1871 Frederick Shepherd Converse – American composer and teacher (d.1940); among his notable students: Alan Hovhaness and Florence Price; his opera The Pipe of Desire (1910) became the first American work ever to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera; best known for his symphonic poem The Mystic Trumpeter (1904), based on the poem of the same name from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
1880 Nicolai Medtner – Russian composer and pianist (d.1951); wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano.
1932 first performance of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in Vienna with pianist Paul Wittgenstein (who had commissioned it).
1942 Maurizio Pollini – Italian pianist and conductor (d. 2024); his first recordings for Deutsche Grammophon in 1971 included Stravinsky's Trois mouvements de Petrouchka and Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata and are still considered a landmark of 20th century piano discography.