Francesco Geminiani

Francesco Xaverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist. BBC Radio 3 once described him as "now largely forgotten, but in his time considered almost a musical god, deemed to be the equal of Handel and Corelli."

5 December 1687

Born on the same birth day (5 December): Boris Ignatyev • Bryan Murray (ice hockey) • Cam Fowler • Conan Gray • Fausto Sozzini • Ilja Antonov • Joanna Rowsell • Kim Simmonds • Martin Vinnicombe • Matthew Taylor (political strategist) • Nikolai Uglanov • Nivek Ogre • Osvaldo Golijov • President of Nicaragua • Ronnie O'Sullivan • Walt McPherson

Born in the same month (December 1687): Johann Georg Pisendel