Historical Events
Nobel Prize
Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Gitanjali"
- Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
Famous Birthdays
- Harry Locke, British actor (Passport to Pimlico, Town on Trial), born in London, England (d. 1987)
- Morton Gould, American prolific composer (Verdun), born in Richmond Hill, New York (d. 1996)