1783 first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 'Linz'; the entire symphony was written in four days during a stopover in the Austrian town as the composer and his wife were traveling from Salzburg to Vienna.
1841 Carl Tausig – Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer (d.1871); considered by some to be the greatest student of Franz Liszt.
1863 premiere of Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens à Carthage (The Trojans at Carthage), Part 2 (Acts 3-5) of the opera Les Troyens, in Paris at the Théatre-Lyrique; libretto by Berlioz himself based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid; complete opera was not staged in France until 1920.
1876 first performance of Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 1 in Karlsruhe with Felix Otto Dessoff conducting; a year later conductor Hans von Bülow called the symphony ‘Beethoven's Tenth’; there is more than a passing resemblance between the main theme of the finale of Brahms' First Symphony and the main theme of the finale of Beethoven's Ninth; somewhat annoyed when this was pointed out to him, Brahms once said "any ass can see that!"
1890 premiere of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg; work was left unfinished after the composer's death in 1887; completed and arranged by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov.
1935 Elgar Howarth – English trumpeter, conductor and composer (89 years old); one of the trumpeters who performed with The Beatles on the song Magical Mystery Tour (1967).