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- Composer Hernando de Cabezon was born.
- Heinrich Schütz, the German composer, was born.
- The prominent Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber was born.
- Spanish composer Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles was born.
- Composer Johann Pachelbel was born.
- Composer George Bohm was born.
- Baroque composer Nicola Antonio Porpora was born.
- Composer Pietro-Antonio Locatelli was born.
- English composer Maurice Greene was born.
- Composer Johann Ludwig Krebs was probably born between October 10 and 12.
- German composer Johann Christian Bach was born.
- Composer Antonio Salieri was born.
- French composer Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa was born.
- Austrian composer Anton Diabelli was born.
- German opera composer Giacomo Meyerbeer, born Jacob Liebmann Beer, was born near Berlin. He later became a major figure in European opera.
- German composer Heinrich August Marschner was born.
- Composer Wilhelm Bernard Molique was born.
- On August 14, 1810, Samuel Sebastian Wesley was born in London, England. He became a distinguished English organist and composer, best known for his contributions to Anglican church music. He served as an organist at several English cathedrals, including Hereford, Exeter, Winchester and Gloucester.
- Composer Giuseppe Verdi was born. He composed 26 operas.
- Hungarian composer Mihaly Mosonyi was born.
- Austrian composer Anton Joseph Bruckner was born.
- Composer Josef Strauss was born.
- Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli was born.
- Composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was born.
- Composer Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was born.
- Composer Engelbert Humperdinck was born.
- Composer and pianist Cécile Chaminade was born in Paris, France.
- Composer Achille-Claude Debussy was born.
- Composer Alphons Diepenbrock was born.
- French composer Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierné was born.
- Composer Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was born.
- Composer Paul Dukas was born.
- American composer Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was born.
- Louis Vierne, the French composer, was born.
- British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is born. He becomes a major figure in English classical music.
- Composer Reynaldo Hahn was born.
- English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born.
- Composer John Ireland was born.
- Lyricist and labor activist Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, was born in Gävle, Sweden. He later worked in the United States as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and became famous for his labor songs, including “The Preacher and the Slave.”
- Composer and violinist Clarence Cameron White was born in Clarksville, Tennessee.
- Composer Georges Enesco was born.
- Karol Szymanowski was born.
- Louis Silvers, composer of the song "April Showers", was born in New York City.
- French composer Jacques Ibert was born.
- English poet and composer Ivor Gurney was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.
- On August 14, 1892, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was born in Chingford, Essex, England. Born Leon Dudley Sorabji, he became an English composer, pianist, music critic and writer, renowned for his highly complex and often exceptionally long piano compositions.
- Composer Marie-Juliette Olga Lili Boulanger was born.
- Leon Theremin, inventor of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.