1818 Henry Charles Litolff – English-born piano virtuoso, composer and music publisher (d.1891); though a prolific composer, only one of his compositions is still performed, the Scherzo from Concerto Symphonique No. 4; was the dedicatee of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1.
1868 Sir Granville Bantock – English composer and conductor (d.1946); the Bantock Society was established shortly after the composer's death and its first president was Jean Sibelius, whose music Bantock had championed; was the dedicatee of the Sibelius Third Symphony and Sir Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 2.
1896 Ernesto Lecuona – Cuban composer and pianist (d.1976); prolific composer of songs and music for stage and film; famous as the author of Malagueña (1927); in 1942, his pop song Always in My Heart (Siempre en mi Corazon) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song, but it lost to White Christmas.
1912 first performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1, in Moscow, with the composer (age 21) as soloist; the conductor was Konstantin Saradzhev, who, the composer later wrote, "realized splendidly all my tempos”.
1921 Karel Husa – Czech-born, American composer and conductor (died December 14, 2016 at 95); became an American citizen in 1959 and ten years later won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his String Quartet No. 3.
1925 Julián Orbón – Cuban composer (d.1991); lived and composed in Spain, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States; Aaron Copland called him "Cuba's most gifted composer of the new generation."
1952 Ian Hobson – English pianist, conductor and teacher (72 years old); music professor on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign since 1975.
1956 Sharon Isbin – American guitarist and teacher (68 years old); founder of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard School; multi-Grammy Award winner.