- Pietro Sanmartini, Italian composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1701)
- Ludomir Różycki, Polish composer and conductor (Eros i Psyche; Pan Twardowski), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1953)
- Greta Garbo, Swedish actress and Hollywood silent film star (Anna Karenina, Grand Hotel, Camille), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1990)
- Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (abstract algebra), born in Lille, France (d. 1992)
- Leon Stein, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2002)
- Louis Myers, American blues guitarist and harmonica player, born in Byhalia, Mississippi (d. 1994)
- Giancarlo Minardi, Italian founder and Managing Director of Minardi Formula One team, born in Faenza, Italy
- Martin "Frosty" Beedle, British session and touring drummer (Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight"), born in North Ferriby, East Yorkshire, England
- Chile declares independence from Spain, celebrated today as Chile's National Day
- A 500-pound, 6-foot Hershey's Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, New York City
- 18th Toronto International Film Festival: "The Snapper," directed by Stephen Frears, wins the People's Choice Award
- Eight people (including two children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida
- Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Punta Tocón on Puerto Rico's southwest coast as a Category 1 storm with 85 km/h winds, causing catastrophic flooding
- Sarah Palfrey Cooke, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1941, 45), born in Sharon, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
- Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33), born in Tomsk, Russia (d. 2002)
- Kerry Livgren, American progressive rock guitarist and songwriter (Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"; "Dust in the Wind"), born in Topeka, Kansas
- Betsy Boze, American academic (9th president of The College of The Bahamas), born in Shreveport, Louisiana
- Chris Hedges, American journalist and author (War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning), born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont