Francesco Araja

Francesco Domenico Araja was an Italian composer who spent 25 years in Russia and wrote at least 14 operas for the Russian Imperial Court including Tsefal i Prokris, the first opera in Russian.

25 June 1709

Born on the same birth day (25 June): Aramis Ramírez • Dorothy Gilman • Frigyes Karinthy • Greg Raymer • J. Hans D. Jensen • José Cancela • Nikiforos Diamandouros • Robert Venturi • Tony Lanfranchi • William Howard Stein

Born in the same month (June 1709): Joachim Martin Falbe