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1678: John Jenkins dies

1713: Petrus Petko is born

1726: FP of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen"

1745: Maksym Sozontovych Berezovsky is born

1771: Johann Gottlieb Graun dies

1775: Traugott Maximilian Eberwein is born

1782: Niccolò Paganini is born

1789: Joseph Mayseder is born

1822: Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke dies

1827: FP of Vincenzo Bellini's "Il pirata / The Pirate"

1882: Johann Carl Eschmann dies

1882: Lazare Saminsky is born

1888: FP of Franz von Suppé's "Die Jagd nach dem Glück"

1901: FP of Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow's "Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 / Piano Concerto No. 2"

1903: FP of Alexander Tichonowitsch Gretschaninow's "Dobrynya Nikitich [Добрыня Никитич]"

1912: Samuel Conlon Nancarrow is born

1917: FP of Hugo Kaun's "Sappho"

1921: Anestis Logothetis is born

1923: FP of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek's "Holofernes"

1927: Dominick Argento is born

1927: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Variationen und Fuge über ein eigenes Thema"

1933: Julius Klengel dies

1938: FP of Georges Bizet's "Caprice original 1"

1938: FP of Georges Bizet's "Caprice original 2"

1938: FP of Georges Bizet's "Grande Valse de concert"

1938: FP of Georges Bizet's "Nocturne F-Dur"

1940: Fini Henriques dies

1942: David Charles Johnson is born

1942: FP of Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté's "Capriccio Concertante"

1953: Eduard Künneke dies

1954: Franco Alfano dies

1962: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Kleine Suite für drei Blockflöten"

1968: FP of Karl Weigl's "Symphony No. 5"

1970: FP of Tomás Marco Aragón's "Maya"

1977: FP of Siegfried Matthus' "Responso"

1981: Nico Dostal dies

1988: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Concerto für Violine und kleines Orchester"

1989: FP of Michael Tippett's "New Year"

1991: Theodor Holterdorf dies

1991: Andrzej Panufnik dies

1991: FP of György Kurtág's "Samuel Beckett: what is the word"

1992: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Verdehr-Trio"

2002: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Sonate für 2 Akkordeons"

2004: FP of Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Stockholm Diary"

2006: FP of Barbara Heller's "Rondo in a-Moll"

2006: FP of Barbara Heller's "Capriccio"

2012: Hans Werner Henze dies

2017: Ladislav Kubík dies