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April 20

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April 20

April 20 is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 255 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2026: New lottery number experiment pays off for North Carolina woman with $212,371 Cash 5 jackpot. A North Carolina woman went with a new approach in picking her lottery numbers, and she came out on top with a $212,371 Cash 5 jackpot on the first try.
2023: Hoosier Lottery to launch new Cash Pop game. The Hoosier Lottery announced yesterday that it will be adding Cash Pop to its portfolio of draw games.
2022: Multi-state lottery game Powerball celebrates its 30th birthday. Powerball, one of the largest draw-based lottery games in the United States, is turning 30 years old this week.
2021: Idaho lottery players get a new game and more drawings starting this week. This week the Idaho Lottery began offering the multi-state 2by2 game for the first time and expanded its in-state Weekly Grand game to daily drawings.
2021: Missouri man who won multiple $1,000 lottery prizes finally nabs the $100,000 top prize. As if he wasn't lucky already, one Missouri man stuck with his favorite lottery game to finally bring home a $100,000 top prize after winning multiple $1,000 prizes in the past.
2021: Triple zeroes — Virginia Lottery players cash in on 0-0-0. Yesterday, the Virginia Lottery announced the results and prize payouts of the Pick 3 afternoon drawing in which players broke the bank after the combination 0-0-0 was drawn.
2018: Iowa Lottery CEO announces retirement. Iowa Lottery CEO Terry Rich announced Thursday that he intends to retire in late 2018 or early 2019. Rich has led the Iowa Lottery since February 2009 and is just the second person to serve as its CEO since the lottery's start in 1985.
2015: A state lottery could help Alabama get its financial house in order. Alabama might be the next hold-out state to break down and start a lottery -- and it might do the state some good.
2015: Texas man charged in Iowa lottery case contests extradition. A Texas businessman accused of helping a lottery security official to try to claim a rigged $14 million jackpot is out of jail while he fights extradition to Iowa.
2013: Canadian lottery winner donates $1 million for marijuana legalization. In Canada, the annual nationwide 420 celebrations are entirely sponsored by lottery winner Bob Erb.
2013: EuroMillions lottery winners to build unusual home. EuroMillions winners Matt and Cassey Topham plan to build an unusual eight-bedroom mansion with waterfall-screened garage and grotto swimming pool.
2012: Maryland Lottery Director says online sales coming. The Maryland Lottery hopes to have its online lottery sales platform up and running by January 1, 2013.
2011: Toronto janitor claims share of $50M lottery jackpot. A Toronto man has claimed his share of a massive $50 million lottery jackpot, four days after the ticket he purchased at a downtown newsstand was declared a winner.
2011: Millionaire janitor buys school new track. Five years after his big lottery win, a janitor made good on a decade-old promise to install a track at his school if he came into money.
2010: Nick of time: N.Z. man claims lottery prize 1 day before expiration. A man in Auckland, New Zealand claimed his lottery prize of $391,581 just 24 hours before the ticket would have expired.
2007: B.C. Lottery shuts down retailer as probe continues. The British Columbia Lottery Corp. has yanked its ticketing terminals from a North Shore kiosk -- the fifth such shutdown this year, the company says.
2007: Legal opinion sinks sale of Colorado Lottery. Dreams of selling off the Colorado Lottery for a fat payoff were discarded like a losing scratch ticket Thursday after state legal experts gave an adverse opinion on the plan.
2005: $205 Million:" Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot. Lottery mania is spreading across the United States as the Mega Millions lottery reaches a jackpot of $205 million.
2004: Maryland Couple Claims $109 Million Mega Millions Lottery Jackpot. Maryland State Lottery officials today announced the winners of the $109 million, multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot, the second-largest award ever in Maryland.
2004: Powerball lottery sales strong in Tennessee. Lured by tomorrow night's $90 million jackpot in the multistate game, thousands of Tennesseans bought a chance to win the big money yesterday on the first day of Powerball sales in this state.
2004: Lottery winner gives away £12 million in one week. Generous Marion Richardson is giving her family £12 million (US$21.5 million) of her £17 million (US$30.5 million) Euro Millions lottery jackpot - because she reckons she won too much.
2004: Law firm cuts lottery bill by 15% after scrutiny. A Nashville law firm has agreed to reduce its $892,000 bill for legal services to the Tennessee lottery by 15 percent, or more than $100,000 legislators said Monday.
2004: Kentucky Lottery works to counter revenue loss. Even as they celebrated the 15th anniversary of the start-up of the Kentucky Lottery - and predicted a strong finish to the fiscal year - lottery officials acknowledged an uncertain future yesterday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$372.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2022
2.$258.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2010
3.$257 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2021
4.$227 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2016
5.€190.89 Million US$207.32 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2022
6.$205 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2005
7.$202 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2024
8.$192 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2019
9.€152.65 Million US$179.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2026
10.€139.9 Million
US$166.48 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2021
11.$164 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2020
12.€130 Million
US$159.91 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2018
13.€139.49 Million
US$156.84 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2019
14.$152 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2012
15.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2014
16.$143 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2010
17.€133 Million
US$142.14 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2024
18.$142 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2018
19.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2026
20.$139.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2025
21.$136 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2019
22.€124 Million
US$133.96 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2022
23.$130 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2009
24.€120 Million
US$128.24 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2024
25.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2008

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: Stormiela
Friday, Apr 20, 1990
36 years old
1989: Genome
Thursday, Apr 20, 1989
37 years old
1989: UpTop74
Thursday, Apr 20, 1989
37 years old
1988: aries20188
Wednesday, Apr 20, 1988
38 years old
1987: Y0ungMoney
Monday, Apr 20, 1987
39 years old
1985: MrMtnDewGalant
Saturday, Apr 20, 1985
41 years old
1985: mandy_dawn
Saturday, Apr 20, 1985
41 years old
1984: Earl84
Friday, Apr 20, 1984
42 years old
1983: Motiur
Wednesday, Apr 20, 1983
43 years old
1980: Amandaw
Sunday, Apr 20, 1980
46 years old
1976: Android
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1976
50 years old
1976: chachingme6369
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1976
50 years old
1976: Gavy0727
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1976
50 years old
1971: Angie71
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
55 years old
1971: WinSumBucks
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
55 years old
1971: Charlie!227
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
55 years old
1971: Kwabenamike
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
55 years old
1971: WinSumMoney
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
55 years old
1970: Godly$
Monday, Apr 20, 1970
56 years old
1967: parianar
Thursday, Apr 20, 1967
59 years old
1965: CindyB65
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1965
61 years old
1957: flojo2007
Saturday, Apr 20, 1957
69 years old
1953: hogansdog
Monday, Apr 20, 1953
73 years old
1940: Jeshen
Saturday, Apr 20, 1940
86 years old

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023: SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time. It explodes four minutes into flight.
2021: State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
2020: For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
2015: Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
2013: A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.
2012: One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
2010: The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that lasted six months.
2008: Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2007: Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips barricades himself with a handgun in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2004: The Nicoll Highway in Singapore collapsed, killing four workers.
1999: Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 14 people and injure 23 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
1998: Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
1985: University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid: Animal Liberation Front rescues 467 animals being tested in a lab at University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, causing $700,000 in damages to the laboratory in advocation for Animal rights.
1972: Apollo program: Apollo 16 Lunar Module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.
1968: English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
1968: South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near J.G. Strijdom Airport in South West Africa (now Hosea Kutako International Airport in Namibia), killing 123 people.
1961: Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
1949: Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.
1946: The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
1945: World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945: World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
1945: Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
1922: The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
1918: Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1914: Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
1908: Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
1902: Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
1898: U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish-American War.
1884: Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
1876: The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
1865: Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
1862: Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
1861: American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
1861: Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.
1836: U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1828: René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive.
1809: Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1800: The Septinsular Republic is established.
1792: France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1789: George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
1770: The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
1752: Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740-57).
1657: English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1657: Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1653: Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
1303: The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
1303: The Bahri Mamluks defeat the Ilkhanate in the battle of Marj al-Saffar, marking the end of the Mongol incursions into Syria.
1152: After an eight-year conflict, Baldwin III of Jerusalem wins sole control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende.

Births On This Day

2005: Tallyn Da Silva, Australian rugby league player
1997: Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
1991: Luke Kuechly, American football player
1990: Kyle Higashioka, American baseball player
1990: Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer
1989: Vannesa Rosales, Venezuelan activist and teacher
1988: Brandon Belt, American baseball player
1987: Jorge Pinto, Portuguese politician
1984: Harris Wittels, American comedian (died 2015)
1983: Miranda Kerr, Australian model
1980: Emma Husar, Australian politician
1978: Carl Greenidge, English cricketer
1975: Killer Mike, American rapper
1974: Randy Fine, American politician and former gambling industry executive
1973: Julie Powell, American food writer and memoirist (died 2022)
1972: Carmen Electra, American model and actress
1972: Stephen Marley, Jamaican-American musician
1971: Allan Houston, American basketball player
1970: Shemar Moore, American actor
1969: Felix Baumgartner, Austrian daredevil (died 2025)
1969: Will Hodgman, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Tasmania
1968: Julia Morris, Australian entertainer
1967: Lara Jill Miller, American actress
1967: Mike Portnoy, American drummer and songwriter
1966: David Chalmers, Australian philosopher and academic
1966: David Filo, American businessman, co-founded Yahoo!
1965: Kostis Chatzidakis, Greek politician, Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism
1965: Léa Fazer, Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress
1965: Mark Mallia, Maltese painter and sculptor (died 2024)
1964: John Carney, American football player
1964: Crispin Glover, American actor and filmmaker
1964: Andy Serkis, English actor and director
1964: Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
1963: Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor
1962: Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, Mongolian Politician, (died 1998)
1961: Don Mattingly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1961: Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
1960: Debbie Flintoff-King, Australian hurdler and coach
1959: Perry Haddock, Australian rugby league player
1958: Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1956: Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for Justice
1956: Peter Chelsom, English film director, writer, and actor
1956: Kakha Bendukidze, Georgian economist and politician (died 2014)
1955: Olivia Dahl (died 1962), daughter of Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal
1955: Donald Pettit, American engineer and astronaut
1955: Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate
1953: Sebastian Faulks, English journalist and author
1953: James Chance, American musician (died 2024)
1952: Louka Katseli, Greek economist and politician
1951: Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2005)
1950: Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (died 2002)
1950: N. Chandrababu Naidu, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
1949: Veronica Cartwright, English-American actress
1949: Toller Cranston, Canadian-Mexican figure skater and painter (died 2015)
1949: Massimo D'Alema, Italian journalist and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
1949: Jessica Lange, American actress
1948: Matthias Kuhle, German geographer and academic (died 2015)
1947: Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian economist and politician
1947: Viktor Suvorov, Russian intelligence officer, historian, and author
1947: Niko Lekishvili, Georgian politician (died 2025)
1946: Sandro Chia, Italian painter and sculptor
1945: Michael Brandon, American actor and director
1945: Olga Karlatos, Greek actress and Bermudian lawyer
1945: Thein Sein, Burmese general and politician, 8th President of Burma
1945: Naftali Temu, Kenyan runner (died 2003)
1945: Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
1944: Toivo Aare, Estonian journalist and author (died 1999)
1943: Alan Beith, English academic and politician
1943: John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor and director
1941: Ryan O'Neal, American actor (died 2023)
1940: James Gammon, American actor (died 2010)
1939: Peter S. Beagle, American author and screenwriter
1939: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway-
1938: Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (died 2017)
1938: Manfred Kinder, German runner
1938: Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress (died 1991)
1938: Johnny Tillotson, American singer-songwriter (died 2025)
1937: Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2011)
1937: Harvey Quaytman, American painter and educator (died 2002)
1937: George Takei, American actor
1936: Lisa Davis, English-American actress
1936: Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese technician, surveyor, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2012)
1936: Pat Roberts, American captain, journalist, and politician
1932: Myriam Bru, French actress
1931: Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, English lieutenant and politician (died 2014)
1931: John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, English businessman and politician
1930: Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (died 2014)
1930: Antony Jay, English director and screenwriter (died 2016)
1928: Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (died 2013)
1928: Johnny Gavin, Irish international footballer (died 2007)
1927: Bud Cullen, Canadian judge and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Employment and Immigration (died 2005)
1927: Phil Hill, American race car driver (died 2008)
1927: K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
1925: Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (died 2006)
1925: Elena Verdugo, American actress (died 2017)
1924: Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (died 2008)
1924: Leslie Phillips, English actor and producer (died 2022)
1924: Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and academic (died 2025)
1923: Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network (died 2016)
1923: Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and illustrator (died 2008)
1923: Tito Puente, American drummer and producer (died 2000)
1921: Katarína Kolníková, Slovak actress (died 2006)
1920: Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (died 2002)
1920: Clement Isong, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Cross River State (died 2000)
1920: John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 2019)
1919: Richard Hillary, Australian lieutenant and pilot (died 1943)
1918: Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)
1916: Yoko Matsuoka, Japanese writer (died 1979)
1916: Nasiba Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress (died 2004)
1915: Joseph Wolpe, South African psychotherapist and physician (died 1997)
1914: Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (died 1999)
1913: Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor and poet (died 1986)
1913: Willi Hennig, German biologist and entomologist (died 1976)
1910: Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician (died 1961)
1908: Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player, pianist, bandleader, and actor (died 2002)
1907: Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricketer (died 1991)
1907: Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek bishop (died 2010)
1904: Bruce Cabot, American actor (died 1972)
1899: Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1918)
1895: Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (died 1972)
1893: Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer (died 1971)
1893: Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1983)
1891: Dave Bancroft, American baseball player and manager (died 1972)
1890: Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (died 1959)
1890: Adolf Schärf, Austrian soldier and politician, 6th President of Austria (died 1965)
1889: Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, lawyer, and activist (died 1996)
1889: Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (died 1918)
1889: Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, French mystic (died 1918)
1889: Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (died 1945)
1889: Tonny Kessler, Dutch footballer (died 1960)
1884: Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1966)
1884: Oliver Kirk, American boxer (died 1960)
1884: Daniel Varoujan, Armenian poet and educator (died 1915)
1882: Holland Smith, American general (died 1967)
1879: Paul Poiret, French fashion designer (died 1944)
1875: Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet and lawyer (died 1909)
1873: James Harcourt, English character actor (died 1951)
1871: Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (died 1951)
1860: Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (died 1933)
1851: Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (died 1918)
1851: Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (died 1923)
1850: Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (died 1931)
1840: Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (died 1916)
1839: Carol I of Romania, King of Romania (died 1914)
1826: Dinah Craik, English author and poet (died 1887)
1818: Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and engineer (died 1893)
1816: Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (died 1895)
1808: Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France, Emperor of French Second Empire (died 1873)
1748: Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (died 1831)
1745: Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (died 1826)
1727: Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian minister and diplomat (died 1794)
1723: Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (died 1781)
1718: David Brainerd, American missionary (died 1747)
1650: William Bedloe, English spy (died 1680)
1646: Charles Plumier, French botanist and author (died 1704)
1633: Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (died 1654)
1619: Geoffrey Shakerley, English politician (died 1696)
1586: Rose of Lima, Peruvian mystic and saint (died 1617)
1544: Renata of Lorraine, Duchess consort of Bavaria (died 1602)
1494: Johannes Agricola, German theologian and reformer (died 1566)

Deaths On This Day

2025: Hugo Gatti, Argentine footballer (born 1944)
2024: Antonio Cantafora, Italian film and television actor (born 1944)
2024: Andrew Davis, English conductor (born 1944)
2024: Roman Gabriel, Filipino-American NFL American footballer
2024: Lourdes Portillo, Mexican film director, producer, and writer (born 1943)
2022: Gavin Millar, Scottish film director (born 1938)
2021: Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (born 1952)
2021: Monte Hellman, American film director (born 1929)
2021: Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (born 1955)
2018: Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (born 1989)
2016: Victoria Wood, British comedian, actress and writer (born 1953)
2014: Neville Wran, Australian politician, 35th Premier of New South Wales (born 1926)
2012: Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1920)
2011: Tim Hetherington, English photographer and journalist (born 1970)
2010: Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (born 1912)
2008: Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (born 1923)
2007: Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1931)
2007: Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (born 1931)
2005: Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (born 1904)
2004: Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (born 1956)
2003: Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
2002: Alan Dale, American singer (born 1925)
2001: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (born 1946)
1999: Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (born 1958)
1999: Rachel Scott, American victim of Columbine High School massacre (born 1981)
1999: Cassie Bernall, American victim of Columbine High School massacre (born 1981)
1996: Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (born 1918)
1995: Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (born 1911)
1993: Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1911)
1992: Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (born 1922)
1992: Benny Hill, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1924)
1991: Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (born 1947)
1991: Don Siegel, American director and producer (born 1912)
1986: Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (born 1916)
1982: Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (born 1892)
1980: M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (born 1924)
1978: Lord Richard Cecil, British soldier and journalist in the Rhodesian Bush War
1969: Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (born 1914)
1968: Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (born 1877)
1967: Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (born 1896)
1951: Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (born 1873)
1947: Christian X of Denmark (born 1870)
1946: Mae Busch, Australian actress (born 1891)
1945: Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (born 1874)
1944: Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (born 1917)
1942: Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, 6th State Elder of Estonia (born 1870)
1935: John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1872)
1935: Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (born 1863)
1932: Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (born 1858)
1931: Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish-English fencer and businessman (born 1862)
1929: Prince Henry of Prussia (born 1862)
1927: Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (born 1866)
1918: Jussi Merinen, Finnish politician (born 1873)
1918: Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1850)
1912: Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (born 1847)
1902: Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (born 1833)
1899: Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (born 1820)
1887: Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1826)
1886: Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (born 1814)
1881: William Burges, English architect and designer (born 1827)
1874: Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1817)
1873: William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (born 1798)
1831: John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (born 1764)
1769: Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (born 1720)
1703: Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (born 1632)
1643: Christoph Demantius, German composer and poet (born 1567)
1558: Johannes Bugenhagen, German priest and theologian (born 1485)
1534: Elizabeth Barton, English nun and martyr (born 1506)
1521: Zhengde, Chinese emperor (born 1491)
1502: Mary of Looz-Heinsberg, Dutch noble (born 1424)
1344: Gersonides, French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician, and astronomer (born 1288)
1322: Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar
1314: Pope Clement V (born 1264)
1284: Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (born 1251)
1248: Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (born 1206)
1176: Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (born 1130)
1164: Antipope Victor IV
1099: Peter Bartholomew (born 1061)
888: Xi Zong, Chinese emperor (born 862)
689: Cædwalla, king of Wessex (born 659)

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