20th-century flautists

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Slovenian singer

Brazilian composer, musician and record producer (1936–2025)

Finnish actor, musician and comedian (1945–2022)

Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist (1934–2014)

Estonian singer (1950-2014)

Swiss flautist (1926-2016)

Dutch musician

Danish flutist, conductor and composer (1847–1909)

Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist

Swedish musician (1944–2013)

Belgian cool jazz and hard bop saxophonist, flautist and composer (1926–1963)

Polish jazz saxophonist (1941-2016)

Tunisian musician and composer (1925–2014)

South African-Dutch saxophonist and flautist

Brazilian musician (1915-1979)

South African musician (1945–1975)

Dutch flautist

Mexican musician

Nigerien musician

Dutch flutist, politician

Brazilian musician

Danish musician (1890–1975)

Norwegian musician

Swiss composer (1960-2018)

Composer of Theatre plays, Folk music singer and instrumentalist

Brazilian musician, conductor and luthier (1948–2025)

Cuban musician (1908–1987)

Swiss musician of Bolivian music (1936–1998)

musical artist

Dutch musician

Macedonian musician (1922-2012)

musician

Austrian flautist (1955–2006)

Spanish musician (1899-1986)

Norwegian musician