Sartorial broadly means “of or relating to clothes,” but it often more specifically means “of or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes.”
☰Thought of the Day
"You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and your those around you." - Lupita Nyong'o
- Empress Matilda [Maud], Princess of England, claimant to the English throne as daughter of Henry I, wife of Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, born in Sutton Courtenay, England (d. 1169)
- Charles Dickens, English writer ("Oliver Twist"; "A Tale of Two Cities"; "A Christmas Carol"), born in Portsmouth, Hampshire (d. 1870)
- Joaquin Gaztambide, Spanish composer (Una vieja), born in Tudela, Spain (d. 1870)
- (Carl) Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish composer considered the finest Swedish pianist of his time, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1927)
- Jacques Mornard [Ramon Mercader], Spanish communist (murdered Trotsky in Mexico with an ice axe), born in Argentona, Spain (d. 1978)
- Martha Holmes, American photographer and photojournalist, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2006)
- Gloria Talbott, American film and television actress, sometimes known as "the Scream Queen" for her work in B-movies, born in Glendale, California (d. 2000)
- Dieter Bohlen, German pop singer-songwriter, record producer, and television personality, born in Berne, West Germany
- Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
- Baltimore becomes the 1st American city lit by gas street lamps with the first turned on at Market and Lemon Streets (currently Baltimore and Holliday Streets)
- French writer Gustave Flaubert is acquitted on a charge of obscenity for his work "Madame Bovary"
- VVV '03 soccer club is established in the Dutch southeastern city of Venlo
- Iggy Pop and The Stooges release their influential 3rd album "Raw Power"
- Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden), born in Kerteminde, Denmark (d. 1876)
- Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), born in Duisburg, Prussia (d. 1948)
- Irving Aaronson, American jazz pianist and big band bandleader, born in New York City (d. 1963)
- Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (In the Name of the Father, Inception), born in Warrington, England (d. 2011)
- Sammy Lee, English footballer (Liverpool), born in Liverpool, England
