Classical Calendar: What happened on 5 December ?

1595: Henry Lawes is born

1639: Johann Christoph Pezel is born

1687: Francesco Geminiani is born

1749: FP of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Zoroastre"

1758: Johann Friedrich Fasch dies

1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies

1791: FP of Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's "Les Evénements imprévues"

1823: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "Vendôme en Espagne"

1863: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Der Jäger"

1870: Herman Severin Løvenskiold dies

1870: Vítězslav Novák is born

1874: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "La Haine"

1882: FP of Richard Strauss' "Violinkonzert / Violin Concerto"

1886: Alberto Curci is born

1892: Gaston Singéry is born

1892: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Shchelkunchik [Щелкунчик] / The Nutcracker"

1901: Hanns Jelinek is born

1905: FP of Vittorio Gnecchi's "Cassandra"

1911: Władysław Szpilman is born

1916: Hans Richter dies

1916: FP of Gustav Holst's "Sāvitri"

1917: Thomas Christopher Kelly is born

1919: Elliot Weisgarber is born

1927: Richard Eilenberg dies

1927: FP of Leoš Janáček's "Glagolská mše"

1928: Claude Langevin is born

1932: Akira Tamba is born

1933: Bernard van Beurden is born

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: A young man's exhortation"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: Ditty"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: Budmouth dears"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: Her temple"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: The comet at Yell'ham"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: Shortening days"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: The sigh"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: Former beauties"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: Transformations"

1933: FP of Gerald Finzi's "A Young Man's Exhortation: The dance continued"

1939: Frederik van Rossum is born

1940: Jan Kubelik dies

1942: FP of Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols"

1943: FP of Franz Salmhofer's "Das Werbekleid"

1945: FP of Vítězslav Novák's "Májová symfonie"

1947: FP of Samuel Barber's "Medea"

1949: Roussi Tarmakov is born

1955: Lucien Durosoir dies

1960: Osvaldo Golijov is born

1963: Karl Amadeus Hartmann dies

1963: FP of Hans Chemin-Petit's "Intrada e Passacaglia"

1964: FP of Dag Wirén's "Symphonie Nr. 5 / Symphony No. 5"

1973: FP of Horst Ebenhöh's "Sonatine für Klavier"

1981: FP of Gottfried von Einem's "Steinbeis Serenade"

1982: Eduardo Sáinz de la Maza dies

1989: Sir John Pritchard dies

1991: FP of Lamberto Gardelli's "Concerto per Orchestra"

1992: Felipe Padilla de León dies

1995: Reiner Bredemeyer dies

1996: FP of Carlo Galante's "Il fantasma di Canterville"

2007: Andrew Welsh Imbrie dies

2007: Karlheinz Stockhausen dies

2012: Dave Brubeck dies

2016: FP of Hermann Seidl's "die ankunft des herrn"