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February 18

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February 18

February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 316 days remain until the end of the year (317 in leap years).

Lottery News On This Day

2026: North Carolina man's Christmas gifts turn into $1 million second-chance lottery win. A North Carolina man's Christmas miracle might have been delayed, but a $1 million second-chance lottery win made it worth the wait.
2025: $83.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot won by a single ticket. One ticket, purchased at a retailer likely affiliated with a lottery courier service, won last night's $83.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot.
2022: North Carolina woman claims half-million lottery jackpot right before ticket expired. A North Carolina Lottery player claimed a half-million Cash 5 jackpot just in time after losing the winning ticket for months.
2021: Low on gas, NC man goes into store and picks out $10 million winning lottery ticket. A North Carolina man is $10 million richer after the low-fuel light came on in his Silverado truck and he decided to fill up with gas, N.C. lottery officials said Wednesday.
2020: Pa. Lottery blames growth of skill games, lack of big jackpots for drop in profits. The growing proliferation of so-called skill games at Pennsylvania Lottery retailers are having an impact on the lottery's ability to generate revenue to pay for programs for senior citizens, a lottery official told state lawmakers on Tuesday.
2017: California man claims $191M Mega Millions jackpot. A California man won $191 million dollars off a Mega Millions lottery ticket he bought in Primm, officials with California Lottery announced Friday.
2015: Bill would allow Texas Lottery winners to pay for anonymity. Texas lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow big lottery winners to keep their identity a secret, but they would have to pay for that privilege.
2013: Brothers celebrate lottery win by blowing up house. Two brothers who were celebrating a $75,000 winning lottery ticket by purchasing marijuana and meth accidentally blew up their house on Friday, said Sgt. Bruce Watts of the Wichita Police Department.
2013: Tech industry sets its sights on gambling. Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual games into occasions for adults to wager.
2009: Mega Millions lottery jackpot rolls to $120 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing was raised to $120 million.
2008: Killer of lottery winner convicted. A Toronto-area doctor was convicted of poisoning his 66-year-old wife for squandering $5 million she won in a Canadian lottery, Toronto media reported.
2004: Mega Millions lottery jackpot soars to $215 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $215 million Wednesday, the highest in almost two years.
2004: Group of 17 gets $9.7 million Indiana Lottery jackpot. A group of 17 people from Lake County, Indiana claimed a $9.7 million Hoosier Lottery jackpot on Tuesday.
2004: School Board Discusses Resolution Supporting N.C. Lottery. North Carolina school leaders near Virginia seem especially passionate about the lottery money that goes north of the border.
2004: Two former workers win suit against Kentucky lottery. A Jefferson Circuit Court jury has awarded $2.8 million to two former Kentucky Lottery employees who claimed they endured racial discrimination on the job.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$493 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2024
2.$425.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2014
3.$416 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2026
4.$365 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 18, 2006
5.$361 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 18, 2017
6.$331.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2024
7.$282 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2019
8.$246 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 21, 2018
9.€202 Million US$244.86 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2021
10.$239 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2004
11.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2008
12.$212 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2016
13.$206 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2019
14.€176 Million
US$199.34 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2019
15.€160 Million
US$197.54 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2018
16.$195.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2025
17.$185 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2018
18.€158.94 Million
US$179.95 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2022
19.$175 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 21, 2006
20.$168.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 18, 2026
21.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 18, 2014
22.€130 Million
US$153.08 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2026
23.$150 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 20, 2007
24.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 18, 2025
25.€122.77 Million
US$144.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 19, 2026

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1993: Bossladii
Thursday, Feb 18, 1993
33 years old
1991: AmbyR22
Monday, Feb 18, 1991
35 years old
1989: boow1989
Saturday, Feb 18, 1989
37 years old
1984: lotsofcash
Saturday, Feb 18, 1984
42 years old
1983: achilles
Friday, Feb 18, 1983
43 years old
1983: tiago218
Friday, Feb 18, 1983
43 years old
1982: jaemzyj4545
Thursday, Feb 18, 1982
44 years old
1981: Winall81
Wednesday, Feb 18, 1981
45 years old
1981: Universalluk115
Wednesday, Feb 18, 1981
45 years old
1979: yeahman
Sunday, Feb 18, 1979
47 years old
1979: bluemagic
Sunday, Feb 18, 1979
47 years old
1978: sweetzs
Saturday, Feb 18, 1978
48 years old
1977: ebarbre
Friday, Feb 18, 1977
49 years old
1976: plumbusa
Wednesday, Feb 18, 1976
50 years old
1976: BobbyericaL718
Wednesday, Feb 18, 1976
50 years old
1973: edumas
Sunday, Feb 18, 1973
53 years old
1973: GinaFanIdol07
Sunday, Feb 18, 1973
53 years old
1973: Schweitzers
Sunday, Feb 18, 1973
53 years old
1971: fifty five
Thursday, Feb 18, 1971
55 years old
1971: psychicSEER4u
Thursday, Feb 18, 1971
55 years old
1970: swiggle
Wednesday, Feb 18, 1970
56 years old
1963: tlady4
Monday, Feb 18, 1963
63 years old
1961: DG1USA
Saturday, Feb 18, 1961
65 years old
1958: emma pearl
Tuesday, Feb 18, 1958
68 years old
1958: jahbilly
Tuesday, Feb 18, 1958
68 years old
1956: morocco
Saturday, Feb 18, 1956
70 years old
1955: meriwetherman
Friday, Feb 18, 1955
71 years old
1954: mohammad
Thursday, Feb 18, 1954
72 years old
1940: lmatlaw
Sunday, Feb 18, 1940
86 years old
: billionairess
(year not provided)
: lottogloria
(year not provided)
: pallastars
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: Perseverance, a Mars rover designed to explore Jezero crater on Mars, as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, lands successfully.
2018: Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashes in the Dena sub-range in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, Resulting in 66 Deaths
2014: At least 76 people are killed and hundreds are injured in clashes between riot police and demonstrators in Kyiv, Ukraine.
2013: Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
2010: WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
2004: Up to 295 people, 182 of which being rescue workers, die near Nishapur, Iran, when a runaway freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertilizer catches fire and explodes.
2003: 192 people die when an arsonist sets fire to a subway train in Daegu, South Korea.
2001: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2001: Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
1991: The IRA explodes bombs in the early morning at Paddington station and Victoria station in London.
1983: Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
1979: Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
1977: The Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire started during Chinese New Year when a firecracker ignited memorial wreaths of the late Mao Zedong, killing 694 personnel. It remains the deadliest fireworks accident in the world.
1977: A thousand armed soldiers raid Kalakuta Republic, the commune of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, leading to the death of Funmilayo Anikulapo Kuti.
1977: The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
1972: The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
1970: The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1965: The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1957: Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
1957: Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
1955: Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
1954: The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1947: First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to the mountains.
1946: Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
1945: World War II: American and Brazilian troops kick off Operation Encore in Northern Italy, a successful limited action in the Northern Apennines that prepares for the western portion of the Allied Spring offensive.
1943: World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943: World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
1942: World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army begins the systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore.
1938: Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
1932: The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
1930: While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930: Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
1915: U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.
1911: The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
1906: Édouard de Laveleye forms the Belgian Olympic Committee in Brussels.
1900: Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
1885: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
1878: John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
1873: Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
1861: In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
1861: With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.
1814: Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Montereau.
1797: French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
1791: Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
1781: Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: Captain Thomas Shirley opens his expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa (present-day Ghana).
1735: The ballad opera called Flora, or Hob in the Well went down in history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (Charleston, S.C.)
1637: Eighty Years' War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
1478: George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1332: Amda Seyon I, Emperor of Ethiopia begins his campaigns in the southern Muslim provinces.
1268: The Battle of Wesenberg is fought between the Livonian Order and Dovmont of Pskov.
1229: The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
3102 BC: Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.

Births On This Day

2002: Manu Bhaker, Indian sports shooter
2001: Tanguy Coulibaly, French footballer
2001: Jaime Jaquez Jr., American basketball player
2000: Zakaria Aboukhlal, Moroccan footballer
2000: Giacomo Raspadori, Italian footballer
1998: Vernon, South Korean and American rapper, singer and songwriter
1997: DK, South Korean singer
1997: Odysseas Adam, Greek volleyball player
1996: Tyler Dorsey, American-Greek basketball player
1995: Nathan Aké, Dutch footballer
1994: J-Hope, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer, and record producer
1994: Paul Zipser, German basketball player
1993: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, American basketball player
1992: Le'Veon Bell, American football player
1992: Martin Marinčin, Slovak ice hockey player
1992: Logan Miller, American actor
1991: Sebastian Neumann, German footballer
1990: Monica Aksamit, American saber fencer
1990: Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player
1990: Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player
1990: Bryan Oviedo, Costa Rican footballer
1989: Sonja Vasić, Serbian basketball player
1988: Roman Neustädter, German-Russian footballer
1988: Sarah Sutherland, American actress
1988: Maiara Walsh, American-Brazilian actress
1986: Kyle Weaver, American basketball player
1984: Carlos Kameni, Cameroonian footballer
1983: Kara Braxton, American basketball player
1983: Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
1983: Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
1982: Christian Tiffert, German footballer
1981: Andrei Kirilenko, Russian-American basketball player
1981: Alex Ríos, American baseball player
1980: Nik Antropov, Kazakhstani-Canadian ice hockey player
1980: Regina Spektor, Russian-American musician and songwriter
1977: Ike Barinholtz, American actor and comedian
1977: Kristoffer Polaha, American actor
1975: Gary Neville, English footballer
1974: Carrie Ann Baade, American painter and academic
1974: Radek Černý, Czech footballer
1974: Julia Butterfly Hill, American environmentalist and author
1974: Jillian Michaels, American personal trainer and television personality
1971: Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer
1969: Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
1968: Molly Ringwald, American actress
1968: Tommy Tallarico, American video game music composer
1967: Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
1967: Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler
1966: Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer
1966: Ryan Wesley Routh, American attempted assassin of Donald Trump
1965: Dr. Dre, American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur
1964: Matt Dillon, American actor
1961: Douglas Rushkoff, American media and cultural theorist, author, and documentarian
1960: Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player
1960: Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
1959: Jayne Atkinson, English-American actress
1957: Marita Koch, German sprinter
1957: Vanna White, American television personality
1955: Lisa See, American writer and novelist
1954: John Travolta, American actor, singer and producer
1952: Randy Crawford, American jazz and R&B singer
1952: Maurice Lucas, American basketball player (died 2010)
1952: Juice Newton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951: Queen Komal of Nepal
1951: Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist
1950: Nana Amba Eyiaba I, Ghanaian queen mother and advocate
1950: John Hughes, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2009)
1950: Cybill Shepherd, American actress
1947: Dennis DeYoung, American musician, singer, and songwriter
1946: Michael Buerk, English journalist
1946: Jess Walton, American actress
1944: Elizabeth Nunez, American novelist (died 2024)
1941: Irma Thomas, American singer-songwriter
1940: Fabrizio De André, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1999)
1939: Claude Ake, Nigerian political scientist and academic (died 1996)
1936: Jean M. Auel, American author
1934: Audre Lorde, American writer and activist (died 1992)
1933: Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician
1933: Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (died 2009)
1933: Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (died 1975)
1932: Miloš Forman, Czech-American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2018)
1931: Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (died 2007)
1931: Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019).
1929: Len Deighton, English historian and author
1929: André Mathieu, Canadian pianist and composer (died 1968)
1927: Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (died 2005)
1926: Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (died 1976)
1925: George Kennedy, American actor (died 2016)
1922: Eric Gairy, Grenadan politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (died 1997)
1922: Helen Gurley Brown, American journalist and author (died 2012)
1922: Connie Wisniewski, American baseball player (died 1995)
1921: Mary Amdur, American toxicologist and public health researcher (died 1998)
1921: Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer (died 2013)
1920: Rolande Falcinelli, French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue (died 2006)
1919: Jack Palance, American boxer and actor (died 2006)
1915: Phyllis Calvert, English actress (died 2002)
1915: Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (died 1978)
1914: Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2000)
1909: Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1993)
1906: Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (died 1980)
1903: Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (died 1983)
1899: Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (died 1985)
1898: Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet and politician, 1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (died 1980)
1896: Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (died 1970)
1893: Maksim Haretski, Belarusian prose writer, journalist and activist (died 1938)
1892: Wendell Willkie, American captain, lawyer, and politician (died 1944)
1890: Edward Arnold, American actor (died 1956)
1890: Adolphe Menjou, American actor (died 1963)
1885: Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (died 1954)
1883: Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (died 1957)
1871: Harry Brearley, English inventor (died 1948)
1870: William Laurel Harris, American painter and author (died 1924)
1867: Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German writer (died 1950)
1862: Charles M. Schwab, American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel (died 1939)
1860: Anders Zorn, Swedish artist (died 1920)
1855: Jean Jules Jusserand, French historian, author, and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (died 1932)
1850: George Henschel, German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (died 1934)
1849: Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author, playwright, and politician (died 1906)
1848: Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (died 1933)
1846: Wilson Barrett, English actor, playwright, and manager (died 1904)
1838: Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (died 1916)
1836: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Indian mystic and yogi (died 1886)
1818: John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (died 1883)
1818: Konstanty Schmidt-Ciążyński, Polish collector and art connoisseur who donated a large collection to the National Museum in Kraków (died 1889)
1817: Lewis Armistead, American general (died 1863)
1814: Samuel Fenton Cary, American lawyer and politician (died 1900)
1754: Emanuel Granberg, Finnish church painter (died 1797)
1745: Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (died 1827)
1732: Johann Christian Kittel, German organist and composer (died 1809)
1658: Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French philosopher and author (died 1743)
1642: Marie Champmeslé, French actress (died 1698)
1632: Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (died 1692)
1626: Francesco Redi, Italian physician (died 1697)
1609: Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1674)
1602: Per Brahe the Younger, Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (died 1680)
1602: Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter (died 1660)
1589: Henry Vane the Elder, English politician (died 1655)
1589: Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Dutch explorer (died 1646)
1559: Isaac Casaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (died 1614)
1547: Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, founder of Isfahan School of Islamic Philosophy (died 1621)
1543: Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (died 1608)
1530: Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyō (died 1578)
1516: Mary I of England (died 1558)
1486: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian monk and saint (died 1534)
1372: Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (died 1448)
1201: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (died 1274)

Deaths On This Day

2025: Gene Hackman, award-winning American actor (born 1930)
2025: Gerald Ridsdale, Australian laicised Catholic priest and sex offender (born 1934)
2025: Hurricane, American secret service canine (born 2009)
2020: Flavio Bucci, Italian actor and voice actor (born 1947)
2019: Alessandro Mendini, Italian designer and architect (born 1931)
2015: Elchanan Heilprin, Slovak-born English rabbi (born 1920 or 1922)
2014: Mavis Gallant, Canadian-French author and playwright (born 1922)
2014: Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (born 1914)
2001: Balthus, Polish-Swiss painter and illustrator (born 1908)
2001: Dale Earnhardt, American racer and seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion (born 1951)
1982: Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (born 1895)
1981: Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (born 1895)
1977: Andy Devine, American actor (born 1905)
1969: Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1893)
1967: J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (born 1904)
1966: Grigory Nelyubov, Soviet pilot and military officer (born 1934)
1960: Gertrude Vanderbilt, American stage actress (born c. 1885)
1956: Gustave Charpentier, French composer (born 1860)
1938: David King Udall, American missionary and politician (born 1851)
1933: James J. Corbett, American boxer and actor (born 1866)
1915: Frank James, American soldier and criminal (born 1843)
1910: Lucy Stanton, American activist (born 1831)
1902: Charles Lewis Tiffany, American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co. (born 1812)
1893: Serranus Clinton Hastings, American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California (born 1814)
1880: Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (born 1812)
1873: Vasil Levski, Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization (born 1837)
1851: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (born 1804)
1803: Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (born 1719)
1788: John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (born 1713)
1780: Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (born 1714)
1778: Joseph Marie Terray, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1715)
1772: Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (born 1712)
1748: Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (born 1677)
1743: Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Italian noble (born 1667)
1712: Louis, Dauphin of France, (born 1682)
1695: William Phips, governor of Massachusetts (born 1650)
1683: Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (born 1620)
1658: John Villiers, Viscount Purbeck, English courtier (born c. 1591)
1654: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (born 1594)
1564: Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (born 1475)
1546: Martin Luther, German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (born 1483)
1535: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (born 1486)
1502: Hedwig Jagiellon, duchess of Bavaria (born 1457)
1478: George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, English nobleman (born 1449)
1455: Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (born 1395)
1397: Enguerrand VII, French nobleman (born 1340)
1379: Albert II, duke of Mecklenburg (born 1318)
1294: Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor (born 1215)
1225: Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, Norman nobleman
1218: Berthold V, duke of Zähringen (born 1160)
1139: Yaropolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1082)
999: Gregory V, pope of the Catholic Church (born 972)
901: Thābit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and physician (born 826)
814: Angilbert, Frankish monk and diplomat (born 760)
675: Colmán, bishop of Lindisfarne

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