Events in Music
Album Release
"Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)

Michael Jackson
Birthdays in Music
- Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed, British-Pakistani actor (The Night Of), rapper (Swet Shop Boys) and activist, born in Wembley, London
Deaths in Music
- Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday