Births [ edit ]

• 1812 - Robert Browning , English poet (d. 1889 )
• 1833 - Johannes Brahms , German composer (d. 1897 )
• 1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer (d. 1893 ) ( pictured )
• 1901 - Gary Cooper , American actor (d. 1961 )
• 1909 - Edwin H. Land , American inventor (d. 1991 )
• 1919 - Eva Peron , Argentine first lady (d. 1952 )

Deaths [ edit ]

• 973 - Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 912 )
• 1617 - David Fabricius , German astronomer (b. 1564 )
• 1667 - Johann Jakob Froberger , German composer (b. 1616 )
• 1825 - Antonio Salieri , Italian composer (b. 1750 )
• 1998 - Allan McLeod Cormack , South African physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1924 )
• 1998 - Eddie Rabbitt , American musician (b. 1941 )