Births and Deaths
- Died 1953: Dmitri Arakishivili, conductor, born 023-23-1873
- Born 1942: Sheila Armstrong, soprano
- Born 1948: Kathleen Battle, soprano
- Born 1826: William Thomas Best, organist, died 05-10-1897
- Died 1755: Francesco Durante, composer, born 03-31-1684
- Born 1865: Emma Eames, soprano, died 06-13-1952 [born in China of American parents]
- Born 1921: Louis Fremaux, conductor
- Born 1938: Oscar Ghiglia, guitarist/teacher
- Born 1884: Edwin Grasse, blind composer/violinist, died 04-08-1954
- Born 1820: (Sir) George Grove, musicographer, died 05-28-1900
- Born 1852: Robert Huasmann, cellist, died 01-18-1909
- Born 1931: Leonard Hokanson, pianist
- Born 1913: Ladislav Holoubek, conductor/composer, died-??
- Born 1879: John Ireland, composer, died 06-12-1962
- Born 1831: Salomon Judassohn, composer/theorist, died 02-01-1902 [pupil of Franz Liszt]
- Died 1960: Hans Lange, conductor, born 02-17-1864
- Born 1887: Hipolito Lazaro, tenor, died 05-14-1974
- Died 1979: Johanna Martzky, violinist, born 05-12-1842
- Died 1912: Jules Massenet, composer, born 05-12-1842
- Died 1887: Jules Étienne Pasdeloup, conductor, born 09-15-1819
- Died 1987: Vincent Persichetti, composer, born 06-06-1915
- Born 1894: Leonid Polovinkin, composer, died 02-02-1949
- Died 1841: Bernhard Rombert, cellist/composer, born 11-11-1767
- Born-????: Lynne Stanford [Foley], pianist/artist/poet
- Died 1990: Henry Swoboda, conductor, born 10-29-1897
- Died 1996: Louis Victoria Talma, composer/vocalist, born 10-31-1906
- Born 1937: Felicia Weathers, soprano
"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
