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On this day, December 22nd

Born:

• Giovanni Bottesini, Italian composer, in 1821.
• Edgard Varèse, French-American composer, in 1883.
• Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer, in 1723.
• Yoshio Hasegawa, Japanese composer, in 1907.
• Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, in 1858.

Died:

• Powell Weaver, American composer, in 1951.
• Celius Dougherty, American composer, in 1986.
• Bonifacio Gil Garcia, Spanish composer, in 1964.
• Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer, in 2006.
• John Duffy, American composer, in 2015.

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Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 was featured in the movie, The Seven Year Itch. The movie starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell.