Publication of Taqqat uummammut aqqutaannut takorluukkat apuuffiannut /The Veins of the Heart to Pinnacle of the Mind by Aqqaluk Lynge

Birth in Aasiaat (Greenland) in 1947 of the Greenlandic poet, professor and politician Aqqaluk Lynge.

Birth of Bobby Kenuajuak in Puvirnituq (Nunavik) in 1976.

Death of Jimmy Patsauq Naumealuk in Inukjuak (Nunavik) in 1984.

Birth of Jimmy Patsauq Naumealuk the Inukjuak region (Nunavik) in 1951.