Dates: Some European Composers and a few Other Notables
The names selected act as signposts, not cessarily the leaders, to locate musicians with non-musical events.

Dante 1265 - 1321
Guttenberg 1400? - 1468
Columbus 1451 - 1506
Leonardo da Vinci   1452 - 1519
Copernicus 1473 - 1543
Michelangelo 1475 - 1564
Cervantes 1547 - 16160
Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
Galileo 1564 - 1542
Monteverdi 1567 - 1643
Kepler 1571 - 1630
William Harvey 1578 - 1657
Descartes 1596 - 1650
Rembrandt 1606 - 1669
Spinoza 1632 - 1677
Newton 1643 - 1727
Corelli 1643 - 1713
Vivaldi 1678 - 1741
Bach 1685 - 1750
Scarlatti 1685 - 1757
Priestley 1733 - 1804
Mozart 1756 - 1791
Beethoven 1770 - 1827
Darwin 1809 - 1882
Mendel 1822 - 1884
Brahms 1833 - 1897
Mendeleev 1834 - 1907
Debussy 1862 - 1918
Einstein 1879 - 1955
Stravinsky 1882 - 1971