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1492: Antoine Busnois dies

1607: Sigmund Theophil Staden is born

1659: Theodor Schwartzkopff is born

1672: Heinrich Schütz dies

1753: Jean-Baptiste Bréval is born

1795: Georg Anton Benda dies

1800: August Eduard Grell is born

1829: FP of Friedrich Kuhlau's "Elverhøj / The Elf Hill"

1854: John Philip Sousa is born

1865: Thérèse Wartel dies

1883: Hubert Bath is born

1885: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Liebe und Frühling II"

1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky dies

1895: Othmar Steinbauer is born

1897: Édouard Deldevez dies

1902: FP of Francesco Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur"

1908: FP of Johanna Müller-Hermann's "Fünf Klavierstücke / Five Piano Pieces"

1909: Heinz Röttger is born

1912: Mykola Lysenko dies

1917: András Mihály is born

1922: William Baines dies

1924: FP of Leoš Janáček's "Příhody Lišky Bystroušky / The Cunning Little Vixen"

1924: FP of Germaine Tailleferre's "Adagio"

1925: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Streichquartett / String Quartet"

1925: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Trapetsiya [Трапеция] / Trapeze"

1928: FP of Alban Berg's "Sieben frühe Lieder"

1930: Raymond Baervoets is born

1936: Barbara Heller is born

1943: FP of Carl Orff's "Catulli Carmina"

1953: FP of Nicolas Nabokov's "Les Hommages"

1956: Dave Soldier is born

1959: Andreas Heuser is born

1961: Daniele Gatti is born

1965: Edgar Varèse dies

1968: Charles Münch dies

1969: Karsten Scholz is born

1970: Agustín Lara dies

1970: FP of Dietrich Erdmann's "Episodes"

1987: Jean Rivier dies

1988: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Zwei Szenen und Finale aus der Oper "Die schwarze Maske""

1992: Bert Rudolf dies

1998: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Sonáta pro violu a klavír / Sonata for viola and piano"

1999: FP of Gerald Eckert's "Bruchstücke...erstarrtes Lot"

2002: FP of Viktor Kalabis' "Malá suita / Small Suite"

2003: FP of John Palmer's "waka"

2011: FP of Barbara Heller's "Bläserquintett"

2015: FP of Wynton Marsalis' "Violin Concerto D-Dur"