Apr 18 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest, baptized in Marino, Rome (d. 1674) Apr 19 Orazio Benevoli, Franco-Italian composer, born in Rome (d. 1672) Sep 17 Francesco Sacrati, Italian composer, born in Parma, Duchy of Parma and Piacenza (now Italy) (d. 1650) Oct 16 Charles Coypeau Dassoucy, French poet and singer, born in Paris (d. 1677) 1604 Birthdays in Music by Year 1606