Richard Fall was born on April 3, 1882 in Gewitsch, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Jevicko, Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for Sehnsucht 202 (1932), Melodie des Herzens (1929) and Merely Mary Ann (1931). He died in 1945 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.