Sarah Ackerman · CC BY 2.0

Menken wrote the scores that defined Disney's animation renaissance — The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas each won him two Academy Awards. He is one of only 22 people to complete the EGOT, having also won a Tony, eleven Grammys, and seven Golden Globes across a career spanning Little Shop of Horrors, Newsies, and the stage musical of Beauty and the Beast, working with lyricists from Howard Ashman to Lin-Manuel Miranda.