* 1877 – Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, conductor and composer ( d. 1972 )

* 1865 – Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator ( d. 1950 )

* 1903 – Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer ( d. 1945 )

* 1812 – Sigismond Thalberg, Swiss virtuoso pianist and composer ( d. 1871 )

* 1892 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer ( d. 1955 )

* 1886 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor ( d. 1957 )

* 1910 – Rolf Liebermann, Swiss composer ( d. 1999 )

* 1890 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer ( d. 1974 )

* May 21 – Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist and composer

* April 5 – Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer ( b. 1903 )

** Huldreich Georg Früh, Swiss composer ( d. 1945 )

* November 21 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer ( b. 1890 )

* July 15 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer ( b. 1880 )

** Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer ( d. 1955 )

* September 1 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer ( d. 1957 )

* November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer ( b. 1892 )

* Johannes Aal, Swiss theologian and composer ( d. 1553 )

** Ludwig Senfl, Swiss composer ( d. 1542 or 1543 )

The Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck wrote a 90 ' one-act opera, Penthesilea ( Dresden, 1927 ) based on Kleist's drama.

The film is constructed as a big, tear-jerking Hollywood melodrama in its depiction of the unfulfilled love story between a German variety singer separated by the war from a Swiss Jewish composer.

The Swiss composer Frank Martin lived in Naarden for the last twenty years of his life.

The latter demonstrates Finzi ’ s admiration for Johann Sebastian Bach as well as the Swiss American Jewish composer Ernest Bloch.

Arthur Honegger ( pronounced ; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955 ) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.

Frank Martin ( 15 September 1890 in the Eaux-Vives quarter of Geneva – 21 November 1974 in Naarden ) was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands.

A Swiss saddle maker brings skis to Davos and publicises their use through Arthur Conan Doyle.

It also included two Austrians ( cartographer Erwin Schneider and Ernst Senn ) and two Swiss ( Bruno Spirig and Arthur Spöhel ), and was the first expedition in the Everest area to include Americans ( Fred Beckey, George Bell, and Richard McGowan ).

Arthur Hoffmann ( 18 June 1857 – 23 July 1927 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1911 – 1917 ).

* Arthur Hoffmann, former President of the Swiss Confederation

Out of many waterfalls in the Bernese Oberland, the Reichenbach Falls seems to have made the greatest impression on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, who was shown them one Swiss holiday by his host and founder of Lunn Poly and the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club ( later the Alpine Ski Club ), Sir Henry Lunn.

The 20th century saw a rise in the prominence of Swiss composers, amongst them Othmar Schoeck, Ernest Bloch, Frank Martin, Rolf Liebermann, and perhaps most famously Arthur Honegger, whose portrait of a steam train, Pacific 231, has entered the core repertoire.

* Arthur Dunkel ( August 26, 1932-June 8, 2005 ) was a Swiss ( Portuguese-born ) administrator and a professor at the University of Fribourg.

The piece is dedicated to the memory of an old friend, the Swiss composer Arthur Honegger, who like Poulenc had belonged to the group of " Les Six.

Arthur Dunkel ( August 26, 1932-June 8, 2005 ) was a Swiss ( Portuguese-born ) administrator.

The OSR premiered many works of the Swiss composers Arthur Honegger and Frank Martin.

Neutrality was restored by the resignation of Arthur Hoffmann, the Swiss Federal Councillor who had supported Grimm but had not consulted his colleagues on the initiative.

Despite the prevailing public and political attitudes in Switzerland, some higher-ranking officers within the Swiss Army had pro-Nazi sympathies: notably Colonel Arthur Fonjallaz and Colonel Eugen Bircher, who led the Schweizerischer Vaterländischer Verband.

* Arthur Hoffmann ( politician ) ( 1857 – 1927 ), Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council

Arthur Chevrolet, ( April 25, 1884 – April 16, 1946 ) was a Swiss American racecar driver and automobile manufacturer.

This umbrella organization was originally formed under the name of Arthur Andersen Société Coopérative as a Swiss cooperative in 1977 by the then partners of Arthur Andersen LLP and other professional services firms associated with it.

That grandson John Arthur completed the building of Moynalty Village in 1837 and in is to some extent based on a Swiss design.

May's Brigade amounted to a task force of 17 people, including Lihotsky, her husband Wilhelm Schuette, Arthur Korn, the Hungarian-born Fred Forbat, the Swiss Hans Schmidt, the Austrian-born Erich Mauthner and the Dutch Mart Stam.