1846 premiere of Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio, Elijah at the Birmingham Festival in England with the composer conducting; depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament; soprano part written for the 'Swedish Nightingale', Jenny Lind.
1915 Humphrey Searle – English composer (d.1982); one of the foremost pioneers of serial music in the UK and used his role as a producer at the BBC from 1946 to 1948 to promote it.
1956 first performance of Bohuslav Martinu's Frescoes of Piero della Francesca, at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, by the Vienna Philharmonic, Rafael Kubelik conducting.