2nd » 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
13th » Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
20th » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
21st » The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
22nd » The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
23rd » 60 Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are Massacre of the Sixty called executed by the provisional military government.
2nd » Nelly, American rapper and actor (St. Lunatics)
2nd » Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
3rd » Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player and coach
3rd » Sonali Kulkarni, Indian actress
4th » Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American singer-songwriter and drummer (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Anywhere (band) or Anywhere, De Facto (band) e.g De Facto, and The Fall on Deaf Ears)
4th » Louise Redknapp, English singer and actress (Eternal (band) or Eternal)
5th » Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Whiskeytown, The Finger (band) known as The Finger, Pornography (band) named Pornography, and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals)
5th » Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter (Arch Enemy (band) named Arch Enemy)
5th » Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
5th » Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster