- Thomas Mitchell, American Academy Award-winning actor (Gone With The Wind; High Noon), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 1962)
- Jack Durston, English cricket fast bowler (1 Test, 5 wickets; Middlesex CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (Queens Park Rangers, Brentford), born in Clophill, England (d. 1965)
- Reg Varney, English actor (On the Buses), born in London, England (d. 2008)
- Chuck Rio [Daniel Flores], American rock singer, saxophonist, and songwriter (The Champs - "Tequila"), born in Santa Paula, California (d. 2006)
- Adin Steinsaltz, Israeli rabbi, scholar, translator and writer (The Thirteen Petalled Rose), born in Jerusalem (d. 2020)
- Kentaro Miura, Japanese manga author (Berserk), born in Chiba, Japan (d. 2021)
- Jussi 69 [Vuori], Finnish drummer (The 69 Eyes), born in Helsinki, Finland
- Christine Monge, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets), born in San Francisco, California
- Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne
- US Senior Open Men's Golf, Portland GC: Miller Barber wins by four strokes from Dan Sykes and Gene Littler, his first of three Senior Open titles
- Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
- Iraq resumes oil exports, ending a 5-week halt in protest of a US and British-sponsored UN Security Council resolution
- New study suggests dogs can "see" with their noses, the first documentation of a direct connection between the olfactory bulb and occipital lobe in any species
- Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian opera composer, first from outside of Europe with successful career in Italy, born in Campinas, São Paulo, Empire of Brazil (d. 1896)
- George Ivan Smith, Australian radio correspondent, UN diplomat and spokesman, born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1995)
- Charles Chaynes, French composer (Et l'homme se vit les portes rouvrir; Ode for a Tragic Death), and radio broadcaster, born in Toulouse, France (d. 2016)
- David Baerwald, American singer/songwriter (David + David - "Welcome To The Boomtown": "Swallowed By The Cracks"), born in Oxford, Ohio
- Hermann Hreiðarsson, Icelandic footballer, born in Reykjavík, Iceland