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): Abraham Polonsky • Ashikaga Yoshiaki • Boris Ignatyev • Eduard Seler • Fred Rutten • Hanif Kureishi • Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg • Lin Biao • Martin Van Buren • Morgan J. Freeman • Ondrej Duda • President of Nicaragua • Tony Crafter

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