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Composers that were born on 16 May

Barnabas Szilagyi (1980) 43 years ago
Scott Giles (1965) 58 years ago
André van Haren (1963) 60 years ago Image for André van Haren
Hanuš Bartoň (1960) 63 years ago
Betty Olivero (1954) 69 years ago
Gunnar Eriksson (1936) 87 years ago
Jeremy Dale Roberts (1934) 89 years ago
Donald Martino (1931) 92 years ago Donald Martino
Derek Holman (1931) 92 years ago
Horst Ebenhoh (1930) 93 years ago
Friedrich Gulda (1930) 93 years ago
Osmo Lindeman (1929) 94 years ago
Paul Angerer (1927) 96 years ago
Jan Zimmer (1926) 97 years ago
Mordechal Rechtman (1926) 97 years ago Mordechai Rechtman
Lola Castegnaro (1900) 123 years ago
Walther Geiser (1897) 126 years ago
Paul Amadeus Pisk (1893) 130 years ago
Richard Tauber (1891) 132 years ago Richard Tauber
Poldowski [Régine Wieniawski] (1879) 144 years ago Poldowski
Paul de Wailly (1854) 169 years ago
Arthur Henry Mann (1850) 173 years ago Arthur Henry Mann
Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (1828) 195 years ago Meyer Lutz
Charles Duquesnoy (1758) 266 years ago
Pietro Degli Antoni (1639) 385 years ago

Composers that died on 16 May

Anny Roth-Dalbert (2004) 19 years ago
Octaaf Boone (2002) 21 years ago
William Ferris (2000) 23 years ago
Tomas de Manzarraga (1988) 35 years ago
Carel Brons (1983) 40 years ago
José Asuncion Flores (1972) 51 years ago José Asunción Flores
Leone Sinigaglia (1944) 79 years ago
Thomas Sterndale Bennett (1944) 79 years ago
Dermot MacMurrough (1943) 80 years ago
Fernand Gustave Halphen (1917) 106 years ago
Nico Andriessen (1913) 110 years ago
Eduard Rappoldi (1903) 120 years ago Eduard Rappoldi
Karl August Krebs (1880) 143 years ago Karl August Krebs
Fredrikke Egeberg (1861) 162 years ago
Giacomo Puccini (1781) 243 years ago Jacopo Puccini
Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari (1754) 270 years ago
Jean Boyer (1648) 376 years ago

Composer events for 16 May

Bedřich Smetana (1868) 155 years ago
Premiere of Dalibor, in Prague, Czech Republic, with Smetana conducting.
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1928) 95 years ago
Premiere of Fra Gherardo, in Milan, Italy.
Irving Berlin (1946) 77 years ago
Premiere of Annie Get Your Gun, in New York, USA.
Willy Burkhard (1950) 73 years ago
Premiere of Feuerwerk, in Munich, Germany.
Benjamin Britten (1971) 52 years ago
Premiere of Owen Wingrave, on BBC, England.
Jean Françaix (1990) 33 years ago
Premiere of Konzert, in Vienna, Austria.
Peter Wallin (1990) 33 years ago
First performance of the 1989 version of "Tre Stämningar", in Esbjerg, Denmark.

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