Classical Calendar: What happened on 16 December ?

1627: Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia dies

1627: Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia dies

1748: Ferdinand Philippe Joseph Staes is born

1767: Franz Alexander Pössinger is born

1770: Ludwig van Beethoven is born

1775: François-Adrien Boieldieu is born

1783: Johann Adolph Hasse dies

1790: Ludwig August Lebrun dies

1798: Gaetano Brunetti dies

1837: FP of Conradin Kreutzer's "Der Gang zum Eisenhammer"

1843: Philipp Fahrbach (der Jüngere) is born

1847: Augusta Holmès is born

1854: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Muletier de Tolède"

1855: Max Keller dies

1860: FP of Stanisław Moniuszko's "Florian Szary / The Grey"

1861: Karol Józef Lipiński dies

1863: Hermann Wenzel is born

1864: FP of Léo Delibes' "Le Serpent à plumes"

1869: Alfred Hill is born

1871: Carlo Alfredo Mussinelli is born

1877: FP of Anton Bruckner's "Symphonie Nr. 3 / Symphony No. 3"

1880: FP of Julius Klengel's "Cellokonzert Nr. 1 / Cello Concerto No. 1"

1882: Zoltán Kodály is born

1893: FP of Antonín Dvořák's "Symfonie č.9 / Symphony No. 9"

1894: FP of Heinrich von Herzogenberg's "Die Geburt Christi"

1899: Noël Coward is born

1901: FP of Charles Ives' "Sonata No. 0 for Violin and Piano"

1902: FP of Karl Goldmark's "Götz von Berlichingen"

1906: FP of Louis Delune's "Cellosonate / Cello Sonata"

1910: Stanojlo Rajičić is born

1914: Ivan Zajc dies

1915: Georgy Sviridov is born

1921: Camille Saint-Saëns dies

1923: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "Der Schmied von Marienburg"

1926: Alfred Koerppen is born

1926: Karl Norbert Schmid is born

1927: FP of Darius Milhaud's "Le pauvre matelot / The Poor Sailor"

1928: Tiberiu Olah is born

1932: Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is born

1932: FP of Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew's "Na Dnyepre [На Днепре] / On the Dnieper"

1933: FP of Siegfried Wagner's "Der Heidenkönig"

1937: FP of Werner Otto Trenkner's "Kleine Festmusik für Orchester"

1938: Emil Kronke dies

1940: William Wallace dies

1946: Trevor Pinnock is born

1946: FP of Gerald Finzi's "Love's Labours Lost"

1949: Ferdinand Pfohl dies

1951: Selim Palmgren dies

1952: FP of Hans Werner Henze's "Streichquartett Nr. 2 / String Quartet No. 2"

1953: Niels Johannes Legarth Iversen is born

1956: Jean-Philippe Rieu is born

1964: Richard Rijnvos is born

1965: FP of Maxime Dumoulin's "Sonate for Piano og Cello"

1980: FP of Krzysztof Penderecki's "Lacrimosa"

1986: Marcel Quinet dies

1989: FP of Giacomo Puccini's "Ecce sacerdos magnus"

1997: FP of Gaetano Donizetti's "Elisabetta"

1999: FP of Paul Patterson's "Westerly Winds"

2001: FP of Martin Christoph Redel's "Schattenlinien"

2002: FP of Altug Ünlü's "Suite für Violine solo"

2005: FP of Daniel Capelletti's "MARTa Variationen"

2007: Harald Genzmer dies

2011: Mark Kopytman dies