Born on this day in 1879 “The First Lady of the American Theatre,” Ethel Barrymore. 

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Happy 62nd birthday tenor Bruce Ford.

Happy 93rd birthday baritone Robert Massard.

Happy 75th birthday mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz.

Birthday anniversaries of novelist Walter Scott (1771) composers Harold Fraser-Simson (1872), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Jacques Ibert (1890) and Lukas Foss (1922); tenor Ettore Parmeggiani (1895); sopranos Elsie Morison (1924) Rita Hunter (1933) and Rita Shane (1936).