Births and Deaths
- Born 1933: (Dame) Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
- Born 1893: Lili Boulanger, composer, died 03-15-1918 [sister of teacher/composer Nadia Boulanger]
- Born 1912: Natalya Dudinskaya, ballet dancer, died 01-29-2003
- Born 1902: Renato Fasano, conductor, died 08-03-1979
- Died 1995: Anatole Fistoulari, conductor, born 08-20-1907
- Died 1972: Yvonne Gall [Galle], soprano, born 03-06-1885
- Born 1936: Eric Heidsieck, pianist
- Died 1998: Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, daughter of conductor Arturo Toscanini; wife of pianist Vladimir Horowitz, born-?? [aged 90]
- Died 1940: Paul Juon,composer, born 03-06-1872
- Died 1980: Miliza Korjus, soprano, born 08-18-1907
- Died 1951: Constant Lambert, conductor/composer, born 08-23-1905
- Born 1896: Queena Mario, soprano, died 05-28-1951
- Born 1871: Angelica Pandolfini, soprano, died 07-15-1959
- Born 1958: Monte Pederson, tenor, died 11-06-2001
- Born 1919: Tommy Reilly, harmonicist, died 09-25-2000
- Born 1898: Hugh Ross, choral conductor, died 01-20-1990
- Born 1931: Gregg Smith, conductor/composer/choral director
- Died 1993: Tatiana Troyanos, soprano, born 09-12-1938
- Died 2000: Neil Wilson, tenor, born-??
"Tenors sweet blood over it [the high C in the aria "Di quella pira"], [and] develop ulcers because of it. Yet ... Verdi wrote a G ... a note that any tenor in any glee club is expected to be able to sing."
—Placido Domingo, tenor
