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December 13

On This Day in History

December 13

December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 18 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: $2B Powerball winner Edwin Castro bought $4M mansion for parents while brother manages his wealth. Sources close to Edwin Castro, the winner of the world's largest lottery jackpot, have revealed that he's been generously sharing his prize money with his family, who are also involved managing his finances.
2021: North Carolina COVID-19 survivor wins $1 million from scratch-off lottery ticket. After winning a grueling seven-week battle with COVID-19, a different sort of win came about in the form of a $1 million lottery prize for one lucky lottery player.
2018: Iowa Lottery seeks to allow use of electronic cash and games. The Iowa Lottery will ask state lawmakers in January to allow them to modernize their operations making it easier for customers to purchase and play lottery products electronically.
2017: $14.25 million Texas Lottery jackpot claimed two days before expiration. A $14.25 million Texas Lottery ticket that was bought in Abilene over the summer has been claimed just two days before it was set to expire.
2016: Illinois lawmakers call for investigation into lottery. State lawmakers from both political parties are calling for an investigation of how the Illinois Lottery managed scratch-off games in response to a report showing the lottery didn't award many of the biggest prizes in the biggest games.
2015: Iraqi's Oregon jackpot raises questions on lottery sales. When a man from Baghdad showed up unannounced this month in a state office building in Salem, Ore., with a piece of paper in his hand that he said was worth $6.4 million, it raised a series of questions about the arrangement of the ticket purchase that officials are still grappling with.
2013: $425 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot raised on huge sales. The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $425 million, prompting a rush of ticket-buying by people betting their luck will hold out when the second-largest drawing on record takes place on Friday the 13th.
2013: Widow and daughter will split estate of poisoned $1 million lotto winner. The estate of a Chicago man who was poisoned to death right after he won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket will be split between his widow and his daughter from a previous marriage, ending a fight in court.
2010: Ontario lottery players finally get their share of jackpot. Four lottery players who believed that they'd been duped out of his share of a $24,520,300 Lotto 6/49 jackpot on Jan. 16, 2008 won a settlement of approximately $4 million from the Ontario Lottery Gaming Corp. (OLGC).
2008: Ohio lottery player wins $207M Mega Millions jackpot. A single winner has taken the $207 million jackpot from the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery.
2007: Lucky stone comes through for Ohio lottery winner. Rick Jesionowski of Cleveland hit the lottery twice last year, hauling in $2,500, then $10,000. He hit again this month for $2 million.
2007: Small-town store sells 2 big Powerball tickets. A convenience store in the tiny eastern Oklahoma town of Watts is becoming a Powerball powerhouse of sorts, with two tickets sold weeks apart worth a total of $800,000.
2007: $250,000 winning lottery ticket sold in Massachusetts expires. Massachusetts Lottery officials announced yesterday a $250,000 Mega Millions ticket sold at a market in Revere won't be honored because the winner waited too long to claim the prize â€” if he ever even realizes he won.
2007: $50,000 Indiana lottery ticket expires soon. Hoosier Lottery officials say a $50,000 prize will expire in less than two weeks if no one brings in the winning ticket.
2005: Stolen lottery ticket trial underway in Chicago. The trial began Monday for a woman accused of stealing a winning Mega Millions lottery ticket from her co-workers.
2005: King King Millions lottery winner is 47-year-old mom. One Glen Head, New York woman had a reason to "go ape" yesterday as she came forward to collect a King Kong-size lottery check for $55 million.
2005: Group Expected To File Lawsuit To Stop N.C. Lottery. A lawsuit challenging how the lottery was created could be filed by the end of the week.
2005: N.C. lottery director names security office director. A forensic document examiner for the State Bureau of Investigation has been named director of the security office for the N.C. Education Lottery at an annual salary of $92,000.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$504.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2023
2.$425 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2013
3.$400 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2022
4.€326.01 Million US$345.67 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2022
5.$340 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2019
6.$321.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2021
7.$291 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 15, 2020
8.$287 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 16, 2020
9.$262 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2018
10.$246 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 15, 2018
11.$229 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2017
12.$208 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 15, 2017
13.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 16, 2015
14.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2019
15.€126 Million
US$148.33 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 15, 2017
16.$148 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2021
17.€124.44 Million
US$140.32 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2021
18.$137 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2007
19.$134.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2022
20.$129 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2002
21.$118 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 15, 2009
22.$116 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 13, 2011
23.$113 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 16, 2014
24.$112 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2005
25.$104 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 14, 2010

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: Jessica5932
Thursday, Dec 13, 1990
33 years old
1985: Deaned
Friday, Dec 13, 1985
38 years old
1984: AK47
Thursday, Dec 13, 1984
39 years old
1982: Meek007
Monday, Dec 13, 1982
41 years old
1975: rcarpenter
Saturday, Dec 13, 1975
48 years old
1975: TValle
Saturday, Dec 13, 1975
48 years old
1973: Danielle
Thursday, Dec 13, 1973
50 years old
1970: Connita
Sunday, Dec 13, 1970
53 years old
1967: lipstick85
Wednesday, Dec 13, 1967
56 years old
1966: tweetietoo
Tuesday, Dec 13, 1966
57 years old
1965: NEAT
Monday, Dec 13, 1965
58 years old
1965: travelmate2000
Monday, Dec 13, 1965
58 years old
1965: JaydenJade
Monday, Dec 13, 1965
58 years old
1958: ramess
Saturday, Dec 13, 1958
65 years old
1956: big$in*pocket
Thursday, Dec 13, 1956
67 years old
1953: SheRod
Sunday, Dec 13, 1953
70 years old
1952: obxbonni
Saturday, Dec 13, 1952
71 years old
: Kandy44
(year not provided)
: 6of6
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2007: The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by the EU member states to amend both the Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty which together form the constitutional basis of the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon is effective from 1 December 2009.
2003: Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
2002: European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.
2001: Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
1995: Banat Air Flight 166 crashes in Sommacampagna near Verona Villafranca Airport in Verona, Italy, killing 49.
1994: Flagship Airlines Flight 3379 crashes in Morrisville, North Carolina, near Raleigh-Durham International Airport, killing 15.
1989: The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded.
1988: PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
1982: The 6.0 M_s North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.
1981: General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions by Solidarity.
1977: Air Indiana Flight 216 crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff, and boosters of the team.
1974: Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1974: In the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese forces launch their 1975 Spring Offensive (to 30 April 1975), which results in the final capitulation of South Vietnam.
1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
1968: Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
1967: Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.
1962: NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
1960: While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
1959: Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
1957: The M_w 6.5 Farsinaj earthquake strikes Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII, causing at least 1,119 deaths and damaging over 5,000 homes.
1949: The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
1943: World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
1939: The Battle of the River Plate is fought off the coast of Uruguay; the first naval battle of World War II. The Kriegsmarine's Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles and HMS Exeter.
1938: The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1937: Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
1867: A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing 12 people and injuring 50.
1862: American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.
1818: Cyril VI of Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical Patriarch under pressure from the Ottoman Empire.
1769: Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
1758: The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
1643: English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1642: Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians, a date now considered the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
1623: The Plymouth Colony establishes the system of trial by 12-men jury in the American colonies.
1577: Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
1545: The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
1294: Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.

Births On This Day

2001: Jayden Goodwin, Australian cricketer
2000: Simona Waltert, Swiss tennis player
1999: Marina Bassols Ribera, Spanish tennis player
1996: Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player
1995: Emma Corrin, English actor
1993: Danielle Collins, American tennis player
1991: Dave Leduc, Canadian martial artist
1991: Vladimir Tarasenko, Russian ice hockey player
1990: Fletcher Cox, American football player
1990: Arantxa Rus, Dutch tennis player
1989: Hellen Obiri, Kenyan runner
1989: Katherine Schwarzenegger, American author
1989: Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter
1988: Rickie Fowler, American golfer
1984: Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer
1984: Hanna-Maria Seppälä, Finnish freestyle swimmer
1983: Laura Hodges, Australian basketball player
1982: Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1982: Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
1981: Amy Lee, American singer, songwriter and pianist
1978: Cameron Douglas, American actor
1975: Tom DeLonge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, author, and filmmaker
1975: James Kyson, American actor
1975: Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player and manager
1972: Matti Kärki, Swedish heavy metal singer
1971: Scott Sattler, Australian rugby league player
1969: Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1967: Jamie Foxx, American actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and comedian
1964: Krišjānis Kariņš, American-Latvian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Latvia
1962: Rex Ryan, American football coach and analyst
1961: Gary Zimmerman, American football player
1960: Richard Dent, American football player
1959: Johnny Whitaker, American actor
1957: Steve Buscemi, American actor and director
1957: Morris Day, American musician and actor
1956: Phil Hubbard, American basketball player and coach
1953: Ben Bernanke, American economist
1953: Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player
1952: Muhsin Kenon, American basketball player
1950: Wendie Malick, American actress
1948: Jeff Baxter, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1948: Lillian Board, British athlete (d. 1970)
1948: Ted Nugent, American musician
1945: Herman Cain, American businessman, politician, and activist (d. 2020)
1942: Howard Brenton, English playwright and screenwriter
1942: Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player
1940: Sanjaya Lall, Indian economist and academic (d. 2005)
1938: Gus Johnson, American basketball player (d. 1987)
1936: Prince Karim al-Husayn Shāh, Aga Khan IV, Swiss humanitarian and religious leader
1935: Türkan Saylan, Turkish physician and academic (d. 2009)
1934: Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (d. 2012)
1933: Paul Bracq, French automotive designer
1929: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor and producer (d. 2021)
1927: James Wright, American poet and academic (d. 1980)
1925: Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and dancer
1923: Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
1923: Larry Doby, American baseball player (d. 2003)
1921: Turgut Demirağ, Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1920: George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State (d. 2021)
1919: Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (d. 1942)
1916: Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
1915: B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (d. 1983)
1914: Alan Bullock, English historian and author (d. 2004)
1914: Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (d. 1993)
1913: Archie Moore, American boxer and actor (d. 1998)
1912: Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (d. 1989)
1911: Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1911: Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
1908: Elizabeth Alexander, English geologist, academic, and physicist (d. 1958)
1908: Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist (d. 1995)
1908: Van Heflin, American film actor (d. 1971)
1906: Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
1906: Laurens van der Post, South African-English soldier and author (d. 1996)
1905: Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic (d. 2007)
1903: Ella Baker, American activist (d. 1986)
1903: Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1902: Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek philosopher and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1986)
1902: Talcott Parsons, American sociologist and academic (d. 1979)
1901: Olev Roomet, Estonian singer, violinist, and bagpipe player (d. 1987)
1900: Jonel Perlea, Romanian-American conductor and educator (d. 1970)
1897: Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (d. 1961)
1897: Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (d. 1969)
1895: Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Spanish anarchist feminist (d. 1970)
1887: George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1985)
1887: Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1885: Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1940)
1884: Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor, director, and playwright (d. 1951)
1883: Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (d. 1950)
1882: Jane Edna Hunter, African-American social worker (d. 1971)
1874: Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist and educator (d. 1944)
1871: Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (d. 1945)
1870: Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1867: Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917)
1864: Emil Seidel, American woodcarver and politician, 36th Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1860: Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1856: Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (d. 1920)
1854: Herman Bavinck, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and academic (d. 1921)
1836: Franz von Lenbach, German painter and academic (d. 1904)
1830: Mathilde Fibiger, Danish feminist, novelist and telegraphist (d. 1892)
1818: Mary Todd Lincoln, 16th First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
1816: Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded Siemens (d. 1892)
1814: Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist (d. 1880)
1804: Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1873)
1797: Heinrich Heine, German journalist, poet, and critic (d. 1856)
1784: Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
1780: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp (d. 1849)
1769: James Scarlett Abinger, English judge (d. 1844)
1724: Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802)
1720: Carlo Gozzi, Italian playwright (d. 1804)
1678: Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1662: Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729)
1640: Robert Plot, English chemist and academic (d. 1696)
1585: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1560: Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1641)
1553: Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
1533: Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
1521: Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
1499: Justus Menius, German Lutheran pastor (d. 1558)
1491: Martín de Azpilcueta, Spanish theologian and economist (d. 1586)
1484: Paul Speratus, German Lutheran (d. 1551)
1476: Lucy Brocadelli, Dominican tertiary and stigmatic (d. 1544)
1363: Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris (d. 1429)
1272: King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Stephen "tWitch" Boss, American dancer and media personality (b. 1982)
2018: Noah Klieger, Holocaust survivor who became an award-winning Israeli journalist (b. 1926)
2016: Alan Thicke, Canadian actor, songwriter, game and talk-show host (b. 1947)
2006: Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (b. 1932)
2005: Alan Shields, American painter and ferryboat captain (b. 1944)
2004: David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927)
2002: Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who founded The Lovin' Spoonful (b. 1944)
1998: Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (b. 1906)
1998: Richard Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (b. 1922)
1998: Wade Watts, civil rights activist (b. 1919)
1997: Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)
1996: Edward Blishen, English author and educator (b. 1920)
1995: Ann Nolan Clark, American author and educator (b. 1896)
1993: Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972)
1992: K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899)
1992: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
1986: Heather Angel, British-American actress (b. 1909)
1986: Ella Baker, American activist (b. 1903)
1986: Smita Patil, Indian actress and journalist (b. 1955)
1983: Alexander Schmemann, Estonian-American priest and theologian (b. 1921)
1983: Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1933)
1979: Jon Hall, American actor and director (b. 1915)
1979: Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet and translator (b. 1916)
1977: Oguz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (b. 1934)
1975: Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b. 1889)
1974: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1889)
1973: Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
1969: Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (b. 1886)
1962: Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
1961: Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
1960: Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882)
1955: Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1954: John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879)
1950: Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)
1947: Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
1947: Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
1945: Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
1945: Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
1945: Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
1944: Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
1942: Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
1942: Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (b. 1868)
1935: Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1932: Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
1931: Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840)
1930: Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1929: Rosina Heikel, Finnish physician (b. 1842)
1927: Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
1924: Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
1922: Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857)
1922: Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
1919: Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
1911: Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (b. 1878)
1908: Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
1895: Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
1893: Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
1883: Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
1881: August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838)
1868: Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794)
1863: Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813)
1862: Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1823)
1849: Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, German botanist and entomologist (b. 1766)
1814: Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
1784: Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
1783: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717)
1769: Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715)
1758: Noël Doiron, Canadian Acadia leader (b. 1684)
1754: Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696)
1729: Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (b. 1676)
1721: Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676)
1716: Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1671: Antonio Grassi, Italian Roman Catholic priest(b. 1592)
1621: Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
1565: Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1516)
1557: Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499)
1521: Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
1516: Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer and historian (b. 1462)
1466: Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1386)
1404: Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336)
1272: Bertold of Regensburg, German preacher
1250: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
1204: Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
1126: Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1075)
1124: Pope Callixtus II (b. 1065)
859: Angilbert II, archbishop of Milan
838: Pepin I of Aquitaine (b. 797)
769: Du Hongjian, Chinese politician (b. 709)
558: Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496)

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