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- Alma Rubens was born Alma Genevieve Reubens in San Francisco, California. She was interested in entertaining at an early age. Like most young girls, she enjoyed fantasy play acting and by the time she was 19 had become a full-fledged star. She didn't have to wait long like some of the starlets who haunted casting offices continually. Her break came in 1916 in the film Reggie Mixes In (1916). Six more films followed that year, and she won critical acclaim in The Half-Breed (1916). In 1917 she again starred in a box-office smash, The Firefly of Tough Luck (1917). She became a busy young actress with role after role and hit after hit. In 1924, as Mildred Gower, she performed magnificently in The Price She Paid (1924). After a busy 1925, Alma suddenly found it difficult to obtain work, but it was not because her star had suddenly dimmed--it was because of her addiction to heroin. The money she made dwindled away in search of the next high. She was in and out of mental asylums, but it didn't really help much because she was still dabbling in drugs. Weakened by her habit, she died in Los Angeles in 1931, of pneumonia. She was less than a month away from her 34th birthday. Her final two films were two years earlier, Show Boat (1929) and She Goes to War (1929).
- Major J.A. McGuire was born on 29 March 1861 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Totem Mark (1911), A Leap for Life (1914) and Pegeen (1920). He died on 22 January 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Pavel Shchyogolev was born on 17 April 1877 in Verkhnyaya Katukhovka, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire [now Voronezh oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Dvorets i krepost (1924), Dekabristy (1927) and Stepan Khalturin (1925). He died on 22 January 1931 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].