On this day in 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte was divorced from the Empress Josephine by an act of the French Senate.
Born on this day in 1770 composer Ludwig van Beethoven
Born on this day in 1775 composer Adrien Boieldieu (the father, not the son)
Born on this day in 1877 conductor Artur Bodanzky
Born on this day in 1882 composer Zoltán Kodály
Born on this day in 1899 composer, playwright and actor Noel Coward
Born on this day in 1926 tenor James McCracken
Born on this day in 1929 tenor Donald Grobe
Happy 83rd birthday composer Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin
Born on this day in 1939 tenor Philip Langridge
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