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Happy Birthday to You

personalisable song traditionally used to commemorate birthdays
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Summary

Happy Birthday to You is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 0.19% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,975 views/month, #37 of 19,375).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: Mildred J. Hill[3], Patty Hill[4]
  • Genre: children's song[5]
  • Named after: birthday[6]
  • Based on: Good Morning To All[7]
  • Commons category: Happy Birthday to You[8]
  • Language of work or name: English[9]
  • Country of origin: United States[10]
  • Publication date: 1935[11], 1911[12]
  • Main subject: birthday[13]
  • Published in: On the Avenue[14], Stella Dallas[15], The Elementary Worker and his Work[16]
  • Title: Happy Birthday to You[17]
  • Has melody: Good Morning To All[18]
  • First line: Happy birthday to you[19]
  • Author name string: Clayton F. Summy[20]
  • Last line: Happy birthday to you[21], And many more[22]
  • Public domain date: January 1, 2017[23]
  • Copyright holder: Warner Chappell Music[24]
  • Copyright status: public domain[25], copyrighted[26]
  • Form of creative work: song[27]
  • Set during recurring event: birthday[28]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[29]

  • MusicBrainz ID: bba40a4a-c222-3d60-8f3a-95ad07a421fc[30]

Why It Matters

Happy Birthday to You has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Related Entities

public domain United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . The Elementary Worker and his Work. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Retrieved . memory-alpha.fandom.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . marks-clerk.com. marks-clerk.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . poseidon01.ssrn.com. poseidon01.ssrn.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . poseidon01.ssrn.com. poseidon01.ssrn.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Happy Birthday to You. Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/happy-birthday-to-you
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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. 10d ago · Ragesoss · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'az', 'bn', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'e
    Wikisimpsons article id → 37319, 188052
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Publication date: 1935"
  2. 14w ago · Sabelöga · 2026-07-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikisimpsons article id → 37319, 188052
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wikisimpsons article id: 37319, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/296190472|Happy Birthday to You (#296190472)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8109|Wikisim"
  3. 24w ago · TangoAF · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Publication date → +1935-00-00T00:00:00Z, +1911-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Country of origin → —
    Composer → Mildred J. Hill, Patty Hill
    Language of work or name → English
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Iswc: T0726393323"
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