1854 George Whitefield Chadwick – American composer (d.1931); with Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, a representative of the New England School of American composers of the generation before Charles Ives.
1893 first performance of Jean Sibelius's Karelia Suite in Viborg, Finland; the three movements are from music he wrote for a patriotic historical pageant presented by students of the University of Helsinki in Viipuri, in the south-eastern corner of Finland.
1921 Joonas Kokkonen – Finnish composer (d.1996); one of the most famous Finnish composers of the 20th century after Sibelius; his opera The Last Temptations is considered Finland's most distinguished national opera.
1942 Lothar Zagrosek – German conductor (81 years old); among his commercial recordings are several issues in Decca's Entartete Musik [“Degenerate Music”] series.
1943 first performance of Bohuslav Martinu's Symphony No. 1 by the Boston Symphony, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, who had commissioned a work for large orchestra in memory of his late wife Natalie.
1953 first performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 5 in Moscow by the Beethoven Quartet; the work grows from a five note motif: C, D, E flat, B and C sharp, which contains the composer's musical monogram: DSCH (E flat being 'S' and B being 'H' in German notation); DSCH appears in some other string quartets including the Eighth, as well as in his Tenth Symphony.
1964 first performance of Richard Yardumian's Symphony No. 2 'Psalms', with vocalist Lili Chookasian and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting.