deaths
July 18, 1591
Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (born 1550)
Jacobus Gallus
Jacobus Gallus was a late-Renaissance composer of presumed Slovene ethnicity. Born in Carniola, which at the time was one of the Habsburg lands in the Holy Roman Empire, he lived and worked in Moravia and Bohemia during the last decade of his life.