Arts and Music

• Gustav Holst (born 1874, died 1934)

  British composer.

  • Composed The Planets (see list of Romantic Composers)
• Gustav Klimt (born 1862, died 1918)

  Austrian Art Nouveau painter.

  • Associated with the Vienna Secession movement (see list of 20th-century Modern Artists)
• Gustav Mahler (born 1860, died 1911)

  Austrian composer.

  • Composed Song of the Earth (see list of Romantic Composers)

Leadership

• Gustav Stresemann (born 1878, died 1929)

  German chancellor and foreign minister who helped bring Germany back into the world community after Word War I.

  • 1926 Nobel Prize winner for Peace (see list of Nobel Peace Prize Winners)

Miscellaneous

• Gustav
  • Hurricane or tropical storm (see list of Hurricane and Tropical Storm Names)

Science and Philosophy

• Gustav Hertz

  German physicist who bombarded atoms with electrons.

  • 1925 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with James Franck (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)