Cécile Chaminade
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade was a French composer and pianist. In 1913, she was awarded the Légion d'Honneur, a first for a female composer. Ambroise Thomas said, "This is not a woman who composes, but a composer who is a woman."
8 August 1857
Born on the same birth day (8 August): Achille Varzi • Anastasia M. Ashman • Jacques Hétu • Jon Turteltaub • Kateryna Volodko • Laura Slade Wiggins • Manjul Bhargava • Paul Dirac • Pierre Garçon • Princess Beatrice • Terry Burnham • Vardo Rumessen
Born in the same month (August 1857): Albert Ballin • Ernestine von Kirchsberg • Libert H. Boeynaems • Ned Hanlon (baseball) • Sandford Schultz