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August 24

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August 24

August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 129 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Washington man wins $717,500 in lottery after heartwarming moment he rescues kitten. A Washington man won $717,500 playing the Washington Lottery's Hit 5 draw game after he saved a trapped kitten.
2020: Illinois lottery player wins two prizes playing daughters' birthdays. After playing the lottery for a decade, one lucky man attributed his double-win to consistency, a favorite retailer, and his daughters' birthdays.
2017: Massachusetts woman wastes no time claiming $758.7 million Powerball lottery jackpot. Some lottery winners spend months hiring financial experts and planning how to best claim their lottery jackpot, but not so with the winner of the largest lottery jackpot ever claimed by a single ticket.
2017: One Massachusetts lottery ticket wins $758.7 million Powerball jackpot. A single winning Powerball lottery ticket matching all six numbers was sold in Massachusetts and will claim a $758.7 million jackpot — the largest ever awarded to a single winning ticket.
2016: Prosecutors say 2 more men may be linked to lottery riggings. Prosecutors in the case of a former lottery insider convicted last year in a national Hot Lotto jackpot-rigging scandal are seeking to subpoena records from two attorneys they believe could be tied to the plot.
2016: Lottery winner who spent $20M on boyfriend's bail money to appear on 'Fix My Life' series. A North Carolina woman who spent part of her $188 million lottery jackpot bailing her boyfriend out of jail is due to appear on a Fix My Life reality series.
2016: Alabama lottery vote manuevering fractures Republican caucus. Two senators have resigned from the Senate Republican Caucus in the wake of last week's vote to approve a statewide lottery, citing policy differences and claiming senate leaders violated their own rules in an effort to muscle the bill through.
2015: Virginia Lottery's new in-state game awards $1 million, taxes paid. Wouldn't it be nice if you won some money, and you received a bonus to pay the taxes on your windfall? That's the idea behind the Virginia's Lottery's newest game, Bank a Million.
2013: Connecticut Lottery chairman says keno in early stages. Connecticut lottery employees have begun discussions with bars and taverns on hosting keno terminals, but it will be months and months before the game is made available to the state's gamblers, the chairman of the state lottery's board said.
2011: Illegal alien faces deportation after threatening his boss over lottery prize. A Georgia man who was jailed for threatening his boss over a disputed $750,000 lottery ticket faces deportation, with authorities saying he is in the U.S. illegally.
2010: $18.5M lottery winner 'scraping by'. Ten years after he and his wife won $64 million in the "Big Game" lottery, Alex Snelius wishes he'd won more money.
2010: Vt. Lottery computer glitch creates extra winners. Due to a computer glitch, which has since been rectified, about 70 Vermont Lottery tickets were sold during a 30-minute span that were mistakes, but according to the rules were winners.
2010: W. Va. official wins $79M Powerball lottery jackpot. For about two hours, Berkeley County Magistrate W. Randy Smith believed he had come close, but that he didn't win Saturday's $79 million Powerball jackpot.
2007: Engineer reported bad Tenn. Lottery computerized draws. The Tennessee Lottery appears to have been slow to investigate reports of a major flaw in its new computerized drawing system, even in the face of multiple warnings from players.
2007: Former Indiana Lottery Director cleared of ethics charges. The Hoosier Lottery inappropriately sponsored a luncheon for Republican women during the tenure of its former director, but neither that nor other actions rose to the level of ethics violations, the state's inspector general said.
2007: South Dakota adds new raffle game. The first-ever state lottery raffle will be held later this year to mark the 20th anniversary of legalized lottery games in South Dakota.
2007: Powerball lottery jackpot crosses $300 million boundary. The Powerball lottery jackpot for next Saturday will be worth an incredible $300 million, with a cash option of $140.3 million.
2007: Cheese factory workers win lottery again. Some of the cheese factory workers who won a $208.6 million Powerball jackpot last summer have won again -- this time a $10,000 jackpot.
2005: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $97 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $97 million Wednesday.
2005: N.C. Lottery Appears Dead as Senate Adjourns. North Carolina Senate leader Marc Basnight gave up on passing a lottery before ending the session last night and going home, but the issue may resurface when lawmakers reconvene in May.
2005: Milkman to return to 3am starts after Lottery win. A milkman who won £1.4 million (US$2.52 million) in the UK Lotto has vowed to continue his job - and its 3am starts.
2005: Lottery plan dies in N.C. Senate. North Carolina Senate lottery supporters early this morning threw away the last chance to bring games to the state this year.
2005: N.C. Democrats tried to sneak lottery in 'the back door'. North Carolina Senate Democrats saw an opening early Wednesday they say would have allowed them to pass a lottery bill and give Gov. Mike Easley a big political victory.
2004: Mega Millions winnings yet to be claimed. The winner of last week's Mega Millions jackpot has yet to come forward to claim the cool $52 million prize, Ohio Lottery officials said Monday.
2004: Lottery winner too busy to spend it. A former Welsh newspaper editor who left her job after winning £8.5m (US$15.3 million) on the national lottery revealed yesterday that she hasn't spent a penny of it yet.
2004: Pennsylvania Lottery Numbers Drawing Suspicions. The same four digits have hit in the daytime Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.
2003: A rank amateur takes on the stars in poker’s world championship. Chris Moneymaker, a 27-year-old Tennessee accountant from Spring Hill, Tenn., beat some of the best poker players in the world to capture the World Series of Poker's championship.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$776.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2025
2.$582 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 27, 2024
3.$344.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 26, 2023
4.$314.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2007
5.$304.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2021
6.$280 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2001
7.$270 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 24, 2021
8.€259.62 Million US$259.07 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2022
9.$253 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 26, 2025
10.$252 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2009
11.$201 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 24, 2007
12.€128.74 Million
US$145.25 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2016
13.$135 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 26, 2022
14.€122 Million
US$134.51 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 25, 2020
15.€88 Million
US$129.4 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 29, 2008
16.€88 Million
US$127.22 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 26, 2011
17.$127 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 24, 2016
18.$120 Million: California
SuperLotto Plus
Draw Date
Aug 24, 2002
19.€108 Million
US$119.85 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 27, 2019
20.$118 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 24, 2018
21.€104 Million
US$116.19 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 27, 2024
22.$115 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 27, 2003
22.$115 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 24, 2010
24.$114 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 26, 2008
25.$105 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 27, 2002

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: NUNLEY!
Friday, Aug 24, 1990
35 years old
1983: Joe medious
Wednesday, Aug 24, 1983
42 years old
1983: Mbat1789
Wednesday, Aug 24, 1983
42 years old
1981: Mirth
Monday, Aug 24, 1981
44 years old
1978: mayan27
Thursday, Aug 24, 1978
47 years old
1974: solucky24
Saturday, Aug 24, 1974
51 years old
1971: bigmoneyman
Tuesday, Aug 24, 1971
54 years old
1970: Truckpooh
Monday, Aug 24, 1970
55 years old
1967: ajdewey24
Thursday, Aug 24, 1967
58 years old
1967: jkrichardson
Thursday, Aug 24, 1967
58 years old
1965: maxium27909
Tuesday, Aug 24, 1965
60 years old
1956: lottoAficionado
Friday, Aug 24, 1956
69 years old
1955: habitat
Wednesday, Aug 24, 1955
70 years old
1929: jet2012
Saturday, Aug 24, 1929
96 years old
: dkwillis2000
(year not provided)
: changes
(year not provided)
: KPaul
(year not provided)
: whit
(year not provided)
: Damarco47$
(year not provided)
: Qluvstohit
(year not provided)
: Queenb71
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023: Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking international concerns and condemnation.
2020: Erin O'Toole is elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2017: The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space.
2016: An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
2016: Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, is discovered by the European Southern Observatory.
2014: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.
2012: Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention.
2010: In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.
2010: Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.
2010: Agni Air Flight 101 crashes near Shikharpur, Makwanpur, Nepal, killing all 14 people on board.
2008: Sixty-five passengers are killed when Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes during an emergency landing at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
2008: A Cessna 208 Caravan crashes in Cabañas, Zacapa, Guatemala, killing 11 people.
2006: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
2004: Ninety passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
2001: Air Transat Flight 236 loses all engine power over the Atlantic Ocean, forcing the pilots to conduct an emergency landing in the Azores.
1998: First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
1995: Microsoft releases Windows 95 to the public in North America.
1992: Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991: Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1989: Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1989: Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1981: Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1970: Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
1967: Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1963: Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
1954: The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1954: Vice president João Café Filho takes office as president of Brazil, following the suicide of Getúlio Vargas.
1951: United Air Lines Flight 615 crashes near Decoto, California, killing 50 people.
1950: Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
1949: The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
1944: World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
1942: World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.
1941: The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
1938: Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down.
1937: Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
1937: Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
1936: The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1933: The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane.
1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1931: Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1929: Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
1914: World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1914: World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
1911: Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
1909: Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1898: Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
1870: The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1857: The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
1821: The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1820: Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
1816: The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1815: The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
1814: British troops capture Washington, D.C. and set the Presidential Mansion, Capitol, Navy Yard and many other public buildings ablaze.
1812: Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
1789: The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland.
1781: American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
1743: The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
1690: Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).
1682: William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1662: The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is legally enforced as the liturgy of the Church of England, precipitating the Great Ejection of Dissenter ministers from their benefices.
1643: A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.
1608: The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1561: Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
1516: The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
1482: The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
1349: Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1215: Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.
1200: King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
1185: Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
410: The Visigoths under King Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
394: The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.
367: Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.

Births On This Day

2001: Mildred Maldonado, Mexican rhythmic gymnast
2000: Griffin Gluck, American actor
1998: Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality
1997: Alan Walker, British-Norwegian DJ and record producer
1995: Noah Vonleh, American basketball player
1995: Lady Amelia Windsor, member of the British royal family
1994: Kelsey Plum, American basketball player
1993: Maryna Zanevska, Belgian tennis player
1992: Jemerson, Brazilian footballer
1991: Enrique Hernández, Puerto Rican baseball player
1991: Wang Zhen, Chinese race walker
1990: Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentinian actor and singer
1989: Reynaldo, Brazilian footballer
1989: Rocío Igarzábal, Argentinian actress and singer
1988: Rupert Grint, English actor
1988: Brad Hunt, Canadian ice hockey player
1988: Manu Ma'u, New Zealand rugby league player
1988: Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer
1987: Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
1986: Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
1986: Arian Foster, American football player, rapper, and actor
1984: Erin Molan, Australian journalist and sportscaster
1984: Charlie Villanueva, Dominican-American basketball player
1984: Yesung, South Korean singer
1983: Brett Gardner, American baseball player
1983: Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
1982: José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
1982: Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
1981: Chad Michael Murray, American actor, model, and author
1979: Vahur Afanasjev, Estonian author and poet
1979: Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
1979: Michael Redd, American basketball player
1978: Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
1977: Denílson de Oliveira Araújo, Brazilian footballer
1977: Robert Enke, German footballer (died 2009)
1977: Per Gade, Danish footballer
1977: John Green, American author and vlogger
1977: Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
1976: Simon Dennis, English rower and academic
1976: Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor, writer, director, and producer
1975: Roberto Colombo, Italian footballer
1975: Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
1974: Jennifer Lien, American actress
1973: Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973: Dave Chappelle, American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
1973: James D'Arcy, English actor
1973: Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
1973: Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
1972: Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian skier and radio host
1972: Ava DuVernay, American director and screenwriter
1972: Todd Young, American politician
1970: Rich Beem, American golfer
1970: David Gregory, American journalist
1970: Tugay Kerimoğlu, Turkish footballer and manager
1969: Jans Koerts, Dutch cyclist
1968: Benoît Brunet, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1968: Shoichi Funaki, Japanese-American wrestler and sportscaster
1968: Andreas Kisser, Brazilian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1968: Tim Salmon, American baseball player and sportscaster
1967: Michael Thomas, English footballer
1965: Marlee Matlin, American actress and producer
1965: Reggie Miller, American basketball player and sportscaster
1965: Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan-Canadian cricketer
1964: Éric Bernard, French racing driver
1964: Mark Cerny, American video game designer, programmer, producer and business executive
1964: Salizhan Sharipov, Kyrgyzstani-Russian lieutenant, pilot, and astronaut
1963: John Bush, American singer-songwriter
1963: Hideo Kojima, Japanese director, screenwriter and video game designer
1963: Peter Rufai, Nigerian footballer (died 2025)
1962: Craig Kilborn, American television host
1962: Emile Roemer, Dutch educator and politician
1961: Jared Harris, English actor
1960: Cal Ripken Jr., American baseball player and coach
1958: Steve Guttenberg, American actor and producer
1957: Jeffrey Daniel, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1957: Stephen Fry, English actor, journalist, producer, and screenwriter
1956: Gerry Cooney, American boxer
1955: Kevin Dunn, American actor
1955: Mike Huckabee, American minister and politician, 44th Governor of Arkansas
1954: Alain Daigle, Canadian ice hockey player
1954: Heini Otto, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
1953: Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer and sportscaster
1952: Marion Bloem, Dutch author, director, and painter
1952: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jamaican dub poet
1951: Danny Joe Brown, American southern rock singer-songwriter and musician (died 2005)
1951: Orson Scott Card, American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist
1951: Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (died 2013)
1949: Stephen Paulus, American composer and educator (died 2014)
1949: Joe Regalbuto, American actor and director
1948: Kim Sung-il, South Korean commander and pilot
1948: Jean Michel Jarre, French pianist, composer, and producer
1948: Sauli Niinistö, Finnish captain and politician, 12th President of Finland
1948: Alexander McCall Smith, Rhodesian-Scottish author and educator
1947: Anne Archer, American actress and producer
1947: Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author and songwriter
1947: Roger De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist and coach
1947: Joe Manchin, American politician, 34th Governor of West Virginia
1947: Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
1945: Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1945: Molly Duncan, Scottish saxophonist (died 2019)
1945: Ken Hensley, English rock singer-songwriter and musician (died 2020)
1945: Marsha P. Johnson, American gay liberation activist and drag queen (died 1992)
1945: Vince McMahon, American wrestler, promoter, and entrepreneur; co-founded WWE
1944: Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (died 1996)
1944: Gregory Jarvis, American engineer, and astronaut (died 1986)
1944: Rocky Johnson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2020)
1943: John Cipollina, American rock guitarist (died 1989)
1942: Max Cleland, American captain and politician (died 2021)
1942: Jimmy Soul, American pop-soul singer (died 1988)
1942: Karen Uhlenbeck, American mathematician
1942: Hans Peter Korff, German actor (died 2025)
1941: Alan M. Roberts, English academic, Professor of Zoology at the University of Bristol
1940: Madsen Pirie, British academic, President and co-founder of the Adam Smith Institute
1940: Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (died 2014)
1940: Keith Savage, English rugby player
1938: David Freiberg, American singer and bass player
1938: Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
1937: Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (died 1998)
1937: Susan Sheehan, Austrian-American journalist and author
1936: A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet (died 2023)
1936: Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (died 2010)
1936: Arthur B. C. Walker Jr., American physicist and academic (died 2001)
1934: Kenny Baker, English actor (died 2016)
1933: Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English banker and manager (died 2014)
1932: Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader (died 2017)
1932: Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer (died 2009)
1932: Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal (died 2017)
1930: Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (died 1979)
1930: Roger McCluskey, American race car driver (died 1993)
1929: Betty Dodson, American author and educator (died 2020)
1927: Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer (died 2014)
1927: David Ireland, Australian author and playwright (died 2022)
1927: Harry Markowitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)
1926: Nancy Spero, American painter and academic (died 2009)
1924: Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor (died 1990)
1924: Louis Teicher, American pianist (died 2008)
1923: Arthur Jensen, American psychologist and academic (died 2012)
1922: René Lévesque, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (died 1987)
1922: Howard Zinn, American historian, author, and activist (died 2010)
1921: Eric Simms, English ornithologist and conservationist (died 2009)
1920: Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (died 2013)
1919: Tosia Altman, member of the Polish resistance in World War II (died 1943)
1919: J. Gordon Edwards, American entomologist, mountaineer, and DDT advocate (died 2004)
1919: Enrique Llanes, Mexican wrestler (died 2004)
1919: Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer and pianist (died 2000)
1918: Sikander Bakht, Indian field hockey player and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (died 2004)
1915: Wynonie Harris, American singer and guitarist (died 1969)
1915: James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon), American psychologist and science fiction author (died 1987)
1913: Charles Snead Houston, American physician and mountaineer (died 2009)
1909: Ronnie Grieveson, South African cricketer and soldier (died 1998)
1908: Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (died 1931)
1907: Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect, designed the Hallenstadion (died 2012)
1905: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1974)
1905: Siaka Stevens, Sierra Leonean police officer and politician, 1st President of Sierra Leone (died 1988)
1904: Ida Cook, English campaigner for Jewish refugees, and romantic novelist as Mary Burchell (died 1986)
1903: Karl Hanke, German businessman and politician (died 1945)
1902: Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic (died 1985)
1902: Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (died 1976)
1900: Preston Foster, American actor (died 1970)
1899: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (died 1986)
1899: Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983)
1898: Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic (died 1989)
1897: Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher (died 1954)
1895: Richard Cushing, American cardinal (died 1970)
1893: Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (died 1978)
1890: Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer, actor, and surfer (died 1968)
1890: Jean Rhys, Dominican-British novelist (died 1979)
1888: Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (died 1942)
1887: Harry Hooper, American baseball player (died 1974)
1884: Earl Derr Biggers, American author and playwright (died 1933)
1872: Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (died 1956)
1865: Ferdinand I of Romania (died 1927)
1863: Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (died 1918)
1862: Zonia Baber, American geographer and geologist (died 1956)
1860: David Bowman, Australian lawyer and politician (died 1916)
1852: Agnes Marshall, English culinary entrepreneur, inventor, and celebrity chef (died 1905)
1851: Tom Kendall, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1924)
1845: James Calhoun, American lieutenant (died 1876)
1843: Boyd Dunlop Morehead, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Queensland (died 1905)
1837: Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (died 1924)
1824: Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (died 1891)
1787: James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor, hunter, and explorer (died 1834)
1772: William I of the Netherlands (died 1840)
1759: William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (died 1833)
1758: Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (died 1794)
1714: Alaungpaya, Burmese king (died 1760)
1684: Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, British politician (died 1746)
1635: Peder Griffenfeld, Danish lawyer and politician (died 1699)
1631: Philip Henry, English minister (died 1696)
1591: Robert Herrick, English poet and cleric (died 1674)
1578: John Taylor, English poet and author (died 1653)
1561: Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (died 1626)
1556: Sophia Brahe, Danish horticulturalist and astronomer (died 1643)
1552: Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter and educator (died 1614)
1510: Elisabeth of Brandenburg, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen (died 1558)
1498: John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony (died 1537)
1423: Thomas Rotherham, English cleric (died 1500)
1393: Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (died 1458)
1358: John I of Castile (died 1390)
1198: Alexander II of Scotland (died 1249)
1113: Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (died 1151)
1016: Fujiwara no Genshi, Japanese empress consort (died 1039)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager (born 1953)
2023: Bray Wyatt, American wrestler (born 1987)
2021: Charlie Watts, English musician (born 1941)
2020: Gail Sheehy, American author, journalist, and lecturer (born 1936)
2017: Jay Thomas, American actor, comedian, and radio talk show host (born 1948)
2016: Walter Scheel, German politician, 4th President of Germany (born 1919)
2015: Charlie Coffey, American football player and coach (born 1934)
2015: Joseph F. Traub, German-American computer scientist and academic (born 1932)
2015: Justin Wilson, English racing driver (born 1978)
2014: Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1923)
2014: Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, Brazilian businessman (born 1928)
2013: Gerry Baker, American soccer player and manager (born 1938)
2013: Nílton de Sordi, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1931)
2013: Julie Harris, American actress (born 1925)
2013: Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1928)
2012: Dadullah, Pakistani Taliban leader (born 1965)
2012: Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese surveyor and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1936)
2012: Steve Franken, American actor (born 1932)
2012: Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1937)
2011: Seyhan Erözçelik, Turkish poet and author (born 1962)
2011: Mike Flanagan, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (born 1951)
2010: Satoshi Kon, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1963)
2007: Andrée Boucher, Canadian educator and politician, 39th Mayor of Quebec City (born 1937)
2007: Aaron Russo, American director and producer (born 1943)
2006: Rocco Petrone, American soldier and engineer (born 1926)
2006: Léopold Simoneau, Canadian tenor and educator (born 1916)
2004: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1926)
2003: Wilfred Thesiger, Ethiopian-English explorer and author (born 1910)
2002: Nikolay Guryanov, Russian priest and mystic (born 1909)
2001: Jane Greer, American actress (born 1924)
2001: Roman Matsov, Estonian violinist, pianist, and conductor (born 1917)
2000: Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kick-boxer (born 1964)
1999: Mary Jane Croft, American actress (born 1916)
1999: Alexandre Lagoya, Egyptian guitarist and composer (born 1929)
1998: E. G. Marshall, American actor (born 1910)
1997: Luigi Villoresi, Italian racing driver (born 1907)
1992: André Donner, Dutch academic and judge (born 1918)
1991: Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (born 1904)
1990: Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (born 1941)
1990: Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (born 1931)
1987: Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (born 1936)
1985: Paul Creston, American composer and educator (born 1906)
1983: Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (born 1913)
1983: Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (born 1883)
1982: Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (born 1896)
1980: Yootha Joyce, English actress (born 1927)
1979: Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (born 1912)
1978: Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (born 1910)
1977: Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1916)
1974: Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American pilot and businessman, co-founded Republic Aviation (born 1894)
1967: Henry J. Kaiser, American businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards and Kaiser Aluminum (born 1882)
1958: Paul Henry, Irish painter and educator (born 1876)
1957: Ronald Knox, English Catholic priest (born 1888)
1956: Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1898)
1954: Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (born 1882)
1946: James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (born 1862)
1943: Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (born 1886)
1943: Ettore Muti Italian aviator, adventurer and politician (born 1902)
1943: Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (born 1909)
1940: Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (born 1860)
1939: Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (born 1874)
1932: Kate M. Gordon, American activist (born 1861)
1930: Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (born 1860)
1923: Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (born 1856)
1895: Albert F. Mummery, English mountaineer and author (born 1855)
1888: Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (born 1822)
1841: Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (born 1788)
1841: John Ordronaux, French-American soldier (born 1778)
1838: Ferenc Kölcsey, Hungarian poet, critic, and politician (born 1790)
1832: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (born 1796)
1832: Richard Weymouth, British Royal Navy commander (born 1780/81)
1821: John William Polidori, English writer and physician (born 1795)
1818: James Carr, American lawyer and politician (born 1777)
1804: Peggy Shippen, American wife of Benedict Arnold and American Revolutionary War spy (born 1760)
1798: Thomas Alcock, English priest and author (born 1709)
1779: Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek monk and saint (born 1714)
1770: Thomas Chatterton, English poet and prodigy (born 1752)
1759: Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet and soldier (born 1715)
1683: John Owen, English theologian and academic (born 1616)
1680: Thomas Blood, Irish colonel (born 1618)
1680: Ferdinand Bol, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1616)
1679: Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and author (born 1614)
1647: Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (born 1586)
1617: Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (born 1586)
1595: Thomas Digges, English mathematician and astronomer (born 1546)
1572: Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (born 1519)
1572: Charles de Téligny, French soldier and diplomat (born 1535)
1542: Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal (born 1483)
1540: Parmigianino, Italian painter and etcher (born 1503)
1507: Cecily of York, English princess (born 1469)
1497: Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania (born 1435)
1372: Casimir III, Duke of Pomerania (born 1348)
1313: Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1275)
1217: Eustace the Monk, French pirate (born 1170)
1103: Magnus Barefoot, Norwegian king (born 1073)
1042: Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (born 1015)
948: Zhang Ye, Chinese general and chancellor
942: Liu, empress dowager of Later Jin
927: Doulu Ge, chancellor of Later Tang
927: Wei Yue, chancellor of Later Tang
895: Guthred, king of Northumbria
842: Saga, Japanese emperor (born 786)
691: Fu Youyi, official of the Tang Dynasty

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