- 1830 - Camille Pissarro born (d. 1903). (pictured)
- 1934 - Erich Mühsam dies (b. 1878). Murdered by the Nazis at the Oranienburg concentration camp.
- 1946 - Stuart Christie born; Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1974 - During this month the premier issue of La Lanterne Noire (Black Lantern) appears.
- 1998 - Soledad Maria Rosas dies, hanging herself while under house arrest; Bene Vagienna, Italy.