Historical Events
- Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
Famous Birthdays
- Alex D. Linz, American actor, born in Santa Barbara, California
- Anya Rozova [Anya Kop], Russian American model and America's Next Top Model contestant, born in Leningrad, USSR
- Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast (Olympic Champion 2012, 2016), born in Kitakyushu, Japan
Famous Deaths
- Nick Virgilio, American Haiku poet, dies at 60
- Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)