Edvard Grieg

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide. His use of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions brought the music of Norway to fame, as well as helping to develop a national identity, much as Jean Sibelius did in Finland and Bedřich Smetana in Bohemia.

15 June 1843

Born on the same birth day (15 June): Annelies Bredael • Dafne Schippers • David Rose (songwriter) • Frank Clement (racing driver) • Hilda Terry • Jack Horner (paleontologist) • Jiří Ryba • John E. McLaughlin • Josiah Henson • Noddy Holder • Scott Norton • Simon Callow • Tom Adair

Born in the same month (June 1843): Bertha von Suttner • David Gill (astronomer) • Ernest Mason Satow • Frederick VIII of Denmark • Heinrich von Herzogenberg • Henry Faulds • Mary Sibbet Copley • Paul Heinrich von Groth