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Mark Applebaum was born in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois.

He is an American musician, composer, and Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Stanford University in California. He received his Ph.D. in music composition from the University of California, San Diego. Before Stanford, he taught at UCSD, Mississippi State University, and Carleton College, Minnesota. As a jazz pianist, Applebaum has performed all over the world, including a solo recital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, sponsored by the American Embassy. In 1994, he received the Jazz Prize from the Southern California Jazz Society. Applebaum's solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and electro-acoustic work has been performed throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. His music has been described as mercurial, highly detailed, disciplined, and exacting, with improvisational and whimsical aspects.

Paul A. Appleton, M.D., was born on December 6, 1887, in Providence, Rhode Island.

He was an American surgeon and obstetrician. He graduated from Brown University (B.Ph., 1911) and Harvard University (M.D., 1915). Making a specialty in surgery, he began to practice in Providence, Rhode Island. During World War One, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the Rhode Island National Guard and acted as medical examiner. In 1918, he was appointed instructor of medical surgery at the School of Military Surgery, M.O.T.C., at Camp Greenleaf, Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1919, he became a member of the surgical staff of the United States Army General Hospital at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Upon returning to civil life, Dr. Appleton resumed his practice in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a Fellow of the American Medical Association, a member of the Providence Medical Society, the Rhode Island Medical Society, the American Association of Surgery, and the New England Obstetrical and Gynecological Society. He contributed to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

In 1920, he married Frances Elizabeth Ricker (1895-1973). He died on December 24, 1948, in Providence, Rhode Island.

William Worthen Appleton was born on November 29, 1845, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

He was an American publisher. He was admitted to Harvard University but did not enter due to ill health. He travelled and studied abroad. In 1825, his grandfather, Daniel Appleton (1785-1849), founded the publishing company D. Appleton & Company. William joined the family company in 1868. He oversaw the editorial department and became the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Like his father, William Henry Appleton (1814-1899), he took an active part in securing international copyright and aided largely in securing the passage of the Copyright Act of 1891. He served as the President of American Publishers' Copyright League.

In 1881, he married Anna Deblois Sargent (1845-1908). He died on January 27, 1924, in New York City, New York.

Donald Sidney Appleyard was born on July 26, 1928, in London, England.

He was an English American urban designer, theorist, author, and educator. He studied architecture and later urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduation, he taught at MIT for six years and later at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked on neighbourhood design in Berkeley and Athens and citywide planning in San Francisco and Ciudad Guyana. Appleyard gave lectures at over forty universities and acted in a professional capacity in architecture and planning firms in the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of several books and papers, e.g., "The view from the road" (1964), "The Conservation of European Cities" (1979) and "Livable Streets" (1981). In 2009, he was named number 57 of Planetizen's Top 100 Thinkers.

He died on September 23, 1982, after a traffic collision in Athens, Greece.

Fulgencio Aquino was born on January 1, 1915, in Sabaneta, Miranda state, Venezuela.

He was a Venezuelan musician, harpist, and popular composer, the author of the song El gato enmochilao.

He died on July 21, 1994, in Caracas, Venezuela.

Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban was born on February 28, 1825, in Lyon, France.

He was a French cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet. He studied trumpet with François Dauverné at the Paris Conservatoire from 1841 to 1845. After graduating from the Conservatory with honours, Arban began to master the cornet. He was appointed professor of saxhorn at the École Militaire in 1857 and professor of cornet at the Conservatoire in 1869. In 1864, he published his influential Grande méthode complète pour cornet à pistons et de saxhorn. In 1876, at the invitation of Alexander II, Arban conducted concerts in Pavlovsk. He apparently made a phonograph cylinder recording for the Edison Company shortly before his death. Arban's cornet method of 1864 is often referred to as the "Trumpeter's Bible" and is still studied by modern brass players. The Arban Method book is available by various publishers, with Carl Fischer and Alphonse Leduc being the most prominent.

He died on April 8, 1889, in Paris, France.

Thoinot Arbeau is the anagrammatic pen name of French cleric Jehan Tabourot, born on March 17, 1520, in Dijon, France.

He was a French theoretician and historian of the dance, whose Orchésographie (1588) contains carefully detailed, step-by-step descriptions of 16th-century and earlier dance forms. Ordained a priest in 1530, he became a canon at Langres (1547), where he was encouraged to pursue his studies by the Jesuits, who considered dance to be educationally important. Orchésographie is written in the form of a dialogue between the author and a student. Such dances as the pavane, gavotte, and allemande are not only exactly described but also usually illustrated and directly associated with their musical forms. The book also outlines principles that, more than a century later, formed the basis of the five fundamental positions of the feet in classical ballet. In addition to its wealth of technical information, it is an interesting account of social behaviour and manners.

He died on July 23, 1595, in Langres, France.