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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

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.$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.$262 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 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.$217 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2018
11.$193 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2017
12.$176 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2017
13.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2004
14.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2008
15.€143 Million
US$161.12 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021
16.€143 Million
US$149.92 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 6, 2022
17.$145 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2015
18.€120.88 Million
US$136.19 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021
19.$130 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2019
20.€106 Million
US$124.65 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2017
21.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2021
22.$100.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2022
23.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2013
24.$96 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 7, 2007
25.$91 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2014

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: papsoon06
Friday, Dec 6, 1991
31 years old
1990: babydaddy
Thursday, Dec 6, 1990
32 years old
1986: tweak
Saturday, Dec 6, 1986
36 years old
1984: Brand Names
Thursday, Dec 6, 1984
38 years old
1984: TaNea24
Thursday, Dec 6, 1984
38 years old
1981: Blessed573
Sunday, Dec 6, 1981
41 years old
1976: teedoubleinn01
Monday, Dec 6, 1976
46 years old
1970: Lottomoney91
Sunday, Dec 6, 1970
52 years old
1967: NBey6
Wednesday, Dec 6, 1967
55 years old
1954: mtaronce
Monday, Dec 6, 1954
68 years old
1947: Louise086
Saturday, Dec 6, 1947
75 years old
1947: TBertot432
Saturday, Dec 6, 1947
75 years old
1942: freddiearb
Sunday, Dec 6, 1942
80 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.
1997: A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
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.
1933: U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
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, the Irish Free State comes 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.
1704: Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
1648: Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
1534: The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1492: After exploring island of Cuba for gold, surmising it for Japan, Columbus lands on island similar to Castile, naming it Hispaniola.
1240: Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1060: Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
963: Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome.

Births On This Day

1998: Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater
1996: Davide Calabria, Italian football player
1994: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
1994: Shreyas Iyer, Indian cricketer
1994: Wakatakakage Atsushi, Japanese sumo wrestler
1993: Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer
1993: Elián González, Cuban technician, known for a child custody and immigration case held in 2000
1993: Pedro Rafael Amado Mendes, Portuguese footballer
1993: Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
1992: Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer
1992: Johnny Manziel, American football player
1991: Milica Mandić, Serbian taekwondo athlete, two-time Olympic champion
1991: Coco Vandeweghe, American tennis player
1990: Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player
1989: Felix Schiller, German footballer
1988: Adam Eaton, American baseball player
1988: Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer and violinist
1988: Nils Petersen, German footballer
1988: Nobunaga Shimazaki, Japanese voice actor
1988: Ravindra Jadeja, Indian cricketer
1986: Sean Edwards, English race car driver (d. 2013)
1986: Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player
1985: Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player
1985: Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
1985: Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
1984: Syndric Steptoe, American football player
1984: Nora Kirkpatrick, American actress and musician
1984: Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland
1982: Robbie Gould, American football player
1982: Ryan Carnes, American actor and producer
1982: Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
1982: Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
1982: Aaron Sandilands, Australian footballer
1982: Susie Wolff, Scottish race car driver
1981: Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer
1980: Danielle Downey, American golfer and coach (d. 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: Ramiro Pez, Argentine rugby player
1977: Kevin Cash, American baseball player and coach
1977: Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
1977: Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
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
1972: Rick Short, American baseball player
1971: Craig Brewer, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1971: Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1971: Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor
1971: Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player
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: Akihiro Yano, Japanese baseball player
1967: Judd Apatow, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1967: Arnaldo Mesa, Cuban boxer (d. 2012)
1967: Helen Greiner, American businesswoman and engineer
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: Ben Watt, English singer-songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter
1961: David Lovering, American drummer
1961: Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (d. 1996)
1961: Manuel Reuter, German race car driver
1960: Masahiko Katsuya, Japanese journalist and photographer (d. 2018)
1959: Stephen Hepburn, English politician
1959: Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)
1959: Stephen Muggleton, English computer scientist and engineer
1959: Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist and academic
1958: Nick Park, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957: Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1999)
1956: Peter Buck, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1956: Hans Kammerlander, Italian mountaineer and guide
1956: Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1982)
1955: Anne Begg, Scottish educator and politician
1955: Rick Buckler, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
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 (d. 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 (d. 1999)
1952: Craig Newmark, American computer programmer and entrepreneur; founded Craigslist
1952: Shio Satō, Japanese illustrator (d. 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 (d. 1986)
1949: Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
1949: Peter Willey, English cricketer and umpire
1948: Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (d. 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: Henk van Woerden, Dutch-South African painter and author (d. 2005)
1947: Miroslav Vitouš, Czech-American bassist and songwriter
1946: Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1946: Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 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 (d. 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
1941: Richard Speck, American murderer (d. 1991)
1941: Bruce Nauman, American sculptor and illustrator
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 (d. 2006)
1936: Bill Ashton, English saxophonist and composer
1936: David Ossman, American writer and comedian
1936: Kenneth Copeland, American evangelist and author
1935: Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer, and politician (d. 2022)
1934: Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2015)
1933: Henryk Górecki, Polish composer and academic (d. 2010)
1933: Donald J. Kutyna, American general
1932: Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2007)
1931: Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1996)
1930: Daniel Lisulo, Zambian banker and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
1929: Philippe Bouvard, French journalist and radio host
1929: Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-Austrian cellist and conductor (d. 2016)
1929: Frank Springer, American comic book illustrator (d. 2009)
1929: Alain Tanner, Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1928: Bobby Van, American actor, dancer, and singer (d. 1980)
1927: Jim Fuchs, American shot putter and discus thrower (d. 2010)
1924: Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
1922: John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1944)
1922: Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (d. 2016)
1921: Otto Graham, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
1921: Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (d. 2004)
1920: Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (d. 2012)
1920: Peter Dimmock, English sportscaster and producer (d. 2015)
1920: George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1919: Skippy Baxter, Canadian-American figure skater and coach (d. 2012)
1919: Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (d. 1983)
1918: Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
1917: Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (d. 2015)
1917: Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (d. 1977)
1917: Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 2008)
1916: Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943)
1916: Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
1916: Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
1914: Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (d. 1999)
1913: Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (d. 2005)
1913: Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (d. 2004)
1910: David M. Potter, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1971)
1909: Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader (d. 2002)
1909: Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1996)
1908: Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2003)
1908: Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
1908: Miklós Szabó, Hungarian runner (d. 2000)
1908: Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989)
1905: Elizabeth Yates, American journalist and author (d. 2001)
1904: Ève Curie, French-American journalist and pianist (d. 2007)
1903: Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager (d. 1946)
1901: Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic (d. 1990)
1900: Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
1898: Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (d. 1995)
1898: John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria (d. 1977)
1898: Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1898: Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (d. 1964)
1896: Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (d. 1983)
1893: Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (d. 1984)
1893: Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet (d. 1978)
1892: Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author (d. 1969)
1890: Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author (d. 1946)
1890: Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
1890: Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator (d. 1955)
1888: Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
1887: Lynn Fontanne, British actress (d. 1983)
1887: Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer (d. 1960)
1886: Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet (d. 1918)
1884: Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 1973)
1882: Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (d. 1954)
1878: Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician (d. 1968)
1876: Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d. 1932)
1875: Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (d. 1946)
1875: Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (d. 1941)
1872: Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (d. 1936)
1864: William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1946)
1863: Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
1853: Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (d. 1937)
1853: Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
1849: August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1848: Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (d. 1925)
1841: Frédéric Bazille, French painter and soldier (d. 1870)
1835: Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (d. 1910)
1833: John S. Mosby, American colonel (d. 1916)
1827: William Arnott, Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of Arnott's Biscuits (d. 1901)
1823: Max Müller, German-English philologist and orientalist (d. 1900)
1812: Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1884)
1805: Richard Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia (d. 1876)
1803: Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829)
1792: William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1778: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
1752: Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and politician (d. 1844)
1732: Warren Hastings, British colonial administrator of India (d. 1818)
1721: Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French minister and politician (d. 1794)
1721: James Elphinston, Scottish philologist and linguist (d. 1809)
1685: Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (d. 1712)
1645: Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (d. 1703)
1640: Claude Fleury, French historian and author (d. 1723)
1637: Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (d. 1714)
1608: George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1670)
1592: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (d. 1676)
1586: Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
1545: Janus Dousa, Dutch historian and noble (d. 1604)
1520: Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (d. 1551)
1478: Baldassare Castiglione, Italian courtier, diplomat, and author (d. 1529)
1421: Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
1285: Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
846: Hasan al-Askari, Arabian 11th of the Twelve Imams (d. 874)

Deaths On This Day

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

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