Days of Death


1 August

1715 Day of days of Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar 309 years
1857 Day of days of Emilie Zumsteeg 167 years
1919 Day of days of Sandro Blumenthal 105 years
1923 Day of days of Theophil Forchhammer 101 years
1973 Day of days of Gian Francesco Malipiero 51 years
1984 Day of days of Paul le Flem 40 years

2 August

1445 Day of days of Oswald von Wolkenstein 579 years
1902 Day of days of Rudolf Bibl 122 years
1914 Day of days of Gabriel Dupont 110 years
1916 Day of days of Hamish MacCunn 108 years
1944 Day of days of Joseph Bonnet 80 years
1945 Day of days of Pietro Mascagni 79 years
1945 Day of days of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek 79 years
1971 Day of days of Richard Maux 53 years
1972 Day of days of Rudolf Ganz 52 years
1978 Day of days of Carlos Chávez 46 years
1988 Day of days of Roger Vuataz 36 years
1995 Day of days of Irwin Bazelon 29 years
1997 Day of days of Paul Kurzbach 27 years

3 August

1784 Day of days of Giovanni Battista Martini 240 years
1800 Day of days of Carl Fasch 224 years
1902 Day of days of August Klughardt 122 years
1939 Day of days of August Enna 85 years
1998 Day of days of Alfred Schnittke 26 years
2023 Day of days of Carl Davis 1 years

4 August

1889 Day of days of Carl Amand Mangold 135 years
1904 Day of days of Arnold Krug 120 years
1920 Day of days of Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov 104 years
1930 Day of days of Siegfried Wagner 94 years
1942 Day of days of Alberto Franchetti 82 years
2007 Day of days of Ruth Zechlin 17 years

5 August

1778 Day of days of Thomas Linley 246 years
1787 Day of days of François Francœur 237 years
1856 Day of days of Robert Lucas Pearsall 168 years
1863 Day of days of Adolf Friedrich Hesse 161 years
1877 Day of days of Luigi Legnani 147 years
1916 Day of days of George Butterworth 108 years
1936 Day of days of Mitja Nikisch 88 years
1948 Day of days of Grigoraș Dinicu 76 years
1958 Day of days of Joseph Holbrooke 66 years
1985 Day of days of Olav Løchen Kielland 39 years
1991 Day of days of Gaston Litaize 33 years
1993 Day of days of Eugen Suchoň 31 years
1995 Day of days of Menachem Avidom 29 years

6 August

1782 Day of days of Nicolas Chédeville 242 years
1784 Day of days of Karl Kohaut 240 years
1820 Day of days of Anton Wranitzky 204 years
1891 Day of days of Henry Charles Litolff 133 years
1935 Day of days of Alexander Winkler 89 years
1969 Day of days of Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno 55 years
1987 Day of days of Samuel Ducommun 37 years
1995 Day of days of André Fleury 29 years
2005 Day of days of James Wilson 19 years
2017 Day of days of David Maslanka 7 years

7 August

1609 Day of days of Eustache du Caurroy 415 years
1646 Day of days of Nicolò Corradini 378 years
1712 Day of days of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow 312 years
1786 Day of days of Friedrich Schwindl 238 years
1846 Day of days of Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck 178 years
1854 Day of days of Heinrich Alois Präger 170 years
1893 Day of days of Alfredo Catalani 131 years
1913 Day of days of David Popper 111 years
1918 Day of days of Hugo Schlemüller 106 years
1927 Day of days of Wilhelm Rudnick 97 years
1940 Day of days of Henri de Saussine 84 years
1944 Day of days of Agustín Barrios Mangoré 80 years
1959 Day of days of Armas Launis 65 years
1969 Day of days of Joseph Kosma 55 years
1970 Day of days of Ingolf Dahl 54 years
1978 Day of days of Franz Alphons Wolpert 46 years
2005 Day of days of Helene (Leni) Alexander 19 years

8 August

1696 Day of days of Vincenco Albrici 328 years
1759 Day of days of Carl Heinrich Graun 265 years
1888 Day of days of Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns 136 years
1950 Day of days of Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky 74 years
1963 Day of days of Sándor Jemnitz 61 years
1967 Day of days of Jaromír Weinberger 57 years
1969 Day of days of Hekel Tavares 55 years
2014 Day of days of Peter Sculthorpe 10 years

9 August

1557 Day of days of Nicholas Ludford 467 years
1791 Day of days of Johann Anton Kobrich 233 years
1919 Day of days of Ruggero Leoncavallo 105 years
1955 Day of days of Marion Eugénie Bauer 69 years
1966 Day of days of Gösta Nystroem 58 years
1975 Day of days of Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich 49 years
1983 Day of days of André Hossein 41 years
1988 Day of days of Giacinto Scelsi 36 years
1993 Day of days of Ludwig Gebhard 31 years
2002 Day of days of Bertold Hummel 22 years

10 August

1730 Day of days of Sébastien de Brossard 294 years
1806 Day of days of Michael Haydn 218 years
1806 Day of days of Christian Kalkbrenner 218 years
1821 Day of days of Salvatore Viganò 203 years
1841 Day of days of Hippolyte Monpou 183 years
1886 Day of days of August Eduard Grell 138 years
1910 Day of days of Carl Hüllweck 114 years
1970 Day of days of Bernd Alois Zimmermann 54 years
1997 Day of days of Samuel Conlon Nancarrow 27 years

11 August

1730 Day of days of André Danican Philidor 294 years
1794 Day of days of Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht 230 years
1868 Day of days of Halfdan Kjerulf 156 years
1942 Day of days of Richard Stein 82 years
1949 Day of days of Karl Weigl 75 years
1961 Day of days of Johanna Senfter 63 years
1995 Day of days of Herbert Sumsion 29 years
2000 Day of days of Jean Papineau-Couture 24 years

12 August

1588 Day of days of Alfonso Ferrabosco (the elder) 436 years
1606 Day of days of Jakob Reiner 418 years
1612 Day of days of Giovanni Gabrieli 412 years
1633 Day of days of Jacopo Peri 391 years
1812 Day of days of Jean Joseph Rodolphe 212 years
1812 Day of days of Johann Joseph Rudolph 212 years
1834 Day of days of Alessandro Grazioli 190 years
1858 Day of days of Katharina Cibbini-Koželuch 166 years
1879 Day of days of Peter Heise 145 years
1919 Day of days of Max Puchat 105 years
1928 Day of days of Leoš Janáček 96 years
1943 Day of days of Cornélie van Oosterzee 81 years
1951 Day of days of Ebbe Hamerik 73 years
1984 Day of days of Margaret Sutherland 40 years
1985 Day of days of Marcel Mihalovici 39 years
1990 Day of days of Piotr Perkowski 34 years
1992 Day of days of John Cage 32 years
2000 Day of days of Peter Patrick Sacco 24 years
2008 Day of days of Donald Erb 16 years
2015 Day of days of Per Hjort Albertsen 9 years

13 August

1841 Day of days of Bernhard Heinrich Romberg 183 years
1908 Day of days of Moritz Scharf 116 years
1912 Day of days of Jules Massenet 112 years
1916 Day of days of Fritz Steinbach 108 years
1924 Day of days of Julián Aguirre 100 years
1928 Day of days of Fernand La Tombelle 96 years
1954 Day of days of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen 70 years
1996 Day of days of Louise Talma 28 years
1996 Day of days of David Tudor 28 years
2002 Day of days of Hermann Haller 22 years
2005 Day of days of Arnold Cooke 19 years
2023 Day of days of Rachel Laurin 1 years

14 August

1727 Day of days of William Croft 297 years
1890 Day of days of Konstanze Therese Adelheit Geiger 134 years
1900 Day of days of Emanuel Faltis 124 years
1944 Day of days of Joseph-Ermend Bonnal 80 years
1956 Day of days of Jaroslav Řídký 68 years
1961 Day of days of Guido Alberto Fano 63 years
1987 Day of days of Vincent Persichetti 37 years
2007 Day of days of Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov 17 years
2019 Day of days of Ivo Malec 5 years
2021 Day of days of Hugh Wood 3 years

15 August

1506 Day of days of Alexander Agricola 518 years
1728 Day of days of Marin Marais 296 years
1907 Day of days of Joseph Joachim 117 years
1951 Day of days of Artur Schnabel 73 years
1963 Day of days of John Powell 61 years
1968 Day of days of Luis Gianneo 56 years
1970 Day of days of Karl Andersen 54 years
1972 Day of days of Alf Thorvald Hurum 52 years
1977 Day of days of Maria Francisca Hofer 47 years
1978 Day of days of Harrison Kerr 46 years
1985 Day of days of Richard Yardumian 39 years

16 August

1831 Day of days of Eduard Brendler 193 years
1959 Day of days of Wanda Landowska 65 years
2008 Day of days of Lucrecia Kasilag 16 years
2020 Day of days of Sukhi Kang 4 years

17 August

1777 Day of days of Giuseppe Scarlatti 247 years
1786 Day of days of Frederick II 238 years
1880 Day of days of Ole Bull 144 years
1889 Day of days of Ernst Frank 135 years
1898 Day of days of Carl Zeller 126 years
1936 Day of days of Pierre-Octave Ferroud 88 years
1945 Day of days of Gino Marinuzzi 79 years
1958 Day of days of Florent Schmitt 66 years
1961 Day of days of Carlos Salzedo 63 years
1973 Day of days of Jean Barraqué 51 years
1994 Day of days of Boris Kõrver 30 years
2000 Day of days of Franco Donatoni 24 years
2007 Day of days of Graham Whettam 17 years

18 August

1787 Day of days of Stephen Paxton 237 years
1792 Day of days of Franz Grill 232 years
1820 Day of days of Anton Kraft 204 years
1842 Day of days of João Domingos Bomtempo 182 years
1942 Day of days of Erwin Schulhoff 82 years
1981 Day of days of Robert Russell Bennett 43 years
2004 Day of days of Elmer Bernstein 20 years
2004 Day of days of Gertraud Kaltenecker 20 years
2009 Day of days of Milan Slavický 15 years
2012 Day of days of Hans Ludwig Schilling 12 years

19 August

1696 Day of days of Konrad Höffler 328 years
1795 Day of days of Friedrich Hartmann Graf 229 years
1812 Day of days of Vincenzo Righini 212 years
1827 Day of days of Franz Alexander Pössinger 197 years
1900 Day of days of Jean Baptiste Accolay 124 years
1936 Day of days of Federico García Lorca 88 years
1944 Day of days of Sir Henry Wood 80 years
1989 Day of days of Raymond Baervoets 35 years
1992 Day of days of Jean Hubeau 32 years
1995 Day of days of Pierre Schaeffer 29 years
2023 Day of days of Gloria Coates 1 years

20 August

1153 Day of days of Bernard of Clairvaux 871 years
1813 Day of days of Johann Baptist Vanhal 211 years
1856 Day of days of Philipp Jacob Riotte 168 years
1860 Day of days of Cesare di Castelbarco 164 years
1914 Day of days of Jean-Henri Renié 110 years
1931 Day of days of Waldemar Edler von Baussnern 93 years
1935 Day of days of Otakar Ostrcil 89 years
1960 Day of days of Rudolf Moser 64 years
1978 Day of days of Ivan Jirko 46 years
2005 Day of days of Robert Paredes 19 years
2017 Day of days of Wilhelm Killmayer 7 years

21 August

1768 Day of days of William Walond 256 years
1856 Day of days of Peter von Lindpaintner 168 years
1940 Day of days of Paul Juon 84 years
1951 Day of days of Constant Lambert 73 years
1958 Day of days of Stevan Hristić 66 years
1992 Day of days of Theodor Berger 32 years
2002 Day of days of Josef Haselbach 22 years

22 August

1576 Day of days of Balint Bakfark 448 years
1599 Day of days of Luca Marenzio 425 years
1915 Day of days of Augustin Barié 109 years
1928 Day of days of Jacques Durand 96 years
1932 Day of days of Franz Ludwig Veit Marschner 92 years
1996 Day of days of Mareo Ishiketa 28 years
2005 Day of days of Luc Ferrari 19 years

23 August

1777 Day of days of Giuseppe Sellitto 247 years
1878 Day of days of Adolf Fredrik Lindblad 146 years
1937 Day of days of Albert Roussel 87 years
1943 Day of days of Paul Zilcher 81 years
1944 Day of days of Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets 80 years
1957 Day of days of Lille Bror Söderlundh 67 years
1960 Day of days of Oscar Hammerstein II. 64 years
1962 Day of days of Irving Fine 62 years
1972 Day of days of Balys Dvarionas 52 years
1987 Day of days of Siegfried Borris 37 years
1994 Day of days of Fisher Tull 30 years
1996 Day of days of Juriaan Andriessen 28 years
2006 Day of days of Jacques Wildberger 18 years
2018 Day of days of George Walker 6 years
2019 Day of days of Mario Davidovsky 5 years

24 August

1733 Day of days of Jean-Baptiste Moreau 291 years
1841 Day of days of Karl Friedrich Curschmann 183 years
1879 Day of days of Friedrich August Kummer 145 years
1957 Day of days of Albert Sammons 67 years
1974 Day of days of Erwin Zillinger 50 years
1985 Day of days of Paul Creston 39 years
1999 Day of days of Alexandre Lagoya 25 years
2000 Day of days of Ranato Dionisi 24 years
2006 Day of days of James Tenney 18 years
2006 Day of days of John Weinzweig 18 years

25 August

1742 Day of days of José Antonio Carlos de Seixas 282 years
1774 Day of days of Niccolò Jommelli 250 years
1782 Day of days of Marianna von Auenbrugger 242 years
1818 Day of days of Elizabeth Billington 206 years
1822 Day of days of William Herschel 202 years
1900 Day of days of Friedrich Nietzsche 124 years
1905 Day of days of Felix vom Rath 119 years
1958 Day of days of Leo Blech 66 years
1988 Day of days of Kenneth Leighton 36 years
1989 Day of days of Roman Palester 35 years
2008 Day of days of Josef Tal 16 years
2009 Day of days of Robert Heppener 15 years
2018 Day of days of Noam Sheriff 6 years
2019 Day of days of Lucie Robert-Diessel 5 years

26 August

1743 Day of days of Josep Escorihuela 281 years
1813 Day of days of Daniel Gottlob Türk 211 years
1849 Day of days of Jacques Féréol Mazas 175 years
1860 Day of days of Friedrich Silcher 164 years
1885 Day of days of August Gottfried Ritter 139 years
1896 Day of days of Louis Lee 128 years
1935 Day of days of Léon Kuguet 89 years
1958 Day of days of Ralph Vaughan Williams 66 years
1977 Day of days of Heinz Röttger 47 years
1978 Day of days of Charles Haubiel 46 years

27 August

1521 Day of days of Josquin des Prez 503 years
1611 Day of days of Tomás Louis de Victoria 413 years
1657 Day of days of Stefano Fabri 367 years
1680 Day of days of Joan Cererols i Fornells 344 years
1883 Day of days of August Pott 141 years
1887 Day of days of Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar 137 years
1905 Day of days of Hermann Wichmann 119 years
1906 Day of days of Max Lewandowsky 118 years
1924 Day of days of Oswald Körte 100 years
1965 Day of days of Otto Reinhold 59 years
2011 Day of days of Nikolaus Fheodoroff 13 years

28 August

1753 Day of days of Francesco Paolo Scipriani 271 years
1767 Day of days of Johann Schobert 257 years
1914 Day of days of Anatoly Konstantinovich Liadov 110 years
1941 Day of days of Helmuth Jörns 83 years
1946 Day of days of Willy Engel-Berger 78 years
1959 Day of days of Bohuslav Martinů 65 years
1972 Day of days of René Leibowitz 52 years

29 August

1526 Day of days of Thomas Stoltzer 498 years
1572 Day of days of Claude Goudimel 452 years
1642 Day of days of Giovanni Battista Buonamente 382 years
1650 Day of days of Jan Baptist Verrijt 374 years
1661 Day of days of Louis Couperin 363 years
1738 Day of days of Georg Reutter (der Ältere) 286 years
1803 Day of days of Ursula Diede zum Fürstenstein geb. Reichsgräfin von Callenberg 221 years
1876 Day of days of Félicien-César David 148 years
1880 Day of days of Hyacinthe Eléonore Klosé 144 years
1882 Day of days of Charles Voss 142 years
1920 Day of days of Gustav Jenner 104 years
1933 Day of days of Georges Conus 91 years
1940 Day of days of Arthur de Greef 84 years
1995 Day of days of Pierre-Max Dubois 29 years
1996 Day of days of Tera de Marez Oyens 28 years

30 August

1585 Day of days of Andrea Gabrieli 439 years
1883 Day of days of Ángela Peralta de Castera 141 years
1904 Day of days of Kate Fanny Loder 120 years
1950 Day of days of Joseph Jemain 74 years
1956 Day of days of Aita Donostia 68 years
1958 Day of days of Alexander Albrecht 66 years
1961 Day of days of Hermann Buchal 63 years
1973 Day of days of Johann Baptist Hilber 51 years
2006 Day of days of Dušan Martinček 18 years

31 August

1665 Day of days of Andreas Oswald 359 years
1795 Day of days of François-André Danican Philidor 229 years
1795 Day of days of François-André Danican Philidor 229 years
1805 Day of days of Joseph Marie Clément dall'Abaco 219 years
1862 Day of days of Ignaz Assmayr 162 years
1893 Day of days of Sir William George Cusins 131 years
1910 Day of days of Emils Dārziņš 114 years
1946 Day of days of Paul August von Klenau 78 years
1949 Day of days of Paul Höffer 75 years
1952 Day of days of Belisario García de Jesús 72 years
1969 Day of days of Ottmar Gerster 55 years
2000 Day of days of Nodar Gabunia 24 years
2013 Day of days of Edward J. Miller 11 years
2016 Day of days of Jacques Leduc 8 years