1997 Death Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85 1994 Death Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79 1986 Death Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, dies in New York at 67 1962 Death Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist, dies at 65 1960 Death Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65 1914 Birthday Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist 1911 Birthday Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Italy, composer, librettist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1911 Birthday Myfanwy Piper, librettist 1910 Birthday [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist, Aniara 1898 Birthday E. Y. "Yip" Harburg, Isidore Hochberg, lyricist and librettist 1897 Birthday Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist
