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Composers that were born on 8 August

Ioannis Kourtis (1973) 48 years ago Image for Ioannis Kourtis
Caroline Ansink (1959) 62 years ago
Synne Skouen (1950) 71 years ago
Amanda Macbroom (1947) 74 years ago
John Renbourn (1944) 77 years ago
William Hibbard (1939) 82 years ago
Jacques Hétu (1938) 83 years ago Image for Jacques Hétu
Michael Brimer (1933) 88 years ago
Jonathan Elkus (1931) 90 years ago
Simon Diaz (1928) 93 years ago Simón Díaz
Herbert H. Ágústsson (1926) 95 years ago
Roger Nixon (1921) 100 years ago
Wilhelm Keller (1920) 101 years ago Wilhelm Keller
Stig Rybrant (1916) 105 years ago
Lode Huybrechts (1911) 110 years ago
Emanuel Amiran-Pougatchov (1909) 112 years ago
André Jolivet (1905) 116 years ago Image for André Jolivet
Victor Young (1899) 122 years ago
Adolf Busch (1891) 130 years ago Adolf Busch
Daniël Ruyneman (1886) 135 years ago
Pietro Yon (1886) 135 years ago Pietro Yon
William Henry Squire (1871) 150 years ago
Cécile Chaminade (1857) 164 years ago Cécile Chaminade
Ciríaco Cardoso (1846) 175 years ago
Victor Sieg (1837) 184 years ago
Catharina Amalia (1640) 381 years ago

Composers that died on 8 August

Peter Sculthorpe (2014) 6 years ago
Michael Hurd (2006) 15 years ago Michael Hurd
Emil Lerescu (2004) 17 years ago
Ake Hermanson (1996) 25 years ago
Mordechaï Seter (1994) 27 years ago
César Augusto Ribeiro Morais (1992) 29 years ago
Egisto Macchi (1992) 29 years ago
Torcuato Rodriguez Castro (1983) 38 years ago Image for Torcuato Rodriguez Castro
Hekel Tavares (1969) 52 years ago Image for Hekel Tavares
Jaromir Weinberger (1967) 54 years ago
Sandor Jemnitz (1963) 58 years ago Jemnitz Sándor
Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1950) 71 years ago Nikolai Myaskovsky
W.H. Jude (1922) 99 years ago W.H. Jude
Arthur Pougin (1921) 100 years ago
Edmond de Polignac (1901) 120 years ago Edmond de Polignac
Marc Antoine Madeleine Desaugiers (1827) 194 years ago Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers
Karl Heinrich Graun (1759) 262 years ago Image for Karl Heinrich Graun

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