Franz Liszt, the handsome chap above, was born on October 22, 1811, in Sopron, Hungary. Wotta guy. Prodigious pianist, ladies' man par excellence, autodidact, father-in-law of Richard Wagner, millionaire, acolyte of the Church and a pretty good composer, too, what with the Hungarian Rhapsodies and the Years of Pilgrimage. Roald Dahl reincarnated him as a cat in his short story "Edward the Conqueror." A cat was a good choice, although perhaps not a domestic cat; I'd have chosen a wilder variety.