Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa and founder of the Missionaries of Charity, was born in Skopje.

Birth of Mother Teresa (Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu)

Sangharakshita, the British teacher who founded the Triratna Buddhist Community, was born Dennis Lingwood in London.

Sangharakshita

The cardinals in conclave elected Albino Luciani, patriarch of Venice, who took the name John Paul I and served for thirty-three days.

Election of Pope John Paul I

Antoine Lavoisier, often called the father of modern chemistry for naming oxygen and establishing the conservation of mass in reactions, was born in Paris.