Happy birthday countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.

Happy 74th birthday soprano Dame Felicity Lott.

Born on this day in 1930 soprano Heather Harper.

Birthday anniversaries of composer and arranger Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1892), bass Mihaly Szekely (1901), mezzo-soprano Maria von Ilosvay (1917). tenor Carlo Cossutta (1932) and conductor Elio Boncompagni (1933).