Births and Deaths
- Born 1926: Marie-Claire Alain, organist
- Born 1947: Dmitri Alexeev, pianist
- Born 1929: John Alldis, choral conductor
- Died 2002: Byron Belt, music critic, born 08-22-1928
- Died 2001: Elsa Colveti, mezzo-soprano, born 05-11-1907
- Died 2000: Suzanne Danco, soprano, born 01-22-1911
- Born 1954: Eliot Fisk, guitarist
- Born 1871: Oskar Fried, conductor/composer, died 07-05-1941
- Born 1813: William Henry Fry, composer, died 09-21-1864
- Born 1921: Agnes Giebel, soprano
- Born 1865: Alexander Glazunov, composer, died 03-21-1936
- Died 1806: Johann Michael Haydn, composer, born 07-14-1737 [brother of composer Franz Joseph Haydn]
- Died 1961: Alexander Hilsberg, violinist/conductor, born 04-24-1897
- Born 1914: Witold Malcuzynski, pianist, died 07-17-1977
- Born 1893: Douglas Moore, composer, died 05-25-1969 ["Ballad of Baby Doe"]
- Born 1952: Ashley Putnam, soprano
"... you can occasionally have a child prodigy pianist or violinist, but never a real child prodigy conductor."
—Plácido Domingo, tenor/conductor
