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December 5

On This Day in History

December 5

December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 26 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: Americans gamble over half a trillion dollars illegally each year, AGA Report says. According to a report published by the American Gaming Association (AGA), Americans gamble an estimated $511 billion every year through unregulated sportsbooks and websites.
2019: Nearly $9 million of Mississippi Lottery tickets sold in first 6 days. The Mississippi Lottery sold nearly $9 million in tickets during its first six days of operation.
2018: US woman convicted in Jamaican lottery scam to remain jailed. A federal judge in North Dakota on Monday ordered a Rhode Island woman convicted of funnelling lottery scam money between the US and Jamaica to remain jailed pending a February sentencing hearing, where she could face a stiffer sentence than the alleged mastermind.
2018: Mom finds late son's name on lottery ticket, wins $10,000. A Connecticut woman is $10,000 richer after winning on a lottery ticket that she said was a tribute to her late son.
2017: Woman finds $1 million lottery ticket in husband's backpack. A woman who found a $1 million winning Virginia Lottery ticket in her husband's backpack said he told her he had thought the ticket was a prank.
2017: Washington man wins lottery, then leaves ticket at gas station. A Pasco, Washington, man is making plans for his new restaurant after winning $180,000 in the Hit 5 lottery game.
2017: Ontario Lottery awards man half of $6.1M lottery prize with remainder in legal limbo. An Ontario man who parted ways with his live-in girlfriend after winning the lottery has been awarded half of the disputed $6.1-million Lotto 6/49 prize. But the other half is subject to dispute.
2016: Wyoming Lottery adds multi-state Lucky for Life game. WyoLotto officials on Monday celebrated the launch of the Lucky for Life game.
2014: Washington woman wins $90 million Powerball jackpot on first try. A Washington state woman on Thursday claimed a $90 million Powerball lottery jackpot after buying a ticket for the first time, and said she would quit her job at plane maker Boeing Co and buy a new Subaru.
2013: Lottery tracks down $50 million winner who lost ticket. An unbelievable set of circumstances have come together for Kathryn Jones, who won $50 million from an unclaimed Lotto Max prize drawn a year ago -- a win for which she lost the ticket and never checked the numbers.
2013: N.C. Lottery rolls out online ticket sales. The North Carolina Lottery expands its reach to the Internet Thursday, where players can buy tickets only for three jackpot games: Powerball, Mega Millions and Carolina Cash 5.
2011: Powerball lottery winners award $1 million in grants. Three Connecticut men who claimed a $254 million Powerball jackpot last week made good on their statement that they would be immediately donating a sizeable amount to charity.
2009: $50M lottery winners share wealth. A Manitoba couple who won a CA$50 million (US$46.7 million) lottery jackpot in the Nov. 6 Canada Lotto Max drawing are sharing the wealth with their Sagkeeng First Nation community.
2008: Florida woman loses $40,000 in lottery ticket scam. A South Florida elderly woman was scammed out of thousands of dollars in an alleged lottery ticket scam, police said.
2008: Massachusetts Lottery expecting sales to decline by $200M. With the economy struggling and people pinching pennies, the Massachusetts State Lottery has increased its estimate of an expected decline in ticket sales.
2008: Indiana prosecutor wins $50,000 lottery prize. Wells County Prosecutor Michael Lautzenheiser of Bluffton won $50,000 in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing, the Hoosier Lottery said Thursday.
2005: Delware Lottery renews contract with Scientific Games. Scientific Games will continue to provide cooperative services to the Delaware Lottery for at least another three years under terms of an agreement announced today.
2005: Illegal deals of Minn. Lottery revealed in court documents. Authorities investigating former Minnesota lottery director George Andersen suspected he was involved in bribery, conspiracy and conflicts of interest, court documents show.
2005: Tenn. Lottery leaders offer look at future. North Carolina Lottery Commissioners visited the offices of the Tennessee Lottery -- the model that they intend to copy.
2005: State, gambling foes argue about California joining Mega Millions. Arguments were heard Friday for a lawsuit filed by the California Coalition Against Gambling Expansion accusing the California Lottery Commission of overstepping its authority when it voted 3-0 last February to join Mega Millions without first getting approval from the legislature.
2005: Massachusetts Lottery fires official. The chief of the Springfield office of the state Lottery has been terminated from his $71,000-a-year job, highlighting the Lottery's lagging record on minority hiring.
2005: N.J. Lottery scratch games called 'paper slot machines'. The second of three articles examining the New Jersey Lottery. In this installment, scratch games are investigated.
2003: New lottery has Huntsville residents buying, playing. Mega Millions, a massive game that is also played by residents in 10 other states, was introduced to Texans on Wednesday amid busy ticket sales.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$354 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2022
2.€321.71 Million US$337.28 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2022
3.$297 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2013
4.$285 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2019
5.$279 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2021
6.$264 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2020
7.$243 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 5, 2020
8.€200 Million US$242.28 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2020
9.$226 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2018
10.$200 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 5, 2018
11.$193 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2017
12.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2004
13.€143 Million
US$161.12 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021
14.$160 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 5, 2017
15.€143 Million
US$149.92 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2022
16.$146 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 5, 2008
17.€120.88 Million
US$136.19 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021
18.$130 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2019
19.$127 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 5, 2015
20.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021
21.€97 Million
US$114.82 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 5, 2017
22.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2013
23.$96 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2007
24.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2002
25.$89.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 5, 2022

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1985: alifshah
Thursday, Dec 5, 1985
37 years old
1982: jlojones2007
Sunday, Dec 5, 1982
40 years old
1982: Canemoney
Sunday, Dec 5, 1982
40 years old
1978: Knsl8r
Tuesday, Dec 5, 1978
44 years old
1977: bahamianlady
Monday, Dec 5, 1977
45 years old
1974: nahrawande
Thursday, Dec 5, 1974
48 years old
1973: gerrysgrill
Wednesday, Dec 5, 1973
49 years old
1972: laly
Tuesday, Dec 5, 1972
50 years old
1972: Ricsangel
Tuesday, Dec 5, 1972
50 years old
1971: LEELEESMOMMY
Sunday, Dec 5, 1971
51 years old
1968: Glory123
Thursday, Dec 5, 1968
54 years old
1968: deltonlee
Thursday, Dec 5, 1968
54 years old
1962: x1kosmic
Wednesday, Dec 5, 1962
60 years old
1960: kelvin055
Monday, Dec 5, 1960
62 years old
1951: ncfatboy
Wednesday, Dec 5, 1951
71 years old
: Feisty1
(year not provided)
: cplus
(year not provided)
: eholmes
(year not provided)
: mr hit$
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2017: The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
2014: Exploration Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion, is launched.
2013: Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2007: Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.
2006: Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2005: The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2005: The 6.8 M_w Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.
1995: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
1995: Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashes near Nakhchivan International Airport in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic located in Azerbaijan, killing 52 people.
1991: Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.
1983: Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1977: Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1971: Battle of Gazipur: Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.
1964: Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1964: Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease-mouse leukemia-opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
1958: Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
1958: The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.)
1955: The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.
1955: E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery bus boycott.
1952: Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
1945: Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.
1943: World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.
1941: World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1941: World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1936: The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1935: Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
1934: Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
1933: The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1921: The Football Association bans women's football in England from league grounds, a ban that stays in place for 50 years.
1914: The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
1895: New Haven Symphony Orchestra of Connecticut performs its first concert.
1865: Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1848: California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1847: Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.
1831: Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.
1776: Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of William & Mary.
1775: At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1766: In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
1757: Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1649: The town of Raahe (Swedish: Brahestad) was founded by Count Per Brahe the Younger.
1578: Sir Francis Drake, after sailing through Strait of Magellan raids Valparaiso.
1560: Charles IX becomes king of France.
1496: King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jewish "heretics" from the country.
1484: Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
1456: The first of two earthquakes measuring M_w 7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme destruction and killing upwards of 70,000 people.
1408: Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
1082: Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1033: The Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys multiple cities across the Levant, triggers a tsunami and kills many.
633: Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
63 BC: Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations.

Births On This Day

1997: Maddie Poppe, American singer-songwriter and musician
1995: Danny Levi, New Zealand rugby league player
1995: Anthony Martial, French footballer
1995: Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater
1994: Ondrej Duda, Slovak footballer
1993: Ross Barkley, English footballer
1992: Ilja Antonov, Estonian footballer
1992: Natalie Sourisseau, Canadian field hockey player
1991: Jacopo Sala, Italian footballer
1991: Christian Yelich, American baseball player
1990: Montee Ball, American football player
1989: Jurrell Casey, American football player
1988: Joanna Rowsell, English cyclist
1986: LeGarrette Blount, American football player
1986: James Hinchcliffe, Canadian Indycar racing driver
1986: Justin Smoak, American baseball player
1985: Shikhar Dhawan, Indian cricketer
1985: Frankie Muniz, American actor, drummer, and race car driver
1985: Danny Wicks, Australian rugby league player
1982: Eddy Curry, American basketball player
1982: Keri Hilson, American singer-songwriter and actress
1980: Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-French trumpet player and composer
1980: Jessica Paré, Canadian actress
1979: Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer
1979: Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player
1979: Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer
1978: Neil Druckmann, American video game designer and author
1978: Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
1978: Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer
1977: Peter van der Vlag, Dutch footballer
1976: Amy Acker, American actress
1976: Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby player
1976: Sachiko Kokubu, Japanese actress and model
1976: Rachel Komisarz, American swimmer and coach
1975: Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player and radio host
1975: Paula Patton, American actress
1974: Ravish Kumar, Indian journalist and author
1974: Brian Lewis, American sprinter
1973: Argo Arbeiter, Estonian footballer
1973: Arik Benado, Israeli footballer
1973: Mikelangelo Loconte, Italian singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1973: Luboš Motl, Czech physicist and academic
1972: Cliff Floyd, American baseball player and sportscaster
1972: Mike Mahoney, American baseball player
1972: Duane Ross, American hurdler and coach
1971: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, German businessman and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
1971: Ashia Hansen, American-English triple jumper
1971: Gabriel Hjertstedt, Swedish golfer
1970: Kevin Haller, Canadian ice hockey player
1970: Michel'le, American singer-songwriter
1969: Eric Etebari, American actor, director, and producer
1969: Morgan J. Freeman, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1969: Sajid Javid, British Pakistani banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
1969: Lewis Pugh, English swimmer and lawyer
1969: Ramón Ramírez, Mexican footballer
1968: Margaret Cho, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter
1968: Lisa Marie, American model and actress
1968: Lydia Millet, American novelist
1968: Falilat Ogunkoya, Nigerian sprinter
1967: Gary Allan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965: Manish Malhotra, Indian fashion designer
1965: John Rzeznik, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965: Wayne Smith, Jamaican rapper (d. 2014)
1965: Valeriy Spitsyn, Russian race walker
1964: Martin Vinnicombe, Australian cyclist
1963: Doctor Dré, American television and radio host
1963: Carrie Hamilton, American actress and playwright (d. 2002)
1963: Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer (d. 2015)
1962: José Cura, Argentinian tenor, conductor, and director
1962: Pablo Morales, American swimmer and coach
1962: Nivek Ogre, Canadian singer-songwriter
1962: Fred Rutten, Dutch footballer and manager
1961: Ralf Dujmovits, German mountaineer
1961: Laura Flanders, British journalist
1960: Frans Adelaar, Dutch footballer and manager
1960: Osvaldo Golijov, Argentinian-American composer and educator
1960: Jack Russell, American singer-songwriter and producer
1960: Matthew Taylor, English businessman and politician
1959: Lee Chapman, English footballer
1959: Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, Ukrainian businessman
1958: Dynamite Kid, English wrestler (d. 2018)
1957: Raquel Argandoña, Chilean model, actress, and politician
1957: Art Monk, American football player
1956: Klaus Allofs, German footballer and manager
1956: Adam Thorpe, French-English author, poet, and playwright
1956: Krystian Zimerman, Polish virtuoso pianist
1955: Miyuki Kawanaka, Japanese singer
1955: Juha Tiainen, Finnish hammer thrower (d. 2003)
1954: Hanif Kureishi, English author and playwright
1954: Gary Roenicke, American baseball player and scout
1953: Gwen Lister, South African-Namibian journalist, publisher, and activist
1951: Link Byfield, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2015)
1951: Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian painter and illustrator
1949: John Altman, English composer and conductor
1949: David Manning, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States
1948: Denise Drysdale, Australian television host and actress
1947: Rudy Fernandez, Filipino triathlete
1947: Bruce Golding, Jamaican lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1947: Tony Gregory, Irish activist and politician (d. 2009)
1947: Jim Messina, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947: Jim Plunkett, American football player and radio host
1947: Kim Simmonds, Welsh blues-rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947: Don Touhig, Welsh journalist and politician
1946: José Carreras, Spanish tenor and actor
1946: Andy Kim, Canadian pop singer-songwriter
1946: Sarel van der Merwe, South African racing driver
1945: Serge Chapleau, Canadian cartoonist
1945: Moshe Katsav, Iranian-Israeli educator and politician, 8th President of Israel
1944: Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor, director, and producer
1943: Eva Joly, Norwegian-French judge and politician
1943: Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, South Korean cardinal
1942: Bryan Murray, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2017)
1940: Tony Crafter, Australian cricket umpire
1940: Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager
1940: Peter Pohl, Swedish author, director, and screenwriter
1940: Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012)
1938: J. J. Cale, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1936: James Lee Burke, American journalist, author, and academic
1935: Calvin Trillin, American novelist, humorist, and journalist
1935: Yury Vlasov, Ukrainian-Russian weightlifter and politician (d. 2021)
1934: Joan Didion, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1933: Gennadiy Agapov, Russian race walker (d. 1999)
1933: Harry Holgate, Australian politician, 36th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1997)
1932: Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, British politician
1932: Sheldon Glashow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932: Jim Hurtubise, American race car driver (d. 1989)
1932: Little Richard, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2020)
1932: Nadira, Indian actress (d. 2006)
1931: Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1930: Yi-Fu Tuan, Chinese-American geographer (d. 2022)
1929: Madis Kõiv, Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (d. 2014)
1927: Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thai king (d. 2016)
1927: W.D. Amaradeva, Sri Lankan musician and composer (d. 2016)
1926: Adetowun Ogunsheye, first female Nigerian professor and university dean
1925: Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
1924: Robert Sobukwe, South African banker and politician (d. 1978)
1922: Casey Ribicoff, American philanthropist (d. 2011)
1922: Don Robertson, American songwriter and pianist (d. 2015)
1921: Alvy Moore, American actor and producer (d. 1997)
1919: Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, English historian and politician (d. 2020)
1917: Ken Downing, English racing driver (d. 2004)
1916: Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine (d. 2013)
1916: Walt McPherson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1914: Hans Hellmut Kirst, German lieutenant and author (d. 1989)
1913: Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress (d. 2013)
1912: Sonny Boy Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1965)
1912: Kate Simon, American travel writer (d. 1990)
1911: Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1910: Abraham Polonsky, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1907: Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1971)
1907: Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (d. 1993)
1905: Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1984)
1905: Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
1905: Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (d.1949)
1903: Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German actor and singer (d. 2011)
1903: C. F. Powell, English-Italian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
1902: Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1902: Strom Thurmond, American educator, general, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (d. 2003)
1901: Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1966)
1901: Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1980)
1901: Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1900: Jimmy Dimmock, English footballer (d. 1972)
1898: Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and translator (d. 1982)
1898: Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (d. 1947)
1897: Nunnally Johnson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1897: Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli philosopher and historian (d. 1982)
1896: Ann Nolan Clark, American historian, author, and educator (d. 1995)
1896: Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1895: Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician and academic (d. 1969)
1894: Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
1891: Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and academic (d. 1951)
1890: David Bomberg, English painter, illustrator, and academic (d. 1957)
1890: Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1976)
1886: Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author (d. 1968)
1886: Pieter Oud, Dutch historian, academic, and politician, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands (d. 1968)
1886: Nikolai Uglanov, Soviet politician (d. 1937)
1881: René Cresté, French actor and director (d. 1922)
1879: Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and businessman, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (d. 1954)
1875: Arthur Currie, Canadian general (d. 1933)
1872: Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player (d. 1906)
1870: Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (d. 1949)
1869: Ellis Parker Butler, American author and poet (d. 1937)
1868: Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (d. 1951)
1867: Antti Aarne, Finnish author and academic (d. 1925)
1867: Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1935)
1866: John Beresford, Irish polo player (d. 1944)
1866: Traian Demetrescu, Romanian poet and author (d. 1896)
1863: Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (d. 1933)
1862: John Henry Leech, English entomologist (d. 1900)
1861: Konstantin Korovin, Russian-French painter and set designer (d. 1939)
1859: John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1935)
1855: Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and ethnographer (d. 1942)
1849: Eduard Seler, German anthropologist, ethnohistorian, linguist, and academic (d. 1922)
1841: Marcus Daly, Irish-American businessman (d. 1900)
1839: George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
1830: Christina Rossetti, English poet and author (d. 1894)
1829: Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Premier of Quebec (d. 1908)
1822: Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American philosopher and academic, co-founded Radcliffe College (d. 1907)
1820: Afanasy Fet, Russian poet and author (d. 1892)
1803: Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat (d. 1873)
1784: George Shepherd, English illustrator and painter (d. 1862)
1782: Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and politician, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1697: Giuseppe de Majo, Italian organist and composer (d. 1771)
1687: Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
1666: Francesco Scarlatti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1741)
1661: Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (d. 1724)
1596: Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662)
1556: Anne Cecil, Countess of Oxford, English countess (d. 1588)
1547: Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
1539: Fausto Sozzini, Italian theologian and author (d. 1604)
1537: Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shōgun (d. 1597)
1495: Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish philologist and lexicographer (d. 1542)
1470: Willibald Pirckheimer, German lawyer and author (d. 1530)
1443: Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1389: Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman (d. 1455)
1377: Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
852: Zhu Wen, Chinese emperor (d. 912)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Bob Dole, American politician (b. 1923)
2020: Peter Alliss, English professional golfer (b. 1931)
2019: Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
2017: Michael I of Romania, fifth and last king of Romania (b. 1921)
2017: August Ames, Canadian American pornographic actress (b. 1994)
2016: Tyruss Himes ("Big Syke"), American rapper (b. 1968)
2015: Vic Eliason, American clergyman and radio host, founded VCY America (b. 1936)
2015: Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1929)
2015: Chuck Williams, American businessman and author, founded Williams Sonoma (b. 1915)
2014: Ernest C. Brace, American captain and pilot (b. 1931)
2014: Fabiola, Queen of Belgium (b. 1928)
2014: Talât Sait Halman, Turkish poet, translator, and historian (b. 1931)
2014: Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish hurdler and politician (b. 1931)
2014: Silvio Zavala, Mexican historian and author (b. 1909)
2013: Fred Bassetti, American architect and academic, founded Bassetti Architects (b. 1917)
2013: William B. Edmondson, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1927)
2013: Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2012: Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
2012: Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (b. 1909)
2012: Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of Brasília (b. 1907)
2012: Ignatius IV of Antioch, Syrian patriarch (b. 1920)
2011: Peter Gethin, English racing driver (b. 1940)
2011: Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
2010: Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010: Don Meredith, American football player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1938)
2009: William Lederer, American soldier and author (b. 1912)
2008: Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (b. 1929)
2008: George Brecht, American chemist and composer (b. 1926)
2008: Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (b. 1924)
2008: Beverly Garland, American actress and businesswoman (b. 1926)
2008: Anca Parghel, Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1957)
2007: Andrew Imbrie, American composer and academic (b. 1921)
2007: George Paraskevaides, Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Joannou & Paraskevaides (b. 1916)
2007: Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer and academic (b. 1928)
2006: David Bronstein, Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (b. 1924)
2005: Edward L. Masry, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2002: Roone Arledge, American sportscaster and producer (b. 1931)
2002: Ne Win, Burmese general and politician, 4th President of Burma (b. 1911)
2001: Franco Rasetti, Italian-American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
1998: Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
1997: Eugen Cicero, Romanian-German jazz pianist (b. 1940)
1995: L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)
1995: Charles Evans, English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918)
1995: Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (b. 1920)
1995: Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (b. 1922)
1994: Harry Horner, Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)
1990: Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916)
1989: John Pritchard, English conductor and director (b. 1921)
1986: Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1984: Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b. 1894)
1983: Robert Aldrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
1979: Jesse Pearson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
1977: Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
1977: Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
1975: Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)
1973: Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892)
1969: Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
1969: Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
1968: Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914)
1965: Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1964: V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
1963: Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905)
1963: Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
1961: Emil Fuchs, German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
1955: Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)
1953: William Sterling Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901)
1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
1951: Abanindranath Tagore, Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
1946: Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
1942: Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)
1941: Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
1940: Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
1931: Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1926: Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
1925: Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1918: Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
1891: Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1887: Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
1870: Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
1819: Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
1784: Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753)
1770: James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692)
1758: Johann Friedrich Fasch, German violinist and composer (b. 1688)
1749: Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685)
1663: Severo Bonini, Italian organist and composer (b. 1582)
1654: Jean François Sarrazin, French author and poet (b. 1611)
1624: Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560)
1570: Johan Friis, Danish politician (b. 1494)
1560: Francis II of France (b. 1544)
1355: John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
1244: Joan, Countess of Flanders and Hainault(b. 1199 or 1200)
1212: Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht
1082: Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona (b. 1053)
902: Ealhswith, queen consort and wife of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex
334: Li Ban, emperor of Cheng Han (b. 288)
63 BC: Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman politician (b. 114 BC)

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