Classical Calendar: What happened on 31 August ?

1629: Johann Jacob Löwe is born

1665: Andreas Oswald dies

1741: Johann Paul Aegidius Schwarzendorf is born

1755: Ignaz Walter is born

1775: François de Fossa is born

1795: François-André Danican Philidor dies

1795: François-André Danican Philidor dies

1805: Joseph Marie Clément dall'Abaco dies

1805: Domenico Liverani is born

1830: Edmund Kretschmer is born

1834: Amilcare Ponchielli is born

1855: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Le Violoneux"

1862: Ignaz Assmayr dies

1874: Karl Kämpf is born

1874: FP of Francesco Masciangelo's "La Sunamitide ovvero Il trionfo della bellezza e della virtù"

1879: Alma Maria Mahler-Werfel is born

1886: Raimund Rüter is born

1886: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Sonate Nr. 1 für Pianoforte und Violoncell / Cello Sonata No. 1"

1892: Alfred Huth is born

1893: Sir William George Cusins dies

1910: Emils Dārziņš dies

1917: Lucrecia Kasilag is born

1920: FP of George Gershwin's "Waiting For The Sun To Come Out"

1924: Klaus Hashagen is born

1928: FP of Kurt Weill's "Die Dreigroschenoper"

1941: Emmanuel Nunes is born

1946: Paul August von Klenau dies

1949: Paul Höffer dies

1951: Dror Feiler is born

1952: Lee Hyla is born

1952: Belisario García de Jesús dies

1953: Peter Scott Lewis is born

1959: Willem Jeths is born

1961: FP of Sándor Veress' "Passacaglia concertante"

1963: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Konzert für Klaviertrio mit Orchester"

1965: Charlotte Seither is born

1969: Ottmar Gerster dies

1975: Daniel Harding is born

1989: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Paloheimo-fanfaari"

1990: FP of Barbara Heller's "Schmetterlinge (1. Version)"

1997: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Serenade"

2000: Nodar Gabunia dies

2000: FP of Philip Glass' "In the Penal Colony"

2004: FP of Helmut Rogl's "Grenzenlos ..."

2013: Edward J. Miller dies

2016: Jacques Leduc dies