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August 14

On This Day in History

August 14

August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 139 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: One lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania wins $213.8 million Powerball jackpot. Someone in the state of Pennsylvania is having a better week than most, having just won a $213.8 million Powerball lottery jackpot Monday.
2023: Utah man who drove across state lines to play lottery in Idaho wins $3 million Mega Millions prize. A Utah man is glad he drove across state lines into Idaho on two separate occasions to play the lottery after it led to him winning a $3 million prize in the Mega Millions multi-state game.
2022: Lottery Post launches new website. Lottery Post Founder Todd Northrop today announced the launch of the new Lottery Post website, unifying the mobile and desktop experience and implementing numerous improvements, while positioning the popular lottery website for the future.
2020: $32.25 million Lotto Texas jackpot is currently the largest in the USA. The Texas Lottery is up on the world stage as the Lotto Texas jackpot rolled to $32.35 million after no jackpot-winning tickets were sold for the Wednesday, August 12 drawing, making it the biggest prize in the United States right now.
2018: First sports betting licenses issued by West Virginia Lottery. Legalization of sports betting in West Virginia has reached another milestone, with the issuing of the first sports betting licenses by the state Lottery Commission.
2018: Lottery sales in Japan down for second straight year. In Japan, sales of Takarakuji lottery tickets issued by prefectural governments and ordinance-designated major cities totaled ¥786.6 billion (US$7.1 billion) in fiscal 2017, down 6.9 percent from the year before.
2017: Tennessee Lottery celebrates eclipse with new scratch-off game. There's nothing like the moon passing in front of the sun for 15 minutes to get people running to the store for scratch-off lottery tickets.
2016: Alabama lawmakers weigh in on lottery. Several Montgomery-area lawmakers say they could support letting Alabamians decide whether the state has a lottery, and whether Powerball and Mega Millions tickets are sold locally.
2014: $90M Colorado Powerball winner claims prize. The winner of the largest lottery jackpot in Colorado history claimed his prize in Grand Junction on Wednesday afternoon.
2012: $320 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot increased before draw date. As a result of brisker than expected ticket sales, lottery officials announced today that the Powerball jackpot has been raised from $305 million to $320 million for Wednesday's drawing.
2011: Starved state budgets prompt new interest in online gambling. More states are looking into online gambling as the ticket to a balanced budget, but they face difficult roadblocks on a federal level.
2010: Man wins Fla. Lottery jackpot for 7th time. An Orlando man is having a streak of incredible lottery luck, claiming his seventh lottery grand prize.
2010: N.J. Lottery sets record for lottery ticket sales. The slumping economy seemingly hasn't stopped lottery players in New Jersey who want to cash in on their dreams.
2010: Lottery winner has lucky numbers tattooed on his arm. It's not something most of us would need reminding about, but delighted Wayne Hughes has immortalized his £1.1 million (US$1.7 million) lottery win -- by having it etched on to his arm.
2010: 2 quick Lotto Texas winners put state in bind. The luck of lottery winners is picking up. For the state, not so much: It has taken a $3.4 million hit in just the past 10 days.
2007: Book imagines low-IQ man winning $12 million in Washington lottery. Seattle native Patricia Wood used her first-hand knowledge of life as a lottery winner to create a fictional account of a low-IQ man winning $12 million in Washington lottery.
2007: Briton claims UK's biggest lottery win. Someone in Britain is a lot richer on Tuesday after claiming the country's biggest ever lottery win -- 35,425,411.80 pounds (US$71 million).
2007: Kentucky Lottery Lucky 7's raffle results. The Kentucky Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Lucky 7's, was drawn last night, awarding over a million dollars in prizes.
2005: Unclaimed New Mexico Powerball jackpot fuels speculation. The lucky -- and still unknown -- winner of Wednesday's $93.4 million Powerball jackpot bought the winning ticket in the Albuquerque area, the New Mexico Lottery revealed Friday.
2003: Prize for ticket may be prison. A Ohio woman accused of altering a lottery ticket to claim a $25,000 prize went on trial yesterday, with both sides agreeing that the ticket shown to jurors was a poor fake.
2003: Legality of Tennessee-Georgia lottery partnership questioned. Questions are being raised about the legality of the proposed marriage of the Tennessee and Georgia lotteries and whether a legal challenge by a jealous vendor could stall the start to the Tennessee lottery.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$464 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2024
2.$432.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2017
3.$337 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2012
4.$259.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2021
5.€254.55 Million US$258.65 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2022
6.$242 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 17, 2021
7.$220.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2023
8.$213 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2009
9.$181 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2007
10.$146 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2009
11.$144 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2014
12.€123.8 Million
US$139.48 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2016
13.$138 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2019
14.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2007
15.€90 Million
US$102.3 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2018
16.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2001
17.$97 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2004
18.$94 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 17, 2016
19.€85 Million
US$93.71 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2020
20.€70 Million
US$93.34 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2013
21.€84 Million
US$93.17 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2019
22.$86 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 17, 2010
23.€75 Million
US$83.19 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2019
24.$82 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2022
25.€57 Million
US$81.15 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2009

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1984: queenjenine814
Tuesday, Aug 14, 1984
40 years old
1983: Katie83
Sunday, Aug 14, 1983
41 years old
1980: Just Dreaming
Thursday, Aug 14, 1980
44 years old
1976: ADB-23
Saturday, Aug 14, 1976
48 years old
1974: gaddist37
Wednesday, Aug 14, 1974
50 years old
1973: Anawat
Tuesday, Aug 14, 1973
51 years old
1970: Skip1970
Friday, Aug 14, 1970
54 years old
1968: permanentguest
Wednesday, Aug 14, 1968
56 years old
1966: konnichiwa
Sunday, Aug 14, 1966
58 years old
1961: Debra Ashley
Monday, Aug 14, 1961
63 years old
1960: myeyes2020
Sunday, Aug 14, 1960
64 years old
1959: Toy
Friday, Aug 14, 1959
65 years old
1957: LOVEZ2PLAY$
Wednesday, Aug 14, 1957
67 years old
1945: johnnyboy45
Tuesday, Aug 14, 1945
79 years old
: hotmama
(year not provided)
: Winlotta
(year not provided)
: SHANNYB
(year not provided)
: saber
(year not provided)
: AlienDNA
(year not provided)
: myeyes3377
(year not provided)
: Siva
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023: Former U.S. President Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.
2022: An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
2021: A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
2015: The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba-United States relations were broken off.
2013: Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
2013: UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
2007: The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people.
2006: Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
2006: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
2005: Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
2003: A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
1996: Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
1994: Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1972: An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.
1971: Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
1969: The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
1967: UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1959: Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1948: Beaver drop a Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers from Northwestern Idaho to the Chamberlain Basin in Central Idaho. The program involved parachuting beavers into the Chamberlain Basin.
1947: Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire.
1941: World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1936: Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1933: Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km) of land.
1921: Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1920: The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly-adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
1917: World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war.
1914: World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
1901: The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1900: Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1893: France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1885: Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1880: Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1848: Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1842: American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
1816: The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1814: A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the Swedish-Norwegian War.
1791: Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
1790: The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788-1790 Russo-Swedish War.
1784: Russian colonization of North America: Awa’uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit.
1720: The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1598: Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1592: The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
1385: Portuguese Crisis of 1383-85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
1370: Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
1352: War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1264: After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
1183: Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.
1040: King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
29 BC: Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
74 BC: A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan.

Births On This Day

2004: Marsai Martin, American actress and producer
1997: Greet Minnen, Belgian tennis player
1995: Léolia Jeanjean, French tennis player
1991: Richard Freitag, German ski jumper
1991: Giovanny Gallegos, Mexican baseball player
1989: Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
1989: Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
1987: Johnny Gargano, American wrestler
1987: David Peralta, Venezuelan baseball player
1987: Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster
1986: Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
1985: Christian Gentner, German footballer
1985: Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
1984: Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player
1984: Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
1984: Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
1984: Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
1984: Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host
1984: Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player
1984: Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
1983: Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
1983: Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
1983: Lamorne Morris, American actor and comedian
1983: Spencer Pratt, American television personality
1981: Earl Barron, American basketball player
1981: Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league player, boxer, and sportscaster
1981: Julius Jones, American football player
1981: Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian-American wrestler
1981: Scott Lipsky, American tennis player
1980: Peter Malinauskas, Australian politician, 47th Premier of South Australia
1979: Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter
1978: Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
1978: Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand rugby player
1977: Juan Pierre, American baseball player
1976: Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
1975: Mike Vrabel, American football player
1974: Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
1974: Christopher Gorham, American actor
1973: Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
1973: Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
1972: Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Haiti
1971: Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971: Benito Carbone, Italian footballer
1971: Peter Franzén, Finnish actor
1971: Mark Loretta, American baseball player
1970: Kevin Cadogan, American rock guitarist
1969: Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut
1969: Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
1968: Ben Bass, American actor
1968: Catherine Bell, English-American actress and producer
1968: Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
1968: Jason Leonard, English rugby player
1966: Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer
1966: Karl Petter Løken, Swedish-Norwegian footballer
1965: Paul Broadhurst, English golfer
1964: Neal Anderson, American football player and coach
1964: Jason Dunstall, Australian footballer
1963: José Cóceres, Argentinian golfer
1962: Mark Gubicza, American baseball player
1961: Susan Olsen, American actress and radio host
1960: Sarah Brightman, English singer and actress
1960: Fred Roberts, American basketball player
1959: Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
1959: Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
1959: Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1957: Peter Costello, Australian lawyer and politician
1956: Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
1956: Andy King, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1956: Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1954: Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1954: Stanley A. McChrystal, American general
1953: James Horner, American composer and conductor (d. 2015)
1952: Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
1951: Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951: Carl Lumbly, American actor
1950: Gary Larson, American cartoonist
1949: Bob Backlund, American wrestler
1949: Morten Olsen, Danish footballer
1947: Maddy Prior, English folk singer
1947: Danielle Steel, American author
1947: Joop van Daele, Dutch footballer
1946: Antonio Fargas, American actor
1946: Larry Graham, American soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter
1946: Susan Saint James, American actress
1946: Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and businessman (d. 2010)
1945: Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
1945: Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
1943: Ronnie Campbell, English miner and politician (d. 2024)
1943: Ben Sidran, American jazz and rock keyboardist
1942: Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1941: David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2023)
1941: Connie Smith, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938: Bennie Muller, Dutch footballer (d. 2024)
1935: John Brodie, American football player
1933: Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1932: Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
1931: Frederic Raphael, American journalist, author, and screenwriter
1930: Arthur Latham, British politician and Member of Parliament (d. 2016)
1930: Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
1929: Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi from 1989 to 2005 (d. 2021).
1929: Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
1928: Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1926: René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (d. 1977)
1926: Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist (d. 2017)
1925: Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (d. 2019)
1924: Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (d. 2009)
1924: Georges Prêtre, French conductor (d. 2017)
1923: Alice Ghostley, American actress (d. 2007)
1916: Frank and John Craighead, American naturalists (twins, Frank d. 2001, John d. 2016)
1916: Wellington Mara, American businessman (d. 2005)
1915: B. A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and publisher (d. 1998)
1914: Herman Branson, American physicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1995)
1913: Hector Crawford, Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
1913: Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1912: Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)
1910: Nüzhet Gökdoğan, Turkish astronomer and mathematician (d. 2003)
1910: Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
1910: Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and producer (d. 1995)
1900: Margret Boveri, German journalist (d. 1975)
1896: Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (d. 1917)
1896: Theodor Luts, Estonian director and cinematographer (d. 1980)
1895: Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1895: Amaza Lee Meredith, American architect (d. 1984)
1894: Frank Burge, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1958)
1892: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (d. 1988)
1890: Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (d. 1946)
1889: Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1976)
1886: Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (d. 1950)
1883: Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic (d. 1941)
1881: Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1953)
1876: Alexander I of Serbia (d. 1903)
1875: Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
1871: Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
1867: Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
1867: John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)
1866: Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (d. 1962)
1865: Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1952)
1863: Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (d. 1940)
1860: Ernest Thompson Seton, American author, artist, and naturalist (d. 1946)
1851: Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler (d. 1887)
1848: Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (d. 1915)
1847: Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1922)
1840: Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychologist and author (d. 1902)
1817: Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1874)
1814: Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (d. 1901)
1802: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (d. 1838)
1777: Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851)
1758: Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (d. 1836)
1742: Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
1738: Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1793)
1714: Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
1688: Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
1653: Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (d. 1688)
1642: Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
1599: Méric Casaubon, Swiss-English scholar and author (d. 1671)
1552: Paolo Sarpi, Italian writer (d. 1623)
1530: Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1590)
1502: Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (d. 1550)
1499: John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1526)
1479: Catherine of York (d. 1527)

Deaths On This Day

2023: Delwar Hossain Sayeedi Bangladeshi Islamic lecturer, politician (b. 1940)
2021: Michael Aung-Thwin, American historian and scholar of Burmese and Southeast Asian history (b. 1946)
2020: Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (b. 1933)
2020: Angela Buxton, British tennis player (b. 1934)
2020: James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (b. 1936)
2019: Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
2018: Jill Janus, American singer (b. 1975)
2016: Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
2015: Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932)
2014: Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934)
2014: George V. Hansen, American politician (b. 1930)
2013: Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928)
2012: Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)
2012: Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923)
2012: Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
2010: Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923)
2007: Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2006: Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
2004: Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2004: Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
2003: Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2002: Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
1999: Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
1996: Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1994: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1994: Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)
1992: John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
1991: Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1920)
1988: Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
1988: Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1945)
1988: Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898)
1985: Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
1984: Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904)
1984: J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
1982: Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (b. 1904)
1981: Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1894)
1981: Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
1980: Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)
1978: Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)
1973: Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
1972: Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
1972: Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
1967: Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)
1965: Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
1964: Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
1963: Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1958: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1956: Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
1956: Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
1955: Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1954: Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
1951: William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
1948: Eliška Misáková, Czech gymnast (b. 1926)
1943: Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
1941: Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
1941: Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1938: Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)
1928: Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
1922: Rebecca Cole, American physician and social reformer (b. 1846)
1909: William Stanley, British engineer and author (b. 1829)
1905: Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
1891: Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
1890: Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
1870: David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
1860: André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
1854: Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
1852: Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (b. 1788)
1784: Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
1774: Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
1727: William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
1716: Madre María Rosa, Capuchin nun from Spain, to Peru (b. 1660)
1691: Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1630)
1573: Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1548)
1464: Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1433: John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
1204: Minamoto no Yoriie, second Shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate
1167: Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop
1040: Duncan I of Scotland
582: Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor

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