Famous Birthdays
- Mike Peters, American cartoonist (Mother Goose and Grimm), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Famous Deaths
- Gerard W Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies
- Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
- Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
- Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1902 for Zeeman effect), dies at 78