Lunalilo

What strikes me about Lunalilo is that a Hawaiian king is also remembered as a composer. He was the sixth monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, elected in 1873 and gone within a year, a grandnephew of Kamehameha I. That he's remembered partly for his music tells me he was more than a political figurehead, but the brevity of his reign, just over a year before his death in 1874 at thirty-nine, leaves me with a sense of unfinished history. He composed Hawaii's first national anthem, "E Ola Ke Aliʻi Ke Akua," which survived him. The royal lineage and the composer's hand together paint someone I wish I knew more about.

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Name (English)

Lunalilo

Name (Japanese)

ルナリロ

Reading

るなりろ

Born

January 31, 1835 – February 3, 1874

Origin

Honolulu, United States

Occupation

monarch / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunalilo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q499103

Tags

• monarch
• composer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.