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August 30

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August 30

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year (243rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 123 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Kansas Lottery announces launch of online ticket sales. Online lottery ticket sales are coming to Kansas, offering residents one more outlet to play and giving the Lottery an additional source of revenue.
2024: Virginia Lottery online sales surpass in-store retail sales for the first time. The numbers are in — the Virginia Lottery broke sales records this fiscal year, and perhaps even set a new precedent, after it reported that its online sales outpaced in-store retail sales for the first time in any state lottery's history.
2022: Texas Lottery moves headquarters to new site. The Texas Lottery has completed the move of its headquarters and drawing studio to a new location in Austin.
2021: Michigan man wins $18.41 million Lotto 47 jackpot with numbers he played for 30 years. After sticking with the same set of numbers for three decades and rarely missing a drawing, one Michigan man is walking away with a Lotto 47 jackpot worth $18.41 million.
2018: Mississippians anxious to start playing lottery. Mississippians are anxious to start playing lottery. State leaders said the first lottery tickets could go on sale in six months.
2013: 7 state lotteries join forces for multi-state raffle. Seven United States lotteries will offer a first-of-its-kind multi-state raffle that goes on sale in about a week.
2012: California Lottery investigating $1M payout. The California Lottery has not yet released $1 million that a Dinuba man reportedly won in a Scratcher game.
2012: Illinois to sell Powerball lottery tickets online. Illinois is going to sell Powerball lottery tickets on the Internet, and at least one lawmaker predicts a big payday.
2011: Louisiana Lottery may add Mega Millions next year. With the price of a Powerball ticket slated to increase from $1 to $2 starting next year, state lottery officials are betting that adding a second multi-state jackpot game will help draw in additional revenue.
2011: Calif. store sells $2M lottery ticket 1 month after starting sales. A winning scratch-off lottery ticket worth $2 million was sold at a Spring Valley, California, 'mom and pop' shop that had only been selling lottery tickets for a month, lottery officials announced Monday.
2010: Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $133M sold in Calif.. A $133 million lottery jackpot is more than the stuff of daydreams for one customer of a Morro Bay, California, liquor store.
2010: Washington Lottery prizes in search of owners. Every year, $9 million in Washington Lottery winnings go unclaimed.
2008: Senate panels look into privatizing Texas Lottery. As state revenue from the Texas Lottery continues to decline, two Senate committees on Wednesday began searching for ways to boost the state's take from the games of chance -- including the possible privatization of the entire lottery operation.
2007: $330 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised. Stronger than expected sales of Mega Millions multi-state lottery tickets have caused the 12 Mega Millions states to raise the Friday jackpot to $330 million.
2007: Lotto fever isn't what it used to be. For some, huge jackpots such as the one offered by the Mega Millions lottery in California and 11 other states Tuesday night are no longer seen as the rare, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities they once were.
2007: Indiana Lottery finds $13,000 mistake. Winning Hoosier Lottery tickets totaling $12,935 may have been mistaken for non-winning tickets after two drawings this summer because of a data entry error, the lottery said Wednesday.
2006: Banks balk at plan to cut off cash from net casinos. A group representing 5,000 small banks is opposing a tool lawmakers hope to use to stop online gambling, posing a challenge to what is widely seen as the government's best shot at cracking down on the activity.
2005: What's next for the N.C. lottery. A quick look at what will happen next for the North Carolina lottery, which received final legislative approval Tuesday.
2005: N.C. Lottery Bill Passed by Senate. The twists and turns of the North Carolina lottery drama have ended: North Carolina is finally getting a state lottery.
2005: New Port Richey couple claims $35 Million Florida Jackpot. The Florida Lottery announced today Florida Lotto winner Paul Combs, of New Port Richey, claimed the $35 million Florida Lotto jackpot from the August 24 drawing.
2005: N.C. lottery foes caught in game of 'Wack-a-Mole'. North Carolina residents and lawmakers opposed to a lottery in their state find themselves figuratively caught in a game of Wack-a-Mole, in which their foes keep popping up despite their best efforts to knock them down.
2005: B.C. lottery officials extend deadline to settle fight over jackpot. The British Columbia Lottery Corp. has given two groups of feuding fast-food workers another day to decide who deserves a share of a $14.5 million Lotto 6-49 jackpot.
2005: N.J. Lottery's scratch games hit $1 billion sales record. Sales of New Jersey Lottery instant games in the fiscal year ending June 30 passed $1 billion for the first time, with revenues from those games rising 9.5 percent from the previous year.
2005: Oklahoma Lottery votes to join Powerball. The Oklahoma Lottery Commission voted Monday to join the Powerball multi-state lottery game, making Oklahomans eligible for mega lottery prizes beginning next year.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$627 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2024
2.$387.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2023
3.$333.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2021
4.$330 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2007
5.$306 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2021
6.€262.29 Million US$262.81 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2022
7.€156 Million US$171.99 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 1, 2020
8.€114 Million US$162.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 5, 2008
9.$154 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2016
10.$153 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2022
11.$152 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2018
12.€131.02 Million
US$146.16 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2016
13.$142 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2013
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.$134.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2022
17.€119 Million
US$131.67 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2024
18.€119 Million
US$131.09 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2019
19.$120 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 2, 2015
20.$115 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 31, 2001
21.€106 Million
US$114.58 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 1, 2023
22.$113 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2019
23.€112 Million
US$112.22 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2022
24.$111 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2005
25.€92.51 Million
US$102.36 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Aug 30, 2024

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1987: JayAndretti
Sunday, Aug 30, 1987
37 years old
1981: Hitz
Sunday, Aug 30, 1981
43 years old
1978: BkTrini
Wednesday, Aug 30, 1978
46 years old
1977: allaboutmoney
Tuesday, Aug 30, 1977
47 years old
1975: Mar75
Saturday, Aug 30, 1975
49 years old
1971: everlasting win
Monday, Aug 30, 1971
53 years old
1966: ovah888
Tuesday, Aug 30, 1966
58 years old
1964: sophialoren
Sunday, Aug 30, 1964
60 years old
1963: Diamond33
Friday, Aug 30, 1963
61 years old
1961: ickeypic
Wednesday, Aug 30, 1961
63 years old
1960: c4myself
Tuesday, Aug 30, 1960
64 years old
1959: shagadelica
Sunday, Aug 30, 1959
65 years old
1958: silly48
Saturday, Aug 30, 1958
66 years old
1956: mymonthlypicks
Thursday, Aug 30, 1956
68 years old
: Stack47
(year not provided)
: LiLSpeedy
(year not provided)
: lothob
(year not provided)
: tsgt6
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023: Gabonese coup d'état: After Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection, a military coup ousted him, ending 56 years of Bongo family rule in Gabon.
2021: The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.
2014: Prime Minister of Lesotho Tom Thabane flees to South Africa as the army allegedly stages a coup.
2008: A Conviasa Boeing 737 crashes into Illiniza Volcano in Ecuador, killing all three people on board.
2002: Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 crashes on approach to Rio Branco International Airport, killing 23 of the 31 people on board.
1998: Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
1995: Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1992: The 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff ends with Randy Weaver surrendering to federal authorities.
1991: Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1984: STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
1983: Aeroflot Flight 5463 crashes into Dolan Mountain while approaching Almaty International Airport in present-day Kazakhstan, killing all 90 people on board.
1983: STS-8: The Space Shuttle Challenger takes off on the first night launch of the shuttle program. Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space on this mission.
1981: President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
1974: A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1974: A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
1974: The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
1967: Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1963: The Moscow-Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union goes into operation.
1962: Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1959: South Vietnamese opposition figure Phan Quang Dan was elected to the National Assembly despite soldiers being bussed in to vote for President Ngo Dinh Diem's candidate.
1945: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
1945: The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
1945: The Allied Control Council, governing Germany after World War II, comes into being.
1942: World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
1941: The Tighina Agreement, a treaty regarding administration issues of the Transnistria Governorate, is signed between Germany and Romania.
1940: The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1936: The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
1922: Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War (Turkish War of Independence).
1918: Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
1917: Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
1916: Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
1914: World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
1909: Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
1896: Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
1873: Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
1862: American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
1836: The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
1835: Australia: Melbourne, Victoria is founded.
1813: First Battle of Kulm: French forces are defeated by an Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
1813: Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek "Red Sticks" kill over 500 settlers (including over 250 armed militia) in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1800: Gabriel Prosser postpones a planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia, but is arrested before he can make it happen.
1799: The entire Dutch fleet is captured by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the War of the Second Coalition.
1791: HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1757: Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
1727: Anne, eldest daughter of King George II of Great Britain, is given the title Princess Royal.
1721: The Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia ends in the Treaty of Nystad.
1594: King James VI of Scotland holds a masque at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.
1590: Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
1574: Guru Ram Das becomes the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
1464: Pope Paul II succeeds Pope Pius II as the 211th pope.
1363: The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
1282: Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
70: Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple.

Births On This Day

2002: Fábio Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
2002: Drake Maye, American football player
1996: Mikal Bridges, American basketball player
1996: Trevor Jackson, American actor and singer-songwriter
1994: Monika Povilaitytė, Lithuanian volleyball player
1994: Heo Young-ji, South Korean singer
1994: Kwon So-hyun, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
1992: Jessica Henwick, British actress
1991: Seriki Audu, Nigerian footballer (d. 2014)
1991: Jacqueline Cako, American tennis player
1991: Liam Cooper, Scottish footballer
1989: Simone Guerra, Italian footballer
1989: Ronald Huth, Paraguayan footballer
1989: Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter
1988: Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
1987: Johanna Braddy, American actress
1987: Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter
1986: Theo Hutchcraft, English singer-songwriter
1986: Lelia Masaga, New Zealand rugby player
1986: Ryan Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1986: Zafer Yelen, Turkish footballer
1985: Duane Brown, American football player
1985: Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
1985: Joe Inoue, American singer-songwriter
1985: Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
1985: Éva Risztov, Hungarian swimmer
1985: Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
1985: Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
1985: Anna Ushenina, Ukrainian chess player
1985: Holly Weston, English actress
1984: Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
1984: Joe Staley, American football player
1984: Michael Grant Terry, American actor
1983: Emmanuel Culio, Argentinian footballer
1983: Gustavo Eberto, Argentinian footballer (d. 2007)
1983: Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
1983: Simone Pepe, Italian footballer
1983: Tian Qin, Chinese canoe racer
1983: Marco Vianello, Italian footballer
1982: Will Davison, Australian race car driver
1982: Andy Roddick, American tennis player
1981: Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor
1981: Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
1980: Roberto Hernández, Dominican baseball player
1979: Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentinian tennis player
1979: Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor
1979: Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
1978: Sinead Kerr, Scottish figure skater
1978: Cliff Lee, American baseball player
1977: Shaun Alexander, American football player
1977: Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
1977: Raúl Castillo, American actor
1977: Michael Gladis, American actor
1977: Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
1977: Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican runner and hurdler
1976: Mike Koplove, American baseball player
1975: Radhi Jaïdi, Tunisian footballer and coach
1974: Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist (d. 2018)
1973: Lisa Ling, American journalist and author
1972: Cameron Diaz, American model, actress, and producer
1972: Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
1972: Hani Hanjour, Saudi terrorist, September 11 attacks
1971: Lars Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971: Julian Smith, Scottish politician
1970: Carlo Checchinato, Italian rugby player and manager
1970: Paulo Sousa, Portuguese footballer and manager
1970: Michael Wong, Malaysian-Chinese singer-songwriter
1969: Vladimir Jugović, Serbian footballer
1969: Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist and composer
1968: Diran Adebayo, English author and critic
1968: Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
1967: Frederique van der Wal, Dutch model and actress
1967: Justin Vaughan, New Zealand cricketer
1966: Peter Cunnah, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and producer
1966: Joann Fletcher, English historian and academic
1966: Michael Michele, American actress
1964: Gavin Fisher, English engineer and designer
1964: Ra Luhse, Estonian architect
1963: Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014)
1963: Michael Chiklis, American actor, director, and producer
1963: Sabine Oberhauser, Austrian physician and politician (d. 2017)
1963: Phil Mills, Welsh race car driver
1962: Ricky Sanders, American football player
1962: Craig Whittaker, English businessman and politician
1960: Ben Bradshaw, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1960: Gary Gordon, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1960: Guy A. Lepage, Canadian comedian and producer
1959: Mark "Jacko" Jackson, Australian footballer, actor, and singer
1958: Karen Buck, Northern Irish politician
1958: Fran Fraschilla, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1958: Muriel Gray, Scottish journalist and author
1958: Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and activist (d. 2006)
1958: Peter Tunks, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1957: Gerald Albright, American musician
1956: Frank Conniff, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1955: Jamie Moses, English-American guitarist
1955: Martin Jackson, English drummer
1954: Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian marshal and politician, 1st President of Belarus
1954: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Communications and IT
1954: David Paymer, American actor and director
1953: Ron George, American businessman and politician
1953: Lech Majewski, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
1953: Horace Panter, English bass player
1953: Robert Parish, American basketball player
1952: Simon Bainbridge, English composer and educator (d. 2021)
1952: Wojtek Fibak, Polish tennis player
1951: Timothy Bottoms, American actor
1951: Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuanian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Lithuania (d. 2024)
1951: Jim Paredes, Filipino singer-songwriter and actor
1951: Dana Rosemary Scallon, Irish singer and activist
1950: Antony Gormley, English sculptor and academic
1949: Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (d. 2001)
1949: Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
1948: Lewis Black, American comedian, actor, and author
1948: Fred Hampton, American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (d. 1969)
1948: Victor Skumin, Russian psychiatrist, psychologist, and academic
1947: Allan Rock, Canadian lawyer, politician, and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
1946: Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
1946: Peggy Lipton, American model and actress (d. 2019)
1944: Frances Cairncross, English economist, journalist, and academic
1944: Freek de Jonge, Dutch singer and comedian
1944: Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (d. 2007)
1944: Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1944: Alex Wyllie, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1943: Tal Brody, American-Israeli basketball player and coach
1943: Robert Crumb, American illustrator
1943: Colin Dann, English author
1943: Nigel Hall, English sculptor and academic
1943: Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
1943: David Maslanka, American composer and academic (d. 2017)
1942: Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement
1942: John Kani, South African actor
1942: Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer
1941: Ignazio Giunti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
1941: Ben Jones, American actor and politician
1941: Sue MacGregor, English journalist and radio host
1941: John McNally, English singer and guitarist
1939: Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
1939: John Peel, English radio host and producer (d. 2004)
1938: Murray Gleeson, Australian lawyer and judge, 11th Chief Justice of Australia
1937: Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver and engineer, founded the McLaren racing team (d. 1970)
1936: Peter North, English scholar and academic
1935: John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
1935: Alexandra Bellow, Romanian-American mathematician
1934: Antonio Cabangon Chua, Filipino media mogul and businessman (d. 2016)
1933: Don Getty, Canadian football player and politician, 11th Premier of Alberta (d. 2016)
1931: Jack Swigert, American pilot and astronaut (d. 1982)
1930: Warren Buffett, American businessman and philanthropist
1930: Noel Harford, New Zealand cricketer and basketball player (d. 1981)
1929: Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (d. 2001)
1929: Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (d. 2014)
1928: Lloyd Casner, American race car driver (d. 1965)
1928: Harvey Hart, Canadian director and producer (d. 1989)
1928: Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2014)
1927: Bill Daily, American actor and comedian (d. 2018)
1927: Piet Kee, Dutch organist and composer (d. 2018)
1926: Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (d. 2010)
1925: Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (d. 2024)
1925: Donald Symington, American actor (d. 2013)
1924: Kenny Dorham, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (d. 1972)
1924: Lajos Kisfaludy, Hungarian chemist and engineer (d. 1988)
1924: Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
1923: Barbara Ansell, English physician and author (d. 2001)
1923: Charmian Clift, Australian journalist and author (d. 1969)
1923: Vic Seixas, American tennis player (d. 2024)
1922: Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1986)
1922: Regina Resnik, American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
1920: Arnold Green, Estonian soldier and politician (d. 2011)
1919: Maurice Hilleman, American microbiologist and vaccinologist (d. 2005)
1919: Wolfgang Wagner, German director and manager (d. 2010)
1919: Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
1918: Harold Atcherley, English businessman (d. 2017)
1918: Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1918: Ted Williams, American baseball player and manager (d. 2002)
1917: Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 2015)
1917: Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia (d. 1992)
1916: Shailendra, Pakistani-Indian songwriter (d. 1968)
1915: Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (d. 2013)
1915: Robert Strassburg, American composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2003)
1913: Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1912: Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1912: Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain (d. 2011)
1910: Roger Bushell, South African-English soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
1909: Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (d. 1968)
1908: Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
1907: Leonor Fini, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and author (d. 1996)
1907: Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (d. 1978)
1907: John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (d. 1980)
1906: Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (d. 1979)
1906: Olga Taussky-Todd, Austrian mathematician (d. 1995)
1903: Bhagwati Charan Verma, Indian author (d. 1981)
1901: John Gunther, American journalist and author (d. 1970)
1901: Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (d. 1981)
1898: Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (d. 1992)
1896: Raymond Massey, Canadian-American actor and playwright (d. 1983)
1893: Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935)
1890: Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, English captain and pilot (d. 1918)
1887: Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1934)
1885: Tedda Courtney, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1957)
1884: Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1883: Theo van Doesburg, Dutch artist (d. 1931)
1871: Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
1870: Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia (d. 1891)
1860: Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and illustrator (d. 1900)
1858: Ignaz Sowinski, Galician architect (d. 1917)
1856: Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927)
1855: Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (d. 1919)
1852: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
1852: J. Alden Weir, American painter and academic (d. 1919)
1850: Marcelo H. del Pilar, Filipino journalist and lawyer (d. 1896)
1848: Andrew Onderdonk, American surveyor and contractor (d. 1905)
1844: Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said, also called Sayyida Salme, a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman (d. 1924)
1842: Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia (d. 1849)
1839: Gulstan Ropert, French-American bishop and missionary (d. 1903)
1818: Alexander H. Rice, American businessman and politician, 30th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1812: Agoston Haraszthy, Hungarian-American businessman, founded Buena Vista Winery (d. 1869)
1797: Mary Shelley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1851)
1768: Joseph Dennie, American author and journalist (d. 1812)
1748: Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (d. 1825)
1720: Samuel Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded Whitbread (d. 1796)
1716: Capability Brown, English landscape architect (d. 1783)
1627: Itō Jinsai, Japanese philosopher (d. 1705)
1609: Sir Alexander Carew, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1644)
1609: Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (d. 1668)
1574: Albert Szenczi Molnár, Hungarian writer and translator (d. 1634)
1334: Peter of Castile (d. 1369)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Mikhail Gorbachev, 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union. (b. 1931)
2019: Valerie Harper, American actress and writer (b. 1939)
2017: Louise Hay, American motivational author (b. 1926)
2017: Skip Prokop, Canadian drummer, guitarist and keyboardist (b. 1943)
2015: Wes Craven, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1939)
2015: Edward Fadeley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2015: M. M. Kalburgi, Indian scholar, author, and academic (b. 1938)
2015: Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (b. 1920)
2015: Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (b. 1933)
2014: Charles Bowden, American non-fiction author, journalist and essayist (b. 1945)
2014: Bipan Chandra, Indian historian and academic (b. 1928)
2014: Igor Decraene, Belgian cyclist (b. 1996)
2014: Andrew V. McLaglen, English-American director and producer (b. 1920)
2014: Felipe Osterling, Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2013: William C. Campbell, American golfer (b. 1923)
2013: Howie Crittenden, American basketball player and coach (b. 1933)
2013: Allan Gotthelf, American philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
2013: Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
2013: Leo Lewis, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
2010: J. C. Bailey, American wrestler (b. 1983)
2010: Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
2010: Myrtle Edwards, Australian cricketer and softball player (b. 1921)
2010: Francisco Varallo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1910)
2009: Klaus-Peter Hanisch, German footballer (b. 1952)
2008: Brian Hambly, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1937)
2008: Killer Kowalski, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1926)
2007: Michael Jackson, English author and journalist (b. 1942)
2007: Charles Vanik, American soldier and politician (b. 1918)
2006: Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (b. 1926)
2006: Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (b. 1916)
2006: Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2004: Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (b. 1906)
2003: Charles Bronson, American actor and soldier (b. 1921)
2003: Donald Davidson, American philosopher and academic (b. 1917)
2002: J. Lee Thompson, English-Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001: Govan Mbeki, ANC activist and father of President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (b. 1910)
1999: Reindert Brasser, Dutch discus thrower (b. 1912)
1999: Raymond Poïvet, French illustrator (b. 1910)
1996: Christine Pascal, French actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1953)
1995: Fischer Black, American economist and academic (b. 1938)
1995: Sterling Morrison, American guitarist and singer (b. 1942)
1994: Lindsay Anderson, English director and screenwriter (b. 1923)
1993: Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1938)
1991: Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
1991: Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (b. 1952)
1991: Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
1990: Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900)
1989: Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
1988: Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)
1985: Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (b. 1900)
1981: Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
1981: Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933)
1979: Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
1971: Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor (b. 1906)
1970: Del Moore, American comedian and actor (b. 1916)
1970: Abraham Zapruder, American clothing manufacturer, witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy (b. 1905)
1968: William Talman, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1967: Ad Reinhardt, American painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1913)
1964: Salme Dutt, Estonian-English lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
1963: Guy Burgess, English-Soviet spy (b. 1911)
1961: Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician (b. 1894)
1961: Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
1954: Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, Italian cardinal (b. 1880)
1951: Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (b. 1896)
1949: Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1948: Alice Salomon, German-American social reformer (b. 1872)
1947: Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director (b. 1890)
1946: Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian lawyer (b. 1907)
1945: Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
1943: Eddy de Neve, Indonesian-Dutch footballer and lieutenant (b. 1885)
1943: Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest and missionary (b. 1890)
1941: Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874)
1940: J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1938: Max Factor, Sr., Polish-born American make-up artist and businessman, founded the Max Factor Company (b. 1877)
1936: Ronald Fellowes, 2nd Baron Ailwyn, English peer (b. 1886)
1935: Henri Barbusse, French journalist and author (b. 1873)
1935: Namık İsmail, Turkish painter and educator (b. 1890)
1928: Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
1908: Alexander P. Stewart, American general (b. 1821)
1907: Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
1906: Hans Auer, Swiss-Austrian architect and educator, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland (b. 1847)
1896: Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia (b. 1824)
1886: Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American general and politician (b. 1836)
1879: John Bell Hood, American general (b. 1831)
1856: Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English lawyer and author (b. 1811)
1773: Peshwa Narayan Rao, Prime Minister of Maratha Empire (b. 1755, assassinated)
1751: Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661)
1621: Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, co-founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (b. 1547)
1619: Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1604: John Juvenal Ancina, Italian Oratorian and bishop (b. 1545)
1580: Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
1500: Victor, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (b. 1443)
1483: Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
1428: Emperor Shōkō of Japan (b. 1401)
1329: Khutughtu Khan Kusala, Chinese emperor (b. 1300)
1181: Pope Alexander III (b. c. 1100-1105)
1131: Hervey le Breton, bishop of Bangor and Ely
832: Cui Qun, Chinese chancellor (b. 772)
526: Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler (b. 454)

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