Happy 51st birthday soprano Anna Netrebko.

Birthday anniversaries of poet and librettist Francis Burdett Money-Coutts (1852); composers Alberto Franchetti (1860), Arthur Benjamin (1893), Pablo Sorozábal (1897) and Josef Tal (1910); tenor József Simándy (1916); mezzo-soprano Maureen Lehane (1932) and bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov (1933).

Happy 86th birthday mezzo-soprano Ruth Hesse.