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1543: Alfonso Ferrabosco (the elder) is born

1668: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Le carnaval"

1674: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "Alceste, ou Le triomphe d'Alcide"

1687: FP of Agostino Steffani's "Alarico il Baltha cioè L'audace re de' gothi / Alarico, King of the Visigoths"

1699: FP of Giovanni Battista Bononcini's "La fede pubblica"

1722: Antonio Rodrígez de Hita is born

1726: Bartolomeo Laurenti dies

1728: FP of Giacomo Facco's "Amor aumenta el valor"

1744: FP of Christoph Willibald Gluck's "La Sofonisba"

1747: Antonio de Literes dies

1762: Camillo Barni is born

1778: Franz Weiß is born

1835: César Cui is born

1840: Ernst Rudorff is born

1841: Emanuel Chabrier is born

1850: Gaston Sarreau is born

1856: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Falstaff"

1862: FP of Cesare Pugni's "Dochy faraona [Дочь фараона] / The Pharaoh's Daughter"

1866: Charles Manry dies

1872: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Fantasio"

1889: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Ständchen"

1895: Peter Herz is born

1902: Filippo Marchetti dies

1903: Berthold Goldschmidt is born

1908: FP of Gräfin Stephanie von Wurmbrand-Stuppach's "Die schöne Melusine"

1910: Henri Carol is born

1912: FP of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen's "Oberst Chabert"

1916: Alban Förster dies

1918: Richard LaSalle is born

1919: Juan Orrego-Salas is born

1921: Antony Roper is born

1921: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Ragword"

1922: Antonio Bibalo is born

1931: FP of Wilhelm Kempff's "König Midas"

1943: Martin Sigrist is born

1943: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Klaviersonate Nr. 7 / Piano Sonata No. 7"

1946: Feliks Nowowiejski dies

1946: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Etudes and Polkas"

1948: Jani Golob is born

1972: Emilia Gubitosi dies

1974: FP of Arthur Bliss' "A Wedding Suite"

1975: FP of Giselher Klebe's "Ein wahrer Held"

1976: Friedrich Hollaender dies

1978: Ivan Ivanovich Dzerzhinsky dies

1983: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Orgelsonate"

1983: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "She tells her love while half asleep"

1983: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Konzert für Trompete, Pauken und Orchester"

1987: George Thomas Thalben-Ball dies

1989: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Präludium und Variationen über 'Aus tiefer Not'"

2000: Eduard Pütz dies

2016: Else Marie Pade dies

2019: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Wortlos singend... / Wordless singing..."

2023: Clytus Gottwald dies

2024: Ivan Moody dies