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1612: Hans Leo Hassler dies

1753: Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac is born

1773: FP of Antonio Salieri's "La Locandiera"

1787: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Tarare"

1791: Joseph Bengraf dies

1794: Gottfried August Bürger dies

1810: Robert Schumann is born

1812: Spyridon Xyndas is born

1815: FP of Carlo Coccia's "Clotilde"

1818: Wilhelm Tschirch is born

1833: Alexander Dorn is born

1837: Jan Kleczynski is born

1853: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Scherzo es-Moll"

1856: Natalie Janotha is born

1859: FP of Léo Delibes' "L'Omelette à la Follenbuche"

1867: FP of Franz Liszt's "Missa Coronationalis / Hungarian Coronation Mass"

1888: Poul Schierbeck is born

1894: Erwin Schulhoff is born

1906: Christian Frederik Emil Horneman dies

1911: FP of Pierre Hermant's "Cellosonate Nr. 2 / Cello Sonata No. 2"

1912: FP of Maurice Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé"

1914: Gottfried Müller is born

1923: Karel Goeyvaerts is born

1924: Helene (Leni) Alexander is born

1926: Anatol Vieru is born

1927: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Stalnoy skok [Стальной скок] / The Steel Step"

1930: Étienne Rey-Andreu dies

1932: Hans Gunter Helms is born

1937: FP of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana"

1940: Frederick Shepherd Converse dies

1947: Joan La Barbara is born

1953: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Gloriana"

1955: Kasparov Kasparov is born

1957: FP of Wolfgang Fortner's "Bluthochzeit"

1960: FP of Michael Tippett's "Words for Music Perhaps"

1974: Henri Lenormand dies

1984: Gordon Jacob dies

1989: FP of Paul Huber's "Ragazer Brunnenspiel"

1991: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Akkordeonsonate Nr. 2"

1991: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Kepleriana"

1992: Villem Reimann dies

1992: Alfred Uhl dies

1996: FP of Olga Magidenko's "DEAr HEiDElBErG"

2006: Mykola Kolessa dies

2007: Jürgen Ulrich dies

2007: FP of Maximilian Cornelius Jehuda Ewert's "Societé absurde"

2022: David Lloyd-Jones dies