| Name |
Other Names |
Birthyear |
Deathyear |
Notes |
| Overby, Oscar |
Overby, Oscar Rudolph |
1892 |
1964 |
American composer of Norwegian descent, choir director and conductor |
| Overstreet, Paul |
Overstreet, Paul Lester |
1955 |
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American country music singer and songwriter |
| Overstreet, W. Benton |
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African-American theater director iof the early 20th century. A pianist, composer and bandleader who Langston Hughes ranked along with W.C. Handy as one of the "better poets of jazz," Overstreet's near-total obscurity today is the reverse of how prominent he was during the WWI era. |
| Overton, David |
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British conductor, arranger and composer. Arranger and composer retained by various artists in the classical music field including Sir James Galway, Kings Singers. Conductor (including Royal Festival Hall, Cadogan Hall, London, Symphony Hall Birmingham) and choral trainer. |
| Owen, Wilfred |
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1893 |
1918 |
English poet of World War 1 |
| Owen, William |
Owen William of Prysgol |
1813 |
1893 |
His anthem, ‘ Ffynnon Ddisglair ,’ and the hymn-tunes ‘ Alma ’ and ‘ Deemster ’ became popular, but it was the hymn-tune called ‘ Bryn Calfaria ’ which made the composer famous; this continues to have a considerable vogue in Wales and in England |
| Owens, Carol |
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Carol and Jimmy Owens are a husband and wife songwriting and author team. They are best known for the Christian children's album, |
| Owens, Jimmy |
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Jimmy and Carol Owensare a husband and wife songwriting and author team. They are best known for the Christian children's album, |
| Oxenford, Edward |
Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford |
1550 |
1604 |
English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era. One of the people proposed by some as being the "real" Shakespeare |
| Oxenford, John |
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1812 |
1877 |
English dramatist and translator. He was an excellent linguist, and the author of many translations from German, notably of Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit (1846) and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe (1850). |
| Oxley, Harrison |
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1933 |
2009 |
British organist and choir director, who was appointed Organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral aged 24. At the time, he was the youngest cathedral organist in the country. He was the first English cathedral organist to supplement the boys' voices in the cathedral choir with those of girls; he began to use girls' voices in the early 1970s. |