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Composers that were born on 8 August

Ioannis Kourtis (1973) 50 years ago Image for Ioannis Kourtis
Caroline Ansink (1959) 64 years ago
Synne Skouen (1950) 73 years ago
Amanda Macbroom (1947) 76 years ago
John Renbourn (1944) 79 years ago
Daniel Bortz (1943) 80 years ago
William Hibbard (1939) 84 years ago
Jacques Hétu (1938) 85 years ago Image for Jacques Hétu
Michael Brimer (1933) 90 years ago
Jonathan Elkus (1931) 92 years ago
Lubor Bárta (1928) 95 years ago
Simon Diaz (1928) 95 years ago Simón Díaz
Herbert H. Ágústsson (1926) 97 years ago
Roger Nixon (1921) 102 years ago
Wilhelm Keller (1920) 103 years ago Wilhelm Keller
Stig Rybrant (1916) 107 years ago
Lode Huybrechts (1911) 112 years ago
Emanuel Amiran-Pougatchov (1909) 114 years ago
André Jolivet (1905) 118 years ago Image for André Jolivet
Victor Young (1899) 124 years ago
Adolf Busch (1891) 132 years ago Adolf Busch
Daniël Ruyneman (1886) 137 years ago
Pietro Yon (1886) 137 years ago Pietro Yon
Léon de Saint-Réquier (1872) 151 years ago
William Henry Squire (1871) 152 years ago
Luiz Levy (1861) 162 years ago
Cécile Chaminade (1857) 166 years ago Cécile Chaminade
Ciríaco Cardoso (1846) 177 years ago
Victor Sieg (1837) 186 years ago
Ettore de Champs (1835) 188 years ago
Julius Stern (1820) 203 years ago Julius Stern
Catharina Amalia (1640) 383 years ago

Composers that died on 8 August

Adelaïde Pereira da Silva (2021) 2 years ago
Phillip Magnuson (2021) 2 years ago
Peter Sculthorpe (2014) 9 years ago
Michael Hurd (2006) 17 years ago Michael Hurd
Emil Lerescu (2004) 19 years ago
Ake Hermanson (1996) 27 years ago
Mordechaï Seter (1994) 29 years ago
César Augusto Ribeiro Morais (1992) 31 years ago
Egisto Macchi (1992) 31 years ago
Torcuato Rodriguez Castro (1983) 40 years ago Image for Torcuato Rodriguez Castro
Hekel Tavares (1969) 54 years ago Image for Hekel Tavares
Jaromir Weinberger (1967) 56 years ago
Sandor Jemnitz (1963) 60 years ago Jemnitz Sándor
Gino Tagliapietra (1954) 69 years ago
Nikolai Yakovlevich Miaskovsky (1950) 73 years ago Nikolai Myaskovsky
Luiz Levy (1935) 88 years ago
W.H. Jude (1922) 101 years ago W.H. Jude
Arthur Pougin (1921) 102 years ago
Edmond de Polignac (1901) 122 years ago Edmond de Polignac
Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns (1888) 135 years ago Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns
Silvestro Palma (1834) 189 years ago
Marc Antoine Madeleine Desaugiers (1827) 196 years ago Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers
Jean Audiffren (1762) 261 years ago
Karl Heinrich Graun (1759) 264 years ago Image for Karl Heinrich Graun

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