- Eric Drummond, British politician and diplomat, 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33), born in Fulford, England (d. 1951)
- Kurt Hiller, German writer, born in Berlin (d. 1972)
- Clara [G Meijer-] Wichmann, German anarchist and feminist (Wife and society), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1922)
- Safa Khulusi, Iraqi writer and historian, born in Baghdad (d. 1995)
- Maureen O'Hara [FitzSimons], Irish-American actress (Miracle on 34th Street; The Quiet Man; Only The Lonely), and singer, born in Ranelagh, County Dublin, Ireland (d. 2015)
- Chaleo Yoovidhya, Thai co-creator of Red Bull energy drink, born in Phichit, Thailand (d. 2012)
- Hakon Barfod, Norwegian sailor (Olympic gold 1948, 52), born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2013)
- Kenny Sears, American NBA player (NY Knicks), born in Watsonville, California (d. 2017)
- People's Bath, the first public bathhouse with showers, opens in New York City
- Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
- Boycott scores his first Test cricket century: 113 against Australia at The Oval
- Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken plays in his 1,208th consecutive game and moves to 3rd place all-time behind NY Yankees' Lou Gehrig and Boston Red Sox/NY Yankees' Everett Scott
- China wins its 33rd gold medal of the Beijing Olympics by defeating Singapore in the table tennis women's team event, achieving its most successful Olympiad ever by winning all 10 singles and all 5 doubles matches
- Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (International Bruckner Society; Mozart's Requiem), and educator (Vienna University, 1932-73), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1991)
- Francis Gary Powers, American spy captured by the USSR after his U-2 spy was shot plane in 1959, born in Jenkins, Kentucky (d. 1977)
- Kevin Welch, American country songwriter ("True Love Never Dies"), born in Long Beach, California
- Johnny Bumphus, American boxer (WBA super lightweight title 1984), born in Tacoma, Washington (d. 2020)
- Ederson [de Moraes], Brazilian football goalkeeper (Manchester City, Brazil), born in Osasco, Brazil