Classical Calendar: What happened on 5 August ?

1397: Guillaume Dufay is born

1694: Leonardo Leo is born

1761: Jewstignej Fomin is born

1778: Thomas Linley dies

1787: François Francœur dies

1811: Ambroise Thomas is born

1829: Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl is born

1846: René Lenormand is born

1854: FP of Amilcare Ponchielli's "La Prigione del Bargello"

1856: Robert Lucas Pearsall dies

1863: Adolf Friedrich Hesse dies

1868: Oskar Merikanto is born

1877: Luigi Legnani dies

1877: FP of Joseph Joachim Raff's "Klavierquartett Nr. 2 / Piano Quartet No. 2"

1886: Carlo Giorgio Garofalo is born

1890: Hans Gál is born

1890: Erich Kleiber is born

1910: Erik Lindegren is born

1914: Stjepan Šulek is born

1916: George Butterworth dies

1917: Raymond Salmon is born

1918: Josef Friedrich Doppelbauer is born

1926: Betsy Jolas is born

1927: Gunnar Bucht is born

1932: Tera de Marez Oyens is born

1932: Vladimir Fedoseyev is born

1936: Mitja Nikisch dies

1937: Pierre Bartholomée is born

1943: José Evangelista is born

1944: Christopher Gunning is born

1947: Tokuhide Niimi is born

1948: Grigoraș Dinicu dies

1957: Gerhard Schedl is born

1958: Joseph Holbrooke dies

1961: Mark O'Connor is born

1982: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Streichquartett Nr. 12 / String Quartet No. 12"

1982: FP of Meinrad Schütter's "2 Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier"

1985: Olav Løchen Kielland dies

1988: FP of Ernest Sauter's "Impromptu pour violoncelle seul"

1991: Gaston Litaize dies

1993: Eugen Suchoň dies

1995: Menachem Avidom dies

2005: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Tango"

2012: FP of Christoph Schnell's "Streichquartett Nr. 7 / String Quartet No. 7"