1708 Johann Adolf Scheibe – German composer and significant critic and theorist of music (d.1776); spent much of his career at the Danish court.
1756 Thomas Linley Jr. – English composer (d.1778 at age 22 in a boating accident); known as the ‘English Mozart.’
1819 Stanislaw Moniuszko – Polish composer, conductor, and teacher (d.1872); the father of Polish national opera.
1869 Hans Pfitzner – German composer (d.1949); a self-described anti-modernist, his best-known work is the opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of great 16th-century composer.
1891 official opening of Carnegie Hall in New York with a concert conducted by Walter Damrosch and the celebrity guest-conductor for the occasion, Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky.
1951 Cyprien Katsaris – French-Cypriot pianist, teacher, and composer (74 years old).
1975 Cédric Tiberghien – French pianist (50 years old); has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra.
1978 Ola Gjeilo – Norwegian composer (47 years old); studied at Juilliard and the Royal College of Music, London; Composer-in-residence for Voces8; based in New York.
1982 first performance of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Symphony No. 1 at Alice Tully Hall in New York by the American Composers Orchestra, Gunther Schuller conducting; won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.