1812 Julius Rietz – German composer, conductor and cellist (d.1877); one of his students was Sir Arthur Sullivan.
1896 Roger Sessions – American composer, critic and teacher (d.1985); among his students, John Adams, Elmer Bernstein, David Diamond, Grant Johannesen and Frederic Rzewski.
1919 Inocente Carreño – Venezuelan composer (d.2016, at age 96); won the Venezuelan National Prize for Music in 1989.
1956 Nigel Kennedy – English violinist and violist (67 years old); sometimes controversial, politically outspoken, and speaks in an accent that some have called ‘self-invented’.