Opera

• Francesco Sacrati
  Francesco Sacrati
  Francesco Sacrati was an Italian composer of the Baroque era, who played an important role in the early history of opera. He wrote for the Teatro Novissimo in Venice as well as touring his operas throughout Italy...
  
   – La finta pazza
• Sigmund Theophil Staden
  Sigmund Theophil Staden
  Sigmund Theophil Staden was an important early German composer.Staden was born in Kulmbach, son of Johann Staden, the founder of the so-called Nuremberg school...
  
   – Seelewig, the first German singspiel
  Singspiel
  A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera...
  
  
• Francesco Cavalli
  Francesco Cavalli
  Francesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...
  
   - L'Ormindo

Births

• August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, German composer of sonatas (died 1704)
• possible – Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer of sonatas (died 1692)

Deaths

• date unknown – Robert Ramsey
  Robert Ramsey (composer)
  Robert Ramsey was an English composer and organist.He graduated as a Bachelor of Music from the University of Cambridge in 1616...
  
  , English organist and composer