Classical Calendar: What happened on 24 December ?

1453: John Dunstaple dies

1625: Johann Rudolf Ahle is born

1679: Domenico Sarri is born

1726: Johann Ernst Hartmann is born

1773: Joseph Woelfl is born

1791: Eugène Scribe is born

1805: Sebastian Lee is born

1824: Peter Cornelius is born

1849: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "Le Fanal"

1854: FP of Charles Adolphe Adam's "À Clichy, épisode de la vie d'un artiste"

1858: Ludvig Holm is born

1859: Roman Statkowski is born

1860: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "Barkouf"

1863: Enrique Fernández Arbós is born

1864: FP of Jacques Offenbach's "La Fille de l'air"

1871: FP of Giuseppe Verdi's "Aida"

1877: Louis Dumas is born

1877: FP of Richard Wagner's "Willkommen in Wahnfried"

1881: Charles Wakefield Cadman is born

1882: Gustav Rösler dies

1906: Franz Waxman is born

1910: Yiannis Papaioannou is born

1913: Karl Michael Komma is born

1921: Gerard Victory is born

1930: Oskar Nedbal dies

1931: Mauricio Kagel is born

1932: Eyvind Alnæs dies

1935: Alban Berg dies

1938: Mesias Maiguashca is born

1942: Friedrich Klose dies

1944: FP of Michael Tippett's "The Weeping Babe"

1945: Luca Lombardi is born

1945: Alicia Adélaide Needham dies

1948: FP of Carl Orff's "Die Weihnachtsgeschichte / The Christmas Story"

1950: Libby Larsen is born

1951: FP of Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors"

1953: Hans-Jürgen von Bose is born

1966: Gaspar Cassadó dies

1974: FP of Urs Joseph Flury's "Heilige Nacht"

1975: Bernard Herrmann dies

2004: Jan van Vlijmen dies