Camille Saint-Saëns

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).

9 October 1835

Born on the same birth day (9 October): Alice Lee Jemison • E. Howard Hunt • Francis Wayland Parker • Irving Cummings • Leopold V, Archduke of Austria • Michel Boisrond • Peter Saville (graphic designer) • Robert Wuhl • Rubén Magnano

Born in the same month (October 1835): Adelbert Ames • Adlai Stevenson I • Ernst Sars • Jenny Twitchell Kempton • Krišjānis Barons • Louis-Léon Cugnot • Paul Haenlein • Theodore Thomas (conductor) • Ádám Politzer