Classical Calendar: What happened on 3 May ?

1582: Giorgio Mainerio dies

1616: William Shakespeare dies

1649: Johann Valentin Meder is born

1704: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber dies

1729: Florian Leopold Gassmann is born

1737: Friedrich Schwindl is born

1761: August von Kotzebue is born

1768: FP of Antoine Dauvergne's "La Vénitienne"

1787: FP of Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac's "Azémia (2. Fassung)"

1792: FP of Étienne-Nicolas Méhul's "Stratonice"

1793: FP of Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen's "Das Fest der Winzer oder die Weinlese"

1804: FP of Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen's "Klavierquintett / Piano Quintet"

1804: FP of Peter von Winter's "Il ratto di Proserpina"

1825: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Le Maçon"

1831: FP of Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold's "Zampa ou La Fiancée de marbre / Zampa, or The Marble Bride"

1839: Ferdinando Paër dies

1846: Josef Štolba is born

1856: Charles Adolphe Adam dies

1886: Marcel Dupré is born

1910: Friedrich Gustav Jansen dies

1928: FP of Francis Poulenc's "Concert champêtre"

1929: Hans Stadlmair is born

1934: Božidar Kos is born

1934: Georg Kröll is born

1939: Jonathan Harvey is born

1959: Shigeru Kan-no is born

1960: Steffen Schleiermacher is born

1965: FP of Günter Bialas' "Da pacem"

1968: Leonid Sabaneev dies

1977: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Lachrymae"

1979: FP of Arne Nordheim's "The Tempest"

1980: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Französisches Liederbuch"

1989: FP of Rainer Bischof's "Und so sinke ich leise in mich selbst hinein"

1989: FP of Friedrich Gulda's "F. Gulda: Theme from the 2nd Movement of Concerto for Ursula"

1993: Gottfried Müller dies

1995: FP of John Adams' "I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky"

2002: Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov dies

2002: Evgeni Svetlanov dies

2003: FP of Gerald Eckert's "vom Innen - Körnung"

2008: Uroš Krek dies

2012: Felix Werder dies