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): A. J. Quinnell • Charles Sheffield • Claude Seignolle • Cyril Fletcher • David Douglas (botanist) • Elisabeth Brooke, Marchioness of Northampton • Géza Gyóni • Harold Roe Bartle • Jhonas Enroth • Jimmie Walker • John Albert Raven • John Powell (discus thrower) • Johnny Smith • Kay Sage • Rod Kafer • Shirō Ishii • Simon Ammann • Sione Mata'utia • Tim Finn • Vic Marks • Zinaida Aksentyeva

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