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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

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.$192 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2019
8.€139.9 Million US$166.48 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2021
9.$164 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2020
10.€130 Million
US$159.91 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2018
11.€139.49 Million
US$156.84 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2019
12.$152 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2012
13.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2014
14.$143 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2010
15.$142 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2018
16.$136 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2019
17.€124 Million
US$133.96 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2022
18.$130 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2009
19.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2008
20.€100 Million
US$110 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 21, 2023
21.€75 Million
US$99.27 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2009
22.€90 Million
US$99.23 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2020
23.$97 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2016
24.$95 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 20, 2013
24.$95 Million: Texas
Lotto Texas
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2023

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: Stormiela
Friday, Apr 20, 1990
33 years old
1989: Genome
Thursday, Apr 20, 1989
34 years old
1988: aries20188
Wednesday, Apr 20, 1988
35 years old
1987: Y0ungMoney
Monday, Apr 20, 1987
36 years old
1985: MrMtnDewGalant
Saturday, Apr 20, 1985
38 years old
1985: mandy_dawn
Saturday, Apr 20, 1985
38 years old
1984: Earl84
Friday, Apr 20, 1984
39 years old
1976: Android
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1976
47 years old
1976: chachingme6369
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1976
47 years old
1971: Angie71
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
52 years old
1971: WinSumBucks
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
52 years old
1971: Charlie!227
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
52 years old
1971: Kwabenamike
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
52 years old
1971: WinSumMoney
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1971
52 years old
1967: parianar
Thursday, Apr 20, 1967
56 years old
1965: CindyB65
Tuesday, Apr 20, 1965
58 years old
1957: flojo2007
Saturday, Apr 20, 1957
66 years old
1953: hogansdog
Monday, Apr 20, 1953
70 years old
1940: Jeshen
Saturday, Apr 20, 1940
83 years old

Worldwide Events On This Day

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 more than 150 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 would last 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 with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
1999: Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 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.
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 the Hosea Kutako International Airport in South West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 people.
1961: Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
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.
1775: American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
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.

Births On This Day

1997: Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
1991: Luke Kuechly, American football player
1990: Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer
1988: Brandon Belt, American baseball player
1983: Miranda Kerr, Australian model
1980: Emma Husar, Australian politician
1978: Carl Greenidge, English cricketer
1975: Killer Mike, American rapper
1973: Julie Powell, American food writer and memoirist (d. 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
1969: Will Hodgman, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Tasmania
1968: Julia Morris, Australian entertainer
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
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
1961: Don Mattingly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1961: Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
1960: Debbie Flintoff-King, Australian hurdler and coach
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 (d. 2014)
1955: Donald Pettit, American engineer and astronaut
1955: Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate
1953: Sebastian Faulks, English journalist and author
1952: Louka Katseli, Greek economist and politician
1951: Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1950: Steve Erickson, American author and critic
1950: Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 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 (d. 2015)
1949: Massimo D'Alema, Italian journalist and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
1949: Jessica Lange, American actress
1948: Gregory Itzin, American actor (d. 2022)
1948: Matthias Kuhle, German geographer and academic (d. 2015)
1947: Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian economist and politician
1947: Viktor Suvorov, Russian intelligence officer, historian, and author
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 (d. 2003)
1945: Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
1944: Toivo Aare, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1999)
1943: Alan Beith, English academic and politician
1943: John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor and director
1941: Ryan O'Neal, American actor
1940: James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
1939: Peter S. Beagle, American author and screenwriter
1939: Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway
1939: Johnny Tillotson, American singer-songwriter
1938: Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (d. 2017)
1938: Manfred Kinder, German runner
1938: Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
1937: Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2011)
1937: Harvey Quaytman, American painter and educator (d. 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 (d. 2012)
1936: Pat Roberts, American captain, journalist, and politician
1933: Kristaq Dhamo, Albanian actor and film director (d. 2022)
1932: Myriam Bru, French actress
1931: Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, English lieutenant and politician (d. 2014)
1931: John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, English businessman and politician
1930: Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
1930: Antony Jay, English director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1929: Harry Agganis, American baseball and football player (d. 1955)
1929: Bobby Hollander, American film director, actor, and magazine publisher (d. 2002)
1928: Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (d. 2013)
1928: Johnny Gavin, Irish international footballer (d. 2007)
1927: Bud Cullen, Canadian judge and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Employment and Immigration (d. 2005)
1927: Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
1927: K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
1925: Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (d. 2006)
1925: Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017)
1924: Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (d. 2008)
1924: Leslie Phillips, English actor and producer (d. 2022)
1924: Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and academic
1923: Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network (d. 2016)
1923: Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
1923: Tito Puente, American drummer and producer (d. 2000)
1920: Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (d. 2002)
1920: Clement Isong, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Cross River State (d. 2000)
1920: John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2019)
1919: Richard Hillary, Australian lieutenant and pilot (d. 1943)
1918: Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1916: Nasiba Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress (d. 2004)
1915: Joseph Wolpe, South African psychotherapist and physician (d. 1997)
1914: Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
1913: Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor and poet (d. 1986)
1913: Willi Hennig, German biologist and entomologist (d. 1976)
1910: Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician (d. 1961)
1908: Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player, pianist, bandleader, and actor (d. 2002)
1907: Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1991)
1907: Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek bishop (d. 2010)
1904: Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
1899: Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
1896: Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (d. 1952)
1895: Emile Christian, American trombonist and composer (d. 1973)
1895: Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (d. 1972)
1893: Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer (d. 1971)
1893: Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)
1891: Dave Bancroft, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
1890: Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
1890: Adolf Schärf, Austrian soldier and politician, 6th President of Austria (d. 1965)
1889: Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, lawyer, and activist (d. 1996)
1889: Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (d. 1918)
1889: Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, French mystic (d. 1918)
1889: Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
1889: Tonny Kessler, Dutch footballer (d. 1960)
1884: Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
1884: Oliver Kirk, American boxer (d. 1960)
1884: Daniel Varoujan, Armenian poet and educator (d. 1915)
1882: Holland Smith, American general (d. 1967)
1879: Paul Poiret, French fashion designer (d. 1944)
1875: Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet and lawyer (d. 1909)
1873: James Harcourt, English character actor (d. 1951)
1871: Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
1860: Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (d. 1933)
1851: Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (d. 1918)
1851: Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (d. 1923)
1850: Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (d. 1931)
1840: Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (d. 1916)
1839: Carol I of Romania, King of Romania (d. 1914)
1836: Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American scientist and academic (d. 1895)
1826: Dinah Craik, English author and poet (d. 1887)
1818: Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and engineer (d. 1893)
1816: Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
1808: Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France (d. 1873)
1748: Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (d. 1831)
1745: Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (d. 1826)
1727: Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian minister and diplomat (d. 1794)
1723: Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (d. 1781)
1718: David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
1650: William Bedloe, English spy (d. 1680)
1646: Charles Plumier, French botanist and author (d. 1704)
1633: Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1654)
1586: Rose of Lima, Peruvian mystic and saint (d. 1617)
1544: Renata of Lorraine, Duchess consort of Bavaria (d. 1602)
1494: Johannes Agricola, German theologian and reformer (d. 1566)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Gavin Millar, Scottish film director (b. 1938)
2021: Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (b. 1952)
2021: Monte Hellman, American film director (b.1929)
2021: Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (b. 1955)
2018: Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (b. 1989)
2016: Victoria Wood, British comedian, actress and writer (b. 1953)
2014: Neville Wran, Australian politician, 35th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1926)
2012: Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)
2011: Tim Hetherington, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
2010: Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (b. 1912)
2008: Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923)
2007: Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
2007: Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931)
2005: Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (b. 1904)
2004: Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (b. 1956)
2003: Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2002: Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
2001: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
1999: Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1996: Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
1995: Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
1993: Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
1992: Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (b. 1922)
1992: Benny Hill, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1991: Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
1991: Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
1986: Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
1982: Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
1980: M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
1969: Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)
1968: Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
1967: Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
1961: Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (b. 1892)
1951: Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
1947: Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
1946: Mae Busch, Australian actress (b. 1891)
1945: Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (b. 1874)
1944: Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (b. 1917)
1942: Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, 6th State Elder of Estonia (b. 1870)
1935: John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1872)
1935: Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (b. 1863)
1932: Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1858)
1931: Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish-English fencer and businessman (b. 1862)
1929: Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1862)
1927: Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1866)
1918: Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
1912: Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
1902: Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)
1899: Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)
1887: Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
1886: Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
1881: William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
1874: Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
1873: William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
1831: John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
1769: Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
1703: Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (b. 1632)
1643: Christoph Demantius, German composer and poet (b. 1567)
1558: Johannes Bugenhagen, German priest and theologian (b. 1485)
1534: Elizabeth Barton, English nun and martyr (b. 1506)
1521: Zhengde, Chinese emperor (b. 1491)
1502: Mary of Looz-Heinsberg, Dutch noble (b. 1424)
1322: Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar
1314: Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
1284: Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251)
1248: Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1206)
1176: Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (b. 1130)
1164: Antipope Victor IV
1099: Peter Bartholomew (b. 1061)
888: Xi Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 862)
689: Cædwalla, king of Wessex (b. 659)

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