Jean‑Henri d'Anglebert (1629-1691)
Ferrucco Busoni (1866-1924)
F Melius Christiansen (1871-1955)
Serge Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Dinu Lipatti (1921-1950)
William Bergsma (1921-1994)
and
Edmond Rostand (1868-1918)
Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011)
Milan Kundera (1929)
Francine Prose (1947)
And from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1888, the eccentric Parisian composer and piano virtuoso
Alkan is buried in the Montmatre Cemetery. Isidore Philipp, one of only
four mourners who attend Alkan's internment, claimed to have been
present when the composer's body was found in his apartment and said the
elderly Alkan was pulled from under a heavy bookcase, which apparently
fell on him while Alkan was trying to reach for a copy of the Talmud on
its top shelf. This story has been discounted by some Alkan scholars.
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