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1780 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti (Italian priest, composer, organist & music theorist, developed a well-tempered tuning system)
1792 – Jean-Louis Laruette (French composer & tenor)
1800 – Johan Wikmanson (Swedish organist & composer)
1833 – António da Silva-Leite (Portuguese composer)
1858 – Friedrich Karl Kuhmstedt (German composer, music theorist & teacher)
1876 – Edmond de Coussemaker (Belgian musicologist)
1889 – Martin Andreas Udbye (Norwegian composer & organist)
1892 – Heinrich Dorn (German conductor, composer & music critic)
1895 – Benjamin Godard (French composer, violinist & violist)
1905 – Baumaņu Kārlis [Kārlis Baumanis] (Latvian composer, the Latvian National Anthem, "Dievs, svētī Latviju!")
1939 – Hariclea Darclée (Romanian operatic soprano, creator of title roles in Tosca and La Wally)
1939 – Julius Bittner (Austrian composer)
1941 – Frank Bridge (English composer, violinist, violist, conductor & teacher)
1951 – Athos Palma (Argentine composer)
1953 – Theo Mackeben (German pianist, conductor & composer of film & theatrical music)
1954 – Fred Raymond [Raimund Friedrich Vesely] (Austrian film, theatrical & Schlager composer of Czech descent)
1963 – Tadeusz Szeligowski (Polish composer, teacher, pianist, writer & lawyer)
1967 – Vilém Petrželka (Czech composer & conductor, pupil of Janáček)
1968 – Josué Teófilo Wilkes (Argentine composer & writer)
1969 – John Brownlee (Australian operatic baritone)
1972 – Al Goodman (Ukrainian-born American radio, television, film & musical theater conductor, arranger, composer & pianist)
1972 – Sverre Jordan (Norwegian composer, conductor & music critic)
1976 – Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett] (American blues singer, songwriter, guitarist & harmonica player)
1978 – Don Gillis (American composer, conductor, trombonist & teacher)
1985 – Anton Karas (Austrian zither player & composer of Czech & Hungarian descent, soundtrack for The Third Man)
1997 – Alvinio Misciano (Italian lyric tenor, teacher of Luciano Pavarotti)
2005 – Margherita Carosio (Italian lyric soprano)
2011 – Margaret Whiting (American jazz, pop & country singer)
Can't really think of anything much to say. Howlin' Wolf... Vallotti, a very important name if you're into tuning theory... Coussemaker, one of the heroes of musicology... Howlin' Wolf... Margaret Whiting, great singer... Frank Bridge, whose most famous pupil was Benjamin Britten... Howlin' Wolf... Pavarotti's mentor, Alvinio Misciano, who fell out of a 4th-story window when he was 81... aaaand Howlin' Wolf! Follow the links, there's some good stuff up there... and down there...
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