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
Amir Khusrau1253-1325
Guillaume de Machautc. 1300-1377
Josquin des Prezc. 1450-1521(Desprez)
Jacquet of Mantua1483-1559(Colebault)
Clément Janequinc. 1485-1558
Claudin de Sermisyc. 1490-1562
Jacquet de Berchemc. 1505-15xx(Berchem)
Jacques Arcadeltc. 1507-1568
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrinac. 1525-1594
Orlande de Lassusc. 1532-1594(di Lasso)
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(Lulli)
Dieterich Buxtehude1637-1707
Marc-Antoine Charpentier1643-1704
Arcangelo Corelli1653-1713
Johann Pachelbel1653-1706
Ludovico Roncalli1654-1713
Henry Purcell1659-1695
Alessandro Scarlatti1660-1725
Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet1665-1729
François Couperin1668-1733
Turlough O'Carolan1670-1738
Tomaso Albinoni1671-1751
Jeremiah Clarkec. 1674-1707
Antonio Vivaldi1678-1741
Jan Dismas Zelenka1679-1745
Georg Philipp Telemann1681-1767
Jean-Philippe Rameau1683-1764
Georg Friedrich Händel1685-1759
Johann Sebastian Bach1685-1750
Domenico Scarlatti1685-1757
Giuseppe Tartini1692-1770
Louis-Claude Daquin1694-1772
Johann Adolph Hasse1699-1783
Michel Blavet1700-1768
Farinelli1705-1782(Broschi)
Johann Adolf Scheibe1708-1776
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi1710-1736
Thomas Arne1710-1778
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach1714-1788
Christoph Willibald Gluck1714-1787
Leopold Mozart1719-1787
Dismas Hataš1724-1777
Niel Gow1727-1807
Pasquale Anfossi1727-1797
Joseph Haydn1732-1809
François-Joseph Gossec1734-1829
Johann Christian Bach1735-1782
Luigi Boccherini1743-1805
Charles Dibdin1745-1814
Antonio Salieri1750-1825
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756-1791
Luigi Cherubini1760-1842
Michał Kleofas Ogiński1765-1833
Ludwig van Beethoven1770-1827(Beethoven)
Niccolò Paganini1782-1840
Carl Maria von Weber1786-1826
Carl Czerny1791-1857
Gioachino Rossini1792-1868
Franz Berwald1796-1868
Franz Schubert1797-1828
Gaetano Donizetti1797-1848
Fromental Halévy1799-1862
Ferdo Livadić1799-1879(Wiesner)
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad1801-1878
Vincenzo Bellini1801-1835
Adolphe Adam1803-1856
Hector Berlioz1803-1869
Johann Strauss I1804-1849
Mikhail Glinka1804-1857
Fanny Mendelssohn1805-1847
Maria Malibran1808-1836
Felix Mendelssohn1809-1847
Frédéric Chopin1810-1849
Robert Schumann1810-1856
Franz Liszt1811-1886
Richard Wagner1813-1883
Giuseppe Verdi1813-1901
Adolf von Henselt1814-1889(Henselt)
Charles Gounod1818-1893
Jacques Offenbach1819-1880
Clara Schumann1819-1896
Jenny Lind1820-1887
César Franck1822-1890
Bedřich Smetana1824-1884
Anton Bruckner1824-1896
Hervé1825-1892(Ronger)
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
Léo Delibes1836-1891
Mily Balakirev1837-1910
Adolf Jensen1837-1879
Georges Bizet1838-1875
Modest Mussorgsky1839-1881
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893
Antonín Dvořák1841-1904
Jules Massenet1842-1912
Arthur Sullivan1842-1900
Edvard Grieg1843-1907
Pablo de Sarasate1844-1908
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov1844-1908(Korsakow)
Gabriel Fauré1845-1924
Hubert Parry1848-1918
Adolph Brodsky1851-1929(Brodskij, Brodskiy)
Leoš Janáček1854-1928
Engelbert Humperdinck1854-1921
John Philip Sousa1854-1932
Ruggero Leoncavallo1857-1919
Edward Elgar1857-1934
Giacomo Puccini1858-1924
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov1859-1935
Emanuil Manolov1860-1902
Isaac Albéniz1860-1909
Gustave Charpentier1860-1956
Gustav Mahler1860-1911
Edward MacDowell1860-1908
Frederick Delius1862-1934
Claude Debussy1862-1918
Meliton Balanchivadze1862-1937
Pietro Mascagni1863-1945
Milka Trnina1863-1941(Ternina)
Richard Strauss1864-1949
Paul Dukas1865-1935
Jean Sibelius1865-1957
Erik Satie1866-1925
Scott Joplinc. 1867-1917
Arturo Toscanini1867-1957
Amy Beach1867-1944
Franz Lehár1870-1948
Aleksandr Skriabin1871-1915(Scriabin)
Ralph Vaughan Williams1872-1958
Feodor Chaliapin1873-1938(Shalyapin)
Enrico Caruso1873-1921
Sergei Rachmaninoff1873-1943
Arnold Schoenberg1874-1951(Schönberg)
Gustav Holst1874-1934
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis1875-1911
Maurice Ravel1875-1937
Pablo Casals1876-1973(Defilló)
Adolf Wiklund1879-1950
Béla Bartók1881-1945
Geraldine Farrar1882-1967
Igor Stravinsky1882-1971
Percy Grainger1882-1961
Anton Webern1883-1945
Jerome Kern1885-1945
Alban Berg1885-1935
Üzeyir Hacıbəyov1885-1948(Hajibeyov)
Dooley Wilson1886-1953
Al Jolson1886-1950(Yoelson)
Arthur Rubinstein1887-1982
Eubie Blake1887-1983
Luckey Roberts1887-1968
Nadia Boulanger1887-1979
Max Steiner1888-1971
Irving Berlin1888-1989
Maurice Chevalier1888-1972
Noble Sissle1889-1975
Stanley Holloway1890-1982
Carlos Gardel1890-1935
Sergei Prokofiev1891-1953
Cole Porter1891-1964
Adolf Busch1891-1952
Fanny Brice1891-1951(Borach)
Sayed Darwish1892-1923
Willie "The Lion" Smith1893-1973(Bertholf)
Isham Jones1894-1956
James P. Johnson1894-1955
Viorica Ursuleac1894-1985
Bessie Smith1894-1937
Peter Warlock1894-1930(Heseltine)
Lucille Hegamin1894-1970(Nelson)
William Grant Still1895-1978
Carl Orff1895-1982
Oscar Hammerstein II1895-1960
Jakov Gotovac1895-1982
Paul Hindemith1895-1963
Andy Razaf1895-1973(Razafinkarefo)
Ethel Waters1896-1977
Ruth Etting1896-1978
Virgil Thomson1896-1989
Marian Anderson1897-1993
Jimmie Rodgers1897-1933
Fletcher "Smack" Henderson1897-1952
Claire Born1898-1965
George Gershwin1898-1937(Gershwine)
Lotte Lenya1898-1981(Blamauer, Lenja)
Umm Kulthum1898-1975(as-Sayed, el-Beltagi)
Edward "Duke" Ellington1899-1974
Hoagy Carmichael1899-1981
Noël Coward1899-1973
Münir Nurettin Selçuk1900-1981
Kurt Weill1900-1950
Aaron Copland1900-1990
Nelson Eddy1901-1967
Rudy Vallée1901-1986
Louis Armstrong1901-1971
Adelaide Hall1901-1993
Mohammed Abdel Wahab1902-1991(Abd El-Wahhab)
Jimmie Lunceford1902-1947
Richard Rodgers1902-1979
Vladimir Horowitz1903-1989
Harry "Bing" Crosby1903-1977
Aram Khachaturian1903-1978
Jeanette MacDonald1903-1965
Johannes Heesters1903-2011
Earl Hines1903-1983
Glenn Miller1904-1944
Thomas "Fats" Waller1904-1943
Phil Harris1904-1995
Maria von Trapp1905-1987
Ozzie Nelson1906-1975
Zinka Milanov1906-1989(Kunc)
Andria Balanchivadze1906-1992
Josephine Baker1906-1975
Dmitri Shostakovich1906-1975
Zari Elmassian1906-1990(Vartian)
Gene Autry1907-1998
Cab Calloway1907-1994
Ethel Merman1908-1984(Zimmermann)
Herbert von Karajan1908-1989(Karajan)
Tito Guízar1908-1999(Tolentino)
Olivier Messiaen1908-1992
Carmen Miranda1909-1955(da Cunha)
Eddy Duchin1909-1951
Benny Goodman1909-1986
Miliza Korjus1909-1980
Django Reinhardt1910-1953
Samuel Barber1910-1981
Carmine Coppola1910-1991
Willie Smith1910-1967
Imperio Argentina1910-2003(Nile, del Río)
Danny Kaye1911-1987(Kaminsky)
Robert Johnson1911-1938
"Big" Joe Turner1911-1985
Bill Monroe1911-1996
Jorge Negrete1911-1953(Moreno)
Nino Rota1911-1979(Rinaldi)
Władysław Szpilman1911-2000
André Claveau1911-2003
Woody Guthrie1912-1967
John Cage1912-1992
Muddy Waters1913-1983(Morganfield)
Woody Herman1913-1987
Sylvia Fine1913-1991(Kaye)
Raimond Valgre1913-1949(Tiisel)
Benjamin Britten1913-1976
Tony Martin1913-2012(Morris)
Dorival Caymmi1914-2008
Adolph Green1914-2002
Sister Rosetta Tharpe1915-1973(Atkins, Nubin)
Boy Edgar1915-1980
Billie Holiday1915-1959(Harris)
Les Paul1915-2009
Frank Sinatra1915-1998
Édith Piaf1915-1963
Yehudi Menuhin1916-1999
Dinah Shore1916-1994
Bismillah Khan1916-2006
M. S. Subbulakshmi1916-2004
Toon Hermans1916-2000
Vera Lynn1917-2020
Ella Fitzgerald1917-1996
Dean Martin1917-1995
Wim Sonneveld1917-1974
Lena Horne1917-2010
John Lee Hooker1917-2001
Thelonious Monk1917-1982
John "Dizzy" Gillespie1917-1993
Jo Stafford1917-2008
Pedro Infante1917-1957(Cruz)
Elmore James1918-1963(Brooks)
Pearl Bailey1918-1990
Birgit Nilsson1918-2005
Leonard Bernstein1918-1990
Dick Haymes1918-1980
Lucille Dumont1919-2016
Nat "King" Cole1919-1965
Pete Seeger1919-2014
Anita O'Day1919-2006(Colton)
Yara Bernette1920-2002(Epstein)
Ravi Shankar1920-2012(Shaunkor, Chowdhury)
Peggy Lee1920-2002(Egstrom)
Amália Rodrigues1920-1999(Rebordão)
Charlie Parker1920-1955
Dave Brubeck1920-2012
Ástor Piazzolla1921-1992
Darío Moreno1921-1968(Arugete)
Edvard Mirzoyan1921-2012
Kitty Kallen1921-2016
Phạm Duy1921-2013
Yves Montand1921-1991
Georges Brassens1921-1981
Deanna Durbin1921-2013
Bhimsen Joshi1922-2011
Bobby Capó1922-1989(Rodríguez)
Renata Tebaldi1922-2004
Doris Day1922-2019(Kappelhoff)
Elmer Bernstein1922-2004
Gale Storm1922-2009(Cottle)
Charles Mingus1922-1979
Judy Garland1922-1969
Yvonne De Carlo1922-2007(Middleton)
Yma Sumac1922-2008(Chávarri, del Castillo)
Victoria de los Ángeles1923-2005(López, García)
Lola Flores1923-1995(Ruiz)
Celeste Rodrigues1923-2018(Rebordão)
Shoshana Damari1923-2006
György Ligeti1923-2006
Rose Marie1923-2017(Mazzetta)
Hank Williams1923-1953
Văn Cao1923-1995(Nguyễn)
Maria Callas1923-1977(Kalogeropoulos)
Lys Assia1924-2018(Schärer)
Angela Morley1924-2009(Stott)
Sarah Vaughan1924-1990
Milko Kelemen1924-2018
Henry Mancini1924-1994
Franz Mazura1924-2020
Theodore Bikel1924-2015
Charles Aznavour1924-2018(Aznavourian)
Rajka Vali1924-2011(Raukar)
Maurice Jarre1924-2009
Altamiro Carrilho1924-2012(Aquino)
Mohammed Rafi1924-1980
Pierre Boulez1925-2016
Marius Constant1925-2004
Jørgen Ingmann1925-2015(Pedersen)
Bobbejaan Schoepen1925-2010
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau1925-2012
Bill Haley1925-1981
Mikis Theodorakis1925-2021
Sulkhan Tsintsadze1925-1991
Jimmy Reed1925-1976
Charlie Byrd1925-1999
B.B. King1925-2015
Miljenko Prohaska1925-2014
Johnny Mandel1925-2020
Hildegard Knef1925-2002(Neff)
George Martin1926-2016
O. P. Nayyar1926-2007
José Alfredo Jiménez1926-1973(Sandoval)
Teddy Scholten1926-2010(van Zwieteren)
Miles Davis1926-1991
Tony Bennett1926-2023(Benedetto)
John Coltrane1926-1967
Julie London1926-2000(Peck)
Willy Alberti1926-1985
Chuck Berry1926-2017
Joan Sutherland1926-2010
Alfredo Kraus1927-1999
Mstislav Rostropovich1927-2007
Eartha Kitt1927-2008
Antônio Carlos Jobim1927-1994
Stan Getz1927-1991(Gayetski)
Juliette Gréco1927-2020
Leontyne Price1927-
Harry Belafonte1927-2023(Bellanfanti)
Attila Zoller1927-1998
Al Martino1927-2009(Cini)
Jean-Claude Pascal1927-1992(Villeminot)
Gilbert Bécaud1927-2001
Cleo Laine1927-(Campbell)
Patti Page1927-2013(Fowler)
Hank Ballard1927-2003(Kendricks)
Ram Narayan1927-
Leyla Gencer1928-2008
Domenico Modugno1928-1994
Ruth Brown1928-2006
Antoine "Fats" Domino1928-2017
Sara Montiel1928-2013(Abad, Fernández)
Serge Gainsbourg1928-1991
Tom Lehrer1928-
Burt Bacharach1928-2023
Rosemary Clooney1928-2002
Vic Damone1928-2018(Farinola)
Eddie Fisher1928-2010
Eydie Gormé1928-2013(Gormezano)
Karlheinz Stockhausen1928-2007
Ennio Morricone1928-2020
Ernestine Anderson1928-2016
Bo Diddley1928-2008(Bates)
Hal Blaine1929-2019(Belsky)
Jerry Goldsmith1929-2004
Cecil Taylor1929-2018
Jacques Brel1929-1978
James Last1929-2015
Evangelina Elizondo1929-2017(López-Llera)
Lennie Niehaus1929-2020
James Shigeta1929-2014
Abdel Halim Hafez1929-1977(Shabana)
José Afonso1929-1987
Lata Mangeshkar1929-2022
LaVern Baker1929-1997
Viguen1929-2003(Derderian, Terterian)
Chet Baker1929-1988
Munir Bashir1930-1997
Bobby Bland1930-2013(Brooks)
Stephen Sondheim1930-2021
Heather Harper1930-2019
Sally Ann Howes1930-2021
Ray Charles1930-2004(Robinson)
Michiya Mihashi1930-1996
Sam Cooke1931-1964
Mamie Van Doren1931-(Olander)
Margareta Hallin1931-2020(Ekerot)
João Gilberto1931-2019(Prado, Pereira, de Oliveira)
Della Reese1931-2017
George Jones1931-2013
Nello Santi1931-2020
Diana Dors1931-1984(Fluck)
Ike Turner1931-2007
John Williams1932-
Johnny Cash1932-2003
Don Francks1932-2016
Miriam "Mama Africa" Makeba1932-2008
Lola Beltrán1932-1996(Ruiz)
Debbie Reynolds1932-2016
Carl Perkins1932-1998
Loretta Lynn1932-2022
Eddy Wally1932-2016(Van De Walle)
Patsy Cline1932-1963(Hensley)
Glenn Gould1932-1982
Anatoliy Solovianenko1932-1999
Victor Jara1932-1973
Clyde McPhatter1932-1972
Petula Clark1932-
Corry Brokken1932-2016
Little Richard1932-2020(Penniman)
Charlie Rich1932-1995
Dalida1933-1987(Gigliotti)
Yoko Ono1933-
Nina Simone1933-2003(Waymon)
Lloyd Price1933-2021
Quincy Jones1933-
Teresa Berganza1933-2022
Montserrat Caballé1933-2018
Willie Nelson1933-
James Brown1933-2006
Claudio Abbado1933-2014
Ramses Shaffy1933-2009
John Barry1933-2011
Krzysztof Penderecki1933-2020
Henryk Górecki1933-2010
Georges Moustaki1934-2013(Mustacchi)
Cedar Walton1934-2013
Otis Rush1934-2018
Frankie Valli1934-(Castelluccio)
Suthep Wongkamhaeng1934-2020
Pat Boone1934-
Jackie Wilson1934-1984
Mieke Telkamp1934-2016(Telgenkamp)
Leonard Cohen1934-2016
Udo Jürgens1934-2014(Bockelmann)
Nana Mouskouri1934-
Willi Tokarev1934-2019
Rudi Carrell1934-2006(Kesselaar)
Del Shannon1934-1990(Westover)
Noam Sheriff1935-2018
Elvis Presley1935-1977
Gene Vincent1935-1971(Craddock)
Sonny Bono1935-1998
Ciarán Bourke1935-1988
Mirella Freni1935-2020(Fregni)
Pierre Kartner1935-2022
Steve Lawrence1935-(Liebowitz)
Mercedes Sosa1935-2009
Sabahudin Kurt1935-2018
Joe Tex1935-1982(Arrington, Hazziez)
Arvo Pärt1935-
Jerry Lee Lewis1935-2022
Johnny Mathis1935-
Luciano Pavarotti1935-2007
Alain Barrière1935-2019(Bellec)
Fairuz1935-(Haddad)
Ivica Šerfezi1935-2004
Naseem Begum1936-1971
Roger Whittaker1936-2023
Glen Campbell1936-2017
Roy Orbison1936-1988
Zubin Mehta1936-
Bobby Darin1936-1973(Cassotto)
Maysa Matarazzo1936-1977(Figueira, Monjardim)
Kris Kristofferson1936-2024
Rex Gildo1936-1999(Hirtreiter)
Gabi Novak1936-
Buddy Guy1936-
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman1936-2007
Buddy Holly1936-1959(Holley)
Shirley Bassey1937-
Philip Glass1937-
Don Everly1937-2021
Roberta Flack1937-
Merle Haggard1937-2016
Dick Dale1937-2019(Monsour)
Trini Lopez1937-2020
Hibari Misora1937-1989
Freddy Fender1937-2006(Garza, Huerta)
Waylon Jennings1937-2002
Ayla Algan1937-
"Little" Willie John1937-1968
Connie Francis1937-(Franconero)
Adriano Celentano1938-
Shivkumar Sharma1938-2022
Billie Jo Spears1938-2011(Moore)
Vladimir Vysotsky1938-1980
Etta James1938-2012(Hawkins)
Duane Eddy1938-
Lucille Starr1938-2020(Savoie)
Grethe Ingmann1938-1990(Clemmensen)
Hariprasad Chaurasia1938-
Bill Withers1938-2020
Isabelle Aubret1938-(Coquerelle)
Arsen Dedić1938-2015
Connie Stevens1938-(Ingoglia)
Kenny Rogers1938-2020
Jet Black1938-2022(Duffy)
Ben E. King1938-2015
Tereza Kesovija1938-
Fela Kuti1938-1997
Nico1938-1988(Päffgen)
Joe Dassin1938-1980
Amanda Lear1939-
Phil Everly1939-2014
Ray Manzarek1939-2013
Czesław Niemen1939-2004
Trịnh Công Sơn1939-2001
Neil Sedaka1939-
Jorge Ben1939-(Menezes, Jor)
Marvin Gaye1939-1984
Crispian St. Peters1939-2010(Smith)
Dusty Springfield1939-1999(O'Brien)
Salomé1939-(Marco, Poquet)
R. D. Burman1939-1994
Karel Gott1939-2019
Joe Dolan1939-2007
Ali Farka Touré1939-2006
Betty Everett1939-2001
Tina Turner1939-2023(Bullock)
Michael Moorcock1939-
Phil Spector1939-2021
Van McCoy1940-1979
Gene Pitney1940-2006
Vicente Fernández1940-2021(Gómez)
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr.1940-
Olivera Katarina1940-(Petrović)
Al Jarreau1940-2017
Solomon Burke1940-2010
Mina1940-(Mazzini)
Astrud Gilberto1940-2023
Herbie Hancock1940-
Michael Parks1940-2017
Giorgio Moroder1940-
Ricky Nelson1940-1985
Tom Jones1940-(Woodward)
Nancy Sinatra1940-
Ringo Starr1940-(Starkey)
Will Tura1940-(Blanckaert)
Johnny Nash1940-2020
Wilton Felder1940-2015
Mohammad-Reza Shajarian1940-2020
John Lennon1940-1980
Cliff Richard1940-(Webb)
Frida Boccara1940-1996
Percy Sledge1940-2015
Bruce Channel1940-(McMeans)
Phil Ochs1940-1976
Frank Zappa1940-1993
Joan Baez1941-
Ewa Demarczyk1941-2020
Plácido Domingo1941-
Neil Diamond1941-
Sérgio Mendes1941-
Buffy Sainte-Marie1941-
Wilson Pickett1941-2006
Jeremy Clyde1941-
Arthur Davies1941-2018
Roberto Carlos1941-(Braga)
Jacqueline Boyer1941-(Ducos)
Ann-Margret1941-(Olsson)
Ritchie Valens1941-1959(Valenzuela)
Bob Dylan1941-(Zimmerman)
Charlie Watts1941-2021
Martha Argerich1941-
Jon Lord1941-2012
Armando "Chick" Corea1941-2021
Jim Rodford1941-2018
Mišo Kovač1941-
Vikki Carr1941-(de Casillas, Martinez, Cardona)
George Clinton1941-
Manny Charlton1941-2022
Paul Anka1941-
David Crosby1941-2023
Cesária Évora1941-2011
Otis Redding1941-1967
Cass Elliot1941-1974(Cohen)
Chubby Checker1941-(Evans)
Paul Simon1941-
Art Garfunkel1941-
Liesbeth List1941-2020(Driessen)
Ray Thomas1941-2018
Edwin Starr1942-2003(Hatcher)
Claudine Longet1942-
Graham Nash1942-
Carole King1942-
Brian Jones1942-1969
Lou Reed1942-2013
John Cale1942-
"Scatman" John1942-1999(Larkin)
Aretha Franklin1942-2018
Hayedeh1942-1990(Dadehbala)
Barbra Streisand1942-
Tammy Wynette1942-1998(Pugh)
Lorrie Collins1942-2018
Carl Douglas1942-
Ian Dury1942-2000
Billy Swan1942-
K. T. Oslin1942-2020
Curtis Mayfield1942-1999
Anneke Grönloh1942-2018
Paul McCartney1942-
Brian Wilson1942-
Eumir Deodato1942-
Volker David Kirchner1942-2020
Gilberto Gil1942-
Ronnie James Dio1942-2010
Roger McGuinn1942-
Ruža Pospiš-Baldani1942-
Jerry Garcia1942-1995
B. J. Thomas1942-2021
T. H. Vinayakram1942-
Clara Nunes1942-1983
Nurit Hirsh1942-
Isaac Hayes1942-2008
Bisera Veletanlić1942-
Freda Payne1942-
Jenny Arean1942-(Klarenbeek)
Zdenko Runjić1942-2004
Daniel Barenboim1942-
Jimi Hendrix1942-1970
Reinhard Mey1942-(May, Yondraschek)
Rob de Nijs1942-
Janis Joplin1943-1970
Roy Black1943-1991(Höllerich)
Dennis Edwards1943-2018
George Harrison1943-2001
Jackson C. Frank1943-1999
Sly Stone1943-(Stewart)
George Benson1943-
Vangelis1943-2022(Papathanassiou)
Tony Christie1943-(Fitzgerald)
Jacques Dutronc1943-
Albano Carrisi1943-
Cilla Black1943-2015(White)
Johnny Hallyday1943-2017(Smet)
Barry Manilow1943-(Pincus)
Raffaella Carrà1943-2021(Pelloni)
Garland Jeffreys1943-
Robbie Robertson1943-2023
Toto Cutugno1943-2023
Christine McVie1943-2022(Perfect)
Mick Jagger1943-
Richard Wright1943-2008
Esma Redžepova1943-2016
Edwin Hawkins1943-2018
David Soul1943-2024(Solberg)
Đorđe Novković1943-2007
Roger Waters1943-
Gloria Gaynor1943-
Lena Valaitis1943-(Valaitytė)
Toni Basil1943-(Basilotta)
Julio Iglesias1943-
Dunja Vejzović1943-(Crnković)
Salvatore Adamo1943-
Joni Mitchell1943-
Randy Newman1943-
Jim Morrison1943-1971
Keith Richards1943-
Mulatu Astatke1943-
John Denver1943-1997(Deutschendorf)
Sylvie Vartan1944-
Jimmy Page1944-
Françoise Hardy1944-
Klaus Nomi1944-1983(Sperber)
Roger Daltrey1944-
Bobby Womack1944-2014
Kiri Te Kanawa1944-
Ric Ocasek1944-2019(Otcasek)
Michael Nyman1944-
Diana Ross1944-
Terry Jacks1944-
Tony Orlando1944-(Cassavitis)
Karel Kryl1944-1994
Gary Glitter1944-(Gadd)
Albert Hammond1944-
Joe Cocker1944-2014
Boudewijn de Groot1944-
Patti LaBelle1944-(Holt)
Gladys Knight1944-
Marvin Hamlisch1944-2012
Michelle Phillips1944-(Gilliam)
Boz Scaggs1944-
Jeff Beck1944-2023
Will Jennings1944-
Jimmy Cliff1944-(Chambers)
Nino Bravo1944-1973(Ferri, Llopis)
Barry White1944-2003
Peter Cetera1944-
Nona Hendryx1944-
George McCrae1944-
Tim Rice1944-
Booker T. Jones1944-
Agni Baltsa1944-
George Baker1944-(Bouwens)
Brenda Lee1944-(Tarpley)
Ibrica Jusić1944-
Stephen Stills1945-
Rod Stewart1945-
Willeke Alberti1945-
Bob Marley1945-1981
Gérard Lenormand1945-
Elkie Brooks1945-(Bookbinder)
Herman van Veen1945-
Elis Regina1945-1982(Carvalho, Costa)
Chuck E. Weiss1945-2021
Eric Clapton1945-
Lowell George1945-1979
Ritchie Blackmore1945-
Björn Ulvaeus1945-
Bob Seger1945-
Pete Townshend1945-
John Fogerty1945-
Anne Murray1945-
Carly Simon1945-
Debbie Harry1945-(Tremble)
Thomas Mapfumo1945-
Ian Gillan1945-
Basil Poledouris1945-2006
Ronee Blakley1945-
Bob Welch1945-2012
Van Morrison1945-
Itzhak Perlman1945-
José Feliciano1945-(García)
Liam O'Flynn1945-2018
Gal Costa1945-2022
Don McLean1945-
Leslie West1945-2020(Weinstein)
Wayne Fontana1945-2020(Ellis)
J. D. Souther1945-
Neil Young1945-
Anni-Frid Lyngstad1945-
Bette Midler1945-
Maryla Rodowicz1945-
Marek Grechuta1945-2006
Željko Bebek1945-
Lemmy Kilmister1945-2015
Atilla Engin1946-2019
John Paul Jones1946-
Syd Barrett1946-2006
Naomi Judd1946-2022
Howard Carpendale1946-
Dolly Parton1946-
Ajda Pekkan1946-
Syreeta1946-2004(Wright)
Murray Head1946-
David Gilmour1946-
Klaus Dinger1946-2008
Al Green1946-
Thelma Houston1946-(Jackson)
Drafi Deutscher1946-2006
Donovan1946-(Leitch)
Francis Goya1946-(Weyer)
Cher1946-(Sarkisian)
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam1946-2020
Demis Roussos1946-2015(Ventouris)
Bon Scott1946-1980
Linda Ronstadt1946-
Mireille Mathieu1946-
Liana Isakadze1946-
Ralf Hütter1946-
Keith Moon1946-1978
Barry Gibb1946-
Billy Preston1946-2006
Freddie Mercury1946-1991(Bulsara)
Loudon Wainwright III1946-
Krzysztof Krawczyk1946-2021
Camilo Sesto1946-2019
King Sunny Adé1946-(Adegeye)
Dan McCafferty1946-2022
Richard Carpenter1946-
Howard Shore1946-
Herman Brood1946-2001
José Carreras1946-(Coll)
Chava Alberstein1946-(Alberstei)
Jane Birkin1946-2023
Benny Andersson1946-
Marianne Faithfull1946-
Patti Smith1946-
David Bowie1947-2016
Melanie1947-2024(Safka, Schekeryk)
Rupert Holmes1947-(Goldstein)
Doug Yule1947-
Sandie Shaw1947-(Goodrich)
Jennifer Warnes1947-
Kiki Dee1947-(Matthews)
Dónal Lunny1947-
Elton John1947-(Dwight)
Emmylou Harris1947-
Florian Schneider1947-2020(Esleben)
Michèle Torr1947-
Gerry Rafferty1947-2011
Iggy Pop1947-(Osterberg)
Pete Ham1947-1975
Tom Evans1947-1983
Laurie Anderson1947-
Mick Fleetwood1947-
Betty Buckley1947-
Haruomi Hosono1947-
Jerney Kaagman1947-
Arlo Guthrie1947-
Wolfgang Flür1947-
Brian May1947-
Carlos Santana1947-
Don Henley1947-
L. Subramaniam1947-
Massiel1947-(Santamaría, Espinosa)
Sofia Rotaru1947-
Rupert Hine1947-2020
Michael "Meat Loaf" Aday1947-2022
Barbara Dickson1947-
Mariska Veres1947-2006(Ender)
Julien Clerc1947-(Leclerc)
Brian Johnson1947-
Millie Small1947-2020
France Gall1947-2018
Hümeyra Akbay1947-
Glenn Tipton1947-
Minnie Riperton1947-1979
Oliver Dragojević1947-2018
Gregg Allman1947-2017
Gigliola Cinquetti1947-
Paco de Lucía1947-2014(Sánchez, Gómez)
Cozy Powell1947-1998(Flooks)
Jeff Lynne1947-
Burton Cummings1947-
Tony Iommi1948-
Kenny Loggins1948-
John Carpenter1948-
Anita Pointer1948-2022
Alice Cooper1948-(Furnier)
José José1948-2019(Sosa, Ortiz)
Getty Kaspers1948-
Elaine Paige1948-(Bickerstaff)
James Taylor1948-
Andrew Lloyd Webber1948-
Steven Tyler1948-
Klaus Röder1948-
Patty Pravo1948-(Strambelli)
Radojka Šverko1948-
Jan Hammer1948-
Wayne Kramer1948-2024(Kambes)
Steve Winwood1948-
Brian Eno1948-
Grace Jones1948-
Leo Sayer1948-
Klaus Meine1948-
Stevie Nicks1948-
John Bonham1948-1980
Lynsey de Paul1948-2014(Rubin)
Don Airey1948-
Raffi1948-(Cavoukian)
Cat Stevens1948-(Georgiou, Islam)
Barry Hay1948-
Robert Plant1948-
Jean-Michel Jarre1948-
Danny Seraphine1948-
Sam Hui1948-
Kemal Monteno1948-2015
Tommy Peoples1948-2018
Olivia Newton-John1948-2022
Jackson Browne1948-
Séverine1948-(Grizeau)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan1948-1997
Marcia Barrett1948-
Tom Jackson1948-
Telma Hopkins1948-
Lulu1948-(Kennedy, Lawrie, Cairns)
Ozzy Osbourne1948-
Marius Müller-Westernhagen1948-
Ted Nugent1948-
Alan Parsons1948-
Donna Summer1948-2012
Robert Palmer1949-2003
Joaquín Sabina1949-(Martínez)
Valery Leontiev1949-
Eddie Money1949-2019(Mahoney)
Vicki Lawrence1949-(Axelrad, Schultz)
Dave Greenfield1949-2020
Lene Lovich1949-(Premilovich)
Alla Pugacheva1949-
Patti LuPone1949-
John Miles1949-2021(Errington)
Billy Joel1949-
Joseph "Dusty" Hill1949-2021
Urbanus1949-(Servranckx)
Frank Beard1949-
Ebi1949-(Hamedi)
Lionel Richie1949-
Joseph "Geezer" Butler1949-
Alan Menken1949-
Roger Taylor1949-
Eric Carmen1949-2024
Mark Knopfler1949-
Salif Keita1949-
Gene Simmons1949-(Witz)
Hugh Cornwell1949-
Dado Topić1949-
Bruce Springsteen1949-
Giorgos Dalaras1949-
André Rieu1949-
Bobby Farrell1949-2010
Idir1949-2020(Cheriet)
Bonnie Raitt1949-
Bonnie St. Claire1949-(Swart)
G. G. Anderson1949-(Grabowski)
Tom Waits1949-
Randy Owen1949-
Billy Gibbons1949-
Maurice Gibb1949-2003
Robin Gibb1949-2012
Miri Aloni1949-
Juan Gabriel1950-2016(Aguilera, Valadez)
Carlo Siliotto1950-
Roma Ryan1950-(Shane)
Natalie Cole1950-2015
Peter Gabriel1950-
Josipa Lisac1950-
Lenny Kuhr1950-
Karen Carpenter1950-1983
Bobby McFerrin1950-
Jørgen Olsen1950-
Parisa1950-(Vā'ezi)
Goran Bregović1950-
Alan Silvestri1950-
Claudio Lolli1950-2018
Agnetha Fältskog1950-
David Cassidy1950-2017
Peter Frampton1950-
Vadim Brodski1950-(Brodsky)
Googoosh1950-(Atashin)
Stevie Wonder1950-(Morris)
Bernie Taupin1950-
Suzi Quatro1950-
Deniece Williams1950-(Chandler)
Joey Kramer1950-
John Paul Young1950-
Bonnie Pointer1950-2020
Frank Stallone1950-
Neda Ukraden1950-
Vicky Leandrosc. 1950-(Papathanasiou)
Eliza Gilkyson1950-
Neil Murray1950-
Michael Rother1950-
Joe Perry1950-(Pereira)
Eddie Clarke1950-2018
Tom Petty1950-2017
Camarón de la Isla1950-1992(Monje, Cruz)
Joe Hisaishi1950-(Fujisawa)
Charlie McGettigan1950-
Dan Hartman1950-1994
Haris Alexiou1950-
Ellen Foley1951-
Phil Collins1951-
Dave Benton1951-(Benita)
Dariush1951-(Eghbali)
Zakir Hussain1951-
Izhar Cohen1951-
Janis Ian1951-(Fink)
Peabo Bryson1951-
Luther Vandross1951-2005
Bernie Marsden1951-2023
Joy Harjo1951-(Foster)
Joey Ramone1951-2001(Hyman)
Zdravko Čolić1951-
Bonnie Tyler1951-(Hopkins, Sullivan)