1870 Franz Lehár – Austro-Hungarian composer (d.1948); known chiefly for his operettas, of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow.
1902 premiere of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande in Paris at the Opéra-Comique; a landmark in 20th-century music.
1939 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich – American composer (86 years old); first female to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for her Symphony No. 1 (1983).