Johann Strauss II

Johann Baptist Strauss II, also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son, was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include "The Blue Danube", "Kaiser-Walzer", "Tales from the Vienna Woods", "Frühlingsstimmen", and the "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka". Among his operettas, Die Fledermaus and Der Zigeunerbaron are the best known.

25 October 1825

Born on the same birth date (25 October 1825): Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt

Born on the same birth day (25 October): Antonio Ciseri • Deon Burton • Eddie Lang • Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg • Georg Schumann (composer) • Guido Grünheid • Johnny Mauro • Martin Marinov • Matteo Lodo • Minnie Pearl • Polly Ann Young • Roy Fox • Wilfried Louis • Yakov Rylsky

Born in the same month (October 1825): Charles Frederick Worth • Charles Lavigerie • Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt • Marie of Prussia • Paul Kruger