of violin technique; after the break-up of his second marriage, purchased a small house in a dangerous Parisian neighborhood where he was found stabbed to death in 1764; the murder remains a mystery.
1888 Max Steiner – Austrian-born American composer (d.1971); studied at the Vienna Imperial Academy of Music, where he received private tutoring from Robert Fuchs and Gustav Mahler, completing a four-year course in only one year; composed more than 300 film scores, received 24 Oscar nominations and won three; some of his popular works include King Kong (1933), Casablanca (1942), and his best known score, Gone with the Wind (1939).
1894 Dimitri Tiomkin – Ukrainian-born American film composer and conductor (d.1979); one of the giants of Hollywood movie music, receiving 22 Academy Award nominations and winning four.
1904 first performance of Hugo Alfvén's Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 'Midsummer Vigil' in Stockholm; became a surprise hit in the United States in 1953 in a truncated version by pop band leader Percy Faith.
1916 Milton Babbitt – American composer, music theorist, and teacher (d.2011); particularly noted for his serial and electronic music.
1938 Maxim Shostakovich – Russian conductor, pianist (86 years old); the dedicatee and first performer of his father's Piano Concerto No. 2.
1948 Ani Kavafian – American violinist born in Istanbul (76 years old); often plays with her sister violist Ida Kavafian, who also trained at Juilliard.
1977 Sergei Nakariakov – Russian trumpet virtuoso (47 years old); released his first CD (including works by Ravel, Gershwin and Arban's The Carnival of Venice) in 1992 at the age of 15.