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December 6

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December 6

December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 25 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones appointed as Mega Millions Lead Director. The Mega Millions Consortium announced the selection of the game group's new Lead Director on Tuesday: Virginia Lottery Director Khalid R. Jones.
2024: California Mega Millions lottery ticket splitting $395 million jackpot will expire in one day. A lottery ticket bought in California is eligible to claim half of a $395 million Mega Millions jackpot, but only for one more day.
2023: New York man scoops up two $1 million Mega Millions lottery prizes. A New York man defied the odds by winning a $1 million Mega Millions prize in the lottery — twice.
2022: VIDEO: How to use and navigate the new Lottery Post website. Lottery Post Founder Todd Northrop today introduced a new tutorial type of video to our YouTube channel highlighting a specific aspect of the Lottery Post website. The first video in this new series covers basic elements of the website and how members and guests can navigate it.
2021: Florida nursing student scoops up $5 million top prize from lottery scratch-off. A Florida nursing student won a whopping $5 million top prize on a lottery scratch-off ticket, but it's not the first time she had the Florida Lottery to thank for her good fortune.
2018: Oregon man wins $118K playing Keno while waiting to cash $1,750 lottery ticket. While waiting at a lottery payment center to cash in a winning lottery ticket worth $1,750, an Oregon man played again, winning more than $118,000.
2017: Winning N.J. lottery ticket worth $1 million expires Friday. Two weeks after putting out a call for the holder of a soon-to-expire unclaimed $1 million ticket to step forward, New Jersey Lottery officials made one last plea Tuesday morning.
2014: NJ lottery winners still receiving welfare, food stamps, audit says. An audit sniffing out fraud in New Jersey's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program detected 66 lottery winners who were all welfare and food stamps beneficiaries who had each won more than $10,000.
2014: Hoosier Lottery adds Sunday midday drawings. Indiana's Hoosier Lottery will add consistency to certain daily draw games beginning Dec. 7 with the addition of Sunday midday drawings for its Daily 3, Daily 4 and Quick Draw games.
2014: NJ Lottery investigating retailer lottery ticket 'discounting' practices. The New Jersey Lottery is investigating claims that since 2009 half of the 20 most frequent prizewinners are either licensed lottery retailers or family members of store operators.
2013: $297 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot raised again before tonight's drawing. Across the United States, tickets for tonight's Mega Millions multi-state lottery drawing are being sold at a higher-than-expected rate, prompting the state lotteries to raise the official jackpot estimate to $297 million.
2010: West Virginia Lottery move delayed. It's going to be at least another year before the West Virginia Lottery moves out of leased space in Charleston to a 13-story building it purchased earlier this year on the other side of town.
2008: $170 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised. Lottery jackpot hunters will have a big target next Tuesday, when a $170 million jackpot is up from grabs in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game.
2007: NC lottery to begin Pick 3 midday game in spring. The North Carolina Education Lottery wants to begin a midday numbers drawing early this spring.
2007: N.C. lottery sales up, but misses projections. North Carolina lottery ticket sales fell short of projections in the past few months, but officials say conditions are improving.
2007: Lottery juggling whether to ban smoking at ticket outlets. The Texas Lottery Commission is considering a ban on selling tickets in stores that allow smoking after a recent attorney general's opinion suggested the practice could open the state to civil rights lawsuits.
2007: Newspaper criticizes Georgia Lottery bonuses. Atlanta Journal Constitution editorial writer Maureen Downey criticizes the Georgia Lottery structure and board for allowing employee bonuses to skyrocket.
2007: Georgia Lottery Chairman defends bonuses. Tony Campbell, Board Chairman of the Georgia Lottery Corporation, defends the Georgia Lottery employee bonuses, saying they are good business practice and well-deserved.
2007: Some lottery winners missing their jackpots. More than a half-billion dollars in lottery prizes went uncollected last year, including dozens of jackpots worth $1 million or greater and hundreds worth $100,000 or more.
2006: Georgia Lottery's Millionaire Raffle tickets going fast. Raffle games have become the hottest lottery item of the holiday season, and the Georgia Lottery's Millionaire Raffle game is no exception.
2006: $5 lottery purchase yields $16.5 million for Ohio man. An Ohio man drove for three days with the winning $40 million dollar Mega Millions ticket tucked in the armrest of his car before realizing Monday it was worth more than $16 million after taxes.
2006: Backlash in Calif. over sale of lottery operator GTECH. As the new 2007-08 Legislature convened Monday, the backlash over an Italian firm's quiet takeover of California's lotto contractor grew when a second legislative committee said it would investigate.
2006: Michigan man gets taken by lottery scheme. An 86-year-old Ann Arbor man was bilked out of $3,150 after he received a letter from Canada claiming he won a lottery and needed to pay the taxes, Ann Arbor police said.
2006: Lottery Players Robbed At S.C. Store. Half a dozen people playing the lottery were forced to lie on the floor late Monday while two men held guns on them at the Lotto Supercenter on U.S. 21 in York County, North Carolina.
2006: Lottery 'joke' wins man fine, year probation. A Pennsylvania man said he thought it would be funny to fake a $853,496 winning Powerball ticket and leave it underneath a newspaper in the break room at the Roadway Express terminal in Middlesex Twp. It was a bad joke.
2006: Florida lottery raffle tickets being illegally re-sold. Now that tickets for the Florida Lottery's Holiday Millionaire Raffle game are sold out, the $20 slips of paper are in extremely high demand, fetching hundreds of dollars per ticket on an online auction site.
2005: Lottery number strategies subject of newspaper investigation. The final installment in a three-part look at the New Jersey Lottery compares number-picking strategies to pure luck.
2004: Powerball Jackpot 10th Largest Ever at $171 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $171 million, with a cash option of $93.3 million.
2004: Alaska man wins lottery for-life prize. An Alaska resident has won an Oregon Lottery game worth $52,000 per year for life -- a prize that went unclaimed for more than a month.
2004: One winner in $5 million Lotto South drawing. There was one big winner in Saturday's $5 million Lotto South drawing, Virginia Lottery officials said Sunday.
2004: Winning Mega Millions ticket sold in Paterson, NJ. New Jersey lottery officials are waiting for the winner of the $24 million Mega Millions jackpot to claim their prize, officials said yesterday.
2004: Mega Millions jackpot winner headed to divorce court. The wife of Mega Millionaire Juan Rodriguez has filed for divorce, demanding her slice of the $149 million jackpot - even before the check has been cut to her hubby.
2004: Record Powerball winner arrested. A West Virginia man who won a record $315 million in the Powerball lottery was arrested on charges of drunken driving and carrying a pistol, authorities said.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$841.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2025
2.$579 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2024
3.$437.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2023
4.$395 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2023
5.$354 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2022
6.€321.71 Million US$337.28 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2022
7.$297 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2013
8.$285 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2019
9.$279 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2021
10.$264 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2020
11.$262 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2020
12.€240 Million
US$258.43 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2023
13.$256 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2024
14.€200 Million
US$242.28 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2020
15.$226 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2018
16.$217 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2018
17.$193 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2017
18.$176 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2017
19.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2004
20.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2008
21.€143 Million
US$166.34 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2025
22.€143 Million
US$161.12 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021
23.€143 Million
US$149.92 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2022
24.$145 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2015
25.€120.88 Million
US$136.19 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: papsoon06
Friday, Dec 6, 1991
34 years old
1990: babydaddy
Thursday, Dec 6, 1990
35 years old
1989: TREASURE 8912
Wednesday, Dec 6, 1989
36 years old
1988: kentuycky8488
Tuesday, Dec 6, 1988
37 years old
1986: tweak
Saturday, Dec 6, 1986
39 years old
1984: Brand Names
Thursday, Dec 6, 1984
41 years old
1984: TaNea24
Thursday, Dec 6, 1984
41 years old
1983: Birdwalk
Tuesday, Dec 6, 1983
42 years old
1981: Blessed573
Sunday, Dec 6, 1981
44 years old
1976: ectyler15
Monday, Dec 6, 1976
49 years old
1976: teedoubleinn01
Monday, Dec 6, 1976
49 years old
1970: Lottomoney91
Sunday, Dec 6, 1970
55 years old
1969: Integral69
Saturday, Dec 6, 1969
56 years old
1967: NBey6
Wednesday, Dec 6, 1967
58 years old
1957: Return2
Friday, Dec 6, 1957
68 years old
1954: mtaronce
Monday, Dec 6, 1954
71 years old
1947: Louise086
Saturday, Dec 6, 1947
78 years old
1947: TBertot432
Saturday, Dec 6, 1947
78 years old
1946: imcs2541
Friday, Dec 6, 1946
79 years old
1942: freddiearb
Sunday, Dec 6, 1942
83 years old
: amandamark02
(year not provided)
: debway
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2017: Donald Trump's administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2015: Venezuelan parliamentary election: For the first time in 17 years, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament.
2006: NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2005: An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
1999: A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
1998: in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.
1995: The United States Food and Drug Administration approves Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor to treat HIV/AIDS. Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fall from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.
1992: The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
1991: Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) heaviest bombardment of Dubrovnik during a siege of seven months.
1990: A military jet of the Italian Air Force, abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed into a high school near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.
1989: The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
1982: The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.
1978: Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
1977: South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
1975: The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
1973: The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387-35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92-3.)
1971: Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1969: Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.
1967: Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
1957: Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
1956: A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
1941: World War II: Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war.
1939: Winter War: The Red Army's advance on the Karelian Isthmus is stopped by Finns at the Mannerheim Line during the Battle of Taipale.
1933: In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression.
1928: The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
1922: One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty Ireland is partitioned. Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State come into existence.
1921: The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
1917: Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire.
1917: Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
1917: World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1916: World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
1912: The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
1907: A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
1904: Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1897: London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1884: The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
1882: Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
1865: Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1803: Five French warships attempting to escape the Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the Haitian Revolution.
1790: The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
1745: Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
1648: Pride's Purge removes royalist sympathizers from Parliament so that the High Court of Justice could put the King on trial.
1534: The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1492: After exploring the island of Cuba (which he had mistaken for Japan) for gold, Christopher Columbus lands on an island he names Hispaniola.
1240: Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv, defended by Voivode Dmytro, falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1060: Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.

Births On This Day

1998: Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater
1997: Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player
1996: Davide Calabria, Italian footballer
1996: Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer
1995: A Boogie wit da Hoodie, American rapper and singer-songwriter
1994: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek-Nigerian basketball player
1994: Wakatakakage Atsushi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1994: Shreyas Iyer, Indian cricketer
1993: Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer
1993: Elián González, Cuban technician, known for a child custody and immigration case held in 2000
1993: Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
1992: Viktor Antipin, Russian ice hockey player
1992: Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer
1992: Johnny Manziel, American football player
1991: Rachel Jarry, Australian basketball player
1991: Milica Mandić, Serbian taekwondo athlete
1991: Coco Vandeweghe, American tennis player
1990: Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player
1989: Felix Schiller, German footballer
1988: Adam Eaton, American baseball player
1988: Ravindra Jadeja, Indian cricketer
1988: Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer and violinist
1988: Nils Petersen, German footballer
1988: Nobunaga Shimazaki, Japanese voice actor
1986: Sean Edwards, English race car driver (died 2013)
1986: Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player
1985: Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player
1985: Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
1985: R. P. Singh, Indian cricketer
1984: Syndric Steptoe, American football player
1984: Nora Kirkpatrick, American actress and musician
1984: Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland
1982: Ryan Carnes, American actor and producer
1982: Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
1982: Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982: Robbie Gould, American football player
1982: Aaron Sandilands, Australian footballer
1982: Susie Wolff, Scottish race car driver
1981: Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer
1980: Danielle Downey, American golfer and coach (died 2014)
1980: Steve Lovell, English footballer
1980: Carlos Takam, Cameroonian-French boxer
1979: Tim Cahill, Australian footballer
1978: Chris Başak, American baseball player
1978: Darrell Jackson, American football player
1978: Adriana Moisés Pinto, Brazilian basketball player
1978: Ramiro Pez, Argentine rugby player
1977: Kevin Cash, American baseball player and manager
1977: Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
1977: Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
1976: Lindsay Price, American actress
1975: Noel Clarke, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1975: Adrian García Arias, Mexican footballer
1974: Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist and boxer
1974: Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
1972: Ewan Birney, English scientist
1972: Heather Mizeur, American lawyer and politician
1971: Craig Brewer, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1971: José Contreras, Cuban baseball player
1971: Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1971: Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor
1971: Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player
1971: Ryan White, American activist (died 1990)
1970: Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1970: Adrian Fenty, American lawyer and politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia
1970: Mark Reckless, English politician
1970: Jeff Rouse, American swimmer
1969: Torri Higginson, Canadian actress
1968: Karl Ove Knausgård, Norwegian author
1968: Ali Latifiyan, Iranian writer and political theorist
1968: Akihiro Yano, Japanese baseball player
1967: Judd Apatow, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1967: Helen Greiner, American businesswoman and engineer
1967: Arnaldo Mesa, Cuban boxer (died 2012)
1966: Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete
1966: Per-Ulrik Johansson, Swedish golfer
1965: Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer and manager
1964: Mall Nukke, Estonian painter
1963: Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor and producer
1962: Janine Turner, American actress
1962: Ben Watt, English singer-songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter
1961: David Lovering, American drummer
1961: Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (died 1996)
1961: Manuel Reuter, German race car driver
1960: Masahiko Katsuya, Japanese journalist and photographer (died 2018)
1959: Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist and academic
1959: Stephen Hepburn, English politician
1959: Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (died 2015)
1959: Stephen Muggleton, English computer scientist and engineer
1958: Nick Park, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957: Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1999)
1957: Andrew Cuomo, American politician, 56th Governor of New York
1957: Bill Hanzlik, American basketball player and coach
1956: Peter Buck, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1956: Hans Kammerlander, Italian mountaineer and guide
1956: Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died 1982)
1955: Anne Begg, Scottish educator and politician
1955: Rick Buckler, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2025)
1955: Graeme Hughes, Australian cricketer, rugby league player, and sportscaster
1955: Tony Woodcock, English footballer
1955: Steven Wright, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1954: Nicola De Maria, Italian painter
1954: Chris Stamey, American singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer
1953: Sue Carroll, English journalist (died 2011)
1953: Gary Goodman, Australian cricketer and coach
1953: Geoff Hoon, English academic and politician, Minister of State for Europe
1953: Tom Hulce, American actor
1953: Masami Kurumada, Japanese author and illustrator
1952: Nicolas Bréhal, French author and critic (died 1999)
1952: Craig Newmark, American computer programmer and entrepreneur; founded Craigslist
1952: Shio Satō, Japanese illustrator (died 2010)
1951: Wendy Ellis Somes, English ballerina and producer
1951: Maurice Hope, Caribbean-English boxer
1950: Guy Drut, French hurdler and politician
1950: Joe Hisaishi, Japanese pianist, composer, and conductor
1950: Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1949: Linda Barnes, American author, playwright, and educator
1949: Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (died 1986)
1949: Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (died 2007)
1949: Peter Willey, English cricketer and umpire
1948: Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (died 2014)
1948: Don Nickles, American businessman and politician
1948: Keke Rosberg, Finnish racing driver
1948: JoBeth Williams, American actress
1947: Lawrence Cannon, Canadian businessman and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947: Geoffrey Hinton, British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, and cognitive psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1947: Henk van Woerden, Dutch-South African painter and author (died 2005)
1947: Miroslav Vitouš, Czech-American bassist and songwriter
1946: Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (died 2024)
1946: Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2021)
1945: Shekhar Kapur, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
1944: Jonathan King, English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, television/radio presenter, and convicted sex offender
1943: Mike Smith, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2008)
1943: Keith West, English rock singer-songwriter and music producer
1942: Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1942: Robb Royer, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
1941: Helen Cornelius, American country singer-songwriter and actress (died 2025)
1941: Bruce Nauman, American sculptor and illustrator
1941: Richard Speck, American murderer (died 1991)
1941: Bill Thomas, American academic and politician
1940: Lawrence Bergman, Canadian lawyer and politician
1940: Richard Edlund, American visual effects designer and cinematographer
1939: Franco Carraro, Italian politician and sports administrator
1938: Patrick Bauchau, Belgian-American actor
1937: Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-American soccer player (died 2006)
1936: Bill Ashton, English saxophonist and composer
1936: Kenneth Copeland, American evangelist and author
1936: David Ossman, American writer and comedian
1935: Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer, and politician (died 2022)
1934: Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor (died 2015)
1933: Henryk Górecki, Polish composer and academic (died 2010)
1933: Donald J. Kutyna, American general
1932: Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (died 2007)
1931: Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (died 1996)
1930: Daniel Lisulo, Zambian banker and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (died 2000)
1929: Philippe Bouvard, French journalist and radio host
1929: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-Austrian cellist and conductor (died 2016)
1929: Frank Springer, American comic book illustrator (died 2009)
1929: Alain Tanner, Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022)
1928: Bobby Van, American actor, dancer, and singer (died 1980)
1927: Jim Fuchs, American shot putter and discus thrower (died 2010)
1924: Wally Cox, American actor (died 1973)
1922: John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1944)
1922: Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (died 2016)
1921: Otto Graham, American football player and coach (died 2003)
1921: Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (died 2004)
1920: Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (died 2012)
1920: Peter Dimmock, English sportscaster and producer (died 2015)
1920: George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)
1919: Skippy Baxter, Canadian-American figure skater and coach (died 2012)
1919: Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (died 1983)
1918: Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor (died 2019)
1917: Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (died 2015)
1917: Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (died 1977)
1917: Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (died 2008)
1916: Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (died 1943)
1916: Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland (died 1982)
1916: Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (died 1986)
1914: Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (died 1999)
1913: Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (died 2005)
1912: Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (died 2004)
1910: David M. Potter, American historian, author, and academic (died 1971)
1909: Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader (died 2002)
1909: Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (died 1996)
1908: Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (died 2000)
1908: Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th President of the Swiss Confederation (died 2003)
1908: Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (died 1934)
1908: Miklós Szabó, Hungarian runner (died 2000)
1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (died 1989)
1905: Elizabeth Yates, American journalist and author (died 2001)
1904: Ève Curie, French-American journalist and pianist (died 2007)
1903: Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager (died 1946)
1901: Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic (died 1990)
1900: Agnes Moorehead, American actress (died 1974)
1898: Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (died 1995)
1898: John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria (died 1977)
1898: Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
1898: Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (died 1964)
1896: Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (died 1983)
1893: Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (died 1984)
1893: Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet (died 1978)
1892: Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author (died 1969)
1890: Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author (died 1946)
1890: Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (died 1951)
1890: Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator (died 1955)
1888: Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1949)
1887: Lynn Fontanne, British actress (died 1983)
1887: Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer (died 1960)
1886: Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet (died 1918)
1884: Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic (died 1973)
1882: Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (died 1954)
1878: Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician (died 1968)
1876: Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (died 1932)
1875: Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (died 1946)
1875: Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (died 1941)
1864: William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1946)
1863: Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (died 1914)
1853: Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (died 1937)
1853: Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (died 1931)
1849: August von Mackensen, German field marshal (died 1945)
1848: Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (died 1925)
1841: Frédéric Bazille, French painter and soldier (died 1870)
1835: Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (died 1910)
1833: John S. Mosby, American colonel (died 1916)
1827: William Arnott, Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of Arnott's Biscuits (died 1901)
1823: Max Müller, German-English philologist and orientalist (died 1900)
1812: Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist (died 1884)
1805: Richard Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia (died 1876)
1803: Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (died 1829)
1792: William II of the Netherlands (died 1849)
1778: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (died 1850)
1752: Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and politician (died 1844)
1732: Warren Hastings, British colonial administrator of India (died 1818)
1721: Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French minister and politician (died 1794)
1721: James Elphinston, Scottish philologist and linguist (died 1809)
1685: Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (died 1712)
1645: Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (died 1703)
1640: Claude Fleury, French historian and author (died 1723)
1637: Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (died 1714)
1608: George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (died 1670)
1592: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (died 1676)
1586: Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (died 1670)
1545: Janus Dousa, Dutch historian and noble (died 1604)
1520: Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (died 1551)
1478: Baldassare Castiglione, Italian courtier, diplomat, and author (died 1529)
1421: Henry VI of England (died 1471)
1285: Ferdinand IV of Castile (died 1312)
846: Hasan al-Askari, Arabian 11th of the Twelve Imams (died 874)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Maggie Tabberer, Australian fashion model and television personality (born 1936)
2016: Peter Vaughan, British actor (born 1923)
2015: Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor, director, and politician (born 1945)
2015: Liu Juying, Chinese general and politician (born 1917)
2015: Nicholas Smith, British actor (born 1934)
2014: Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (born 1922)
2014: Jimmy Del Ray, American wrestler and manager (born 1962)
2014: Fred Hawkins, American golfer (born 1923)
2014: Luke Somers, English-American photographer and journalist (born 1981)
2013: Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French poet and critic (born 1939)
2013: Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (born 1926)
2013: M. K. Turk, American basketball player and coach (born 1942)
2012: Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, Equatoguinean engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (born 1961)
2012: Jan Carew, Guyanese author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)
2012: Jeffrey Koo Sr., Taiwanese banker and businessman (born 1933)
2012: Huw Lloyd-Langton, English guitarist (born 1951)
2012: Pedro Vaz, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (born 1963)
2011: Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1940)
2010: Mark Dailey, American-Canadian journalist and actor (born 1953)
2006: John Feeney, New Zealand director and producer (born 1922)
2005: Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (born 1932)
2005: Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (born 1923)
2005: Danny Williams, South African singer (born 1942)
2005: William P. Yarborough, American general (born 1912)
2003: Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan general and politician, President of Guatemala (born 1918)
2002: Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (born 1923)
2001: Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (born 1923)
2000: Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (born 1920)
2000: Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (born 1942)
1998: César Baldaccini, French sculptor and educator (born 1921)
1997: Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (born 1918)
1996: Pete Rozelle, American businessman (born 1926)
1996: Harry Babcock, American football player and first overall draft pick (born 1930)
1994: Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (born 1922)
1994: Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor and director (born 1933)
1993: Don Ameche, American actor (born 1908)
1991: Mimi Smith, English nurse (born 1906)
1991: Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913)
1990: Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1948)
1990: Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1903)
1989: Frances Bavier, American actress (born 1902)
1989: Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer (born 1902)
1989: John Payne, American actor, singer, and producer (born 1912)
1988: Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1936)
1985: Burr Tillstrom, American actor and puppeteer (born 1917)
1985: Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (born 1893)
1985: Carroll Cole, American serial killer, arsonist, and cannibal (born 1938)
1983: Lucienne Boyer, French singer and actress (born 1903)
1983: Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (born 1914)
1982: Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan activist and politician (born 1927)
1980: Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (born 1911)
1976: João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (born 1918)
1974: Nikolay Kuznetsov, Soviet naval officer (born 1904)
1972: Janet Munro, English actress and singer (born 1934)
1964: Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (born 1895)
1961: Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (born 1925)
1956: B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (born 1891)
1955: Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (born 1874)
1951: Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (born 1892)
1945: Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (born 1870)
1924: Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (born 1863)
1921: Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1865)
1918: Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (born 1851)
1892: Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (born 1816)
1889: Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (born 1808)
1882: Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (born 1819)
1882: Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (born 1815)
1879: Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (born 1814)
1878: Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (born 1814)
1868: August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (born 1821)
1867: Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (born 1794)
1855: William Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (born 1789)
1788: Jonathan Shipley, English bishop (born 1714)
1779: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (born 1699)
1771: Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (born 1682)
1746: Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet and songwriter (born 1665)
1718: Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (born 1674)
1716: Benedictus Buns, Dutch priest and composer (born 1642)
1686: Eleonora Gonzaga, Queen consort of Ferdinand III (born 1630)
1675: John Lightfoot, English priest, scholar, and academic (born 1602)
1658: Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (born 1601)
1618: Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (born 1556)
1616: Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (born 1552)
1562: Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (born 1495)
1352: Pope Clement VI (born 1291)
1306: Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (born 1270)
1305: Maximus, Metropolitan of Kyiv
1185: Afonso I of Portugal (born 1109)
762: Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, Arab rebel leader (born 710)
735: Prince Toneri of Japan (born 676)
343: Saint Nicholas, Greek bishop and saint (born 270)

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