Births and Deaths
- Born 1904: Josepn Ahrens, composer, died-??
- Died 1978: Ethel Bartlett, pianist/duo-pianist, born 06-06-1896 [Bartlett & Rae Robertson duo] [possible birth year, 1901, doubtful]
- Died 1998: David Blum, conductor/author, born 1935
- Born 1900: Willy Burkhard, composer, died 06-18-1955
- Born 1885: Cecil Burleigh, violinist, died 07-28-1980
- Died 1974: Herbert Elwell, composer, born 05-10-1898
- Born 1883: Walter Goetze, composer, died 03-24-1961
- Died 1942: Alfred Hertz, conductor, born 07-15-1872
- Born 1940: Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor
- Died 1959: Barbara Kemp, soprano, born 12-12-1881
- Died 2000: Paula Lindburg, mezzo-soprano, born 12-21-1897
- Died 1971: Pierre Luboshutz, pianist/duo-pianist, born 06-17-1891 [Luboshutz & Nemenoff]
- Born 1914: Janine Michaeu, soprano, died 10-18-1976
- Died 1996: Angelica Morales, pianist, born 01-22-1911 [wife of pianist/composer Emil von Sauer]
- Born 1903: Nicolas Nabokov, composer, died 04-06-1978
- Born 1950: Christina Ortiz, pianist
- Born 1903: Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist, died 08-06-1976
- Born 1882: Artur Schnabel, pianist/teacher/composer, died 08-15-1951
- Born 1927: Graziella Sciutti, soprano, died 04-11-2001 [possibl edeath: 04-09-2001]
- Born 1935: Anja Silja, pianist [wife of conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi]
- Born 1888: Maggie Teyte [Tate], soprano, died 05-26-1976
- Born 1903: Frederic Waldman, conductor, died 12-01-1995 [possible death: 12-05-1995]
"I know two kinds of audience only—one coughing and one not coughing."
—Artur Schnabel
My Life and Music, 1961