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): A. J. Pollock • Bruce Golding • Christian Yelich • Denise Drysdale • James Hinchcliffe • Ladislav Novák • Marcus Daly • Nunnally Johnson • Olli Jokinen • Ralf Dujmovits • Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer • Ronnie O'Sullivan

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