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x Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri1   Saint Petersburg Symphony No. 7
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович​ (help·info); 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky (e.g....
  Mstislav Rostropovich Cello Concerto No. 2
  Mstislav Rostropovich Cello Concerto No. 1
  Beethoven Quartet Piano Quintet
  Tatiana Nikolayeva 24 Preludes and Fugues
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x Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Painting by Barbara Krafft 1819   Baron von Dürnitz Piano Sonata No. 6
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full name Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over six...
  Joseph Haydn String Quartet No. 14
  Michael Puchberg Divertimento K. 563
  Joseph Haydn String Quartet No. 19
  Joseph Haydn Haydn Quartets
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x Camille Saint-Saëns Saintsaens   Auguste Tolbeque Cello Concerto No. 1
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (/ʃaʁl ka.mij sɛ̃.sɑ̃s/) (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, Samson and Delilah, Havanaise,...
  Pablo de Sarasate Violin Concerto No. 3
x Joseph Haydn Portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792   Joseph Franz Weigl Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
(Franz) Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String...
  Rebecca Schroeter Piano Trio No. 39
    String Quartets, Op. 76
x Samuel Barber Samuel Barber, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1944   Raya Garbousova Cello Concerto
Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical...
x Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven   Johann Wolfgang Goethe Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt
Ludwig van Beethoven (English pronunciation: /ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪtoʊvɨn/; German: [ˈluːt.vɪç fan ˈbeːt.hoːfən]  ( listen); baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was an important figure in the transitional...
  Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Piano Concerto No. 3
  Rudolph of Austria Piano Concerto No. 5
  Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata No. 1
  Karl Alois, Prince Lichnowsky Piano Sonata No. 12
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x Frédéric Chopin Only known photograph of Chopin, by Bisson, ca. 1849.   Countess Emilie de Perthuis Piano Sonata No. 3 in B Minor
Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk [Franciszek] Chopin, sometimes Szopen; French: Frédéric [François] Chopin; surname pronounced /ˈʃoʊpæn/ in English; French pronunciation: [ʃɔpɛ̃]; 1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso...
  Marie d'Agoult  
  Franz Liszt  
  Robert Schumann Ballade in F major
  Friedrich Kalkbrenner Piano Concerto No. 1
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x Arnold Bax     John Ireland Symphony No. 1
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November 1883 – 3 October 1953), was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of Romanticism and Impressionism, always with a strong Celtic influence. His orchestral scores are noted for...
  Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5
  Adrian Boult Symphony No. 6
  Henry Wood Symphony No. 3
x Anton Bruckner Anton Bruckner   Franz Joseph I of Austria Symphony No. 8
Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic...
  Richard Wagner Symphony No. 3
  Ludwig II of Bavaria Symphony No. 7
x Ralph Vaughan Williams A statue of Ralph Vaughan Williams in Dorking   Michael Mullinar Symphony No. 6
Ralph (pronounced /ˈreɪf/) Vaughan Williams OM (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this also...
  Gustav Holst Mass in G Minor
  Arnold Bax Symphony No. 4
  Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Three Shakespeare Songs
  Herbert Howells Hodie
x Antonín Dvořák Dvorak   Hans Richter Symphony No. 6
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (English pronunciation: /ˈdvɒrʒɑːk/ DVOR-zhahk or /ˈdvɒrʒæk/ DVOR-zhak; Czech: [ˈantoɲiːn ˈlɛopolt ˈdvor̝aːk]  ( listen); September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and...
  Eduard Hanslick Legends
x Jean Sibelius Jean sibelius   Wilhelm Stenhammar Symphony No. 6
Jean Sibelius ( pronunciation (help·info)) (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. The core of Sibelius's...
  Franz von Vecsey Violin Concerto
x Robert Simpson 72 Brian session   Ian Craft Symphony No. 6
Robert (Wilfred Levick) Simpson (2 March 1921 – 21 November 1997) was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster. He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music (including 11 symphonies and 15 string quartets), and for...
  Vernon Handley Symphony No. 10
  Havergal Brian Symphony No. 3
  Anthony Bernard Symphony No. 2
  London Symphony Orchestra Symphony No. 5
x Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze   Paul Sacher Symphony no. 10
Hans Werner Henze (born July 1, 1926, Gütersloh, Germany) is a German composer well known for his left-wing political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his politics and homosexuality. He...
  Che Guevara Das Floss der Medusa
London Sinfonietta Michael Vyner Requiem
  Boston Symphony Orchestra Symphony No. 8
x Sergei Rachmaninoff Rachmaninov peinture   Anatoliy Brandukov Cello Sonata
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (Russian: Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов, Sergej Vasil’evič Rakhmaninov, 1 April 1873 [O.S. 20 March] – 28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as...
  Józef Hofmann Piano Concerto No. 3
  Nikolai Dahl Piano Concerto No. 2
  Alexander Siloti Piano Concerto No. 1
  Nikolai Medtner Piano Concerto No. 4
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x Johannes Brahms JohannesBrahms   Joseph Joachim Violin Concerto
Johannes Brahms (pronounced [joːˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]) (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897), German composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria,...
  Eduard Marxsen Piano Concerto No. 2
  Theodor Billroth String Quartet No. 1
  Theodor Billroth String Quartet No. 2
  Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann String Quartet No. 3
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x William Walton   Jascha Heifetz Violin Concerto
Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902–8 March 1983) was a British composer and conductor. His style was influenced by the works of Stravinsky and Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony,...
x Bernard Tan     Lynnette Seah Violin Concerto
Born in Singapore in 1943, Bernard Tan Tiong Gie was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore, the University of Singapore (Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics, 1965) and Oxford University (Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science,...
x Béla Bartók Bartók Béla 1927   Zoltán Székely Violin Concerto No. 2
Béla Viktor János Bartók (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈbɒrtoːk]) (March 25, 1881–September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist, regarded, along with Liszt, to be his country’s greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection...
  Stefi Geyer Violin Concerto No. 1
x Edward Elgar Edward Elgar   Fritz Kreisler Violin Concerto
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim....
  Edward VII of the United Kingdom Coronation Ode
  Charles Swinnerton Heap Organ Sonata
  Hans Richter Symphony No. 1
  Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon Nursery Suite
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x Robert Schumann   Joseph Joachim Violin Concerto
Robert Schumann, sometimes given as Robert Alexander Schumann, (8 June 1810 – 29 July 1856) was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is one of the most famous Romantic composers of the 19th century. He had hoped to pursue a...
  Ferdinand Hiller Piano Concerto in A minor
  Frédéric Chopin Kreisleriana
x György Ligeti György Ligeti   Saschko Gawriloff Violin Concerto
György Sándor Ligeti (May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a composer, born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen. Many of his works are well known in classical...
x Erich Wolfgang Korngold Korngold conducting the Warner Brothers studio orchestra (Rhino Records)   Alma Mahler Violin Concerto
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was an Academy Award-winning 20th century film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently...
  Franklin D. Roosevelt Symphony in F sharp major
  Felix Weingartner Sinfonietta
x Alexander Glazunov Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1887   Leopold Auer Violin Concerto
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov (Russian: Александр Константинович Глазунов, Aleksandr Konstantinovič Glazunov; French: Glazounov; German: Glasunow; 10 August [O.S. 29 July] 1865 – 21 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher and...
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 3
  Anton Rubinstein Symphony No. 4
  Alexander Borodin Stenka Razin
x Henryk Wieniawski HenrykWieniawski   Frederick William IV of Prussia Violin Concerto No. 1
Henryk Wieniawski (10 July 1835 – 31 March 1880) was a Polish violinist and composer. He was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, into a Polish family. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing...
  Pablo de Sarasate Violin Concerto No. 2
x Max Bruch   Pablo de Sarasate Violin Concerto No. 2
Max Christian Friedrich Bruch (January 6, 1838 – October 2, 1920) also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, one of which is a staple of the violin...
x Franz Liszt Franz Liszt   Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff Piano Concerto No. 2
Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc, pronounced [list ˈfɛrɛnts]) (October 22, 1811 – July 31, 1886) was a world famous Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher. Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer...
  Carl Czerny Transcendental Etudes
  Hans von Bülow Beethoven Symphonies
  Giacomo Meyerbeer Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale Ad nos ad salutarem undam
    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
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x Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Prokofiev   Sviatoslav Richter Piano Sonata No. 7
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев; Ukrainian: Сергій Сергійович Прокофєв) (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 - 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to...
  David Oistrakh Violin Sonata No. 1
  Mstislav Rostropovich Symphony-Concerto in E minor
  Nikolai Tcherepnin Piano Concerto No. 1
  Nikolai Tcherepnin Sinfonietta
x Richard Fariña Cover from 'Celebrations For a Grey Day'   Mimi Fariña Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Richard George Fariña ( March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966 ) was an American writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era. Fariña was born in...
x Truman Capote   Tennessee Williams Music for Chameleons
Truman Capote (pronounced /ˈtruːmən kəˈpoʊti/) (September 30, 1924 — August 25, 1984) (born Truman Streckfus Persons) was an American writer whose short stories, novels, plays, and non-fiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella...
x Ayn Rand Ayn Rand1   Frank O'Connor Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand (pronounced /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her best-selling novels and for...
  Frank O'Connor The Fountainhead
x Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins in March, 2005   Douglas Adams The God Delusion
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford and was a fellow of New College, Oxford....
x Maurice Ravel Maurice Ravel 1912   Gabriel Fauré Quartet in F Major
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano...
  Jelly Arányi Tzigane
  Louis Aubert Valses nobles et sentimentales
  Ricardo Viñes Menuet antique
  Gabriel Fauré Jeux d'eau
x Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy   Antoni Radziwiłł Piano Quartet No. 1
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. The...
  Victoria of the United Kingdom Symphony No. 3
  Louis Spohr Piano Trio No. 2
  Frederick William IV of Prussia Hebrides Overture
x Franz Schubert Franz Schubert (posthumous)   Ignaz Schuppanzigh String Quartet No. 13
Franz Peter Schubert (German pronunciation: [fʁants ʃuːbɛɐ̯t]; January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828) was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies (including the famous "Unfinished Symphony"), liturgical music, operas, some...
x Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie podczas prezentacji swojej książki Śalimar klaun.   Zafar Rushdie Midnight's Children
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. He first achieved fame with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his early fiction is set on the Indian...
x David Sedaris David Sedaris (2005) (cropped)   Sharon Sedaris Barrel Fever
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor. Sedaris was first publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay ...
  Lisa Sedaris Naked
x J.D. Salinger     Miriam Salinger The Catcher in the Rye  
x Robert Caro Robert Caro   Janet G. Travell The Power Broker
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is a biographer most noted for his studies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working years as a reporter Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York...
Ina Caro
x Thomas L. Friedman Thomas Friedman 2005 (4)   Ann Friedman The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Thomas Lauren Friedman (born July 20, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist and author. He is an op-ed contributor to The New York Times, whose column appears twice weekly. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade,...
x Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger   United States Foreign Service Diplomacy
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923), pronounced /ˈkɪsɪndʒər/, is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later...
x David Halberstam David Halberstam   Coleman Harwell The Children
David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports...
  Kelly Miller Smith The Children
  Jennings Perry The Children
x Mario Puzo   Domenick Cleri The Last Don
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film with...
  Virginia Altman The Last Don
x Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (portrait)   Francis Godolphin Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher, remembered today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of...
x Edward Said   Israel Shahak Pease and Its Discontents
Edward Wadie Saïd MRSL (Arabic: إدوارد وديع سعيد‎, Idwārd Wadīʿ Saʿīd; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian American literary theorist, cultural critic and political activist, particularly as an outspoken advocate for Palestinian...
x Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison photo portrait seated   Ida Millsap Invisible Man
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel Invisible Man (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won...
x Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert   Louis Bouilhet Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert (French pronunciation: [ɡystaːv flobɛːʁ]) (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for...
x Albert Camus Albert Camus in 1957   Théâtre de l’Équipe Caligula
Albert Camus (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ kamy]) (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957. He is often associated with existentialism, but Camus refused this label....
x Walter Scott Henry Raeburn's Portrait of Walter Scott (1822)   Dryasdust Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. In some ways Scott was the first English-language author to have a truly...
x Günter Grass Grass   Helene Knoff The Flounder
Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author and playwright. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). Since 1945, he has lived in West Germany (now Germany), but in his fiction he frequently...
x Charlotte Brontë CBRichmond   William Makepeace Thackeray Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë (pronounced /ˈbrɒnti/) (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. Charlotte Brontë, who used the pen name Currer...
x Simone de Beauvoir Beauvoir   Nelson Algren The Mandarins
Simone de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [simɔn də boˈvwaʀ]) (January 9, 1908–April 14, 1986) was a French writer and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography in...
  Olga Kosakiewicz She Came to Stay
  Jean-Paul Sartre All Men are Mortal
x Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire   Théophile Gautier Les Fleurs du mal
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (English pronunciation: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/; French: [ʃaʁl bodlɛʁ]) (9 April 1821 - 31 August 1867) was a nineteenth century French poet, critic, and translator. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Baudelaire's name has become...
x Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel   Marion Wiesel Memoirs: All Rivers Run to the Sea
Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928) is a writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, the best known of which is Night, a memoir that describes his experiences during...
x Richard Wagner   Franz Liszt Lohengrin
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (pronounced /ˈrɪxərd ˈvɑːɡnər/, German pronunciation: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaɡnɐ]; 22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany – 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his...
x Sofia Gubaidulina Sofia Gubaidulina in Sortavala, 1981   Gidon Kremer Offertorium
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian: София Асгатовна Губайдулина, Tatar Cyrillic: София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина, Latin: Sofia Äsğät qızı Ğöbäydullina) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian half Tatar ethnicity. Gubaidulina...
x Carl Nielsen Carl Nielsen   Ferruccio Busoni Symphony No. 2
Carl August Nielsen (9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a conductor, violinist, and composer from Denmark. His works have long been well known in Denmark and they have been "a mainstay throughout the Nordic countries and, to a lesser extent, in...
x Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein 1971   John F. Kennedy Symphony No. 3
Leonard Bernstein (pronounced /ˈbɜrnstaɪn/ us dict: bûrn′·stīn; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was a multi-Emmy and Grammy award-winning and Academy Award nominated American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among...
x Howard Hanson CD cover of recordings featuring Hanson conducting his own works   Joseph E. Maddy Symphony No. 7, "A Sea Symphony"
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and ardent champion of American classical music. Director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a top quality...
x William Howard Taft Picture 4.png United States Congress Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Memorial
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale College...