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Dan Emmett

American entertainer and composer (1815-1904)
Person human Q3602423

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[10]
Date of birth
October 29, 1815
Date of death
June 28, 1904
Place of birth
Mount Vernon
Place of death
Mount Vernon
Country of citizenship
United States[8]
Occupation
songwriter, composer
Notable work
Dixie[9]
Sibling
LaFayette Emmett[15]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[14]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
Family name
Emmett[11]
Given name
Daniel[12]
P14750
B0E2-FF3D-96DE-3218-437B[17]
Place of burial
Mound View Cemetery[7]
Writing language
English[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Jerry Blossom en Dan D. Emmett en Dan Emmett en Daniel Decatur Emmett en D. D. Emmett ar دان إيميت cs Daniel Decatur Emmett fi Dan Emmett fr Dan Emmett fr Dan D. Emmett fr Emmett, Daniel Decatur he דן אמט ja ダニエル・エメット ja ダン・エメット sv Daniel Decatur Emmett sv Daniel Emmett zh 丹·埃米特 zh 丹·艾美特
🔖 Identifiers · 54
ISNI
0000000083552708
VIAF cluster ID
8322392
Library of Congress authority ID
n82225853
GND ID
124485723
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dan Emmett portrait.jpg ↗
AllMusic artist ID
mn0000674205
American National Biography ID
1800361
Archives at Yale agent ID
people/40131
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
13938593w
CERL Thesaurus ID
cnp01373996
Carnegie Hall agent ID
1006255
CiNii Research ID
1140563741805544960
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Classical Archives composer ID
25287
DAHR artist ID
104033
Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID
124485723
Discogs artist ID
707955
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
biography/Daniel-Decatur-Emmett
Europeana entity
agent/base/153647
FAST ID
105364
Find a Grave memorial ID
5971798
Freebase ID
/m/05jjfd
Gran Enciclopèdia de la Música ID
12283
Grove Music Online ID
08773
Historical picture postcards University of Osnabrück ID
Daniel_Emmett
Hymnary author ID
Emmett_DD
Hyperion Records person ID
C3484
IMDb ID
nm0256531
IMSLP ID
Category:Emmett,_Daniel_Decatur
IdRef ID
158365399
Last.fm ID
Daniel+Decatur+Emmett
Library of Congress JukeBox ID (former scheme)
1579, 1811
MusicBrainz artist ID
64d30a3f-3e5d-4a66-99c8-ee383c9334f3
Musicalics composer ID
89107
Mutopia composer ID
EmmettDD
Muziekweb performer ID
M00000376049
NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA12192634
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007283660905171
National Library of Latvia ID
000099678
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9811331914205606
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX5083956, XX5410525
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
147286298
Notable Names Database ID
365/000205747
OpenMLOL author ID
369044, 401141
Our Campaigns candidate ID
169134
RISM ID
people/30008769
RPO poet ID
emmett-daniel-decatur
SBN author ID
MUSV070929
SNAC ARK ID
w6t72s8j
Songwriters Hall of Fame ID
196, Daniel_Decatur_Emmett
Spotify artist ID
2kJcbctXa1Ifr88HROCjZR
Topic's main category
Category:Dan Emmett
WikiTree person ID
Emmett-1335
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJjd9RhDcfTQGfFPtjDyVC
Yale LUX ID
person/73471eee-b5ac-43de-bb10-72d755e4d78e

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🔗 Connections
Mb:composer 2
Dixie, Dixie
Mb:lyricist 2
Dixie, Dixie
Compositions 1
Dixie
Country of citizenship 1
United States
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Given name 1
Daniel
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Mb:teacher 1
John Baltzell
Notable work 1
Dixie
Occupation 1
songwriter
Place of birth 1
Mount Vernon
Sex or gender 1
male
Writing language 1
English
← Lyricist 1
Dixie
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Summary

Dan Emmett's place of birth was Mount Vernon[1]. He was born on October 29, 1815[2]. He died in Mount Vernon[3]. He died on June 28, 1904[4]. He worked as a songwriter[5] and composer[6].

FAQs

Where was Dan Emmett born?

Born in Mount Vernon[1].

Where did Dan Emmett die?

Dan Emmett passed away in Mount Vernon[3].

What did Dan Emmett do for work?

Dan Emmett worked as songwriter[5] and composer[6].

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . Find a Grave. wikidata.org.
  8. [2] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [4] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Place of death → Mount Vernon
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56926|batch #56926]]: Import places of birth, death from dewiki"
  2. 5w ago · So29375609982 · 2026-09-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sibling → LaFayette Emmett
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'sv', 'zh']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Sibling: LaFayette Emmett"
  3. 10w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → B0E2-FF3D-96DE-3218-437B
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: B0E2-FF3D-96DE-3218-437B, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269215|batch #269215]]"
  4. 20w ago · Gerwoman · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0) → XX5083956, XX5410525
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX5410525, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259615|batch #259615]]"
  5. 24w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Occupation → songwriter, composer
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/32085|batch #32085]]: import P21 and P106 from GND (27)"
  6. 24w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    CERL Thesaurus ID → cnp01373996
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ CERL Thesaurus ID: cnp00581159, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257929|batch #257929]]"
  7. 25w ago · Epìdosis · 2026-05-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → human
    Citizenship → —
    Family name → Emmett
    Languages spoken, written or signed → English
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30848|batch #30848]]: match CERL IDs on the basis of GND (5)"
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