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April 22

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April 22

April 22 is the 112th day of the year (113th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 253 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: Undocumented Algerian lottery winner must prove identity to claim €250,000 prize. An undocumented Algerian will have to provide identification he does not possess after winning a lottery prize in Belgium, where it is required for winners to prove their identity to claim winnings.
2021: NJ man admits running illegal "Pick 6" lottery, evades $65,000 in taxes. A man from Ocean County, New Jersey pleaded guilty to operating an illegal lottery on Tuesday after having drawn in $250,000 in cash proceeds from the scheme.
2021: Florida considers partial lottery winner anonymity. Florida lawmakers introduced a new bill that could grant lottery winners of $250,000 or more a three-month period of anonymity before their identity is revealed to the public.
2020: Virginia Lottery March profits took a big hit. The Virginia Lottery is still running during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its March profits dropped 28 percent, according to a new agency report.
2016: Alabama senator makes one last push for lottery vote before end of legislative session. As the 2016 Alabama legislative session rushes to the finish line, one legislator is pushing for a lottery vote one last time.
2016: Engaged couple wins $15 million on Mass. Lottery scratch ticket. A Melrose, Massachusetts, man and his fiancee claimed the second $15 million grand prize in the lottery's $30 scratch ticket game on Tuesday.
2016: Preliminary hearing rescheduled for Tommy Tipton in lottery rigging case. The latest case in a large-scale lottery rigging scheme is headed to the courtroom next week.
2014: Florida Lottery terminates contracts of three retailers. Three Pompano Beach, Florida, stores that sold lottery tickets violated state law and won’t ever be allowed to sell tickets again, Florida Lottery officials announced Monday.
2012: $173 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot increased. The multi-state Powerball lottery drawing took place last night without any jackpot winners, causing the new jackpot for Wednesday's drawing to grow to an estimated $173 million, with a cash option of $107.7 million.
2012: Lottery winner donates apartment complex to help families in crisis. Randy Smith, a West Virginia multimillion-dollar lottery winner turned philanthropist, listened Friday to how his donation of an apartment complex is turning into a sustainable community housing program for families in crisis.
2009: Ontario Lottery recalls 92 tickets. Attention Ontario lottery players: check your tickets -- but not for a winner. You may be holding a bogus entry that can't win a prize.
2009: New report criticizes Iowa Lottery security. The state ombudsman issued a report Tuesday alleging Iowa Lottery officials have failed to adequately protect the enterprise's customers from fraud and theft by retailers.
2009: Man claims he's owed Mega Millions in suit against Illinois Lottery. An East St. Louis man says the Illinois Lottery Control Board refused to pay him for a winning lottery ticket.
2008: Unemployed N.Y. Man Wins $14 Million Lottery. Sporting dark shades, a painted-on goatee, and an NYPD cap pulled down over his eyes, an unemployed New Yorker claimed a $14 million jackpot.
2007: Republican says Colo. Gov. pressure killed plan to privatize lottery. Republicans are accusing the Colorado governor of pressuring his party's legislators into essentially killing a plan to privatize the lottery.
2005: $205 million lottery jackpot payoff lures Mega players. Millions of hopeful lottery players will take a chance on the big Mega Millions drawing tonight, the third-largest payoff since Mega Millions started in May 2002.
2005: Educators Closely Watching N.C. Lottery Bill. School system officials across North Carolina are keeping a watchful eye on Raleigh as the state Senate takes up a lottery bill.
2005: Lotteries may gamble on Internet. Several states are considering selling lottery tickets on the Internet, a change that could usher in a new era in how such tickets are purchased.
2005: Mass. Lottery to hire consultant for games being planned. Massachusetts State Lottery officials said they intend to hire a consultant to evaluate the financial impact of several gambling games under consideration, including a virtual horse-racing game run on Keno-style monitors.
2005: Lottery lightning strikes twice for NJ store owner. Defying the odds, the owner of two New Jersey liquor stores sold winning Jersey Cash 5 tickets twice in two months from his stores in Morris County.
2004: Scientific Games Reports First Quarter 2004 Results. Scientific Games Corporation today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004: Revenues Increased 51%; Net Income Increased 80% to $20 million; Earnings per Diluted Share were $0.22.
2004: Ohio Gambling Proposal Would Allow Cities to Vote on Casinos. Cities could vote on casinos and thousands of electronic slot machines would be installed at Ohio racetracks, under a new legislative proposal that backers hope to put on the November ballot.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Rolls to $103 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing, the jackpot grew to an estimated $103 million, with a cash option of $54.4 million.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$409.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2022
2.$277 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2021
3.$251 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2016
4.€192.27 Million US$207.64 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2022
5.$205 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2005
6.$192 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2019
7.$174 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2020
8.$173 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 25, 2012
9.€138 Million US$168.66 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2018
10.€141.11 Million
US$167.92 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2021
11.$166 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2010
12.€140.76 Million
US$158.03 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2019
13.$158 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 25, 2018
14.$155 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2009
15.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2014
15.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2019
17.€124 Million
US$133.96 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2022
18.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 23, 2008
19.€112 Million
US$123.16 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 25, 2023
20.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2013
21.$104 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2021
22.$103 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2004
23.€75 Million
US$99.27 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2009
24.€90 Million
US$99.23 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 24, 2020
25.$97 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 22, 2016

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1992: topmid
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1992
31 years old
1988: JulioisDope
Friday, Apr 22, 1988
35 years old
1988: rickaudio
Friday, Apr 22, 1988
35 years old
1982: mfarzan2004
Thursday, Apr 22, 1982
41 years old
1981: B-ethereal22
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1981
42 years old
1978: Antonea!
Saturday, Apr 22, 1978
45 years old
1976: cluso
Thursday, Apr 22, 1976
47 years old
1974: blckhood
Monday, Apr 22, 1974
49 years old
1970: rikmik
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1970
53 years old
1967: msbkny
Saturday, Apr 22, 1967
56 years old
1967: tmjinc519
Saturday, Apr 22, 1967
56 years old
1959: Big Hitter
Wednesday, Apr 22, 1959
64 years old
1955: sophtexastyle
Friday, Apr 22, 1955
68 years old
1954: josie$
Thursday, Apr 22, 1954
69 years old
1948: kittykittycat48
Thursday, Apr 22, 1948
75 years old
1941: BigJer
Tuesday, Apr 22, 1941
82 years old
: hannin
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: Four police officers are killed after being struck by a truck on the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne while speaking to a speeding driver, marking the largest loss of police lives in Victoria Police history.
2016: The Paris Agreement is signed, an agreement to help fight global warming.
2005: Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.
1993: Eighteen-year-old Stephen Lawrence is murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall, Eltham.
1992: A series of gas explosions rip through the streets in Guadalajara, Mexico, killing 206.
1977: Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
1974: Pan Am Flight 812 crashes on approach to Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, killing all 107 people on board.
1970: The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1969: British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
1969: The formation of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) is announced at a mass rally in Calcutta.
1954: Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings begins.
1951: Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army begin assaulting positions defended by the Royal Australian Regiment and the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the Battle of Kapyong.
1948: Arab-Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
1945: World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
1945: World War II: Sachsenhausen concentration camp is liberated by soldiers of the Red Army and Polish First Army.
1944: The 1st Air Commando Group using Sikorsky R-4 helicopters stage the first use of helicopters in combat with combat search and rescue operations in the China Burma India Theater.
1944: World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
1944: World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
1930: The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1915: World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1906: The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
1898: Spanish-American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.
1889: At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
1876: The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
1864: The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
1836: Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
1809: The second day of the Battle of Eckmühl: The Austrian army is defeated by the First French Empire army led by Napoleon and driven over the Danube in Regensburg.
1529: Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal along a line 297.5 leagues (1,250 kilometres (780 mi)) east of the Moluccas.
1519: Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
1500: Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.

Births On This Day

1991: Danni Wyatt, English cricketer
1990: Machine Gun Kelly, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor
1990: Kevin Kiermaier, American baseball player
1988: Dee Strange-Gordon, American baseball player
1987: David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
1986: Amber Heard, American actress
1986: Marshawn Lynch, American football player
1983: Sam W. Heads, English-American entomologist and palaeontologist
1983: Shkëlzen Shala, Albanian entrepreneur and veganism activist
1982: Kaká, Brazilian footballer
1980: Quincy Timberlake, Kenyan-Australian activist, engineer, and politician
1979: Zoltán Gera, Hungarian international footballer and manager
1979: Daniel Johns, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978: Paul Malakwen Kosgei, Kenyan runner and coach
1976: Dan Cloutier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1970: Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
1967: David J. C. MacKay, English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 2016)
1967: Sherri Shepherd, American actress, comedian, and television personality
1966: Mickey Morandini, American baseball player and manager
1966: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor
1963: Rosalind Gill, English sociologist and academic
1963: Sean Lock, English comedian and actor (d. 2021)
1962: Jeff Minter, British video game designer and programmer
1962: Danièle Sauvageau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1961: Jeff Hostetler, American football player
1961: Alo Mattiisen, Estonian composer (d. 1996)
1960: Mart Laar, Estonian historian and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Estonia
1959: Terry Francona, American baseball player and manager
1959: Ryan Stiles, American-Canadian actor and comedian
1957: Donald Tusk, Polish journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Poland
1951: Aivars Kalējs, Latvian organist, composer, and pianist
1951: Ana María Shua, Argentinian author and poet
1950: Peter Frampton, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1950: Jancis Robinson, English journalist and critic
1949: Spencer Haywood, American basketball player
1948: John Pritchard, English bishop
1946: Steven L. Bennett, American captain and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1972)
1946: Paul Davies, English physicist and author
1946: Louise Harel, Canadian lawyer and politician
1946: Archy Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Scottish lawyer and politician
1946: Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, English economist and academic
1946: John Waters, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945: Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Indian civil servant and politician, 22nd Governor of West Bengal
1945: Demetrio Stratos, Greek-Egyptian singer-songwriter (d. 1979)
1944: Steve Fossett, American businessman, pilot, and sailor (d. 2007)
1944: Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1944: Joshua Rifkin, American conductor and musicologist
1943: Keith Crisco, American businessman and politician (d. 2014)
1943: Janet Evanovich, American author
1943: Louise Glück, American poet
1943: John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2012)
1943: Scott W. Williams, American mathematician and professor
1942: Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher and academic
1942: Mary Prior, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Bristol
1941: Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising, English politician
1939: Mel Carter, American singer and actor
1939: John Foley, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
1939: Ray Guy, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2013)
1939: Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (d. 2001)
1939: Theodor Waigel, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Finance
1938: Alan Bond, English-Australian businessman (d. 2015)
1938: Gani Fawehinmi, Nigerian lawyer and activist (d. 2009)
1938: Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (d. 2022)
1938: Adam Raphael, English journalist and author
1937: Jack Nicholson, American actor and producer
1937: Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (d. 2000)
1936: Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2017)
1936: Pierre Hétu, Canadian pianist and conductor (d. 1998)
1935: Christopher Ball, English linguist and academic
1935: Paul Chambers, African-American bassist and composer (d. 1969)
1935: Bhama Srinivasan, Indian-American mathematician and academic
1933: Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist and astronaut (d. 2013)
1931: John Buchanan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2019)
1931: Ronald Hynd, English dancer and choreographer
1930: Enno Penno, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (d. 2016)
1929: Michael Atiyah, English-Lebanese mathematician and academic (d. 2019)
1929: Robert Wade-Gery, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India (d. 2015)
1928: Estelle Harris, American actress and comedian (d. 2022)
1927: Laurel Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
1926: Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
1926: James Stirling, Scottish architect, designed the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Seeley Historical Library (d. 1992)
1924: Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2013)
1923: Peter Kane Dufault, American soldier, pilot, and poet (d. 2013)
1923: Bettie Page, American model and actress (d. 2008)
1923: Aaron Spelling, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1922: Richard Diebenkorn, American soldier and painter (d. 1993)
1922: Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1979)
1922: Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist and academic (d. 1973)
1919: Donald J. Cram, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
1919: Carl Lindner, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2011)
1918: William Jay Smith, American poet and academic (d. 2015)
1918: Mickey Vernon, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
1917: Yvette Chauviré, French ballerina (d. 2016)
1917: Sidney Nolan, Australian painter (d. 1992)
1916: Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
1916: Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 1999)
1914: Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian director and producer (d. 2008)
1914: Jan de Hartog, Dutch-American author and playwright (d. 2002)
1914: José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (d. 1941)
1914: Michael Wittmann, German SS officer (d. 1944)
1912: Kathleen Ferrier, English operatic singer (d. 1953)
1912: Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1910: Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic (d. 1971)
1909: Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1909: Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
1909: Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2000)
1906: Eric Fenby, English composer and educator (d. 1997)
1906: Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (d. 1947)
1905: Robert Choquette, American-Canadian author, poet, and diplomat (d. 1991)
1904: J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1967)
1900: Nellie Beer, British politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (d. 1988)
1899: Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (d. 1977)
1892: Vernon Johns, African-American minister and activist (d. 1965)
1891: Laura Gilpin, American photographer (d. 1979)
1891: Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1891: Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1989)
1891: Nicola Sacco, Italian-American anarchist (d. 1927)
1889: Richard Glücks, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1887: Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (d. 1951)
1886: Izidor Cankar, Slovenian historian, author, and diplomat (d. 1958)
1884: Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic (d. 1939)
1879: Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1939)
1876: Róbert Bárány, Austrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
1876: Georg Lurich, Estonian wrestler and strongman (d. 1920)
1874: Wu Peifu, Chinese warlord, politician, and marshal of the Beiyang Army (d. 1939)
1873: Ellen Glasgow, American author (d. 1945)
1872: Princess Margaret of Prussia (d. 1954)
1870: Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (d. 1924)
1858: Ethel Smyth, English composer (d. 1944)
1858: Fritz Mayer van den Bergh, Belgian art collector and art historian (d. 1901)
1854: Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
1852: William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
1844: Lewis Powell, American soldier, attempted assassin of William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1832: Julius Sterling Morton, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 1902)
1830: Emily Davies, British suffragist and educator, co-founder and an early Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University
1816: Charles-Denis Bourbaki, French general (d. 1897)
1812: Solomon Caesar Malan, Swiss-English orientalist (d. 1894)
1766: Germaine de Staël, French author and political philosopher (d. 1817)
1744: James Sullivan, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
1732: John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (d. 1814)
1724: Immanuel Kant, German anthropologist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1804)
1711: Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy, Austrian soldier (d. 1762)
1707: Henry Fielding, English novelist and playwright (d. 1754)
1690: John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1763)
1658: Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1709)
1610: Pope Alexander VIII (d. 1691)
1592: Wilhelm Schickard, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1635)
1518: Antoine of Navarre (d. 1562)
1451: Isabella I of Castile (d. 1504)
1444: Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk (d. 1503)
1412: Reinhard III, Count of Hanau (1451-1452) (d. 1452)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1951)
2021: Adrian Garrett, American professional baseball player (b. 1943)
2020: Shirley Knight, American actress (b. 1936)
2017: Donna Leanne Williams, Australian writer, artist, and activist (b. 1963)
2015: Dick Balharry, Scottish environmentalist and photographer (b. 1937)
2014: Oswaldo Vigas, Venezuelan painter (b. 1926)
2013: Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
2013: Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (b. 1930)
2013: Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936)
2012: George Rathmann, American chemist, biologist, and businessman (b. 1927)
2010: Richard Barrett, American lawyer and activist (b. 1943)
2009: Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director and photographer (b. 1914)
2007: Juanita Millender-McDonald, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
2006: Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1919)
2006: Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
2005: Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
2005: Philip Morrison, American physicist and academic (b. 1915)
2005: Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (b. 1924)
2003: Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
1999: Munir Ahmad Khan, Pakistani nuclear engineer (b. 1926)
1996: Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
1996: Jug McSpaden, American golfer and architect (b. 1908)
1995: Jane Kenyon, American poet and author (b. 1947)
1994: Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
1990: Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
1989: Emilio G. Segrè, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1988: Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1917)
1988: Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
1987: Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (b. 1905)
1986: Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (b. 1907)
1985: Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and academic (b. 1900)
1985: Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author (b. 1921)
1984: Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902)
1983: Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
1980: Jane Froman, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
1980: Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (b. 1902)
1978: Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)
1951: Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870)
1950: Charles Hamilton Houston, American lawyer and academic (b. 1895)
1945: Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
1945: Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (b. 1867)
1933: Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1863)
1932: Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883)
1929: Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (b. 1848)
1925: André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)
1908: Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
1896: Thomas Meik, English engineer, founded Halcrow Group (b. 1812)
1894: Kostas Krystallis, Greek author and poet (b. 1868)
1893: Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian businessman and author (b. 1825)
1892: Édouard Lalo, French violinist and composer (b. 1823)
1877: James P. Kirkwood, Scottish-American engineer (b. 1807)
1871: Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1806)
1854: Nicolás Bravo, Mexican general and politician, 11th President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1850: Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798)
1833: Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (b. 1771)
1821: Gregory V of Constantinople, Greek patriarch and saint (b. 1746)
1806: Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (b. 1763)
1778: James Hargreaves, British inventor (b. 1720)
1758: Antoine de Jussieu, French botanist and physician (b. 1686)
1699: Hans Erasmus Aßmann, German poet (b. 1646)
1672: Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish linguist and poet (b. 1598)
1616: Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1547)
1585: Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Paderborn (b. 1550)
1355: Eleanor of Woodstock, countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King Edward II of England (b. 1318)
1322: Francis of Fabriano, Italian writer (b. 1251)
1208: Philip of Poitou, Prince-Bishop of Durham
846: Wuzong, Chinese emperor (b. 814)
835: Kūkai, Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism (b. 774)
613: Saint Theodore of Sykeon
591: Peter III of Raqqa
536: Pope Agapetus I
296: Pope Caius

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