1862 premiere of Hector Berlioz's opera Béatrice and Bénédict in Baden-Baden, Germany; infrequently performed and not part of the standard operatic repertoire; the libretto (by Berlioz himself) is based on Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado about Nothing.
1874 Reynaldo Hahn – Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, diarist, theater director, and salon singer (d.1947); best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the French classical tradition of the Mélodie; quote: "Look, the way to live is to bring all the enthusiasm you can muster to everything: studying, talking, eating, everything."
1875 Albert Ketèlbey – English composer, conductor and pianist (d.1959); famous for composing popular light music, much of which was used as accompaniments to silent films, and as mood music at tea dances; In a Monastery Garden (1915) was the hit that made his name; uncle of pianist Sir Clifford Curzon.
1928 Australian-born American composer Percy Grainger married Swedish poet and painter Ella Viola Ström at the Hollywood Bowl in front of an audience of 20,000 concertgoers; the groom conducted the LA Philharmonic in the first performance of his To a Nordic Princess dedicated to his bride.