Classical Calendar: What happened on 18 August ?

1497: Francesco Canove da Milano is born

1736: FP of Giovanni Alberto Ristori's "Le fate"

1750: Antonio Salieri is born

1787: Stephen Paxton dies

1792: Franz Grill dies

1818: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Die Zwillinge"

1820: Anton Kraft dies

1842: João Domingos Bomtempo dies

1849: Benjamin Louis Paul Godard is born

1878: Fritz Brun is born

1881: Joseph Labitzky dies

1881: Hermann Karl Josef Zilcher is born

1889: Georges Taconet is born

1897: Hans Gebhard is born

1902: Julius Kalaš is born

1910: Herman Berlinski is born

1912: FP of Franz Schreker's "Der ferne Klang"

1928: Barbara Strzelecka is born

1938: FP of Benjamin Britten's "Piano Concerto No. 1"

1940: Dmitrij Kitajenko is born

1942: Erwin Schulhoff dies

1950: Carlos Micháns is born

1957: Tan Dun is born

1962: Johannes Martin Kränzle is born

1981: Robert Russell Bennett dies

1998: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Luzerner Fanfare"

2004: Elmer Bernstein dies

2004: Gertraud Kaltenecker dies

2009: Milan Slavický dies

2012: Hans Ludwig Schilling dies