1982 Death Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85 1942 Birthday Jeffrey Siegel, born in Chicago, Illinois, pianist, Chicago Symph 1940 Birthday Murray Sidlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, conductor, National Symph 1973-77 1938 Birthday Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor, Atlanta Symph 1928 Birthday Leon Fleisher, born in San Francisco, California, pianist/conductor, Annapolis Symph 1973-77 1928 Birthday Sergiu Comissiona, born in Buch, Romania, conductor, Haifa Symph 1959-64 1926 Birthday Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor, 1958-62 St. Louis Symph 1926 Birthday Werner Torkanowsky, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor, New Orleans Symph 1923 Birthday Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor, Vienna Symph 1960-70 1920 Birthday Isaac Stern, born in Kreminiecz, Russia, violinist, debut San Francisco Symph 1917 Birthday Emanuel Vardi, born in Jerusalem, Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82 1915 Birthday Earl Wild, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, composer/pianist, Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942 1915 Birthday Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor, Iceland Symph 1964-65 1912 Birthday Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor, E Berlin Symph 1960-77 1902 Birthday Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch 1902 Birthday Josef Krips, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, London Symph 1954-63 1900 Birthday Efrem Kurtz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Houston Symph 1948-54 1886 Birthday Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor, Seattle Symph
