Born on this day in 1919 bass-baritone George London.

On this day in 1955 the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross musical Damn Yankees opened on Broadway.

Birthday anniversaries of composers Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819) and Hans Pfitzner (1869),  soprano Yelena Andreyevna Stepanova (1891),  conductor Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1900), soprano Maria Caniglia (1905) and bass Kurt Böhme (1908).