- Australia
- 1933 - Archie Jackson, (pictured right), who appeared in eight Test matches for Australia, dies at Brisbane from tuberculosis at the age of 23.
- New Zealand
- 1979 - First Test is staged at McLean Park in Napier, New Zealand. The ground is the 50th Test venue worldwide. The match is between New Zealand and Pakistan.
- West Indies
- 1904 - Ellis Achong, who appeared in six Tests in the 1930s and is sometimes credited as the origin of the term "chinaman" to describe slow left-arm unorthodox spin bowling, is born in Trinidad.
- 1954 - Michael Holding is born at Kingston.