1749 first performance of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in London’s Green Park, celebrating the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748.
1812 Friedrich von Flotow – German composer (d.1883); active mainly in France and best known for his opera Martha (1847).
1867 premiere of Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
1894 Nicolas Slonimsky – Russian-born American conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer (d.1995); best known for his reference works, the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective; also edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
1927 Robert Page – American choral conductor (d.2016); Cleveland Orchestra Director of Choruses, 1972-1989.
1927 premiere of Jaromir Weinberger’s opera Schwanda the Bagpiper in Prague at the National Theater; the Polka and Fugue from this score is a pops favorite.