Historical Events
- Battle at Wynne's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
Famous Birthdays
- Giorgos Seferis [Georgios Seferiades], Greek poet (Nobel 1963), born in Urla, Ottoman Empire (d. 1971)
- Luis Buñuel, Calanda Spain, Spanish surrealist film director (Belle de Jour)
- Seán Ó Faoláin [John Whelan], Irish short story writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk), born in Cork City, County Cork, Ireland (d. 1991)