- Edward the Black Prince [Edward of Woodstock], English prince, knight and heir to King Edward III, born in Woodstock Palace, England (d. 1376)
- Tokugawa Ienobu, 6th Japanese shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1709-12), born in Kōfu, Japan (d. 1712)
- Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (Miser, Taxi Driver in NY, Me and Caterina), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2003)
- Mohammad Ali Rajai, President of Iran (1981) who was assassinated by a bomb while in office, born in Qazvin, Persia (d. 1981)
- Ruby Nash Curtis [Garnett], American pop and RandB singer (Ruby and the Romantics - "Our Day Will Come"; "Hey There Lonely Boy"), born in Akron, Ohio
- Simon Callow, English actor (Four Weddings and a Funeral; A Room With A View), born in London, England
- James Belushi, American comedian (Saturday Night Live, Trading Places), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Clio Goldsmith, actress (Gift, Heat of Desire), born in Paris, France
- Oregon Treaty signed, setting US-British boundary at 49°N
- 1" of snow falls in Northern Pennsylvania
- Mexican record temperature of 52.5 °C (126.5 °F) in the shade is recorded in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora
- Novelty song "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1 on UK pop chart
- Birth of the first federal political party in Canada that supports Quebec nationalism, le Bloc Québécois
- Franz Danzi, German composer and cellist, born in Schwetzingen, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1826)
- Maud Barger-Wallach, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1908), born at New York, NY (d. 1954)
- Georg Wüst, German Oceanographer (provided first complete understanding of the temperature, salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean), born in Posen, Germany (d. 1977)
- Belinda Lee, English actress (Who Done It, Runaway Bus), born in Devon, England (d. 1961)
- Billy Martin, American guitarist and songwriter (Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless), born in Annapolis, Maryland,