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1660: Johann Kuhnau is born

1672: André Cardinal Destouches is born

1708: Georg Reutter (der Jüngere) is born

1717: FP of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Ariane"

1723: FP of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik / Hamburg Admiralty Music"

1748: David Kellner dies

1761: Franz Gleissner is born

1779: Tommaso Traetta dies

1797: FP of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Quintett für Klavier mit Blasinstrumenten"

1805: FP of E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Die lustigen Musikanten"

1813: FP of Luigi Cherubini's "Les Abencérages ou L'Étendard de Grenade"

1815: Robert Volkmann is born

1819: Emma Dahl is born

1832: Adolf Terschak is born

1837: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Die Höhle bei Waverley"

1850: Édouard Destenay is born

1867: FP of Franz Erkel's "Dózsa György"

1872: Anton Halm dies

1879: Hermann Kundigraber is born

1884: Emanuel Geibel dies

1885: Carlos Salzedo is born

1892: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Symfonie č.4 / Symphony No. 4"

1910: FP of Gustav Holst's "A Somerset Rhapsody"

1911: FP of Gustav Holst's "Three Pieces for Oboe and String Quartet"

1912: Endre Székely is born

1913: FP of Alfredo d'Ambrosio's "Violinkonzert Nr. 2 / Violin Concerto No. 2"

1921: Andrew Welsh Imbrie is born

1924: Revol Bunin is born

1924: David Gow is born

1927: FP of Arthur Bliss' "A Christmas Carol"

1927: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Sea Love"

1927: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Vocalise"

1927: FP of Arthur Bliss' "The Mad Woman of Punnet's Town"

1928: Friedrich Wilhelm Rohde dies

1929: Edison Denisov is born

1929: André Previn is born

1934: FP of Nicolas Nabokov's "Union Pacific"

1935: Rolf Urs Ringger is born

1940: Andrés Isasi dies

1943: FP of William Walton's "The Quest"

1945: Martin Leadbetter is born

1949: Anton Bruhin is born

1950: Signe Lund dies

1951: Halfdan Cleve dies

1952: Dieter Angerer is born

1953: Patrick Doyle is born

1954: FP of Ernst Krenek's "Phantasiestück für Violoncello und Klavier"

1962: Carlo Giorgio Garofalo dies

1971: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky dies

1978: Nicolas Nabokov dies

1988: Ernst Ludwig Uray dies

1995: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Sibylle des Sommers"

1995: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Weisen von Liebe, Leben und Tod"

2000: Anton Stingl dies

2001: FP of Paul Patterson's "Little Red Riding Hood"

2005: FP of Erkki-Sven Tüür's "Symphony No. 5"

2006: Augustyn Bloch dies

2014: Jacques Castérède dies