1814 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst – Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer (d.1865); the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Paganini's greatest successors.
1896 premiere of Camille Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Egyptian’ in Paris at the Salle Pleyel with Saint-Saëns himself as soloist in a concert commemorating the composer's debut 50 years earlier.
1897 premiere of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera La bohème at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice; written contemporaneously with Puccini's treatment of the same story; despite initial respect, it did not survive and is now rarely performed.
1915 George Perle – American composer and musicologist (d.2009); composed with a technique of his own devising called ‘12-tone tonality’, a middle path between rigorous atonality and traditional, tonal-based music.