- England
- 1935 - Harold Gimblett, a village cricketer aged 21 from Bicknoller, making his first-class debut for Somerset against Essex at Frome, bats at No 8 and hits 123, his hundred coming in 63 minutes and winning the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest hundred of the season.
- 1953 - The Rev. Tom Killick, who played two Tests for England in 1929, dies at the age of 46 while playing in a match between the diocesan clergy of St Albans and Coventry at Northampton.
- 1959 - Graham Dilley, fast-medium bowler in 41 Tests for England between 1979 and 1989, is born at Dartford, Kent.