1680 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet – Flemish composer and performer on the recorder, flute, oboe and harpsichord (d.1730); called the ‘London Loeillet’ to distinguish him from another famous composer, his first cousin Jean-Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent; his works were published by Walsh in London under the name of John Loeillet, and he was the elder brother of yet another Loeillet, Jacques, also a composer.
1786 Carl Maria von Weber – German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist and critic (d.1826); one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era; one of the first conductors to conduct without a piano or violin; learned lithography to engrave his own works.
1836 Sir William S. Gilbert – English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (d.1911); provided most of the witty librettos for the famous operettas of Sir Arthur Sullivan, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theater, The Mikado.
1883 first performance of Antonín Dvorák's Hussite Overture at the opening of the Czech National Theater in Prague; based on themes associated with the Hussite Wars of 1468-78.
1960 Margi Griebling-Haigh – Cleveland area composer, oboist and pianist (3 years old), member of a family of composers spanning three generations; earliest musical studies were with her parents, Mary Ann and Stephen T. Griebling; studied oboe with John Mack and Harvey McGuire of the Cleveland Orchestra.
1978 Andris Nelsons – Latvian conductor (45 years old); Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.