Then, with the hymn writer of old, you can say:

* 1637 – Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen, German hymn writer ( d. 1706 )

* William Henry Monk ( 1823 – 1889 ), English hymn tune writer

Notable local Dissenters included John Bunyan, of Bedford, author of the Pilgrim's Progress, and another important hymn writer, Philip Doddridge ( 1702 – 51 ), of Northampton.

* March 9 – Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer ( d. 1908 )

* November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer ( b. 1674 )

* June 9 – Ephrem the Syrian, Christian saint and hymn writer

* Ephrem the Syrian, Christian saint and hymn writer ( approximate date )

The reverend Billy Graham called him, " the greatest combination pastor, hymn writer, missionary statesman, an evangelist of our time ".

Hilary is sometimes regarded as the first Latin Christian hymn writer, but none of the compositions assigned to him is indisputable.

The Great Auditorium has over the years featured famed hymn writer Fanny Crosby, band leader John Philip Sousa, and tenor Enrico Caruso.

* Joel Hills Johnson ( 1802 – 1883 ), Mormon pioneer, published poet and gospel hymn writer, Utah politician, founded the Utah towns of Enoch and Johnson.

* Charles Silvester Horne MP, Nonconformist author, hymn writer and preacher

William Williams Pantycelyn ( 1717 – 11 January 1791 ), also known as Williams Pantycelyn and Pantycelyn, is generally acknowledged as Wales ' most famous hymn writer.

* Hans Adolf Brorson, Danish Pietist clergyman and hymn writer.

* Joseph Hart ( 1712 – 1768 ), hymn writer and Calvinist minister in London

* November 25-Robert Lowry, hymn writer, 73

The New York Times review of the novel named Rand " a writer of great power " who writes " brilliantly, beautifully and bitterly ," and it stated that she had " written a hymn in praise of the individual ... you will not be able to read this masterful book without thinking through some of the basic concepts of our time.

* John Taylor ( Unitarian hymn writer ) ( 1750 – 1826 ), poet and composer from Norwich, England

Paul Gerhardt ( 12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676 ) was a German hymn writer.

Gerhardt is considered Germany's greatest hymn writer.

It influenced much of the poetry of the age, among others, that of the great hymn writer Hans Adolph Brorson.

Joachim Neander ( Neumann ) ( 165031 May 1680 ) was a German Reformed ( Calvinist ) Church teacher, theologian and hymn writer whose most famous hymn, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation () is generally regarded as one of the greatest hymns of praise of the Christian church and, since being translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in the 19th century, it has appeared in most major hymnals.

He is considered by many to be the first important German hymnist after the Reformation and is regarded as the outstanding hymn writer of the German Reformed Church.

John Mason Good was named after the Puritan clergyman and hymn writer John Mason ( 1645-1694 ), of whom his mother Sarah was a descendant.

Born Sarah Taylor in Norwich, England in 1793, she was the youngest child of John Taylor, a yarn maker and hymn writer from a locally well-known Unitarian family.

The first of Weatherly's well-known works was the hymn " The Holy City ", written in 1892 to music by the British composer Stephen Adams.

* 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna ( The " shores of Tripoli " part of the Marines ' hymn ).

Sung to the old Methodist hymn tune Cranbrook ( composed by Canterbury-based shoemaker Thomas Clark in 1805 and later used as a tune for While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night ), the song has become so popular that the origin of the music as a hymn tune has been almost forgotten in the United Kingdom.

One of the town's claims to fame is that the boards used in churches all over the world to display hymn numbers were invented here by the Rev Legh Richmond, who was curate-in-charge of Brading and Yaverland 1757 to 1805, and a famous writer of inspirational evangelist pamphlets at that time.

Cranbrook is the name of a hymn tune written by Canterbury cobbler Thomas Clark around 1805, and later used as a tune for the Christmas hymn " While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks ".

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* John F. Young ( 1820 – 1885 ), American Episcopal bishop of Florida, translator of the hymn Silent Night

* 1740 – Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn " Rock of Ages " ( d. 1778 )

Xenophon's Anabasis describes a group of Spartan soldiers in 400 – 399 BC singing to Poseidon a paean — a kind of hymn normally sung for Apollo.

* October 20 – Horatio Spafford, author of the hymn It is Well with my Soul ( d. 1888 )

* Horatio Spafford – Author of hymn " It Is Well With My Soul "

Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium is a hymn written by St Thomas Aquinas ( 1225 – 1274 ) for the Feast of Corpus Christi ( now called the Solemnity of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ ).

The ut – re – mi-fa-so-la syllables are taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, whose text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paulus Diaconus ( though the musical line either shares a common ancestor with the earlier setting of Horace's " Ode to Phyllis " ( Odes 4. 11 ) recorded in the Montpellier manuscript H425, or may even have been taken from it.

* Thomas Hastings ( 1784 – 1872 )-wrote the music to the hymn " Rock of Ages "

* Ira Sankey ( 1840 – 1908 ), hymn composer

" Dies Irae " ( Day of Wrath ) is a thirteenth century Latin hymn thought to be written by Thomas of Celano ( 1200 – c. 1265 ).

It was removed from the ordinary form of the Roman Rite mass in the liturgical reform of 1969 – 1970, but was retained as a hymn of the Divine Office.