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1649: Giovanni Valentini dies

1712: Juan Bautista Cabanilles dies

1725: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe"

1757: FP of Tommaso Traetta's "La Nitteti"

1798: Carlo Yvon is born

1813: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Husarerne paa Frieri eller Virtuoserne"

1821: Andreas-Frederic Eler dies

1828: Wilhelm Albrecht Otto Popp is born

1842: Karl Millöcker is born

1844: Ernst Rentsch is born

1847: Joachim Andersen is born

1856: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Les Pantins de Violette"

1859: Edward Boccalari is born

1872: Eyvind Alnæs is born

1877: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Motetto per San Paolino"

1879: Thomas Beecham is born

1885: Wallingford Riegger is born

1895: Léopold Dancla dies

1895: Malcolm Sargent is born

1899: Duke Ellington is born

1899: Yngve Sköld is born

1907: FP of Alexandrina Esterházy-Rossi's "Tamaro"

1912: Franz Eugen Klein is born

1916: FP of Eduard Erdmann's "Fünf Lieder: Ich aber fühle, wie ich ..."

1916: FP of Eduard Erdmann's "Fünf Lieder: Sommer"

1918: FP of Eduard Erdmann's "Zwei Lieder: Der Engel"

1920: Harold Shapero is born

1923: FP of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Il primo bacio"

1929: Peter Sculthorpe is born

1930: Claus Ogerman is born

1932: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Dvě balady na slova lidové poezie / Two Ballads to Folk Texts"

1934: Peter Gülke is born

1935: Otto Matthäus Zykan is born

1936: Zubin Mehta is born

1943: Joseph Achron dies

1948: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Quintett für Flöte, Oboe, Klarinette , Horn und Fagott"

1951: Eero Hämeenniemi is born

1952: Malcolm Archer is born

1957: Olallo Morales dies

1959: Craig Armstrong is born

1971: FP of Aribert Reimann's "Melusine"

1972: Manfred Gurlitt dies

1977: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Variationen für Klavier über den Walzer aus der Ballettsuite von Max Reger"

1979: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Studien zum Flötenkonzert"

1984: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "Das Flüchlein, das jeder mitbekam"

1988: Jan Kapr dies

1988: FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' "Strathclyde Concerto No. 1"

2000: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Violinsonate Nr. 2 / Violin Sonata No. 2"

2000: FP of Egon Wellesz' "Symphonie Nr. 3 / Symphony No. 3"

2001: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Intreccio profondo"

2001: FP of Errollyn Wallen's "Prometheus Bellyache"

2004: FP of Manfred Trojahn's "Symphonie Nr. 5 / Symphony No. 5"

2006: FP of Matthias Georg Kendlinger's "Der verlorene Sohn"

2013: John La Montaine dies