Born on this day in 1843 composer Edvard Grieg.

Happy 60th birthday soprano Andrea Rost.

Birthday anniversaries of composer and arranger/orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894); sopranos Mary Ellis (1897) and Adele Leigh (1928); conductor Max Rudolf (1902); bass Oscar Natzka (1912)
and director and administrator Lotfi Mansouri (1929).