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December 19

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December 19

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 12 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: Massachusetts man wins six $25,000 a Year for Life prizes in one Lucky for Life drawing. Most lottery players would be fortunate enough to walk away with one Lucky for Life prize of $25,000 a year for life, but a Massachusetts man was lucky enough to manifest that coveted prize six times over.
2018: Woman's winning lottery ticket rescued from trash by brother. A Montana woman said a $50,000 winning lottery ticket she intended to throw away was rescued by her brother.
2017: Survey: Many investors would make questionable decisions after winning the lottery. TD Ameritrade polled 1,005 American adult investors in early October and found that many would not follow common advice offered by experts when dealing with a large lottery jackpot win.
2016: Maryland's love affair with the lottery at an all-time high. Maryland residents are playing the lottery more than ever, as the state generated $1.908 billion in fiscal 2016, $113 million more than the previous sales record of $1.795 billion in fiscal 2012, according to the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Agency.
2014: Lottery winner waits till deadline to claim $1M prize 'just because'. A Sterling, Virginia, man redeemed his $1 million Virginia lottery ticket four days before the prize money was set to expire.
2012: Lottery winner Jack Whittaker's losing ticket. More than 10 years after his historic Powerball win, Jack Whittaker still fascinates with his stories of ups and (mostly) downs.
2012: Mass. co-workers split $50M Powerball jackpot. Two co-workers at Costco in Waltham, Massachusetts, won a $50 million Powerball jackpot last week, and will split the $33 million lump-sum cash payout.
2012: The man who lost a $5 million lottery ticket. A U.K. man who lost a £3 million (US$5 million) lottery ticket suffered a destroyed marriage and near-loss of his sanity, until he learned what's really valuable in life.
2012: $1 million Powerball winner goes unclaimed in Idaho. A $1 million lottery prize has gone unclaimed six months after the winning ticket was sold at a Meridian, Idaho, convenience store.
2007: Retailer charged in lottery insider claim. Police have charged a Toronto convenience store owner with fraud in connection with a $5.7 million 'insider' lottery prize win.
2007: Canada police charge lottery 'winner' with fraud in ticket scam. Canadian police accused a Toronto-area man who claimed a C$5.7 million (US$5.7 million) prize in a national lottery of fraud, the first charges in a year-long probe of Ontario lottery-ticket retailers.
2005: Canadian cattle farmer keeps $1 million lottery win secret. Ted Yanke, a 59-year-old cattle farmer, won $1 million after scratching a Set For Life lottery ticket he'd picked on a whim in his hometown of Ashern.
2005: Original buyer of $1M lottery ticket identified. A man who threw away a $1 million scratch lottery ticket has been keeping a low profile since immersing himself in a dispute with an 82-year-old Blackstone man who found it in a trash bin.
2005: Deadline Passes For Unclaimed $100K Lottery Ticket. Wednesday's deadline for redeeming a Powerball ticket worth $100,000 purchased last summer at a northern Indiana gas station passed with no one claiming their prize, Hoosier Lottery officials said.
2005: Iowa man comes forward with $113M Powerball lottery ticket. An unidentified man from Beaverdale, Iowa stepped forward Saturday with the winning $113.2 million Powerball ticket from Wednesday's drawing.
2003: Pa. Lottery To Scrap Super 6 Lotto. The Pennsylvania Lottery has decided to scrap its 5-year-old Super Six Lotto game because sales have been hurt by the introduction of the multistate Powerball game.
2003: Mega Millions boosts Texas lottery sales. Lottery ticket sales have increased an average of 30 percent since Texas joined the multistate lottery Mega Millions two weeks ago, state officials said Thursday.
2003: Texas Two Step likely to move to new days. Texas Two Step lotto games probably will be moved to new days because of a loss in sales to Mega Millions, the multistate game new to the state.
2003: N.Y. Lottery Director To Head Georgia Games. The director of New York's lottery, Margaret DeFrancisco, was chosen Thursday to head Georgia's lottery games.
2003: Computers seized in Lottery investigation. Agents from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation seized computers from the state Lottery office this week, as part of a larger investigation into the Lottery.
2003: Lottery winner pleads guilty to assaulting deputy. The saga of lottery winner Jody Lee Taylor seems to indicate that he's anything but lucky. It's still unclear why he was naked.
2003: Comptroller: Texas missing potential $1B from gaming. More than $1 billion a year is being "sucked out" of Texas because of the popularity of electronic gaming in other states, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn told a Texas House committee Thursday.
2003: Tennessee game has border stops ready to cash in. Tennessee is setting up its first lottery outlets in stores along its borders with Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi to reap proceeds from its neighbors.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$465 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2022
2.$363.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2021
3.€330.47 Million US$350.96 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2022
4.$330 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2020
5.$305 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2018
6.$304 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2020
7.$269 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2017
8.$262 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2018
9.$223 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2017
10.$216.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2002
11.$202 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2015
12.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2019
12.$171 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2021
14.$162 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2009
15.€135 Million
US$159.62 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2017
16.$159 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2022
17.$152 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2011
18.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2010
19.€128.1 Million
US$144.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2021
20.€100 Million
US$131.91 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2012
21.$125 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2014
22.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2003
23.€101 Million
US$115.18 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2018
24.$104 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2011
25.€79.51 Million
US$97.45 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1994: Donaldson
Monday, Dec 19, 1994
28 years old
1987: Gmanmadskillz
Saturday, Dec 19, 1987
35 years old
1987: jaymack3316
Saturday, Dec 19, 1987
35 years old
1984: GaDreamer1219
Wednesday, Dec 19, 1984
38 years old
1983: Eliz4b3th*83
Monday, Dec 19, 1983
39 years old
1982: allsbrook123
Sunday, Dec 19, 1982
40 years old
1981: WickedWolf1981
Saturday, Dec 19, 1981
41 years old
1978: nfinity78
Tuesday, Dec 19, 1978
44 years old
1978: MzVick78
Tuesday, Dec 19, 1978
44 years old
1971: Raje696
Sunday, Dec 19, 1971
51 years old
1969: Yvetta10
Friday, Dec 19, 1969
53 years old
1959: raymondanthony8
Saturday, Dec 19, 1959
63 years old
1958: Enalpz1958
Friday, Dec 19, 1958
64 years old
1957: yxb0pb
Thursday, Dec 19, 1957
65 years old
1955: JANIE
Monday, Dec 19, 1955
67 years old
1952: rhow
Friday, Dec 19, 1952
70 years old
1952: howsron2272
Friday, Dec 19, 1952
70 years old
: MsNumberDreamer
(year not provided)
: rwsmes
(year not provided)
: bigdollarjim
(year not provided)
: jollygirl48
(year not provided)
: YMalbrough
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2016: Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
2016: A vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people at a Christmas market.
2013: Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
2012: Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
2001: A record high barometric pressure of 1,085.6 hectopascals (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
2001: Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2000: The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
1998: President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
1997: SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1995: The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
1991: Joe Cole, American roadie and author, is killed in an armed robbery
1986: Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
1984: The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
1983: The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1981: Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1977: The M_s 5.8 Bob-Tangol earthquake strikes Kerman Province in Iran, destroying villages and killing 665 people.
1974: Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1972: Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1967: Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
1961: India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
1956: Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
1946: Start of the First Indochina War.
1945: John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.
1941: World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
1941: World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
1940: Risto Ryti, the Prime Minister of Finland, is elected President of the Republic of Finland in a presidential election, which is exceptionally held by the 1937 electoral college.
1932: BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1929: The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
1927: Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
1924: The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1924: German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
1920: King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
1912: William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3+1⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
1907: Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
1900: Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
1900: French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as Dreyfus affair.
1828: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the Nullification Crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
1796: French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
1777: American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1776: Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
1675: The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
1606: The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1562: The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
1490: Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1187: Pope Clement III is elected.
1154: Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

Births On This Day

2001: Nicolas Checa, American chess player
1996: Franck Kessié, Ivorian footballer
1994: Maudy Ayunda, Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter
1994: M'Baye Niang, French footballer
1994: Colin Sinclair, North Mariana Islander tennis player
1993: Isiah Koech, Kenyan runner
1993: Young K, South Korean singer-songwriter
1992: Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
1992: Raphael Spiegel, Swiss footballer
1991: Steven Berghuis, Dutch footballer
1991: Declan Galbraith, English singer-songwriter
1991: Sumire Uesaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
1990: Torrey Craig, American basketball player
1990: Greg Bretz, American snowboarder
1989: Yong Jun-hyung, South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and producer
1989: Michał Masłowski, Polish footballer
1989: Kousei Miura, Japanese jockey
1989: Hamza Riazuddin, English cricketer
1988: Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
1988: Peter Winn, English footballer
1988: Casey Burgess, Australian television personality
1987: Cédric Baseya, French-Congolese footballer
1987: Karim Benzema, French footballer
1987: Ronan Farrow, American activist, journalist, and lawyer
1986: Calvin Andrew, English footballer
1986: Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer
1986: Ingrid Burley, American rapper and songwriter
1986: Lazaros Christodoulopoulos, Greek footballer
1986: Zuzana Hejnová, Czech hurdler
1986: Miguel Lopes, Portuguese footballer
1985: Gary Cahill, English footballer
1985: Andrea Baldini, Italian fencer
1985: Neil Kilkenny, English-Australian footballer
1985: Sally Kipyego, Kenyan runner
1985: Dan Logan, English bass player
1985: Lady Sovereign, English rapper
1984: Ian Kennedy, American baseball player
1983: Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer
1983: Casey Crescenzo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983: Bridget Phillipson, English politician
1983: Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer
1983: Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
1982: Mo Williams, American basketball player
1981: Grégory Dufer, Belgian footballer
1980: Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor and producer
1980: Marla Sokoloff, American actress and musician
1979: Kevin Devine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979: Rafael Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1978: Patrick Casey, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977: Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
1977: LaTasha Jenkins, American sprinter
1977: Irina Voronina, Russian model
1975: Makis Belevonis, Greek footballer
1975: Brandon Sanderson, American author and academic
1975: Jeremy Soule, Canadian composer
1975: Olivier Tébily, Ivorian-French footballer
1975: Dean Treister, Australian rugby league player
1974: Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian footballer
1974: Joe Jurevicius, American football player
1974: Felipe Lopez, Dominican-American basketball player
1974: Jake Plummer, American football player and sportscaster
1974: Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1973: Michalis Grigoriou, Greek footballer and coach
1973: Erick Wainaina, Kenyan runner
1973: Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
1972: Alyssa Milano, American actress and television personality
1972: Warren Sapp, American football player and analyst
1971: Karen Pickering, English swimmer
1970: Tyson Beckford, American model and actor
1969: Michael Bates, American sprinter and football player
1969: Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player
1969: Richard Hammond, English journalist and producer
1969: Nayan Mongia, Indian cricketer
1969: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and singer
1968: Kristina Keneally, American-Australian politician, 42nd Premier of New South Wales
1968: Ken Marino, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967: Criss Angel, American magician
1967: Charles Austin, American high jumper
1966: Chuckii Booker, American singer-songwriter and producer
1966: Rajesh Chauhan, Indian cricketer
1966: Alberto Tomba, Italian skier
1966: Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player and coach
1965: Chito Martínez, Belizean-American baseball player
1964: Béatrice Dalle, French actress
1964: Lorie Kane, Canadian golfer
1964: Randall McDaniel, American football player
1964: Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
1963: Jennifer Beals, American model and actress
1963: Til Schweiger, German actor, director, and producer
1962: Gary Fleder, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1961: Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1961: Matthew Waterhouse, English actor and author
1961: Reggie White, American football player and wrestler (d. 2004)
1960: Derrick Jensen, American author and activist
1960: Michelangelo Signorile, American journalist and author
1959: Iván Vallejo, Ecuadorian mountaineer
1959: Lisa Wilkinson, Australian television host and journalist
1958: Steven Isserlis, English cellist and author
1958: Limahl, English pop singer
1957: Cyril Collard, French actor, director, and composer (d. 1993)
1957: Kevin McHale, American basketball player, coach, and manager
1956: Phil Harris, American captain and fisherman (d. 2010)
1956: Tom Lawless, American baseball player and manager
1956: Shane McEntee, Irish farmer and politician, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (d. 2012)
1955: Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author (d. 2012)
1955: Rob Portman, American lawyer and politician
1954: Jeff Allam, English race car driver
1954: Tim Parks, English author and translator
1952: Walter Murphy, American pianist and composer
1951: Mohammad Reza Aref, Iranian engineer and politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran
1951: Alan Rouse, English mountaineer and author (d. 1986)
1950: Eleanor J. Hill, American lawyer and diplomat
1949: Orna Berry, Israeli computer scientist and businesswoman
1949: Claudia Kolb, American swimmer
1949: Sebastian, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948: Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1947: Jimmy Bain, Scottish bass player and songwriter (d. 2016)
1946: Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author, and broadcaster
1946: Robert Urich, American actor and producer (d. 2002)
1945: Elaine Joyce, American actress, singer, and dancer
1945: John McEuen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944: William Christie, American-French harpsichord player and conductor
1944: Mitchell Feigenbaum, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2019)
1944: Martin Hume Johnson, English physiologist and academic
1944: Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician (d. 2022)
1944: Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1944: Tim Reid, American actor and director
1944: Steve Tyrell, American singer-songwriter and producer
1944: Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1943: Ross M. Lence, American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1943: James L. Jones, American general and politician, 22nd United States National Security Advisor
1942: Cornell Dupree, American guitarist (d. 2011)
1942: "Mean Gene" Okerlund, American sports announcer (d. 2019)
1941: Lee Myung-bak, South Korean businessman and politician, 10th President of South Korea
1941: Maurice White, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2016)
1940: Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
1935: Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (d. 1974)
1935: Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1935: Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball player (d. 2020)
1934: Al Kaline, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2020)
1934: Pratibha Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th President of India
1934: Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American lawyer and politician
1933: Kevan Gosper, Australian runner and politician
1933: Christopher Smout, Scottish historian and academic
1932: Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
1932: Lola Hendricks, African American civil rights activist (d. 2013)
1932: Wayne Tippit, American actor (d. 2009)
1931: Ginger Stanley, American model, actress and stunt woman
1930: Wally Olins, English businessman and academic (d. 2014)
1930: Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (d. 2015)
1929: Bob Brookmeyer, American trombonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2011)
1929: David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish potter
1929: Gregory Carroll, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1929: Howard Sackler, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1982)
1928: Eve Bunting, Irish-American author and academic
1928: Nathan Oliveira, American painter and sculptor (d. 2010)
1927: James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1926: Bobby Layne, American football player and coach (d. 1986)
1926: Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (d. 2015)
1925: Tankred Dorst, German author and playwright (d. 2017)
1925: William Schutz, American psychologist and academic (d. 2002)
1925: Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1924: Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (d. 1994)
1924: Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1989)
1924: Gary Morton, American comedian and producer (d. 1999)
1924: Edmund Purdom, British-Italian actor (d. 2009)
1924: Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (d. 2016)
1924: Cicely Tyson, American actress (d. 2021)
1923: Robert V. Bruce, American historian and author (d. 2008)
1923: Gordon Jackson, Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 1990)
1922: Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (d. 1987)
1920: Little Jimmy Dickens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1920: David Susskind, American talk show host and producer (d. 1987)
1918: Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980)
1918: Lee Rich, American producer and production manager (d. 2012)
1916: Roy Ward Baker, English director and producer (d. 2010)
1916: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and academic (d. 2010)
1915: Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1963)
1915: Claudia Testoni, Italian hurdler, sprinter, and long jumper (d. 1998)
1914: Mel Shaw, American animator and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1910: Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, and poet (d. 1986)
1909: W. A. Criswell, American pastor and author (d. 2002)
1907: Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer, actor, and golfer (d. 2004)
1906: Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1905: Irving Kahn, American businessman (d. 2015)
1905: Giovanni Lurani, Italian race car driver, engineer, and journalist (d. 1995)
1903: George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1902: Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
1901: Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber (d. 2002)
1901: Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (d. 1963)
1901: Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer and manager (d. 1974)
1899: Martin Luther King Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984)
1895: Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1989)
1894: Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman (d. 1978)
1891: Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish politician and diplomat, 4th President-in-exile of Poland (d. 1993)
1888: Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1963)
1884: Antonín Zápotocký, Czech politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (d. 1957)
1876: Bernard Friedberg, Austrian-Israeli scholar and author (d. 1961)
1875: Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist (d. 1948)
1875: Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month (d. 1950)
1875: Grace Marie Bareis, American mathematician (d. 1962)
1873: Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (d. 1913)
1865: Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (d. 1932)
1863: Wallace Bryant, American archer (d. 1953)
1861: Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (d. 1928)
1853: Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
1852: Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1849: Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier (d. 1919)
1831: Bernice Pauahi Bishop, American philanthropist (d. 1884)
1825: George Frederick Bristow, American violinist and composer (d. 1898)
1820: Mary Livermore, American journalist and activist (d. 1905)
1817: James J. Archer, American lawyer and general (d. 1864)
1797: Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (d. 1838)
1796: Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1873)
1778: Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1851)
1714: John Winthrop, American astronomer and educator (d. 1779)
1699: William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
1683: Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1587: Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1645)
1554: Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1498: Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (d. 1552)
1343: William I, Margrave of Meissen (d. 1407)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Sally Ann Howes, English-American singer and actress (b. 1930)
2021: Johnny Isakson, American politician (b. 1944)
2020: Rosalind Knight, English actress (b. 1933)
2016: Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (b. 1954)
2015: Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1928)
2015: Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (b. 1928)
2015: Karin Söder, Swedish educator and politician, 33rd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1928)
2014: S. Balasubramanian, Indian journalist and director (b. 1936)
2014: Philip Bradbourn, English lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
2014: Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (b. 1910)
2014: Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (b. 1936)
2014: Dick Thornton, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1939)
2014: Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman Lewin), British writer, artist and TV producer (b. 1926).
2013: Winton Dean, English musicologist and author (b. 1916)
2013: Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (b. 1936)
2013: Ned Vizzini, American author and screenwriter (b. 1981)
2012: Robert Bork, American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General (b. 1927)
2012: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (b. 1944)
2012: Larry Morris, American football player (b. 1933)
2012: Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence (b. 1943)
2010: Anthony Howard, English journalist and author (b. 1934)
2009: Kim Peek, American megasavant (b. 1951)
2008: James Bevel, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
2008: Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (b. 1930)
2008: Michael Connell, American political consultant (b. 1963)
2008: Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (b. 1945)
2005: Vincent Gigante, American mobster (b. 1927)
2004: Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2004: Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1922)
2003: Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (b. 1914)
2003: Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
2002: Will Hoy, English race car driver (b. 1952)
2002: Arthur Rowley, English footballer and manager (b. 1926)
2002: George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1907)
2000: Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)
2000: Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (b. 1910)
2000: John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
1999: Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh soldier and actor (b. 1914)
1998: Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
1997: Sara Northrup Hollister, American occultist (b. 1924)
1997: Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (b. 1908)
1997: Jimmy Rogers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
1996: Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (b. 1924)
1993: Michael Clarke, American drummer (b. 1946)
1989: Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author, and poet (b. 1902)
1989: Kirill Mazurov, Belarusian Soviet politician (b. 1914)
1988: Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
1987: August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (b. 1900)
1986: V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
1986: Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (b. 1895)
1984: Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
1982: Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
1976: Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893)
1972: Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)
1968: Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (b. 1884)
1953: Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
1946: Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
1944: Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
1944: Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
1940: Kyösti Kallio, Finnish politician, the 4th President of Finland (b. 1873)
1938: Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
1933: George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
1932: Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
1927: Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
1927: Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
1916: Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
1915: Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
1899: Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843)
1878: Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
1851: Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (b. 1775)
1848: Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1818)
1819: Thomas Fremantle, English admiral and politician (b. 1765)
1813: James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (b. 1744)
1807: Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (b. 1723)
1749: Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
1745: Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1741: Vitus Bering, Dutch explorer (b. 1681)
1637: Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (b. 1565)
1558: Cornelius Grapheus, Flemish writer (b. 1482)
1442: Elizabeth of Luxembourg (b. 1409)
1385: Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. 1319)
1370: Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
1327: Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1260)
1123: Saint Berardo, Italian bishop and saint
1111: Al-Ghazali, Persian jurist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic (b. 1058)
1091: Adelaide of Susa, margravine of Turin
966: Sancho I, king of León
401: Pope Anastasius I

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