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1613: Carlo Gesualdo von Venosa dies

1672: Nicolas de Grigny is born

1690: Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri is born

1726: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Geist und Seele wird verwirret"

1756: Anton Teyber is born

1797: Friedrich August Kummer is born

1799: FP of Joseph Haydn's "Theresienmesse"

1802: FP of Joseph Haydn's "Harmoniemesse"

1804: Eduard Mörike is born

1825: FP of Franz Schubert's "Messe Nr. 4 / Mass No. 4"

1841: Antonín Dvořák is born

1847: Anselme Vinée is born

1849: Gustav Ernst Schreck is born

1852: Eugenio Pirani is born

1870: Hermann Hans Wetzler is born

1874: Torgrim Castberg is born

1875: Max Ast is born

1894: Willem Pijper is born

1901: Frieda Fronmüller is born

1917: Charles Lefebvre dies

1919: Johan Kvandal is born

1920: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Nové slovenské písně / New Slovak Folk Songs"

1921: Hans Ulrich Engelmann is born

1921: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Ouvertüre / Overture"

1927: Ģederts Ramans is born

1929: Christoph von Dohnányi is born

1931: FP of Gustav Holst's "A Choral Fantasia"

1934: Srul Irving Glick is born

1934: Peter Maxwell Davies is born

1934: FP of Bohuslav Martinů's "Invence / Inventions"

1944: Jan van Gilse dies

1949: Richard Strauss dies

1951: Louis Karchin is born

1966: FP of Günter Bialas' "Hero und Leander"

1970: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Essence of our happinesses"

1978: Pancho Vladigerov dies

1979: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "In the direction of the beginning"

1980: FP of Lamberto Gardelli's "Johanne's Portrait"

1985: Frederick May dies

1989: FP of Günter Bialas' "Schwarze Serenade"

1989: FP of Wilhelm Killmayer's "Aussicht"

1991: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Drei Klavierstücke / Three Piano Pieces"

1997: Vladimír Sommer dies

1999: Louis Thomas Hardin dies

2001: FP of Olga Neuwirth's "locus...doublure...solus"

2001: FP of Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker's "26 kleine, leichte Präludien für Orgel"

2007: FP of Flavio Testi's "Mariana Pineda"

2016: Claude Langevin dies