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Mark Snow

1946 - 2025

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Mark Snow (born Martin Fulterman; August 26, 1946 – July 4, 2025) was an American composer for film and television. He was perhaps best known for composing the theme for The X-Files, and would compose for the show's initial nine-season run from 1993 to 2001. He would return for the show's revival from 2015 to 2018. Additionally, he composed the score for the two feature films and the short-lived spinoff series The Lone Gunmen. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Snow is the 1,250th most popular composer (down from 1,207th in 2024), the 8,405th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,359th in 2019) and the 85th most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mark Snow ranks 1,250 out of 1,451. Before him are Ivor Novello, Emil Hartmann, William Schuman, Leigh Harline, Sergei Slonimsky, and Xian Xinghai. After him are Masaaki Suzuki, Antón García Abril, George Alexander Macfarren, Frigyes Hidas, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, and Virgil Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Mark Snow ranks 583. Before him are Vinod Khanna, Henri Françillon, Hiroshi Fushida, Juan Amat, Ramsey Campbell, and Brian Henton. After him are Okko Kamu, Comunardo Niccolai, Joseph Serge Miot, Milton Viera, John Callen, and Reggie Jackson. Among people deceased in 2025, Mark Snow ranks 353. Before him are Wings Hauser, Waleed Al-Jasem, Eldar Shengelaia, Alexander Dityatin, Julio César Cortés, and Gérard Hausser. After him are Edu Manga, Natalya Shikolenko, June Lockhart, Tom Lehrer, Andrija Delibašić, and Frank Mill.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mark Snow ranks 8,407 out of 20,380. Before him are Joan Van Ark (1943), John P. Kennedy (1795), Ninja (1991), Commodore Cochran (1902), Whitney Smith (1940), and Harve Presnell (1933). After him are Jimmy Giuffre (1921), Hamilton Fish (1808), Mary Carey (1980), Toni Basil (1943), Edward Moore (1897), and Jonathan Pollard (1954).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Mark Snow ranks 85. Before him are Leonard Slatkin (1944), Frank Churchill (1901), David Diamond (1915), Milton Babbitt (1916), William Schuman (1910), and Leigh Harline (1907). After him are Virgil Thomson (1896), Marco Beltrami (1966), H. C. Robbins Landon (1926), Florence Price (1887), Vincent Youmans (1898), and Pauline Oliveros (1932).

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