- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Tahiti.
- 1858 - Venceslau de Sousa Pereira de Lima was born in Porto, Portugal.
- 1913 - Antonin Fritsch died in Prague.
- 1982 - Carlos de Paula Couto died in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
- 2001 - Edwin H. Colbert died in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
