Birthday anniversaries of composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739)
tenor Giuseppe Lugo (1898)
film, stage and opera director and designer Luchino Visconti (1906)
baritone Sigurd Björling (1907)
composer Harold Faberman (1929)
soprano Ruth Falcon (1942)
film and stage director Patrice Chéreau (1944)
and composer and conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946)

Happy 80th birthday soprano Faye Robinson
Happy 69th birthday soprano Marie McLaughlin