University of Georgia basketball great Teresa Edwards was born. She would go on to become an Olympic basketball player, winning gold medals in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996.

Alonzo Herndon died in Atlanta, Georgia.  The first major black entrepreneur in Atlanta history, Herndon was born into slavery in Walton County, Georgia. After the Civil War, he moved to Jonesboro, where he opened a barber shop. Within a few months, he moved to Atlanta and began working in a downtown barber shop for blacks. Before long, Herndon owned several Atlanta barbershops , though the most famous was the "A. F. Herndon's Tonsorial Palace" which opened in 1902 on 66 Peachtree St. With mirror-lined walls, this glamorous facility was the most famous barber shop in the South -- and some would say the world. Its all-black staff served an all-white clientele that included Atlanta's leading citizens. Herndon's real success, however, came in insurance. By the time of his death in 1927, his Atlanta Life Insurance Company served the black community in eight states. Eventually it would become the largest black-owned insurance company in the U.S.