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Composers that were born on 8 August

Ioannis Kourtis (1973) 47 years ago Image for Ioannis Kourtis
Caroline Ansink (1959) 61 years ago
Synne Skouen (1950) 70 years ago
Amanda Macbroom (1947) 73 years ago
John Renbourn (1944) 76 years ago
William Hibbard (1939) 81 years ago
Jacques Hétu (1938) 82 years ago Image for Jacques Hétu
Michael Brimer (1933) 87 years ago
Jonathan Elkus (1931) 89 years ago
Simon Diaz (1928) 92 years ago Simón Díaz
Herbert H. Ágústsson (1926) 94 years ago
Roger Nixon (1921) 99 years ago
Wilhelm Keller (1920) 100 years ago Wilhelm Keller
Stig Rybrant (1916) 104 years ago
Lode Huybrechts (1911) 109 years ago
Emanuel Amiran-Pougatchov (1909) 111 years ago
André Jolivet (1905) 115 years ago Image for André Jolivet
Victor Young (1899) 121 years ago
Adolf Busch (1891) 129 years ago Adolf Busch
Daniël Ruyneman (1886) 134 years ago
Pietro Yon (1886) 134 years ago Pietro Yon
William Henry Squire (1871) 149 years ago
Cécile Chaminade (1857) 163 years ago Cécile Chaminade
Ciríaco Cardoso (1846) 174 years ago
Victor Sieg (1837) 183 years ago
Catharina Amalia (1640) 381 years ago

Composers that died on 8 August

Peter Sculthorpe (2014) 6 years ago
Michael Hurd (2006) 14 years ago Michael Hurd
Emil Lerescu (2004) 16 years ago
Ake Hermanson (1996) 24 years ago
Mordechaï Seter (1994) 26 years ago
Egisto Macchi (1992) 28 years ago
César Augusto Ribeiro Morais (1992) 28 years ago
Torcuato Rodriguez Castro (1983) 37 years ago Image for Torcuato Rodriguez Castro
Hekel Tavares (1969) 51 years ago Image for Hekel Tavares
Jaromir Weinberger (1967) 53 years ago
Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1950) 70 years ago Nikolai Myaskovsky
W.H. Jude (1922) 98 years ago W.H. Jude
Arthur Pougin (1921) 99 years ago
Edmond de Polignac (1901) 119 years ago Edmond de Polignac
Marc Antoine Madeleine Desaugiers (1827) 193 years ago Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers
Karl Heinrich Graun (1759) 261 years ago Image for Karl Heinrich Graun

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