- Winfield Scott, American army general (Union) and presidential candidate, born in Petersburg, Virginia (d. 1866)
- Carl Schmidt, Baltic German chemist, born in Mitau, Russian Empire (d. 1884)
- Dwight B. Waldo, American educator (first President of Western Michigan University), born in Arcade, New York (d. 1939)
- William Sealy Gosset, English statistician (Student's t-distribution), born in Canterbury, Kent, England (d. 1937)
- Anton Drexler, German politician (founder of German Worker's Party (DAP), precursor to the Nazi Party), and mentor to Adolf Hitler, born in Munich (d. 1942)
- Albert Cleage, African-American theologian and religious leader, born in Indianapolis (d. 2000)
- Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author (Een vir Azazel), born in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape (d. 1989)
- Angela Alvarez (née Portilla), Cuban-American Latin jazz singer-songwriter who won a Latin Grammy Award at 95, born in Camagüey, Cuba (d. 2024)
- Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins when Charles Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years; he dies 11 months after they stop
- First night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
- Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
- TNN/CMT Country Weekly Music Awards: George Strait, Faith Hill, and Alan Jackson win
- FIFA Congress votes to award 2026 World Cup to joint bid by US, Canada and Mexico
- Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1882)
- Thyme Lewis, American actor (Jonah Carver in "Days of Our Lives"), born in San Francisco, California
- Kasia Kowalska, Polish pop rock singer ("A to co mam"; "Nobody"), born in Sulejówek, Poland
- Charlotte Wells, Scottish director (Aftersun), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Violet Chachki [Paul Jason Dardo], American drag queen, dancer, model and TV personality (RuPaul's Drag Race season 7 winner), born in Atlanta, Georgia