Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836-1896)
Liza Lehmann (1862-1918)
Nicolai Gedda (1925-2017)
Herbert Blomstedt (1927)
Hermann Prey (1929-1998)
Francis Bayer (1938-2004)
Liona Boyd (1949)
Suzanne Vega (1960)
and
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
E. B. White (1899-1985)
Harold Bloom (1930)
Jhumpa Lahiri (1967)
and from the Composers Datebook:
On this day in 1798, in the nation's capital of Philadelphia, President
John Adams signed an Act of Congress establishing the United States
Marine Band. (The original "32 drummers and fifers" assisted in
recruiting and entertained residents.)
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