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December 8

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December 8

December 8 is the 342nd day of the year (343rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 23 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Court finds that skill games are legal in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court found that unregulated skill games are legal in Pennsylvania, much to the disappointment of online and retail casinos.
2022: Maryland woman forgot where she hid $50,000 lottery ticket. A Maryland woman won $50,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket, but her hiding spot was apparently so good that she forgot where she put it.
2021: Group of 55 women take home record $80 million in Australian Powerball lottery. 55 women from a ladies-only gym called Curves are celebrating together after they won the $80 million (US$57.4 million) Australian Lottery Powerball jackpot drawn on Thurs., Dec. 2.
2020: 50 players win Massachusetts Lottery jackpot. 50 players walked away from the Mass Cash drawing on Sunday, Dec. 6 with a claim to the $100,000 top prize, breaking the state's previous all-time record of 34 jackpot winners in one drawing.
2020: UK raises legal age to play the National Lottery from 16 to 18. Starting next year, 16- and 17-year-olds will no longer be able to play the National Lottery. In a move to curb the potential development of harmful gambling habits in a rapidly evolving digital age, the UK government announced that they will be raising the legal age to play the lottery to 18.
2017: NY couple buys $7M lottery ticket with leftover money after losing at casino. Meat wholesaler Leon Greenberg and his wife are $7 million richer thanks to a winning New York State Lottery scratch-off ticket that was purchased with funds left over after a trip to a Connecticut casino.
2017: 2 more suspects plead guilty in $5.7M Jamaican lottery scam. Two more suspects have pleaded guilty in a Jamaican lottery scam that authorities say bilked at least 90 Americans out of more than $5.7 million.
2016: Custodian wins $2M scratch-off lottery ticket. A high school janitor won 2 million dollars from a scratch-off ticket bought in Gurnee, Illinois.
2016: Minnesota father, son both win $100K in same lottery drawing. A father and son from Halstad in northwestern Minnesota both won the $100,000 top prize in the Dec. 2 All or Nothing drawing.
2015: Colorado homeless man wins $500,000 in lottery. A Colorado man who had been homeless for more than six years finally got a little bit of luck Friday when he won $500,000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket.
2013: Lottery tickets accidentally shipped to man's house. A metro Atlanta man opened up a box with a gift he ordered on the Internet to find a treasure of scratch-off lottery tickets.
2013: Pa. lawmaker wants to give lottery winners right to remain anonymous. A Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, lawmaker unveiled legislation Friday that would allow lottery winners to keep their identities hidden from the public.
2012: Possibility of Mississippi lottery worries Arkansas lottery officials. Arkansas lottery officials are keeping a nervous eye on Mississippi as that state's legislators prepare to consider creating a state lottery.
2012: Arizona man claims other half of record Powerball jackpot. A man who lottery officials announced Friday has claimed his half of the $587.5 million Powerball jackpot, decided to collect the winnings now and not next year because of the financial uncertainty posed by the nation's ongoing financial impasse.
2011: D.C. Lottery continues to evolve online gambling plan. The D.C. Lottery’s planned online gambling program will not be hosted on the city’s secure DC-NET Internet system as originally planned, information technology officials said Wednesday.
2010: Harry Reid pushing to legalize online poker for American casinos, horse tracks. Nevada Senator Harry Reid is reportedly taking a gamble that would change up the online poker industry.
2006: Despite dire predictions, Net gambling not changed by new U.S. law. When President George W. Bush signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in October, many reports gave the impression it sounded like the death knell for the multibillion-dollar Web-based gambling industry. They were wrong.
2004: Kansas Couple Discovers It Pays to Check Those Lottery Tickets. The winners of a $192,769 Super Kansas Cash jackpot had left the winning ticket in their truck.
2004: Record Powerball lottery winner ordered into substance abuse program. A man who won a nearly $315 million Powerball lottery -- the largest single jackpot in history -- was ordered into substance abuse treatment today after his second drunken driving arrest this year.
2004: Charity leader wins $27 million in California lottery. A California charity leader got a lucky boost to help her crusade to save unwanted babies.
2004: Lottery Scheme Now Targeting Tennessee. Fraudulent letters purporting to be from the El Gordo Sweepstakes Lottery Company, S.L. in Madrid, Sprain have appeared in some Tennessee mailboxes, informing consumers that they have won hundreds of thousands of dollars.
2004: Texas Mega Millions lottery sales strong. One year after Texas joined the Mega Millions multi-state lottery game, lottery officials say it's a hit.
2004: Gaming executives guilty of operating illegal lottery, pyramid scheme. Six of the lead promoters of World Games Inc. (WGI) plead guilty to operating and promoting an Illegal Pyramid Scheme December 6, 2004 in Calgary, Alberta.
2003: Powerball Jackpot Grows To $76 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $76 million, with a cash option of $40.9 million.
2003: Mega Millions Jackpot Swells to $54 Million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $54 million Saturday.
2003: Florida Lotto jackpot rolls over to $32 million. No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers, causing the current jackpot to roll over to $32 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
2003: Woman accused of stealing lottery tickets bound over for trial. An Wisconsin woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of scratch-off lottery tickets when she worked at Denny's Super Valu in Algoma has been bound over for trial.
2003: French lottery to pay up. Games company Francaise des Jeux said it would compensate a handful of people who mistakenly thought they had won the jackpot because of printing errors on a batch of black jack scratch cards.
2003: Lottery officials swamped with resumes. Deluged with more than 9,000 unsolicited resumes for only 300 jobs, Tennessee lottery officials have enlisted help in matching the right people with the right jobs.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$457.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2023
2.$395 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2023
3.$379 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2022
4.$344 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 10, 2013
5.€323.2 Million US$339.46 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2022
6.$314 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 10, 2019
7.$290.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2021
8.$264 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2020
9.$262 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2020
10.€240 Million
US$258.43 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2023
11.$245 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 11, 2018
12.€200 Million
US$242.28 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2020
13.$217 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2018
14.$212 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2017
15.$176 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2017
16.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2004
17.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2008
18.$145 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2015
19.$140 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 11, 2019
20.€121.96 Million
US$137.85 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 9, 2021
21.$135 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 10, 2021
22.€106 Million
US$124.65 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 8, 2017
23.$122 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 11, 2013
24.$115 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 11, 2007
24.$115 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 10, 2022

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2000: raptors1867
Friday, Dec 8, 2000
23 years old
1990: OneEquals3
Saturday, Dec 8, 1990
33 years old
1987: Syperry
Tuesday, Dec 8, 1987
36 years old
1986: NumberNicole
Monday, Dec 8, 1986
37 years old
1982: Huneyberri
Wednesday, Dec 8, 1982
41 years old
1980: Alex123
Monday, Dec 8, 1980
43 years old
1979: Dizzeem
Saturday, Dec 8, 1979
44 years old
1976: phoneman76
Wednesday, Dec 8, 1976
47 years old
1975: Dagreat1forever
Monday, Dec 8, 1975
48 years old
1972: borenmolly
Friday, Dec 8, 1972
51 years old
1969: LadyGM
Monday, Dec 8, 1969
54 years old
1965: gogo13
Wednesday, Dec 8, 1965
58 years old
1964: skypekaitas6
Tuesday, Dec 8, 1964
59 years old
1960: LotterMe57
Thursday, Dec 8, 1960
63 years old
1944: techmastershut
Friday, Dec 8, 1944
79 years old
1940: thesouthernbell
Sunday, Dec 8, 1940
83 years old
: eve128
(year not provided)
: iwant2win
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.
2013: Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India.
2013: Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all seven continents.
2010: With the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2010: The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.
2009: Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
2004: The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.
2004: Columbus nightclub shooting: Nathan Gale opens fire at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, killing former Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell and three others before being shot dead by a police officer.
2001: A raid conducted by the Internal Security Department (ISD) of Singapore foils a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) plot to bomb foreign embassies in Singapore.
1998: Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
1992: The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the second time.
1991: The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1990: The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the first time.
1988: A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing five people and injuring 50 others.
1987: Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
1987: An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel-Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.
1985: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia, is established.
1980: John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
1974: A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
1972: United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737.
1971: Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi.
1969: Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
1966: The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
1963: Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1962: Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1955: The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
1953: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1943: World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta.
1941: World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
1941: World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
1922: Two days after coming into existence, the Irish Free State executes four leaders of the Irish Republican Army.
1914: World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
1912: Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
1907: King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1864: Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
1854: In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
1851: Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution.
1660: A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.
1504: Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah writes his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain.
877: Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne.
757: The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
395: Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.

Births On This Day

1996: Scott McTominay, Scottish footballer
1994: Conseslus Kipruto, Kenyan runner
1994: Raheem Sterling, English footballer
1993: Janari Jõesaar, Estonian basketball player
1993: Jordan Obita, English footballer
1993: AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
1993: Cara Mund, Miss America 2018
1992: Yui Yokoyama, Japanese idol, model, and actress
1989: Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
1989: Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player
1986: Enzo Amore, American wrestler and rapper
1986: Amir Khan, English boxer
1986: Sam Tagataese, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
1986: Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1985: Josh Donaldson, American baseball player
1985: Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater
1985: Dwight Howard, American basketball player
1985: Oleksiy Pecherov, Ukrainian basketball player
1984: Emma Green Tregaro, Swedish high jumper
1984: Greg Halford, English footballer
1984: Sam Hunt, American singer-songwriter
1983: Neel Jani, Swiss race car driver
1983: Valéry Mézague, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
1982: Alfredo Aceves, American baseball player
1982: Serena Ryder, Canadian singer-songwriter
1982: Chrisette Michele, American singer-songwriter
1982: Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-American rapper and actress
1981: Jeremy Accardo, American baseball player
1981: Simon Finnigan, English rugby league player
1981: Philip Rivers, American football player
1980: Yuliya Krevsun, Ukrainian runner
1979: Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby player
1979: Johan Forssell, Swedish lawyer and politician
1979: Raymond Lam, Chinese actor and singer
1979: Ingrid Michaelson, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1979: Christian Wilhelmsson, Swedish footballer
1978: John Oster, English-Welsh footballer
1978: Frédéric Piquionne, French footballer
1978: Anwar Siraj, Ethiopian footballer
1978: Ian Somerhalder, American actor
1978: Vernon Wells, American baseball player
1977: Ryan Newman, American race car driver
1977: Aleksandra Olsza, Polish tennis player
1977: Anita Weyermann, Swiss runner and journalist
1976: Brettina, Bahamian-American singer-songwriter and actress
1976: Reed Johnson, American baseball player
1976: Dominic Monaghan, German-born English actor
1976: Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician
1975: Kevin Harvick, American race car driver
1974: Cristian Castro, Mexican singer
1974: Tony Simmons, American football player and coach
1974: Nick Zinner, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1973: Corey Taylor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
1972: Indrek Allmann, Estonian architect
1972: Janae Marie Kroczaleski, American powerlifter
1972: Édson Ribeiro, Brazilian sprinter
1971: Abdullah Ercan, Turkish footballer and manager
1969: Kristin Lauter, American mathematician and cryptographer
1968: Mike Mussina, American baseball player and coach
1968: Doriano Romboni, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
1967: Jeff George, American football player
1967: Andy Kapp, German curler
1967: Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1967: Darren Sheridan, English footballer and manager
1966: Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (d. 2019)
1966: Les Ferdinand, English footballer and coach
1966: Tyler Mane, Canadian wrestler and actor
1966: Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter (d. 2023)
1965: David Harewood, English actor
1965: Theo Maassen, Dutch actor, producer, and screenwriter
1964: James Blundell, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964: Teri Hatcher, American actress
1964: Chigusa Nagayo, Japanese wrestler
1964: Óscar Ramírez, Costa Rican footballer and coach
1963: Greg Howe, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1963: Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese wrestler
1963: Ricky Walford, Australian rugby league player
1962: Steve Elkington, Australian-American golfer
1962: Marty Friedman, American-Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and television host
1962: Nikos Karageorgiou, Greek footballer and manager
1962: Berry van Aerle, Dutch footballer
1961: Mark Bugden, Australian rugby league player
1961: Conceição Lima, São Toméan poet
1961: Mikey Robins, Australian comedian and television host
1960: Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (d. 2014)
1960: Lim Guan Eng, Malaysian accountant and politician
1959: Stephen Jefferies, South African cricketer and coach
1959: Mark Steyn, Canadian-American author and critic
1958: Rob Byrnes, American author and blogger
1958: Rob Curling, Malayan-English journalist
1958: Michel Ferté, French race car driver
1958: Bob Greene, American physiologist and author
1958: Mirosław Okoński, Polish footballer
1958: George Rogers, American football player
1957: Mike Buchanan, British men's rights advocate
1957: James Cama, American martial artist and educator (d. 2014)
1957: Phil Collen, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956: Warren Cuccurullo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956: Andrius Kubilius, Lithuanian academic and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Lithuania
1956: Slick, American wrestler and manager
1955: Milenko Zablaćanski, Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1954: Harold Hongju Koh, American lawyer, academic, and politician
1954: Frits Pirard, Dutch cyclist
1953: Kim Basinger, American actress
1953: Roy Firestone, American sportscaster and journalist
1953: Norman Finkelstein, American author, academic, and activist
1953: Sam Kinison, American comedian (d. 1992)
1953: Władysław Kozakiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish pole vaulter and coach
1953: Steve Yates, English footballer
1952: Khaw Boon Wan, Malayan-Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health
1952: Steve Atkinson, English-Hong Kong cricketer
1951: Bill Bryson, American essayist, travel and science writer
1951: Richard Desmond, English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell
1951: Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950: Rick Baker, American actor and makeup artist
1950: Tim Foli, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1950: Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1994)
1949: Mary Gordon, American author, critic, and academic
1949: Nancy Meyers, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1949: Robert Sternberg, American psychologist and academic
1948: Luis Caffarelli, Argentinian-American mathematician and academic
1948: John Waters, English-Australian actor, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
1947: Gregg Allman, American musician (d. 2017)
1947: Gérard Blanc, French singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2009)
1947: Thomas Cech, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947: Kati-Claudia Fofonoff, Finnish author and poet (d. 2011)
1947: Margaret Geller, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
1946: John Rubinstein, American actor, director, and composer
1946: Chava Alberstein, Polish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945: John Banville, Irish novelist and screenwriter
1945: Julie Heldman, American tennis player
1944: George Baker, Dutch singer-songwriter
1944: Bertie Higgins, American singer-songwriter
1944: Ted Irvine, Canadian ice hockey player
1944: Vince MacLean, Canadian educator and politician
1943: Larry Martin, American paleontologist and ornithologist (d. 2013)
1943: Jim Morrison, American singer-songwriter and poet (d. 1971)
1943: James Tate, American poet (d. 2015)
1943: Bodo Tümmler, German runner
1943: Mary Woronov, American actress, director, and screenwriter
1941: Ed Brinkman, American baseball player and coach (d. 2008)
1941: Bob Brown, American football player (d. 2023)
1941: Duke Cunningham, American commander and politician
1941: Bobby Elliott, English drummer
1941: Geoff Hurst, English footballer and manager
1940: Brant Alyea, American baseball player
1939: Red Berenson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1939: Jerry Butler, American singer-songwriter and producer
1939: James Galway, Irish flute player
1939: Felipe Gozon, Filipino lawyer and businessman
1939: Dariush Mehrjui, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)
1939: Soko Richardson, American drummer (d. 2004)
1937: James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
1937: Arne Næss, Jr., German-Norwegian mountaineer and businessman (d. 2004)
1936: David Carradine, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1936: Michael Hobson, American publisher (d. 2020)
1936: Peter Parfitt, English cricketer
1935: Dharmendra, Indian actor, producer, and politician
1935: Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Russian-Israeli chess player (d. 2017)
1933: Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (d. 1998)
1932: Claus Luthe, German automotive designer (d. 2008)
1931: Bob Arum, American boxing promoter, founded Top Rank
1930: Julian Critchley, English journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1930: Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1929: Victor Nosach, chronicler of the history of workers and trade union of Russia (d. 2011)
1928: Bill Hewitt, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. 1996)
1928: Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist, neuroscientist, and academic (d. 2012)
1927: Vladimir Shatalov, Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2021)
1927: Niklas Luhmann, German thinker and social theorist (d. 1998)
1925: Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1990)
1925: Nasir Kazmi, Pakistani Urdu poet (d. 1972)
1925: Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author and poet (d. 2000)
1925: Jimmy Smith, American organist (d. 2005)
1924: Lionel Gilbert, Australian historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)
1923: Dewey Martin, American actor (d. 2018)
1923: Rudolph Pariser, Chinese-American soldier and chemist
1922: Lucian Freud, German-English painter and illustrator (d. 2011)
1922: Jean Ritchie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1920: McDonald Bailey, Trinidadian-English sprinter and rugby player (d. 2013)
1919: Peter Tali Coleman, Samoan-American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa (d. 1997)
1919: Julia Bowman, American mathematician and theorist (d. 1985)
1919: Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
1917: Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer and administrator (d. 1998)
1916: Richard Fleischer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1915: Ernest Lehman, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1914: Floyd Tillman, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)
1914: Ernie Toshack, Australian cricketer (d. 2003)
1913: Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (d. 1966)
1911: Lee J. Cobb, American actor (d. 1976)
1911: Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (d. 1992)
1908: Concha Piquer, Spanish singer and actress (d. 1990)
1908: John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1994)
1903: Zelma Watson George, Black American opera singer (d. 1994)
1902: Wifredo Lam, Cuban-French painter (d. 1982)
1900: Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (d. 1990)
1900: Ants Oras, Estonian-American author and academic (d. 1982)
1899: Arthur Leslie, English-Welsh actor and playwright (d. 1970)
1899: John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (d. 1987)
1894: E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye (d. 1938)
1894: James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (d. 1961)
1892: Marcus Lee Hansen, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1938)
1890: Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American pianist and composer (d. 1959)
1887: Elizabeth Daryush, English poet (d. 1977)
1886: Diego Rivera, Mexican painter and educator (d. 1957)
1884: Francis Balfour, English colonel and politician (d. 1965)
1881: Albert Gleizes, French painter (d. 1953)
1880: Johannes Aavik, Estonian linguist and philologist (d. 1973)
1877: Paul Ladmirault, French pianist, violinist, and composer (d. 1944)
1875: Frederik Buch, Danish actor and screenwriter (d. 1925)
1874: Ernst Moro, Austrian physician and pediatrician (d. 1951)
1865: Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (d. 1946)
1865: Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
1865: Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (d. 1957)
1864: Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor (d. 1943)
1863: Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist (d. 1937)
1862: Georges Feydeau, French playwright (d. 1921)
1861: William C. Durant, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet (d. 1947)
1861: Aristide Maillol, French sculptor and painter (d. 1944)
1861: Georges Méliès, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1938)
1860: Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet (d. 1939)
1832: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
1822: Jakov Ignjatović, Hungarian-Serbian author (d. 1889)
1818: Charles III, Prince of Monaco (d. 1889)
1817: Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1896)
1815: Adolph Menzel, German painter and illustrator (d. 1905)
1813: August Belmont, Prussian-American financier and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 1890)
1807: Friedrich Traugott Kützing, German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist (d. 1893)
1795: Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1874)
1765: Eli Whitney, American engineer, invented the cotton gin (d. 1825)
1756: Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria (d. 1801)
1731: František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist and composer (d. 1799)
1730: Jan Ingenhousz, Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist (d. 1799)
1724: Claude Balbastre, French organist and composer (d. 1799)
1708: Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1765)
1699: Maria Josepha of Austria (d. 1757)
1678: Antonio de Benavides, colonial governor of Florida (d. 1762)
1678: Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, English politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (d. 1757)
1558: François de La Rochefoucauld, Catholic cardinal (d. 1645)
1542: Mary, Queen of Scots, daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise (d. 1587)
1538: Miklós Istvánffy, Hungarian politician (d. 1615)
1424: Anselm Adornes, Belgian merchant, politician and diplomat (d. 1483)
1418: Queen Jeonghui, Queen consort of Korea (d. 1483)
1412: Astorre II Manfredi, Italian lord (d. 1468)
1021: Wang Anshi, Chinese economist and chancellor (d. 1086)
65 BC: Horace, Roman poet (d. 8 BC)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Robbie Shakespeare, Jamaican bass guitarist and record producer (b. 1953)
2019: René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
2019: Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer and songwriter (b. 1998)
2019: Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and actor (b. 1933)
2018: David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic (b. 1933)
2016: John Glenn, American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit (b. 1921)
2015: Mattiwilda Dobbs, American soprano and actress (b. 1925)
2015: Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer and coach (b. 1936)
2015: Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (b. 1943)
2015: John Trudell, American author, poet, and actor (b. 1946)
2015: Elsie Tu, English-Hong Kong educator and politician (b. 1913)
2014: Tom Gosnell, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1951)
2014: Russ Kemmerer, American baseball player and coach (b. 1930)
2014: Knut Nystedt, Norwegian organist and composer (b. 1915)
2013: John Cornforth, Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2013: Sándor Szokolay, Hungarian composer and academic (b. 1931)
2013: Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat (b. 1949)
2012: Jerry Brown, American football player (b. 1987)
2012: John Gowans, Scottish-English 16th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1934)
2012: Johnny Lira, American boxer (b. 1951)
2009: Luis Días, Dominican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952)
2008: Oliver Postgate, English voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2008: Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930)
2007: Gerardo García Pimentel, Mexican journalist (b. 1983)
2006: Martha Tilton, American singer (b. 1915)
2006: José Uribe, Dominican baseball player (b. 1959)
2005: Rose Heilbron, British barrister and judge (b. 1914)
2004: Dimebag Darrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
2003: Rubén González, Cuban pianist (b. 1919)
2001: Mirza Delibašić, Bosnian basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
2001: Betty Holberton, American computer scientist and programmer (b. 1917)
1999: Péter Kuczka, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1923)
1997: Bob Bell, American clown and actor (b. 1922)
1996: Howard Rollins, American actor (b. 1950)
1996: Kashiwado Tsuyoshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna (b. 1938)
1994: Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1927)
1993: Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1933)
1992: William Shawn, American journalist (b. 1917)
1991: Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1911)
1984: Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
1984: Robert Jay Mathews, American militant leader, founded The Order (b. 1953)
1984: Razzle, English drummer (b. 1960)
1984: Semih Sancar, Turkish general (b. 1911)
1983: Keith Holyoake, New Zealand farmer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
1983: Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
1982: Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and politician (b. 1951)
1982: André Kamperveen, Surinamese footballer and manager (b. 1924)
1982: Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and race car driver (b. 1925)
1982: Haim Laskov, Israel Defense Forces fifth Chief of Staff (b. 1919)
1980: John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
1978: Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
1975: Gary Thain, New Zealand bass player (b. 1948)
1971: Ernst Krenkel, Russian geographer and explorer (b. 1903)
1971: Eleni Ourani, Greek poet and critic (b. 1896)
1966: Ward Morehouse, American playwright, author, and critic (b. 1899)
1963: Sarit Thanarat, Thai field marshal and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
1958: Tris Speaker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1888)
1954: Claude Cahun, French artist, photographer, and writer (b. 1894)
1954: Gladys George, American actress (b. 1904)
1954: Joseph B. Keenan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
1952: Charles Lightoller, English sailor (b. 1874)
1942: Albert Kahn, American architect, Fisher Building, Packard Automotive Plant, Ford River Rouge Complex (b. 1869)
1941: Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1885)
1940: George Lloyd, English-Canadian bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
1938: Friedrich Glauser, Swiss author (b. 1896)
1937: Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (b. 1856)
1932: Gertrude Jekyll, British horticulturist and writer (b. 1843)
1929: José Vicente Concha, Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia (b. 1867)
1922: Joe McKelvey and three other prominent Irish Republican Army officers are executed during the Irish Civil War
1919: J. Alden Weir, American painter (b. 1852)
1918: Josip Stadler, Bosnian Catholic archbishop (b. 1843)
1917: Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian author (b. 1836)
1914: Melchior Anderegg, Swiss mountain guide (b. 1828)
1914: Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral (b. 1861)
1913: Camille Jenatzy, Belgian race car driver (b. 1868)
1907: King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
1903: Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (b. 1820)
1894: Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
1886: Isaac Lea, American conchologist, geologist, and publisher (b. 1792)
1885: William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1821)
1869: Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian saint (b. 1832)
1864: George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1815)
1859: Thomas De Quincey, English journalist and author (b. 1785)
1856: Theobald Mathew, Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader (b. 1790)
1830: Benjamin Constant, Swiss-French philosopher and author (b. 1767)
1815: Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (b. 1739)
1779: Nathan Alcock, English physician (b. 1707)
1768: Jean Denis Attiret, French painter and missionary (b. 1702)
1756: William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1690)
1746: Charles Radclyffe, English courtier and soldier (b. 1693)
1745: Étienne Fourmont, French orientalist and academic (b. 1683)
1744: Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France (b. 1717)
1734: James Figg, English prizefighter
1722: Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine (b. 1652)
1709: Thomas Corneille, French playwright and philologist (b. 1625)
1695: Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (b. 1625)
1691: Richard Baxter, English minister, poet, and hymn-writer (b. 1615)
1680: Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, English lawyer and politician (b. 1606)
1649: Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (b. 1613)
1643: John Pym, English politician (b. 1583)
1638: Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
1632: Philippe van Lansberge, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1561)
1626: John Davies, English poet, lawyer, and politician (b. 1569)
1596: Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Marrano writer and martyr (b. c. 1566/1567)
1550: Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and diplomat (b. 1478)
1431: Hedwig Jagiellon, Polish and Lithuanian princess (b. 1408)
1365: Nicholas II, Duke of Opava (b. 1288)
1292: John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury
1186: Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen (b.c 1125)
964: Zhou the Elder, Chinese queen consort
899: Arnulf of Carinthia (b. 850)
855: Drogo of Metz, illegitimate son of Charlemagne (b. 801)

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