Beauty salon owner Rose Morgan is born in Edward, Mississippi.

Attorney and boxing promoter Truman Gibson is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

Singer Herbert Mills, future member of the celebrated Mills Brothers Quartet, is born in Piqua, Ohio.

Teacher and community activist Pauline Morton is born.

Historian Carter G. Woodson received his doctorate from Harvard University on this date. Dr. Woodson is known as the "Father of Black History". He came up with the idea for Negro History Week, which was expanded into an entire month years later.

Social activist Dorothy Height is born in Richmond, Virginia.

James Oscar Lee is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He will spend his career educating others, both in schools and in the Navy.

Educator & Banker J.B. Clemmons is born.

Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche was the only Black to perish on the Titanic on this date. He made sure that his wife and two daughters made it to a lifeboat. Laroche and his family were on their way to Haiti from France. His uncle was the President of Haiti.

Blacksmith Philip Simmons is born.

Joseph H. Dickinson patented his player piano on this date.

Concert soprano Anne Brown is born on this date in Baltimore, Maryland. Brown was the first person to play the lead role in Porgy and Bess on Broadway in 1935.

Artist Romare Bearden was born on this date in Charlotte, North Carolina. Some of Bearden's artwork includes The Piano Lesson, The Return of Odysseus, and The Block.

Blues pioneer W.C. Handy published his song Memphis Blues on this date. It was the first blues song put on sheet music. Handy became known as the "Father of the Blues".

Federal District Appellate Judge George Leighton is born in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Educator Rachel Hall Brown is born in Glen Burnie, Maryland.

Educator Marie L. Greenwood is born.

Artist Gordon Parks, Sr. is born in Fort Scott, Kansas.

Entrepreneur Julie Hunter is born in Jacksonville, Florida.

Pro boxer Henry Armstong was born Henry Melody Jackson, Jr. on this date in Columbus, Mississippi. Armstrong has the distinction of being the only boxer in history to hold three world titles in three different weight classes at the same time. He was also one of the first boxers to be inducted into the Pro Boxers' Hall of Fame.

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. was born on this date in Washington, D.C. Davis was the first African American general of the United States Air Force.