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1781 – George Simon Löhlein (German composer & music theorist, active also in Poland)
1783 – Johann Adolph Hasse (German composer, singer & teacher, active also in Italy)
1790 – Ludwig August Lebrun (German oboist & composer)
1833 – Friedrich August Kanne (German composer & music critic, active in Vienna, friend of Beethoven)
1852 – Henri-Jean Rigel (French pianist & composer, took part in Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, c. 1800)
1861 – Karol Lipiński (Polish violinist & composer)
1870 – Stanisław Duniecki (Polish composer & conductor)
1914 – Ivan Zajc (Croatian composer, conductor & teacher)
1921 – Camille Saint-Saëns (French composer, organist, conductor & pianist)
1923 – Pongrác Kacsóh (Hungarian composer, teacher & writer)
1927 – Hugh Archibald Clarke (Canadian composer, organist & teacher)
1940 – William Wallace (Scottish composer, writer & opthamologist)
1950 – Otto Vrieslander (German composer & musicologist, pupil of Heinrich Schenker)
1961 – Boris Shekhter (Ukrainian composer)
1961 – Cato Engelen-Sewing (Dutch soprano)
1978 – Blanche Calloway (American jazz singer, bandleader & composer, sister of Cab, first woman to lead an all-male orchestra)
1988 – Sylvester (American disco & soul singer & drag performer)
1993 – Charizma (American hip-hop MC, associate of Peanut Butter Wolf)
1994 – Samuel Lipman (American music critic, pianist & founder of literary magazine The New Criterion)
1995 – Mariele Ventre (Italian founder & director of Bolognese children's choir Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano)
1997 – Nicolette Larson (American country & pop singer & guitarist)
2001 – Stuart Adamson (English-born Scottish singer, guitarist & songwriter, The Skids, Big Country)
2003 – Gary Stewart (American country pianist, guitarist, bassist & songwriter)
2006 – Pnina Salzman (Israeli pianist & teacher)
2006 – Taliep Petersen (South African singer, composer & music theater director)
2007 – Dan Fogelberg (American rock & folk singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist)
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