1810 Samuel Sebastian Wesley – English organist and composer (d.1876); grandson of Charles Wesley, and son of Samuel Wesley who was also an organist and composer; Samuel Sebastian Wesley's middle name was derived from his father's lifelong admiration for the music of Bach; composed almost exclusively for the Church of England.
1814 premiere of Gioacchino Rossini's opera buffa Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy) at La Scala, Milan; influenced by Mozart's Così fan tutte, which was performed at La Scala shortly before Rossini's work.
1869 Armas Järnefelt – Finnish composer and conductor (d.1958); the first Finnish composer to conduct Wagner's operas in Finland; had a close relationship with Jean Sibelius, who was married to Järnefelt's sister Aino.
1892 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (born Leon Dudley) – English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (d.1988); his major work, Opus Clavicembalisticum, is one of the longest and most complex solo piano works ever written; authored the books Around Music and Mi contra fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician.
1953 James Horner – American composer, conductor, and arranger of orchestral and film music (d.2015); won two Academy Awards, and his score to the 1997 film Titanic is the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time.
1963 Patrick Summers – American conductor (61 years old); Artistic and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera and as Principal Guest Conductor of San Francisco Opera.