Days of Death


1 May

1731 Day of days of Johann Ludwig Bach 293 years
1806 Day of days of Carl Cannabich 218 years
1874 Day of days of Vilém Blodek 150 years
1885 Day of days of Brinley Richards 139 years
1886 Day of days of Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl 138 years
1903 Day of days of Luigi Arditi 121 years
1904 Day of days of Antonín Dvořák 120 years
1946 Day of days of Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow 78 years
1946 Day of days of Percy Whitlock 78 years
1965 Day of days of Leo Spies 59 years
1977 Day of days of Johannes Weyhrauch 47 years
1978 Day of days of Aram Khachaturian 46 years
1978 Day of days of Aram Khachaturian 46 years
1982 Day of days of William Primrose 42 years

2 May

1727 Day of days of Giuseppe Jacchini 297 years
1799 Day of days of Henri-Joseph Rigel 225 years
1864 Day of days of Giacomo Meyerbeer 160 years
1888 Day of days of Oskar Bolck 136 years
1913 Day of days of Adolph Kölling 111 years
1937 Day of days of Arthur Somervell 87 years
1966 Day of days of Otto Besch 58 years
2004 Day of days of Mirko Dorner 20 years
2013 Day of days of Gordon Sherwood 11 years

3 May

1582 Day of days of Giorgio Mainerio 442 years
1704 Day of days of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber 320 years
1839 Day of days of Ferdinando Paër 185 years
1856 Day of days of Charles Adolphe Adam 168 years
1910 Day of days of Friedrich Gustav Jansen 114 years
1968 Day of days of Leonid Sabaneev 56 years
1993 Day of days of Gottfried Müller 31 years
2002 Day of days of Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov 22 years
2008 Day of days of Uroš Krek 16 years
2012 Day of days of Felix Werder 12 years

4 May

1604 Day of days of Claudio Merulo 420 years
1672 Day of days of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières 352 years
1941 Day of days of Heinrich Zöllner 83 years
1943 Day of days of Wilhelm Middelschulte 81 years
1955 Day of days of George Enescu 69 years
1998 Day of days of Johannes Driessler 26 years
2016 Day of days of Ursula Mamlok 8 years

5 May

1705 Day of days of Leopold I. 319 years
1765 Day of days of August Friedrich Graun 259 years
1785 Day of days of Franz Xaver Schnizer 239 years
1807 Day of days of P. D. Q. Bach 217 years
1813 Day of days of Stepan Degtyarev 211 years
1885 Day of days of Lauro Rossi 139 years
1891 Day of days of Albert Rudolph Fäsy 133 years
1905 Day of days of Ernst Pauer 119 years
1952 Day of days of Rudolf Sieczyński 72 years
1957 Day of days of Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin 67 years
2000 Day of days of Vitaly Gubarenko 24 years
2006 Day of days of Štĕpán Lucký 18 years

6 May

1596 Day of days of Giaches de Wert 428 years
1667 Day of days of Johann Jakob Froberger 357 years
1675 Day of days of Girolamo Fantini 349 years
1814 Day of days of Georg Joseph Vogler 210 years
1861 Day of days of Frederikke Egeberg 163 years
1867 Day of days of Johann Kaspar Aiblinger 157 years
1872 Day of days of Giulio Regondi 152 years
1890 Day of days of Hubert Léonard 134 years
1892 Day of days of Ernest Guiraud 132 years
1936 Day of days of Hans Jelmoli 88 years
1949 Day of days of Qunihico Hashimoto 75 years
1960 Day of days of Paul Abraham 64 years
2002 Day of days of Murray Adaskin 22 years
2005 Day of days of Hanno Haag 19 years

7 May

1581 Day of days of Alexander Utendal 443 years
1793 Day of days of Pietro Nardini 231 years
1800 Day of days of Niccolò Piccinni 224 years
1818 Day of days of Leopold Antonín Koželuh 206 years
1825 Day of days of Antonio Salieri 199 years
1836 Day of days of Norbert Burgmüller 188 years
1888 Day of days of Alfred Dudley Turner 136 years
1909 Day of days of Joachim Andersen 115 years
1942 Day of days of Felix Weingartner 82 years
1981 Day of days of Peggy Stuart Coolidge 43 years
2002 Day of days of Xavier Montsalvatge 22 years
2019 Day of days of Georg Katzer 5 years

8 May

1684 Day of days of Henri du Mont 340 years
1829 Day of days of Mauro Giuliani 195 years
1849 Day of days of Marco Aurelio Marliani 175 years
1919 Day of days of Philipp Wolfrum 105 years
1930 Day of days of Henning Mankell 94 years
1935 Day of days of Marcel Noel 89 years
1960 Day of days of Hugo Alfvén 64 years
1976 Day of days of Valentino Bucchi 48 years
1985 Day of days of Karl Marx 39 years
1990 Day of days of Luigi Nono 34 years
1991 Day of days of Jean Langlais 33 years
2000 Day of days of Karl-Rudi Griesbach 24 years

9 May

1707 Day of days of Dieterich Buxtehude 317 years
1745 Day of days of Tomaso Antonio Vitali 279 years
1799 Day of days of Claude-Benigne Balbastre 225 years
1850 Day of days of Josef von Blumenthal 174 years
1880 Day of days of Hermann Berens 144 years
1895 Day of days of Otto Alexander Hohlfeld 129 years
1928 Day of days of Constantin Dimitrescu 96 years
1944 Day of days of Ethel Smyth 80 years
1952 Day of days of Louis Dumas 72 years
1962 Day of days of Juri Nikolski 62 years
1966 Day of days of Alfred Mendelsohn 58 years
1974 Day of days of Lubomir Pipkov 50 years
1976 Day of days of Raymond Chevreuille 48 years
1993 Day of days of Iván Patachich 31 years
1997 Day of days of Willy Hess 27 years

10 May

1647 Day of days of Matheo Romero 377 years
1760 Day of days of Christoph Graupner 264 years
1770 Day of days of Charles Avison 254 years
1840 Day of days of Catterino Cavos 184 years
1869 Day of days of Wilhelm Bernhard Molique 155 years
1880 Day of days of John Goss 144 years
1904 Day of days of Daniel François van Goens 120 years
1945 Day of days of Fritz von Bose 79 years

11 May

1783 Day of days of Juliane Benda 241 years
1819 Day of days of Caspar Fürstenau 205 years
1849 Day of days of Otto Nicolai 175 years
1885 Day of days of Ferdinand Hiller 139 years
1916 Day of days of Max Reger 108 years
1917 Day of days of Otto Klauwell 107 years
1928 Day of days of Emil Bohnke 96 years
1947 Day of days of Ture Rangström 77 years

12 May

1838 Day of days of Hans Hiller 186 years
1843 Day of days of Johann Georg Lickl 181 years
1867 Day of days of Wilhelm Theodor Johann Braun 157 years
1884 Day of days of Bedřich Smetana 140 years
1908 Day of days of Melesio Morales 116 years
1919 Day of days of Leo Grill 105 years
1931 Day of days of Eugène Ysaÿe 93 years
1948 Day of days of Isidor Achron 76 years
1960 Day of days of Cecil Armstrong Gibbs 64 years
1967 Day of days of Julius Kalaš 57 years
1982 Day of days of Humphrey Searle 42 years
1989 Day of days of Marcelle de Manziarly 35 years
1990 Day of days of Lotte Backes 34 years
1995 Day of days of Marcel Rubin 29 years
2005 Day of days of Miroslav Kokoška 19 years

13 May

1673 Day of days of Johann (II) Bach 351 years
1726 Day of days of Francesco Antonio Pistocchi 298 years
1732 Day of days of Theodor Schwartzkopff 292 years
1789 Day of days of Louis Archimbaud 235 years
1812 Day of days of Johann Matthias Sperger 212 years
1871 Day of days of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber 153 years
1937 Day of days of Evelyn Faltis 87 years
1978 Day of days of Armin Caspar Hochstetter 46 years
1982 Day of days of Kara Karayev 42 years
1982 Day of days of Renzo Rossellini 42 years
2000 Day of days of Olivier Greif 24 years
2005 Day of days of Gerald Humel 19 years

14 May

1757 Day of days of Bartolomeo Cordans 267 years
1791 Day of days of Franziska Lebrun 233 years
1820 Day of days of Paul Struck 204 years
1904 Day of days of Richard Hol 120 years
1933 Day of days of Louis Schnitzler 91 years
1980 Day of days of Wilhelm Weismann 44 years
1987 Day of days of Julien Falk 37 years
1990 Day of days of André Amellér 34 years
2021 Day of days of Ester Mägi 3 years

15 May

1818 Day of days of Maddalena Laura Lombardini 206 years
1818 Day of days of Maddalena Laura Sirmen 206 years
1822 Day of days of Christian Ludwig Dietter 202 years
1823 Day of days of Anton Felix Beczwarzowsky 201 years
1832 Day of days of Karl Friedrich Zelter 192 years
1884 Day of days of Samuel de Lange (sr.) 140 years
1905 Day of days of Adolf Schulz-Evler 119 years
1934 Day of days of Émile Ratez 90 years
1939 Day of days of Percy Sherwood 85 years
1943 Day of days of Ralph Erwin 81 years
1945 Day of days of Kenneth Alford 79 years
1952 Day of days of Italo Montemezzi 72 years
1959 Day of days of Max d'Ollone 65 years
1975 Day of days of Antonio Pedrotti 49 years
1976 Day of days of David Munrow 48 years
2004 Day of days of Marius Constant 20 years
2015 Day of days of Michael Braunfels 9 years
2016 Day of days of Bernard van Beurden 8 years
2020 Day of days of Herbert Blendinger 4 years

16 May

1781 Day of days of Jacopo Puccini 243 years
1880 Day of days of Karl August Krebs 144 years
1897 Day of days of Paul Pabst 127 years
1908 Day of days of Robert Goldbeck 116 years
1917 Day of days of Fernand Halphen 107 years
1972 Day of days of Maxime Dumoulin 52 years
1992 Day of days of Chalino Sánchez 32 years
2002 Day of days of Joachim Blume 22 years
2004 Day of days of Anny Roth-Dalbert 20 years

17 May

1694 Day of days of Johann Michael (I) Bach 330 years
1847 Day of days of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel 177 years
1866 Day of days of Adolph Bernhard Marx 158 years
1908 Day of days of Jacques Blumenthal 116 years
1919 Day of days of Johann Peter Gotthard 105 years
1919 Day of days of Johann Peter Gotthard Pázdirek 105 years
1935 Day of days of Paul Dukas 89 years
1942 Day of days of Alfred Hollins 82 years
1951 Day of days of Karl Heinrich David 73 years
1998 Day of days of Günter Bergmann 26 years
2013 Day of days of Harold Shapero 11 years
2018 Day of days of Rainer Dimmler 6 years

18 May

1733 Day of days of Georg Böhm 291 years
1832 Day of days of Bonifacius Asioli 192 years
1853 Day of days of Nikolaus Kraft 171 years
1854 Day of days of Henry Lemoine 170 years
1909 Day of days of Isaac Albéniz 115 years
1910 Day of days of Pauline Viardot-Garcia 114 years
1911 Day of days of Gustav Mahler 113 years
1918 Day of days of Toivo Kuula 106 years
1975 Day of days of Leroy Anderson 49 years
1995 Day of days of André-François Marescotti 29 years

19 May

1601 Day of days of Costanzo Porta 423 years
1786 Day of days of John Stanley 238 years
1912 Day of days of Alphonse Hasselmans 112 years
1935 Day of days of Charles Martin Loeffler 89 years
1954 Day of days of Charles Ives 70 years
1958 Day of days of Bruno Stürmer 66 years
1971 Day of days of Bernard Wagenaar 53 years
1978 Day of days of Alfred Maria Berghorn 46 years
1979 Day of days of David van de Woestijne 45 years
1985 Day of days of Hilding Rosenberg 39 years
1992 Day of days of Hans Vogt 32 years
1993 Day of days of Todor Stoykov 31 years
2009 Day of days of Nicholas Maw 15 years
2019 Day of days of Alfred Janson 5 years

20 May

1751 Day of days of Domingo Terradellas 273 years
1787 Day of days of Giovanni Gualberto Brunetti 237 years
1836 Day of days of Hélène de Montgeroult 188 years
1896 Day of days of Clara Schumann 128 years
1896 Day of days of Clara Wieck-Schumann 128 years
1946 Day of days of Emil Frey 78 years
1963 Day of days of Johan Cornelis Berghout 61 years
1978 Day of days of Bjarne Brustad 46 years
1988 Day of days of René Defossez 36 years
2007 Day of days of Carlos Riesco Grez 17 years
2013 Day of days of Anders Eliasson 11 years
2018 Day of days of Dieter Schnebel 6 years

21 May

1812 Day of days of Joseph Woelfl 212 years
1815 Day of days of Romanus Hofstetter 209 years
1895 Day of days of Franz von Suppé 129 years
1926 Day of days of Georgy Catoire 98 years
1989 Day of days of Erich Hamann 35 years
1991 Day of days of Julián Orbón 33 years
1997 Day of days of Jan Paul Nagel 27 years
2014 Day of days of Theodor Grigoriu 10 years

22 May

1699 Day of days of Johann Georg Conradi 325 years
1795 Day of days of Friedrich-Wilhelm Marpurg 229 years
1878 Day of days of Franz von Holstein 146 years
1918 Day of days of Friedrich Seitz 106 years
1949 Day of days of Hans Pfitzner 75 years
1967 Day of days of Langston Hughes 57 years
1971 Day of days of Hans Franke 53 years
1977 Day of days of Marius Monnikendam 47 years
1978 Day of days of Václav Dobiáš 46 years
2013 Day of days of Henri Dutilleux 11 years
2017 Day of days of Josef Peter Heinzer 7 years
2021 Day of days of Maria Sehrig 3 years

23 May

1656 Day of days of Andreas Rauch 368 years
1885 Day of days of Carl Baermann 139 years
1887 Day of days of Ludvig Mathias Lindeman 137 years
1923 Day of days of Heinrich Schmidt 101 years
1926 Day of days of Hans von Kößler 98 years
1941 Day of days of Slavko Osterc 83 years
1952 Day of days of Georg Schumann 72 years
1991 Day of days of Wilhelm Kempff 33 years

24 May

1773 Day of days of Jan Zach 251 years
1826 Day of days of Friedrich Ernst Fesca 198 years
1899 Day of days of Eduard Hamel 125 years
1920 Day of days of Gustav Lazarus 104 years
1974 Day of days of Duke Ellington 50 years
1999 Day of days of Donald Young Sur 25 years
2003 Day of days of Edvard Boguslawski 21 years

25 May

1815 Day of days of Domenico Vincenzo Maria Puccini 209 years
1826 Day of days of Christian Friedrich Ruppe 198 years
1837 Day of days of Johann Evangelist Brandl 187 years
1914 Day of days of Paolo Giorza 110 years
1934 Day of days of Gustav Holst 90 years
1936 Day of days of Ján Levoslav Bella 88 years
1964 Day of days of Vasilii Zolotarev 60 years
1966 Day of days of Ricardo Castillo 58 years
1979 Day of days of Friedrich Metzler 45 years
2005 Day of days of Dennis Eberhard 19 years
2006 Day of days of Otto Matthäus Zykan 18 years
2010 Day of days of Robert Muczynski 14 years

26 May

1566 Day of days of Antonio de Cabezón 458 years
1847 Day of days of Ernst Köhler 177 years
1871 Day of days of Louis Aimé Maillart 153 years
1943 Day of days of Alice Charlotte Tegnér 81 years
2014 Day of days of Francesco d'Avalos 10 years
2016 Day of days of Franz Tischhauser 8 years

27 May

1690 Day of days of Giovanni Legrenzi 334 years
1730 Day of days of Leonardo Vinci 294 years
1826 Day of days of Carl David Stegmann 198 years
1840 Day of days of Niccolò Paganini 184 years
1893 Day of days of Theodor Bernhard Sick 131 years
1949 Day of days of Rosy Wertheim 75 years
1984 Day of days of Vasilije Mokranjac 40 years
2003 Day of days of Luciano Berio 21 years
2006 Day of days of Dieter Acker 18 years
2013 Day of days of Antony Roper 11 years

28 May

1787 Day of days of Leopold Mozart 237 years
1791 Day of days of Joseph Schmitt 233 years
1793 Day of days of Juan de Aragüés 231 years
1805 Day of days of Luigi Boccherini 219 years
1836 Day of days of Anton Reicha 188 years
1890 Day of days of Victor Nessler 134 years
1893 Day of days of Felipe Villanueva 131 years
1940 Day of days of Theodor Streicher 84 years
1952 Day of days of Joseph Lauber 72 years
1963 Day of days of Wissarion Schebalin 61 years
1990 Day of days of Ada Richter 34 years
2012 Day of days of Dieter Schönbach 12 years
2015 Day of days of Steven Gerber 9 years

29 May

1750 Day of days of Giuseppe Porsile 274 years
1910 Day of days of Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev 114 years
1935 Day of days of Josef Suk 89 years
1943 Day of days of Hermann Hans Wetzler 81 years
1951 Day of days of Josef Bohuslav Foerster 73 years
1951 Day of days of Robert Kahn 73 years
1961 Day of days of Uuno Klami 63 years
1992 Day of days of León Zuckert 32 years
2002 Day of days of Gerhard Lampersberg 22 years
2005 Day of days of George Rochberg 19 years
2009 Day of days of Stanley Wolfe 15 years
2014 Day of days of Stefans Grové 10 years

30 May

1884 Day of days of Ferdinand Böhme 140 years
1906 Day of days of William Yeates Hurlstone 118 years
1923 Day of days of Camille Chevillard 101 years
1925 Day of days of Stefano Donaudy 99 years
1935 Day of days of Lothar Windsperger 89 years
1944 Day of days of Bruno Granichstaedten 80 years
1971 Day of days of Marcel Dupré 53 years
1992 Day of days of Karl-Erik Welin 32 years
1998 Day of days of Klaus Hashagen 26 years
2001 Day of days of Nikolai Korndorf 23 years
2013 Day of days of Radu Paladi 11 years

31 May

1809 Day of days of Joseph Haydn 215 years
1831 Day of days of Pierre-Jean Porro 193 years
1870 Day of days of Caspar Kummer 154 years
1905 Day of days of Franz Strauss 119 years
1909 Day of days of Marie Auguste Durand 115 years
1947 Day of days of Henri-Gustave Casadesus 77 years
1962 Day of days of Eduard Toldrà i Soler 62 years
1971 Day of days of Max Trapp 53 years
1976 Day of days of Jules Krüger 48 years
1988 Day of days of Josep Maria Ruera 36 years
1995 Day of days of Pavel Šivic 29 years
1996 Day of days of Ton de Leeuw 28 years
2010 Day of days of Benjamin Lees 14 years