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April 3

On This Day in History

April 3

April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 272 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Kentucky woman quits job after winning $90,000 in the lottery. A Kentucky woman quit her job after scooping up a $90,000 top prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket.
2023: Sports betting legalized in Kentucky. A bill supporting legalized sports betting in Kentucky has passed and is estimated to generate an additional $23 million in revenue for the state per year.
2021: Canadian woman memorializes $13 million Lotto Max jackpot with a tattoo. A winner from British Columbia is making sure she'll never forget the day she won a $13 million (US$10.3 million) jackpot playing Lotto Max by tattooing the draw date onto her arm.
2020: Mega Millions to adjust starting jackpot amount, eliminate minimum increases. The Mega Millions Consortium announced today that in response to flagging sales due to the COVID-19 response, the multi-state lottery game's starting jackpot has been lowered and the amounts of subsequent starting jackpots and jackpot increases will be determined on a drawing-by-drawing basis.
2019: Canada's Lotto Max to increase jackpot, add drawing in May. Canadians will soon have a chance to win a bigger lottery jackpot — and twice as often.
2019: Man with stage 4 cancer wins lottery, plans to take wife on dream trip. A winning scratch-off lottery ticket has provided a ray of light for a North Carolina man who was recently diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
2019: Ireland Lotto winner had bank card declined hours before discovering €1m win. A 23-year-old farmer collected a €1 million (US$1.12 million) prize he had won in the Ireland Lottery just hours after his bank card was declined for lack of funds.
2017: 18 arrested in illegal lottery bust in New Jersey. Cracking down on a vast underground gambling operation, Irvington Police hit the jackpot on Friday, arresting 18 people, allegedly connected to an illegal lottery enterprise out of storefronts across New Jersey.
2015: Georgia Lottery has first Jumbo Bucks Lotto jackpot winner. A Georgia Lottery retailer in Tennille has sold the first Jumbo Bucks Lotto with Cash Match jackpot-winning ticket, worth $2.1 million.
2014: Florida Lottery announces changes in response to reports of repeat winners. The Florida Lottery on Tuesday announced that it would adopt several safeguards to prevent fraud and protect players.
2011: $218 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot increased. Just a week after the Mega Millions lottery had players across America scrambling for tickets for a mega jackpot, the Powerball multi-state lottery game is poised to do the same thing.
2011: Man gets 23 years for robbing Illinois lottery winner. A 35-year-old suburban Chicago man who targeted and shot an Illinois Lottery winner has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.
2011: Should lottery winners share with colleagues?. If you won $19 million, would you share it with your co-workers?
2007: Cancer claims life of man who exposed Ontario Lottery retailer fraud. The man whose legal battle with Ontario Lottery and Gaming brought about an investigation and wholesale changes to the Crown corporation lost his fight with cancer Monday.
2006: Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $174 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $174 million, with a cash option of $80.4 million.
2006: N.C. lottery staff win hefty bonuses. The new lottery produced dozens of big-money winners Thursday, none of whom played the games.
2006: UK lottery operator license up for grabs. The licence to run the national lottery is up for grabs again, but some hopefuls say that the bidding process favors Camelot, the current UK Lottery operator.
2006: N.C.'s first $100K lottery winner plays it cool. Richard Garland of Newton, North Carolina, says he'd like to buy a house or put down a substantial down payment for one.
2006: N.C. Lottery pays first big prizes. North Carolina Lottery players maintained a brisk, and somewhat unexpected, spending pace Friday as the games' first big winners came forward to collect jackpot prizes.
2006: Michigan Lottery starts 'Lucky Dog' scratch game. The Michigan Lottery launches a new game on April 10, a $1 scratch-off named "Lucky Dog" with a picture of a Michigan dog on every ticket.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.13 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2024
2.$385 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 4, 2023
3.$233.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 4, 2022
4.$221.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 6, 2011
5.€182.86 Million US$199.92 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 5, 2022
6.$190 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 6, 1999
7.$184 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 6, 2021
8.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 4, 2020
9.$174 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 5, 2006
10.$159.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2023
11.€131.32 Million
US$154.44 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2021
12.€122.93 Million
US$151.04 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2018
13.$148 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 6, 2016
14.€130.35 Million
US$146.32 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 4, 2019
15.$138 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 4, 2006
16.$126 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 4, 2009
17.$121 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2020
18.$117 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 5, 2002
19.$104 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 5, 2019
20.$103 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2010
21.€90 Million
US$99.23 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2020
22.€84.63 Million
US$91.8 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 4, 2024
23.$90 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 6, 2004
24.$88 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 3, 2007
25.$86 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 5, 2005

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1985: numerosganadore
Wednesday, Apr 3, 1985
39 years old
1984: Melloww
Tuesday, Apr 3, 1984
40 years old
1981: mikelcarden
Friday, Apr 3, 1981
43 years old
1977: gene3477
Sunday, Apr 3, 1977
47 years old
1975: hotbabe527
Thursday, Apr 3, 1975
49 years old
1970: LadyTee49
Friday, Apr 3, 1970
54 years old
1970: patdiesel2012
Friday, Apr 3, 1970
54 years old
1969: wannabelucky
Thursday, Apr 3, 1969
55 years old
1964: peeratt2010
Friday, Apr 3, 1964
60 years old
1956: mitch13
Tuesday, Apr 3, 1956
68 years old
1953: jonwash53
Friday, Apr 3, 1953
71 years old
: mrslauriscott
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.
2017: A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
2016: The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
2013: More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010: Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2009: Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
2008: ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
2008: Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
2007: Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2004: Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2000: United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
1997: The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
1996: Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
1996: A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
1993: The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time
1989: The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
1981: The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1980: US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
1975: Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.
1975: Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1974: The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
1973: Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1969: Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
1968: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.
1956: Hudsonville-Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
1955: The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1948: Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948: In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.
1946: Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1942: World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1933: First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
1922: Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1920: Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.
1895: The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1888: Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1885: Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.
1882: American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
1865: American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1860: The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1851: Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
1721: Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.
1559: The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
1077: The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
1043: Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
686: Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

Births On This Day

1999: Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
1998: Paris Jackson, American actress, model and singer
1997: Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer
1996: Mayo Hibi, Japanese tennis player
1994: Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player
1994: Dylann Roof, American mass murderer
1993: Pape Moussa Konaté, Senegalese footballer
1992: Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer
1992: Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer
1991: Hayley Kiyoko, American actress and singer
1990: Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer
1990: Madison Brengle, American tennis player
1990: Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer
1990: Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer
1989: Romain Alessandrini, French footballer
1989: Israel Folau, Australian rugby player and footballer
1989: Joel Romelo, Australian rugby league player
1989: Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer
1988: Kam Chancellor, American football player
1988: Brandon Graham, American football player
1988: Peter Hartley, English footballer
1988: Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
1987: Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and producer
1987: Jay Bruce, American baseball player
1987: Yileen Gordon, Australian rugby league player
1987: Jason Kipnis, American baseball player
1987: Martyn Rooney, English sprinter
1987: Julie Sokolow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987: Yuval Spungin, Israeli footballer
1986: Amanda Bynes, American actress
1986: Stephanie Cox, American soccer player
1986: Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist
1986: Sergio Sánchez Ortega, Spanish footballer
1985: Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver
1985: Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer
1984: Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
1984: Maxi López, Argentinian footballer
1983: Ben Foster, English footballer
1983: Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player
1982: Jared Allen, American football player
1982: Iain Fyfe, Australian footballer
1982: Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
1981: Aaron Bertram, American trumpet player
1981: DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player
1980: Andrei Lodis, Belarusian footballer
1980: Megan Rohrer, American pastor and transgender activist
1979: Simon Black, Australian footballer and coach
1978: Matthew Goode, English actor
1978: Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player
1978: John Smit, South African rugby player
1976: Nicolas Escudé, French tennis player
1975: Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
1975: Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player
1975: Aries Spears, American comedian and actor
1975: Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player
1975: Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player
1974: Marcus Brown, American basketball player
1974: Lee Williams, Welsh model and actor
1973: Nilesh Kulkarni, Indian cricketer
1973: Adam Scott, American actor
1972: Jennie Garth, American actress and director
1972: Catherine McCormack, English actress
1972: Sandrine Testud, French tennis player
1971: Vitālijs Astafjevs, Latvian footballer and manager
1971: Emmanuel Collard, French race car driver
1971: Picabo Street, American skier
1969: Rodney Hampton, American football player
1969: Peter Matera, Australian footballer and coach
1969: Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
1969: Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler and trainer
1968: Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
1968: Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
1968: Jamie Hewlett, English director and performer
1968: Tomoaki Kanemoto, Japanese baseball player
1967: Cat Cora, American chef and author
1967: Pervis Ellison, American basketball player
1967: Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player
1967: Cristi Puiu, Romanian director and screenwriter
1967: Mark Skaife, Australian race car driver and sportscaster
1966: John de Vries, Australian race car driver
1965: Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (d. 2000)
1964: Marco Ballotta, Italian footballer and manager
1964: Nigel Farage, English politician
1964: Claire Perry, English banker and politician
1964: Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist and manager
1964: Andy Robinson, English rugby player and coach
1964: Jay Weatherill, Australian politician, 45th Premier of South Australia
1963: Les Davidson, Australian rugby league player
1963: Ricky Nixon, Australian footballer and manager
1963: Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1993)
1962: Dave Miley, American baseball player and manager
1962: Mike Ness, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1962: Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician
1961: Tim Crews, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1961: Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
1960: Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959: David Hyde Pierce, American actor and activist
1958: Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host
1958: Adam Gussow, American scholar, musician, and memoirist
1958: Francesca Woodman, American photographer (d. 1981)
1956: Kalle Kulbok, Estonian politician
1956: Boris Miljković, Serbian director and producer
1956: Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor
1956: Ray Combs, American game show host (d. 1996)
1954: Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer
1954: K. Krishnasamy, Indian physician and politician
1953: Sandra Boynton, American author and illustrator
1953: Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 56th Yokozuna
1953: James Smith, American boxer
1952: Mike Moore, American lawyer and politician
1951: Brendan Barber, English trade union leader
1951: Annette Dolphin, British academician and educator
1951: Mitch Woods, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1950: Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan cricketer and economist
1949: Lyle Alzado, American football player and actor (d. 1992)
1949: A. C. Grayling, English philosopher and academic
1949: Richard Thompson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948: Arlette Cousture, Canadian author and screenwriter
1948: Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch academic, politician, and diplomat, 11th Secretary General of NATO
1948: Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, German footballer
1948: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico
1947: Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (d. 2013)
1946: Nicholas Jones, English actor
1946: Dee Murray, English bass player (d. 1992)
1946: Hanna Suchocka, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland
1945: Doon Arbus, American author and journalist
1945: Bernie Parent, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1945: Catherine Spaak, French actress (d. 2022)
1944: Peter Colman, Australian biologist and academic
1944: Tony Orlando, American singer
1943: Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
1943: Jonathan Lynn, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1943: Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1986)
1943: Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first female star officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
1942: Marsha Mason, American actress
1942: Wayne Newton, American singer
1942: Billy Joe Royal, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1941: Jan Berry, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1941: Philippé Wynne, American soul singer (d. 1984)
1939: François de Roubaix, French composer (d. 1975)
1939: Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)
1939: Paul Craig Roberts, American economist and politician
1938: Jeff Barry, American singer-songwriter, and producer
1938: Phil Rodgers, American golfer (d. 2018)
1936: Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (d. 2008)
1936: Harold Vick, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 1987)
1935: Harold Kushner, American rabbi and author (d. 2023)
1934: Pamela Allen, New Zealand children's writer and illustrator
1934: Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist
1934: Jim Parker, American football player (d. 2005)
1933: Bob Dornan, American politician
1933: Rod Funseth, American golfer (d. 1985)
1931: William Bast, American screenwriter and author (d. 2015)
1930: Lawton Chiles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
1930: Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
1930: Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (d. 2015)
1930: Wally Moon, American baseball player and coach (d. 2018)
1929: Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center (d. 1982)
1929: Poul Schlüter, Danish lawyer and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2021)
1928: Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
1928: Emmett Johns, Canadian priest, founded Dans la Rue (d. 2018)
1928: Earl Lloyd, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1928: Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television personality (d. 1999)
1927: Wesley A. Brown, American general and engineer (d. 2012)
1926: Alex Grammas, American baseball player, manager, and coach (d. 2019)
1926: Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1967)
1925: Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Secretary of State for Industry (d. 2014)
1924: Marlon Brando, American actor and director (d. 2004)
1924: Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (d. 1945)
1923: Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (d. 2013)
1922: Yevhen Bulanchyk, Ukrainian hurdler (d. 1996)
1922: Doris Day, American singer and actress (d. 2019)
1921: Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
1921: Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
1920: Stan Freeman, American composer and conductor (d. 2001)
1920: Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (d. 1977)
1919: Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (d. 2015)
1919: Clairette Oddera, French-Canadian actress and singer (d. 2008)
1918: Mary Anderson, American actress (d. 2014)
1918: Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 2000)
1916: Herb Caen, American journalist and author (d. 1997)
1916: Cliff Gladwin, English cricketer (d. 1988)
1916: Louis Guglielmi, Catalan composer (d. 1991)
1915: Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2016)
1915: İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician and academic (d. 2010)
1914: Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1914: Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (d. 2008)
1913: Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2005)
1912: Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (d. 1982)
1912: Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (d. 1963)
1911: Nanette Bordeaux, Canadian-American actress (d. 1956)
1911: Michael Woodruff, English-Scottish surgeon and academic (d. 2001)
1911: Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (d. 1980)
1910: Ted Hook, Australian public servant (d. 1990)
1909: Stanislaw Ulam, Polish-American mathematician and academic (d. 1984)
1905: Robert Sink, American general (d. 1965)
1904: Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman (d. 1999)
1904: Sally Rand, American dancer (d. 1979)
1904: Russel Wright, American furniture designer (d. 1976)
1903: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter (d. 1988)
1900: Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (d. 1987)
1900: Albert Walsh, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)
1898: David Jack, English footballer and manager (d. 1958)
1898: George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1981)
1898: Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded Time magazine (d. 1967)
1897: Joe Kirkwood Sr., Australian golfer (d. 1970)
1897: Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general (d. 1989)
1895: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer and educator (d. 1968)
1895: Zez Confrey, American pianist and composer (d. 1971)
1893: Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943)
1889: Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1949)
1888: Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (d. 1972)
1887: Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (d. 1956)
1887: Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (d. 1966)
1886: Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (d. 1953)
1885: Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1885: Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
1885: Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (d. 1944)
1885: St John Philby, English colonial and explorer (d. 1960)
1883: Ikki Kita, Japanese philosopher and author (d. 1937)
1882: Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (d. 1952)
1881: Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954)
1880: Otto Weininger, Jewish-Austrian philosopher and author (d. 1903)
1876: Margaret Anglin, Canadian actress, director, and producer (d. 1958)
1876: Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman, founded Bata Shoes (d. 1932)
1875: Mistinguett, French actress and singer (d. 1956)
1864: Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (d. 1943)
1860: Frederik van Eeden, Dutch psychiatrist and author (d. 1932)
1858: Jacob Gaudaur, Canadian rower (d. 1937)
1852: Talbot Baines Reed, English author (d. 1893)
1848: Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and captain (d. 1879)
1842: Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (d. 1864)
1837: John Burroughs, American botanist and author (d. 1921)
1826: Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (d. 1900)
1823: George Derby, American lieutenant and journalist (d. 1861)
1823: William M. Tweed, American politician (d. 1878)
1822: Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1909)
1814: Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1901)
1807: Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (d. 1877)
1798: Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (d.1877)
1791: Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (d.1840)
1783: Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (d. 1859)
1782: Alexander Macomb, American general (d. 1841)
1781: Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (d. 1830)
1778: Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy (d. 1862)
1770: Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
1769: Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (d. 1835)
1764: John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1831)
1715: William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (d. 1787)
1693: George Edwards, English ornithologist and entomologist (d. 1773)
1682: Valentin Rathgeber, German organist and composer (d. 1750)
1643: Charles V, duke of Lorraine (d. 1690)
1593: George Herbert, English poet (d. 1633)
1540: Maria de' Medici, Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. (d. 1557)
1529: Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
1438: John III of Egmont, Dutch nobleman (d. 1516)
1395: George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher, scholar and humanist (d. 1486)
1151: Igor Svyatoslavich, Russian prince (d. 1202)
1016: Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1055)

Deaths On This Day

2022: June Brown, English actress (b. 1927)
2021: Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (b. 1929)
2017: Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical vocalist (b. 1931)
2016: Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
2016: Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (b. 1913)
2016: Koji Wada, Japanese singer and songwriter (b. 1974)
2015: Sarah Brady, American activist and author (b. 1942)
2015: Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (b. 1950)
2015: Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1913)
2014: Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1935)
2014: Fred Kida, American illustrator (b. 1920)
2014: Prince Michael of Prussia (b. 1940)
2014: Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (b. 1936)
2014: Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (b. 1921)
2013: Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
2013: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2012: Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (b. 1919)
2012: Richard Descoings, French civil servant (b. 1958)
2012: Govind Narain, Indian politician, 8th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1917)
2012: Chief Jay Strongbow, American wrestler (b. 1928)
2012: José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1930)
2008: Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
2007: Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (b. 1937)
2005: François Gérin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
2000: Terence McKenna, American botanist and philosopher (b. 1946)
2000: Dina Abramowicz, Librarian and YIVO and Yiddish language expert (b. 1909)
1999: Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
1999: Geoffrey Walsh, Canadian general (b. 1909)
1998: Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
1997: John Ugelstad, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor (b. 1921)
1996: Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
1995: Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman, co-founded Canadian Tire (b. 1902)
1994: Frank Wells, American businessman (b. 1932)
1993: Pinky Lee, American television host (b. 1907)
1991: Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (b. 1901)
1991: Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1904)
1990: Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)
1988: Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
1987: Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1986: Peter Pears, English tenor and educator (b. 1910)
1983: Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
1982: Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
1981: Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (b. 1899)
1978: Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
1978: Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)
1976: David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)
1976: Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)
1975: Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)
1972: Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
1971: Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
1970: Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (b. 1890)
1962: Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer and educator (b. 1883)
1958: Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (b. 1891)
1957: Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor (b. 1883)
1952: Miina Sillanpää, Finnish minister and politician (b. 1866)
1951: Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1890)
1950: Kurt Weill, German-American composer and pianist (b. 1900)
1950: Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (b. 1875)
1946: Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (b. 1887)
1943: Conrad Veidt, German actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
1941: Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (b. 1877)
1941: Pál Teleki, Hungarian academic and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
1936: Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (b. 1899)
1930: Emma Albani, Canadian-English operatic soprano (b. 1847)
1902: Esther Hobart Morris, American lawyer and judge (b. 1814)
1901: Richard D'Oyly Carte, English composer and talent agent (b. 1844)
1897: Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (b. 1833)
1882: Jesse James, American criminal and outlaw (b. 1847)
1880: Felicita Vestvali, German actress and opera singer (b. 1831)
1868: Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (b. 1796)
1849: Juliusz Słowacki, Polish-French poet and playwright (b. 1809)
1846: William Braine, English soldier and explorer (b. 1814)
1844: Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (b. 1807)
1838: François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (b. 1780)
1827: Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
1826: Reginald Heber, English priest (b. 1783)
1804: Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (b. 1727)
1792: George Pocock, English admiral (b. 1706)
1728: James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)
1717: Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)
1695: Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. 1636)
1691: Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)
1682: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1618)
1680: Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj , Indian emperor, founded the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
1637: Joseph Yuspa Nördlinger Hahn, German rabbi
1630: Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English noble (b. c. 1593)
1606: Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1563)
1545: Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (b. 1481)
1538: Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1480)
1350: Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
1325: Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint (b. 1238)
1287: Pope Honorius IV (b. 1210)
1253: Saint Richard of Chichester
1203: Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1187)
1171: Philip of Milly, seventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1120)
1153: al-Adil ibn al-Sallar, vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate
963: William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)

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