Today's Birthdays

Christoph Graupner (1683-1760)
Gottfried Heinrich Stölze (1690-1749)
Vassili Kalinnikov (1866-1901)
Richard Addinsell (1904-1977)
Daniil Shafran (1923-1997)
Renato Bruson (1936)
Paavo Heininen (1938)
William Duckworth (1943-2012)
Richard Blackford (1954)
Wayne Marshall (1961)
Juan Diego Flórez (1973)

and

Horatio Alger (1832-1899)
Lorrie Moore (1957)

and from the Composers Datebook:

On this day in 1945, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 was premiered by the Moscow State Philharmonic, with the composer conducting.