1658 Giuseppe Torelli – Italian composer, violist, violinist, and teacher (d.1709); most remembered for his contributions to the development of the instrumental concerto.
1858 Dame Ethel Smyth – English composer, and women's rights activist (d.1944); when deafness brought her composing career to an end, she found a new interest in literature and published ten highly successful, mostly autobiographical, books.
1885 first performance of Dvorák's Symphony No. 7 in London conducted by the composer; regarded by some as his greatest symphony.
1906 Eric Fenby – English composer and teacher (d.1997); best known for being Frederick Delius's amanuensis from 1928 to 1934.
1912 premiere of the Paul Dukas ballet La Péri (The Peri, or The Flower of Immortality) in Paris; the composer’s last published work.
1932 Michael Colgrass – American-born Canadian composer and educator (d. 2019); won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Déjà vu, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
1956 Jukka-Pekka Saraste – Finnish conductor (68 years old); studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula, in the same class as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä; currently Principal Conductor of the WDR Symphony, Cologne.