Baritone day! Born on this day Cornell MacNeil, Ettore Bastianini (both in 1922) and Pablo Elvira (1938).

Birthday anniversaries of librettist Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598); composers Tomás López Torregrosa (1868) and Rafael Millán (1893); contralto Karin Branzell (1891); soprano Lina Bruna Rasa (1907); tenor Helmut Melchert (1910) and conductor Ettore Gracis (1915).