Classical Calendar: What happened on 12 August ?

1588: Alfonso Ferrabosco (the elder) dies

1606: Jakob Reiner dies

1612: Giovanni Gabrieli dies

1626: Giovanni Legrenzi is born

1633: Jacopo Peri dies

1644: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber is born

1696: Maurice Greene is born

1714: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut"

1812: Jean Joseph Rodolphe dies

1812: Johann Joseph Rudolph dies

1821: August Walter is born

1834: Alessandro Grazioli dies

1840: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Die beiden Figaro"

1844: FP of Richard Wagner's "Im treuen Sachsenland"

1852: FP of Errico Petrella's "Elena di Tolosa"

1853: Jean Louis Nicodé is born

1858: Katharina Cibbini-Koželuch dies

1879: Peter Heise dies

1885: Alexander Albrecht is born

1897: Manuel Blancafort i de Rosselló is born

1908: Nina Makarova is born

1910: Heinrich Sutermeister is born

1919: Max Puchat dies

1928: Leoš Janáček dies

1929: Yoji Yuasa is born

1932: Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky is born

1942: David Munrow is born

1943: Cornélie van Oosterzee dies

1951: Ebbe Hamerik dies

1971: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Yerma"

1976: Stuart MacRae is born

1977: FP of Günter Bialas' "Waldmusik"

1982: Helvi Leiviskä dies

1984: Margaret Sutherland dies

1985: Marcel Mihalovici dies

1990: Piotr Perkowski dies

1991: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Überlasst den Elementen euch und ihren Geistern"

1992: John Cage dies

1995: FP of Laurent Mettraux' "Fantasia"

2000: Peter Patrick Sacco dies

2000: FP of Gideon Gee-Bum Kim's "Blue Bird"

2001: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Foreign Bodies"

2004: FP of Peter Machajdík's "Najdene zabudnute"

2006: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Aube"

2008: Donald Erb dies

2015: Per Hjort Albertsen dies