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

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

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

* 1984 – L ' Aura, Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer

* 1570 – Salamone Rossi, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1630 )

* 1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and pianist ( d. 1909 )

* 1739 – Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer ( d. 1818 )

* 1867 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer ( d. 1948 )

* 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer ( d. 1674 )

* 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer ( b. 1946 )

* 1605 – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1669 )

While Italian by birth, Salieri had lived in imperial Vienna for almost 60 years and was regarded by such people as the music critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer.

Anton Diabelli, lithograph by Josef KriehuberAnton ( or Antonio ) Diabelli ( 5 September 17817 April 1858 ) was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer of Italian descent.

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

* 1723 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer ( d. 1797 )

* 1924 – Franco Mannino, Italian composer, playwright, and novelist ( d. 2005 )

* 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist ( d. 1801 )

* 1763 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian double bass virtuoso and composer ( d. 1846 )

The Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti was an important figure in the transition from Baroque to Classical.

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

1630 ), Italian composer

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

* 1550 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer ( baptism ) ( d. 1605 )

* 1921 – Piero Piccioni, Italian musician and composer ( d. 2004 )

In 1842, the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea, whom Babbage had met while travelling in Italy, wrote a description of the engine in French.

* 1432 – Luigi Pulci, Italian poet ( d. 1484 )

* 1987 – Luigi Giorgi, Italian footballer

* 1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist ( b. 1737 )

* 1978 – Luigi Malafronte, Italian footballer

The nearby Thompson Arena, designed by Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi and constructed in 1975, houses Dartmouth's ice rink.

* 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate ( b. 1867 )

In the late 18th century the Italian physician and anatomist Luigi Galvani marked the birth of electrochemistry by establishing a bridge between chemical reactions and electricity on his essay " De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius " ( Latin for Commentary on the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion ) in 1791 where he proposed a " nerveo-electrical substance " on biological life forms.

* 1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer ( d. 1805 )

* 1653 – Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer ( b. 1597 )

* 1975 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer ( b. 1904 )

* 1846 – Luigi Denza, Italian composer ( d. 1922 )

Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.

The term is derived from the name of Italian scientist Luigi Galvani.

In 1882, Italian physicist Luigi Palmieri detected helium on Earth, for the first time, through its D < sub > 3 </ sub > spectral line, when he analyzed the lava of Mount Vesuvius.

Luigi Longo, ex-leader of the Italian Communist Youth, was charged to make the necessary arrangements with the Spanish government.

* 1905 – Luigi Zampa, Italian film director and screenwriter ( d. 1991 )

* 1810 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver ( b. 1765 )

* 1916 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director ( d. 2007 )

* 1828 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal ( d. 1913 )

* 1842 – Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeoethnologist, archaeologist and ethnographer ( d. 1925 )

The Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi has proposed geological explanations for some ancient legends and myths.

Luigi Alamanni ( sometimes spelt Alemanni ) ( 6 March 1495 – 18 April 1556 ) was an Italian poet and statesman.

The national church of France in Rome also carries his name: San Luigi dei Francesi in Italian or Saint Louis of France in English.