Births and Deaths
- Born 1787: Alexander Alabiev, composer, died 03-06-1851
- Born 1887: Marion Eugenie Bauer, composer, died 08-09-1955
- Died 2004: Semiha Berksoy, soprano, born 1910
- Born 1858: Emma Calvé [Rose Emma Calvet], soprano, died 01-06-1942
- Died 1996: Sergiu Celibidache, conductor, born 06-28-1912
- Born 1925: Aldo Ciccolini, pianist
- Born 1875: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer/conductor, died 09-01-1912
- Born 1922: Lukas Foss [Fuchs], conductor/pianist
- Born 1893: Alexander V. Gauk, conductor, died 03-03-1963
- Born 1872: Rubin Goldmark, composer, died 03-06-1936
- Died 1970: Nils Grevilius, conductor, born 03-07-1893
- Died 1956: Kathleen Howard, mezzo-soprano, born 07-17-1874
- Born 1884: Edwin Hughes, pianist/teacher, died 07-17-1965 [Leschetizky pupil/assistant]
- Born 1933: Rita Hunter, soprano, died 04-29-2001
- Born 1890: Jacques Ibert, composer, died 02-05-1962
- Died 1907: Josef Joachim, violinist/composer, born 06-28-1831
- Born 1926: Julius Katchen, pianist, died 04-29-1969
- Died 1966: Jan Kiepura, tenor, born 05-16-1902 [husband of soprano Martha Eggerth]
- Died 1968: Edward Kilenyi, Sr., composer/pianist, born 01-25-1884 [father of pianist Edward Kilenyi, Jr.]
- Born 1925: Robert Massard, baritone
- Born 1906: Christakis Modinos, violinist/composer/conductor, died 09-23-2003
- Born 1924: Elsie Morrison, soprano [wife of conductor Rafael Kubelik]
- Died 2003: Robert Lewis Moulson, tenor, born 11-26-1932
- Died 1961: Nadezhda Oboukhova, contralto, born 02-22-1886
- Died 2000: Jean Papineau-Couture, composer, born 11-12-1916
- Born 1883: Andrey F. Pashchenko, composer, died 11-16-1972
- Born 1906: Gertrude Pitzinger, contralto, died-?? [possible birth year: 1904]
- Died 1963: John Powell, pianist/composer, born 09-06-1882 [Leschetizky pupil]
- Died 1986: Withrop Sargeant, music critic, born 12-10-1903
- Died 1951: Artur Schnabel, pianist/teacher, born 04-17-1882
- Born 1776: Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried, composer, died 08-27-1841 [pupil of W. A. Mozart]
- Born 1940: Rita Shane, soprano
- Born 1888: Albert Spalding, violinist, died 05-26-1953
- Born 1896: Leon Theremin, thereminist and inventor, died 11-03-1993
- Born 1974: Maxim Vengerov, violinist
- Died 1985: Richard Yardumian, composer, born 04-05-1917
"We are the music-makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lonely sea breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moonlight gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world forever, it seems."
—Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Ode
