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August 28

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August 28

August 28 is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 125 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Maryland veteran will go to the Winter Olympics after winning trip in the lottery. A Maryland man is Olympic-bound after winning a second-chance prize in the lottery, giving him his own "medal-stand moment."
2023: Kentucky woman charged with 76 counts for theft of over $123,000, including lottery tickets. A Kentucky woman faces 76 counts in connection with theft of over $123,000 in merchandise, consisting of Kentucky Lottery tickets and other stolen goods.
2020: NJ Lottery mistakenly printed malicious website address on lottery tickets. The New Jersey Lottery misspelled the address of their second-chance website on lottery tickets, leading players to visit a malicious look-alike website with the potential to install malware on their computer.
2019: Lawyers drop request for author's lottery scandal book notes. Lawyers reversed course on Tuesday and dropped a subpoena in which they had ordered an Iowa journalist to turn over notes related to his book about a lottery industry insider who rigged jackpots in several states.
2019: Journalist faces subpoena in lawsuit over lottery scandal. An Iowa journalist who wrote a book about the lottery insider who rigged jackpots in several states has been subpoenaed to turn over notes related to his reporting.
2019: From the lottery to Nobel prize: meet workers who make life-changing phone calls. What it's like to be one of the people whose job is to make uplifting calls that change lives.
2017: Illinois couple claims $393 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot. At the same time the latest Powerball jackpot run was stealing headlines, an Illinois couple was at Illinois Lottery headquarters, claiming the largest lottery jackpot ever won in the state.
2016: Lottery winner's wife leaves him for even richer man. A married couple who won £2.3 million (US$3 million) in the UK National Lottery have divorced after the wife began a relationship with one of the UK's richest men.
2015: Illinois Lottery not paying big winners because state legislature won't pass budget. Illinois lottery players who win more than $25,000 have to settle for an IOU for now because the state has not passed a budget.
2015: Maryland Lottery to join Cash4Life game in early 2016. Maryland gambling officials issued their approval Thursday for the state to join the multi-state Cash4Life game starting in early 2016.
2015: Internet sales of Minnesota lottery tickets coming to halt. Minnesota's lottery is primed to pull the plug on ticket sales over the Internet.
2014: WV Lottery considers online gaming options. To help combat out-of-state competition, the West Virginia Lottery is considering introducing online gaming options, including smartphone applications that would allow players to purchase Powerball and Mega Millions tickets on their phone.
2014: California $26 million lottery winner claims prize. A winner has stepped forward to claim his prize after a ticket he bought at a South El Monte, California, liquor store won a $26 million jackpot earlier this month, California Lottery officials announced this week.
2013: 7 years later, real winner awarded $5M lottery jackpot. Nearly seven years after a winning $5 million scratch-off lottery ticket was snatched from his hands, Robert Miles of Syracuse, New York, will finally get his money.
2013: Outsourcing Pa. Lottery management bid deadline draws near. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett once again finds himself days away from having to make a decision about what to do about his plan to privatizing the management of Pennsylvania Lottery.
2009: $333 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increased. Because of the frantic ticket sales rate, lottery officials revised the multi-state Mega Millions lottery jackpot earlier today to a staggering $333 million, with a lump-sum cash option of $210.4 million.
2007: Official wants fraud probe of Tennessee Lottery. The Tennessee Lottery should investigate whether fraud was behind a computer malfunction that affected the results for Cash 3 and Cash 4 games, the lottery board's audit chairman says.
2006: Lottery-check scams get more seductive, ingenious. Those lousy lottery-check scams are mutating again and ensnaring more unsuspecting consumers.
2006: Millionaire lottery ticket trash-diver keeps most of prize. The million-dollar question has been the talk of the town for months: Should an 83-year-old Blackstone man share winnings from a discarded Massachusetts Lottery jackpot-winning ticket with the man who said he accidentally threw it away?
2005: Lottery excitement builds as Mega Millions reaches $111 million. Lottery player excitement is growing, as the jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery has increased to $111 million.
2003: Two men face sentencing in "remarkably unsophisticated" lottery plot. Was it a scheme by a mastermind who developed a "remarkably unsophisticated, but almost successful plot" as prosecutors claimed, or was it "more of knuckleheads in the news" when a scheme was attempted to rig a $20,000 raffle drawing, as a defense attorney claimed?
2003: Friends in lottery club win $175,000. Ten women who have been pooling their money to buy lottery tickets for about eight years finally have something to show for it -- $175,000.
2003: Forum criticized for including Georgia lottery firms. A lottery forum planned for minority businesses in Memphis next week came under fire yesterday, with some vendors saying that inviting two companies that work for the Georgia lottery to participate makes it appear that a Tennessee-Georgia partnership is a done deal.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.03 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2025
2.$627 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2024
3.$364.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 28, 2023
4.$336 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 28, 2009
5.$325.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 28, 2021
6.$306 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2021
7.$277 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 29, 2025
8.€262.29 Million US$262.81 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2022
9.$250 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 28, 2007
10.€140 Million
US$154.35 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 28, 2020
11.$154 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2016
12.$153 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2022
13.€131.02 Million
US$146.16 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2016
14.€97 Million
US$140.1 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2011
15.$140 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2003
16.$134 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 28, 2018
17.$132 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 29, 2008
18.€119 Million
US$131.67 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2024
19.€119 Million
US$131.09 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2019
20.€88 Million
US$129.4 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 29, 2008
21.$124.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 29, 2022
22.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 28, 2013
23.$113 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2019
24.€112 Million
US$112.22 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2022
25.$111 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2005

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1995: Leon0413
Monday, Aug 28, 1995
30 years old
1991: Pick1111
Wednesday, Aug 28, 1991
34 years old
1987: Tnplayer805
Friday, Aug 28, 1987
38 years old
1984: GenuineGoddess
Tuesday, Aug 28, 1984
41 years old
1982: AAAK28
Saturday, Aug 28, 1982
43 years old
1981: Netty6660
Friday, Aug 28, 1981
44 years old
1979: Ceemoney79
Tuesday, Aug 28, 1979
46 years old
1978: OneHitAway
Monday, Aug 28, 1978
47 years old
1978: senecagem
Monday, Aug 28, 1978
47 years old
1977: dff2008
Sunday, Aug 28, 1977
48 years old
1977: dffigueroa
Sunday, Aug 28, 1977
48 years old
1977: JeweleeT
Sunday, Aug 28, 1977
48 years old
1977: logicpick
Sunday, Aug 28, 1977
48 years old
1969: lottologix
Thursday, Aug 28, 1969
56 years old
1967: sunkara
Monday, Aug 28, 1967
58 years old
1961: VJK$791352
Monday, Aug 28, 1961
64 years old
1955: mljones
Sunday, Aug 28, 1955
70 years old
1948: mam48
Saturday, Aug 28, 1948
77 years old
: alocin
(year not provided)
: casino crawler
(year not provided)
: MrLotto$
(year not provided)
: Master Dragon
(year not provided)
: Virgo81
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: 2022 Phoenix shooting: A man opens fire on pedestrians outside of a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, resulting in the deaths of 3 people, including the perpetrator.
2017: China-India border standoff: China and India both pull their troops out of Doklam, putting an end to a two-month-long stalemate over China's construction of a road in disputed territory.
2016: The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
2009: NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-128.
2003: In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device.
1999: The Russian space mission Soyuz TM-29 reaches completion, ending nearly 10 years of continuous occupation on the space station Mir as it approaches the end of its life.
1998: Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
1998: Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
1996: Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
1993: NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
1993: Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
1993: The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
1993: A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.
1990: Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
1990: An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield and Joliet, killing 29 people.
1988: Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
1973: Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.
1968: Police and protesters clash during 1968 Democratic National Convention protests as protesters chant "The whole world is watching".
1964: The Philadelphia race riot begins.
1963: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
1957: U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the United States Senate from voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
1955: Black teenager Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
1946: The Workers' Party of North Korea, predecessor of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, is founded at a congress held in Pyongyang, North Korea.
1944: World War II: Marseille and Toulon are liberated.
1943: Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
1937: Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
1936: Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
1924: The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1921: Russian Civil War: The Red Army dissolves the Makhnovshchina after driving the Revolutionary Insurgent Army out of Ukraine.
1917: Ten suffragists, members of the Silent Sentinels, are arrested while picketing the White House in favor of women's suffrage in the United States.
1916: World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
1916: World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
1914: World War I: The Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1913: Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
1909: A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
1901: Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
1898: Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
1879: Anglo-Zulu War: Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
1867: The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
1862: American Civil War: The Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas, begins in Virginia. The battle ends on August 30 with another Union defeat.
1861: American Civil War: Union forces attack Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries which lasts for two days.
1859: The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted.
1850: Richard Wagner's Lohengrin premieres at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
1849: Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire: After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria.
1845: The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
1833: The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives royal assent, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal in the British Empire with exceptions.
1830: The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam's role in U.S. railroads.
1810: Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy accepts the surrender of a British Royal Navy fleet at the Battle of Grand Port.
1789: William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
1709: Meidingnu Pamheiba is crowned King of Manipur.
1648: Second English Civil War: The Siege of Colchester ends when Royalists Forces surrender to the Parliamentary Forces after eleven weeks.
1640: Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
1619: Election of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
1609: Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
1565: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
1542: Turkish-Portuguese War: Battle of Wofla: The Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.
1524: The Kaqchikel Maya rebel against their former Spanish allies during the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1521: Ottoman wars in Europe: The Ottoman Turks occupy Belgrade.
1189: Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
663: Silla-Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.
632: Fatimah, daughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, dies, with her cause of death being a controversial topic among the Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims.
489: Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, defeats Odoacer at the Battle of Isonzo, forcing his way into Italy.
475: The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.

Births On This Day

2003: Quvenzhané Wallis, American actress
2001: Kamilla Rakhimova, Russian tennis player
2000: Marissa Bode, American actress
1998: Weston McKennie, American soccer player
1996: Kim Se-jeong, South Korean actress and singer
1994: Manon Arcangioli, French tennis player
1994: Ons Jabeur, Tunisian tennis player
1993: Jakub Sokolík, Czech footballer
1992: Bismack Biyombo, Congolese basketball player
1992: Max Collins, American-Filipino actress and model
1992: Gabriela Drăgoi, Romanian gymnast
1991: Felicio Brown Forbes, German footballer
1991: Samuel Larsen, American actor and singer
1991: Kyle Massey, American actor
1991: Andreja Pejić, Bosnian model
1990: Katie Findlay, Canadian actor
1990: Bojan Krkić, Spanish footballer
1989: César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
1989: Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver
1989: Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer
1989: Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
1988: Shalita Grant, American actress
1988: Rosie MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast
1987: Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer (died 2013)
1986: Jeff Green, American basketball player
1986: Armie Hammer, American actor
1986: Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (died 2015)
1986: Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player
1986: Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier and hostage
1986: Florence Welch, English singer-songwriter
1985: Kjetil Jansrud, Norwegian skier
1984: Will Harris, American baseball player
1983: Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
1983: Luke McAlister, New Zealand rugby player
1983: Lilli Schwarzkopf, German heptathlete
1982: Anderson Silva de França, Brazilian footballer
1982: Kevin McNaughton, Scottish footballer
1982: Thiago Motta, Brazilian-Italian footballer
1982: Carlos Quentin, American baseball player
1982: LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter and actress
1981: Kezia Dugdale, Scottish politician
1981: Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer
1981: Raphael Matos, Brazilian race car driver
1981: Jake Owen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981: Ahmed Talbi, Moroccan footballer
1981: Agata Wróbel, Polish weightlifter
1980: Antony Hämäläinen, Finnish singer-songwriter
1980: Debra Lafave, American sex offender and former teacher
1980: Ryan Madson, American baseball player
1980: Jaakko Ojaniemi, Finnish decathlete
1980: Carly Pope, Canadian actress and producer
1980: Jonathan Reynolds, English lawyer and politician
1979: Shaila Dúrcal, Spanish singer-songwriter
1979: Robert Hoyzer, German footballer and referee
1979: Kristen Hughes, Australian netball player
1979: Markus Pröll, German footballer
1979: Ruth Riley, American basketball player
1978: Karine Turcotte, Canadian weightlifter
1976: Federico Magallanes, Uruguayan footballer
1975: Jamie Cureton, English footballer
1975: Gareth Farrelly, Irish footballer and manager
1975: Hamish McLachlan, Australian television personality
1975: Royce Willis, New Zealand rugby player
1974: Johan Andersson, Swedish game designer and programmer
1974: Takahito Eguchi, Japanese pianist and composer
1974: Carsten Jancker, German footballer and manager
1973: J. August Richards, American actor
1972: Ravindu Shah, Kenyan cricketer
1972: Jay Witasick, American baseball player and coach
1971: Shane Andrews, American baseball player
1971: Todd Eldredge, American figure skater and coach
1971: Janet Evans, American swimmer
1971: Daniel Goddard, Australian-American actor
1971: Raúl Márquez, Mexican-American boxer and sportscaster
1970: Melina Aslanidou, German-Greek singer-songwriter
1970: Rick Recht, American singer-songwriter
1969: Jack Black, American actor and comedian
1969: Mary McCartney, English photographer and activist
1969: Jason Priestley, Canadian actor, director, and producer
1969: Sheryl Sandberg, American business executive
1969: Pierre Turgeon, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1968: Billy Boyd, Scottish actor and singer
1967: Jamie Osborne, English jockey and trainer
1966: Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician
1965: Dan Crowley, Australian rugby player
1965: Sonia Kruger, Australian television host and actress
1965: Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game developer; created Pokémon
1965: Amanda Tapping, British-Canadian actress and director
1965: Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter
1964: Lee Janzen, American golfer
1964: Kaj Leo Johannesen, Faroese footballer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1963: Maria Gheorghiu, Romanian folk singer-songwriter
1963: Regina Jacobs, American runner
1962: Paul Allen, English footballer
1962: Craig Anton, American actor and screenwriter
1962: David Fincher, American director and producer
1961: Kim Appleby, English singer-songwriter and actress
1961: Cliff Benson, American football player
1961: Jennifer Coolidge, American actress
1961: Ian Pont, English cricketer and coach
1961: Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
1960: Emma Samms, English actress
1959: Brian Thompson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958: Scott Hamilton, American figure skater
1957: Greg Clark, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
1957: Ivo Josipović, Croatian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 3rd President of Croatia
1957: Daniel Stern, American actor and director
1957: Ai Weiwei, Chinese sculptor and activist
1956: Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican-American actor and producer
1956: John Long, American basketball player
1956: Steve Whiteman, American singer-songwriter
1954: Katharine Abraham, American feminist economist
1954: George M. Church, American geneticist, chemist, and engineer
1954: John Dorahy, Australian rugby player and coach
1954: Ravi Kanbur, Indian-English economist and academic
1953: Ditmar Jakobs, German footballer
1953: Tõnu Kaljuste, Estonian conductor and journalist
1952: Jacques Chagnon, Canadian educator and politician
1952: Rita Dove, American poet and essayist
1952: Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman
1951: Colin McAdam, Scottish footballer (died 2013)
1951: Wayne Osmond, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2025)
1951: Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter
1950: Ron Guidry, American baseball player and coach
1950: Tony Husband, English cartoonist (died 2023)
1949: Hugh Cornwell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949: Svetislav Pešić, Serbian basketball player and coach
1948: Vonda N. McIntyre, American author (died 2019)
1948: Murray Parker, New Zealand cricketer and educator
1948: Heather Reisman, Canadian publisher and businesswoman
1948: Danny Seraphine, American drummer and producer
1948: Elizabeth Wilmshurst, English academic and jurist
1947: Emlyn Hughes, English footballer (died 2004)
1947: Debra Mooney, American actress
1947: Liza Wang, Hong Kong actress and singer
1945: Bob Segarini, American-Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2023)
1944: Marianne Heemskerk, Dutch swimmer
1943: Jihad Al-Atrash, Lebanese actor and voice actor
1943: Surayud Chulanont, Thai general and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Thailand
1943: Robert Greenwald, American director and producer
1943: Shuja Khanzada, Pakistani colonel and politician (died 2015)
1943: Lou Piniella, American baseball player and manager
1943: David Soul, American actor and singer (died 2024)
1942: Wendy Davies, Welsh historian and academic
1942: Jorge Urosa, Venezuelan cardinal (died 2021)
1941: Michael Craig-Martin, Irish painter and illustrator
1941: Toomas Leius, Estonian tennis player and coach
1941: John Stanley Marshall, English drummer (died 2023)
1941: Paul Plishka, American opera singer
1940: William Cohen, American lawyer and politician, 20th United States Secretary of Defense
1940: Ken Jenkins, American actor
1940: Roger Pingeon, French cyclist (died 2017)
1939: John Kingman, English mathematician and academic
1938: Marla Adams, American actress (died 2024)
1938: Maurizio Costanzo, Italian journalist and academic (died 2023)
1938: Bengt Fahlström, Swedish journalist (died 2017)
1938: Marcello Gandini, Italian automotive designer (died 2024)
1938: Paul Martin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Canada
1936: Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire (died 2023)
1936: Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist
1935: Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor and architect (died 2012)
1935: Gilles Rocheleau, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)
1935: Sonny Shroyer, American actor
1933: Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (died 2015)
1933: Patrick Kalilombe, Malawian bishop and theologian (died 2012)
1932: Yakir Aharonov, Israeli academic and educator
1932: Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2016)
1931: Tito Capobianco, Argentinian director and producer (died 2018)
1931: Cristina Deutekom, Dutch soprano and actress (died 2014)
1931: Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2014)
1931: John Shirley-Quirk, English actor, singer, and educator (died 2014)
1931: Roger Williams, English hepatologist and academic (died 2020)
1930: Windsor Davies, British actor (died 2019)
1930: Ben Gazzara, American actor (died 2012)
1929: István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (died 1973)
1929: Roxie Roker, American actress (died 1995)
1928: F. William Free, American businessman (died 2003)
1928: Vilayat Khan, Indian sitar player and composer (died 2004)
1925: Billy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
1925: Donald O'Connor, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 2003)
1925: Philip Purser, English author and critic (died 2022)
1924: Janet Frame, New Zealand author and poet (died 2004)
1924: Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (died 2010)
1924: Peggy Ryan, American actress and dancer (died 2004)
1924: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ukrainian-American rabbi and author (died 2014)
1921: John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (died 1979)
1921: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, and playwright (died 2007)
1921: Nancy Kulp, American actress and soldier (died 1991)
1921: Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)
1919: Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
1918: L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (died 1995)
1917: Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (died 1994)
1916: Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (died 1997)
1916: C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (died 1962)
1916: Jack Vance, American author (died 2013)
1915: Max Robertson, Bengal-born English sportscaster and author (died 2009)
1915: Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (died 2008)
1913: Robertson Davies, Canadian journalist, author, and playwright (died 1995)
1913: Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (died 2009)
1913: Lindsay Hassett, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1993)
1913: Robert Irving, English conductor and director (died 1991)
1913: Terence Reese, English bridge player and author (died 1996)
1913: Richard Tucker, American tenor and actor (died 1975)
1911: Joseph Luns, Dutch politician and diplomat, 5th Secretary General of NATO (died 2002)
1910: Morris Graves, American painter and academic (died 2001)
1910: Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)
1908: Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and author (died 1996)
1906: John Betjeman, English poet and academic (died 1984)
1905: Cyril Walters, Welsh-English cricketer (died 1992)
1904: Secondo Campini, Italian-American engineer (died 1980)
1904: Leho Laurine, Estonian chess player (died 1998)
1903: Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (died 1990)
1899: Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (died 1978)
1899: Andrei Platonov, Russian author and poet (died 1951)
1899: James Wong Howe, Chinese American cinematographer (died 1976)
1898: Charlie Grimm, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (died 1983)
1896: Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian author, poet, and critic (died 1982)
1894: Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (died 1981)
1891: Benno Schotz, Estonian-Scottish sculptor and engineer (died 1984)
1888: Evadne Price, Australian actress, astrologer, and author (died 1985)
1887: August Kippasto, Estonian-Australian wrestler and poet (died 1973)
1887: István Kühár, Slovenian priest and politician (died 1922)
1885: Vance Palmer, Australian author, playwright, and critic (died 1959)
1884: Peter Fraser, Scottish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1950)
1878: George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1976)
1867: Umberto Giordano, Italian composer and academic (died 1948)
1859: Matilda Howell, American archer (died 1938)
1859: Vittorio Sella, Italian mountaineer and photographer (died 1943)
1853: Vladimir Shukhov, Russian architect and engineer, designed the Adziogol Lighthouse (died 1939)
1840: Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish-Japanese pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club (died 1900)
1837: Francis von Hohenstein, duke of Teck (died 1900)
1833: Edward Burne-Jones, English artist of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (died 1898)
1827: Catherine Mikhailovna, Russian grand duchess (died 1894)
1822: Graham Berry, English-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Victoria (died 1904)
1816: Charles Sladen, English-Australian politician, 6th Premier of Victoria (died 1884)
1814: Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish author (died 1873)
1801: Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1877)
1774: Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (died 1821)
1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (died 1832)
1739: Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer (died 1818)
1728: John Stark, American general (died 1822)
1714: Anthony Ulrich, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1774)
1691: Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress (died 1750)
1667: Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (died 1721)
1612: Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch linguist and scholar (died 1653)
1592: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English courtier and politician (died 1628)
1591: John Christian of Brieg, duke of Brzeg (died 1639)
1582: Taichang, emperor of China (died 1620)
1481: Francisco de Sá de Miranda, Portuguese poet (died 1558)
1476: Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter (died 1559)
1366: Jean Le Maingre, marshal of France (died 1421)
1023: Go-Reizei, emperor of Japan (died 1068)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Obi Ndefo, American actor (born 1972)
2024: Steve Silberman, American writer and journalist (born 1957)
2020: Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)
2017: Mireille Darc, French actress and model (born 1938)
2016: Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer and songwriter (born 1950)
2016: Mr. Fuji, American professional wrestler and manager (born 1934)
2015: Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1932)
2015: Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (born 1920)
2015: Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (born 1937)
2014: Glenn Cornick, English bass guitarist (born 1947)
2014: Hal Finney, American cryptographer and programmer (born 1956)
2014: John Anthony Walker, American soldier and spy (born 1937)
2013: John Bellany, Scottish painter and academic (born 1942)
2013: Lorella Cedroni, Italian political scientist and philosopher (born 1961)
2013: Edmund B. Fitzgerald, American businessman (born 1926)
2013: Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (born 1935)
2013: Barry Stobart, English footballer (born 1938)
2013: Rafael Díaz Ycaza, Ecuadorian journalist, author, and poet (born 1925)
2012: Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (born 1925)
2012: Shulamith Firestone, Canadian-American activist and author (born 1945)
2012: Dick McBride, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1928)
2012: Saul Merin, Polish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (born 1933)
2012: Ramón Sota, Spanish golfer (born 1938)
2011: Bernie Gallacher, English footballer (born 1967)
2010: William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator (born 1919)
2009: Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (born 1973)
2009: Richard Egan, US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC, Engineer (born 1936)
2008: Phil Hill, American race car driver (born 1927)
2007: Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (born 1926)
2007: Hilly Kristal, American businessman, founded CBGB (born 1932)
2007: Paul MacCready, American engineer and businessman, founded AeroVironment (born 1925)
2007: Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (born 1935)
2007: Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-American actress (born 1929)
2006: Heino Lipp, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (born 1922)
2006: Benoît Sauvageau, Canadian educator and politician (born 1963)
2006: Melvin Schwartz, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1932)
2005: Jacques Dufilho, French actor (born 1914)
2005: Esther Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1910)
2005: George Szekeres, Hungarian-Australian mathematician and academic (born 1911)
1995: Earl W. Bascom, American rodeo performer and painter (born 1906)
1995: Michael Ende, German scientist and author (born 1929)
1993: William Stafford, American poet and academic (born 1914)
1991: Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (born 1913)
1990: Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1913)
1989: John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (born 1950)
1988: Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1918)
1988: Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (born 1919)
1987: John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906)
1986: Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (born 1903)
1985: Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (born 1896)
1984: Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (born 1901)
1982: Geoff Chubb, South African cricketer (born 1911)
1981: Béla Guttmann, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1899)
1978: Bruce Catton, American historian and journalist (born 1899)
1978: Robert Shaw, English actor (born 1927)
1976: Anissa Jones, American actress (born 1958)
1975: Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (born 1907)
1972: Prince William of Gloucester (born 1941)
1971: Reuvein Margolies, Israeli author and scholar (born 1889)
1968: Dimitris Pikionis, Greek architect and academic (born 1887)
1965: Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (born 1909)
1959: Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American composer and educator (born 1890)
1955: Emmett Till, African-American kidnapping and lynching victim (born 1941)
1943: Georg Hellat, Estonian architect (born 1870)
1943: Boris III of Bulgaria (born 1894)
1937: George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (born 1854)
1934: Edgeworth David, Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer (born 1858)
1919: Adolf Schmal, Austrian fencer and cyclist (born 1872)
1903: Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and architect, co-designed Central Park (born 1822)
1900: Henry Sidgwick, English economist and philosopher (born 1838)
1891: Robert Caldwell, English missionary and linguist (born 1814)
1888: Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (born 1835)
1839: William Smith, English geologist and engineer (born 1769)
1832: Edward Dando, English thief
1820: Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor and urban planner (born 1754)
1818: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, American fur trader, founded Chicago (born 1750)
1805: Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader and author (born 1722)
1793: Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine, French general (born 1740)
1784: Junípero Serra, Spanish priest and missionary (born 1713)
1761: Melchor de Navarrete, Spanish colonial governor of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 1739-1742); of Spanish Florida (1749-1752); and of Yucatán (Mexico, 1754-1758) (born 1693)
1757: David Hartley, English psychologist and philosopher (born 1705)
1735: Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (born 1701)
1678: John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1602)
1665: Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (born 1638)
1654: Axel Oxenstierna, Swedish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden (born 1583)
1648: George Lisle, English general (born 1610)
1648: Charles Lucas, English general (born 1613)
1646: Johannes Banfi Hunyades, English-Hungarian alchemist, chemist and metallurgist. (born 1576)
1645: Hugo Grotius, Dutch playwright, philosopher, and jurist (born 1583)
1609: Francis Vere, English governor and general
1540: Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua (born 1500)
1481: Afonso V, king of Portugal (born 1432)
1406: John de Sutton V, Baron Sutton of Dudley (born 1380)
1341: Levon IV, king of Armenia (born 1309)
1231: Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark
1149: Mu'in ad-Din Unur, Turkish ruler and regent
1055: Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (born 1016)
919: He Gui, Chinese general (born 858)
876: Louis the German, Frankish king (born 804)
770: Kōken, emperor of Japan (born 718)
683: Kʼinich Janaab Pakal I, ajaw of the city-state of Palenque (born 615)
632: Fatimah, daughter of Muhammad (born 605)
476: Orestes, Roman general and politician
430: Augustine of Hippo, Algerian bishop, theologian, and saint (born 354)
388: Magnus Maximus, Roman emperor (born 335)

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