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April 15

On This Day in History

April 15

April 15 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 260 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Mississippi Lottery to begin offering Lotto America. The Mississippi Lottery officially announced today that it will expand its repertoire to begin offering tickets for the multi-state game Lotto America.
2022: North Carolina woman wins $700,000, her second lottery jackpot. A rather lucky woman made the trip back to the North Carolina Lottery to collect a $700,000 top prize, her second big jackpot win to-date.
2021: Legislation allows Montana lottery winners to remain anonymous. The Montana Lottery sent out its first news release Friday listing major lottery prizes won this week without including the names of the winners, following a new law allowing prize winners to remain anonymous.
2020: Coronavirus severely hurting Massachusetts Lottery sales. The Massachusetts State Lottery is taking a big hit as the COVID-19 state of emergency temporarily shutters many stores that sell tickets, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg told lawmakers Tuesday.
2019: Colorado man who unwittingly split a $4.8M jackpot with scammer is fighting the Colorado Lottery. A man who split a winning $4.8 million Colorado Lotto jackpot with two brothers who were eventually convicted of rigging the numbers says he is owed the full amount because he had played the game fairly.
2016: Michigan Lottery teams with PayPal for online payments. The Michigan Lottery is teaming with PayPal to offer players a new way to fund their online accounts.
2016: Michigan man arrested for impersonating lottery worker, stealing tickets. Lake Orion police have arrested a suspected thief who they say posed as a lottery agent at several Oakland and Macomb county CVS stores in order to steal Michigan Lottery scratch-off tickets.
2014: Northstar fights to keep Illinois lottery documents secret. The company hired to run the Illinois Lottery continued its fight to keep some documents under wraps, arguing their release would violate its contract with the state and expose company secrets to competitors.
2011: Three largest online poker sites shut down by FBI. The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted by the FBI on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to the thriving industry.
2010: Powerball lottery jackpot rises to $212M. The multi-state Powerball lottery drawing happened last night once again without any jackpot winners, causing the new jackpot for Saturday's drawing to grow to an estimated $215 million, with a cash option of $101.9 million.
2010: Pa. Lottery to pull the plug on Super 7. Pennsylvania Lottery officials announced the final drawing for Super 7 will be later this month, but it doesn't seem like players will miss the game.
2009: Nevada woman hits $33 million jackpot at casino. A woman who had planned to spend a quiet Easter at home is $33 million richer after hitting the second largest Megabucks jackpot in history at a Nevada casino.
2006: Florida Lotto fever peaks with tonight's $64 million drawing. Lotto fever heated up Friday in Southwest Florida and the rest of the state as people lined up to take their shot at instant millions.
2005: Illinois Senate approves Internet lottery ticket sales trial. Illinois gamblers would be able to buy lottery tickets by computer in a program the Senate approved Thursday.
2005: $165,000 Cash 5 lottery ticket sold in Bayonne, NJ. New Jersey lottery players, check your numbers: a lottery ticket worth about $165,000 was sold in a Bayonne convenience store.
2005: Georgia Lottery has best quarter ever. The Georgia Lottery had its strongest ticket sales ever during the past quarter, relieving concerns from state officials that slow sales would prove costly to the HOPE scholarship program.
2005: Interim Virginia Lottery director appointed. The Virginia governor has promoted a Virginia Lottery administrator as its interim executive director.
2005: Mass. lawmakers to challenge lottery horse-race game. Key Massachusetts state lawmakers signaled yesterday that they intend to rein in the Massachusetts Lottery's plans to launch a virtual horse-racing game on Keno-style monitors later this year.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Soars to $75 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing, the jackpot grew to an estimated $75 million, with a cash option of $41.7 million.
2004: The Two Titans of the Lottery Industry. For investors, the curious thing about the lottery business is that once you peel back the glossy governmental layer, it's virtually a duopoly. Practically all of the games in this country are managed directly or indirectly by just two companies: Rhode Island-based GTech Holdings and New York-based Scientific Games.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$337.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2022
2.$331 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2002
3.$265 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 18, 2006
4.$240 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2021
5.$224.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2023
6.$212 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2010
7.$205 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2016
8.€189.1 Million US$204.45 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2022
9.€137.36 Million US$163.46 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2021
10.€130.2 Million
US$161.06 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2018
11.$159 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2020
12.$157 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2019
13.€136.73 Million
US$154.42 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2019
14.$148 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
15.$144 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2005
16.$131 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 18, 2012
17.$122 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 18, 2018
17.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2010
19.$118 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2019
20.€106 Million
US$112.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
21.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2014
22.$109 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2009
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.€90 Million
US$99.23 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1987: Jeanenel
Wednesday, Apr 15, 1987
37 years old
1986: Msparker415
Tuesday, Apr 15, 1986
38 years old
1983: Mzbabyphat27
Friday, Apr 15, 1983
41 years old
1973: rwilson73!
Sunday, Apr 15, 1973
51 years old
1966: Doris Jamison
Friday, Apr 15, 1966
58 years old
1966: jojo4254
Friday, Apr 15, 1966
58 years old
1962: Thomas Covenant
Sunday, Apr 15, 1962
62 years old
1962: notsin11
Sunday, Apr 15, 1962
62 years old
1960: Calif-Dream $
Friday, Apr 15, 1960
64 years old
1951: DIAMOND RAY
Sunday, Apr 15, 1951
73 years old
1949: Lwdino
Friday, Apr 15, 1949
75 years old
: lynki516
(year not provided)
: DIAMONDRAY
(year not provided)
: Ike23
(year not provided)
: Lotto_Bookworm
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: A mass shooting occurred at a Fedex Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.
2019: The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.
2014: In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.
2013: Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
2013: A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
2002: Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.
1994: Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.
1989: Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.
1989: Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
1986: The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
1970: During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
1969: The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.
1960: At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
1955: McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1952: First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
1947: Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
1945: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
1942: The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
1941: In the Belfast Blitz, two hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
1936: First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
1923: Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1923: Racially motivated Nihon Shōgakkō fire lit by a serial arsonist kills 10 children in Sacramento, California.
1922: U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
1920: Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
1912: The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
1900: Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
1896: Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
1892: The General Electric Company is formed.
1865: President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Three hours later, Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president.
1861: President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
1817: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc found the American School for the Deaf (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.
1755: Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1738: Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England.
1736: Foundation of the short-lived Kingdom of Corsica.
1715: The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1642: Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.
1632: Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1450: Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.
1071: Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
769: The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.

Births On This Day

2001: Shanti Dope, Filipino rapper
1999: Denis Shapovalov, Canadian tennis player
1997: Ashleigh Gardner, Australian cricketer
1997: Maisie Williams, English actress
1995: Leander Dendoncker, Belgian footballer
1994: Brodie Grundy, Australian rules football player
1994: Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamian sprinter
1992: Jeremy McGovern, Australian rules football player
1991: Daiki Arioka, Japanese idol, singer, and actor
1991: Javier Fernández López, Spanish figure skater
1990: Emma Watson, English actress
1989: Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player
1988: Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player
1988: Steven Defour, Belgian footballer
1988: Chris Tillman, American baseball pitcher
1986: Tom Heaton, English footballer
1986: Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer
1985: Ryan Hamilton, Canadian ice hockey player
1984: Antonio Cromartie, American football player
1984: Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1984: Daniel Paille, Canadian ice hockey player
1983: Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
1983: Matt Cardle, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983: Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983: Andreas Fransson, Swedish skier (d. 2014)
1983: Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1983: Martin Pedersen, Danish cyclist
1982: Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
1982: Anthony Green, American singer-songwriter
1982: Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1981: Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentinian footballer
1980: Patrick Carney, American drummer, musician, and producer
1980: James Foster, English cricketer
1980: Raül López, Spanish basketball player
1980: Willie Mason, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
1980: Aida Mollenkamp, American chef and author
1980: Billy Yates, American football player
1979: Luke Evans, Welsh actor and singer
1978: Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978: Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1978: Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer
1978: Chris Stapleton, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977: Sudarsan Pattnaik, Indian sculptor
1977: Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
1976: Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1976: Darius Regelskis, Lithuanian footballer
1976: Kęstutis Šeštokas, Lithuanian basketball player
1976: Steve Williams, English rower
1975: Sarah Teichmann, German-American biophysicist and immunologist
1974: Kim Min-kyo, South Korean actor and director
1974: Danny Pino, American actor and screenwriter
1974: Mike Quinn, American football player
1974: Douglas Spain, American actor, director, and producer
1974: Tim Thomas, American ice hockey player
1972: Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (d. 2009)
1972: Lou Romano, American animator and voice actor
1971: Philippe Carbonneau, French rugby player
1971: Finidi George, Nigerian footballer
1971: Jason Sehorn, American football player
1971: Josia Thugwane, South African runner
1971: Karl Turner, English lawyer and politician
1970: Chris Huffins, American decathlete and coach
1969: Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
1969: Kaisa Roose, Estonian pianist and conductor
1969: Jimmy Waite, Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach
1968: Ben Clarke, English rugby player and coach
1968: Brahim Lahlafi, Moroccan-French runner
1968: Ed O'Brien, English guitarist
1967: Frankie Poullain, Scottish bass player and songwriter
1967: Dara Torres, American swimmer and journalist
1966: Samantha Fox, English singer-songwriter and actress
1966: Mott Green, American businessman (d. 2013)
1965: Soichi Noguchi, Japanese engineer and astronaut
1965: Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
1965: Kevin Stevens, American ice hockey player
1964: Andre Joubert, South African rugby player
1964: Lee Kernaghan, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963: Alex Crawford, Nigerian-South African journalist
1963: Manzoor Elahi, Pakistani cricketer
1963: Manoj Prabhakar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1962: Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan athlete and politician
1962: Tom Kane, American voice actor
1961: Neil Carmichael, English academic and politician
1961: Carol W. Greider, American molecular biologist
1961: Dawn Wright, American geographer and oceanographer
1960: Pierre Aubry, Canadian ice hockey player
1960: Susanne Bier, Danish director and screenwriter
1960: Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist and sportscaster
1960: Tony Jones, English snooker player
1959: Fruit Chan, Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
1959: Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1959: Emma Thompson, English actress, comedian, author, activist and screenwriter
1958: Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958: John Bracewell, New Zealand cricketer
1958: Memos Ioannou, Greek basketball player and coach
1958: Benjamin Zephaniah, English actor, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2023)
1957: Evelyn Ashford, American runner and coach
1956: Michael Cooper, American basketball player and coach
1955: Dodi Fayed, Egyptian film producer (d. 1997)
1955: Joice Mujuru, Zimbabwean politician
1952: Kym Gyngell, Australian actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1952: Brian Muir, English sculptor and set designer
1952: Avital Ronell, Czech-American philosopher and academic
1952: Glenn Shadix, American actor, (d. 2010)
1951: Heloise, American journalist and author
1951: John L. Phillips, American captain and astronaut
1951: Stuart Prebble, English journalist and producer
1951: Marsha Ivins, American engineer and astronaut
1950: Josiane Balasko, French actress, director, and screenwriter
1950: Amy Wright, American actress
1950: Karel Kroupa, Czech football player
1949: Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer-songwriter and actress
1949: Craig Zadan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
1948: Christopher Brown, English historian, curator, and academic
1948: Michael Kamen, American composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1948: Phil Mogg, English singer-songwriter and musician
1947: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American screenwriter and producer
1947: Martin Broughton, English businessman
1947: Lois Chiles, American model and actress
1947: David Omand, English civil servant and academic
1947: Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish nurse and politician, Swedish Minister for Social Security
1946: John Lloyd, Scottish journalist and author
1946: Pete Rouse, American politician, White House Chief of Staff
1944: Dave Edmunds, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1943: Pınar Kür, Turkish author, playwright, and academic
1943: Robert Lefkowitz, American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943: Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater, English politician
1943: Hugh Thompson, Jr., American soldier and pilot (d. 2006)
1942: Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop (d. 2017)
1942: Walt Hazzard, American basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
1942: Kenneth Lay, American businessman and criminal(d. 2006)
1942: Tim Lankester, English economist and academic
1941: Howard Berman, American lawyer and politician
1940: Jeffrey Archer, English author, playwright, and politician
1940: Penelope Coelen, South African actress, model, beauty queen and 1958 Miss World
1940: Willie Davis, American baseball player and actor (d. 2010)
1940: Robert Lacroix, Canadian economist and academic
1940: Robert Walker, American actor (d. 2019)
1939: Marty Wilde, English singer-songwriter and actor
1939: Desiré Ecaré, Ivorian filmmaker (d. 2009)
1938: Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
1938: Hso Khan Pha, Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician (d. 2016)
1937: Bob Luman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
1937: Robert W. Gore, American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (d. 2020)
1936: Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist (d. 2019)
1935: Stavros Paravas, Greek actor and producer (d. 2008)
1933: Roy Clark, American musician and television personality (d. 2018)
1933: David Hamilton, English-French photographer and director (d. 2016)
1933: Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress and producer (d. 1995)
1931: Kenneth Bloomfield, Northern Irish civil servant
1931: Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1930: Georges Descrières, French actor (d. 2013)
1930: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Icelandic educator and politician, 4th President of Iceland
1929: Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2008)
1929: Adrian Cadbury, English rower and businessman (d. 2015)
1927: Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (d. 1999)
1926: Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (d. 1990)
1924: M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1980)
1924: Rikki Fulton, Scottish comedian (d. 2004)
1924: Neville Marriner, English violinist and conductor (d. 2016)
1923: Artur Alliksaar, Estonian poet and author (d. 1966)
1923: Robert DePugh, American activist, founded the Minutemen (an anti-Communist organization) (d. 2009)
1922: Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
1922: Hasrat Jaipuri, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1999)
1922: Harold Washington, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1987)
1922: Graham Whitehead, English racing driver (d. 1981)
1921: Georgy Beregovoy, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
1921: Angelo DiGeorge, American physician and endocrinologist (d. 2009)
1920: Godfrey Stafford, English-South African physicist and academic (d. 2013)
1920: Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012)
1920: Richard von Weizsäcker, German soldier and politician, 6th President of Germany (d. 2015)
1919: Alberto Breccia, Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 1993)
1918: Hans Billian, German film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2007)
1917: Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982)
1917: Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and bomber pilot (d. 1944)
1917: James Kee, American lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
1916: Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1916: Helene Hanff, American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1915: Elizabeth Catlett, African-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 2012)
1912: William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1998)
1912: Kim Il Sung, North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994)
1910: Sulo Bärlund, Finnish shot putter (d. 1986)
1910: Miguel Najdorf, Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (d. 1997)
1909: Robert Edison Fulton Jr., American inventor and adventurer (d. 2004)
1908: eden ahbez, Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist (d. 1995)
1908: Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1907: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
1904: Arshile Gorky, Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948)
1903: John Williams, English-American actor (d. 1983)
1902: Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1901: Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978)
1901: Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1986)
1901: René Pleven, French businessman and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
1900: Ramón Iribarren, Spanish civil engineer (d. 1967)
1898: Harry Edward, Guyanese-English sprinter (d. 1973)
1896: Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
1895: Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker player (d. 1980)
1895: Abigail Mejia, Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator (d. 1941)
1894: Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
1894: Bessie Smith, African-American singer and actress (d. 1937)
1892: Theo Osterkamp, German general and pilot (d. 1975)
1892: Corrie ten Boom, Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister, and author (d. 1983)
1890: Percy Shaw, English businessman, invented the cat's eye (d. 1976)
1889: Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator (d. 1975)
1889: A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979)
1888: Maximilian Kronberger, German poet and author (d. 1904)
1887: Felix Pipes, Austrian tennis player (d. 1983)
1887: William Forgan Smith, Scottish-Australian politician, 24th Premier of Queensland (d. 1953)
1886: Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1921)
1885: Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
1883: Stanley Bruce, Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1879: Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
1878: Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (d. 1956)
1877: Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (d. 1947)
1877: William David Ross, Scottish philosopher (d. 1971)
1875: James J. Jeffries, American boxer and promoter (d. 1953)
1874: George Harrison Shull, American botanist and geneticist (d. 1954)
1874: Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
1863: Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (d. 1914)
1861: Bliss Carman, Canadian-British poet and playwright (d. 1929)
1858: Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (d. 1917)
1856: Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (d. 1910)
1843: Henry James, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1916)
1841: Mary Grant Roberts, Australian zoo owner (d. 1921)
1841: Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company Ltd (d. 1919)
1832: Wilhelm Busch, German poet, painter, and illustrator (d. 1908)
1828: Jean Danjou, French captain (d. 1863)
1817: William Crowther, Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1885)
1809: Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician (d. 1877)
1808: William Champ, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1892)
1800: James Clark Ross, English captain and explorer (d. 1862)
1795: Maria Schicklgruber, mother of Alois Hitler and the paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (d.1847)
1793: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer and academic (d. 1864)
1772: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844)
1771: Nicolas Chopin, French-Polish educator (d. 1844)
1741: Charles Willson Peale, American painter and soldier (d. 1827)
1710: William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)
1707: Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
1688: Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (d. 1758)
1684: Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)
1646: Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1642: Suleiman II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1691)
1641: Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722)
1592: Francesco Maria Brancaccio, Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
1588: Claudius Salmasius, French author and scholar (d. 1653)
1563: Guru Arjan Dev, fifth Sikh leader (d. 1606)
1552: Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626)
1469: Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru (d. 1539)
1452: Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1519)
1442: John Paston, English noble (d. 1479)
1282: Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1329)
68 BC: Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician (d. 8 BC)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Bilquis Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist and wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi (b. 1947)
2022: Henry Plumb, British politician and farmer (b. 1925)
2022: Liz Sheridan, American actress (b. 1929)
2018: R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944)
2018: Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2017: Clifton James, American actor (b. 1920)
2017: Emma Morano, Italian supercentenarian, last person verified born in the 1800s (b. 1899)
2015: Jonathan Crombie, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966)
2015: Surya Bahadur Thapa, Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928)
2014: John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (b. 1919)
2014: Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935)
2013: Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930)
2013: Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946)
2013: Jean-François Paillard, French conductor (b. 1928)
2012: Paul Bogart, American director and producer (b. 1919)
2012: Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (b. 1968)
2011: Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1975)
2010: Jack Herer, American author and activist (b. 1939)
2010: Michael Pataki, American actor and director (b. 1938)
2009: Clement Freud, German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)
2009: László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
2009: Salih Neftçi, Turkish economist and author (b. 1947)
2008: Krister Stendahl, Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921)
2007: Brant Parker, American illustrator (b. 1920)
2004: Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese illustrator (b. 1934)
2002: Damon Knight, American author and critic (b. 1922)
2002: Byron White, American football player, lawyer, and jurist, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1917)
2001: Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
2000: Edward Gorey, American poet and illustrator (b. 1925)
1999: Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer (b. 1944)
1998: William Congdon, American-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
1998: Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1925)
1993: Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
1993: John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
1989: Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1915)
1988: Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
1986: Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
1984: Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
1982: Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
1980: Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
1980: Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1979: David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
1971: Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
1971: Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
1967: Totò, Italian comedian (b. 1898)
1966: Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury, Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan
1963: Edward Greeves, Jr., Australian footballer (b. 1903)
1962: Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)
1962: Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
1949: Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
1948: Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
1945: Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895)
1944: Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)
1943: Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
1942: Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
1938: César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
1927: Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
1917: János Murkovics, Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel, businessman, and author (b. 1864)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Archibald Butt, American general and journalist (b. 1865)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Jacques Futrelle, American journalist and author (b. 1875)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Henry B. Harris, American producer and manager (b. 1866)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Wallace Hartley, English violinist and bandleader (b. 1878)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Charles Melville Hays, American businessman (b. 1856)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: James Paul Moody, English Sixth Officer (b. 1887)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish First Officer (b. 1873)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Jack Phillips, English telegraphist (b. 1887)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Edward Smith, English Captain (b. 1850)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: William Thomas Stead, English journalist (b. 1849)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Ida Straus, German-American businesswoman (b. 1849)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Isidor Straus, German-American businessman and politician (b. 1845)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: John B. Thayer, American business and sportsman (b. 1862)
1912: Victims of the Titanic disaster: Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer (b. 1872)
1898: Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui, New Zealand commander and politician
1889: Father Damien, Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
1888: Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (b. 1822)
1865: Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
1861: Sylvester Jordan, Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
1854: Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)
1793: Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718)
1788: Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
1765: Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711)
1764: Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1679)
1764: Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV (b. 1721)
1761: Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682)
1761: William Oldys, English historian and author (b. 1696)
1757: Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter (b. 1673)
1754: Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676)
1719: Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, French wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1659: Simon Dach, German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1605)
1652: Patriarch Joseph of Moscow, Russian patriarch
1632: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1580)
1610: Robert Persons, English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (b. 1546)
1578: Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, German nobleman (b. 1509)
1558: Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. c. 1500)
1502: John IV of Chalon-Arlay, Prince of Orange (b. 1443)
1446: Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1377)
1415: Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek philosopher and translator (b. 1355)
1237: Richard Poore, English ecclesiastic
1220: Adolf of Altena, German archbishop (b. 1157)
1136: Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (b. 1094)
1053: Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
956: Lin Yanyu, Chinese court official and eunuch
943: Liu Bin, emperor of Southern Han (b. 920)
628: Suiko, emperor of Japan (b. 554)

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