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1567: Johann Christoph Demantius is born

1657: Michel-Richard Delalande is born

1660: FP of Jean-Baptiste Lully's "La revente des habits de ballet et de comédie"

1692: FP of Johann Sigismund Kusser's "Ariadne"

1765: Philipp Jacob Pfeffinger is born

1766: Carlo Tessarini dies

1766: FP of Pierre Vachon's "Ésope à Cythère"

1792: Josef Martin Kraus dies

1807: FP of Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini's "La Vestale / The Vestal Virgin"

1813: FP of Pietro Mascagni's "Parisina"

1817: FP of Carl Maria von Weber's "Hold ist der Cyanenkranz"

1831: Friedrich Gustav Jansen is born

1844: FP of Richard Wagner's "An Webers Grabe"

1858: FP of Peter Cornelius' "Der Barbier von Bagdad / The Barber of Bagdad"

1861: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Du bist wie eine Blume"

1878: FP of Johannes Brahms' "Der Schmied"

1882: Germán Álvarez Beigbeder is born

1889: Kai Senstius is born

1898: Fritz Werner is born

1905: Ferenc Farkas is born

1909: Francisco Tárrega dies

1910: Ernst Naumann dies

1911: FP of Albéric Magnard's "Bérénice"

1920: FP of Arthur Bliss' "Rout"

1932: Igor Štuhec is born

1937: Horst Schiffbauer is born

1939: Nicolaus A. Huber is born

1943: FP of Maria Bach's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

1947: FP of Henri Sauguet's "Les Mirages"

1972: Herbert Eimert dies

1972: Wolfgang Jacobi dies

1973: Orest Yevlakhov dies

1979: Georg Trexler dies

1980: FP of Olga Magidenko's "Symphonie Nr. 1 / Symphony No. 1"

1983: FP of Barbara Heller's "Anschlüsse"

1983: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Nox"

1983: FP of Elisabeth Lutyens' "Music IV"

1996: Tristan Keuris dies

2004: FP of Erich Urbanner's "Konzert für Akkordeon und neun Instrumente"

2011: Krassimir Kyurkchiyski dies