Today's Birthdays

Julius Rudel (1921)
Sarah Caldwell (1924-2006)
Ronald Stevenson (1928)
Lorin Maazel (1930)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (1944)
Marielle Labèque (1952)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (1975)

and

Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655)
Willie Mays (1931)
Dick Fosbury (1947)