1899 Randall Thompson – American composer (d.1984); his most popular and recognizable choral work is Alleluia, commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky for the opening of the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood.
1918 premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1 ‘Classical’ in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) conducted by the composer; written in conscious emulation of the style of Joseph Haydn.
1933 Easley Blackwood – American composer, pianist and music professor (died 22 January, 2023); author of a very substantial treatise on music, A Practical Musician's Guide to Tonal Harmony.
1937 premiere of Aaron Copland’s play-opera for high school The Second Hurricane at the Grand Street Playhouse in New York, with Lehman Engle conducting and Orson Welles directing the staged production; one professional adult actor, Joseph Cotton, also participated (he was paid $10).
1948 first performance of Vaughan Williams’s Symphony No. 6 at Royal Albert Hall in London, by the BBC Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; to post-war audiences who associated the work’s often violent character with the detonation of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the composer said, "It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music."