Timeline of some great composers' birthdays By facebooker_100002724158072 Feb 3, 1525 Palestrina's birthday May 15, 1567 Claudio Monteverdi's birthday Nov 28, 1632 Lully's birthday Mar 4, 1678 Vivaldi's birthday Feb 23, 1685 Handel's birthday Mar 31, 1685 Bach's birthday Jan 27, 1756 Mozart's birthday Dec 16, 1770 Beethoven's birthday Feb 29, 1792 Rossini's birthday Mar 1, 1810 Chopin's birthday May 7, 1840 Tchaikovsky's birthday Dec 22, 1858 Puccini's birthday Aug 22, 1862 Debussy's birthday Jun 11, 1864 Strauss' birthday Sep 21, 1874 Holst's birthday Mar 25, 1881 Bartok's birthday Jun 17, 1882 Stravinsky's birthday Apr 23, 1891 Prokofiev's birthday Jun 9, 1891 Cole Porter's birthday Sep 26, 1898 Gershwin's birthday Apr 29, 1899 Duke Ellington's birthday Aug 21, 1904 Count Basie's birthday Sep 5, 1912 John Cage's birthday Nov 22, 1913 Britten's birthday Aug 22, 1928 Stockhausen's birthday Feb 6, 1945 Bob Marley's birthday