Births and Deaths
- Born 1867: Edmond Clement, tenor, died 02-24-1928
- Born 1871: Willem Mengelberg, conductor, died 03-21-1951
- Died 1621: Ottavio Rinuccini, librettist/poet, born 01-20-1562 [Monteverdi and Peri librettist]
- Died 1881: Modest Mussorgsky, composer, born 03-21-1839
- Died 1937: Karol Szymanowski, composer, born 10-06-1882
- Died 1943: Ben Davies, tenor, born 06-06-1858
- Died 1943: Sergei Rachmaninoff, pianist/composer, born 04-01-1873
- Died 1949: Grigoras Dinicu, violinist/composer, born 04-03-1889 ["Hora Staccato"]
- Died 1963: Alec Templeton, pianist/composer [blind], born 07-04-1909
- Died 1974: Dino Ciani, pianist, born 06-16-1941
- Died 1993: Italo Tajo, bass singer, born 04-25-1915
- Died 1974: Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano, born 03-13-1925 [possible death: 04-05-1974]
- Born 1903: Rudolf Serkin, pianist/teacher, died 05-08-1991
- Born 1935: Delme Byrn-Jones, baritone, died 05-25-2001
- Born 1919: Paul Doktor, violist, died 06-21-1989
- Born 1808: Maria Malibran, soprano, died 09-23-1836
- Born 1880: Rosina ("Bessie") Lhevinne, pianist/teacher, died 11-09-1976 [wife of pianist/teacher Josef Lhevinne]
- Born 1925: Hanne-Lore Kuhse, soprano, died 12-10-1999
- Died 2005: (Dame) Moura Lympany [Mary Johnstone], pianist, born 08-18-1916
- Born 1890: Paul Whiteman, bandleader, died 12-29-1967
- Born 1919: Jacob Avshalomov, composer
- Born 1930: Elizabeth Bainbridge, mezzo-soprano
- Born 1961: José Feghali, pianist/teacher
- Born 1940: Samuel Ramey, bass singer [possible birth: 03-28-1942]
"[On seeing the first movement of Berlioz's Harold in Italy] ... that's no good. There's not enough for me to do here. I should be playing all the time."
—Nicolò Paganini, violinist/composer, quoted
in Hector Berlioz's Memoires, 1865
