1653 Johann Pachelbel baptized – German Baroque composer, organist and teacher (d.1706); his music was enormously popular during his lifetime and he had many pupils; today, best known for the Canon (and Gigue) in D.
1854 Engelbert Humperdinck – German composer (d.1921); best known for his opera Hänsel und Gretel (1893).
1880 St. Louis Symphony founded; the second-oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, preceded only by the New York Philharmonic.
1886 Othmar Schoeck – Swiss composer (d.1957); known mainly for his many art songs and song cycles; also wrote operas, the most famous being the one-act Penthesilea (1927).
1935 Seiji Ozawa - Japanese born conductor (died February 6, 2024); most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera (succeeded in 2010 by Franz Welser-Möst).
1944 Leonard Slatkin – American conductor and composer (80 years old); his father Felix Slatkin was a violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, and his mother Eleanor Aller was cellist with the quartet; compositions include The Raven (1971) for narrator and orchestra, text by Edgar Allan Poe.
1952 Reza Vali – Iranian-born American composer (72 years old); earned a doctorate in music theory and composition from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985, and then joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University.