1993 Ken E Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symph Orch), dies of AIDS at 34
1982 Wilfred Pelletier, symph conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 85
1955 Simon Rattle, born in England, orchestra conductor, Birmingham Symph Orch
1953 Riccardo Chailly, Milan Italy, conductor, West Berlin Symph Orch
1942 Jeffrey Siegel, born in Chicago, Illinois, pianist, Chicago Symph
1940 Murray Sidlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, conductor, Natl Symph 1973-77
1938 Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor, Atlanta Symph
1934 Aldo Ceccato, Milan Italy, conductor, Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77
1931 Barry Tuckwell, born in Melbourne, Australia, hornist, London Symph Orch 1955-68
1928 Leon Fleisher, born in San Francisco, California, pianist/conductor, Annapolis Symph 1973-77
1928 Sergiu Comissiona, born in Buch, Romania, conductor, Haifa Symph 1959-64
1926 Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor, 1958-62 St. Louis Symph
1926 Werner Torkanowsky, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor, New Orleans Symph
1924 Janos Starker, born in Budapest, Hungary, cellist, Chic Symph 1953-58
1923 Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor, Vienna Symph 1960-70
1920 Isaac Stern, born in Kreminiecz, Russia, violinist, debut San Francisco Symph
1917 Emanuel Vardi, born in Jerusalem, Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82
1915 Earl Wild, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, composer/pianist, Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942
1915 Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor, Iceland Symph 1964-65
1913 Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor, Cin Symph 1958
1912 Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor, E Berlin Symph 1960-77
1902 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch
1902 Emanuel Feuermann, Kolomea Galicia, cellist, Chicago Symph Orch
1902 Josef Krips, born in Vienna, Austria, conductor, London Symph 1954-63
1900 Efrem Kurtz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Houston Symph 1948-54
1898 Alfred Wallenstein, born in Chicago, Illinois, conductor, Chic Symph 1922-29
1886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor, Seattle Symph
1875 Pierre Monteux, born in Paris, France, conductor, Boston Symph Orch 1919-24
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