* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1710 – Caffarelli, Italian castrato and opera singer ( d. 1783 )

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

* 1943 – Caterina Bueno, Italian singer ( d. 2007 )

* 1922 – Alessandro Moreschi, Italian singer ( b. 1858 )

Benny recalls the first records he bought were " Du Bist Musik " by Italian schlager singer Caterina Valente and Elvis Presley's " Jailhouse Rock ".

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (; 15 May 1567 ( baptized ) – 29 November 1643 ) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.

1710 – 14 October 1740 ) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.

* 1973 – Mikelangelo Loconte, Italian singer

* 1988 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist ( b. 1922 )

* 1947 – Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer

* 1974 – Filippa Giordano, Italian singer

* 1843 – Adelina Patti, Italian opera singer ( d. 1919 )

* 1980 – Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer

* 1952 – Vasco Rossi, Italian singer

Gregorio Allegri ( 1582 – 17 February 1652 ) was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri ; he was also a priest and a singer.

* 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor ( Lecuona Cuban Boys ) ( d. 1974 )

* 1916 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian opera singer ( d. 2010 )

* 1922 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer ( Quartetto Cetra ) ( d. 1988 )

* 1943 – Raffaella Carrà, Italian singer, dancer, and actress

* 1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer ( d. 1662 )

* 1964 – Cristina D ' Avena, Italian singer and actress

* 1932 – Franca Raimondi, Italian singer ( d. 1988 )

* 1939 – Mariele Ventre, Italian singer and conductor ( d. 1995 )

* 1937 – Paolo Conte, Italian singer

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.

* 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( b. 1925 )

* 1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer ( d. 1994 )

** Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* October 12 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor ( d. 2007 )

After this essay, he was called to assist Goffredo Alessandrini in making Luciano Serra pilota, one of the most successful Italian films of the first half of the 20th century.

Luciano Violante, a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, countered that " We do not find information about the Mafia among nuns.

Among those who have written their memoirs, the Italian Luciano Lutring ; he called his book of recollections: Il solista del mitra, or The machine-gun soloist.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

Unlike other street gangs whose business was petty crime, Luciano offered protection to Jewish youngsters from Italian and Irish gangs for ten cents per week.

Luciano elevated his most trusted Italian associates to high-level positions in what was now the Luciano crime family.

On November 19, 1954, an Italian judicial commission in Naples applied strict limits on Luciano for two years.

In early 1948, Luciano met Igea Lissoni, an Italian nightclub dancer 20 years his junior, whom he later described as the love of his life.

Unbeknownst to Luciano, Italian drug agents had followed him to the airport in anticipation of arresting him on drug smuggling charges.

This deal would secure the release of Luciano from prison ; in exchange, the Italian Mafia would provide security for the war ships that were being built along the docks in New York Harbor.

In 1922, Costello, Luciano, and their closest Italian associates joined the Sicilian Mafia crime family led by Joe " the Boss " Masseria, a top Italian underworld boss.

Luciano Caruso ( b. July 19, 1957 in Turin, Italy ) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.

In 1966, Italian Disney comics artist Luciano Bottaro wrote a parody of Orlando Furioso starring Donald Duck, Paperin Furioso.

At the behest of Constanten, he studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio in a graduate-level course at Mills College in the spring of 1962 ; their classmates included Steve Reich and Stanford University cross-registrant John Chowning.