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December 18

On This Day in History

December 18

December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 13 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: $1.5 BILLION: Massive Powerball jackpot fuels rush for tickets. Last night, the multi-state Powerball lottery game produced no top winner for the 44th consecutive drawing, prompting lottery officials to raise the game's jackpot to an astonishing $1.5 billion.
2024: $825 MILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for Friday. The Mega Millions multi-state lottery game continued its jackpot run last night when no tickets matched all six numbers.
2023: California airport worker wins $20 million lottery prize during lunch break. A California airport employee took a break from the holiday travel rush to find that he had won $20 million in the lottery.
2020: USA Mega unveils new and improved website. Speednet Group, a leading lottery technology company, announced today that it has re-launched the USA Mega website with an updated, modern look that works equally well on mobile devices, computers, and tablets.
2018: NJ Lottery Pick 6 ticket worth $29.5M sold at liquor store. A 10-month drought without a Pick 6 New Jersey lottery winner ended Monday night when someone hit the $29.5 million jackpot.
2018: Kentucky Lottery adds new Keno game feature. Kentucky Lottery players now have a new way to win even more prizes in the popular game Keno, as the new Bulls-Eye feature is now available.
2015: $50 million Lotto Max winners finally revealed after 2-year fight to remain anonymous. The winners of the $50 million Canada Lotto Max ticket have finally received their jackpot, after nearly two years of unsuccessfully trying to claim the prize without revealing their identities.
2015: Minnesota Lottery director resigns after timeshare inquiry. Minnesota State Lottery director Ed Van Petten abruptly resigned Friday, coming after an inquiry found that taxpayers have reimbursed the director for staying in his own timeshare unit when traveling.
2015: Jackpot-fixing investigation expands to more state lotteries. Eddie Tipton, former security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, has been accused of tampering with drawings in four states over a six-year period, and investigators are now expanding the inquiry nationwide to determine if the number could be larger.
2015: Tennessee woman charged with stealing ex-husband's $50,000 lottery prize. McMinnville, Tennessee, police have arrested a woman accused of stealing an unsigned $50,000 lottery ticket and then cashing it in herself.
2015: Wyoming Lottery updates lawsuit against anti-gambling proponent. The Wyoming Lottery Corporation has updated its lawsuit against a Cheyenne man the company accuses of disparaging its operations, but the man's lawyer said the suit it still improper and fails to give necessary specifics.
2013: Georgia Mega Millions jackpot winner comes forward. Ira Curry, 56, of Stone Mountain, Ga., has come forward as one of the two who struck it rich in the massive Mega Millions jackpot drawing.
2013: $636 Million Mega Millions jackpot split by 2 tickets. Winning tickets for an estimated $636 million Mega Millions jackpot, the second biggest in U.S. lottery history, were sold in San Jose, California and Atlanta, Georgia, lottery officials said late on Tuesday evening.
2009: Spain's Christmas lottery is still "El Gordo". It is the lyrical event of the season, a kickoff to Christmas celebrations: children dressed up in navy blue and gray uniforms sing, not Christmas carols, but the winning numbers and prizes for the Loteria de Navidad, Spain's state Christmas lottery.
2008: Piqua lottery winners unveiled to cheers, tears of joy. Fifteen Ohioans claimed their shares of the $207 million Mega Millions jackpot Wednesday with one man dreaming of his first new vehicle, another planning to start a scholarship in his late son's name and a woman thinking about retirement.
2007: Ontario police to announce charges in lottery insider investigation. The Ontario Provincial Police will announce Wednesday that they have laid a set of charges following investigations into "insider" lottery wins in Ontario.
2004: Boxing career debut for Mega lottery loser. The Ohio woman who falsely claimed she lost a winning $162 million Mega Millions ticket last year says she's taking a new career path - as a boxer.
2004: Oregon Lottery seeks to start video slot games in July. Despite the opposition of some legislators, Oregon Lottery officials yesterday indicated that July 1 is being targeted as the start-up date for the lottery's new video slot-machine games.
2003: Christmas El Gordo Online Lottery Sales End at Midnight. A last-minute flurry of excitement is expected at El Gordo Online, where sales end at midnight tonight for the world's biggest lottery draw.
2003: Powerball Jackpot Reaches $116 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $116 million, with a cash option of $62.5 million.
2003: Oregon man wins lottery millions. A 37-year-old Medford construction worker claimed his prize from a $21.7 million Megabucks jackpot Monday - and promptly went into seclusion.
2003: Court deciding legality of NY gambling law. A state appeals court is expected to take about two months to make a ruling into whether the 2001 legislation expanding gambling in New York is legal.
2003: Royal Palm Beach man claims Lotto winnings. 52-year-old Charles J. Lonsdale claimed a $7.6 million prize Wednesday as one of three winners of Saturday's $40 million Florida Lotto drawing in Tallahassee.
2003: Lottery Announces District Offices. The Tennessee Lottery has selected locations for its district offices across the state.
2003: Lottery Scam Reaches N.D. Sen. Conrad. North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad was one of the latest targets of a mail scam that has run for three years and hit about 2,000 people in the United States, 800 of whom had been fooled into sending money to con artists.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.43 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2025
2.$862 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2024
3.$544.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2023
4.$465 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2022
5.$352.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2021
6.€330.47 Million US$350.96 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2022
7.$310 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2020
8.$304 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2020
9.$284 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2018
10.$269 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2017
11.$262 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2018
12.$223 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2017
13.$202 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2015
14.$171 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2021
15.$163.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2002
16.$163 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2007
17.$160 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2019
18.€135 Million
US$159.62 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2017
19.$159 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2022
20.$152 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2011
21.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2010
22.€126.87 Million
US$142.58 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2021
23.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 18, 2009
24.$125 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2014
25.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2003

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2003: SimonDatomor
Thursday, Dec 18, 2003
22 years old
1996: Farhan234
Wednesday, Dec 18, 1996
29 years old
1990: Kmilton90
Tuesday, Dec 18, 1990
35 years old
1983: shawniemoney
Sunday, Dec 18, 1983
42 years old
1977: MsAaliyah
Sunday, Dec 18, 1977
48 years old
1974: BREAKOFDAWN
Wednesday, Dec 18, 1974
51 years old
1970: steven113311
Friday, Dec 18, 1970
55 years old
1969: Ceemitch$
Thursday, Dec 18, 1969
56 years old
1967: ts5087
Monday, Dec 18, 1967
58 years old
1965: cash113311
Saturday, Dec 18, 1965
60 years old
1962: gogether45$
Tuesday, Dec 18, 1962
63 years old
1961: capett02
Monday, Dec 18, 1961
64 years old
1961: skats1961
Monday, Dec 18, 1961
64 years old
1961: tfromc
Monday, Dec 18, 1961
64 years old
1954: Arthur94
Saturday, Dec 18, 1954
71 years old
1953: wolfyk9
Friday, Dec 18, 1953
72 years old
: gb184
(year not provided)
: maddog9x
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: Argentina win the FIFA World Cup final, defeating title holders France 4-2 on penalties following a 3-3 draw after extra time.
2019: The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
2018: List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
2017: Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
2015: Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
2006: The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
2006: United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2005: The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
2002: California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
1999: NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
1995: A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Jamba, Cuando Cubango, Angola, killing 141 people.
1981: First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
1977: United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board.
1977: SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, killing 36.
1973: Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1972: Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1966: Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
1958: Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1957: A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.
1944: World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.
1944: The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.
1939: World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
1935: The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1932: The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.
1917: The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1916: World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.
1898: Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car.
1892: Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1878: The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
1867: A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.
1865: US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the United States.
1854: The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.
1833: The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
1793: Surrender of the frigate Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1787: New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1777: The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
1655: The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
1622: Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
1499: A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
1271: Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1118: The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon from the Almoravid.

Births On This Day

2002: Giuliano Simeone, Argentine footballer
2001: Billie Eilish, American singer
2001: Jalen Johnson, American basketball player
2000: Jayden Daniels, American football player
2000: Korapat Kirdpan, Thai actor and singer
2000: Travon Walker, American football player
1997: Ronald Acuña Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
1997: Alex DeBrincat, American ice hockey player
1995: Barbora Krejčíková, Czech tennis player
1995: Lim Na-young, South Korean singer and actress
1994: Gerard Gumbau, Spanish footballer
1994: Natália Kelly, American-Austrian singer
1993: Byron Buxton, American baseball player
1993: Thomas Lam, Finnish footballer
1992: Ryan Crouser, American shot putter
1992: Bridgit Mendler, American singer-songwriter and actress
1991: Marcus Butler, English model and YouTuber
1990: Victor Hedman, Swedish ice hockey player
1990: Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter
1989: Ashley Benson, American actress and singer
1988: Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist
1988: Seth Doege, American football player
1988: Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete
1988: Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
1987: Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
1986: Chris Carter, American baseball player
1986: François Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
1986: Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
1984: Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player
1984: Paul Harrison, English footballer
1984: Giuliano Razzoli, Italian skier
1984: Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and singer
1983: Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player
1980: Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1980: Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world (died 2017)
1980: Benjamin Watson, American football player
1978: Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
1978: Ali Curtis, American soccer player
1978: Josh Dallas, American actor
1978: Katie Holmes, American actress
1977: Axwell, Swedish DJ, record producer, member of Swedish House Mafia
1977: Claudia Gesell, German runner
1975: Randy Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975: Sia, Australian singer-songwriter
1975: Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress
1974: Peter Boulware, American football player and politician
1974: Knut Schreiner, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer
1973: Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian runner
1972: Anzhela Balakhonova, Ukrainian pole vaulter
1972: Raymond Herrera, American drummer and songwriter
1972: DJ Lethal, Latvian-American musician
1972: Lawrence Wong, Singaporean civilist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Singapore
1971: Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
1971: Noriko Matsueda, Japanese pianist and composer
1971: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player and sportscaster
1970: Norman Brown, American singer and guitarist
1970: DMX, American rapper and actor (died 2021)
1970: Lucious Harris, American basketball player
1970: Giannis Ploutarhos, Greek singer-songwriter
1970: Rob Van Dam, American wrestler
1970: Jonathan Yeo, English painter
1969: Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
1969: Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (died 2019)
1969: Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver
1968: Mario Basler, German footballer and manager
1968: Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
1968: Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968: Casper Van Dien, American actor and producer
1967: Mille Petrozza, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967: Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch journalist
1966: Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster
1965: Shawn Christian, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1965: Manolo Peña, Spanish footballer (died 2012)
1964: Stone Cold Steve Austin, American wrestler and producer
1964: Don Beebe, American football player and coach
1963: Greg D'Angelo, American drummer
1963: Karl Dorrell, American football player and coach
1963: Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian soldier and politician, 9th President of Burundi (died 2020)
1963: Charles Oakley, American basketball player and coach
1963: Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
1961: Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater and coach
1961: Lalchand Rajput, Indian cricketer
1961: Leila Steinberg, American singer, producer, author, and poet
1961: Angie Stone, American singer, songwriter, and actress (died 2025)
1960: Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist and academic
1960: Naoko Yamano, Japanese singer, guitarist and composer
1958: Geordie Walker, English guitarist (died 2023)
1958: Julia Wolfe, American composer and educator
1957: Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and author (died 2016)
1956: Ron White, American comedian
1955: Vijay Mallya, Indian businessman and politician
1955: Bogusław Mamiński, Polish runner
1954: John Booth, English race car driver
1954: Ray Liotta, American actor (died 2022)
1954: Willi Wülbeck, German runner
1953: Kevin Beattie, English footballer (died 2018)
1953: Elliot Easton, American guitarist and singer
1952: John Leventhal, American songwriter and producer
1951: Bobby Jones, American basketball player
1950: Gillian Armstrong, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1950: Randy Castillo, American drummer and songwriter (died 2002)
1950: Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan general and politician
1950: Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (died 2015)
1950: Leonard Maltin, American historian, author, and critic
1949: David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (died 1980)
1948: George T. Johnson, American basketball player
1948: Bill Nelson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948: Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor and painter
1948: Laurent Voulzy, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947: Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian author and screenwriter
1946: Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement (died 1977)
1946: Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
1945: Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1944: Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator
1943: Bobby Keys, American saxophone player (died 2014)
1943: Keith Richards, English musician
1943: Alan Rudolph, American director and screenwriter
1942: Lenore Blum, American mathematician and academic
1942: Bobby Keyes, Australian rugby league player (died 2022)
1941: Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
1941: Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpet player and composer
1941: Joan Wallach Scott, American historian, author, and academic
1940: Ilario Castagner, Italian football manager (died 2023)
1940: John Cooper, English sprinter and hurdler (died 1974)
1939: Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer (died 2018)
1939: Michael Moorcock, English author and songwriter
1939: Harold E. Varmus, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1938: Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (died 1996)
1938: Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (died 2005)
1937: Nancy Ryles, American politician (died 1990)
1936: Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (died 1987)
1935: Rosemary Leach, English actress (died 2017)
1935: Jacques Pépin, French-American chef and author
1934: Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman, founded Glencore (died 2013)
1934: Boris Volynov, Russian colonel, engineer, and cosmonaut
1933: Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (died 2017)
1932: Norm Provan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and businessman (died 2021)
1932: Roger Smith, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)
1931: Allen Klein, American businessman and music publisher (died 2009)
1931: Alison Plowden, English historian and author (died 2007)
1931: Gene Shue, American basketball player, coach, and executive (died 2022)
1931: Bill Thompson, American television host (died 2014)
1930: Moose Skowron, American baseball player (died 2012)
1929: Gino Cimoli, American baseball player (died 2011)
1929: Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (died 2013)
1928: Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph and author (died 2003)
1928: Harold Land, American tenor saxophonist (died 2001)
1927: Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and politician, 66th United States Attorney General (died 2021)
1927: Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (died 2009)
1923: Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London (died 2019)
1922: Jack Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)
1922: Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (died 2006)
1920: Robert Leckie, American soldier and author (died 2001)
1917: Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (died 2005)
1916: Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic (died 2008)
1916: Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 1973)
1913: Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (died 1987)
1913: Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
1913: Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (died 2006)
1912: Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot (died 2002)
1911: Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
1910: Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director (died 1985)
1910: Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire (died 2010)
1908: Celia Johnson, English actress (died 1982)
1908: Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (died 1969)
1907: Bill Holland, American race car driver (died 1984)
1907: Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and educator (died 2009)
1904: George Stevens, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (died 1975)
1899: Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author (died 1990)
1897: Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer (died 1952)
1896: Gerald Barry, English colonel and cricketer (died 1977)
1890: Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (died 1954)
1888: Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer (died 1971)
1888: Robert Moses, American urban planner (died 1981)
1887: Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright (died 1971)
1886: Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (died 1961)
1884: Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology (died 1942)
1882: Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta-Antofagasta railway (died 1950)
1879: Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator (died 1940)
1878: Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician,General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1953)
1875: Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower (died 1941)
1873: Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (died 1957)
1870: Saki, British short story writer (died 1916)
1869: Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator (died 1965)
1867: Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder (died 1941)
1863: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (died 1914)
1861: Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic (died 1924)
1860: Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer (died 1908)
1856: J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
1849: Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author (died 1931)
1847: Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (died 1903)
1835: Lyman Abbott, American minister, theologian, and author (died 1922)
1825: Charles Griffin, American general (died 1876)
1825: John S. Harris, American surveyor and politician (died 1906)
1825: Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (died 1901)
1824: John Hall, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1907)
1800: James Watney, English brewer and businessman (died 1884)
1734: Jean-Baptiste Rey, French conductor and composer (died 1810)
1725: Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and theologian (died 1791)
1707: Charles Wesley, English missionary and composer (died 1788)
1662: James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish colonel and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (died 1711)
1661: Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and inventor (died 1751)
1660: Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1715)
1626: Christina, Queen of Sweden (died 1689)
1624: John Hull, colonial American merchant and politician (died 1683)
1620: Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (died 1668)
1610: Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (died 1688)
1602: Simonds d'Ewes, English historian and politician (died 1650)
1590: William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (died 1640)
1552: Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (died 1616)
1507: Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (died 1551)
1505: Philipp von Hutten, German explorer (died 1546)
1499: Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and theologian (died 1561)
1481: Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony (died 1503)
1406: Richard Olivier de Longueil, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (died 1470)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951)
2024: John Marsden, Australian writer (born 1950)
2021: Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (born 1986)
2020: Jerry Relph, American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate (born 1944)
2017: Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (born 1990)
2016: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (born 1917)
2015: Luc Brewaeys, Belgian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1959)
2015: Helge Solum Larsen, Norwegian businessman and politician (born 1969)
2014: Donald J. Albosta, American soldier and politician (born 1925)
2014: Gideon Ben-Yisrael, Israeli soldier and politician (born 1923)
2014: Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (born 1937)
2014: Virna Lisi, Italian actress (born 1936)
2014: Mandy Rice-Davies, English model and actress (born 1944)
2014: Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (born 1912)
2013: Ken Hutcherson, American football player (born 1952)
2013: Graham Mackay, South African-English businessman (born 1949)
2012: Frank Macchiarola, American lawyer and academic (born 1941)
2012: Mustafa Ould Salek, Mauritanian colonel and politician, President of Mauritania (born 1936)
2012: Jim Whalen, American football player (born 1943)
2012: Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1931)
2011: Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (born 1936)
2010: Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (born 1916)
2010: Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist, author, and scholar (born 1913)
2010: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Economy and Finances (born 1940)
2010: James Pickles, English judge and journalist (born 1925)
2008: Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (born 1932)
2008: Mark Felt, American FBI agent and informant (born 1913)
2007: Hans Billian, Polish-German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1918)
2007: Gerald Le Dain, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1924)
2007: William Strauss, American author and playwright (born 1947)
2007: Alan Wagner, American businessman and critic (born 1931)
2006: Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (born 1911)
2006: Ruth Bernhard, German-American photographer (born 1905)
2006: Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and activist (born 1923)
2005: Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (born 1922)
2004: Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (born 1926)
2002: Necip Hablemitoğlu, Turkish historian and academic (born 1954)
2002: Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (born 1934)
2002: Wayne Owens, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
2002: Lucy Grealy, Irish-American author (born 1963)
2001: Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1927)
2001: Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (born 1914)
2001: Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator (born 1901)
2000: Stan Fox, American race car driver (born 1952)
2000: Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (born 1915)
2000: Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (born 1959)
1999: Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (born 1901)
1998: Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1926)
1997: Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (born 1964)
1996: Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (born 1904)
1996: Irving Caesar, American composer (born 1895)
1995: Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (born 1926)
1995: Ross Thomas, American author (born 1926)
1995: Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (born 1910)
1994: Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (born 1916)
1994: Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress (born 1896)
1993: Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (born 1909)
1993: Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor, director, and producer (born 1919)
1992: Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (born 1915)
1991: George Abecassis, English race car driver (born 1913)
1990: Anne Revere, American actress (born 1903)
1990: Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (born 1914)
1990: Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (born 1900)
1988: Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (born 1908)
1987: Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (born 1940)
1985: Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (born 1916)
1982: Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (born 1916)
1980: Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (born 1902)
1980: Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (born 1904)
1977: Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1921)
1977: Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (born 1885)
1975: Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (born 1900)
1974: Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1887)
1973: Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (born 1908)
1972: Neilia Hunter Biden, first wife of Joe Biden (born 1942)
1971: Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (born 1902)
1971: Diana Lynn, American actress (born 1926)
1969: Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (born 1878)
1961: Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (born 1897)
1939: Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (born 1873)
1936: Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (born 1857)
1932: Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (born 1850)
1925: Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (born 1850)
1922: Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (born 1851)
1919: John Alcock, English captain and pilot (born 1892)
1892: Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (born 1804)
1880: Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (born 1793)
1869: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (born 1829)
1864: José Justo Corro, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (1836-1837) (born 1794)
1848: Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (born 1781)
1843: Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (born 1748)
1829: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (born 1744)
1803: Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (born 1744)
1799: Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and historian (born 1725)
1787: Soame Jenyns, English poet and politician (born 1704)
1737: Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (born 1644)
1692: Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician (born 1626)
1651: William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath, English lawyer and politician (born 1580)
1645: Nur Jahan, empress consort of the Mughal Empire (born 1577)
1577: Anna of Saxony, Princess consort of Orange (born 1544)
1495: Alfonso II of Naples (born 1448)
1442: Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (born 1371)
1290: Magnus Ladulås, king of Sweden (born 1240)
1133: Hildebert, French poet and scholar (born 1055)
1075: Edith of Wessex (born 1025)
933: Yaonian Yanmujin, Chinese empress dowager
919: Lady Wu, wife of Qian Liu (born 858)

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