1739 premiere of George Frideric Handel's biblical oratorio Israel in Egypt at King's Theater in the Haymarket, London; as an intermission feature, Handel's new Organ Concerto No. 13 ‘The Cuckoo and the Nightingale’ was also premiered.
1897 Paris premiere of Ernest Chausson’s Poème for violin and orchestra with Eugene Ysaÿe as soloist; the composer was overcome by the sustained applause, something he had not previously experienced in his career.
1905 Eugène Bozza – French composer and violinist (d.1991); one of the most prolific composers of chamber music for wind instruments.
1922 Elmer Bernstein – American composer and conductor (d.2004); wrote music for hundreds of film and TV productions, including The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
1964 premiere of the Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle on Broadway, running for only 9 performances; nevertheless, Columbia Records executive Goddard Lieberson made an original cast recording that became a best-seller.
1977 first performance of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ in Royan, France, with soprano soloist Stefania Woytowicz and the Southwest German Radio Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour.
1989 Andreas Ottensamer – Austrian clarinetist (35 years old); principal clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic; his CD Brahms: The Hungarian Connection for Mercury Classics/Deutsche Grammophon was a WCLV Choice CD in June 2015; accompanied Tori Amos on her 2011 album Night of Hunters.
1999 Sheku Kanneh-Mason – African-British cellist (25 years old); first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award (2016); played at the wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle, a performance witnessed by almost 2 billion people worldwide; his six siblings, including pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason are all musicians..