* 1933 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer ( d. 2010 )

Concertos for the instrument were written by Francis Poulenc ( the Concert champêtre, 1927 – 28 ), Manuel de Falla, Bertold Hummel, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, and Roberto Carnevale.

* 2010 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer ( b. 1933 )

Composer Henryk Górecki.

Composers such as Terry Riley, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Henryk Górecki, Bradley Joseph, John Adams, George Crumb, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, and Lou Harrison reacted to the perceived elitism and dissonant sound of atonal academic modernism by producing music with simple textures and relatively consonant harmonies, whilst others, most notably John Cage challenged the prevailing Narratives of beauty and objectivity common to Modernism.

* December 6 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer ( d. 2010 )

Composers included Tadeusz Baird, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Witold Szalonek, Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski, Wojciech Kilar, Kazimierz Serocki and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki.

* Henryk Górecki, composer of classical music.

Henryk Górecki photographed in 1993

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* July 22 – Janusz Korczak ( pen-name of Henryk Goldszmit ), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist ( born 1878 or 1879 ) ( d. 1942 )

Jerzy Henryk Dudek (; born 23 March 1973 ) is a Polish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Henryk Szeryng ( usually pronounced-rik-ring ) ( 22 September 19183 March 1988 ) was a violinist born in Poland and later a naturalized citizen of Mexico.

* Henryk Średnicki ( born 1955 ), Olympic boxer

Henryk Sławik, born 16 July 1894 in Szeroka ( now a part of Jastrzębie-Zdrój, then in the Prussian zone of partitioned Poland ), was executed by Nazi Germans in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp on 26 August 1944.

Henryk Sławik was born into an impoverished Polish Silesian family as one of its 9 children.

Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire.

Henryk Dobrzański was born on June 22, 1897, in Jasło, Austria-Hungary to a Polish noble family ( Coat of arms of Leliwa ), of Henryk Dobrzański de Hubal and Maria Dobrzańska née Lubieniecka.

Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski ( born June 7, 1923 ), nicknamed Papcio Chmiel ( Papa Hop ) is a Polish comic book artist and publicist.

Józef Henryk Przytycki (; ; born October 1953 in Warsaw, Poland ), is a mathematician specializing in the fields of knot theory and topology.

Uri Orlev, born Jerzy Henryk Orlowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland.

* Henryk Mandelbaum ( born 1922 ), holocaust survivor

Sebastian Janikowski was born an only child to Henryk and Halina Janikowski in Wałbrzych, Poland.

When this cabaret closed, Hanka Ordonówna moved to Warsaw and worked at the cabaret Miraż, where she was noticed by Fryderyk Jarosy, director of the famous Warsaw cabaret Qui Pro Quo ; it was under his guidance that she became a star, recording the famous Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy ( song by Henryk Wars and Julian Tuwim ) in the 1933 movie Szpieg w masce ( Spy with a mask ).

The Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz authored the well-known novel Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero in 1895, which in turn has been made into motion pictures several times.

" However, recently Harvey has said that Smith is " so energising to see and so passionate with what she's doing " and has also drawn inspiration from Russian folk music, Italian soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, classical composers like Arvo Pärt, Samuel Barber and Henryk Górecki, and Neil Young.

Minimalism was practiced heavily throughout the latter half of the century and has carried over into the 21st century, as well as composers like Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki and John Tavener working in the holy minimalism variant.

Grace Cathedral has a significant collection of varied works by Jan Henryk De Rosen.

Sava Centar has hosted Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nina Simone, Julio Iglesias, Henryk Szeryng, Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy, Suzanne Vega, Nigel Kennedy, B. B.

Cray's pilot Henryk attempts to abort the plane take-off, but, as the plane has already reached V1 speed, he cannot do so safely and crashes the plane off the runway, breaking his neck in the process.