1813 William Henry Fry – American composer, music critic and journalist (d.1864); first person born in the United States to write for a large symphony orchestra, and the first to compose a publicly performed opera; also the first music critic for a major American newspaper, and the first person to insist that his fellow countrymen support American-made music.
1865 Alexander Glazunov – Russian composer, music teacher and conductor (d.1936); composers such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich considered his music old-fashioned but also admitted he remained a composer with an imposing reputation and a stabilizing influence in a time of transition and turmoil.
1893 Douglas Moore – American composer, educator, and author (d.1969); wrote music for the theater, film, ballet, and orchestra, but his greatest fame is associated with his operas The Devil and Daniel Webster (1938) and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956).
1895 Promenade Concerts ("the Proms") premiere in Queen's Hall, London, Sir Henry Wood conducting; today, an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, mostly in the Royal Albert Hall in London; described as "the world's largest and most democratic musical festival."
1909 Brian Easdale – English composer (d.1995); first British composer to win an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, for his music for The Red Shoes (1948).
1935 Giya Kancheli – Georgian composer, resident in Belgium (d.2019); composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic; Rodion Shchedrin described him as "an ascetic with the temperament of a maximalist; a restrained Vesuvius.”
1954 Eliot Fisk – American guitarist and pedagogue (70 years old); known for forays into unconventional musical territory, has formed collaborations with chanteuse Ute Lemper, Turkish music expert Burhan Öçal, and jazz guitarists Bill Frisell and Joe Pass.