11656 Marin Marais – French composer and viol player (d.1728); he and his music were featured in the film Tous les matins du monde (1991).
1804 Louise Farrenc – French composer, virtuosa pianist and teacher (d.1875); her works were recognized by connoisseurs of the time as first-rate, but since she never wrote an opera, she could not earn lasting fame in 19th century France (similar oblivion awaited George Onslow and Theodore Gouvy).
1817 premiere of Gioacchino Rossini's La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) at La Scala in Milan.
1866 Vladimir Rebikov – Russian composer and pianist (d.1920).
1901 premiere of Dvorák's opera Rusalka in Prague; a 'lyric fairy tale' in which the most popular excerpt is the Song to the Moon from Act 1.
1955 Bruce Adolphe – American composer, pianist, music scholar and author (69 years old); Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.