Today's Birthdays

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986)
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)
Helga Dernesch (1939)

and

Georg Trakl (1887-1914)
Alvar Aalto (1898-1978)
Simone Weil (1909-1943)