Born on this day in 1895 lyricist Lorenz Hart. 

Happy 65th birthday conductor Valery Gergiyev. Happy 70th birthday soprano Jeannine Altmeyer.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Vicente Martín y Soler (1754), soprano Aulikki Rautawaara (1906), conductors Charles Bruck (1911), Anton Guadagno (1925) and Horst Stein (1928).