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April 13

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April 13

April 13 is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 262 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2026: UK lottery winner misses claims deadline for £10.6 million jackpot. The lottery player who won a £10.6 million (US$14.2 million) Lotto jackpot missed out on the opportunity to collect their winnings, a rare occurrence for the UK National Lottery.
2025: North Carolina veteran wins $100,000 Keno lottery prize in the process of claiming $50,000. It was a lucky day for one North Carolina veteran, who won a $100,000 Keno lottery prize while already waiting to claim a separate $50,000 prize.
2024: Michigan woman wins $500,000 in lottery the same day a tarot card reading predicts influx of money. Call it fate or call it the wildest luck yet, but one Michigan woman had the most coincidental experience ever when she won $500,000 in the lottery the same day a tarot card reading predicted money was headed her way.
2023: Michigan woman didn't realize she had Powerball lottery ticket worth $1 million for six weeks. A Michigan woman didn't realize she was in possession of a lottery ticket worth $1 million for six weeks.
2020: Kentucky Lottery now using computerized drawings. Starting today, you will no longer be able to watch how the Kentucky Lottery draws its daily numbers games because the drawings now take place inside a computer program.
2018: NJ man claims $533 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Friday morning the New Jersey Lottery revealed the sole winner of the mammoth $533 million Mega Millions jackpot won on March 30.
2018: Michigan woman buys entire bar drinks after lottery win. A Michigan woman bought a round for everyone in a Michigan bar after realizing she won a $189,912 prize from the Michigan Lottery.
2017: Idaho Lottery announces St. Patrick's Day Raffle winners. Idaho Lottery officials on Wednesday announced the winning ticket numbers for the St. Patrick's Day Raffle, including the $100,000 top prize.
2017: Are lawmakers selling the Texas Lottery short?. Texas Lottery officials are worried they will have to cut back on the variety of scratch-offs offered — and on the advertising that promotes the games — now that Texas budget writers are considering cutting as much as $18 million from the agency's budget.
2016: Lottery rigging scandal prompts security audit in South Dakota. The scandal unfolding in Iowa, where software allowed some results to be rigged in multi-state lotto drawings, has added to concerns among South Dakota Lottery officials, spurring them to proceed Thursday in requesting proposals for a security review of South Dakota Lottery facilities.
2016: Quebec bill would force Internet firms to block access to online gambling sites. A little-publicized bill that is making its way through Quebec's legislative process has digital-law experts and others worried that the concept of a free and open Internet is being threatened in the province.
2015: BOMBSHELL: MUSL employee might have rigged Hot Lotto computerized drawing. Lottery Post has been warning of the dangers of computerized drawings for over a decade, and now prosecutors of the mystery Hot Lotto winner from Iowa are looking at the possibility that those warnings have come true.
2014: Man threw away $1.25 million worth of lottery tickets. A Pennsylvania man misread his winning lottery tickets and threw them away, losing out on a $1.25 million payout.
2012: NY lottery winner charged with welfare fraud. A western New York lottery winner has been accused of improperly receiving more than $4,000 in public assistance.
2012: Six $1 million lottery prizes won at same Louisiana store. Lottery officials say six different $1 million Mega Millions lottery prizes were won from tickets sold at a gas station in Watson, Louisiana.
2011: $9.6M Washington Lotto jackpot claimed. A department store buyer is Washington's latest lottery millionaire, after collecting a lump-sum $4.8 million payout on a $9.6 million Lotto jackpot.
2007: Lotto tickets lead cops to murder suspect. Lottery tickets left at the scene of a double slaying at a Southwest Side grocery store in 2005 have led Chicago police to the suspected killer, police said today.
2007: Lottery declares 'foul' during evening Daily Number drawing. Pennsylvania Lottery officials declared a foul during the Thursday night Daily Number drawing.
2005: The Force is strong in California. Californians can be the first in the nation to try their luck with the release of the new collectible Star Wars Scratchers lottery ticket.
2005: Illinois House Votes To Create Lottery Game Supporting Veterans. The Illinois House Tuesday voted to create a new scratch-off lottery game and give the profit to veterans' programs.
2005: N.C. Religious Leaders Stage Anti-Lottery Rally. On the same day state Senate leaders appointed a special committee to review the lottery bill recently passed by the House, religious leaders rallied outside the Legislative Building to convince lawmakers to reject a lottery.
2005: Virginia Lottery sales top $1 billion for fifth straight year. Virginia Lottery sales have increased even as competition looms in neighboring states, lottery officials announced Tuesday.
2005: N.C. Senate lottery panel named. Nearly half of the North Carolina Senate is on a special committee that will debate the lottery bill approved last week by the House, including several members worried about state-sponsored gambling.
2005: Michigan Winfall to be eliminated on May 14. The Michigan Lotto game will end up in the grave yard of similar lottery contests and be replaced with a new game called Classic Lotto 47, said state Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters.
2004: Euro Millions $30.5 million lottery winner 'shocked'. A British woman who scooped the biggest ever EuroMillions jackpot was said Monday to be "pretty shocked".
2004: Minnesota Senate wants lottery examined. After soundly rejecting a call to abolish the state lottery, Minnesota senators voted unanimously Monday night to study ways to change its management and business practices.
2004: Lottery is bright spot in S.C. revenue. The South Carolina lottery has funded more than 300,000 college scholarships and sent tens of millions of dollars to aid primary education, buy new school buses and support an endowment fund for the state's three research universities, said Ernie Passailaigue, the lottery's executive director.
2004: Texas Lottery sales up for the year. Overall lottery ticket sales are up this year even as Lotto Texas, the state-run big jackpot game, is down about 26 percent, Texas Lottery Commission officials said Monday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$476 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2023
2.$331 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2002
3.$303.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2022
4.$224.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2023
5.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2021
5.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2006
7.€187.85 Million US$203.8 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2022
8.$184 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2016
9.€149.28 Million US$175.1 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2026
10.$175 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2010
11.€136.2 Million
US$162.08 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2021
12.€128.93 Million
US$159.03 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2018
13.$157 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2019
14.€135.47 Million
US$153.17 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2019
15.$148 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
16.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2020
17.$144 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2005
18.€115 Million
US$134.9 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2026
19.$120 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2026
20.$113 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2012
21.€106 Million
US$112.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
22.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2014
23.€101.38 Million
US$107.71 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
24.€99 Million
US$107.02 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2022
25.$106 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2018

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1993: Diamondslim
Tuesday, Apr 13, 1993
33 years old
1988: casinoboi
Wednesday, Apr 13, 1988
38 years old
1986: Locklotto
Sunday, Apr 13, 1986
40 years old
1978: jasean13
Thursday, Apr 13, 1978
48 years old
1978: Lucky$K
Thursday, Apr 13, 1978
48 years old
1978: Nicciluvsu13
Thursday, Apr 13, 1978
48 years old
1977: claudeld8
Wednesday, Apr 13, 1977
49 years old
1972: James413
Thursday, Apr 13, 1972
54 years old
1971: lbrazzill
Tuesday, Apr 13, 1971
55 years old
1966: Spikesmom2!
Wednesday, Apr 13, 1966
60 years old
1964: debell
Monday, Apr 13, 1964
62 years old
1964: AllansGaGa
Monday, Apr 13, 1964
62 years old
1963: keithporter
Saturday, Apr 13, 1963
63 years old
1962: JefferyA
Friday, Apr 13, 1962
64 years old
1961: Krissywins 7777
Thursday, Apr 13, 1961
65 years old
1959: LWHIT8859
Monday, Apr 13, 1959
67 years old
1957: bonnielove1
Saturday, Apr 13, 1957
69 years old
1955: Cash2000
Wednesday, Apr 13, 1955
71 years old
1948: achatha1
Tuesday, Apr 13, 1948
78 years old
1947: hamp-$
Sunday, Apr 13, 1947
79 years old
: Rastamelup
(year not provided)
: aceemac13
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2025: Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.
2024: Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia.
2023: The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.
2014: Three people are killed in a shooting in Overland Park, Kansas.
2013: Salam Fayyad resigns as Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority following an ongoing dispute with the President Mahmoud Abbas.
2009: A fire destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland.
2006: The United Front for Democratic Change's attack on the Chadian capital of N'Djamena is repelled by the Chadian army
1997: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
1996: Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
1976: The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
1976: Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.
1975: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1972: The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
1972: Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
1970: At 10:08 PM EST an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
1964: At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
1960: The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1948: In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
1945: World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
1945: World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
1943: World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1943: The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1941: A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1924: A.E.K., a major Greek multi-sport club, is established in Athens by Greek refugees from Constantinople.
1919: Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379-1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
1909: The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1873: The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
1865: American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union forces.
1861: American Civil War: Union forces surrender Fort Sumter to Confederate forces.
1849: Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.
1829: The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
1777: American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1742: George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1699: The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1613: Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.
1612: Samurai Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō in a duel at Funajima island.
1455: Thirteen Years' War: the beginning of the Battle for Kneiphof.
1204: Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1175: Saladin routs his Muslim opponents, the Zengids, in the battle of the Horns of Hama, consolidating his control over Syria except for Aleppo.
1111: Henry V, King of Germany, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

Births On This Day

2002: Karl Hein, Estonian footballer
2001: Neco Williams, Welsh footballer
2000: Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
2000: Facundo Torres, Uruguayan footballer
1999: Alessandro Bastoni, Italian footballer
1999: András Schäfer, Hungarian footballer
1997: Mateo Cassierra, Colombian footballer
1997: Kyle Walker-Peters, English footballer
1996: Marko Grujić, Serbian footballer
1994: Kahraba, Egyptian footballer
1993: Melvin Gordon, American football player
1993: Darrun Hilliard, American basketball player
1992: Jordan Silk, Australian cricketer
1991: Josh Gordon, American football player
1989: Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
1988: Allison Williams, American actress and singer
1988: Anderson, Brazilian footballer
1987: Steven De Vuyst, Belgian politician
1987: John-Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
1986: Lorenzo Cain, American baseball player
1984: Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer
1983: Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer
1983: Hunter Pence, American baseball player
1982: Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
1982: Ty Dolla Sign, American singer, songwriter, and musician
1980: Kelli Giddish, American actress
1980: Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1979: Baron Davis, American basketball player
1978: Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
1977: Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician
1976: Jonathan Brandis, American actor (died 2003)
1976: Dan Campbell, American football player and coach
1976: Glenn Howerton, American actor
1975: Lou Bega, German singer
1973: Bokeem Woodbine, American actor
1972: Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971: Franck Esposito, French swimmer
1971: Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor
1971: Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
1970: Ricky Schroder, American actor
1967: Dana Barros, American basketball player and coach
1967: Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic
1967: Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
1966: Mando, Greek singer
1965: Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator
1964: Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster
1963: Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author
1960: Rudi Völler, German footballer and manager
1959: John Middendorf, American mountain climber (died 2024)
1958: Jean-Marc Pilorget, French footballer and manager
1956: César, Brazilian footballer (died 2024)
1955: Steve Camp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955: Muwenda Mutebi II, current King of Buganda Kingdom
1955: Safet Sušić, Bosnian footballer and manager
1952: Gabrielle Gourdeau, Canadian writer (died 2006)
1952: Sam Bush, American mandolinist
1952: Jonjo O'Neill, Irish jockey and trainer
1951: Leszek Borysiewicz, Welsh immunologist and academic
1951: Peabo Bryson, American singer
1951: Peter Davison, English actor
1951: Joachim Streich, German footballer (died 2022)
1951: Max Weinberg, American musician and bandleader
1950: Ron Perlman, American actor
1950: Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2021)
1950: William Sadler, American actor
1949: Len Cook, New Zealand-English mathematician and statistician
1949: Frank Doran, Scottish lawyer and politician (died 2017)
1949: Christopher Hitchens, English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (died 2011)
1948: Nam Hae-il, South Korean admiral
1948: Drago Jančar, Slovenian author and playwright
1948: Mikhail Shufutinsky, Soviet and Russian singer, actor, TV presenter
1947: Rae Armantrout, American poet and academic
1947: Mike Chapman, Australian-English songwriter and producer
1947: Jean-Jacques Laffont, French economist and academic (died 2004)
1947: Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer and politician (died 2019)
1946: Al Green, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor
1945: Judy Nunn, Australian actress and author
1944: Susan Davis, Russian-American social worker and politician
1943: Alan Jones, Australian rugby coach and radio host
1943: Tim Krabbé, Dutch journalist and author
1942: Bill Conti, American composer and conductor
1941: Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941: Jean-Marc Reiser, French author and illustrator (died 1983)
1940: Mike Beuttler, Egyptian-English racing driver (died 1988)
1940: J. M. G. Le Clézio, Breton French-Mauritian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940: Vladimir Cosma, French composer, conductor and violinist
1940: Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (died 2006)
1940: Max Mosley, English racing driver and engineer, co-founded March Engineering, former president of the FIA (died 2021)
1940: Ruby Puryear Hearn, African-American biophysicist
1939: Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
1939: Paul Sorvino, American actor and singer (died 2022)
1938: Klaus Lehnertz, German pole vaulter
1937: Col Joye, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1937: Edward Fox, English actor
1937: Lanford Wilson, American playwright, co-founded the Circle Repertory Company (died 2011)
1934: John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2021)
1932: Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (died 1976)
1931: Anita Cerquetti, Italian soprano (died 2014)
1931: Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (died 2001)
1931: Dan Gurney, American race car driver and engineer (died 2018)
1931: Jon Stone, American composer, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)
1929: Marilynn Smith, American golfer (died 2019)
1928: Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister of State for Trade (died 1999)
1928: Gianni Marzotto, Italian racing driver and businessman (died 2012)
1927: Rosemary Haughton, English philosopher, theologian, and author (died 2024)
1927: Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (died 1983)
1926: Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (died 1983)
1926: John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (died 2014)
1924: John T. Biggers, American painter (died 2001)
1924: Jack T. Chick, American author, illustrator, and publisher (died 2016)
1924: Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (died 2019)
1923: Don Adams, American actor and director (died 2005)
1923: A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (died 2014)
1922: Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (died 1994)
1922: John Braine, English librarian and author (died 1986)
1922: Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician and teacher, 1st President of Tanzania (died 1999)
1922: Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (died 2002)
1920: Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (died 1982)
1920: Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2012)
1920: Liam Cosgrave, Irish lawyer and politician, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 2017)
1920: Theodore L. Thomas, American chemical engineer, Patent attorney and writer (died 2005)
1919: Roland Gaucher, French journalist and politician (died 2007)
1919: Howard Keel, American actor and singer (died 2004)
1919: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founded American Atheists (died 1995)
1917: Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (died 2007)
1917: Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (died 2011)
1916: Phyllis Fraser, Welsh-American actress, journalist, and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (died 2006)
1914: Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet and author (died 1950)
1913: Dave Albritton, American high jumper and coach (died 1994)
1913: Kermit Tyler, American lieutenant and pilot (died 2010)
1911: Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer and manager (died 1946)
1911: Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 1994)
1911: Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (died 1983)
1909: Eudora Welty, American short story writer and novelist (died 2001)
1907: Harold Stassen, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (died 2001)
1906: Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
1906: Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1991)
1905: Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey (died 1964)
1904: David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (died 1987)
1902: Philippe de Rothschild, French Grand Prix driver, playwright, and producer (died 1988)
1902: Marguerite Henry, American author (died 1997)
1901: Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (died 1981)
1901: Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (died 1988)
1900: Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor (died 2006)
1900: Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (died 1976)
1899: Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (died 1993)
1899: Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete (died 1975)
1897: Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (died 1917)
1896: Fred Barnett, English footballer (died 1982)
1894: Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1973)
1894: May Brodney, Australian labour activist (died 1973)
1892: Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, English air marshal (died 1984)
1892: Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented Radar (died 1973)
1891: Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1921)
1891: Nella Larsen, Danish/African-American nurse, librarian, and author (died 1964)
1891: Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (died 1973)
1890: Frank Murphy, American jurist and politician, 56th United States Attorney General (died 1949)
1890: Dadasaheb Torne, Indian director and producer (died 1960)
1889: Herbert Yardley, American cryptologist and author (died 1958)
1887: Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and golfer (died 1995)
1885: Vean Gregg, American baseball player (died 1964)
1885: Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, Head of State of Estonia (died 1942)
1885: György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and critic (died 1971)
1885: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch politician (died 1961)
1880: Charles Christie, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded the Christie Film Company (died 1955)
1879: Edward Bruce, American lawyer and painter (died 1943)
1879: Oswald Bruce Cooper, American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and educator (died 1940)
1875: Ray Lyman Wilbur, American physician, academic, and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1949)
1873: John W. Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Solicitor General (died 1955)
1872: John Cameron, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 1935)
1872: Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian-Croatian journalist and author (died 1945)
1866: Butch Cassidy, American criminal (died 1908)
1865: Lucie Lagerbielke, Swedish writer and painter (died 1931).
1860: James Ensor, English-Belgian painter, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism (died 1949)
1857: Fanny Ingvoldstad, Norwegian painter (died 1935)
1856: Urania Marquard Olsen, Danish-Norwegian actress and theatre director (died 1932)
1854: Lucy Craft Laney, American founder of the Haines Normal and Industrial School, Augusta, Georgia (died 1933)
1852: Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman, founded the F. W. Woolworth Company (died 1919)
1851: Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (died 1928)
1851: William Quan Judge, Irish occultist and theosophist (died 1896)
1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (died 1917)
1841: Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (died 1905)
1832: Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author and diplomat (died 1889)
1828: Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (died 1906)
1828: Joseph Lightfoot, English bishop and theologian (died 1889)
1825: Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (died 1868)
1824: William Alexander, Irish archbishop, poet, and theologian (died 1911)
1810: Félicien David, French composer (died 1876)
1808: Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (died 1889)
1802: Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and herpetologist (died 1884)
1794: Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (died 1867)
1787: John Robertson, American lawyer and politician (died 1873)
1784: Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (died 1877)
1780: Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse (died 1868)
1771: Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer (died 1833)
1769: Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (died 1830)
1764: Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1830)
1747: Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (died 1793)
1743: Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States (died 1826)
1735: Isaac Low, American merchant and politician, founded the New York Chamber of Commerce (died 1791)
1732: Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1792)
1729: Thomas Percy, Irish bishop and poet (died 1811)
1713: Pierre Jélyotte, French tenor (died 1797)
1648: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (died 1717)
1636: Hendrik van Rheede, Dutch botanist (died 1691)
1618: Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French author (died 1693)
1593: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1641)
1573: Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (died 1625)
1570: Guy Fawkes, English soldier, member of the Gunpowder Plot (probable; died 1606)
1519: Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (died 1589)
1506: Peter Faber, French priest and theologian, co-founded the Society of Jesus (died 1546)
1350: Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (died 1405)
1229: Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (died 1294)

Deaths On This Day

2025: Richard Armitage, American diplomat and government official (born 1945)
2025: Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian novelist and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1936)
2025: Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (born 1934)
2024: Faith Ringgold, American artist and author (born 1930)
2022: Michel Bouquet, French stage and film actor (born 1925)
2022: Gloria Parker, American musician and bandleader (born 1921)
2017: Dan Rooney, American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (born 1932)
2015: Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (born 1940)
2015: Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
2015: Herb Trimpe, American author and illustrator (born 1939)
2014: Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (born 1935)
2014: Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (born 1951)
2013: Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (born 1924)
2012: Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (born 1941)
2012: Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (born 1936)
2008: John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (born 1911)
2006: Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (born 1918)
2005: Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (born 1924)
2005: Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (born 1912)
2004: Caron Keating, Northern Irish television host (born 1962)
2000: Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (born 1916)
2000: Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager (born 1910)
1999: Ortvin Sarapu, Estonian-New Zealand chess player and author (born 1924)
1999: Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (born 1914)
1998: Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and base jumper (born 1960)
1997: Bryant Bowles, American soldier and white supremacist, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (born 1920)
1997: Alan Cooley, Australian public servant (born 1920)
1997: Dorothy Frooks, American author and actress (born 1896)
1997: Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (born 1903)
1996: Leila Mackinlay, English author and educator (born 1910)
1993: Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1909)
1992: Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (born 1923)
1992: Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (born 1921)
1992: Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (born 1968)
1988: Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (born 1920)
1984: Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist and musicologist (born 1911)
1984: Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (born 1912)
1983: Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (born 1934)
1983: Theodore Stephanides, Greek physician, author, and poet (born 1896)
1980: Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (born 1956)
1978: Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (born 1931)
1978: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and women's rights activist (born 1900)
1975: Larry Parks, American actor and singer (born 1914)
1975: François Tombalbaye, Chadian soldier, academic, and politician, 1st President of Chad (born 1918)
1973: Henry Darger, American janitor and author (born 1892)
1971: Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1949)
1971: Juhan Smuul, Estonian author, poet, and screenwriter (born 1921)
1969: Ambrogio Gianotti, Italian partigiano and priest (born 1901)
1969: Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (born 1901)
1967: Nicole Berger, French actress (born 1934)
1966: Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi colonel and politician, 2nd President of Iraq (born 1921)
1966: Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (born 1881)
1966: Georges Duhamel, French soldier and author (born 1884)
1964: Kristian Krefting, Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (born 1891)
1962: Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (born 1876)
1961: John A. Bennett, American soldier (born 1936)
1959: Eduard van Beinum, Dutch pianist, violinist, and conductor (born 1901)
1956: Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and educator (born 1867)
1954: Samuel Jones, American high jumper (born 1880)
1954: Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (born 1890)
1945: Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (born 1874)
1944: Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (born 1857)
1942: Henk Sneevliet, Dutch politician (born 1883)
1942: Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (born 1879)
1941: Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (born 1863)
1941: William Twaits, Canadian soccer player (born 1879)
1938: Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author (born 1888)
1936: Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician 129th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1876)
1927: Georg Voigt, German politician, Mayor of Frankfurt (born 1866)
1927: Sabás Reyes Salazar, Mexican Catholic priest (born 1888)
1920: Stefanos Streit, Greek jurist, banker and politician (born 1896)
1918: Lavr Kornilov, Russian general (born 1870)
1917: Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1856)
1912: Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet and author (born 1886)
1911: John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (born 1852)
1911: George Washington Glick, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (born 1827)
1910: William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish-English painter and educator (born 1835)
1909: Whitley Stokes, Anglo-Irish lawyer and scholar (born 1830)
1890: Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (born 1828)
1886: John Humphrey Noyes, American religious leader, founded the Oneida Community (born 1811)
1882: Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (born 1809)
1880: Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and author (born 1813)
1878: Bezalel HaKohen, Russian rabbi (born 1820)
1868: Tewodros II of Ethiopia (born 1818)
1855: Henry De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist (born 1796)
1853: Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (born 1788)
1853: James Iredell, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (born 1788)
1826: Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (born 1763)
1794: Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright and poet (born 1741)
1793: Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French botanist, lawyer, and politician (born 1763)
1722: Charles Leslie, Irish priest and theologian (born 1650)
1716: Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (born 1648)
1695: Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (born 1621)
1641: Richard Montagu, English bishop (born 1577)
1638: Henri, Duke of Rohan (born 1579)
1635: Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman prince (born 1572)
1612: Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai (born 1585)
1605: Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (born 1551)
1592: Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1511)
1367: John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot (born 1313)
1275: Eleanor of England (born 1215)
1213: Guy of Thouars, regent of Brittany
1138: Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1076)
1113: Ida of Lorraine, saint and noblewoman (born c. 1040)
1093: Vsevolod I of Kiev (born 1030)
1035: Herbert I, Count of Maine
989: Bardas Phokas, Byzantine general
862: Donald I, king of the Picts (born 812)
814: Krum, khan of the Bulgarian Khanate
799: Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and historian (born 720)
585: Hermenegild, Visigothic prince and saint
548: Lý Nam Đế, Vietnamese emperor (born 503)

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