1660 Alessandro Scarlatti – Italian composer of operas (some 115!) and religious works (d.1725); the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.
1692 premiere of Henry Purcell's masque (or semi-opera) The Fairy Queen in London; the text is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream.
1752 Ludwig August Lebrun baptized – German composer and oboist (d.1790); married