- Australia
- 1941 - Ian Redpath, 66 Tests for Australia over a dozen seasons and an average of 43, is born at Geelong
- England
- 1906 - John King, batting for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval, is given out hit the ball twice, the last such dismissal in England to date
- 1955 - Gilbert Jessop, legendary fast-scoring and hard-hitting batsman of the so-called Golden Age before the First World War, dies at Fordington, Dorset, aged 80
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