Today's Birthdays

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973)
Willem van Hoogstraten (1884-1964)
Nobuko Imai (1943)
James Conlong (1950)
Jan-Hendrik Rootering (1950)
Courtney Pine (1964)

and

George Plimpton (1927)
Christa Wolf (1929)
John Updike (1932-2009)