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

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