Days of Death


1 August

1715 Day of days of Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar 311 years
1857 Day of days of Emilie Zumsteeg 169 years
1919 Day of days of Sandro Blumenthal 107 years
1923 Day of days of Theophil Forchhammer 103 years
1973 Day of days of Gian Francesco Malipiero 53 years
1984 Day of days of Paul le Flem 42 years

2 August

1445 Day of days of Oswald von Wolkenstein 581 years
1902 Day of days of Rudolf Bibl 124 years
1914 Day of days of Gabriel Dupont 112 years
1916 Day of days of Hamish MacCunn 110 years
1944 Day of days of Joseph Bonnet 82 years
1945 Day of days of Pietro Mascagni 81 years
1945 Day of days of Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek 81 years
1971 Day of days of Richard Maux 55 years
1972 Day of days of Rudolf Ganz 54 years
1978 Day of days of Carlos Chávez 48 years
1988 Day of days of Roger Vuataz 38 years
1995 Day of days of Irwin Bazelon 31 years
1997 Day of days of Paul Kurzbach 29 years

3 August

1784 Day of days of Giovanni Battista Martini 242 years
1800 Day of days of Carl Fasch 226 years
1902 Day of days of August Klughardt 124 years
1939 Day of days of August Enna 87 years
1998 Day of days of Alfred Schnittke 28 years
2023 Day of days of Carl Davis 3 years

4 August

1889 Day of days of Carl Amand Mangold 137 years
1904 Day of days of Arnold Krug 122 years
1920 Day of days of Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov 106 years
1930 Day of days of Siegfried Wagner 96 years
1942 Day of days of Alberto Franchetti 84 years
2007 Day of days of Ruth Zechlin 19 years

5 August

1778 Day of days of Thomas Linley 248 years
1787 Day of days of François Francœur 239 years
1856 Day of days of Robert Lucas Pearsall 170 years
1863 Day of days of Adolf Friedrich Hesse 163 years
1877 Day of days of Luigi Legnani 149 years
1916 Day of days of George Butterworth 110 years
1936 Day of days of Mitja Nikisch 90 years
1948 Day of days of Grigoraș Dinicu 78 years
1958 Day of days of Joseph Holbrooke 68 years
1985 Day of days of Olav Løchen Kielland 41 years
1991 Day of days of Gaston Litaize 35 years
1993 Day of days of Eugen Suchoň 33 years
1995 Day of days of Menachem Avidom 31 years

6 August

1782 Day of days of Nicolas Chédeville 244 years
1784 Day of days of Karl Kohaut 242 years
1820 Day of days of Anton Wranitzky 206 years
1891 Day of days of Henry Charles Litolff 135 years
1935 Day of days of Alexander Winkler 91 years
1954 Day of days of Fernande Decruck 72 years
1969 Day of days of Theodor W. Adorno 57 years
1987 Day of days of Samuel Ducommun 39 years
1995 Day of days of André Fleury 31 years
2005 Day of days of James Wilson 21 years
2017 Day of days of David Maslanka 9 years

7 August

1609 Day of days of Eustache du Caurroy 417 years
1646 Day of days of Nicolò Corradini 380 years
1712 Day of days of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow 314 years
1786 Day of days of Friedrich Schwindl 240 years
1846 Day of days of Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck 180 years
1854 Day of days of Heinrich Alois Präger 172 years
1893 Day of days of Alfredo Catalani 133 years
1913 Day of days of David Popper 113 years
1918 Day of days of Hugo Schlemüller 108 years
1927 Day of days of Wilhelm Rudnick 99 years
1940 Day of days of Henri de Saussine 86 years
1944 Day of days of Agustín Barrios Mangoré 82 years
1959 Day of days of Armas Launis 67 years
1969 Day of days of Joseph Kosma 57 years
1970 Day of days of Ingolf Dahl 56 years
1978 Day of days of Franz Alphons Wolpert 48 years
2005 Day of days of Helene (Leni) Alexander 21 years

8 August

1696 Day of days of Vincenco Albrici 330 years
1759 Day of days of Carl Heinrich Graun 267 years
1888 Day of days of Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns 138 years
1950 Day of days of Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky 76 years
1963 Day of days of Sándor Jemnitz 63 years
1967 Day of days of Jaromír Weinberger 59 years
1969 Day of days of Hekel Tavares 57 years
2014 Day of days of Peter Sculthorpe 12 years

9 August

1557 Day of days of Nicholas Ludford 469 years
1791 Day of days of Johann Anton Kobrich 235 years
1919 Day of days of Ruggero Leoncavallo 107 years
1955 Day of days of Marion Eugénie Bauer 71 years
1966 Day of days of Gösta Nystroem 60 years
1975 Day of days of Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich 51 years
1983 Day of days of André Hossein 43 years
1988 Day of days of Giacinto Scelsi 38 years
1993 Day of days of Ludwig Gebhard 33 years
2002 Day of days of Bertold Hummel 24 years

10 August

1730 Day of days of Sébastien de Brossard 296 years
1806 Day of days of Michael Haydn 220 years
1806 Day of days of Christian Kalkbrenner 220 years
1821 Day of days of Salvatore Viganò 205 years
1841 Day of days of Hippolyte Monpou 185 years
1886 Day of days of August Eduard Grell 140 years
1910 Day of days of Carl Hüllweck 116 years
1970 Day of days of Bernd Alois Zimmermann 56 years
1997 Day of days of Samuel Conlon Nancarrow 29 years

11 August

1730 Day of days of André Danican Philidor 296 years
1794 Day of days of Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht 232 years
1868 Day of days of Halfdan Kjerulf 158 years
1942 Day of days of Richard Stein 84 years
1949 Day of days of Karl Weigl 77 years
1961 Day of days of Johanna Senfter 65 years
1995 Day of days of Herbert Sumsion 31 years
2000 Day of days of Jean Papineau-Couture 26 years

12 August

1588 Day of days of Alfonso Ferrabosco (the elder) 438 years
1606 Day of days of Jakob Reiner 420 years
1612 Day of days of Giovanni Gabrieli 414 years
1633 Day of days of Jacopo Peri 393 years
1812 Day of days of Jean Joseph Rodolphe 214 years
1812 Day of days of Johann Joseph Rudolph 214 years
1834 Day of days of Alessandro Grazioli 192 years
1858 Day of days of Katharina Cibbini-Koželuch 168 years
1879 Day of days of Peter Heise 147 years
1919 Day of days of Max Puchat 107 years
1928 Day of days of Leoš Janáček 98 years
1943 Day of days of Cornélie van Oosterzee 83 years
1951 Day of days of Ebbe Hamerik 75 years
1982 Day of days of Helvi Leiviskä 44 years
1984 Day of days of Margaret Sutherland 42 years
1985 Day of days of Marcel Mihalovici 41 years
1990 Day of days of Piotr Perkowski 36 years
1992 Day of days of John Cage 34 years
2000 Day of days of Peter Patrick Sacco 26 years
2008 Day of days of Donald Erb 18 years
2015 Day of days of Per Hjort Albertsen 11 years

13 August

1841 Day of days of Bernhard Heinrich Romberg 185 years
1908 Day of days of Moritz Scharf 118 years
1912 Day of days of Jules Massenet 114 years
1916 Day of days of Fritz Steinbach 110 years
1924 Day of days of Julián Aguirre 102 years
1928 Day of days of Fernand La Tombelle 98 years
1954 Day of days of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen 72 years
1996 Day of days of Louise Talma 30 years
1996 Day of days of David Tudor 30 years
2002 Day of days of Hermann Haller 24 years
2005 Day of days of Arnold Cooke 21 years
2023 Day of days of Rachel Laurin 3 years

14 August

1727 Day of days of William Croft 299 years
1890 Day of days of Konstanze Therese Adelheit Geiger 136 years
1900 Day of days of Emanuel Faltis 126 years
1944 Day of days of Joseph-Ermend Bonnal 82 years
1956 Day of days of Jaroslav Řídký 70 years
1961 Day of days of Guido Alberto Fano 65 years
1987 Day of days of Vincent Persichetti 39 years
2007 Day of days of Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov 19 years
2019 Day of days of Ivo Malec 7 years
2021 Day of days of Hugh Wood 5 years

15 August

1506 Day of days of Alexander Agricola 520 years
1728 Day of days of Marin Marais 298 years
1907 Day of days of Joseph Joachim 119 years
1951 Day of days of Artur Schnabel 75 years
1963 Day of days of John Powell 63 years
1968 Day of days of Luis Gianneo 58 years
1970 Day of days of Karl Andersen 56 years
1972 Day of days of Alf Thorvald Hurum 54 years
1977 Day of days of Maria Francisca Hofer 49 years
1978 Day of days of Harrison Kerr 48 years
1985 Day of days of Richard Yardumian 41 years

16 August

1831 Day of days of Eduard Brendler 195 years
1959 Day of days of Wanda Landowska 67 years
2008 Day of days of Lucrecia Kasilag 18 years
2020 Day of days of Sukhi Kang 6 years

17 August

1777 Day of days of Giuseppe Scarlatti 249 years
1786 Day of days of Frederick II 240 years
1880 Day of days of Ole Bull 146 years
1889 Day of days of Ernst Frank 137 years
1898 Day of days of Carl Zeller 128 years
1936 Day of days of Pierre-Octave Ferroud 90 years
1945 Day of days of Gino Marinuzzi 81 years
1958 Day of days of Florent Schmitt 68 years
1961 Day of days of Carlos Salzedo 65 years
1973 Day of days of Jean Barraqué 53 years
1994 Day of days of Boris Kõrver 32 years
2000 Day of days of Franco Donatoni 26 years
2007 Day of days of Graham Whettam 19 years

18 August

1787 Day of days of Stephen Paxton 239 years
1792 Day of days of Franz Grill 234 years
1820 Day of days of Anton Kraft 206 years
1842 Day of days of João Domingos Bomtempo 184 years
1881 Day of days of Joseph Labitzky 145 years
1942 Day of days of Erwin Schulhoff 84 years
1981 Day of days of Robert Russell Bennett 45 years
2004 Day of days of Elmer Bernstein 22 years
2004 Day of days of Gertraud Kaltenecker 22 years
2009 Day of days of Milan Slavický 17 years
2012 Day of days of Hans Ludwig Schilling 14 years

19 August

1696 Day of days of Konrad Höffler 330 years
1795 Day of days of Friedrich Hartmann Graf 231 years
1812 Day of days of Vincenzo Righini 214 years
1827 Day of days of Franz Alexander Pössinger 199 years
1900 Day of days of Jean Baptiste Accolay 126 years
1936 Day of days of Federico García Lorca 90 years
1944 Day of days of Sir Henry Wood 82 years
1989 Day of days of Raymond Baervoets 37 years
1992 Day of days of Jean Hubeau 34 years
1995 Day of days of Pierre Schaeffer 31 years
2023 Day of days of Gloria Coates 3 years

20 August

1153 Day of days of Bernard of Clairvaux 873 years
1813 Day of days of Johann Baptist Vanhal 213 years
1856 Day of days of Philipp Jacob Riotte 170 years
1860 Day of days of Cesare di Castelbarco 166 years
1914 Day of days of Jean-Henri Renié 112 years
1931 Day of days of Waldemar Edler von Baussnern 95 years
1935 Day of days of Otakar Ostrcil 91 years
1960 Day of days of Rudolf Moser 66 years
1978 Day of days of Ivan Jirko 48 years
2005 Day of days of Robert Paredes 21 years
2017 Day of days of Wilhelm Killmayer 9 years

21 August

1768 Day of days of William Walond 258 years
1856 Day of days of Peter von Lindpaintner 170 years
1940 Day of days of Paul Juon 86 years
1951 Day of days of Constant Lambert 75 years
1958 Day of days of Stevan Hristić 68 years
1992 Day of days of Theodor Berger 34 years
2002 Day of days of Josef Haselbach 24 years

22 August

1576 Day of days of Balint Bakfark 450 years
1599 Day of days of Luca Marenzio 427 years
1915 Day of days of Augustin Barié 111 years
1928 Day of days of Jacques Durand 98 years
1932 Day of days of Franz Ludwig Veit Marschner 94 years
1996 Day of days of Mareo Ishiketa 30 years
2005 Day of days of Luc Ferrari 21 years

23 August

1777 Day of days of Giuseppe Sellitto 249 years
1878 Day of days of Adolf Fredrik Lindblad 148 years
1937 Day of days of Albert Roussel 89 years
1943 Day of days of Paul Zilcher 83 years
1944 Day of days of Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets 82 years
1957 Day of days of Lille Bror Söderlundh 69 years
1960 Day of days of Oscar Hammerstein II. 66 years
1962 Day of days of Irving Fine 64 years
1972 Day of days of Balys Dvarionas 54 years
1987 Day of days of Siegfried Borris 39 years
1994 Day of days of Fisher Tull 32 years
1996 Day of days of Juriaan Andriessen 30 years
2006 Day of days of Jacques Wildberger 20 years
2018 Day of days of George Walker 8 years
2019 Day of days of Mario Davidovsky 7 years

24 August

1733 Day of days of Jean-Baptiste Moreau 293 years
1841 Day of days of Karl Friedrich Curschmann 185 years
1879 Day of days of Friedrich August Kummer 147 years
1957 Day of days of Albert Sammons 69 years
1974 Day of days of Erwin Zillinger 52 years
1985 Day of days of Paul Creston 41 years
1999 Day of days of Alexandre Lagoya 27 years
2000 Day of days of Ranato Dionisi 26 years
2006 Day of days of James Tenney 20 years
2006 Day of days of John Weinzweig 20 years

25 August

1742 Day of days of José Antonio Carlos de Seixas 284 years
1774 Day of days of Niccolò Jommelli 252 years
1782 Day of days of Marianna von Auenbrugger 244 years
1818 Day of days of Elizabeth Billington 208 years
1822 Day of days of William Herschel 204 years
1900 Day of days of Friedrich Nietzsche 126 years
1905 Day of days of Felix vom Rath 121 years
1958 Day of days of Leo Blech 68 years
1988 Day of days of Kenneth Leighton 38 years
1989 Day of days of Roman Palester 37 years
2008 Day of days of Josef Tal 18 years
2009 Day of days of Robert Heppener 17 years
2018 Day of days of Noam Sheriff 8 years
2019 Day of days of Lucie Robert-Diessel 7 years

26 August

1743 Day of days of Josep Escorihuela 283 years
1813 Day of days of Daniel Gottlob Türk 213 years
1849 Day of days of Jacques Féréol Mazas 177 years
1860 Day of days of Friedrich Silcher 166 years
1885 Day of days of August Gottfried Ritter 141 years
1896 Day of days of Louis Lee 130 years
1935 Day of days of Léon Kuguet 91 years
1958 Day of days of Ralph Vaughan Williams 68 years
1977 Day of days of Heinz Röttger 49 years
1978 Day of days of Charles Haubiel 48 years

27 August

1521 Day of days of Josquin des Prez 505 years
1611 Day of days of Tomás Louis de Victoria 415 years
1657 Day of days of Stefano Fabri 369 years
1680 Day of days of Joan Cererols i Fornells 346 years
1883 Day of days of August Pott 143 years
1887 Day of days of Wilhelm Valentin Volckmar 139 years
1905 Day of days of Hermann Wichmann 121 years
1906 Day of days of Max Lewandowsky 120 years
1924 Day of days of Oswald Körte 102 years
1954 Day of days of Amélia de Mesquita 72 years
1965 Day of days of Otto Reinhold 61 years
2011 Day of days of Nikolaus Fheodoroff 15 years
2021 Day of days of Siegfried Matthus 5 years

28 August

1753 Day of days of Francesco Paolo Scipriani 273 years
1767 Day of days of Johann Schobert 259 years
1914 Day of days of Anatoly Konstantinovich Liadov 112 years
1941 Day of days of Helmuth Jörns 85 years
1946 Day of days of Willy Engel-Berger 80 years
1959 Day of days of Bohuslav Martinů 67 years
1972 Day of days of René Leibowitz 54 years

29 August

1526 Day of days of Thomas Stoltzer 500 years
1572 Day of days of Claude Goudimel 454 years
1642 Day of days of Giovanni Battista Buonamente 384 years
1650 Day of days of Jan Baptist Verrijt 376 years
1661 Day of days of Louis Couperin 365 years
1738 Day of days of Georg Reutter (der Ältere) 288 years
1803 Day of days of Ursula Diede zum Fürstenstein geb. Reichsgräfin von Callenberg 223 years
1876 Day of days of Félicien-César David 150 years
1880 Day of days of Hyacinthe Eléonore Klosé 146 years
1882 Day of days of Charles Voss 144 years
1920 Day of days of Gustav Jenner 106 years
1933 Day of days of Georges Conus 93 years
1940 Day of days of Arthur de Greef 86 years
1995 Day of days of Pierre-Max Dubois 31 years
1996 Day of days of Tera de Marez Oyens 30 years
2025 Day of days of Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin 1 years

30 August

1585 Day of days of Andrea Gabrieli 441 years
1883 Day of days of Ángela Peralta de Castera 143 years
1904 Day of days of Kate Fanny Loder 122 years
1950 Day of days of Joseph Jemain 76 years
1956 Day of days of Aita Donostia 70 years
1958 Day of days of Alexander Albrecht 68 years
1961 Day of days of Hermann Buchal 65 years
1973 Day of days of Johann Baptist Hilber 53 years
2006 Day of days of Dušan Martinček 20 years

31 August

1665 Day of days of Andreas Oswald 361 years
1795 Day of days of François-André Danican Philidor 231 years
1795 Day of days of François-André Danican Philidor 231 years
1805 Day of days of Joseph Marie Clément dall'Abaco 221 years
1862 Day of days of Ignaz Assmayr 164 years
1893 Day of days of Sir William George Cusins 133 years
1910 Day of days of Emils Dārziņš 116 years
1946 Day of days of Paul August von Klenau 80 years
1949 Day of days of Paul Höffer 77 years
1952 Day of days of Belisario García de Jesús 74 years
1969 Day of days of Ottmar Gerster 57 years
2000 Day of days of Nodar Gabunia 26 years
2013 Day of days of Edward J. Miller 13 years
2016 Day of days of Jacques Leduc 10 years