On this day in 1809 the second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (designed by Robert Smirke) opened with a performance of Macbeth followed by a musical entertainment called The Quaker. 

Born on this day in 1852 poet and librettist Francis Burdett Money-Coutts

Born on this day in 1860 composer Alberto Franchetti

Born on this day in 1893 composer Arthur Benjamin, none of whose operas are excerpted on YouTube

Born on this day in 1897 composer Pablo Sorozábal

Born on this day in 1910 composer Josef Tal

Born on this day in 1916 tenor József Simándy

Born on this day in 1932 mezzo-soprano Maureen Lehane

Happy 82nd birthday bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov

Happy 79th birthday mezzo-soprano Ruth Hesse

Happy 44th birthday soprano Anna Netrebko