Birthdays of Composers on March 17
1664 : Georg Osterreich, composer
1675 : Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss, composer
1746 : Jan David Holland, composer
1839 : Josef Rheinberger, Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1848 : Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
1876 : Frederic Ayers, composer
1880 : Guillermo Uribe Holguin, composer
1890 : Harold Morris, composer
1892 : Sayed Darwish, composer
1900 : Alfred Newman, New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
1908 : Radie Britain, composer
1911 : Raffaele d' Alessandro, composer
1917 : Brian Boydell, composer
1918 : D Arendo, [Arend Honhoff], Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
1920 : John La Montaine, Oak Park Ill, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1924 : Stephen Dodgson, composer
1927 : Maurice Ingvar Karkoff, composer
1927 : Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze, composer
1928 : Edino Krieger, composer
1934 : Erhard Grosskopf, composer
1936 : Ladislaw Kupkovic, composer
1941 : Edward Harper, composer
1946 : Michael Peter Finnissey, composer