Who are all the oldest classical and popular musicians living and dead?

Answer 1

Living - As of January 1, 2018

• Everett Lee, born 8-31-1916, is 101.
• Vera Lynn, born 3-20-1917, is 101.
• Anton Coppola, born 3-21-1917, is 101.
• Hugh Downs, born 2-14-1921, is 97.
• Ray Anthony, born 1-20-1922, is 96.
• Doris Day, born 4-3-1922, is 95.
• Ivry Gitlis, born 8-25-1922, is 95.
• Chou Wen-Chung, born 7-28-1923, is 94.
• Ned Rorem, born 10-23-1923, is 94.
• Menahem Pressler, born 12-16-1923, is 94.
• Ruth Slenczynska, born 1-15-1925, is 93.
• Tony Bennett, born 8-3-1926, is 91.
• Leontyne Price, born 2-10-1927, is 91.
• Harry Belafonte, born 3-1-1927, is 91.
• Michael Gielen, born 7-20-1927, is 90.

Deceased

• Hugues Cuenod, 6/26/1902 to 12/6/2010, lived to be 108y, 5m, 10d.
• Leo Ornstein, 12/2/1893 to 2/24/2002, lived to be 108y, 2m, 22d.
• Roy Douglas, 12/12/1907 to 3/23/2015, lived to be 107y,3m,11d.
• Conrad Leonard, 10/10/1898 to 4/19/2003, lived to be 104y, 6m, 9d.
• George Beverly Shea, 2/1/1909 to 4/16/2013, lived to be 104y, 2m,15d.
• Elliott Carter, 12/11/1908 to 11/5/2012, lived to be 103y,10m, 25d.
• Sally Sweetland, 9/23/2011 to 2/8/2015, lived to be 103y, 4m, 16d.
• Elsa Respighi, 3/24/1894 to 3/17/1996, lived to be 101y, 11m, 22d.
• Marta Eggerth, 4/17/1912 to 12/26/2013, lived to be 101y, 8m, 9d.
• Nicolas Slonimsky, 4/27/1894 to 12/25/1995, lived to be 101y, 7m, 28d.
• Irving Caesar, 7/4/1895 to 12/18/1996, lived to be 101y, 5m, 14d.
• Henri Busser, 1/16/1872 to 12/30/1973, lived to be 101y,4m,14d.
• Irving Berlin, 5/11/1888 to 9/22/1989, lived to be 101y, 4m, 11d.
• Roman Totenberg, 1,1/1911 to 5/8/2012, lived to be 101y, 4m, 7d.
• Licia Albanese, 7/22/1913 to 8/15/2014, lived to be 101y, 0m, 24d.
• Irving Fields, 8/4/1915 to 8/20/2016, lived to be 101y,0m,16d.
• Mieczyslaw Horszowski, 6/23/1892 to 5/22/1993, lived to be 100y, 11m, 29d.
• Ralph Berkowitz, 9/5/1910 to 8/2/2011, lived to be 100y,10m,28d.
• Edmundo Ros, 12/7/1910 to 10/21/2011, lived to be 100y,10m,14d.
• Herb Jeffries, 9/24/2013 to 5/25/2014, lived to be 100y, 8m,1d.
• Marcel Mule, 6/24/1901 to 12/18/2001, lived to be 100y,5m,26d.
• Eubie Blake, 2/7/1883 to 2/12/1983, lived to be 100y,0m,5d.
• Rise Stevens, 6/11/1913 to 3/20/2013, lived to be 99y,9m,9d.
• Natalie Caine, 6/6/1909 to 12/28/2008, lived to be 99y,6m,22d.
• Hildegarde, 2/1/1906 to 7/29/2005, lived to be 99y,5m,28d.
• Mitch Miller, 7/4/1911 to 7/31/2010, lived to be 99y,0m,27d.
• Joseph Fuchs, 4/26/1899 to 3/14/1997, lived to be 98y,10m,16d.
• Virgil Thomson, 11/25/1896 to 9/30/1989, lived to be 98y,10m,5d.
• Tony Martin, 12/5/1913 to 7/26/2012, lived to be 98y,7m,21d.
• Joaquin Rodrigo, 11/22/1901 to 7/6/1999, lived to be 98y,6m,14d.
• Hans J. Salter, 1/14/1896 to 7/23/1994, lived to be 98y,6m,9d.
• Vlado Perlemuter, 5./26/1904 to 9/4/2002, lived to be 98y,3m,9d.
• Gaby Casadesus, 8/9/1901 to 11/12/1999, lived to be 98y,3m,3d.
• Lionel Tertis, 12/29/1876 to 2/22/1975, lived to be 98y,1m,23d.
• Pinetop Perkins, 4/7/1913 to 3/21/2011, lived to be 97y,11m,14d.
• Milton DeLugg, 12/2/1918 to 4/6/2015, lived to be 97y,4m,4d.
• Henri Dutilleux, 1/22/1916 to 5/22/2013, lived to be 97y,4m,0d.
• Hans Gal, 8/5/1890 to 10/3/1987, lived to be 97y,1m,28d.
• Evelyn Rothwell. 1/24/1911 to 11/25/2008, lived to be 97y,0m,1d.
• Havergal Brian, 1/29/1876 to 11/28/1972, lived to be 96y,10m,30d.
• Sid Tepper, 6/25/1918 to 4/24/2015, lived to be 96y,9m,31d.
• Pablo Casals, 12/29/1876 to 10/22/1973, lived to be 96y,9m,23d.
• Paul Amadeus Pisk, 5/16/1893 to 1/12/1990, lived to be 96y,7m,27d.
• Oscar Brand, 2/7/1920 to 9/30/2016, lived to be 96y,7m,23d.
• Rosina Lhevinne, 3/29/1880 to 11/9/1976, lived to be 96y,7m,11d.
• Hugh Martin, 8/11/1914 to 3/11/2011, lived to be 96y,7m,0d.
• Eleanor Pirk Anderson, 5/21/1918 to 11/12/2014, lived to be 96y,5m,21d.
• Lionel Hampton, 4/20/1908 to 8/31/2002, lived to be 96y,4m,11d.
• Otto Leuning, 6/15/1900 to 9/2/1996, lived to be 96y,2m,18d.
• Marian Anderson, 2/27/1897 to 4/8/1993, lived to be 96y,1m,11d.
• Vittorio Rieti, 1/28/1898 to 2/19/1994, lived to be 96y,0m, 22d.
• Artur Rubinstein, 1/28/1887 to 12/20/1982, lived to be 95y,10m,22d.
• Pete Rugolo, 12/25/1915 to 10/16/2011, lived to be 95y,9m,21d.
• Francis Plante, 3/2/1839 to 12/19/1934, lived to be 95y,9m,17d.
• Emanuel Vardi, 4/21/1915 to 1/28/2011, lived to be 95y,9m,8d.
• David Willcocks, 12/30/1919 to 9/17/2015, lived to be 95y,8m,18d.
• Gustave Charpentier, 6/25/1860 to 2/18/1956, lived to be 95y,7m,24d.
• Carl Ruggles, 3/11/1876 to 10/24/1971, lived to be 95y,7m,13d.
• Gian Carlo Menotti, 7/7/1911 to 2/1/2007, lived to be 95y,6m,25d.
• Robert Ward, 9/13/1917 to 4/3/2013, lived to be 95y,6m,21d.
• Jean Fournet, 4/14/1913 to 11/3/2008, lived to be 95y,6m,20d.
• Rudolph Ganz, 2/24/1877 to 8/2/1972, lived to be 95y,6m,9d.
• Norman Dello Joio, 1/24/1913 to 7/24/2008, lived to be 95y,6m,0d.
• Marcel Moyse, 5/17/1889 to 11/1/1984, lived to be 95y,5m,15d.
• Marian McPartland, 3/20/1918 to 8/20/2013, lived to be 95y,5m,0d.
• David Randolph, 12/24/1914 to 5/12/2010, lived to be 95y,4m,28d.
• Wilhelm Kempff, 11/25/1895 to 5/23/1991, lived to be 95y,4m,28d.
• Leopold Stokowski, 4/18/1882 to 9/13/1977, lived to be 95y,4m,26d.
• Karel Husa, 8/7/1921 to 12/14/2016, lived to be 95y,4m,7d.
• Mana Zucca, 12/25/1885 to3/8/1981, lived to be 95y,2m,13d.
• Francois-Joseph Gossec, 1/17/1734 to 2/16/1829, lived to be 95y,0m,30d.
• Patti Andrews, 2/15/1918 to 1/30/2013, lived to be 94y,11m,14d.
• Les Waas, 5/18/1921 to 4/19/2016, lived to be 94y,11m,1d.
• Lillian Fuchs, 11/18/1901 to 10/5/1995. lived to be 94y,10m,17d.
• Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., 4/9/1890 to 2/22/1985, lived to be 94y,10m,13d.
• Robert Stolz, 8/25/1880 to 6/27/1975, lived to be 94y,10m,2d.
• Pete Seeger, 5/3/1919 to 1/27/2014, lived to be 94y,8m,24d.
• Milton Babbitt, 5/10/1916 to 1/29/2011, lived to be 94y,8m,19d.
• Kitty Kallen, 5/25/1921 to 1/7/2016, lived to be 94y,7m,13d.
• Artie Shaw, 5/23/1910 to 12/30/2004, lived to be 94y,7m,7d.
• Phyllis Curtin, 12/3/1921 to 6/5/2016, lived to be 94y,6m,2d.
• Toots Thielemans, 4/29/1922 to 8/22/2016, lived to be 94y,3m,24d.
• Isidor Philipp, 9/2/1863 to 2/20/1958, lived to be 94y,4m,18d.
• Rose Marie, 8/15/1923 to 12/28/2017, lived to be 94y,4m,13d.
• Andre Segovia, 2/21/1893 to 6/2/1987, lived to be 94y,3m,12d.
• Kay Starr, 7/21/1922 to 11/3/2016, lived to be 94y,3m,13d.
• Federico Mompou, 4/16/1893 to 6/30/1987, lived to be 94y,2m,14d.
• Clark Terry, 12/14/1920 to 2/21/2015, lived to be 94y,2m,7d.
• Tikhon Khrennikov, 6/10/1913 to 8/14/2007, lived to be 94y,2m,4d.
• Les Paul, 6/9/1915 to 8/13/2009, lived to be 94y,2m,4d.
• Earl Wild, 11/26/1915 to 1/23/2010, lived to be 94y,1m,29d.
• Mehil Mehta, 9/25/1908 to 10/19/2002, lived to be 94y,0m,24d.
• Ruggiero Ricci, 7/24/1918 to 8/12/2012, lived to be 94y,0m,19d.
• Little Jimmy Dickens, 12/19/1920 to 1/2/2015, lived to be 94y,0m,14d.
• Morton Estrin, 12/29/1923 to 12/7/2017, lived to be 93y, 11m,8d.
• Marty Napoleon, 6/2/1921 to 4/27/2015, lived to be 93y,10m,25d.
• Martin Denny, 4/10/1911 to 3/2/2005, lived to be 93y,10m,20d.
• Adrian Boult, 4/8/1889 to 2/22/1983, lived to be 93y,10m,14d.
• Richard Hayman, 3/27/1920 to 2/5/2014, lived to be 93y,10m,9d.
• Lisa Della Casa, 2/2/1919 to 12/10/2012, lived to be 93y,10m,8d.
• Frankie Laine, 3/30/1913 to 2/6/2007, lived to be 93y,10m,7d.
• Berthold Goldschmidt, 1/18/1903 to 10/17/1996, lived to be 93y,8m,29d.
• George Perle, 5/6/1915 to 1/23/2009, lived to be 93y,8m,17d.
• Lucien Cailliet, 5/22/1891 to 1/3/1985, lived to be 93y,7m,12d.
• Seymour Barab, 1/9/1921 to 6/28/2014, lived to be 93y,5m,19d.
• Chavela Vargas, 4/17/1919 to 8/5/2012, lived to be 93y,4m,18d.
• Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 10/3/1923 to 2/21/2017, lived to be 93y,4m,18d.
• Paul Paray, 5/24/1886 to 10/10/1979, lived to be 93y,4m,16d.
• William Vacchiano, 5/23/1912 to 9/19/2005, lived to be 93y,3m,27d.
• Julius Rudel, 3/6/1921 to 6/26/2014, lived to be 93y,3m,20d.
• Gyorgy Sandor, 9/21/1912 to 12/9/2005, lived to be 93y,2m,18d.
• Paul Sacher, 4/28/1906 to 5/26/1999, lived to be 93y,0m,28d.
• Charles-Marie Widor, 2/21/1844 to 3/12/1937, lived to be 93y,0m,19d.
• Michael Tippett, 1/2/1905 to 1/8/1998, lived to be 93y,0m,6d.
• Rudolf Friml, 12/7/1879 to 11/12/1972, lived to be 92y,11m,5d.
• Frank Corsaro, 12/22/1924 to 11/11/2017, lived to be 92y,10m,20d.
• Mary Garden, 2/20/1874 to 1/3/1967, lived to be 92y,10m,14d.
• Lena Horne, 6/30/1917 to 5/9/2010, lived to be 92y,10m,9d.
• Ravi Shankar, 4/7/1920 to 12/11/2012, lived to be 92y,8m,4d.
• Vivian Ellis, 10/29/1903 to 6/19/1996, lived to be 92y,7m,22d.
• Jean Ritchie, 12/8/1922 to 6/1/2015, lived to be 92y,5m,24d.
• Neville Marriner, 4/15/1924 to 10/2/2016, lived to be 92y,5m,17d.
• Georges Pretre, 8/14/1924 to 1/4/2017, lived to be 92y,4m,21d.
• Frances Langford, 4/4/1913 to 7/11/2005, lived to be 92y,3m,7d.
• Erno Balogh, 4/4/1897 to 6/2/1989, lived to be 92y,1m,23d.
• Nathaniel Shilkret, 12/25/1889 to 2/18/1982, lived to be 92y,1m,16d.
• Nadia Boulanger, 9/16/1887 to 10/22/1979, lived to be 92y,1m,6d.
• George Templeton Strong, Jr., 5/26/1856 to 6/27/1948, lived to be 92y,1m,1d.
• Karl Ulrich Schnabel, 8/6/1909 to 8/27/2001, lived to be 92y,0m,21d.
• Robert Craft, 10/20/1923 to 11/10/2015, lived to be 92y,0m,21d.
• David Raksin, 8/2/1912 to 8/7/2004, lived to be 92y,0m,5d.
• Dave Brubeck, 12/7/1920 to 12/6/2012, lived to be 91y,11m,30d.
• Victor Borge, 1/3/1909 to 12/23/2000, lived to be 91y,11m,20d.
• Salvador (Tutti) Camarata, 5/11/1913 to 4/13/2005, lived to be 91y,11m,2d.
• Nilla Pizzi, 4/16/1919 to 3/12/2011, lived to be 91y,10m,25d.
• Erika Morini, 1/5/1904 to 10/31/2005, lived to be 91y,9m,26d.
• Jean Sibelius, 12/8/1865 to 9/20/1957, lived to be 91y,9m,12d.
• Ludwig Minkus, 3/23/1826 to 12/7/1917, lived to be 91y,8m,14d.
• Ruby Dee, 10/27/1922 to 6/11/2014, lived to be 91y,7m,15d.
• Germaine Tailleferre, 4/19/1892 to 11/7/1983, lived to be 91y,6m,19d.
• George Shearing, 8/13/1919 to 2/14/2011, lived to be 91y,6m,1d.
• Nicolai Gedda, 7/11/1925 to 1/8/2017, lived to be 91y,5m,28d.
• Henry Robert Hall, 5/2/1898 to 10/28/1989, lived to be 91y,5m,26d.
• Gogi Grant, 9/20/1924 to 3/10/2016, lived to be 91y,5m,19d.
• Guy Ropartz, 6/15/1864 to 11/22/1955, lived to be 91y,5m,7d.
• Deanna Durbin, 12/4/1921 to 5/1/2013, lived to be 91y,4m,27d.
• Gian Francesco Malipiero, 3/18/1882 to 8/1/1973, lived to be 91y,4m,14d.
• Werner Janssen, 6/1/1899 to 9/19/1990, lived to be 91y,3m,18d.
• Hal David, 5/25/1921 to 9/1/2012, lived to be 91y,3m,7d.
• Cyril Scott, 9/27/1879 to 12/31/1970, lived to be 91y,3m,4d.
• Marguerite Long, 11/13/1874 to 2/13/1966, lived to be 91y,3m,0d.
• Theodore Bikel, 5/2/1924 to 7/21/2015, lived to be 91y,2m,19d.
• Alexander Gretchaninov, 10/25/1864 to 1/3/1956, lived to be 91y,2m,9d.
• Bill Finegan, 4/3/17 to 6/4/2008, lived to be 91y,2m,1d.
• Karl Haas, 12/6/1913 to 2/6/2005, lived to be 91y,2m,0d.
• Louis Durey, 5/27/1888 to 7/3/1979, lived to be 91y,1m,6d.
• Carlo Maria Giulini, 5/9/1914 to 6/14/2005, lived to be 91y,1m,5d.
• Eric Fenby, 4/22/1906 to 2/18/1997, lived to be 90y,9m,27d.
• Xavier Cugat, 1/1/1900 to 1027/1990, lived to be 90y,9m,26d.
• Pierre Boulez, 3/26/1925 to 1/5/2016, lived to be 90y,9m,10d.
• Maurice Abravanel, 1/6/1903 to 9/22/1993, lived to be 90y,8m,16d.
• Leon Kirchner, 1/24/1919 to 9/17/2009, lived to be 90y,8m,10d.
• Jo Stafford, 11/12/1917 to 7/16/2008, lived to be 90y,8m,4d.
• Leon Goosens, 6/12/1897 to 2/12/1988, lived to be 90y,8m,0d.
• Elisabeth Hongen, 12/7/1906 to 8/7/1997, lived to be 90y,8m,0d.
• Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 12/9/1915 to 8/3/2006, lived to be 90y,7m,25d.
• Albert Schweitzer, 1/14/1875 to 9/4/1965, lived to be 90y,7m,21d.
• Alphonse D'Artega, 6/5/1907 to 1/20/1998, lived to be 90y,7m,15d.
• Julian Carrillo, 1/28/1875 to 9/9/1965, lived to be 90y,7m,12d.
• Ernest Tomlinson, 11/19/1924 to 6/12/2015, lived to be 90y,6m,25d.
• Chuck Berry, 10/18/1926 to 3/18/2017, lived to be 90y,5m,0d.
• Edward Downes, 8/12/1911 to 12/26/2001, lived to be 90y,4m,14d.
• George Martin, 1/3/1926 to 3/8/2016, lived to be 90y,2m,5d.
• Percy Goetschius, 8/30/1953 to 10/29/1943, lived to be 90y,1m,29d.
• Buddy Greco, 8/14/1926 to 1/10/2017, lived to be 90y,4m,27d.
• Ross Lee Finney, 12/23/1906 to 2/4/1997, lived to be 90y,1m,12d.
• Gunter Wand, 1/7/1912 to 2/14/2002, lived to be 90y,1m,7d.
• George Jellinek, 12/22/1919 to 1/16/2010, lived to be 90y,0m,25d.
• Elena Doria, 7/3/1926 to 7/27/2016, lived to be 90y,0m,24d.
• Aaron Copland, 11/14/1900 to 12/2/1990, lived to be 90y,0m,18d.
• Carlo Bergonzi, 7/13/1924 to 7/25/2014, lived to be 90y,0m,12d.

Three musicians of note died at age 90; namely Domenico Savino, Ronni Munro and Julius Grossman; but as information on the deceased date of the first and the birthdate of the other two respectively, are lacking, we are unable to provide accurate lifespan information. These names are given for the sake of completeness.