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December 29

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December 29

December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 2 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: Michigan man buys last two scratch-off lottery tickets in store's roll, wins $4 million. A Michigan man who noticed only two Diamond 7s scratch-off lottery tickets were left at his local store decided to buy both of them and won the $4 million top prize.
2022: Store owners return $1M lottery ticket to woman who had thrown it away. A Massachusetts woman who accidentally tossed out a $1 million lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners of the convenience store where she bought it.
2020: New York Lottery launches "Money Dots" Quick Draw feature. New York Lottery players can now try out the Lottery's newest feature to accompany their Quick Draw keno-style game, an additional drawing called "Money Dots" that takes place every four minutes, right after the drawing for Quick Draw.
2019: EuroMillions £161 million lottery jackpot winner Colin Weir dies aged 71. Colin Weir, winner of the £161 million EuroMillions jackpot in what was Europe's biggest lottery prize, has died at the age of 71 after a short illness. At the time, the jackpot was worth $260.5 million in US dollars.
2015: Tipton granted delay in next trial until July. A judge has delayed the trial for a former lottery official accused of fixing jackpots in several states.
2015: Dutch court rules woman who won lottery during divorce can keep it all. A woman who won a €2.1 million (US$2.3 million) lottery prize during a divorce has no obligation to share it with her ex-husband, according to a Dutch court decision published on Tuesday.
2015: Largest-ever UK Lotto jackpot has players... angry?. In the United States, a record jackpot is cause for celebration and waves of ticket-buying, but in the United Kingdom players are bemoaning tomorrow night's record £42.2 million (US$62.62 million) Lotto jackpot and threatening to boycott the game, according to local media reports.
2014: Elderly Detroit man who recently won lottery missing. The Detroit Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding an 86-year-old man who was last seen earlier this month.
2011: Iowa $16.5M Hot Lotto winner claims prize with two hours to spare. The winning ticket for a $16.5 million lottery jackpot was turned in Thursday less than two hours before it expired, the head of the Iowa Lottery said.
2010: $237 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised again. Will an incredibly lucky lottery player end 2010 with a life-changing windfall, or will the first jackpot of 2011 be more than a quarter billion dollars?
2009: Weeks from losing house, couple wins $7M lottery jackpot. A semi-retired security guard and a social worker from Desert Hot Springs claimed a $7 million lottery jackpot on Monday.
2008: Powerball lottery to have larger jackpot, but harder to win. The Powerball lottery game will be going through some changes beginning in January, including having a larger starting jackpot that is more difficult to win.
2008: CEO: Bonuses in lottery business are necessary. In a year in which the state is cutting back on spending, freezing pay and laying off staffers, Georgia Lottery CEO Margaret DeFrancisco received a $150,000 bonus, and her staff received $2.5 million in bonuses this year.
2008: National Lottery computer fiasco cost winner £800,000. A systems failure at the lottery operator Camelot caused terminals in shops to crash as they tried to issue tickets for the main Lotto draw and even halted Internet sales.
2006: Ontario Lottery delays payouts to 'insider' winners. Christmas came four days early but seven weeks late for a trio of "insider" lottery winners from a small town northeast of Peterborough, Ontario, who faced a lengthy investigation before receiving their big payout.
2006: Connecticut lottery machines offline for hours. Lottery sales were fully restored in New Haven County Friday night, hours after telephone line problems shut down more than 900 state lottery machines earlier in the day.
2005: Breakfast buddies file suit over lottery ticket. A Howland, Ohio couple who won $250,000 playing Mega Millions discovered the hard way that money can come between friends.
2005: N.D. Lottery sales remain strong after two years. It's too early to determine if lottery sales are leveling off nearly two years after the first tickets were sold, according to Chuck Keller, director of the North Dakota Lottery Division.
2005: Penn. man strikes it rich with $1M lottery ticket. Kevin Lutz's lucky number used to be "7" until Christmas Eve and a match of the number "31" made him the second resident near Sayre Borough, Pennsylvania, in two months to win $1 million on a scratch-off ticket.
2005: Lottery winner has just 4 days left to claim $16 million. A UK Lotto multi-millionaire has just four days left to claim £9.4 million (US$16 million).
2005: Horoscope predicted lottery win. Gabrielle and Darren Nash should not have been surprised when they won the £15 million (US$26 million) UK Lotto jackpot on Christmas Eve -- as it had already been predicted.
2004: Mega Millions Jackpot Leaps to $58 Million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery has grown to $58 million dollars.
2004: Secret Lottery millionaire leaves fortune to charities. Gail German hit the jackpot when she won £1 million (US$1.92 million) playing the UK Lotto, but no one in the tiny hamlet where she lived knew about it.
2004: Oregon lottery sales averaged $249 per resident last year. Oregon Lottery spokesman Chuck Baumann said that per capita Lottery spending totaled $249 during fiscal 2004, up slightly from $239 the previous year.
2004: Kentucky Cash Ball player wins 5 jackpots totaling $1 million. In what Kentucky lottery officials described as a relatively unusual manner of play, the winner of Monday's Cash Ball game picked the same numbers on all five plays: 11, 14, 21, 24 and, for the Cash Ball, 22.
2004: Mass. lottery winner, 94, sues to get lump-sum payment. Louise Outing is 94 years old, and she knows it would be foolish to expect to live another 20. So the lottery winner wants all of her cash now, not in payments spread out over the next two decades.
2003: Tuesday's Mega Millions Jackpot Raised to $155 Million. Today, the 11-member group of Mega Millions announced Tuesday's jackpot would be worth an estimated $155 million, up $5 million from the previous estimated amount.
2003: $210 Million Powerball Jackpot up for Grabs on New Year's Eve. No one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing, pushing the jackpot to an estimated $210 million, with a cash option of $113.9 million. That would rank as the 5th largest Powerball jackpot ever, and would rank as the 7th largest lottery jackpot all-time.
2003: $150M pot so sweet!. With the Mega Millions jackpot growing to $150 million, New Yorkers had at least one lofty New Year's resolution: Get rich - quick.
2003: State lottery kickoff nears. About six weeks from now, Tennesseans will be able to participate in their own state lottery, and through it finance higher education for 65,000 students.
2003: Millionaire antsy. He's got a million reasons to retire, but the idea of sitting back and relaxing in his plush new west-side home is driving lottery winner Donald Majore to distraction.
2003: One ticket wins $3 million Florida Lotto jackpot. One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $3 million, lottery officials said Sunday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$685 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2022
2.$459.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 29, 2021
3.$425 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 1, 2019
4.$384 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2017
5.$376 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 29, 2020
6.$363 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2020
7.€337.08 Million US$359.12 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 29, 2022
8.$306 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 29, 2017
9.$301.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2015
10.$258.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 31, 2022
11.$242 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 31, 2010
12.$221 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 31, 2003
12.$221 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 31, 2021
14.$220 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 1, 2020
15.$172 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2014
16.$155 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2003
17.€132.67 Million
US$150.17 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2021
18.€128 Million
US$147.05 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jan 1, 2019
19.€97 Million
US$133.52 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 31, 2013
20.$120 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 31, 2014
21.$117 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 29, 2015
22.€83.79 Million
US$102.69 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 29, 2020
23.$96 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2016
24.€83.71 Million
US$95.81 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 29, 2018
25.€90 Million
US$94.81 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Dec 30, 2016

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1989: Demeech
Friday, Dec 29, 1989
33 years old
1988: Jortia1229
Thursday, Dec 29, 1988
34 years old
1987: steady
Tuesday, Dec 29, 1987
35 years old
1983: angelsky31
Thursday, Dec 29, 1983
39 years old
1983: SexyScratcher35
Thursday, Dec 29, 1983
39 years old
1982: Quanza45
Wednesday, Dec 29, 1982
40 years old
1981: Annual Payments
Tuesday, Dec 29, 1981
41 years old
1981: Tiff1098
Tuesday, Dec 29, 1981
41 years old
1979: sam9009
Saturday, Dec 29, 1979
43 years old
1979: DameG32
Saturday, Dec 29, 1979
43 years old
1978: tinkman24
Friday, Dec 29, 1978
44 years old
1977: lottoarchitect
Thursday, Dec 29, 1977
45 years old
1977: Hardatwork$
Thursday, Dec 29, 1977
45 years old
1977: crossaka1
Thursday, Dec 29, 1977
45 years old
1971: hobstexas
Wednesday, Dec 29, 1971
51 years old
1969: cali red
Monday, Dec 29, 1969
53 years old
1969: Dgottie69
Monday, Dec 29, 1969
53 years old
1961: anakin13
Friday, Dec 29, 1961
61 years old
1961: Darryle Sampson
Friday, Dec 29, 1961
61 years old
1960: mrmst
Thursday, Dec 29, 1960
62 years old
: last chance
(year not provided)
: Rideinc
(year not provided)
: GrammySyl
(year not provided)
: jminott
(year not provided)
: mcclark64
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.
2020: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing 7 people.
2013: A suicide bomb attack at the Volgograd-1 railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.
2013: Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.
2012: A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after overshooting a runway at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.
2006: The UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
2003: The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
1998: Leaders of the Khmer Rouge apologize for the Cambodian genocide that claimed over one million lives.
1996: Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.
1994: Turkish Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400) crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on board.
1992: Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.
1989: Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.
1989: The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.
1975: A bomb explodes at LaGuardia Airport in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75.
1972: Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on approach to Miami International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on board.
1940: In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians during World War II.
1937: The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
1934: Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
1930: Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
1913: Cecil B. DeMille starts filming Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man.
1911: Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
1890: On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
1876: The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
1874: The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.
1860: The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete.
1845: The United States annexes the Republic of Texas.
1835: The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
1812: USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.
1778: American Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia.
1607: According to John Smith, Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him.
1503: The Battle of Garigliano was fought between a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo.
1170: Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church.

Births On This Day

2000: Julio Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
1998: Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, American actor
1996: Sana Minatozaki, Japanese singer
1996: Dylan Minnette, American actor, musician and singer
1995: Myles Garrett, American football player
1995: Ross Lynch, American singer and actor
1993: Gabby May, Canadian artistic gymnast
1991: Steven Caulker, English footballer
1989: Jane Levy, American actress
1989: Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
1988: Eric Berry, American football player
1988: Christen Press, American footballer
1988: Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
1985: Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter
1984: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American playwright
1982: Alison Brie, American actress
1982: Julia Wertz, American cartoonist, writer and urban explorer
1981: Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater and sportscaster
1981: Janice Lynn Mather, Bahamian-Canadian author
1981: Anna Woltz, Dutch author\
1979: Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer
1979: Reihan Salam, American political commentator, columnist and author
1978: Kieron Dyer, English footballer and coach
1978: Danny Higginbotham, English footballer and journalist
1976: Danny McBride, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1975: Shawn Hatosy, American actor
1974: Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and writer
1974: Mahal, Filipino actress, comedian and vlogger (d. 2021)
1974: Mekhi Phifer, American actor
1974: Ryan Shore, Canadian composer and producer
1973: Theo Epstein, American businessman
1973: Jenny Lawson, American journalist and author
1972: Jude Law, English actor
1971: Mike Pesca, American radio journalist and podcaster
1970: Kevin Weisman, American actor
1969: Jason Cook, English footballer
1969: Jennifer Ehle, American actress
1969: Scott Patterson, American financial journalist and author
1968: James Mouton, American baseball player
1967: Lilly Wachowski, American director, screenwriter and producer
1966: Christian Kracht, Swiss author
1965: John Newton, American actor
1964: Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1963: Sean Payton, American football player and coach
1962: Leza Lowitz, American author
1962: Carles Puigdemont, Catalan politician and journalist, former president
1961: Kevin Granata, American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
1960: Brian A. Hopkins, American author
1960: Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of Congolese Patriots
1960: Michael James Pappas, American politician
1959: Patricia Clarkson, American actress
1959: Ann Demeulemeester, Belgian fashion designer
1959: Paula Poundstone, American comedian and author
1958: Tyrone Benskin, English-Canadian actor, theatre director and politician
1958: Nancy J. Currie-Gregg, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1957: Brad Grey, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2017)
1957: Paul Rudnick, American author, playwright, and screenwriter
1956: Zaki Chehab, Lebanese-British journalist
1956: Katy Munger, American writer
1955: Chris Goodall, English businessman and author
1955: Donald D. Hoffman, American quantitative psychologist and author
1953: Alan Rusbridger, Zambian-English journalist and academic
1953: Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (d. 2005)
1952: Gelsey Kirkland, American ballerina and choreographer
1951: Willem de Blécourt, Dutch historical anthropologist
1950: Jon Polito, American actor (d. 2016)
1949: David Topliss, English rugby league player and coach (d. 2008)
1948: Jacky Clark Chisholm, American gospel singer
1948: Peter Robinson, Northern Irish politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland
1947: Richard Crandall, American physicist and computer scientist (d. 2012)
1947: Ted Danson, American actor and producer
1947: Leonhard Lapin, Estonian architect and poet
1947: Cozy Powell, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1998)
1947: Vincent Winter, Scottish actor, director, and production manager (d. 1998)
1946: Marianne Faithfull, English singer-songwriter and actress
1946: Paul Trible, American attorney, politician and academic administrator
1945: Keith Milow, British artist
1944: Gerard Windsor, Australian author and literary critic
1943: Bill Aucoin, American talent manager (d. 2010)
1943: Molly Bang, American author and illustrator
1943: Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 1999)
1942: Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (d. 2012)
1941: Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter and flute player (d. 2018)
1939: Ed Bruce, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
1938: Jon Voight, American actor and producer
1937: Wayne Huizenga, American businessman, founded AutoNation (d. 2018)
1936: Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and producer (d. 2017)
1936: Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)
1934: Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
1933: Samuel Brittan, English journalist and author (d. 2020)
1932: Inga Swenson, American actress and singer
1929: Bernard Cribbins, British actor (d. 2022)
1925: Pete Dye, American golfer and architect (d. 2020)
1924: Joe Allbritton, American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company (d. 2012)
1924: Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (d. 2014)
1923: Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (d. 1986)
1923: Morton Estrin, American pianist and educator (d. 2017)
1923: Dina Merrill, American actress, game show panelist, socialite, heiress, and businesswoman (d. 2017)
1923: Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian author and Holocaust survivor (d. 2012)
1922: Little Joe Cook, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
1922: William Gaddis, American author and academic (d. 1998)
1921: Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2014)
1921: Michael Horne, English structural engineer, scientist and academic (d. 2000)
1920: Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress, singer and poet (d. 1995)
1919: Alfred de Grazia, American political scientist and author (d. 2014)
1919: Roman Vlad, Italian pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1917: Tom Bradley, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
1917: Ramanand Sagar, Indian director and producer (d. 2005)
1915: Robert Ruark, American hunter and author (d. 1965)
1915: Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996)
1914: Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 1976)
1914: Billy Tipton, American pianist and saxophonist (d. 1989)
1914: Albert Tucker, Australian painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1911: Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy (d. 1988)
1910: Ronald Coase, English-American economist, author, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1908: Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author (d. 1993)
1908: Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author (d. 1992)
1904: Kuvempu, Indian author and poet (d. 1994)
1903: Candido Portinari, Brazilian painter (d. 1962)
1896: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974)
1894: J. Lister Hill, American politician (d. 1984)
1886: Georg Hermann Struve, German astronomer (d. 1933)
1881: Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968)
1879: Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (d. 1936)
1876: Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)
1876: Lionel Tertis, English violist (d. 1975)
1870: Earl Gregg Swem, American historian, bibliographer and librarian (d. 1965)
1859: Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico (d. 1920)
1857: Sydney Young, English chemist (d. 1937)
1856: Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)
1855: August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet (d. 1927)
1844: Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and first president of Indian National Congress (d. 1906)
1816: Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (d. 1895)
1811: Francisco Palau, Catalan Discalced Carmelite friar and priest (d. 1872)
1809: William Ewart Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898)
1808: Andrew Johnson, American general and politician, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875)
1804: John Langdon Sibley, American librarian (d. 1885)
1800: Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (d. 1860)
1796: Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (d. 1877)
1788: Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish antiquarian (d. 1865)
1766: Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric (d. 1843)
1746: Saverio Cassar, Maltese priest and rebel leader (d. 1805)
1721: Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV (d. 1764)
1633: Johannes Zollikofer, Swiss vicar (d. 1692)
1550: García de Silva Figueroa, Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624)
1536: Henry VI, German nobleman (d. 1572)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Peter Klatzow, South African composer (b. 1945)
2020: Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer (b. 1922)
2020: Joe Louis Clark, American educator (b. 1937)
2019: Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (b. 1934)
2019: Neil Innes, English writer, comedian and musician (b. 1944)
2018: Brian Garfield, American novelist, historian and screenwriter (b. 1939)
2018: Rosenda Monteros, Mexican actress (b. 1935)
2017: Peggy Cummins, Irish actress (b. 1925)
2017: John C. Portman Jr., American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer (b. 1924)
2016: Keion Carpenter, American football defensive back (b. 1977)
2016: LaVell Edwards, American football head coach (b. 1930)
2015: Om Prakash Malhotra, Indian general and politician, 25th Governor of Punjab (b. 1922)
2015: Pavel Srníček, Czech footballer and coach (b. 1968)
2014: Hari Harilela, Indian-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2014: Juanito Remulla, Sr., Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (b. 1933)
2013: C. T. Hsia, Chinese-American critic and scholar (b. 1921)
2013: Benjamin Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (b. 1978)
2013: Connie Dierking, American basketball player (b. 1936)
2013: Wojciech Kilar, Polish classical and film music composer (b. 1932)
2012: Tony Greig, South African-Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1946)
2012: William Rees-Mogg, British newspaper journalist (b. 1928)
2011: Constance Bartlett Hieatt, American scholar (b. 1928)
2010: Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1956)
2010: Bill Erwin, American actor and cartoonist (b. 1914)
2009: Janina Bauman, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1926)
2009: David Levine, American artist and illustrator (b. 1926)
2008: Freddie Hubbard, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
2008: Victor H. Krulak, American soldier (b. 1913)
2007: Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972)
2007: Phil Dusenberry, American advertising executive (b. 1936)
2005: Cyril Philips, British historian and academic director (b. 1912)
2005: Basil William Robinson, British art scholar and author (b. 1912)
2004: Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
2004: Peter Davison, American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor and publisher (b. 1928)
2003: Dinsdale Landen, English actor (b. 1932)
2003: Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928)
2002: Lloyd Barbee, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2001: Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2001: György Kepes, Hungarian painter, photographer, designer, educator and art theorist (b. 1906)
1999: Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)
1998: Ralph Siu, American scholar, military and civil servant, and author (b. 1917)
1998: Don Taylor, American actor and film director (b. 1920)
1996: Pennar Davies, Welsh clergyman and author (b. 1911)
1996: Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906)
1995: Hans Henkemans, Dutch pianist, composer and psychiatrist (b. 1913)
1994: Frank Thring, Australian actor (b. 1926)
1992: Vivienne Segal, American actress and singer (b. 1897)
1988: Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)
1988: Ieuan Maddock, Welsh scientist and nuclear researcher (b. 1917)
1987: Jun Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1899)
1987: Wilbert E. Moore, American sociologist (b. 1914)
1986: Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
1986: Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
1984: P. H. Polk, American photographer (b. 1898)
1984: Leo Robin, American composer, lyricist and songwriter (b. 1900)
1981: Philip Handler, American nutritionist, and biochemist (b. 1917)
1981: Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
1980: Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
1980: Irvin F. Westheimer, American businessman and social reformer (b. 1879)
1979: F. Edward Hébert, American journalist and politician (b. 1901)
1979: Richard Tecwyn Williams, Welsh biochemist (b. 1909)
1976: Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
1975: Euell Gibbons, American author and naturalist (b. 1911)
1972: Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)
1971: John Marshall Harlan II, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1899)
1970: William King Gregory, American zoologist and anatomist (b. 1876)
1970: Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
1968: Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
1967: Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)
1965: Frank Nugent, American screenwriter, journalist and film reviewer (b. 1908)
1965: Kōsaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1886)
1960: Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862)
1959: Robin Milford, English soldier and composer (b. 1903)
1958: Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1895)
1956: Miles Vandahurst Lynk, American physician and author (b. 1871)
1954: William Merriam Burton, American chemist (b. 1865)
1952: Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)
1952: Beryl Rubinstein, American pianist, composer and teacher (b. 1898)
1949: Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)
1948: Harry Farjeon, British composer and music teacher (b. 1878)
1946: Camillo Schumann, German composer and organist (b. 1872)
1945: Beulah Dark Cloud, American actress (b. 1887)
1944: Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910)
1943: Art Young, American cartoonist and writer (b. 1866)
1941: Louis Eilshemius, American painter (b. 1864)
1941: Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
1940: Stephen Birch, American businessman (b. 1873)
1939: Kelly Miller, American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist and author (b. 1863)
1939: Madeleine Pelletier, French psychiatrist, feminist and political activist (b. 1874)
1937: Don Marquis, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)
1929: Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)
1929: Edward Christopher Williams, American librarian (b. 1871)
1926: Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)
1925: Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French painter (b. 1865)
1924: Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
1921: Hermann Paul, German philologist, linguist and lexicographer (b. 1846)
1919: William Osler, Canadian physician and professor (b. 1849)
1918: Abby Leach, American educator (b. 1855)
1911: Rosamund Marriott Watson, English poet, author and critic (b. 1860)
1910: Samuel Butcher, Anglo-Irish classical scholar and politician (b. 1850)
1910: Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
1905: Charles Yerkes, American financier (b. 1837)
1900: John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
1897: William James Linton, English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)
1894: Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
1891: Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)
1890: Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b. 1826)
1890: Octave Feuillet, French novelist and dramatist (b. 1821)
1825: Jacques-Louis David, French painter and illustrator (b. 1748)
1807: Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo, Portuguese diplomat and scientist (b. 1750)
1785: Johann Heinrich Rolle, German composer (b. 1716)
1785: Johan Herman Wessel, Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (b. 1742)
1731: Brook Taylor, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1685)
1720: Maria Margaretha Kirch, German astronomer and educator (b. 1670)
1689: Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (b. 1624)
1661: Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)
1606: Stephen Bocskai, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1557)
1563: Sebastian Castellio, French preacher and theologian (b. 1515)
1550: Bhuvanaikabahu VII, King of Kotte (b. 1468)
1380: Elizabeth of Poland, queen consort of Hungary (b. 1305)
1208: Emperor Zhangzong of Jin, (b. 1168)
1170: Thomas Becket, English archbishop and saint (b. 1118)

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