Birthday anniversaries of composers César Franck (1822)
and Olivier Messiaen (1908)
librettist Philippe Gille (1831)
baritone and teacher Otakar Kraus (1909)
composer and conductor Morton Gould (1913)
baritone Sesto Bruscantini (1919)
tenor Dimitar Uzunov (1922)
mezzo-soprano Vera Little (1928)
bass-baritone Michael Rippon (1938)
and conductor Yury Temirkanov (also 1938)

Happy 76th birthday conductor Christian Badea
Happy 71st birthday soprano Julianne Baird
Also, happy 71st birthday to mezzo-soprano Martine Dupuy