Born on this day in 1904 choreographer Frederick Ashton.

Birthday anniversaries of composers Ignaz Holzbauer (1711) and Vincenzo Tommasini (1878); conductor and composer Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (1880); glass harmonica player Bruno Hoffman (1913) and baritone Roland Hermann (1936).

Happy 70th birthday bass John-Paul Bogart.