On this day in 1961 the historic Metropolitan Opera debuts of Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli in Verdi‘s Il trovatore

Happy 76th birthday dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov

Birthday anniversaries of composers Edouard Lalo (1823) and Jerome Kern (1885),
baritone Hans Duhan (1890),
conductor Joseph Rosenstock (1895),
and soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen (1936)