Classical Calendar: What happened on 31 May ?

1656: Marin Marais is born

1757: FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Les Surprises de l'Amour"

1802: Cesare Pugni is born

1803: FP of Peter von Winter's "La Grotta di Calipso"

1804: Louise Farrenc is born

1809: Joseph Haydn dies

1817: Édouard Deldevez is born

1817: FP of Gioacchino Rossini's "La gazza ladra / The Thieving Magpie"

1831: Pierre-Jean Porro dies

1861: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le ..."

1866: Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov is born

1870: Caspar Kummer dies

1872: FP of Richard Strauss' "Panzenburg-Polka"

1875: Italo Montemezzi is born

1878: FP of Camille Saint-Saëns' "Requiem"

1884: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Le Villi / The Willis or The Witch-Dancers"

1902: Billy Mayerl is born

1904: Hubert Clifford is born

1905: Franz Strauss dies

1906: Hans Schäuble is born

1909: Marie Auguste Durand dies

1914: Akira Ifukube is born

1934: Karl-Erik Welin is born

1935: Hiroshi Wakasugi is born

1943: Helge Jung is born

1947: Henri-Gustave Casadesus dies

1950: Vivienne Olive is born

1954: Anders Hillborg is born

1955: FP of Ernst Krenek's "Capriccio für Violoncello und Kammerorchester"

1959: FP of Karl-Birger Blomdahl's "Aniara"

1962: Eduard Toldrà i Soler dies

1968: Erik Lindegren dies

1970: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Violinkonzert / Violin Concerto"

1971: Max Trapp dies

1976: Jules Krüger dies

1988: Josep Maria Ruera dies

1991: FP of Paul Huber's "Pfingst-Hymnus"

1992: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Singing Strings"

1995: Pavel Šivic dies

1996: Ton de Leeuw dies

2002: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Psalm 71"

2008: FP of Hermann Seidl's "strandgut"

2010: Benjamin Lees dies

2018: FP of Barbara Heller's "Reise in ein fremdes Land"