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Jacopo Peri (20 August 1561 – 12 August 1633) was an Italian composer, singer and instrumentalist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He wrote what is considered the first opera, the mostly lost Dafne (c. 1597), and also the earliest extant opera, Euridice (1600). He is sometimes known by the byname lo Zazzerino (lit. 'the blond one').

Jan Jiří Benda, also Johann Georg Benda (baptized 16 April or 30 August 1713 – 1752), was a Bohemian violinist and composer active in Germany.

Jan Jiří Benda, also Johann Georg Benda (baptized 16 April or 30 August 1713 – 1752), was a Bohemian violinist and composer active in Germany.

Henriette Adélaïde Villard or Henriette-Adélaïde de Villars, known under the stage name of Mlle Beaumesnil (30 August 1748 – 5 October 1813), was a French opera singer and composer.

Bonifazio Asioli (30 April 1769 – 26 May 1832) was an Italian composer of classical and church music.

Adolf Friedrich Hesse (30 August 1809 – 5 August 1863) was a German organist and composer.

Robert Strassburg (August 30, 1915 – October 25, 2003) was a leading American conductor, composer, musicologist and music educator of the twentieth century. His studies in music were completed under the supervision of such leading composers as Igor Stravinsky, Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith, with whom he studied at Tanglewood. His formal academic studies were completed at the New England Conservatory of Music and Harvard University, where he obtained a fellowship in composition. He also completed a doctorate in Fine Arts at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. As a musicologist, Dr. Strassburg is regarded as a leading authority on the compositions of the composer Ernest Bloch.

Gerhard Wimberger (30 August 1923 – 12 October 2016) was an Austrian composer and conductor.

Pieter William Kee (30 August 1927 – 25 May 2018) was a Dutch organist and composer.

Arne Otto Birger Mellnäs (Stockholm, 30 August 1933 - 22 November 2002) was a Swedish composer.

Jukka Santeri Tiensuu (born 30 August 1948) is a Finnish contemporary classical composer, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor.

Liza Lim (born 30 August 1966) is an Australian composer. Lim writes concert music (chamber and orchestral works) as well as music theatre and has collaborated with artists on a number of installation and video projects. Her work reflects her interests in Asian ritual culture, the aesthetics of Aboriginal art and shows the influence of non-Western music performance practice.

Dimitris Sgouros (Greek: Δημήτρης Σγούρος; born 30 August 1969)[a] is a Greek classical pianist. Widely acclaimed for his prodigious musical talent as a boy, Sgouros is one of the world's leading concert pianists.Arthur Rubinstein remarked that he had produced "the best playing I have ever heard;".

Pavel Samiec (born 1984) is a Czech composer and accordionist.

Emily Jordan Bear (born August 30, 2001) is an American composer, pianist, songwriter and singer. After beginning to play the piano and compose music as a small child, Bear made her professional piano debut at the Ravinia Festival at the age of five, the youngest performer ever to play there. She gained wider notice from a series of appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show beginning at the age of six. She has since played her own compositions and other works with orchestras and ensembles in North America, Europe and Asia, including appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the Montreux Jazz Festival and Jazz Open Stuttgart. She won two Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the youngest person ever to win the award, and also won two Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Awards. In 2013, Bear released an album of her own jazz compositions, Diversity, produced by her mentor, Quincy Jones. She composes and plays classical, jazz and pop music, film and TV scores, and is heard on the 2015 Broadway cast recording of the musical Doctor Zhivago. With her own jazz trio, she released an EP, Into the Blue, in 2017. She was the youngest performer in the history of the Night of the Proms tour (2017). Her 2019 EP Emotions was her first to feature Bear singing her own songs. In 2021, she and Abigail Barlow co-wrote and released an album inspired by the Netflix series Bridgerton, titled The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, making Bear the youngest Grammy nominee and winner ever in the musical theater category. She was listed on Forbes' 2022 30 Under 30. With the 2023 release of Dog Gone, she became the youngest person to score a feature film for release on a streaming platform". In mid-2023, Bear toured as the featured pianist for Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour. Barlow and Bear wrote the songs for the upcoming film Moana 2.