1862-1937
Pietro Mascagni1863-1945
Milka Trnina1863-1941
Richard Strauss1864-1949(Georg)
Paul Dukas1865-1935(Abraham)
Jean Sibelius1865-1957(Johan, Julius, Christian)
Erik Satie1866-1925(Éric, Alfred, Leslie)
Scott Joplinc. 1867-1917
Arturo Toscanini1867-1957
Amy Beach1867-1944(Cheney)
Franz Lehár1870-1948
Aleksandr Skriabin1871-1915(Alexander)
Ralph Vaughan Williams1872-1958
Feodor Chaliapin1873-1938(Fyodor)
Enrico Caruso1873-1921
Sergei Rachmaninoff1873-1943
Arnold Schoenberg1874-1951
Gustav Holst1874-1934(Gustavus, Theodore)
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis1875-1911
Maurice Ravel1875-1937(Joseph)
Pablo Casals1876-1973(Pau)
Adolf Wiklund1879-1950
Béla Bartók1881-1945
Geraldine Farrar1882-1967(Alice)
Igor Stravinsky1882-1971
Percy Grainger1882-1961
Anton Webern1883-1945
Jerome Kern1885-1945(David)
Alban Berg1885-1935
Üzeyir Hacıbəyov1885-1948
Dooley Wilson1886-1953(Arthur)
Al Jolson1886-1950(Asa)
Arthur Rubinstein1887-1982(Artur)
Eubie Blake1887-1983(James, Hubert)
Luckey Roberts1887-1968(Charles, Luckyth)
Nadia Boulanger1887-1979
Max Steiner1888-1971(Maximilian, Raoul)
Irving Berlin1888-1989
Maurice Chevalier1888-1972
Noble Sissle1889-1975(Lee)
Stanley Holloway1890-1982(Augustus)
Carlos Gardel1890-1935
Sergei Prokofiev1891-1953(Sergey)
Cole Porter1891-1964
Adolf Busch1891-1952(Georg, Wilhelm)
Fanny Brice1891-1951(Fania, Fannie)
Sayed Darwish1892-1923
Willie "The Lion" Smith1893-1973(William, Henry, Joseph, Bonaparte)
Isham Jones1894-1956(Edgar)
James P. Johnson1894-1955(Price)
Viorica Ursuleac1894-1985
Bessie Smith1894-1937
Peter Warlock1894-1930(Philip, Arnold)
Lucille Hegamin1894-1970
William Grant Still1895-1978
Carl Orff1895-1982
Oscar Hammerstein II1895-1960(Greeley, Clendenning)
Jakov Gotovac1895-1982
Paul Hindemith1895-1963
Andy Razaf1895-1973(Andriamanantena, Paul)
Ethel Waters1896-1977
Ruth Etting1896-1978
Virgil Thomson1896-1989
Marian Anderson1897-1993
Jimmie Rodgers1897-1933(James)
Fletcher "Smack" Henderson1897-1952(James, Hamilton)
Claire Born1898-1965
George Gershwin1898-1937(Jacob)
Lotte Lenya1898-1981(Karoline, Wilhelmine, Charlotte)
Umm Kulthum1898-1975(Fatima)
Edward "Duke" Ellington1899-1974(Duke, Kennedy)
Hoagy Carmichael1899-1981(Hoagland)
Noël Coward1899-1973(Peirce)
Münir Nurettin Selçuk1900-1981
Kurt Weill1900-1950
Aaron Copland1900-1990
Nelson Eddy1901-1967(Ackerman)
Rudy Vallée1901-1986(Hubert, Prior)
Louis Armstrong1901-1971(Daniel)
Adelaide Hall1901-1993(Louise)
Mohammed Abdel Wahab1902-1991(Mohamed)
Jimmie Lunceford1902-1947(James, Melvin)
Richard Rodgers1902-1979(Charles)
Vladimir Horowitz1903-1989
Harry "Bing" Crosby1903-1977(Bing)
Aram Khachaturian1903-1978
Jeanette MacDonald1903-1965(Anna)
Johannes Heesters1903-2011(Johan, Jopi, Jopie, Marius, Nicolaas)
Earl Hines1903-1983(Kenneth)
Glenn Miller1904-1944(Alton, Glen)
Thomas "Fats" Waller1904-1943(Wright)
Phil Harris1904-1995(Wonga, Philip)
Maria von Trapp1905-1987
Ozzie Nelson1906-1975(Oswald, George)
Zinka Milanov1906-1989
Andria Balanchivadze1906-1992
Josephine Baker1906-1975(Freda)
Dmitri Shostakovich1906-1975
Zari Elmassian1906-1990(Zaruhi)
Gene Autry1907-1998(Orvon, Grover)
Cab Calloway1907-1994(Cabell)
Ethel Merman1908-1984(Agnes)
Herbert von Karajan1908-1989
Tito Guízar1908-1999(Federico, Arturo)
Olivier Messiaen1908-1992
Carmen Miranda1909-1955(Maria do Carmo)
Eddy Duchin1909-1951(Edwin)
Benny Goodman1909-1986(Benjamin)
Miliza Korjus1909-1980(Elizabeth)
Django Reinhardt1910-1953
Samuel Barber1910-1981
Carmine Coppola1910-1991
Willie Smith1910-1967(William, McLeish)
Imperio Argentina1910-2003(María, Magdalena)
Danny Kaye1911-1987(David, Daniel)
Robert Johnson1911-1938
"Big" Joe Turner1911-1985(Joseph)
Bill Monroe1911-1996(William)
Jorge Negrete1911-1953(Alberto)
Nino Rota1911-1979(Giovanni)
Władysław Szpilman1911-2000
André Claveau1911-2003(Marcel)
Woody Guthrie1912-1967(Woodrow, Wilson)
John Cage1912-1992
Muddy Waters1913-1983(McKinley)
Woody Herman1913-1987(Woodrow, Charles)
Sylvia Fine1913-1991
Raimond Valgre1913-1949
Benjamin Britten1913-1976
Tony Martin1913-2012(Alvin)
Dorival Caymmi1914-2008
Adolph Green1914-2002
Sister Rosetta Tharpe1915-1973(Rosether)
Boy Edgar1915-1980(George, Willem, Fred)
Billie Holiday1915-1959(Elinore)
Les Paul1915-2009(Lester)
Frank Sinatra1915-1998(Francis)
Édith Piaf1915-1963
Yehudi Menuhin1916-1999
Dinah Shore1916-1994(Fanny, Frances, Rose)
Bismillah Khan1916-2006
M. S. Subbulakshmi1916-2004
Toon Hermans1916-2000(Antoine, Gerard, Theodore)
Vera Lynn1917-2020
Ella Fitzgerald1917-1996(Jane)
Dean Martin1917-1995
Wim Sonneveld1917-1974(Willem)
Lena Horne1917-2010(Mary, Calhoun)
John Lee Hooker1917-2001
Thelonious Monk1917-1982
John "Dizzy" Gillespie1917-1993(Dizzy, Birks)
Jo Stafford1917-2008(Elizabeth)
Pedro Infante1917-1957
Elmore James1918-1963
Pearl Bailey1918-1990(Mae)
Birgit Nilsson1918-2005
Leonard Bernstein1918-1990(Louis)
Dick Haymes1918-1980(Richard, Benjamin)
Lucille Dumont1919-2016(Marie, Jacqueline, Lucelle)
Nat "King" Cole1919-1965(King, Nathaniel)
Pete Seeger1919-2014(Peter)
Anita O'Day1919-2006(Belle)
Yara Bernette1920-2002
Ravi Shankar1920-2012(Ravindra, Robindro)
Peggy Lee1920-2002(Norma, Deloris)
Amália Rodrigues1920-1999
Charlie Parker1920-1955(Charles)
Dave Brubeck1920-2012(David)
Ástor Piazzolla1921-1992
Darío Moreno1921-1968(David)
Edvard Mirzoyan1921-2012
Kitty Kallen1921-2016
Phạm Duy1921-2013(Cẩn)
Yves Montand1921-1991
Georges Brassens1921-1981
Deanna Durbin1921-2013(Edna, Mae)
Bhimsen Joshi1922-2011
Bobby Capó1922-1989(Félix, Manuel)
Renata Tebaldi1922-2004
Doris Day1922-2019(Mary, Ann)
Elmer Bernstein1922-2004
Gale Storm1922-2009(Josephine, Owaissa)
Charles Mingus1922-1979
Judy Garland1922-1969
Yvonne De Carlo1922-2007(Margaret)
Yma Sumac1922-2008(Zoila, Augusta, Emperatriz)
Victoria de los Ángeles1923-2005
Lola Flores1923-1995(María, Dolores)
Celeste Rodrigues1923-2018(Maria)
Shoshana Damari1923-2006
György Ligeti1923-2006
Rose Marie1923-2017
Hank Williams1923-1953(Hiram)
Văn Cao1923-1995
Maria Callas1923-1977(Anna, Cecilia, Sofia)
Lys Assia1924-2018(Rosa, Mina)
Angela Morley1924-2009(Walter)
Sarah Vaughan1924-1990
Milko Kelemen1924-2018
Henry Mancini1924-1994(Enrico, Nicola)
Franz Mazura1924-2020
Theodore Bikel1924-2015(Meir)
Charles Aznavour1924-2018(Shahnour, Vaghinag)
Rajka Vali1924-2011(Valerija)
Maurice Jarre1924-2009(Alexis)
Altamiro Carrilho1924-2012
Mohammed Rafi1924-1980
Pierre Boulez1925-2016
Marius Constant1925-2004
Jørgen Ingmann1925-2015
Bobbejaan Schoepen1925-2010(Modest, Hyppoliet, Joanna)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau1925-2012
Bill Haley1925-1981(William)
Mikis Theodorakis1925-2021(Michail)
Sulkhan Tsintsadze1925-1991
Jimmy Reed1925-1976(Mathis, James)
Charlie Byrd1925-1999(Lee)
B.B. King1925-2015(Riley)
Miljenko Prohaska1925-2014
Johnny Mandel1925-2020(John, Alfred)
Hildegard Knef1925-2002(Hildegarde, Frieda, Albertine)
George Martin1926-2016
O. P. Nayyar1926-2007(Omkar, Prasad)
José Alfredo Jiménez1926-1973
Teddy Scholten1926-2010(Dorothea, Thea, Margaretha)
Miles Davis1926-1991
Tony Bennett1926-2023(Anthony, Dominick)
John Coltrane1926-1967(William)
Julie London1926-2000
Willy Alberti1926-1985
Chuck Berry1926-2017(Charles, Edward, Anderson)
Joan Sutherland1926-2010
Alfredo Kraus1927-1999
Mstislav Rostropovich1927-2007
Eartha Kitt1927-2008(Mae)
Antônio Carlos Jobim1927-1994
Stan Getz1927-1991(Stanley)
Juliette Gréco1927-2020
Leontyne Price1927-(Mary, Violet)
Harry Belafonte1927-2023(Harold, George)
Attila Zoller1927-1998(Cornelius)
Al Martino1927-2009(Jasper)
Jean-Claude Pascal1927-1992(Roger, Henri)
Gilbert Bécaud1927-2001
Cleo Laine1927-(Clementine, Dinah)
Patti Page1927-2013(Clara, Ann)
Hank Ballard1927-2003(John, Henry)
Ram Narayan1927-
Leyla Gencer1928-2008(Ayşe)
Domenico Modugno1928-1994
Ruth Brown1928-2006
Antoine "Fats" Domino1928-2017(Dominique)
Sara Montiel1928-2013(María, Antonia)
Serge Gainsbourg1928-1991
Tom Lehrer1928-(Thomas, Andrew)
Burt Bacharach1928-2023(Freeman)
Rosemary Clooney1928-2002
Vic Damone1928-2018(Vito, Rocco)
Eddie Fisher1928-2010(Edwin, Jack)
Eydie Gormé1928-2013(Edith)
Karlheinz Stockhausen1928-2007
Ennio Morricone1928-2020
Ernestine Anderson1928-2016
Bo Diddley1928-2008(Ellas, Otha)
Hal Blaine1929-2019(Harold, Simon)
Jerry Goldsmith1929-2004(Jerrald)
Cecil Taylor1929-2018(Percival)
Jacques Brel1929-1978(Romain, Georges)
James Last1929-2015(Hans, Hansi)
Evangelina Elizondo1929-2017(Gloria)
Lennie Niehaus1929-2020(Leonard)
James Shigeta1929-2014(Saburo)
Abdel Halim Hafez1929-1977(Ali)
José Afonso1929-1987(Zeca)
Lata Mangeshkar1929-2022(Hema)
LaVern Baker1929-1997(Delores)
Viguen1929-2003(Vigen)
Chet Baker1929-1988(Chesney)
Munir Bashir1930-1997
Bobby Bland1930-2013(Robert, Calvin)
Stephen Sondheim1930-2021(Joshua)
Heather Harper1930-2019(Mary)
Sally Ann Howes1930-2021
Ray Charles1930-2004
Michiya Mihashi1930-1996
Sam Cooke1931-1964(Samuel)
Mamie Van Doren1931-(Joan, Lucille)
Margareta Hallin1931-2020(Gunhild)
João Gilberto1931-2019
Della Reese1931-2017
George Jones1931-2013
Nello Santi1931-2020
Diana Dors1931-1984(Mary)
Ike Turner1931-2007
John Williams1932-
Johnny Cash1932-2003(John)
Don Francks1932-2016(Donald, Iron Buffalo, Harvey)
Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba1932-2008(Zenzile)
Lola Beltrán1932-1996(María, Lucila)
Debbie Reynolds1932-2016(Mary, Frances)
Carl Perkins1932-1998
Loretta Lynn1932-2022
Eddy Wally1932-2016(Eduard, René)
Patsy Cline1932-1963(Virginia, Patterson)
Glenn Gould1932-1982
Anatoliy Solovianenko1932-1999
Victor Jara1932-1973
Clyde McPhatter1932-1972(Lensley)
Petula Clark1932-(Sally, Olwen)
Corry Brokken1932-2016(Cornelia, Maria)
Little Richard1932-2020(Wayne)
Charlie Rich1932-1995(Charles, Allan)
Dalida1933-1987(Yolanda, Cristina)
Yoko Ono1933-
Nina Simone1933-2003(Eunice, Kathleen)
Lloyd Price1933-2021
Quincy Jones1933-(Delight, Jr.)
Teresa Berganza1933-2022
Montserrat Caballé1933-2018
Willie Nelson1933-
James Brown1933-2006(Joseph)
Claudio Abbado1933-2014
Ramses Shaffy1933-2009
John Barry1933-2011
Krzysztof Penderecki1933-2020(Eugeniusz)
Henryk Górecki1933-2010
Georges Moustaki1934-2013(Giuseppe)
Cedar Walton1934-2013
Otis Rush1934-2018
Frankie Valli1934-(Francesco, Stephen)
Suthep Wongkamhaeng1934-2020
Pat Boone1934-(Patrick, Charles, Eugene)
Jackie Wilson1934-1984(Jack)
Mieke Telkamp1934-2016(Maria, Berendina, Johanna)
Leonard Cohen1934-2016
Udo Jürgens1934-2014(Jürgen)
Nana Mouskouri1934-(Ioanna)
Willi Tokarev1934-2019(Vilen)
Rudi Carrell1934-2006(Rudolf, Wijbrand)
Del Shannon1934-1990(Charles, Weedon)
Noam Sheriff1935-2018
Elvis Presley1935-1977(Aaron)
Gene Vincent1935-1971(Eugene)
Sonny Bono1935-1998(Salvatore, Phillip)
Ciarán Bourke1935-1988
Mirella Freni1935-2020
Pierre Kartner1935-2022(Abraham, Petrus, Antonius, Laurentius)
Steve Lawrence1935-(Sidney)
Mercedes Sosa1935-2009(Haydée)
Sabahudin Kurt1935-2018
Joe Tex1935-1982(Joseph, Yusuf)
Arvo Pärt1935-
Jerry Lee Lewis1935-2022
Johnny Mathis1935-(John, Royce)
Luciano Pavarotti1935-2007
Alain Barrière1935-2019
Fairuz1935-(Nouhad, Wadie)
Ivica Šerfezi1935-2004(Ivan)
Naseem Begum1936-1971
Roger Whittaker1936-2023(Henry, Brough)
Glen Campbell1936-2017
Roy Orbison1936-1988(Kelton)
Zubin Mehta1936-
Bobby Darin1936-1973(Walden, Robert)
Maysa Matarazzo1936-1977
Kris Kristofferson1936-2024(Kristoffer)
Rex Gildo1936-1999(Alexander, Ludwig, Franz)
Gabi Novak1936-(Gabrijela)
Buddy Guy1936-(George)
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman1936-2007(Kanghi Duta)
Buddy Holly1936-1959(Charles, Hardin)
Shirley Bassey1937-(Veronica)
Philip Glass1937-
Don Everly1937-2021(Isaac, Donald)
Roberta Flack1937-(Cleopatra)
Merle Haggard1937-2016
Dick Dale1937-2019(Richard, Anthony)
Trini Lopez1937-2020(Trinidad)
Hibari Misora1937-1989
Freddy Fender1937-2006(Baldemar)
Waylon Jennings1937-2002(Arnold)
Ayla Algan1937-
"Little" Willie John1937-1968(William)
Connie Francis1937-(Concetta, Rosa, Maria)
Adriano Celentano1938-
Shivkumar Sharma1938-2022
Billie Jo Spears1938-2011(Joe)
Vladimir Vysotsky1938-1980
Etta James1938-2012(Jamesetta)
Duane Eddy1938-
Lucille Starr1938-2020(Raymonde, Marie)
Grethe Ingmann1938-1990
Hariprasad Chaurasia1938-
Bill Withers1938-2020(William)
Isabelle Aubret1938-(Thérèse)
Arsen Dedić1938-2015(Arsenije)
Connie Stevens1938-(Concetta, Rosalie, Ann)
Kenny Rogers1938-2020(Kenneth, Ray)
Jet Black1938-2022(Brian, John)
Ben E. King1938-2015(Benjamin, Earl)
Tereza Kesovija1938-(Ana)
Fela Kuti1938-1997(Olufela)
Nico1938-1988(Christa)
Joe Dassin1938-1980(Joseph)
Amanda Lear1939-
Phil Everly1939-2014(Phillip)
Ray Manzarek1939-2013(Raymond)
Czesław Niemen1939-2004
Trịnh Công Sơn1939-2001
Neil Sedaka1939-
Jorge Ben1939-(Duílio, Lima)
Marvin Gaye1939-1984
Crispian St. Peters1939-2010(Robin, Peter)
Dusty Springfield1939-1999(Mary, Isobel, Catherine, Bernadette)
Salomé1939-(Maria, Rosa)
R. D. Burman1939-1994(Rahul, Dev)
Karel Gott1939-2019
Joe Dolan1939-2007(Joseph, Francis, Robert)
Ali Farka Touré1939-2006(Ibrahim)
Betty Everett1939-2001(Jean)
Tina Turner1939-2023(Anna, Mae)
Michael Moorcock1939-(John)
Phil Spector1939-2021(Harvey, Phillip)
Van McCoy1940-1979(Allen, Clinton)
Gene Pitney1940-2006
Vicente Fernández1940-2021
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr.1940-
Olivera Katarina1940-
Al Jarreau1940-2017(Alwin, Lopez)
Solomon Burke1940-2010
Mina1940-(Anna, Maria)
Astrud Gilberto1940-2023
Herbie Hancock1940-(Herbert)
Michael Parks1940-2017(Harry, Samuel)
Giorgio Moroder1940-
Ricky Nelson1940-1985(Eric, Hilliard)
Tom Jones1940-(Thomas, John)
Nancy Sinatra1940-(Sandra)
Ringo Starr1940-(Richard)
Will Tura1940-(Arthur, Achiel, Albert)
Johnny Nash1940-2020(John, Lester)
Wilton Felder1940-2015(Lewis)
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian1940-2020
John Lennon1940-1980
Cliff Richard1940-(Harry, Rodger)
Frida Boccara1940-1996(Danielle, Hélène)
Percy Sledge1940-2015
Bruce Channel1940-
Phil Ochs1940-1976(Philip, David)
Frank Zappa1940-1993
Joan Baez1941-
Ewa Demarczyk1941-2020(Maria)
Plácido Domingo1941-
Neil Diamond1941-(Leslie)
Sérgio Mendes1941-
Buffy Sainte-Marie1941-(Beverly)
Wilson Pickett1941-2006
Jeremy Clyde1941-(Michael, Thomas)
Arthur Davies1941-2018
Roberto Carlos1941-
Jacqueline Boyer1941-(Lucienne, Éliane)
Ann-Margret1941-
Ritchie Valens1941-1959(Richard, Steven)
Bob Dylan1941-(Robert, Allen)
Charlie Watts1941-2021(Charles, Robert)
Martha Argerich1941-
Jon Lord1941-2012(Jonathan)
Armando "Chick" Corea1941-2021(Chick)
Jim Rodford1941-2018(James, Walter)
Mišo Kovač1941-(Mate)
Vikki Carr1941-(Florencia, Vicenta)
George Clinton1941-
Manny Charlton1941-2022(Manuel)
Paul Anka1941-(Albert)
David Crosby1941-2023(Van Cortlandt)
Cesária Évora1941-2011
Otis Redding1941-1967(Ray)
Cass Elliot1941-1974(Ellen, Naomi)
Chubby Checker1941-(Ernest)
Paul Simon1941-
Art Garfunkel1941-(Arthur)
Liesbeth List1941-2020(Elisabeth, Elly, Dorathea)
Ray Thomas1941-2018(Raymond)
Edwin Starr1942-2003(Charles)
Claudine Longet1942-(Georgette)
Graham Nash1942-
Carole King1942-
Brian Jones1942-1969
Lou Reed1942-2013(Lewis)
John Cale1942-
"Scatman" John1942-1999(Paul)
Aretha Franklin1942-2018(Louise)
Hayedeh1942-1990(Ma'soumeh)
Barbra Streisand1942-(Barbara, Joan)
Tammy Wynette1942-1998(Virginia)
Lorrie Collins1942-2018(Lawrencine, May)
Carl Douglas1942-(Carlton, George)
Ian Dury1942-2000(Robins)
Billy Swan1942-(William, Lance)
K. T. Oslin1942-2020(Kay, Toinette)
Curtis Mayfield1942-1999
Anneke Grönloh1942-2018(Johanna, Louise)
Paul McCartney1942-(James)
Brian Wilson1942-
Eumir Deodato1942-
Volker David Kirchner1942-2020
Gilberto Gil1942-
Ronnie James Dio1942-2010
Roger McGuinn1942-(James, Jim, Joseph)
Ruža Pospiš-Baldani1942-
Jerry Garcia1942-1995(Jerome)
B. J. Thomas1942-2021(Billy, Joe)
T. H. Vinayakram1942-
Clara Nunes1942-1983
Nurit Hirsh1942-
Isaac Hayes1942-2008
Bisera Veletanlić1942-
Freda Payne1942-(Charcilia)
Jenny Arean1942-(Joanna, Jenneke, Josepha)
Zdenko Runjić1942-2004
Daniel Barenboim1942-
Jimi Hendrix1942-1970(James)
Reinhard Mey1942-(Alfons, Frédérik, Rainer, Friedrich, Michael)
Rob de Nijs1942-(Robert)
Janis Joplin1943-1970
Roy Black1943-1991(Gerhard)
Dennis Edwards1943-2018
George Harrison1943-2001
Jackson C. Frank1943-1999(Carey)
Sly Stone1943-(Sylvester)
George Benson1943-
Vangelis1943-2022(Evangelos, Odysseas)
Tony Christie1943-(Anthony)
Jacques Dutronc1943-
Albano Carrisi1943-
Cilla Black1943-2015(Priscilla, Maria, Veronica)
Johnny Hallyday1943-2017(Jean, Philippe, Léo)
Barry Manilow1943-(Alan)
Raffaella Carrà1943-2021(Maria, Roberta)
Garland Jeffreys1943-
Robbie Robertson1943-2023(Jaime, Royal)
Toto Cutugno1943-2023(Salvatore)
Christine McVie1943-2022(Anne)
Mick Jagger1943-(Michael)
Richard Wright1943-2008(Rick)
Esma Redžepova1943-2016
Edwin Hawkins1943-2018(Reuben)
David Soul1943-2024(Richard)
Đorđe Novković1943-2007
Roger Waters1943-
Gloria Gaynor1943-
Lena Valaitis1943-(Anelė, Luise)
Toni Basil1943-(Antonia, Christina)
Julio Iglesias1943-
Dunja Vejzović1943-
Salvatore Adamo1943-
Joni Mitchell1943-(Roberta, Joan)
Randy Newman1943-(Randall)
Jim Morrison1943-1971(James)
Keith Richards1943-
Mulatu Astatke1943-
John Denver1943-1997(Henry)
Sylvie Vartan1944-
Jimmy Page1944-(James)
Françoise Hardy1944-
Klaus Nomi1944-1983
Roger Daltrey1944-(Harry)
Bobby Womack1944-2014(Robert, Dwayne)
Kiri Te Kanawa1944-
Ric Ocasek1944-2019(Richard, Theodore)
Michael Nyman1944-
Diana Ross1944-
Terry Jacks1944-(Terrence, Ross)
Tony Orlando1944-(Michael, Anthony)
Karel Kryl1944-1994
Gary Glitter1944-(Paul, Francis)
Albert Hammond1944-(Louis)
Joe Cocker1944-2014(John, Robert)
Boudewijn de Groot1944-(Frank)
Patti LaBelle1944-(Patricia, Louise)
Gladys Knight1944-(Maria)
Marvin Hamlisch1944-2012
Michelle Phillips1944-(Holly)
Boz Scaggs1944-(William, Royce)
Jeff Beck1944-2023(Geoffrey)
Will Jennings1944-(Wilbur)
Jimmy Cliff1944-(James)
Nino Bravo1944-1973(Luis, Manuel)
Barry White1944-2003
Peter Cetera1944-(Paul)
Nona Hendryx1944-
George McCrae1944-(Warren)
Tim Rice1944-(Timothy, Miles, Bindon)
Booker T. Jones1944-(Taliaferro)
Agni Baltsa1944-(Agnes)
George Baker1944-(Hans, Johannes)
Brenda Lee1944-(Mae)
Ibrica Jusić1944-(Ibrahim)
Stephen Stills1945-
Rod Stewart1945-(Roderick)
Willeke Alberti1945-
Bob Marley1945-1981(Robert)
Gérard Lenormand1945-(Christian, Éric)
Elkie Brooks1945-(Elaine)
Herman van Veen1945-
Elis Regina1945-1982
Chuck E. Weiss1945-2021(Charles, Edward)
Eric Clapton1945-
Lowell George1945-1979(Thomas)
Ritchie Blackmore1945-(Richard)
Björn Ulvaeus1945-(Kristian)
Bob Seger1945-(Robert, Clark)
Pete Townshend1945-(Peter)
John Fogerty1945-
Anne Murray1945-(Morna)
Carly Simon1945-(Elisabeth)
Debbie Harry1945-(Angela, Deborah, Ann)
Thomas Mapfumo1945-
Ian Gillan1945-
Basil Poledouris1945-2006(Konstantine)
Ronee Blakley1945-(Sue)
Bob Welch1945-2012(Robert, Lawrence)
Itzhak Perlman1945-
Van Morrison1945-(George, Ivan)
José Feliciano1945-(Montserrate)
Liam O'Flynn1945-2018
Gal Costa1945-2022
Don McLean1945-(Donald)
Leslie West1945-2020
Wayne Fontana1945-2020(Glyn, Geoffrey)
J. D. Souther1945-(John, David)
Neil Young1945-
Anni-Frid Lyngstad1945-(Synni)
Bette Midler1945-
Maryla Rodowicz1945-(Antonina)
Marek Grechuta1945-2006
Željko Bebek1945-(Želimir)
Lemmy Kilmister1945-2015(Ian, Fraser)
Atilla Engin1946-2019
John Paul Jones1946-
Syd Barrett1946-2006(Roger, Keith)
Naomi Judd1946-2022(Diana, Ellen)
Howard Carpendale1946-(Victor)
Dolly Parton1946-
Ajda Pekkan1946-(Ayşe)
Syreeta1946-2004
Murray Head1946-(Seafield, Saint-George)
David Gilmour1946-
Klaus Dinger1946-2008
Al Green1946-(Albert)
Thelma Houston1946-
Drafi Deutscher1946-2006(Richard, Franz)
Donovan1946-(Phillips)
Francis Goya1946-(François, Edouard)
Cher1946-(Cherilyn)
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam1946-2020(Sripathi, Panditaradhyula)
Demis Roussos1946-2015(Artemios)
Bon Scott1946-1980
Linda Ronstadt1946-(Maria)
Mireille Mathieu1946-
Liana Isakadze1946-
Ralf Hütter1946-
Keith Moon1946-1978(John)
Barry Gibb1946-
Billy Preston1946-2006(William, Everett)
Freddie Mercury1946-1991(Farrokh)
Loudon Wainwright III1946-(Snowden)
Krzysztof Krawczyk1946-2021
Camilo Sesto1946-2019
King Sunny Adé1946-(Sunday, Adeniyi)
Dan McCafferty1946-2022(William, Daniel)
Richard Carpenter1946-(Lynn)
Howard Shore1946-
Herman Brood1946-2001(Hermanus)
José Carreras1946-(Josep, Maria)
Chava Alberstein1946-(Ewa)
Jane Birkin1946-2023(Mallory)
Benny Andersson1946-(Göran, Bror)
Marianne Faithfull1946-
Patti Smith1946-(Patricia)
David Bowie1947-2016
Melanie1947-2024(Anne)
Rupert Holmes1947-(David)
Doug Yule1947-(Douglas, Alan)
Sandie Shaw1947-(Sandra, Ann)
Jennifer Warnes1947-(Jean)
Kiki Dee1947-(Pauline)
Dónal Lunny1947-
Elton John1947-(Reginald, Kenneth)
Emmylou Harris1947-
Florian Schneider1947-2020
Michèle Torr1947-
Gerry Rafferty1947-2011(Gerald)
Iggy Pop1947-(James, Newell)
Pete Ham1947-1975(Peter, William)
Tom Evans1947-1983(Thomas)
Laurie Anderson1947-(Laura, Phillips)
Mick Fleetwood1947-(Michael)
Betty Buckley1947-
Haruomi Hosono1947-
Jerney Kaagman1947-(Christina, Henriette)
Arlo Guthrie1947-(Davy)
Wolfgang Flür1947-
Brian May1947-(Harold)
Carlos Santana1947-
Don Henley1947-(Donald)
L. Subramaniam1947-(Lakshminarayana)
Massiel1947-(María, de los Ángeles, Felisa, Félix)
Sofia Rotaru1947-(Sofiia, Sofiya)
Rupert Hine1947-2020(Neville)
Michael "Meat Loaf" Aday1947-2022(Marvin, Lee)
Barbara Dickson1947-(Ruth)
Mariska Veres1947-2006(Maria, Elizabeth)
Julien Clerc1947-(Paul, Alain, Auguste)
Brian Johnson1947-
Millie Small1947-2020(Millicent, Dolly, May)
France Gall1947-2018(Isabelle, Geneviève, Marie, Anne)
Hümeyra Akbay1947-
Glenn Tipton1947-(Raymond)
Minnie Riperton1947-1979(Julia)
Oliver Dragojević1947-2018
Gregg Allman1947-2017(Gregory, LeNoir)
Gigliola Cinquetti1947-
Paco de Lucía1947-2014(Francisco)
Cozy Powell1947-1998(Colin, Trevor)
Jeff Lynne1947-(Jeffrey)
Burton Cummings1947-
Tony Iommi1948-(Anthony)
Kenny Loggins1948-(Kenneth, Clark)
John Carpenter1948-
Anita Pointer1948-2022(Marie)
Alice Cooper1948-(Vincent, Damon)
José José1948-2019(Rómulo)
Elaine Paige1948-(Jill)
Getty Kaspers1948-
James Taylor1948-
Andrew Lloyd Webber1948-
Steven Tyler1948-
Klaus Röder1948-
Patty Pravo1948-(Nicoletta)
Radojka Šverko1948-
Jan Hammer1948-
Wayne Kramer1948-2024
Steve Winwood1948-(Stephen)
Brian Eno1948-
Grace Jones1948-(Beverly)
Leo Sayer1948-(Gerard, Hugh)
Klaus Meine1948-
Stevie Nicks1948-(Stephanie, Lynn)
John Bonham1948-1980(Henry)
Lynsey de Paul1948-2014(Lyndsey)
Don Airey1948-(Donald, Smith)
Raffi1948-
Cat Stevens1948-(Steven, Yusuf, Demetre)
Barry Hay1948-(Andrew)
Robert Plant1948-
Jean-Michel Jarre1948-
Danny Seraphine1948-(Daniel, Peter)
Sam Hui1948-(Samuel, Koon-kit)
Kemal Monteno1948-2015
Tommy Peoples1948-2018
Olivia Newton-John1948-2022
Jackson Browne1948-
Séverine1948-(Josiane)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan1948-1997(Pervez)
Marcia Barrett1948-
Tom Jackson1948-(Thomas, Dale)
Telma Hopkins1948-
Lulu1948-(Marie, McDonald, McLaughlin)
Ozzy Osbourne1948-(John, Michael)
Marius Müller-Westernhagen1948-
Ted Nugent1948-(Theodore, Anthony)
Alan Parsons1948-
Donna Summer1948-2012
Robert Palmer1949-2003(Allen)
Joaquín Sabina1949-(Ramón)
Valery Leontiev1949-
Eddie Money1949-2019(Edward, Joseph)
Vicki Lawrence1949-(Ann)
Dave Greenfield1949-2020(David, Paul)
Lene Lovich1949-(Lili, Marlene)
Alla Pugacheva1949-
Patti LuPone1949-(Ann)
John Miles1949-2021
Billy Joel1949-(William)
Joseph "Dusty" Hill1949-2021(Michael)
Urbanus1949-(Urbain, Joseph)
Frank Beard1949-(Lee)
Ebi1949-(Ebrahim)
Lionel Richie1949-
Joseph "Geezer" Butler1949-(Terence, Michael)
Alan Menken1949-
Roger Taylor1949-
Eric Carmen1949-2024(Howard)
Mark Knopfler1949-
Gene Simmons1949-(Chaim)
Salif Keita1949-
Hugh Cornwell1949-(Alan)
Dado Topić1949-(Adolf)
Bruce Springsteen1949-
Giorgos Dalaras1949-(George)
André Rieu1949-
Bobby Farrell1949-2010(Roberto, Alfonso)
Idir1949-2020(Hamid, Yidir)
Bonnie Raitt1949-(Lynn)
Bonnie St. Claire1949-(Bonje, Cornelia)
G. G. Anderson1949-(Gerd, Günther)
Tom Waits1949-(Thomas)
Randy Owen1949-(Yeuell)
Billy Gibbons1949-(William, Frederick)
Maurice Gibb1949-2003
Robin Gibb1949-2012
Miri Aloni1949-
Juan Gabriel1950-2016(Alberto)
Carlo Siliotto1950-
Roma Ryan1950-
Natalie Cole1950-2015(Maria)
Peter Gabriel1950-
Josipa Lisac1950-
Lenny Kuhr1950-(Helena, Hubertina, Johanna)
Karen Carpenter1950-1983(Anne)
Bobby McFerrin1950-
Jørgen Olsen1950-
Parisa1950-(Fātemeh)
Goran Bregović1950-
Alan Silvestri1950-
Claudio Lolli1950-2018
Agnetha Fältskog1950-(Åse, Agneta)
David Cassidy1950-2017(Bruce)
Peter Frampton1950-
Vadim Brodski1950-(Wadim)
Googoosh1950-(Faegheh)
Stevie Wonder1950-(Stevland, Hardaway)
Bernie Taupin1950-(Bernard, John)
Deniece Williams1950-(June, Niecy)
Suzi Quatro1950-(Susan, Kay)
Joey Kramer1950-(Joseph, Michael)
John Paul Young1950-(Inglis)
Bonnie Pointer1950-2020(Patricia, Eva)
Frank Stallone1950-(Francesco)
Neda Ukraden1950-
Vicky Leandrosc. 1950-(Vasiliki)
Eliza Gilkyson1950-
Neil Murray1950-(Philip)
Michael Rother1950-
Joe Perry1950-(Joseph, Anthony)
Eddie Clarke1950-2018(Edward, Allan)
Tom Petty1950-2017(Thomas)
Camarón de la Isla1950-1992(José)
Joe Hisaishi1950-(Mamoru)
Charlie McGettigan1950-(Charles, Joseph)
Dan Hartman1950-1994(Daniel, Earl)
Haris Alexiou1950-(Hariklia)
Ellen Foley1951-
Phil Collins1951-(Philip)
Dave Benton1951-(Efrén, Eugene)
Dariush1951-
Zakir Hussain1951-
Izhar Cohen1951-
Janis Ian1951-(Eddy)
Peabo Bryson1951-(Robert, Peapo)
Luther Vandross1951-2005
Bernie Marsden1951-2023(Bernard, John)
Joy Harjo1951-
Joey Ramone1951-2001(Jeffrey, Ross)
Zdravko Čolić1951-
Bonnie Tyler1951-(Gaynor)