Famous Birthdays
- Christopher Samba, French-born footballer
- Nikki Sanderson, British actress and model
- Yordanos Abay, Ethiopian footballer
Famous Deaths
- Benjamin Mays, African-American educator (Morehouse, Howard University) and civil rights leader, dies at 89
- Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
- Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead