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January

Lorenzo de' Medici (January 1, 1449 - April 9, 1492)

Claudia Rankine (January 1, 1963 - )

Giotto (c. 1267 – January 8, 1337)

Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – January 13, 1599)

Paul Cézanne (January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906)

Muzio Clementi (January 23, 1752 – March 10, 1832)

Édouard Manet (January 23, 1832 – 30 April 30, 1883)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791)

Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956)

Frederick Delius (January 29, 1862 – June 10, 1934)

Franz Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828)

February

Takashi Murakami (February 1, 1962 – )

Giovanni da Palestrina (c. 1525 – February 2, 1594)

Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847)

Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410 – February 6, 1497)

Thomas Campion (February 12, 1567 – March 1, 1620)

Arcangelo Corelli (February 17, 1653 – January 8, 1713)

Constantin Brâncuși (February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957)

John Dowland (c. 1563 – February 20, 1626)

Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595)

George Frideric Handel (February 23, 1685 – April 14, 1759)

Christopher Marlowe (baptised February 26, 1564 – May 30, 1593)

Gioachino Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)

William Dunbar (1459 or 1460 – by 1530)

March

Frédéric Chopin (March 1, 1810 – October 17, 1849)

Itō Jakuchū (March 2, 1716 – October 27, 1800)

Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 – May 12, 1884)

Kanō Tan'yū (March 4, 1602 – November 4, 1674)

Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741)

Giambattista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959)

Michelangelo (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)

Piet Mondrian (March 7, 1872 – February 1, 1944)

Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937)

Samuel Barber (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981)

Anish Kapoor (March 12, 1954 – )

Hugo Wolf (March 13, 1860 – February 22, 1903)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (March 18, 1844 – June 21, 1908)

Modest Mussorgsky (March 21, 1839 – March 28, 1881)

Anthony van Dyck (March 22, 1599 – December 9, 1641)

Georg Philipp Telemann (March 24, 1681 – June 25, 1767)

Béla Bartók (March 25, 1881 – September 26, 1945)

Carlo Gesualdo (c. March 30, 1566 – September 8, 1613)

Francisco Goya (March 30, 1746 – April 16, 1828)

Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890)

John Donne (1571 or 1572 – March 31, 1631)

Johann Sebastian Bach (March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750)

Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809)

April

Sergei Rachmaninoff (April 1, 1873 – March 28, 1943)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (April 5, 1732 – August 22, 1806)

Raphael (March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520)

First public performance of Beethoven's Eroica - April 7, 1805

Premier of Bach's St. John Passion on Good Friday - April 7, 1805

Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (April 16, 1755 – March 30, 1842)

Johann David Heinichen (April 17, 1683 – July 16, 1729)

Jeong Seon (1676 – 20 April 20, 1759)

Ethel Smyth (April 22, 1858 – May 8, 1944)

JMW Turner (April 23, 1775 – December 19, 1851)

William Shakespeare (baptised April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616)

Eugène Delacroix (April 26, 1798 – August 13, 1863)

Sergei Prokofiev (April 27, 1891 – March 5, 1953)

May

Wang Hui (1632 – 1717)

Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893)

Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( May 12, 1828 – April 9, 1882)

Gabriel Fauré (May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924)

Thomas Gainsborough (baptised May 14, 1727 – August 2, 1788)

Claudio Monteverdi (c. May 15, 1567 – November 29, 1643)

Botticelli (c. 1445 – May 17, 1510)

Eric Satie (May 17, 1866 – July 1, 1925)

Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528)

Henri Rousseau (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910)

Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883)

June

Mikhail Glinka (June 1, 1804 – February 15, 1857)

Edward Elgar (June 2, 1857 – February 23, 1934)

Diego Velázquez (baptized June 6, 1599 – August 6, 1660)

Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 – May 8, 1903)

Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856)

Carl Nielsen (June 9, 1865 – October 3, 1931)

Duccio (c. 1255–1260 – c. 1318–1319), Maestà installed on June 9, 1311

Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877)

Benjamin Jonson (c. June 11, 1572 – c. August 6, 1637)

John Constable (June 11, 1776 – March 31, 1837)

Richard Strauss (June 11, 1864 – September 8, 1949)

Orlando di Lassus (c. 1532 – June 14, 1594)

Edvard Grieg (June 15, 1843 – September 4, 1907)

Igor Stravinsky (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971)

Peter Paul Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640)

July

Christoph Willibald Gluck (July 2, 1714 – November 15, 1787)

John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815)

Leoš Janáček (July 3, 1854 – August 12, 1928)

William Byrd (c. 1540 – July 4, 1623)

Marc Chagall (July 6, 1887 – March 28, 1985)

Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954)

Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911)

Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 – c. 1656)

Jan van Eyck (born before 1395 – died before July 9, 1441)

Bernard Buffet (July 10, 1928 – October 4, 1999)

James McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903)

Amedeo Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920)

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918)

Rembrandt van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669)

Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917)

Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967)

Henry Moore (July 30, 1898 – August 31, 1986)

Philip the Good (July 31, 1396 in Dijon – June 15, 1467)

August

Guillaume Dufay (Du Fay) (August 5, 1397 – November 27, 1474)

Ilya Repin (August 5, 1844 – September 29, 1930)

Barbara Strozzi (baptised August 6, 1619 – November 11, 1677)

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 – 9 August 9, 1516)

Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – August 12, 1612)

Lili Boulanger (August 21, 1893 – March 15, 1918)

Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918)

Josquin des Prez (c. 1450–1455 – August 27, 1521)

Titian (c. 1488/90 – August 27, 1576)

Jacques-Louis David (August 30, 1748 – December 29, 1825)

September

Anton Bruckner (September 4, 1824 – October 11, 1896)

Louis XIV (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715)

Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840)

Luigi Cherubini (September 8 or 14, 1760 – March 15, 1842)

Antonín Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1530 – September 9, 1569)

Henry Purcell (c. September 10, 1659 – November 21, 1695)

Arnold Schoenberg (September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951)

Clara Schumann (September 13, 1819 – May 20, 1896)

Andreas Staier (September 13, 1955 – )

Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098 – September 17, 1179)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (September 18, 1683 – September 12, 1764)

Chidiock Tichborne (after 24 August 1562 – 20 September 1586)

Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934)

Francesca Caccini (September 25, 1587 – between 1641 and 1645)

Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970)

Dmitri Shostakovich (September 25, 1906 – August 9, 1975)

Cosimo de' Medici (September 27, 1389 – August 1, 1464)

George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937)

Caravaggio (September 29, 1571 – July 18, 1610)

October

El Greco (October 1, 1541 – April 7, 1614)

Hans Holbein (c. 1497 – between October 7 and November 29, 1543)

Camille Saint-Saëns (October 9, 1835 – December 16, 1921)

Giuseppe Verdi (October 9 or 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)

Jean-Antoine Watteau (baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721)

Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966)

Thomas Wyatt (1503 – October 11, 1542)

Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – October 12, 1492)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958)

Canaletto (October 18, 1697 – April 19, 1768)

Charles Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954)

Franz Liszt (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886)

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – October 25, 1400)

Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875)

Pablo Picasso (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973)

Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899)

Domenico Scarlatti (October 26, 1685 – July 23, 1757)

Niccolò Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840)

Francis Bacon (October 28, 1909 – April 28, 1992)

Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – October 29, 1618)

Katsushika Hokusai (October 31, 1760 – May 10, 1849)

November

Thomas Nashe (baptised November 1567 – c. 1601)

Canova (November 1, 1757 – October 13, 1822)

Jean Siméon Chardin (November 2, 1699 – December 6, 1779)

Vincenzo Bellini (November 3, 1801 – September 23, 1835)

William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764)

François Couperin (November 10, 1668 – September 11, 1733)

Alexander Borodin (November 12, 1833 – February 27, 1887)

Auguste Rodin (November 12, 1840 – November 17, 1917)

Fanny Mendelssohn (November 14, 1805 – May 14, 1847)

Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990)

Georgia O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986)

Carl Maria von Weber (November 18, 1786 – June 5, 1826)

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – November 19, 1665)

René Magritte (November 21, 1898 – August 15, 1967)

Benjamin Britten (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976)

Manuel de Falla (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946)

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – November 23, 1585)

Hilary Hahn (November 27, 1979 - )

William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827)

Wen Zhengming (November 28, 1470 – 1559)

Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430 – November 29, 1516)

Jean-Baptiste Lully (November 28, 1632 - March 22, 1687)

Gaetano Donizetti (November 29, 1797 – April 8, 1848)

Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – 17 October 17, 1586)

December

Pérotin (ca. 1200)

A Vaughan Williams Christmas

Christina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 - December 29, 1894)

Henryk Górecki (December 6, 1933 - November 12, 2010)

Gianlorenzo Bernini (December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680)

Jean Sibelius (December 8, 1865 – September 20, 1957)

César Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890)

Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992)

Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869)

Edvard Munch (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944)

Donatello (c. 1386 – December 13, 1466)

Jan Vermeer (October 1632 – December 15, 1675)

Wassily Kandinsky (December 16, 1866 – December 13, 1944)

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827)

Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940)

Masaccio (December 21, 1401 – summer 1428)

Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924)

Michael Drayton (1563 – December 23, 1631)

Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954)