* 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1722 )

* 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer ( d. 1749 )

* 1708 – Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer ( d. 1772 )

* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )

* 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1984 )

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1716 – Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1796 )

* 1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian composer ( d. 1793 )

* 1760 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer ( d. 1797 )

* 1801 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor ( d. 1843 )

* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )

* 1919 – István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer ( d. 2012 )

* 1870 – Franz Lehár, Austrian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 1910 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist ( d. 2002 )

* 1934 – Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter and composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist ( d. 1979 )

* 1886 – Eric Coates, English composer and viola player ( d. 1957 )

* 1937 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer ( d. 1677 )

* 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer ( d. 1971 )

* 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1648 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer ( d. 1694 )

* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor ( d. 1947 )

* 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist ( d. 1959 )

* 1941 – Stephen Albert, American composer ( d. 1992 )

* 1755 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer ( d. 1822 )

* 1851 – Charles Albert Tindley, American composer ( d. 1933 )

* 1604 – Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet ( d. 1651 )

* 1905 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director ( d. 1993 )

Theremin's mentors during this time were some of society's foremost scientists, composers, and musical theorists, including composer Joseph Schillinger and physicist ( and amateur violinist ) Albert Einstein.

Particularly important was the Italian composer Albert de Rippe ( 1500 – 1551 ), who worked in France and composed polyphonic fantasias of considerable complexity.

* 1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director ( b. 1905 )

* 1959 – Albert Ketèlbey, British composer ( b. 1875 )

* 1801 – Albert Lortzing, German composer ( d. 1851 )

** Albert Hammond, English-born American musician and composer

* February 11 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer ( d. 1822 )

The original music score was composed by Albert Hay Malotte, an American composer who is best known for his musical setting of The Lord's Prayer, composed in 1935, and introduced on radio that year by John Charles Thomas.

On 31 July 2010, Dame Judi performed Send in the Clowns at a special celebratory promenade concert from the Royal Albert Hall as part of the proms season, in honour of composer Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday, the entire concert in honour of his music.

* Albert William Ketèlbey, English composer, conductor and pianist

Her affair with composer Isidore de Lara resulted in Prince Albert slapping her in view of an audience at the Salle Garnier.

Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH ( 29 January 186210 June 1934 ) was an English composer.

Albert Ayler ( July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970 ) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.

* November 25 – Albert Ayler, saxophonist and composer, 34

* May 29-On the 50th anniversary of its stormy première, 88 year-old Pierre Monteux conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in The Rite of Spring at the Royal Albert Hall, with the composer Stravinsky ( 81 ) in the audience.

With the LSO Monteux gave a fiftieth anniversary performance of The Rite of Spring, at the Royal Albert Hall, in the presence of the composer.

The two most significant pieces of music in the film — the song, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )", and the Storm Clouds Cantata played in the Royal Albert Hall — are not by Herrmann ( although he did re-orchestrate the cantata by Australian-born composer Arthur Benjamin written for the earlier Hitchcock film of the same name ).

* Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño divorces her husband, pianist Eugen d ' Albert.

* Albert Hay Malotte, composer