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1550: Oratio Tiberio Vecchi is born

1760: Roque Ceruti dies

1775: Nicolò Isouard is born

1776: Paul Struck is born

1784: FP of Antonio Salieri's "Il Ricco d'un giorno"

1846: FP of Hector Berlioz' "La Damnation de Faust"

1850: FP of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's "L'Enfant prodique"

1867: Giovanni Pacini dies

1872: Mikuláš Moyzes is born

1881: Robert Amson is born

1881: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Nänie"

1882: FP of Karl Millöcker's "Der Bettelstudent / The Beggar Student"

1887: Joseph Lamb is born

1892: FP of Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowski's "Iolanta [Иоланта]"

1895: Henriette Hilda Bosmans is born

1896: Helma Autenrieth is born

1897: John Fernström is born

1903: Mykola Kolessa is born

1915: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "Konzert für Violine mit Begleitung des Orchesters"

1917: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "An allem ist Hütchen Schuld"

1919: Gideon Klein is born

1920: Dave Brubeck is born

1922: Ernst Pfiffner is born

1927: Jacques Bondon is born

1929: Mark Kopytman is born

1929: Nikolaus Harnoncourt is born

1933: Auguste Chapuis dies

1933: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki is born

1936: FP of Jenő Hubay von Szalatna's "Csardajelenet / Csardascene"

1939: FP of Boris Blacher's "Streichquartett Nr. 1 / String Quartet No. 1"

1944: Hermann Kundigraber dies

1946: Maximilian Steinberg dies

1951: FP of Gerald Finzi's "All this night"

1954: Beat Furrer is born

1955: Bright Sheng is born

1969: Walther Aeschbacher dies

1971: FP of Helma Autenrieth's "Sonate für zwei Violoncelli und Klavier"

1971: FP of Helma Autenrieth's "Töne"

1971: FP of Helma Autenrieth's "Liebe"

1972: Sebastian Fagerlund is born

1973: Frederic Curzon dies

1978: Benjamin Staern is born

1992: Yngve Sköld dies

1995: FP of Carl Orff's "Des Turmes Auferstehung"

1996: Victor Bruns dies

2001: FP of Kalevi Aho's "Sinfonisia tansseja"

2009: FP of Barbara Heller's "Klangblumen, 14 Stücke für Violine und Harfe "

2015: FP of Alois Bröder's "Nachträume"

2015: FP of Hermann Seidl's "advent, advent"