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1179: Hildegard von Bingen dies

1696: Daniel Daniélis dies

1724: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan"

1730: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"

1762: Francesco Geminiani dies

1795: Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante is born

1802: Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux is born

1803: Franz Xaver Suessmayr dies

1805: FP of Christian Kalkbrenner's "Don Juan"

1807: Ignaz Lachner is born

1815: Halfdan Kjerulf is born

1827: Ludwig Meinardus is born

1846: Francesco Pollini dies

1877: Jean Huré is born

1878: Vincenzo Tommasini is born

1879: FP of Paolo Giorza's "Cantata written expressly for the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney International Exhibition"

1882: Hans Franke is born

1884: Charles Tomlinson Griffes is born

1885: Albert Laurent is born

1892: Hendrik Andriessen is born

1897: Wilhelm Heiser dies

1907: Ignaz Brüll dies

1908: Franz Grothe is born

1917: Isang Yun is born

1920: Jean Perrin is born

1925: FP of Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Chôro Nr. 7"

1930: Theo Loevendie is born

1949: Miguel Gómez Martínez is born

1953: Henry Holden Huss dies

1959: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Strophen über Originaltexte von Menander, Sophokles, Jesaja, Jeremia und Omar El-Khayám"

1962: FP of Grażyna Bacewicz' "Konzert für großes Orchester"

1964: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Der Zerrissene"

1969: FP of Günter Lampe's "Concerto sereno"

1979: Miroslav Kabeláč dies

1982: FP of Günter Bialas' "Trio"

1991: Zino Francescatti dies

2003: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Mo(ve)ments"

2009: Leon Kirchner dies

2014: Heiner Reitz dies

2015: Sir David Willcocks dies

2020: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Spanisch"

2020: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Bachsuite II"