Births and Deaths
- Born 1803: Adolphe Charles Adam, composer, died 05-03-1856
- Born 1880: Ernest Bloch, composer, died 07-15-1959
- Born 1902: Hans Chemin-Petit, composer, died 04-12-1981
- Died 1947: Armand Crabbé, baritone, born 04-23-1883
- Born 1885: Desider d'Antalffy, organist, died-??
- Born 1921: Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor
- Born 1927: Anny Felbermeyer, soprano
- Died 1752: Michael Christian Festing, violinist/composer, born 16990
- Born 1922: Leo Kraft, composer
- Died 1739: Benedetto Marcello, composer, born 07-24-1686 [birth/death same date]
- Born 1883: Klaus Pringsheim, conductor/music critic, died-??
- Died 1971: Alan Rawsthorne, composer, born 05-02-1905
- Born 1862: Maurice Renaud, baritone, died 10-16-1933
- Born 1918: Ruggiero Ricci [Roger Rich], violinist
- Died 1933: Max von Schillings, composer/conductor, born 04-19-1868
- Born 1877: Percy A. Scholes, author/writer on music, died 07-31-1958
- Born 1894: Walter Schultheiss, conductor/composer, died 06-23-1971 [husband of violinist Stefi Geyer]
- Born 1947: Peter (Adolf) Serkin, pianist [son of pianist Rudolf Serkin, grandson of violinist Adolf Busch]
- Died 2000: Oscar Schumsky, violinist, born 03-23-1917
- Died 1945: Rosina Storchio, soprano, born 05-19-1876 [possible birth year: 1872; possible death: 06-10-1945
- Born 1924: Otar Taktakishvili, composer, died 02-22-1989
"I slept with that woman for seven years. Wouldn't you think she'd remember that I hate fish?"
—Arturo Toscanini, conductor, on being served caviar at
dinner in the home of the elderly soprano, Geraldine Farrar
