Classical Calendar: What happened on 8 August ?

1692: Juan Manuel de la Puente is born

1693: Laurent Belissen is born

1696: Vincenco Albrici dies

1723: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei"

1758: FP of Antoine Dauvergne's "Les Fêtes d'Euterpe"

1759: Carl Heinrich Graun dies

1837: Théodore Dubois is born

1840: FP of Franz Erkel's "Bátori Mária"

1856: FP of Léo Delibes' "Deux Vieilles Gardes"

1857: Cécile Louise Stephanie Chaminade is born

1864: Henri Woollett is born

1864: Antonio Somma dies

1871: William Henry Squire is born

1888: Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns dies

1891: Adolf Busch is born

1900: Victor Young is born

1905: André Jolivet is born

1928: Lubor Bárta is born

1941: Hartmut Behrsing is born

1943: Daniel Börtz is born

1945: Štěpán Rak is born

1950: Michael Matthews is born

1950: Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky dies

1956: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester"

1959: Caroline Ansink is born

1963: Sándor Jemnitz dies

1965: FP of Arthur Bliss' "O Give Thanks Unto the Lord"

1967: Anthony DiLorenzo is born

1967: Jaromír Weinberger dies

1969: Hekel Tavares dies

1978: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Liebes- und Abendlieder"

1984: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Doppelkonzert für Flöte, Klarinette und Orchester"

1995: FP of Barbara Heller's "Freude und Trauer"

2000: FP of Celina Kohan de Scher's "Tres Preludes"

2001: FP of Ernest Sauter's "Ballade pour violon, alto et violoncelle"

2014: Peter Sculthorpe dies