Historical Events
- 21st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 11-9 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
- Dean Stone gets credit for AL win, although he didn't retire a batter, he threw out Shoendienst trying to steal home, AL-11 NL-9
Famous Birthdays
- David Thompson, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Seattle Supersonics)
- Louise Mandrell, country singer (Mandrell Sisters), born in Corpus Christi, Texas
- Ray "Candles" Bright, Australian cricket slow-left armer (1977-86)
- Rick Chartraw, American ice hockey player
- Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer
Famous Deaths
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter who explored questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender and race in Mexican society, dies of a pulmonary embolism at 47
Frida Kahlo
- Irving Pichel, dies at 63