Historical Events
- Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
Famous Birthdays
- Adriano, Brazilian footballer
- Brian Bruney, American baseball player
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor (Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
- Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
Famous Deaths
- Lee Strasberg, Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night), dies at 80
- Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
- Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist and composer, dies at 64