Born on this day Cornell MacNeil and 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), conductor Ettore Gracis (1915)

On this day in 1976 the off-Broadway musical Oh! Calcutta! opened