- Events
- 1701 – The Chinese storm Dartsedo.
- 1945 – World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road.
- Births
- 1833 – Charles George Gordon, English general and administrator (pictured) (d. 1885)
- 1915 – Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (d. 2009)
- 1967 – Jan Lamb, Chinese singer and actor (Softhard)
- Deaths
- 2013 – Xu Liangying, Chinese physicist, historian, and philosopher (b. 1920)