Births and Deaths
- Died 1976: Gina Bachauer [Luisa Dorothea Bachaouer], pianist, born 05-21-1910
- Born 1928: Byron Belt, music critic/radio panelist (Met), died 08-10-2002
- Died 1994: Wilfried Boettcher, conductor/cellist, born 08-11-1929
- Born 1901: Saul W. Caston, trumpeter/conductor, died 07-28-1970
- Born 1862: Claude Achilles Debussy, composer, died 03-25-1918
- Died 1970: Richard Frank Donovan, composer, born 11-19-1891
- Died 1955: Edward (Olin Davenport) Downes, conductor, born 01-27-1886 [father of Edward Olin Downes]
- Died 1942: Henry Eichheim, composer, born 01-03-1870
- Died 1998: Sergio Fiorentino, pianist, born 12-22-1927
- Died 2000: Rina Gigli, soprano, born 01-31-1916 [daughter of tenor Beniamino Gigli]
- Born 1922: Ivry Gitlis, violinist
- Born 1879: Gérard Hekking, cellist/teacher, died 06-05-1942
- Died 1997: Mary Roscoe Hill, soprano, born 12-19-1916
- Born 1878: Edward Johnson, tenor, died 04-20-1959
- Born 1909: Sergius Kagen, pianist/composer/teacher, died 03-01-1964
- Died 1967: Paola Novikova, soprano/teacher, born 1896 [teacher of tenor Nicolai Gedda and baritone George London]
- Born 1867: Maud Powell, violinist, died 01-08-1920 [heart attack while touring]
- Born 1900: Vása Prihóda, violinist, died 07-26-1960
- Born 1928: Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
- Born 1895: Paul White, conductor/composer, died-??
"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture."
—John Cage, composer/pianist