Days of Death


1 August

1715 Day of days of Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar 310 years
1857 Day of days of Emilie Zumsteeg 168 years
1919 Day of days of Sandro Blumenthal 106 years
1923 Day of days of Theophil Forchhammer 102 years
1973 Day of days of Gian Francesco Malipiero 52 years
1984 Day of days of Paul le Flem 41 years

2 August

1445 Day of days of Oswald von Wolkenstein 580 years
1902 Day of days of Rudolf Bibl 123 years
1914 Day of days of Gabriel Dupont 111 years
1916 Day of days of Hamish MacCunn 109 years
1944 Day of days of Joseph Bonnet 81 years
1945 Day of days of Pietro Mascagni 80 years
1945 Day of days of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek 80 years
1971 Day of days of Richard Maux 54 years
1972 Day of days of Rudolf Ganz 53 years
1978 Day of days of Carlos Chávez 47 years
1988 Day of days of Roger Vuataz 37 years
1995 Day of days of Irwin Bazelon 30 years
1997 Day of days of Paul Kurzbach 28 years

3 August

1784 Day of days of Giovanni Battista Martini 241 years
1800 Day of days of Carl Fasch 225 years
1902 Day of days of August Klughardt 123 years
1939 Day of days of August Enna 86 years
1998 Day of days of Alfred Schnittke 27 years
2023 Day of days of Carl Davis 2 years

4 August

1889 Day of days of Carl Amand Mangold 136 years
1904 Day of days of Arnold Krug 121 years
1920 Day of days of Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov 105 years
1930 Day of days of Siegfried Wagner 95 years
1942 Day of days of Alberto Franchetti 83 years
2007 Day of days of Ruth Zechlin 18 years

5 August

1778 Day of days of Thomas Linley 247 years
1787 Day of days of François Francœur 238 years
1856 Day of days of Robert Lucas Pearsall 169 years
1863 Day of days of Adolf Friedrich Hesse 162 years
1877 Day of days of Luigi Legnani 148 years
1916 Day of days of George Butterworth 109 years
1936 Day of days of Mitja Nikisch 89 years
1948 Day of days of Grigoraș Dinicu 77 years
1958 Day of days of Joseph Holbrooke 67 years
1985 Day of days of Olav Løchen Kielland 40 years
1991 Day of days of Gaston Litaize 34 years
1993 Day of days of Eugen Suchoň 32 years
1995 Day of days of Menachem Avidom 30 years

6 August

1782 Day of days of Nicolas Chédeville 243 years
1784 Day of days of Karl Kohaut 241 years
1820 Day of days of Anton Wranitzky 205 years
1891 Day of days of Henry Charles Litolff 134 years
1935 Day of days of Alexander Winkler 90 years
1969 Day of days of Theodor W. Adorno 56 years
1987 Day of days of Samuel Ducommun 38 years
1995 Day of days of André Fleury 30 years
2005 Day of days of James Wilson 20 years
2017 Day of days of David Maslanka 8 years

7 August

1609 Day of days of Eustache du Caurroy 416 years
1646 Day of days of Nicolò Corradini 379 years
1712 Day of days of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow 313 years
1786 Day of days of Friedrich Schwindl 239 years
1846 Day of days of Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck 179 years
1854 Day of days of Heinrich Alois Präger 171 years
1893 Day of days of Alfredo Catalani 132 years
1913 Day of days of David Popper 112 years
1918 Day of days of Hugo Schlemüller 107 years
1927 Day of days of Wilhelm Rudnick 98 years
1940 Day of days of Henri de Saussine 85 years
1944 Day of days of Agustín Barrios Mangoré 81 years
1959 Day of days of Armas Launis 66 years
1969 Day of days of Joseph Kosma 56 years
1970 Day of days of Ingolf Dahl 55 years
1978 Day of days of Franz Alphons Wolpert 47 years
2005 Day of days of Helene (Leni) Alexander 20 years

8 August

1696 Day of days of Vincenco Albrici 329 years
1759 Day of days of Carl Heinrich Graun 266 years
1888 Day of days of Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns 137 years
1950 Day of days of Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky 75 years
1963 Day of days of Sándor Jemnitz 62 years
1967 Day of days of Jaromír Weinberger 58 years
1969 Day of days of Hekel Tavares 56 years
2014 Day of days of Peter Sculthorpe 11 years

9 August

1557 Day of days of Nicholas Ludford 468 years
1791 Day of days of Johann Anton Kobrich 234 years
1919 Day of days of Ruggero Leoncavallo 106 years
1955 Day of days of Marion Eugénie Bauer 70 years
1966 Day of days of Gösta Nystroem 59 years
1975 Day of days of Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich 50 years
1983 Day of days of André Hossein 42 years
1988 Day of days of Giacinto Scelsi 37 years
1993 Day of days of Ludwig Gebhard 32 years
2002 Day of days of Bertold Hummel 23 years

10 August

1730 Day of days of Sébastien de Brossard 295 years
1806 Day of days of Michael Haydn 219 years
1806 Day of days of Christian Kalkbrenner 219 years
1821 Day of days of Salvatore Viganò 204 years
1841 Day of days of Hippolyte Monpou 184 years
1886 Day of days of August Eduard Grell 139 years
1910 Day of days of Carl Hüllweck 115 years
1970 Day of days of Bernd Alois Zimmermann 55 years
1997 Day of days of Samuel Conlon Nancarrow 28 years

11 August

1730 Day of days of André Danican Philidor 295 years
1794 Day of days of Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht 231 years
1868 Day of days of Halfdan Kjerulf 157 years
1942 Day of days of Richard Stein 83 years
1949 Day of days of Karl Weigl 76 years
1961 Day of days of Johanna Senfter 64 years
1995 Day of days of Herbert Sumsion 30 years
2000 Day of days of Jean Papineau-Couture 25 years

12 August

1588 Day of days of Alfonso Ferrabosco (the elder) 437 years
1606 Day of days of Jakob Reiner 419 years
1612 Day of days of Giovanni Gabrieli 413 years
1633 Day of days of Jacopo Peri 392 years
1812 Day of days of Jean Joseph Rodolphe 213 years
1812 Day of days of Johann Joseph Rudolph 213 years
1834 Day of days of Alessandro Grazioli 191 years
1858 Day of days of Katharina Cibbini-Koželuch 167 years
1879 Day of days of Peter Heise 146 years
1919 Day of days of Max Puchat 106 years
1928 Day of days of Leoš Janáček 97 years
1943 Day of days of Cornélie van Oosterzee 82 years
1951 Day of days of Ebbe Hamerik 74 years
1982 Day of days of Helvi Leiviskä 43 years
1984 Day of days of Margaret Sutherland 41 years
1985 Day of days of Marcel Mihalovici 40 years
1990 Day of days of Piotr Perkowski 35 years
1992 Day of days of John Cage 33 years
2000 Day of days of Peter Patrick Sacco 25 years
2008 Day of days of Donald Erb 17 years
2015 Day of days of Per Hjort Albertsen 10 years

13 August

1841 Day of days of Bernhard Heinrich Romberg 184 years
1908 Day of days of Moritz Scharf 117 years
1912 Day of days of Jules Massenet 113 years
1916 Day of days of Fritz Steinbach 109 years
1924 Day of days of Julián Aguirre 101 years
1928 Day of days of Fernand La Tombelle 97 years
1954 Day of days of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen 71 years
1996 Day of days of Louise Talma 29 years
1996 Day of days of David Tudor 29 years
2002 Day of days of Hermann Haller 23 years
2005 Day of days of Arnold Cooke 20 years
2023 Day of days of Rachel Laurin 2 years

14 August

1727 Day of days of William Croft 298 years
1890 Day of days of Konstanze Therese Adelheit Geiger 135 years
1900 Day of days of Emanuel Faltis 125 years
1944 Day of days of Joseph-Ermend Bonnal 81 years
1956 Day of days of Jaroslav Řídký 69 years
1961 Day of days of Guido Alberto Fano 64 years
1987 Day of days of Vincent Persichetti 38 years
2007 Day of days of Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov 18 years
2019 Day of days of Ivo Malec 6 years
2021 Day of days of Hugh Wood 4 years

15 August

1506 Day of days of Alexander Agricola 519 years
1728 Day of days of Marin Marais 297 years
1907 Day of days of Joseph Joachim 118 years
1951 Day of days of Artur Schnabel 74 years
1963 Day of days of John Powell 62 years
1968 Day of days of Luis Gianneo 57 years
1970 Day of days of Karl Andersen 55 years
1972 Day of days of Alf Thorvald Hurum 53 years
1977 Day of days of Maria Francisca Hofer 48 years
1978 Day of days of Harrison Kerr 47 years
1985 Day of days of Richard Yardumian 40 years

16 August

1831 Day of days of Eduard Brendler 194 years
1959 Day of days of Wanda Landowska 66 years
2008 Day of days of Lucrecia Kasilag 17 years
2020 Day of days of Sukhi Kang 5 years

17 August

1777 Day of days of Giuseppe Scarlatti 248 years
1786 Day of days of Frederick II 239 years
1880 Day of days of Ole Bull 145 years
1889 Day of days of Ernst Frank 136 years
1898 Day of days of Carl Zeller 127 years
1936 Day of days of Pierre-Octave Ferroud 89 years
1945 Day of days of Gino Marinuzzi 80 years
1958 Day of days of Florent Schmitt 67 years
1961 Day of days of Carlos Salzedo 64 years
1973 Day of days of Jean Barraqué 52 years
1994 Day of days of Boris Kõrver 31 years
2000 Day of days of Franco Donatoni 25 years
2007 Day of days of Graham Whettam 18 years

18 August

1787 Day of days of Stephen Paxton 238 years
1792 Day of days of Franz Grill 233 years
1820 Day of days of Anton Kraft 205 years
1842 Day of days of João Domingos Bomtempo 183 years
1881 Day of days of Joseph Labitzky 144 years
1942 Day of days of Erwin Schulhoff 83 years
1981 Day of days of Robert Russell Bennett 44 years
2004 Day of days of Elmer Bernstein 21 years
2004 Day of days of Gertraud Kaltenecker 21 years
2009 Day of days of Milan Slavický 16 years
2012 Day of days of Hans Ludwig Schilling 13 years

19 August

1696 Day of days of Konrad Höffler 329 years
1795 Day of days of Friedrich Hartmann Graf 230 years
1812 Day of days of Vincenzo Righini 213 years
1827 Day of days of Franz Alexander Pössinger 198 years
1900 Day of days of Jean Baptiste Accolay 125 years
1936 Day of days of Federico García Lorca 89 years
1944 Day of days of Sir Henry Wood 81 years
1989 Day of days of Raymond Baervoets 36 years
1992 Day of days of Jean Hubeau 33 years
1995 Day of days of Pierre Schaeffer 30 years
2023 Day of days of Gloria Coates 2 years

20 August

1153 Day of days of Bernard of Clairvaux 872 years
1813 Day of days of Johann Baptist Vanhal 212 years
1856 Day of days of Philipp Jacob Riotte 169 years
1860 Day of days of Cesare di Castelbarco 165 years
1914 Day of days of Jean-Henri Renié 111 years
1931 Day of days of Waldemar Edler von Baussnern 94 years
1935 Day of days of Otakar Ostrcil 90 years
1960 Day of days of Rudolf Moser 65 years
1978 Day of days of Ivan Jirko 47 years
2005 Day of days of Robert Paredes 20 years
2017 Day of days of Wilhelm Killmayer 8 years

21 August

1768 Day of days of William Walond 257 years
1856 Day of days of Peter von Lindpaintner 169 years
1940 Day of days of Paul Juon 85 years
1951 Day of days of Constant Lambert 74 years
1958 Day of days of Stevan Hristić 67 years
1992 Day of days of Theodor Berger 33 years
2002 Day of days of Josef Haselbach 23 years

22 August

1576 Day of days of Balint Bakfark 449 years
1599 Day of days of Luca Marenzio 426 years
1915 Day of days of Augustin Barié 110 years
1928 Day of days of Jacques Durand 97 years
1932 Day of days of Franz Ludwig Veit Marschner 93 years
1996 Day of days of Mareo Ishiketa 29 years
2005 Day of days of Luc Ferrari 20 years

23 August

1777 Day of days of Giuseppe Sellitto 248 years
1878 Day of days of Adolf Fredrik Lindblad 147 years
1937 Day of days of Albert Roussel 88 years
1943 Day of days of Paul Zilcher 82 years
1944 Day of days of Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets 81 years
1957 Day of days of Lille Bror Söderlundh 68 years
1960 Day of days of Oscar Hammerstein II. 65 years
1962 Day of days of Irving Fine 63 years
1972 Day of days of Balys Dvarionas 53 years
1987 Day of days of Siegfried Borris 38 years
1994 Day of days of Fisher Tull 31 years
1996 Day of days of Juriaan Andriessen 29 years
2006 Day of days of Jacques Wildberger 19 years
2018 Day of days of George Walker 7 years
2019 Day of days of Mario Davidovsky 6 years

24 August

1733 Day of days of Jean-Baptiste Moreau 292 years
1841 Day of days of Karl Friedrich Curschmann 184 years
1879 Day of days of Friedrich August Kummer 146 years
1957 Day of days of Albert Sammons 68 years
1974 Day of days of Erwin Zillinger 51 years
1985 Day of days of Paul Creston 40 years
1999 Day of days of Alexandre Lagoya 26 years
2000 Day of days of Ranato Dionisi 25 years
2006 Day of days of James Tenney 19 years
2006 Day of days of John Weinzweig 19 years

25 August

1742 Day of days of José Antonio Carlos de Seixas 283 years
1774 Day of days of Niccolò Jommelli 251 years
1782 Day of days of Marianna von Auenbrugger 243 years
1818 Day of days of Elizabeth Billington 207 years
1822 Day of days of William Herschel 203 years
1900 Day of days of Friedrich Nietzsche 125 years
1905 Day of days of Felix vom Rath 120 years
1958 Day of days of Leo Blech 67 years
1988 Day of days of Kenneth Leighton 37 years
1989 Day of days of Roman Palester 36 years
2008 Day of days of Josef Tal 17 years
2009 Day of days of Robert Heppener 16 years
2018 Day of days of Noam Sheriff 7 years
2019 Day of days of Lucie Robert-Diessel 6 years

26 August

1743 Day of days of Josep Escorihuela 282 years
1813 Day of days of Daniel Gottlob Türk 212 years
1849 Day of days of Jacques Féréol Mazas 176 years
1860 Day of days of Friedrich Silcher 165 years
1885 Day of days of August Gottfried Ritter 140 years
1896 Day of days of Louis Lee 129 years
1935 Day of days of Léon Kuguet 90 years
1958 Day of days of Ralph Vaughan Williams 67 years
1977 Day of days of Heinz Röttger 48 years
1978 Day of days of Charles Haubiel 47 years

27 August

1521 Day of days of Josquin des Prez 504 years
1611 Day of days of Tomás Louis de Victoria 414 years
1657 Day of days of Stefano Fabri 368 years
1680 Day of days of Joan Cererols i Fornells 345 years
1883 Day of days of August Pott 142 years
1887 Day of days of Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar 138 years
1905 Day of days of Hermann Wichmann 120 years
1906 Day of days of Max Lewandowsky 119 years
1924 Day of days of Oswald Körte 101 years
1954 Day of days of Amélia de Mesquita 71 years
1965 Day of days of Otto Reinhold 60 years
2011 Day of days of Nikolaus Fheodoroff 14 years

28 August

1753 Day of days of Francesco Paolo Scipriani 272 years
1767 Day of days of Johann Schobert 258 years
1914 Day of days of Anatoly Konstantinovich Liadov 111 years
1941 Day of days of Helmuth Jörns 84 years
1946 Day of days of Willy Engel-Berger 79 years
1959 Day of days of Bohuslav Martinů 66 years
1972 Day of days of René Leibowitz 53 years

29 August

1526 Day of days of Thomas Stoltzer 499 years
1572 Day of days of Claude Goudimel 453 years
1642 Day of days of Giovanni Battista Buonamente 383 years
1650 Day of days of Jan Baptist Verrijt 375 years
1661 Day of days of Louis Couperin 364 years
1738 Day of days of Georg Reutter (der Ältere) 287 years
1803 Day of days of Ursula Diede zum Fürstenstein geb. Reichsgräfin von Callenberg 222 years
1876 Day of days of Félicien-César David 149 years
1880 Day of days of Hyacinthe Eléonore Klosé 145 years
1882 Day of days of Charles Voss 143 years
1920 Day of days of Gustav Jenner 105 years
1933 Day of days of Georges Conus 92 years
1940 Day of days of Arthur de Greef 85 years
1995 Day of days of Pierre-Max Dubois 30 years
1996 Day of days of Tera de Marez Oyens 29 years

30 August

1585 Day of days of Andrea Gabrieli 440 years
1883 Day of days of Ángela Peralta de Castera 142 years
1904 Day of days of Kate Fanny Loder 121 years
1950 Day of days of Joseph Jemain 75 years
1956 Day of days of Aita Donostia 69 years
1958 Day of days of Alexander Albrecht 67 years
1961 Day of days of Hermann Buchal 64 years
1973 Day of days of Johann Baptist Hilber 52 years
2006 Day of days of Dušan Martinček 19 years

31 August

1665 Day of days of Andreas Oswald 360 years
1795 Day of days of François-André Danican Philidor 230 years
1795 Day of days of François-André Danican Philidor 230 years
1805 Day of days of Joseph Marie Clément dall'Abaco 220 years
1862 Day of days of Ignaz Assmayr 163 years
1893 Day of days of Sir William George Cusins 132 years
1910 Day of days of Emils Dārziņš 115 years
1946 Day of days of Paul August von Klenau 79 years
1949 Day of days of Paul Höffer 76 years
1952 Day of days of Belisario García de Jesús 73 years
1969 Day of days of Ottmar Gerster 56 years
2000 Day of days of Nodar Gabunia 25 years
2013 Day of days of Edward J. Miller 12 years
2016 Day of days of Jacques Leduc 9 years