==А==
* Элла Адаевская
* Свитлана Азарова
* Франгиз Али-Заде
* Лера Авербах

==Б==
* Гражина Бацевич
* Кэти Берберян
* Иоанна Бруздович
* Надя Буланже

==Г==
* Диаманда Галас
*Элизабетта де Гамбарини
* София Губайдулина

==Ж==
* Элизабет Жаке де ла Герр
* Бетси Жолас

==З==
* Алла Загайкевич

==К==
* Кассия
* Елена Кац-Чернин
* Франческа Каччини
* Иоанна Кинкель
* Юлиана Кляйн

==Л==
* Софи Лаказ
* Франческа Лебрен
* Элизабет Лютенс

==М==
* Альма Малер
* Фанни Мендельсон
* Мередит Монк
* Мария Анна Моцарт

==Н==
* Ольга Нойвирт

==О==
* Галина Овчаренко
* Полина Оливерос

==П==
* Алла Павлова
* Роксанна Пануфник 
* Александра Пахмутова

==Р==
* Мишель Реверди 

The following is a list of female composers, ordered by birthyear.

==until 1500==
* Sappho (born ''c.'' 612 BCE)
* Xosroviduxt (''fl.'' early 8th century)
* Sahakduxt (''fl.'' early 8th century)
* Kassia (c.810–before 867)
* Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
* Azalais de Porcairagues (''fl.'' mid-12th century)
* Tibors (''fl.'' mid 12th century)
* Marie de France (1175?–1225?)
* Alamanda de Castelnau (''fl.'' second half of 12th century)
* Maria de Ventadorn (''fl.'' late 12th century)
* Comtessa de Dia (more commonly as Beatriz de Dia, ''fl.'' late 12th/early 13th centuries)
* Blanche of Castile (1188–1252)
* Castelloza (''fl.'' early 13th century)
* Dame Margot (''fl.'' 13th century)(see: Dames Margot and Maroie)
* Duchess of Lorraine (''fl.'' 13th century)
* Maroie de Dregnau de Lille (''fl.'' 13th century)
* Dame Maroie (''fl.'' 13th century) (see: Dames Margot and Maroie)
* Garsenda de Proensa (''fl.'' early 13th century)

==1500==
* Anne Boleyn (1507–1536)
* Teodora Ginés (''c.'' 1530–''after'' 1598)
* Maddalena Casulana (c.1540–c.1590)
* Paola Massarenghi (''fl.'' 1565–1585)
* Lucia Quinciani (born ''c.'' 1566, ''fl.'' 1611)
* Claudia Sessa (''c.'' 1570–between 1613 and 1619)
* Cesarina Ricci de Tingoli (born ''c.'' 1573, ''fl.'' 1597)
* Vittoria Aleotti (c.1575–''after'' 1620) 
* Caterina Assandra (1580–1632)
* Adriana Basile (''c.'' 1580–''c.'' 1640)
* Francesca Caccini (1587–1640?)
* Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662)
* Settimia Caccini (1591–1638?)
* Claudia Rusca (1593–1676)

==1600==
* Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602–1678)
* Sulpitia Cesis (''fl.'' 1619)
* Leonora Duarte (1610–1678)
* Leonora Baroni (1611–1670)
* Sophie Elisabeth, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1613–1676)
* Barbara Strozzi (1619–1677)
* Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) 
* Mlle Bocquet (early 17th century–''after'' 1660)
* Alba Trissina (''fl.'' 1622)
* Lady Mary Dering (1629–1704)
* Amalia Catharina (1640–1697)
* Antonia Bembo (''c.'' 1640–1720)
* Esther Elizabeth Velkiers (born 1640)
* Francesca Campana (died 1665)
* Maria Cattarina Calegari (1644–1675)
==1650==
* Maria Francesca Nascinbeni (born 1658, ''fl.'' 1674)
* Rosa Giacinta Badalla (1660–1710)
* Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi (1662–1708)
* Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729)
* Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou (born 1680, ''fl.'' 1691)
* Marieta Morosina Priuli (''fl.'' 1665)
* Maria de Raschenau (''fl.'' 1690s–1703)
* Michielina Della Pietà (''fl. c.'' 1701–1744)
* Camilla de Rossi ((''fl.'' 1707–1710)
* Julie Pinel (''fl.'' 1710–1737)
* Mrs Philarmonica (''fl.'' 1715)
* Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault (1695–1791)

==1700==
* Caterina Benedicta Grazianini (''fl.'' early 18th century)
* Maria Margherita Grimani (''fl.'' early 18th century)
* Rosanna Scalfi Marcello (''fl.'' 1723–1742)
* Santa Della Pietà (''fl. c.'' 1725–1750, ''d. after'' 1774)
* Elisabeth de Haulteterre (''fl.'' 1737–1768)
* Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (1709–1758)
* Mlle Guédon de Presles (early 18th century–1754)
* Barbara of Portugal (1711–1758)
* Mlle Duval (1718–''after'' 1775)
* Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720–1795)
* Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723–1787) 
* Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria (1724–1780)
* Miss Davis (''c.'' 1726–''after'' 1755)
* Elisabetta de Gambarini (1731–1765)
* Josina Anna Petronella van Boetzelaer (1733–1787)
* Mme Papavoine (born ''c.'' 1735, ''fl.'' 1755-61)
* Hélène-Louise Demars (''b. c.'' 1736)
* Anna Bon (born 1738/1739)
* Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1739–1807)
* Mlle Guerin (born ''c.'' 1739, ''fl.'' 1755)
* Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805)
* Elisabeth Olin (1740-1828)
* Maria Carolina Wolf (1742–1820)
* Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy (1744–1824)
* Marianna von Martines (1744–1812)
* Maddalena Laura Sirmen (1745–1818)
* Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (1746–1825)
* Henriette Adélaïde Villard de Beaumesnil (1748–1813)
* Maria Barthélemon (''c.'' 1749–1799)

==1750==
* Marianna von Auenbrugger (d. 1786)
* Elizabeth Anspach (1750–1828)
* Elizabeth Joanetta Catherine von Hagen (1750–1809/10)
* Maria Anna Mozart (1751–1829)
* Mary Ann Pownall (1751–1796)
* Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter (1751–1802)
* Mary Ann Wrighten (1751–1796)
* Juliane Reichardt (1752–1783)<!--same as Juliane Benda-->
* Jane Savage (1752/3–1824)
* Countess Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt (1755–1810)
* Mary Linwood (1755/6–1845)
* Francesca Lebrun (1756–1791)
* Harriett Abrams (1758–1821)
* Josepha Barbara Auernhammer (1758–1820)
* Maria Rosa Coccia (1759–1833)
* Maria Theresa Paradis (1759–1824)
* Sophia Maria Westenholz (1759–1838)
* Marie-Elizabeth Cléry (1761–''after'' 1795)
* Adelheid Maria Eichner (1762–1787)
* Jane Mary Guest (1762–1846)
* Ann Valentine (1762–1842)
* Luise Adelgunda Victoria Gottsched (died 1762)
* Helene de Montgeroult (1764–1836) 
* Anne-Marie Krumpholtz (1766–1813)
* Caroline Wuiet (1766–1835)
* Julie Candeille (1767–1834)
* Elizabeth Weichsell Billington (c.1768–1818) 
* Margarethe Danzi (1768–1800)
* Cecilia Maria Barthélemon (''c.'' 1769–1840)
* Maria Theresa Bland (''c.'' 1769–1838)
* Kateřina Veronika Anna Dusíkova (1769–1833)
* Vincenta Da Ponte (''fl.'' second half 18th century)
* Maria Margherita Grimani (''fl.'' 18th century)
* Yekaterina Sinyavina (died 1784)
* Lucile Grétry (1772–1790)
* Maria Frances Parke (1772–1822)
* Sophie Bawr (1773–1860)
* Maria Brizzi Giorgi (1775–1822)
* Sophia Corri Dussek (1775–1847)
* Margaret Essex (1775–1807)
* Sophie Gail (1775–1819)
* Maria Hester Park (1775–1822)
* Pauline Duchambge (1778–1858)
* Louise Reichardt (1779–1826)
* Ekaterina Likoshin (''fl.'' 1800–1810) 
* Katerina Maier (''fl. c.'' 1800)
* Sophie Lebrun (1781–1863)
* Charlotta Seuerling (1782-1828)
* Teresa Belloc-Giorgi (1784–1855)
* Bettina Brentano (1785–1859)
* Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch (1785–1858)
* Isabella Colbran (1785–1845)
* Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar (1785–1815)
* Marie Bigot (1786–1820)
* Le Sénéchal de Kerkado (''c.'' 1786–''after'' 1805)
* Elena Asachi (1789–1877)
* Maria Agata Szymanowska (1789–1831)
* Harriet Browne (1790–1858)
* Gertrude van den Bergh (1793–1840)
* Amalie, Princess of Saxony (1794–1870)
* Olivia Buckley (born mid-1790s–''after'' 1845)
* Mme Delaval (''fl.'' 1791–1802)
* Agata Della Pietà (''fl. c.'' 1800)
* Helene Liebmann (1796–1835)
* Emilie Zumsteeg (1796–1857)
* Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848)
* Mme Ravissa (''fl.'' late 18th century)
* Virginie Morel-du Verger (1799-1869)

==1800==
* Filipina Brzezińska-Szymanowska (1800–1886)
* Susanna Nerantzi (''fl.'' 1830–1840)
* Marion Dix Sullivan (''fl.'' 1840–50)
* Marianna Bottini (1802–1858)
* Isidora Zegers (1803–1869)
* Louise Farrenc (1804–1875)
* Louise Bertin (1805–1877)
* Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)
* Elizabeth Masson (1806–1865)
* Adelaide Orsola Appignani (1807–1884)
* Helen Blackwood (1807–1867)
* Emma Sophie Amalie Hartmann (1807–1851)
* Maria Malibran (1808–1836)
* Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877)
* Anna Caroline Oury (1808–1880)
* Leopoldine Blahetka (1809–1885)
* Baronne Almaury de Maistre (1809-1875)
* Johanna Kinkel (1810–1858)
* Louise Geneviève de Le Hye (1810–1838)
* Loïsa Puget (1810–1889)
* Alicia Ann Scott (1810–1900)
* Carolina Uccelli (1810–1885)
* Ann Mounsey (1811–1891)
* Julie von Webenau née Baroni-Cavalcabò (1813–1887)
* Delphine von Schauroth (1814–1887)
* Thérèse Wartel (1814–1865)
* Fredrikke Egeberg (1815–1861)
* Josephine Lang (1815–1880)
* Mary Anne A'Beckett (1817–1863)
* Caroline Orger (1818–1892)
* Caroline Reinagle (1818–1892)
* Ellen Dickson (1819–1878)
* Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
* Elizabeth Stirling (1819–1895)
* Augusta Browne (1820–1882)
* Felicita Casella (''c.'' 1820–''after'' 1865)
* Clara Angela Macirone (1821–1895)
* Emilie Mayer (1821–1883)
* Charlotte Sainton-Dolby (1821–1885)
* Maria Anna Stubenberg (1821–1912)
* Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821–1910)
* Mitzuki Simon (1822-1917)
* Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822–1895)
* Emma Maria Macfarren (1824–1895)
* Marie Siegling (1824–1919)
* Jane Sloman (1824–''after'' 1850)
* Virginia Gabriel (1825–1877)
* Kate Loder (1825–1904)
* Maria Lindsay (1827–1898)
* Teresa Milanollo (1827–1904)
* Julia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska (1827–1891)
* Elizabeth Philp (1827–1885)
* Clémence de Grandval (1828–1907)
* Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869)
* Fanny Arthur Robinson (1831–1879)
* Martha von Sabinin (1831–1892)
* Julia Woolf (1831–1893)
* Sophia Dellaporta (''fl.'' second half of the 19th century)
* Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev (1834–1917)
* Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska (1834–1861)
* Anna Pessiak-Schmerling (1834–1896)
* Johanne Amelie Fenger (1836–1913)
* Susan McFarland Parkhurst (1836–1918)
* Anaïs Perrière-Pilte (1836–1878)
* Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (1836–1911)
* Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys (''c.'' 1836–1909)
* Caroline Wichern (1836–1906)
* Carlotta Ferrari (1837–1907)
* Georgina Weldon (1837–1914)
* Liliʻuokalani (1838–1917)
* Louise Haenel de Cronenthall (1839–''c.'' 1876)
* Laura Constance Netzel (1839–1927)
* Alice Mary Smith (1839–1884)
* Ingeborg von Bronsart (1840–1913)
* Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929)
* Louise Héritte-Viardot (1841-1918)
* Josefina Brdlíková (1843–1910)
* Florence Ashton Marshall (1843–''after'' 1911)
* Oliveria Louisa Prescott (1843–1919)
* Marguerite Olagnier (1844–1906)
* Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844–1931)
* Ella Adayevskaya (née Schultz) (1846–1926)
* Marie Jaëll (1846–1925)
* Sophie Menter (1846–1918)
* Valentina Serova (1846–1924)
* Agnes Tyrrell (1846–1883)
* Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847–1907)
* Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847–1935)
* Augusta Holmès (1847–1903)
* Agnes Zimmermann (1847–1925)
* Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919)
* Frances Allitsen (1849–1912)
* Soledad Bengoecha de Cármena (1849–1893)
* Catalina Berroa (1849–1911)
* Roberta Geddes-Harvey (1849–1930)
* Ludmila Jeske-Choińska-Mikorska (1849–1898)
* Nanna Magdalene Liebmann (1849–1935)
* Stephanie Wurmbrand-Stuppach (1849–1919)

==1850==
* Louise Adolpha Le Beau (1850–1927)
* Emma Roberto Steiner (1850–1928)
* Edith Swepstone (''fl.'' 1885–1930)
* Mary Grant Carmichael (1851–1935)
* Gabrielle Ferrari (1851–1921)
* Annie Fortescue Harrison (1851–1944)
* Helena Munktell (1852–1919)
* Teresa Carreño (1853–1917)
* Julie Rivé-King (1854–1937)
* Maude Valérie White (1855–1937)
* Cecilia Arizti (1856–1930)
* Eva Dell'Acqua (1856–1930)
* Kateřina Emingerová (1856–1934)
* Clotilde Kainerstorfer (''fl.'' second half 19th century)
* Helen Hopekirk (1856–1945)
* Natalia Janotha (1856–1932)
* Gilda Ruta (1856–1932)
* Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (1856–1938)
* Berta Bock (1857–1945)
* Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)
* Rosalind Frances Ellicott (1857–1924)
* Mathilde Kralik von Mayerswalden (1857–1944)
* Mary Knight Wood (1857–1944)
* Mélanie Bonis (1858–1937)
* Catherine Rennes (1858–1940)
* Guy d'Hardelot (1858–1936)
* Hilda Sehested (1858–1936)
* Ethel Smyth (1858–1944)
* Stella Stocker (1858–1925)
* Hedwige Chrétien (1859–1944)
* Laura Sedgwick Collins (1859–1927)
* Narcisa Freixas (1859–1926)
* Vincenza Garelli della Morea (1859–''after'' 1924)
* Susie Frances Harrison (1859–1935)
* Louísa Leonarda (1859–1926)
* Elisabeth Meyer (1859–1927)
* Ida Georgina Moberg (1859–1947)
* Teresa Tanco Cordovez de Herrera (1859–1946)
* Hope Temple (1859–1938)
* Valborg Aulin (1860–1928)
* Celeste de Longpré Heckscher (1860–1928)
* Halina Krzyżanowska (1860–1937)
* Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860–1919)
* Mary J. A. Wurm (1860–1938)
* Florence Everilda Goodeve (1861–1915)
* Florence Aylward (1862–1950)
* Carrie Bond (1862–1946)
* Dora Bright (1862–1951)
* Liza Lehmann (1862–1918)
* Mona McBurney (1862–1932)
* Marian Arkwright (1863–1922)
* Luisa Casagemas (1863–''after'' 1894)
* Maria Chefaliady-Taban (1863–1932)
* Abbie Gerrish-Jones (1863–1929)
* Helen Francis Hood (1863–1949)
* Izabella Kuliffay (1863–1945)
* Cornélie van Oosterzee (1863–1943)
* Florence Maude Ewart (1864–1949)
* Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942)
* Alice Tegnér (1864–1943)
* Borghild Holmsen (1865–1938)
* Amanda Ira Aldridge (1866–1956)
* Henriette van den Boorn-Coclet (1866–1945)
* Clara Anna Korn (1866–1941)
* Laura Lemon (1866–1924)
* Adela Maddison (1866–1929)
* Tekla Griebel Wandall (1866–1940)
* Amy Beach (1867–1944)
* Margherita Galeotti (1867–''after'' 1912)
* Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–''after'' 1915)
* Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972)
* Gisella Delle Grazie (born 1868, ''fl.'' 1894–95) 
* Signe Lund (1868–1950)
* Annie Patterson (1868–1934)
* Joséphine Boulay (1869-1925)
* Virginia Mariani Campolieti (1869–1941)
* Maria Antonietta Picconi (1869–1926)
* Caro Roma (1869–1937)
* Patty Stair (1869–1926)
* Eugénie-Emilie Juliette Folville (1870–1946)
* Mon Schjelderup (1870–1934)
* Jane Vieu (1871–1955)
* Alicia Adélaide Needham (1872–1945)
* María de las Mercedes Adam de Aróstegui (1873–1957)
* Anna Cramer (1873–1968)
* Celeste Jaguaribe de Matos Celeste (1873–1938)
* Emma Lomax (1873–1963)
* Mary Carr Moore (1873–1957)
* Maude Nugent (1873/4–1958)
* R. Ethel Harraden (''fl.'' late 19th century–early 20th century)
* Bertha Frensel Wegener (1874–1953)
* Katharine Emily Eggar (1874–1961)
* Henriette Renié (1875-1956)
* Vilma von Webenau (1875-1953)
* Sara Wennerberg-Reuter (1875–1959)
* Lucia Contini Anselmi (1876–''after'' 1913)
* Armande de Polignac (1876-1962)
* Teresa Clotilde del Riego (1876–1968)
* Mabel Wheeler Daniels (1877–1971)
* Elisabeth Kuyper (1877–1953)
* Jeanne Beijerman-Walraven (1878–1969)
* Eugenia Calosso (1878–1914)
* Johanna Müller-Hermann (1878–1941)
* Yuliya Veysberg (1878/1880–1942)
* Wanda Landowska (1879–1959)
* Carmela Mackenna (1879–1962)
* Alma Mahler (1879–1964)
* Poldowski (1879–1932)
* Johanna Senfter (1879–1961)
* Ethel Scarborough (1880–1956)
* Ethel Barns (1880-1948)
* Gena Branscombe (1881–1977)
* Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881–1971)
* Nancy Dalberg (1881–1949)
* Fannie Charles Dillon (1881–1974)
* Marion Bauer (1882–1955)
* Mary Howe (1882–1964)
* Eleni Lambiri (''c.'' 1882-8–1960)
* Ernestina Lecuona Casado (1882–1951)
* Mary Lucas (1882–1952)
* Dina Appeldoorn (1884–1938)
* Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt (1884–1964)
* May Hannah Brahe (1884–1956)
* Blanche Selva (1884-1942]
* María Grever (1885–1951)
* Eva Jessye (1885–1992)
* Mana Zucca (1885–1981)
* Dora Pejačević (1885–1923)
* Giovanna Bruna Baldacci (1886–''after'' 1910)
* Alice Barnett (1886–1975)
* Rebecca Helferich Clarke (1886–1979)
* Ellen Coleman (1886–1973)
* Elizabeth Gyring (1886–1970)
* Ethel Leginska (1886–1970)
* Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979)
* Mildred Couper (1887–1974)
* Clara Edwards (1887–1974)
* Emilia Gubitosi (1887–1972)
* Florence Bea Price (1887–1953)
* Lily Strickland (1887–1958)
* Carmen Barradas (1888–1963)
* Florence Beatrice Price (1888-1953)
* Johanna Beyer (1888–1944)
* Ilsa Fromm-Michaels (1888–1986)
* Anna Maria Klechniowska (1888–1973)
* Julie Reisserová (1888–1938)
* Maria Rodrigo (1888–1967)
* Rosy Wertheim (1888–1949)
* Emiliana de Zubeldia (1888–1987)
* Ina Boyle (1889–1967)
* Ethel Glenn Hier (1889–1971)
* Vally Weigl (1889–1982)
* Marguerite Canal (1890–1978)
* Evelyn Faltis (1890–1937)
* Pauline Hall (1890–1969)
* Kathleen Lockhart Manning (1890–1951)
* Giulia Recli (1890–1970)
* Frida Kern (1891–1988)
* Florentina Mallá (1891–1973)
* Morfydd Owen (1891–1918)
* Catherine Murphy Urner (1891–1942)
* Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892–1971)
* Mirrie Hill (1892–1986)
* Katherine K. Davis (1892-1980)
* Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
* Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)
* Marta Canales (1893–1986)
* Dorothy Gow (1893–1982)
* Helen Eugenia Hagan (1893–1964)
* Jane M. Joseph (1894–1929)
* Elsa Respighi (1894–1996)
* Sláva Vorlová (1894–1973)
* Henriëtte Bosmans (1895–1952)
* Kathleen Dale (1895–1984)<!--same as Kathleen Richards-->
* Kathleen Richards (1895–1984)
* Maria Bach (1896–1978)
* Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896–1977)
* María Teresa Prieto (1896–1982)
* María Luisa Sepúlveda (1896–1958)
* Lucie Vellère (1896–1966)
* Benna Moe (1897–1983)
* Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984)
* Kay Swift (1897–1993)
* Barbara Giuranna (1898–1998)
* Dorothy Howell (1898–1982)
* Jeanne Leleu (1898–1979)
* Mansi Barberis (1899–1986)
* Radie Britain (1899–1994)
* Marcelle de Manziarly (1899–1989)
* Grete von Zieritz (1899–2001)

==1900==
* Carmelina Delfin (''c.'' 1900–''after'' 1948)
* Lola Castegnaro (1900–1979)
* Isadore Freed (1900–1960)
* Zdenka Ticharich (1900–1979)
* Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991)
* Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)
* Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1901–1974)
* Dorothy James (1901–1982)
* Emmy Wegener (1901–1973)
* Hedy Frank-Autheried (1902–1979)
* Lūcija Garūta (1902–1977)
* Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982)
* Freda Swain (1902–1985)
* Rose Thisse-Derouette (1902–1989)
* Claude Arrieu (1903-1990)
* María Enma Botet Dubois (born 1903)
* Rhoda Coghill (1903–2000)
* Avril Coleridge-Taylor (born 1903)
* Lillian Fuchs (1903–1991)
* Jessie Furze (1903–1984)
* Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser (born 1903)
* Priaulx Rainier (1903–1986)
* Joanídia Sodré (1903–1975)
* Martha Alter (1904–1976)
* Dinorá de Carvalho (1904–1980)
* Undine Smith Moore (1904–1989)
* Dorothy Parke (1904–1990)
* Esther Rofe (1904–2000)
* Ellen Wright (born 1904)
* Andrée Bonhomme (1905–1982)
* Ulric Cole (1905–1992)
* Elizabeth Poston (1905–1987)
* Verdina Shlonsky (1905–1990)
* Shuxian Xiao (1905–1991)
* Claire Delbos (1906–1959)
* Miriam Gideon (1906–1996)
* Zara Levina (1906–1976)
* Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–1983)
* Berta Alves de Sousa (born 1906)
* Louise Talma (1906–1996)
* Grace Williams (1906–1977)
* Ann Ronell (1906 or 1908–1933)
* Lora Aborn (1907-2005)
* Yvonne Desportes (1907–1993)
* Koharik Gazarossian (1907–1967)
* Imogen Holst (1907–1984)
* Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994)
* Abdïlas Maldïbayev (1907–1978)
* Roberta Martin (1907–1969)
* Maria Teresa Pelegrí i Marimón (born 1907)
* Roberta Bitgood (born 1908)
* Jean Coulthard (1908–2000)
* Helen Glatz (born 1908)
* Joan Mary Last (born 1908)
* Alice Samter (born 1908)
* Ida Vivado (1908–1989)
* Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
* Maria Dziewulska (born 1909)
* Minna Keal (1909-1999)
* Ljubica Marić (1909–2003)
* Dana Suesse (1909–1987)

==1910==
* Elsa Barraine (1910–1999)
* Lycia de Biase Bidart (born 1910-1990)
* Patricia Blomfield Holt (born 1910-2003)
* Shena Fraser (born 1910)
* Lila Lalauni (1910–1996)
* Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981)
* Kikuko Kanai (1911–1986)
* Anne-Marie Ørbeck (born 1911-1996)
* Julia Smith (1911–1989)
* Phyllis Tate (1911–1987)
* Jeanne Behrend (1912–1988)
* Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990)
* Gisela Hernández (1912–1971)
* Sirvart Karamanuk (born 1912)
* Barbara Pentland (1912–2000)
* Jadwiga Szajna-Lewandowska (1912–1994)
* Josephine Troup (died 1912)
* Violet Archer (1913–2000)
* Isabel Aretz (born 1913)
* Margaret Allison Bonds (1913–1972)
* Matilde Capuis (born 1913)
* Vivian Fine (1913–2000)
* Dulcie Sybil Holland (born 1913)
* Miriam Beatrice Hyde (1913–2005)
* Netty Simons (1913–1994)
* Peggy Stuart-Coolidge (1913–1981)
* Cacilda Borges Barbosa (born 1914)
* Teresa Rampazzi (born 1914)
* Josée Vigneron-Ramackers (born 1914)
* Esther Ballou (1915–1973)
* Eunice Catunda (born 1915)
* Júlia Hajdú (1915–1987)
* Pamela Harrison (1915–1990)
* Najla Jabor (born 1915)
* Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915–1940)
* Eunice Katunda (1915–1991)
* Joan Trimble (1915–2000)
* Berthe di Vito-Delvaux (born 1915)
* Olga De Blanck Martín (born 1916)
* Carin Malmlöf-Forssling (born 1916)
* Nydia Pereyra-Lizaso (born 1916)
* Erna Tauro (1916–1993)
* Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916–1989)
* Joyce Howard Barrell (1917–1989)
* Clarisse Leite (born 1917)
* Geraldine Mucha (born 1917)
* Maj Sønstevold (born 1917)
* Ėta Mayseyewna Tïrmand (born 1917)
* Erna Woll (born 1917)
* Lina Pires de Campos (born 1918)
* Gayane Č'ebotaryan (born 1918)
* Gayane Chebotarian (1918–1998)
* Dilys Elwyn-Edwards (born 1918)
* Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (born 1918)
* Matilde Salvador (born 1918)
* Denise Tolkowsky (1918–1991)
* Jórunn Viðar (born 1918)
* Roslyn Brogue (1919–1981)
* Eleonora Eksanishvili (born 1919)
* Ludmila Frajt (born 1919)
* Dorothy Whitson Freed (born 1919)
* Hilda Jerea (1919–1980)
* Qu Xixian (born 1919)
* Galina Ustvolskaya (born 1919)

==1920s==
* Rolande Falcinelli (1920–2006)
* Dorothea Anne Franchi (1920–2003)
* Chaya Arbel (born 1921)
* Adrienne Clostre (born 1921)
* Jeanne Demessieux (1921–1968)
* Ruth Gipps (1921–1999)
* Nazife Güran (1921–1993)
* Mara Petrova (1921–1997)
* Rosalina Abejo (1922–1991)
* Margaret Buechner (1922-1998)
* Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003)
* Ester Mägi (born 1922)
* Sylvia Rexach (1922-1961)
* Jeanine Rueff (1922–1999)
* Doris Akers (1923–1995)
* Madeleine Dring (1923–1977) 
* Jean Eichelberger Ivey (born 1923)
* Dika Newlin (born 1923)
* Elena Romero (born 1923)
* Ludmila Ulehla (born 1923)
* Leni Alexander (1924-2005)
* Jeanne Colin-De Clerck (born 1924)
* Heimo Erbse (born 1924)
* Zhivka Klinkova (born 1924)
* Angela Morley (born 1924)
* Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar (born 1924)
* Tat'yana Nikolayeva (1924–1993)
* Gladys Nordenstrom (born 1924)
* Else Marie Pade (born 1924)
* Julia Perry (1924–1979)
* Ruth Schonthal (1924–2006)
* Jitka Snížková (1924–1989)
* Erzsébet Szőnyi (born 1924)
* Tui St. George Tucker (1924–2004)
* Consuelo Velázquez (1924–2005)
* Cathy Berberian (1925–1983)
* Edith Borroff (born 1925)
* Hilda Dianda (born 1925)
* Lyudmila Lyadova (born 1925)
* Nelly Moretto (1925–1978)
* Daphne Oram (1925–2003)
* Alice Parker (born 1925)
* Amado Santos Ocampo (born 1925)
* Yolande Uyttenhove (1925–2000)
* Ruth White (born 1925)
* Puchi Balseiro (1926-2007)
* Modesta Bor (1926–1998)
* Janine Charbonnier (born 1926)
* Irina Elcheva (born 1926)
* Zhun Huang (born 1926)
* Betsy Jolas (born 1926)
* Melinda Kistétényi (born 1926)
* Marina de Lourdes Martins (born 1926)
* Carmen Petra-Basacopol (born 1926)
* Claire Polin (1926–1995)
* Marga Richter (born 1926)
* Esther Scliar (1926–1978)
* Natela Svanidze (born 1926)
* Irina Yel'cheva (born 1926)
* Ruth Zechlin (born 1926)
* Marilyn J Ziffrin (born 1926)
* Bebe Barron (born 1927)
* Dolores Claman (born 1927)
* Emma Lou Diemer (born 1927)
* Judith Dvorkin (born ''c.'' 1927)
* Elaine Hugh-Jones (born 1927)
* Eva Schorr (born 1927)
* Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn (born 1927)
* Gaziza Zhubanova (born 1927)
* Margrit Zimmermann (born 1927)
* Luna Alcalay (born 1928)
* Ruth Anderson (born 1928)
* Sarah Feigin (born 1928)
* Beverly Grigsby (born 1928)
* Ursula Mamlok (born 1928)
* Nadežka Mosusova (born 1928)
* Thea Musgrave (born 1928)
* Adelaide Pereira da Silva (born 1928)
* Zlata Tcaci (born 1928)
* Toshiko Akiyoshi (born 1929)
* Nini Bulterijs (1929–1989)
* Geghuni Hovannesi Chitchian (born 1929)
* Siegrid Ernst (born 1929)
* Nada Ludvig-Pečar (1929–2008)
* Aleksandra Pakhmutova (born 1929)
* Elena Petrová (born 1929)
* Irma Urteaga (born 1929)