1858 premiere of Jacques Offenbach's opéra bouffon Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphée aux enfers) in Paris; the first classical full-length operetta; the Infernal Galop from Act 2 is famous as the music for the ‘Can-can.’
1879 Joseph Canteloube – French composer, musicologist, and author (d.1957); best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region, Chants d'Auvergne.
1885 Egon Wellesz – Austrian-born British composer, teacher and musicologist (d.1974); notable particularly in the field of Byzantine music.
1921 Sir Malcolm Arnold – English composer (d.2006); famous for composing light music, film scores, for theater and ballet, and symphonies.
1926 Marga Richter – American composer (died Jun 25, 2020); co-founded the Long Island Composers Alliance in 1972 with Herbert Deutsch.
1949 Shulamit Ran – Israeli-American composer (74 years old); longtime faculty member of the University of Chicago; has served as composer-in-residence with the Chicago Symphony and Chicago Lyric Opera; her Symphony (1990) won the Pulitzer Prize.
1953 Hugh Wolff – Paris-born American conductor (71 years old); studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and piano with Leon Fleisher; Director of Orchestras and teaches orchestral conducting at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.