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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

2025: Illinois mother of four wins $200,000 prize on her favorite lottery ticket. After having won a generous prize on a favorite lottery ticket once before, an Illinois woman decided to keep playing her favorite game until she ended up winning a $200,000 prize.
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.$1.43 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2025
2.$862 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2024
3.$575.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2023
4.$465 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2022
5.$363.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2021
6.€330.47 Million US$350.96 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 20, 2022
7.$330 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2020
8.$305 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2018
9.$304 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2020
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.$216.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2002
14.$202 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 19, 2015
15.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2019
15.$171 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2021
17.$162 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2009
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.€128.1 Million
US$144.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2021
23.€100 Million
US$131.91 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2012
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

1994: Donaldson
Monday, Dec 19, 1994
31 years old
1991: Kitty$
Thursday, Dec 19, 1991
34 years old
1987: Gmanmadskillz
Saturday, Dec 19, 1987
38 years old
1987: jaymack3316
Saturday, Dec 19, 1987
38 years old
1984: GaDreamer1219
Wednesday, Dec 19, 1984
41 years old
1983: Eliz4b3th*83
Monday, Dec 19, 1983
42 years old
1982: allsbrook123
Sunday, Dec 19, 1982
43 years old
1981: WickedWolf1981
Saturday, Dec 19, 1981
44 years old
1978: nfinity78
Tuesday, Dec 19, 1978
47 years old
1978: MzVick78
Tuesday, Dec 19, 1978
47 years old
1971: Raje696
Sunday, Dec 19, 1971
54 years old
1969: Yvetta10
Friday, Dec 19, 1969
56 years old
1967: Qubarican67$
Tuesday, Dec 19, 1967
58 years old
1959: raymondanthony8
Saturday, Dec 19, 1959
66 years old
1958: Enalpz1958
Friday, Dec 19, 1958
67 years old
1957: yxb0pb
Thursday, Dec 19, 1957
68 years old
1955: JANIE
Monday, Dec 19, 1955
70 years old
1952: rhow
Friday, Dec 19, 1952
73 years old
1952: howsron2272
Friday, Dec 19, 1952
73 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 12 and injures 56 people at a Christmas market.
2013: Spacecraft Gaia is launched by the European Space Agency.
2012: Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
2005: Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 crashes into the Government Cut channel immediately after takeoff from Miami Seaplane Base, killing 20.
2005: A passenger train from Sucha Beskidzka to Żywiec in Poland loses its brakes while on a steep downhill part of the route. It is stopped in a controlled collision in Świnna by a train travelling in opposite direction. 2 drivers and 6 passengers are injured.
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.
1999: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-103, the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
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.
1986: Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
1985: Aeroflot Flight 101/435 is hijacked to China by its first officer.
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 Twenty-fifth 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.
1941: Twenty-eight men die when German submarine U-574, is struck by HMS Stork (L81), commanded by Captain Frederic John Walker of Royal Navy, off Punta Delgada, as also by depth charges.
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.
1793: War of the First Coalition: The Siege of Toulon ends when Napoleon's French artillery forces the British to abandon the city, securing southern France from invasion.
1783: William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 24.
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".
1688: Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of Reading, forcing James II to flee England.
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.
653: Pope Martin I, having been abducted by Byzantine authorities from Rome for his opposition to Monothelitism, is tried in Constantinople.

Births On This Day

1998: King Princess, American singer-songwriter and musician
1997: Gabriel Magalhães, Brazilian footballer
1997: Fikayo Tomori, English footballer
1996: Franck Kessié, Ivorian footballer
1994: Maudy Ayunda, Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter
1994: M'Baye Niang, French footballer
1993: Young K, South Korean singer-songwriter
1993: Isiah Koech, Kenyan runner
1992: Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
1992: Raphael Spiegel, Swiss footballer
1991: Steven Berghuis, Dutch footballer
1991: Declan Galbraith, English singer-songwriter
1991: Josh Huestis, American basketball player
1991: Keiynan Lonsdale, Australian actor, singer-songwriter, and dancer
1991: Sumire Uesaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
1990: Greg Bretz, American snowboarder
1990: Torrey Craig, American basketball player
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
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: Lauren Boebert, American politician
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
1986: Annie Murphy, Canadian actress
1985: Andrea Baldini, Italian fencer
1985: Gary Cahill, English footballer
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, American 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
1973: Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor and singer
1972: Rosa Blasi, American actress
1972: Alyssa Milano, American actress, television personality, and activist
1972: Warren Sapp, American football player and analyst
1971: Amy Locane, American actress
1971: Karen Pickering, English swimmer
1970: Tyson Beckford, American model and actor
1970: Robert Lang, Czech ice hockey player
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
1969: Kristy Swanson, American actress
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: Robert MacNaughton, American actor
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: Scott Cohen, American actor
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 (died 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 (died 1993)
1957: Kevin McHale, American basketball player, coach, and manager
1956: Phil Harris, American captain and fisherman (died 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 (died 2012)
1956: Merzbow, Japanese noise musician
1955: Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author (died 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 (died 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
1949: Lenny White, American musician
1948: Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (died 2022)
1947: Jimmy Bain, Scottish bass player and songwriter (died 2016)
1946: Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author, and broadcaster
1946: Robert Urich, American actor and producer (died 2002)
1945: John McEuen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944: William Christie, American-French harpsichord player and conductor
1944: Mitchell Feigenbaum, American physicist and mathematician (died 2019)
1944: Martin Hume Johnson, English physiologist and academic
1944: Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician (died 2022)
1944: Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
1944: Tim Reid, American actor and director
1944: Steve Tyrell, American singer-songwriter and producer
1944: Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)
1943: James L. Jones, American general and politician, 22nd United States National Security Advisor
1943: Elaine Joyce, American actress, singer, and dancer
1943: Ross M. Lence, American political scientist and academic (died 2006)
1942: Cornell Dupree, American guitarist (died 2011)
1942: Gene Okerlund, American sports announcer (died 2019)
1941: Lee Myung-bak, South Korean businessman and politician, 10th President of South Korea
1941: Maurice White, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2016)
1940: Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976)
1938: Jay Arnette, American basketball player
1935: Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball player and coach (died 2020)
1935: Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (died 1974)
1935: Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (died 2000)
1934: Al Kaline, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2020)
1934: Pratibha Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th President of India
1934: Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 2023)
1933: Kevan Gosper, Australian runner and politician (died 2024)
1933: Christopher Smout, Scottish historian and academic
1932: Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author, poet, playwright, and critic (died 2006)
1932: Lola Hendricks, African American civil rights activist (died 2013)
1932: Wayne Tippit, American actor (died 2009)
1931: Ginger Stanley, American model, actress and stunt woman (died 2023)
1930: Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and professor (died 2015)
1930: Wally Olins, English businessman and academic (died 2014)
1929: Bob Brookmeyer, American trombonist, pianist, and composer (died 2011)
1929: Gregory Carroll, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)
1929: David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish potter
1929: Howard Sackler, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1982)
1928: Eve Bunting, Irish-American author and academic (died 2023)
1928: Nathan Oliveira, American painter and sculptor (died 2010)
1927: James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (died 2005)
1926: Bobby Layne, American football player and coach (died 1986)
1926: Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist (died 2015)
1925: Tankred Dorst, German author and playwright (died 2017)
1925: William Schutz, American psychologist and academic (died 2002)
1925: Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and screenwriter (died 2012)
1924: Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (died 1994)
1924: Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1989)
1924: Gary Morton, American comedian and producer (died 1999)
1924: Edmund Purdom, British-Italian actor (died 2009)
1924: Michel Tournier, French journalist and author (died 2016)
1924: Cicely Tyson, American actress (died 2021)
1923: Robert V. Bruce, American historian and author (died 2008)
1923: Gordon Jackson, Scottish-English actor and singer (died 1990)
1922: Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (died 1987)
1920: Little Jimmy Dickens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
1920: David Susskind, American talk show host and producer (died 1987)
1918: Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1980)
1918: Lee Rich, American producer and production manager (died 2012)
1916: Roy Ward Baker, English director and producer (died 2010)
1916: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and academic (died 2010)
1915: Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (died 1963)
1915: Claudia Testoni, Italian hurdler, sprinter, and long jumper (died 1998)
1914: Mel Shaw, American animator and screenwriter (died 2012)
1910: Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, and poet (died 1986)
1909: W. A. Criswell, American pastor and author (died 2002)
1907: Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer, actor, and golfer (died 2004)
1906: Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (died 1982)
1905: Irving Kahn, American businessman (died 2015)
1905: Giovanni Lurani, Italian race car driver, engineer, and journalist (died 1995)
1903: George Davis Snell, American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
1902: Ralph Richardson, English actor (died 1983)
1901: Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber (died 2002)
1901: Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and author (died 1963)
1901: Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer and manager (died 1974)
1899: Martin Luther King Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (died 1984)
1895: Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and educator (died 1989)
1894: Ford C. Frick, American journalist and businessman (died 1978)
1891: Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish politician and diplomat, 4th President-in-exile of Poland (died 1993)
1888: Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (died 1963)
1884: Antonín Zápotocký, Czech politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (died 1957)
1876: Bernard Friedberg, Austrian-Israeli scholar and author (died 1961)
1875: Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist (died 1948)
1875: Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month (died 1950)
1875: Grace Marie Bareis, American mathematician (died 1962)
1873: Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (died 1913)
1865: Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (died 1932)
1863: Wallace Bryant, American archer (died 1953)
1861: Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (died 1928)
1853: Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (died 1942)
1852: Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1931)
1849: Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier (died 1919)
1831: Bernice Pauahi Bishop, American philanthropist (died 1884)
1825: George Frederick Bristow, American violinist and composer (died 1898)
1820: Mary Livermore, American journalist and activist (died 1905)
1817: James J. Archer, American lawyer and general (died 1864)
1797: Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (died 1838)
1796: Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (died 1873)
1778: Marie Thérèse of France (died 1851)
1714: John Winthrop, American astronomer and educator (died 1779)
1699: William Bowyer, English printer (died 1777)
1683: Philip V of Spain (died 1746)
1587: Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (died 1645)
1554: Philip William, Prince of Orange (died 1618)
1498: Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (died 1552)
1343: William I, Margrave of Meissen (died 1407)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Michael Leunig, Australian cartoonist (born 1945)
2024: Wincey Willis, British broadcaster (born 1948)
2021: Sally Ann Howes, English-American singer and actress (born 1930)
2021: Johnny Isakson, American politician (born 1944)
2020: Rosalind Knight, English actress (born 1933)
2016: Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (born 1954)
2015: Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (born 1928)
2015: Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (born 1928)
2015: Karin Söder, Swedish educator and politician, 33rd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1928)
2014: S. Balasubramanian, Indian journalist and director (born 1936)
2014: Philip Bradbourn, English lawyer and politician (born 1951)
2014: Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (born 1910)
2014: Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (born 1936)
2014: Dick Thornton, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1939)
2014: Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman Lewin), British writer, artist and TV producer (born 1926).
2013: Winton Dean, English musicologist and author (born 1916)
2013: Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (born 1936)
2013: Ned Vizzini, American author and screenwriter (born 1981)
2012: Robert Bork, American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General (born 1927)
2012: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (born 1944)
2012: Larry Morris, American football player (born 1933)
2012: Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence (born 1943)
2010: Anthony Howard, English journalist and author (born 1934)
2009: Kim Peek, American megasavant (born 1951)
2008: James Bevel, American minister and activist (born 1936)
2008: Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (born 1930)
2008: Michael Connell, American political consultant (born 1963)
2008: Dock Ellis, American baseball player and coach (born 1945)
2005: Vincent Gigante, American mobster (born 1927)
2004: Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
2004: Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress (born 1922)
2003: Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (born 1914)
2003: Hope Lange, American actress (born 1933)
2002: Will Hoy, English race car driver (born 1952)
2002: Arthur Rowley, English footballer and manager (born 1926)
2002: George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (born 1907)
2000: Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1958)
2000: Milt Hinton, American bassist and photographer (born 1910)
2000: John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (born 1921)
1999: Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh soldier and actor (born 1914)
1998: Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (born 1922)
1997: Sara Northrup Hollister, American occultist (born 1924)
1997: Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (born 1908)
1997: Jimmy Rogers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1924)
1996: Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (born 1924)
1993: Michael Clarke, American drummer (born 1946)
1989: Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author, and poet (born 1902)
1989: Kirill Mazurov, Belarusian Soviet politician (born 1914)
1988: Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (born 1919)
1988: Win Maw Oo, Burmese student activist (born 1971)
1987: August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (born 1900)
1986: V. C. Andrews, American author (born 1923)
1986: Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (born 1895)
1984: Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (born 1903)
1982: Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (born 1906)
1976: Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (born 1893)
1972: Ahmet Emin Yalman, Turkish journalist, author, and academic (born 1888)
1968: Norman Thomas, American minister and politician (born 1884)
1953: Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
1946: Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (born 1872)
1944: Abbas II of Egypt (born 1874)
1944: Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (born 1856)
1940: Kyösti Kallio, Finnish politician, the 4th President of Finland (born 1873)
1938: Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (born 1873)
1933: George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (born 1857)
1932: Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (born 1908)
1927: Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (born 1900)
1927: Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (born 1897)
1916: Thibaw Min, Burmese king (born 1859)
1915: Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (born 1864)
1899: Henry Ware Lawton, American general (born 1843)
1878: Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (born 1825)
1851: Joseph Mallord William Turner, English painter (born 1775)
1848: Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (born 1818)
1819: Thomas Fremantle, English admiral and politician (born 1765)
1813: James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (born 1744)
1807: Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (born 1723)
1749: Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (born 1672)
1745: Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (born 1684)
1741: Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (born 1681)
1637: Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (born 1565)
1558: Cornelius Grapheus, Flemish writer (born 1482)
1442: Elizabeth of Luxembourg (born 1409)
1385: Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan (born 1319)
1370: Pope Urban V (born 1310)
1327: Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (born 1260)
1123: Saint Berardo, Italian bishop and saint
1111: Al-Ghazali, Persian jurist, philosopher, theologian, and mystic (born 1058)
1091: Adelaide of Susa, margravine of Turin
966: Sancho I, king of León
401: Pope Anastasius I

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