Birthday anniversaries of composer Gaspare Spontini (1774)
tenor Kálmán Pataky (1896)
composer Aaron Copland (1900)
librettist Eric Crozier (1914)
contralto Jean Madeira (1918)
soprano Lisa Otto (1919)
and baritone Jake Gardner (1947)

On this date in 1908 Oscar Strauss’ operetta Der tapfere Soldat premiered in Vienna