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April 16

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April 16

April 16 is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 259 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: U.K. convicts used stolen card to win £4 million lottery prize; now card owner wants the winnings. The owner of the debit card two United Kingdom convicts used to purchase a winning lottery ticket worth £4 million (US$4.98 million) says he wants to see at least of the portion of the prize.
2021: Maryland Lottery director Gordon Medenica to retire. Maryland Lottery and Gaming Director Gordon Medenica announced on Thursday that he will be retiring from his position as the head of the Agency on June 1.
2019: New giveaway formed after $1 million Iowa Lottery prize goes unclaimed. The Iowa Lottery released a plan for a new giveaway, funded by the money from an unclaimed prize in Nevada.
2019: Mississippi lottery board adopts rules on ethics and records. The governing board for the upcoming Mississippi Lottery is setting rules for ethics and public records, as well as taking steps to hire bankers to provide financial services and a person to run day-to-day operations.
2019: Wisconsin man wins $1.19M on his first sports bet. A Wisconsin man collected $1.19 million after winning a longshot bet on Tiger Woods winning the Masters.
2018: Woman scratches off three winning lottery tickets in a row. A Kansas woman who bought three scratch-off lottery tickets skipped one because she thought there wouldn't be two winners in a row — but she was wrong.
2015: Wyoming has its first lottery jackpot winner. One lucky lottery player who bought a lottery ticket in Douglas, Wyoming, will become the first person in the state's history to win a lottery jackpot.
2015: Connecticut Lottery makes its pitch for keno. Proponents told members of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee on Wednesday that bringing keno to Connecticut is essential to keeping the state's lottery competitive with other states', while opponents decried the game as a short-sighted and ill-advised way to generate revenue.
2014: Illinois Lottery mulling changes to drawings. Illinois Lottery officials said Tuesday they are considering parting ways with WGN-TV, home to daily drawings since 1994, when the current one-year contract expires in June.
2013: Loopholes allow some Michigan lottery winners to stay on welfare. Michigan's Department of Human Services says they are unable to end all welfare cases for lottery winners in the state because some programs don't have asset testing.
2013: Judge throws out some charges against lottery-thieving brothers. An Onondaga County Court judge who dismissed attempted grand larceny charges against two brothers accused of stealing a winning $5 million lottery ticket in 2006 ruled the crime was beyond the statute of limitations.
2010: Missouri Lottery gives inside view of computerized drawings. The Missouri Lottery takes viewers on a tour of their computerized drawing facilities and procedures.
2010: N.J. school board member claims $211.7M Powerball jackpot. A Morristown, New Jersey, school board member has come forward as the winner of the March 13 $211.7 million Powerball jackpot, the third largest single-ticket lottery payout in New Jersey.
2010: Arkansas man wins second $10,000 Powerball prize. An Arkansas lottery player claimed a $10,000 Powerball prize at Arkansas Lottery headquarters Thursday -- for the second time.
2010: Lottery scam victim dies scarred. Lottery victim Lorraine Teicht died of cancer on April 5 at age 56, just months before the sentencing date of the convenience kiosk owner who stole her winning ticket worth $5.7 million.
2009: Washington Senate passes Powerball bill. The Washington state Senate has passed a bill that would let the state join the multi-state Powerball lottery game.
2009: Mystery Powerball lottery winner spurs new contest. "Guess the Winner" is a new online contest on the D.C. Lottery Web site that asks players whether they think the winner of the $144 million Powerball jackpot is a seasoned D.C. lottery player, an occasional player or a newbie, among other things.
2009: Man plays same number on 20 lottery tickets, wins $90K. The Virginia Lottery said Wednesday that Steve Granger of Henderson, N.C., won $90,800 in Sunday night's Pick 4 drawing by playing the same number combination, 5-1-1-7, on 20 tickets.
2006: "Lotologist" has amassed 250,000 used lotto tickets. Dennis Morse collects a lot of things but is most passionate about one thing in particular: used scratch-off lottery tickets.
2004: $109 Million Mega Millions Lottery Winner Comes Forward. Maryland State Lottery officials said Friday that the winners of a $109 million Mega Millions jackpot have come forward.
2004: IRS ruling on Lotto fought. New York Lottery winner Shirley B. Prebola of Greece could end up a $1.3 million loser if the Internal Revenue Service has its way.
2004: Wiretap equipment gets Lottery official fired. A half-joking quip about wiretapping equipment sparked an internal investigation that led to the April 2 firing of the Ohio Lottery's human resource director and a continuing criminal probe by the State Highway Patrol.
2004: GTech Profit Up as Lottery Sales Rise. GTech Holdings Corp., a leading lottery systems operator, on Thursday said quarterly earnings rose 14 percent, on acquisitions and higher lottery ticket sales driven by big jackpots.
2004: Connecticut House votes to give jackpot to winner who missed deadline. A Hamden, Connecticut man who missed a deadline to cash in his winning $5.8 million Connecticut Lotto ticket may get a second chance to hit the jackpot.
2004: Tennessee Lottery yields $64M for scholarships. The transfer of $63,774,000 from the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. to the bank account for scholarships represents the profits since the first scratchoff tickets were sold Jan. 20.

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.$237.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 17, 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.$168 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 19, 2005
10.€138.71 Million
US$165.06 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2021
11.€130.2 Million
US$161.06 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2018
12.$159 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2020
13.$157 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2019
14.€136.73 Million
US$154.42 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2019
15.$148 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
16.$131 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 18, 2012
17.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2010
17.$122 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 18, 2018
19.$118 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2019
20.€109 Million
US$117.64 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 19, 2022
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.$109 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2009
24.€101.38 Million
US$107.71 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
25.€90 Million
US$99.23 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1984: alekk
Monday, Apr 16, 1984
40 years old
1982: Shereezy
Friday, Apr 16, 1982
42 years old
1977: Gamble 456
Saturday, Apr 16, 1977
47 years old
1973: bonez
Monday, Apr 16, 1973
51 years old
1972: westleygirl
Sunday, Apr 16, 1972
52 years old
1968: Masters
Tuesday, Apr 16, 1968
56 years old
1965: DRGRQ
Friday, Apr 16, 1965
59 years old
1962: Cool Man
Monday, Apr 16, 1962
62 years old
1961: NITEHAWK61
Sunday, Apr 16, 1961
63 years old
1959: JoBaby59
Thursday, Apr 16, 1959
65 years old
1957: germaira
Tuesday, Apr 16, 1957
67 years old
1955: JPansy
Saturday, Apr 16, 1955
69 years old
1951: Tet510$
Monday, Apr 16, 1951
73 years old
1949: essie
Saturday, Apr 16, 1949
75 years old
: Rojo
(year not provided)
: Stew12
(year not provided)
: PATTYH
(year not provided)
: fortune44
(year not provided)
: kismet41687
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
2016: Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274.
2014: The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
2013: A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
2013: The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
2012: The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012: The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2008: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
2007: Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
2003: The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
2001: India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
1972: Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1963: U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.
1961: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1948: The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.
1947: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
1947: Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1945: World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945: The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945: More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1944: World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1943: Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
1942: King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.
1941: World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941: World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
1925: During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1922: The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1919: Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919: Polish-Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1917: Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
1912: Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1910: The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1908: Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1881: In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1878: The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issued a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
1863: American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
1862: American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862: American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1858: The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved.
1853: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
1847: Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
1838: The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
1818: The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1799: French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1780: Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
1746: The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
1582: Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1520: The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1346: Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
73: Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish-Roman War.
69: Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor Otho commits suicide.
1457 BC: Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

Births On This Day

2002: Sadie Sink, American actress
1996: Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress
1996: Taylor Townsend, American tennis player
1993: Chance the Rapper, American rapper
1993: Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
1991: Nolan Arenado, American baseball player
1991: Kim Kyung-jung, South Korean footballer
1990: Reggie Jackson, American basketball player
1990: Vangelis Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
1990: Tony McQuay, American sprinter
1988: Kyle Okposo, American ice hockey player
1987: Cenk Akyol, Turkish basketball player
1987: Aaron Lennon, English international footballer
1986: Shinji Okazaki, Japanese footballer
1986: Peter Regin, Danish ice hockey player
1986: Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast
1985: Luol Deng, Sudanese-English basketball player
1985: Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist
1985: Brendon Leonard, New Zealand rugby player
1985: Taye Taiwo, Nigerian footballer
1984: Teddy Blass, American composer and producer
1984: Claire Foy, English actress
1984: Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
1984: Paweł Kieszek, Polish footballer
1984: Kerron Stewart, Jamaican sprinter
1983: Marié Digby, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1983: Cat Osterman, American softball player
1982: Gina Carano, American mixed martial artist and actress
1982: Boris Diaw, French basketball player
1982: Jonathan Vilma, American football player
1981: Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer
1981: Maya Dunietz, Israeli singer-songwriter and pianist
1981: Matthieu Proulx, Canadian football player
1979: Christijan Albers, Dutch racing driver
1979: Lars Börgeling, German pole vaulter
1979: Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player
1977: Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
1976: Lukas Haas, American actor and musician
1976: Kelli O'Hara, American actress and singer
1973: Akon, Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
1973: Charlotta Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
1973: Teddy Cobeña, Spanish-Ecuadorian expressionist and representational sculptor
1972: Conchita Martínez, Spanish-American tennis player
1972: Tracy K. Smith, American poet and educator
1971: Cameron Blades, Australian rugby player
1971: Selena, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (d. 1995)
1971: Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver
1971: Natasha Zvereva, Belarusian tennis player
1970: Dero Goi, German singer-songwriter and drummer
1970: Margreth Olin, Norwegian filmmaker
1970: Walt Williams, American basketball player
1969: Patrik Järbyn, Swedish skier
1969: Fernando Viña, American baseball player and sportscaster
1968: Vickie Guerrero, American wrestler and manager
1968: Rüdiger Stenzel, German runner
1966: Jarle Vespestad, Norwegian drummer
1965: Yves-François Blanchet, Canadian politician
1965: Jon Cryer, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1965: Martin Lawrence, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1964: Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish pianist (d. 2008)
1963: Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
1963: Jimmy Osmond, American singer
1962: Anna Dello Russo, Italian journalist
1961: Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, seventh Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (d. 2014)
1960: Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
1960: Rafael Benítez, Spanish footballer and manager
1960: Pierre Littbarski, German footballer and manager
1959: Alison Ramsay, English-Scottish field hockey player and lawyer
1958: Tim Flach, English photographer and director
1958: Ulf Wakenius, Swedish guitarist
1957: Patricia De Martelaere, Belgian philosopher, author, and academic (d. 2009)
1956: David M. Brown, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
1956: T Lavitz, American keyboard player, composer, and producer (d. 2010)
1956: Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
1955: Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1954: Ellen Barkin, American actress
1954: John Bowe, Australian racing driver
1954: Mike Zuke, Canadian ice hockey player
1953: Peter Garrett, Australian singer-songwriter and politician
1952: Michel Blanc, French actor and director
1952: Esther Roth-Shahamorov, Israeli sprinter and hurdler
1951: Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian author and photographer
1950: David Graf, American actor (d. 2001)
1950: Colleen Hewett, Australian singer and actress
1948: Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician, 17th Canadian President of the Treasury Board (d. 2011)
1947: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player and coach
1947: Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1946: Margot Adler, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1946: Ernst Bakker, Dutch politician (d. 2014)
1946: Johnnie Lewis, Liberian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Justice of Liberia (d. 2015)
1946: R. Carlos Nakai, American flute player
1945: Tom Allen, American lawyer and politician
1943: Petro Tyschtschenko, Austrian-German businessman
1943: John Watkins, Australian cricketer
1942: Jim Lonborg, American baseball pitcher
1942: Sir Frank Williams, English businessman, founded the Williams F1 Racing Team (d. 2021)
1941: Allan Segal, American director and producer (d. 2012)
1940: Benoît Bouchard, Canadian academic and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Transport
1940: David Holford, Barbadian cricketer
1940: Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
1940: Joan Snyder, American painter
1940: Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, English banker and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom
1939: John Amabile, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
1939: Dusty Springfield, English singer and record producer (d. 1999)
1938: Rich Rollins, American baseball player
1938: Gordon Wilson, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
1937: Gert Potgieter, South African hurdler and coach
1937: George Steele, American wrestler and actor (d. 2017)
1936: Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (d. 2015)
1935: Marcel Carrière, Canadian director and screenwriter
1935: Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (d. 2013)
1935: Lennart Risberg, Swedish boxer (d. 2013)
1935: Dominique Venner, French journalist and historian (d. 2013)
1935: Bobby Vinton, American singer
1934: Vince Hill, English singer-songwriter (d. 2023)
1934: Robert Stigwood, Australian producer and manager (d. 2016)
1934: Barrie Unsworth, Australian politician, 36th Premier of New South Wales
1934: Vicar, Chilean cartoonist (d. 2012)
1933: Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
1933: Joan Bakewell, English journalist and author
1933: Perry Botkin Jr., American composer, arranger and musician (d. 2021)
1933: Vera Krepkina, Russian long jumper (d. 2023)
1933: Ike Pappas, American journalist and actor (d. 2008)
1932: Maury Meyers, American lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1931: Julian Carroll, American politician, 54th Governor of Kentucky (d. 2023)
1930: Doug Beasy, Australian footballer and educator (d. 2013)
1930: Herbie Mann, American flute player and composer (d. 2003)
1929: Roy Hamilton, American singer (d. 1969)
1929: Ralph Slatyer, Australian biologist and ecologist (d. 2012)
1929: Ed Townsend, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2003)
1928: Night Train Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
1927: Edie Adams, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1927: Pope Benedict XVI (d. 2022)
1927: Rolf Schult, German actor (d. 2013)
1926: Pierre Fabre, French pharmacist, founded Laboratoires Pierre Fabre (d. 2013)
1924: John Harvey-Jones, English academic and businessman (d. 2008)
1924: Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (d. 1994)
1924: Madanjeet Singh, Indian diplomat, author, and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1923: Warren Barker, American composer (d. 2006)
1923: Arch A. Moore Jr., American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2015)
1922: Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1995)
1922: Lawrence N. Guarino, American colonel (d. 2014)
1922: Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
1921: Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (d. 2014)
1921: Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1920: Ananda Dassanayake, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2012)
1920: Prince Georg of Denmark (d. 1986)
1919: Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
1919: Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (d. 2011)
1919: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect (d. 2013)
1918: Hsuan Hua, Chinese-American monk and author (d. 1995)
1918: Spike Milligan, Irish actor, comedian, and writer (d. 2002)
1917: Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (d. 2013)
1917: Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
1916: Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet, and translator (d. 1979)
1915: Robert Speck, Canadian politician, first Mayor of Mississauga (d. 1972)
1914: John Hodiak, American actor (d. 1955)
1911: Guy Burgess, English-Russian spy (d. 1963)
1910: Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
1908: Ellis Marsalis, Sr., American businessman and activist (d. 2004)
1908: Ray Ventura, French jazz bandleader (d. 1979)
1907: Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (d. 1964)
1907: August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (d. 1947)
1905: Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
1904: Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American vaudevillian, actress, and singer (d. 1983)
1903: Paul Waner, American baseball player and manager (d. 1965)
1900: Polly Adler, Russian-American madam and author (d. 1962)
1899: Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (d. 1988)
1896: Robert Henry Best, American journalist (d. 1952)
1896: Árpád Weisz, Hungarian footballer (d. 1944)
1895: Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (d. 1988)
1893: Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1968)
1893: John Norton, American hurdler (d. 1979)
1892: Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery (d. unknown)
1892: Howard Mumford Jones, American author, critic, and academic (d. 1980)
1891: Dorothy P. Lathrop, American author and illustrator (d. 1980)
1890: Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1954)
1890: Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (d. 1979)
1889: Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977)
1888: Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (d. 1940)
1886: Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American football player and javelin thrower (d. 1957)
1886: Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
1885: Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (d. 1960)
1884: Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, journalist, and politician (d. 1963)
1882: Seth Bingham, American organist and composer (d. 1972)
1878: R. E. Foster, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1914)
1874: Jōtarō Watanabe, Japanese general (d. 1936)
1871: John Millington Synge, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1909)
1867: Wilbur Wright, American inventor (d. 1912)
1866: José de Diego, Puerto Rican journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1918)
1865: Harry Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
1864: Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (d. 1915)
1851: Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, third Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (d. 1930)
1848: Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (d. 1919)
1847: Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (d. 1906)
1844: Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1839: Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Italian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
1834: Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant (d. 1862)
1827: Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet and bookseller (d. 1879)
1826: Sir James Corry, 1st Baronet, British politician (d. 1891)
1823: Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician and academic (d. 1852)
1821: Ford Madox Brown, French-English soldier and painter (d. 1893)
1808: Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, sixth United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1864)
1800: George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English field marshal and politician (d. 1888)
1786: John Franklin, English admiral and politician, fourth Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (d. 1847)
1755: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
1730: Henry Clinton, English general and politician (d. 1795)
1728: Joseph Black, French-Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1799)
1697: Johann Gottlieb Görner, German organist and composer (d. 1778)
1682: John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (d. 1744)
1661: Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, First Lord of the Treasury (d. 1715)
1660: Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (d. 1753)
1646: Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect (probable; d. 1708)
1635: Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (d. 1681)
1569: John Davies, English poet and lawyer (d. 1626)
1516: Tabinshwehti, Burmese king (d. 1550)
1495: Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1557)
1488: Jungjong of Joseon (d. 1544)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Andrew Peacock, Australian politician (b. 1939)
2021: Helen McCrory, British actress (b. 1968)
2021: Liam Scarlett, British choreographer (b. 1986)
2021: John Dawes, Welsh rugby union player (b. 1940)
2018: Harry Anderson, American actor and magician (b. 1952)
2015: Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1948)
2015: Stanislav Gross, Czech lawyer and politician, fifth Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (b. 1969)
2014: Gyude Bryant, Liberian businessman and politician (b. 1949)
2014: Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (b. 1929)
2014: Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (b. 1923)
2013: Charles Bruzon, Gibraltarian politician (b. 1938)
2013: Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (b. 1928)
2013: Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (b. 1926)
2013: Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2013: George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1909)
2013: Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1930)
2013: Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and National Museum of Anthropology (b. 1919)
2012: Sári Barabás, Hungarian soprano (b. 1914)
2012: Marian Biskup, Polish author and academic (b. 1922)
2012: Alan Hacker, English clarinet player and conductor (b. 1938)
2012: George Kunda, Zambian lawyer and politician, 11th Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1956)
2012: Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (b. 1913)
2012: Carlo Petrini, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1948)
2011: Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (b. 1928)
2011: Allan Blakeney, Canadian scholar and politician, tenth Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925)
2011: Sol Saks, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1910)
2010: Rasim Delić, Bosnian general and convicted war criminal (b. 1949)
2010: Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (b. 1926)
2008: Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
2007: Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
2007: Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1962)
2007: Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915)
2007: Chandrabose Suthaharan, Sri Lankan journalist
2005: Kay Walsh, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
2003: Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
2003: Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticulturalist and author (b. 1909)
2002: Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2002: Ruth Fertel, American businesswoman, founded Ruth's Chris Steak House (b. 1927)
2002: Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
2001: Robert Osterloh, American actor (b. 1918)
2001: Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2001: Alec Stock, English footballer and manager (b. 1917)
1999: Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
1998: Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
1998: Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
1998: Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1880)
1997: Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (b. 1921)
1997: Roland Topor, French actor, director, and painter (b. 1938)
1996: Lucille Bremer, American actress and dancer (b. 1917)
1994: Paul-Émilien Dalpé, Canadian labor unionist (b. 1919)
1994: Ralph Ellison, American novelist and critic (b. 1913)
1992: Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
1992: Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian spy and activist (b. 1915)
1992: Andy Russell, American singer and actor (b. 1919)
1991: David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1989: Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
1989: Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (b. 1915)
1989: Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
1989: Hakkı Yeten, Turkish footballer, manager and president (b. 1910)
1988: Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (b. 1935)
1988: Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (b. 1954)
1985: Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
1980: Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)
1978: Lucius D. Clay, American officer and military governor in occupied Germany (b. 1898)
1973: István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929)
1972: Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1972: Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894)
1970: Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892)
1970: Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence (b. 1897)
1969: Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
1968: Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
1968: Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1885)
1966: Eric Lambert, Australian author (b. 1918)
1965: Francis Balfour, English soldier and colonial administrator (b. 1884)
1965: Sydney Chaplin, English actor, comedian, brother of Charlie Chaplin (b. 1885)
1961: Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1912)
1960: Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director (b. 1884)
1958: Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (b. 1920)
1955: David Kirkwood, Scottish engineer and politician (b. 1872)
1950: Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1905)
1950: Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (b. 1867)
1947: Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (b. 1900)
1946: Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
1942: Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
1942: Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862)
1941: Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (b. 1880)
1940: Tony D'Arcy, Irish Republican died while on hunger strike (b. 1908)
1938: Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (b. 1874)
1937: Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, third Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1870)
1935: Panait Istrati, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1884)
1930: José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher, and activist (b. 1894)
1928: Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1928: Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (b. 1900)
1925: Stefan Nerezov, Bulgarian general (b. 1867)
1915: Nelson W. Aldrich, American businessman and politician (b. 1841)
1914: George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838)
1904: Maximilian Kronberger, German poet and author (b. 1888)
1904: Samuel Smiles, Scottish-English author (b. 1812)
1899: Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1875)
1888: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845)
1879: Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (b. 1844)
1859: Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1805)
1850: Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761)
1846: Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer (b. 1763)
1828: Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1746)
1788: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707)
1783: Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (b. 1719)
1756: Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
1742: Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet and translator (b. 1672)
1689: Aphra Behn, English author and playwright (b. 1640)
1687: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English poet and politician, Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire (b. 1628)
1645: Tobias Hume, Scottish soldier, viol player, and composer (b. 1569)
1640: Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (b. 1579)
1587: Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (b. 1497)
1496: Charles II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1489)
1375: John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1347)
1234: Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (b. 1191)
1198: Frederick I, Duke of Austria (b. 1175)
1118: Adelaide del Vasto, regent of Sicily, mother of Roger II of Sicily, queen of Baldwin I of Jerusalem
1113: Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050)
1090: Sikelgaita, duchess of Apulia (b. c. 1040)
665: Fructuosus of Braga, French archbishop and saint
AD 69: Otho, Roman emperor (b. AD 32)

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