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 1694 Leonardo Leo – Italian composer (d.1744); official name: Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo; a leading composer of operas during his day.

1811 Ambroise Thomas – French composer (d.1886); best known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 until his death.

1932 Vladimir Fedoseyev – Russian conductor (92 years old); champion of the operas of Rimsky-Korsakov.

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