Composers — Jazz, popular
1914-1980
Sonny Burke ♂1914-1990
Hector Ayala ♂1914-1993
Sun Ra ♂1914-1975
Aníbal Troilo ♂1914-1981
Eddie Sauter ♂1915-1996
Irving Gordon ♂1916-1996
James Woodie Alexander ♂1916-1983
Harry Haag James ♂1916-1991
Louiguy ♂1916-1988
Jean Carignan ♂1917-1965
Tadd Dameron ♂1917-1945
Karel Švenk ♂1917-1995
Laurindo Almeida ♂1917-1996
Maj Sønstevold ♀1917-1982
Thelonious Monk ♂1917-1992
Dizzy Gillespie ♂1917-2021
Julien François Zbinden ♂1918-1969
Jacob do Bandolim ♂1918-1996
Jimmy Rowles ♂1919-2019
Sid Ramin ♂1919-2013
Fred Katz ♂1919-2008
Robert Suter ♂1919-1996
Mercer Ellington ♂1920-1972
Mackay Davashe ♂1920-1972
Hall Overton ♂1920-2001
John Lewis ♂1920-2011
George Shearing ♂1920-1955
Charlie Parker ♂1920-1998
Norman Symonds ♂1921-2011
André Hodeir ♂1921-2008
Jimmy Giuffre ♂1921-1998
Bob Merrill ♂1921-1977
Erroll Garner ♂1921-1960
Fred Buscaglione ♂1922-2017
Robert de Cormier ♂1922-1979
Charles Mingus ♂1922-2017
Francis Thorne ♂1922-2011
Georg Kreisler ♂1922-2001
Luiz Bonfá ♂1922-2001
Luiz Floriano Bonfá ♂1922-2019
Gershon Kingsley ♂1922-2008
Neal Hefti ♂1923-1978
Harriette Davison ♀1923-2009
Ludmila Ulehla ♀1923-1995
Doris Akers ♀1923-
Phil Nimmons ♂1923-2009
George Russell ♂1923-1953
Hank Williams ♂1923-1957
Robert Frederick Graettinger ♂1924-2000
Eric Hughes ♂1924-2007
Max Roach ♂1924-2001
James Louis Johnson ♂1924-2021
Sammy Nestico ♂1924-2014
André Popp ♂1924-1994
Shorty Rogers ♂1924-1994
Henry Mancini ♂1924-2019
Irving Burgie ♂1924-2005
Joe Harnell ♂1924-1981
Ron Grainer ♂1924-2014
Philippe-Gérard ♂1924-1966
Bud Powell ♂1924-2020
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre ♂1925-2016
Olle Bonnier ♂1925-2021
Elliot Lawrence ♂1925-2019
Jiří Jirmal ♂1925-2009
Hale Smith ♂1925-2007
Oscar Peterson ♂1925-1999
Charlie Byrd ♂1925-2015
Gunther Schuller ♂1925-2020
Johnny Mandel ♂1926-1992
Miles Davis ♂1926-1993
Kenneth Gaburo ♂1926-2020
William O. Smith ♂1927-1994
Antônio Carlos Jobim ♂1927-2024
Laurie Johnson ♂1927-2023
Harry Belafonte ♂1927-
Richard Hyman ♂1927-2020
Duane Tatro ♂1927-
Martial Solal ♂1927-2010
John Dankworth ♂1927-2018
Norman Gimbel ♂1928-2002
Dorothy Love Coates ♀1928-2007
Aldemaro Romero ♂1928-2003
Carl Alexius ♂1928-1976
Lars Gullin ♂1928-
Charles Strouse ♂1928-
Richard M. Sherman ♂1928-2003
William Russo ♂1928-2014
Simón Díaz ♂1928-2012
Clare Fischer ♂1928-2012
Clare Fisher ♂1928-2010
Jerry Bock ♂1928-2018
Galt Macdermot ♂1929-2013
Nicos Mamangakis ♂1929-1978
Jacques Brel ♂1929-2023
Burt Bacharach ♂1929-1987
Osmo Lindeman ♂1929-2020
Lennie Niehaus ♂1929-2004
Cy Coleman ♂1929-1970
Gideon N.N. Nxumalo ♂