Births and Deaths
- Died 1975: Elsa Alsen, soprano, born 04-07-1880 [possible c. 1892?]
- Died 1972: Howard Barlow, conductor, born 05-01-1892
- Died 1988: Nikolai Budashkin, composer, born 08-06-1910
- Born 1892: Eddie Cantor, singer-comedian, died 10-10-1964
- Born 1882: Peter Dawson, bass-baritone, died 09-26-1961
- Born 1759: François Devienne, composer, died 09-05-1803
- Born 1916: Rina Gigli, soprano, died 08-22-2000 [daughter of tenor Beniamino Gigli]
- Born 1937: Phillip Glass, composer/conductor
- Born 1965: Ofra Harnoy, cellist [daughter of record producer Jacob Harnoy/Toronto]
- Born 1860: James Gibbons Huneker, music critic/writer, died 02-09-1921
- Born 1921: Mario Lanza [Alfredo Cocozza], tenor, died 10-07-1959
- Born 1915: Alan Lomax, ethnomusicologist
- Died 1967: Geoffrey O'Hara, composer, born 02-02-1882
- Born 1798: Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer/conductor, died 11-07-1859
- Died 1909: Hermann Schröder, composer, born 07-28-1843
- Born 1797: Franz Schubert, composer, died 11-19-1828
- Born 1854: William Hall Sherwood, pianist/teacher, died 01-07-1911
- Born 1831: Rudolph Wurlitzer, instrument manufacturer/pianos, etc., died 01-14-1914
