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February 2

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February 2

February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 332 days remain until the end of the year (333 in leap years).

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Nebraska man who cashed $300,000 lottery prize arrested for fraudulent claim. A Nebraska man was arrested for allegedly stealing lottery tickets from his workplace and fraudulently claiming a $300,000 prize.
2024: Two Massachusetts lottery winners claim $1 million prizes in same game 25 minutes apart. Two Massachusetts lottery players bumped into each other while they each claimed a $1 million prize from the same game within 25 minutes of each other.
2022: Widowed father of six to put $100,000 lottery prize to good use. A recently widowed father of six is elated after winning a prize worth $100,000 from a sports-themed Ontario Lottery game.
2020: Alabama reporter documents experience buying Mississippi lottery tickets. It was a historic day in Mississippi Thursday. It became the 45th state to start selling lottery tickets. But in true Mississippi style, things didn't quite go to plan. Some people might say it was a little cattywampus.
2018: NH Powerball lottery winner sues for anonymity. A New Hampshire woman who hit this month's $560 million Powerball jackpot asked a judge Monday to keep her identity secret.
2016: Florida lottery winner back in court for retrial. A retired Florida school teacher is back in court this week, fighting to keep her $1 million dollar lottery win.
2015: Powerball heats up with $317 million jackpot. Big multi-state lottery jackpots may have been missing somewhat in 2014, but just a month into 2015 lottery players are already seeing a second massive grand prize looming.
2014: Newest Pa. lottery scratch-off sports $30 pricetag. The Pennsylvania Lottery earlier this week launched its most expensive instant lottery ticket, a $30 scratch-off that offers a top prize of $3 million.
2014: Lottery expansion could still be a big winner for Penn. Gov.. Efforts by Gov. Tom Corbett's administration to privatize the management of the Pennsylvania Lottery is on the back burner, but the idea of expanding lottery games to include keno remains very much in the picture.
2013: 2012 Lottery Results Almanac Published. The latest edition of Lottery Post's highly-regarded lottery results reference book officially went on sale Tuesday.
2012: Entire town, except one guy, wins $950M lottery. All but one household in Sodeto, Spain, held at least a piece of a winning ticket in the Spanish El Gordo lottery's huge first prize, $950 million -- the biggest ever.
2012: $200 MILLION: New Powerball delivers huge lottery jackpot. There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $200 million for Saturday's drawing.
2011: Statistician cracks secret code behind lottery tickets. A statistician used techniques for scoping out potential gold mines and determining the how much gold they might contain to potentially crack the code for finding winning scratch-off lottery tickets.
2009: Arkansas lottery bill nearly ready for review. When lawmakers finally get their hands on the bill to create the Arkansas lottery, they may want to find a comfortable chair -- because it's going to be over 100 pages long.
2007: Texas Gov. proposes selling the lottery. Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday that his State of the State address on Tuesday would include a plan to fully privatize the Texas Lottery by selling it to private interests.
2006: Euro Millions Lottery Sparks Buying Frenzy With $224 Million Top Prize. EuroMillions, the lottery held in nine European countries, is about to eclipse Powerball in the U.S. as the world's single biggest cash prize.
2005: VA Lottery Director wants to be college president. Virginia Lottery Director Penelope Ward Kyle assured Radford University faculty Tuesday that she wouldn't institute radical changes if she succeeded Douglas Covington as president.
2005: Mississippi Lottery Bill Killed. A proposed Mississippi state lottery is among dozens of bills that died under the first major deadline of the 2005 legislative session.
2005: Georgia Lottery Unveils New Game. The Georgia Lottery Corporation (GLC) yesterday announced the launch of $100 million Cash Spectacular, a new instant game with 10 $1 million top prizes and the highest payout percentage in GLC history.
2005: $14 million Illinois lottery jackpot expires. A $14 million Illinois Lottery jackpot went unclaimed Monday, making it the largest pot in the state's history where no one came forward to say, "I won the lotto!"
2005: California Lottery to consider multi-state game. In the California Lottery commission meeting next week, lottery staffers will present a report to the commission about the potential for California to join a multi-state lottery game.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Grows To $85 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $85 million, with a cash option of $46 million.
2004: One $10 million jackpot winner in Hoosier Lotto. One of the tickets sold for Saturday night's Hoosier Lotto game matched all six numbers drawn and won the $10 million jackpot.
2004: GTECH Moves Jobs From Ohio To Rhode Island. GTECH, one of the largest suppliers in the lottery industry, will eliminate 130 jobs in Ohio, moving those job functions to Rhode Island.
2004: Convenience store's lucky streak continues. A convenience store where three winning lottery tickets were sold in less than six months is credited with the sale that netted the latest $70 million Lotto Texas jackpot.
2004: 2 tickets split $7 million Florida Lotto prize. Winning tickets for Saturday's $7 million Florida Lotto drawing were sold in Pensacola and Fort Lauderdale.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$704.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 4, 2023
2.€361.58 Million US$395.5 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 2, 2023
3.$333 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 2, 2024
4.$324.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 4, 2015
5.$229 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 4, 2017
6.€183 Million US$220.88 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 3, 2006
7.$219.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 5, 2014
8.$202.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 3, 2024
9.$200 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 4, 2012
10.$191 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 2, 2019
11.€130 Million
US$188.4 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 8, 2008
12.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 4, 2006
13.$176 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 2, 2013
14.€150.05 Million
US$170.86 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 3, 2022
15.$168 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 4, 2020
16.€130 Million
US$148.89 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 4, 2022
17.€128 Million
US$146.07 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 5, 2019
18.$145 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 3, 2018
19.$139 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 5, 2019
20.€100 Million
US$136.73 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 5, 2010
21.€108 Million
US$134.67 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 2, 2018
22.$125.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 2, 2022
23.€100.6 Million
US$121.14 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 2, 2021
24.€94.26 Million
US$117.44 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 3, 2018
25.$115 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 3, 2010

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2002: ketquaxoso
Saturday, Feb 2, 2002
23 years old
1987: dueforawin
Monday, Feb 2, 1987
38 years old
1986: Shaunika
Sunday, Feb 2, 1986
39 years old
1985: Tetence85
Saturday, Feb 2, 1985
40 years old
1984: TStylez10
Thursday, Feb 2, 1984
41 years old
1982: cetonij
Tuesday, Feb 2, 1982
43 years old
1980: Mansawilliams
Saturday, Feb 2, 1980
45 years old
1975: dreasexy
Sunday, Feb 2, 1975
50 years old
1974: Low5150
Saturday, Feb 2, 1974
51 years old
1970: Fatty515
Monday, Feb 2, 1970
55 years old
1970: mstrelle22
Monday, Feb 2, 1970
55 years old
1965: Rman313
Tuesday, Feb 2, 1965
60 years old
1965: ekimber3
Tuesday, Feb 2, 1965
60 years old
1960: mxmasz
Tuesday, Feb 2, 1960
65 years old
1959: winning1st
Monday, Feb 2, 1959
66 years old
1958: pcnut
Sunday, Feb 2, 1958
67 years old
1958: robertagi99
Sunday, Feb 2, 1958
67 years old
1953: Davidman
Monday, Feb 2, 1953
72 years old
1952: rollindough
Saturday, Feb 2, 1952
73 years old
1950: ibm 1950
Thursday, Feb 2, 1950
75 years old
1948: marylou salinas
Monday, Feb 2, 1948
77 years old
1946: rab264
Saturday, Feb 2, 1946
79 years old
1945: akajohann1
Friday, Feb 2, 1945
80 years old
1943: eustisfl24
Tuesday, Feb 2, 1943
82 years old
1932: LDB1932
Tuesday, Feb 2, 1932
93 years old
: cypher
(year not provided)
: scplayer
(year not provided)
: hosana
(year not provided)
: knoot
(year not provided)
: moremoneynow
(year not provided)
: PatrickUK
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: The Burmese military establishes the State Administration Council, the military junta, after deposing the democratically elected government in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
2012: The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 146-165 dead.
2007: Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
2005: The Government of Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act. This legislation would become law on July 20, 2005, legalizing same-sex marriage.
2004: Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2000: First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
1998: Cebu Pacific Flight 387 crashes into Mount Sumagaya in the Philippines, killing all 104 people on board.
1990: Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
1989: Soviet-Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
1987: After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
1982: Hama massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama.
1980: Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
1971: Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1971: The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
1966: Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1959: Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
1954: The Detroit Red Wings played in the first outdoor hockey game by any NHL team in an exhibition against the Marquette Branch Prison Pirates in Marquette, Michigan.
1943: World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
1942: The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
1935: Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.
1934: The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1925: Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1922: Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1922: The uprising called the "pork mutiny" starts in the region between Kuolajärvi and Savukoski in Finland.
1920: The Tartu Peace Treaty is signed between Estonia and Russia.
1913: Grand Central Terminal opens in New York City.
1909: The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
1901: Funeral of Queen Victoria.
1900: Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis, agree to form baseball's American League.
1899: The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
1887: In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1881: The sentences of the trial of the warlocks of Chiloé are imparted.
1876: The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1870: The Seven Brothers (Seitsemän veljestä), a novel by Finnish author Aleksis Kivi, is published first time in several thin booklets.
1868: Pro-Imperial forces capture Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burn it to the ground.
1850: Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
1848: Mexican-American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed.
1814: The last of the River Thames frost fairs comes to an end.
1725: J. S. Bach leads the first performance of his chorale cantata Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin, BWV 125, based on Luther's paraphrase of the Nunc dimittis.
1709: Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's adventure book Robinson Crusoe.
1653: New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
1645: Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Inverlochy.
1536: Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1461: Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Mortimer's Cross results in the death of Owen Tudor.
1438: Nine leaders of the Transylvanian peasant revolt are executed at Torda.
1428: An intense earthquake struck the Principality of Catalonia, with the epicenter near Camprodon. Widespread destruction and heavy casualties were reported.
1207: Terra Mariana, eventually comprising present-day Latvia and Estonia, is established.
1141: The Battle of Lincoln, at which Stephen, King of England is defeated and captured by the allies of Empress Matilda.
1032: Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy.
962: Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.
880: Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony.
506: Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law".

Births On This Day

2004: Eleonore Caburet, French rhythmic gymnast
2000: Munetaka Murakami, Japanese baseball player
1999: Jeff Okudah, American football player
1998: Shiho Katō, Japanese singer and model
1997: Ellie Bamber, English actress
1996: Christian Dvorak, American ice hockey player
1996: Paul Mescal, Irish actor
1996: Harry Winks, English footballer
1995: Paul Digby, English footballer
1995: Aleksander Jagiełło, Polish footballer
1995: Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer prodigy (d. 2012)
1995: Curtis Lazar, Canadian ice hockey player
1994: Caterina Bosetti, Italian volleyball player
1993: Bobby Decordova-Reid, English footballer
1993: Ravel Morrison, English footballer
1992: Lammtarra, American race horse (d. 2014)
1992: Joonas Tamm, Estonian footballer
1991: Nathan Delfouneso, English footballer
1991: Gregory Mertens, Belgian footballer (d. 2015)
1991: Shohei Nanba, Japanese actor
1989: Harrison Smith, American football player
1989: Southside, American record producer
1988: JuJu Chan, Hong Kong-American actress, martial artist, singer, and writer
1988: Zosia Mamet, American actress
1988: Brad Peacock, American baseball player
1987: Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
1987: Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
1987: Faydee, Australian singer
1987: Athena Imperial, Filipino journalist, Miss Earth-Water 2011
1987: Mimi Page, American singer-songwriter and composer
1987: Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer
1987: Javon Ringer, American football player
1987: Jill Scott, English footballer
1987: Martin Spanjers, American actor and producer
1986: Gemma Arterton, English actress and singer
1986: Miwa Asao, Japanese volleyball player
1985: Morris Almond, American basketball player
1985: Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
1985: Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor
1985: Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player
1985: Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
1984: Brian Cage, American wrestler
1984: Chin-Lung Hu, Taiwanese baseball player
1984: Mao Miyaji, Japanese actress
1984: Rudi Wulf, New Zealand rugby player
1983: Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
1983: Carolina Klüft, Swedish heptathlete and jumper
1983: Jordin Tootoo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983: Jason Vargas, American baseball player
1983: Vladimir Voskoboinikov, Estonian footballer
1983: Alex Westaway, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982: Sergio Castaño Ortega, Spanish footballer
1982: Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
1982: Kan Mi-youn, South Korean singer, model, and host
1981: Lance Allred, American basketball player and activist
1981: Emre Aydın, Turkish singer-songwriter
1981: Michelle Bass, English model and singer
1981: Salem al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 (d. 2001)
1980: Teddy Hart, Canadian wrestler
1980: Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
1980: Oleguer Presas, Spanish footballer
1979: Urmo Aava, Estonian race car driver
1979: Fani Chalkia, Greek hurdler and sprinter
1979: Christine Lampard, Irish television host
1979: Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
1979: Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
1978: Adam Christopher, New Zealand writer
1978: Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
1978: Dan Gadzuric, Dutch basketball player
1978: Lee Ji-ah, South Korean actress
1978: Rich Sommer, American actor
1978: Faye White, English footballer
1977: Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1977: Libor Sionko, Czech footballer
1976: Ryan Farquhar, Northern Irish motorcycle racer
1976: James Hickman, English swimmer
1976: Ana Roces, Filipino actress
1975: Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian ice hockey player
1975: Donald Driver, American football player
1975: Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
1973: Andrei Luzgin, Estonian tennis player and coach
1973: Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
1973: Marissa Jaret Winokur, American actress and singer
1972: Hisashi, Japanese musician
1972: Melvin Mora, Venezuelan baseball player
1972: Aleksey Naumov, Russian footballer
1971: Michelle Gayle, English singer-songwriter and actress
1971: Arly Jover, Spanish actress
1971: Isaac Kungwane, South African footballer and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1971: Rockwilder, American rapper and producer
1971: Hwang Seok-jeong, South Korean actress
1971: Jason Taylor, Australian rugby league player and coach
1970: Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
1970: Erik ten Hag, Dutch footballer and manager
1970: Jennifer Westfeldt, American actress and singer
1969: Dana International, Israeli singer-songwriter
1969: Valeri Karpin, Estonian-Russian footballer and manager
1968: Kenny Albert, American sportscaster
1968: Sean Elliott, American basketball player and sportscaster
1968: Scott Erickson, American baseball player and coach
1967: Artūrs Irbe, Latvian ice hockey player and coach
1967: Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general
1966: Andrei Chesnokov, Russian tennis player and coach
1966: Robert DeLeo, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1966: Adam Ferrara, American actor and comedian
1966: Michael Misick, Caicos Islander politician, Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands
1965: Carl Airey, English footballer
1965: Naoki Sano, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1963: Ilya Byakin, Russian ice hockey player
1963: Eva Cassidy, American singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
1963: Kjell Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
1963: Andrej Kiska, Slovak entrepreneur and philanthropist, President of Slovakia
1963: Philip Laats, Belgian martial artist
1963: Stephen McGann, English actor
1963: Vigleik Storaas, Norwegian pianist
1962: Philippe Claudel, French author, director, and screenwriter
1962: Andy Fordham, English darts player (d. 2021)
1962: Luke Johnson, English businessman
1962: Paul Kilgus, American baseball player
1962: Kate Raison, Australian actress
1962: Michael T. Weiss, American actor
1961: Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (d. 2013)
1961: Lauren Lane, American actress and academic
1959: Dexter Manley, American football player
1958: Michel Marc Bouchard, Canadian playwright
1957: Phil Barney, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
1956: Adnan Oktar, Turkish cult leader
1955: Leszek Engelking, Polish poet and author (d. 2022)
1955: Bob Schreck, American author
1955: Michael Talbott, American actor
1955: Kim Zimmer, American actress
1955: Jean-Michel Dupuis, French actor (d. 2024)
1954: Christie Brinkley, American actress, model, and businesswoman
1954: Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian skier and actor
1954: Nelson Ne'e, Solomon Islander politician (d. 2013)
1954: John Tudor, American baseball player
1953: Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter
1953: Jerry Sisk, Jr., American gemologist, co-founded Jewelry Television (d. 2013)
1952: Dave Casper, American football player
1952: John Cornyn, American lawyer and politician, 49th Attorney General of Texas
1952: Park Geun-hye, South Korean politician, 11th President of South Korea
1952: Ralph Merkle, American computer scientist and academic
1952: Carol Ann Susi, American actress (d. 2014)
1951: Vangelis Alexandris, Greek basketball player and coach
1951: Ken Bruce, Scottish radio host
1950: Osamu Kido, Japanese wrestler (d. 2023)
1950: Libby Purves, British journalist and author
1950: Bárbara Rey, Spanish singer and actress
1950: Barbara Sukowa, German actress
1950: Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese wrestler
1949: Duncan Bannatyne, Scottish businessman and philanthropist
1949: Jack McGee, American actor
1949: Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (d. 1996)
1949: Brent Spiner, American actor and singer
1949: Ross Valory, American bass player and songwriter
1948: Ina Garten, American chef and author
1948: Al McKay, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1948: Roger Williamson, English race car driver (d. 1973)
1947: Greg Antonacci, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1947: Farrah Fawcett, American actress and producer (d. 2009)
1946: John Armitt, English engineer and businessman
1946: Blake Clark, American comedian and actor
1946: Alpha Oumar Konaré, Malian academic and politician, 3rd President of Mali
1946: Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman and academic (d. 2009)
1945: John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, English economist and academic
1944: Andrew Davis, English organist and conductor (d. 2024)
1944: Geoffrey Hughes, English actor (d. 2012)
1944: Ursula Oppens, American pianist and educator
1942: Graham Nash, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941: Terry Biddlecombe, English jockey (d. 2014)
1941: Lee Redmond, American woman with the longest fingernails (d. 2023)
1940: Alan Caddy, English guitarist and producer (d. 2000)
1940: Thomas M. Disch, American author and poet (d. 2008)
1940: Wayne Fontes, American football player and coach
1940: David Jason, English actor, director, and producer
1939: Jackie Burroughs, English-born Canadian actress (d. 2010)
1939: Mary-Dell Chilton, American chemist and inventor and one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology
1939: Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
1938: Norman Fowler, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1938: Bo Hopkins, American actor (d. 2022)
1938: Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
1937: Don Buford, American baseball player and coach
1937: Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama (d. 2015)
1937: Anthony Haden-Guest, British journalist, poet, and critic
1937: Remak Ramsay, American actor
1937: Tom Smothers, American comedian, actor, and activist (d. 2023)
1937: Alexandra Strelchenko, Ukrainian actress and singer (d. 2019)
1936: Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (d. 1991)
1935: Pete Brown, American golfer (d. 2015)
1935: Evgeny Velikhov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 2024)
1934: Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (d. 2014)
1933: M'el Dowd, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1933: Tony Jay, English-American actor (d. 2006)
1933: Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Cuban bassist and composer (d. 2009)
1933: Than Shwe, Burmese general and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burma
1932: Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (d. 2002)
1932: Robert Mandan, American actor (d. 2018)
1931: Les Dawson, English comedian and author (d. 1993)
1931: Glynn Edwards, Malaysian-English actor (d. 2018)
1931: John Paul Harney, Canadian educator and politician (d. 2021)
1931: Dries van Agt, Dutch politician, diplomat and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2024)
1931: Judith Viorst, American journalist and author
1929: Sheila Matthews Allen, American actress and producer (d. 2013)
1929: George Band, English engineer and mountaineer (d. 2011)
1929: Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1929: John Henry Holland, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2015)
1929: Waldemar Kmentt, Austrian operatic tenor (d. 2015)
1928: Ciriaco De Mita, 47th Prime minister of Italy (d. 2022)
1928: Gamal Hamdan, Egyptian scholar and geographer (d. 1993)
1928: Jay Handlan, American basketball player and engineer (d. 2013)
1928: Tommy Harmer, English footballer and youth team coach (d. 2007)
1927: Stan Getz, American saxophonist (d. 1991)
1927: Doris Sams, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1926: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French academic and politician, 20th President of France (d. 2020)
1925: Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1924: Sonny Stitt, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
1924: Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American singer, pianist, producer (d. 2007)
1923: Jean Babilée, French dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
1923: James Dickey, American poet and novelist (d. 1997)
1923: Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian and Yugoslav chess grandmaster (d. 2012)
1923: Bonita Granville, American actress and producer (d. 1988)
1923: Red Schoendienst, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2018)
1923: Liz Smith, American journalist and author (d. 2017)
1923: Clem Windsor, Australian rugby player and surgeon (d. 2007)
1922: Kunwar Digvijay Singh, Indian field hockey player (d. 1978)
1922: Robert Chef d'Hôtel, French athlete (d. 2019)
1922: Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2019)
1922: James L. Usry, American politician, first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2002)
1920: George Hardwick, English footballer and coach (d. 2004)
1920: John Russell, American Olympic equestrian (d. 2020)
1920: Arthur Willis, English football player-manager (d. 1987)
1919: Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano and actress (d. 2012)
1919: Georg Gawliczek, German footballer and manager (d. 1999)
1918: Hella Haasse, Indonesian-Dutch author (d. 2011)
1917: Mary Ellis, British World War II ferry pilot (d. 2018)
1917: Đỗ Mười, Vietnamese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018)
1916: Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (d. 1985)
1915: Abba Eban, South African-Israeli politician and diplomat, 1st Israel Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2002)
1915: Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (d. 2005)
1915: Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (d. 2014)
1914: Eric Kierans, Canadian economist and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Communications (d. 2004)
1913: Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor and singer (d. 1985)
1912: Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer (d. 2009)
1912: Burton Lane, American songwriter and composer (d. 1997)
1911: Jack Pizzey, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Queensland (d. 1968)
1909: Frank Albertson, American actor (d. 1964)
1908: Wes Ferrell, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)
1905: Ayn Rand, Russian-born American novelist and philosopher (d. 1982)
1904: Bozorg Alavi, Iranian author and activist (d. 1997)
1902: Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (d. 1966)
1902: John Tonkin, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1995)
1901: Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (d. 1987)
1900: Willie Kamm, American baseball player and manager (d. 1988)
1897: Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (d. 1972)
1897: Gertrude Blanch, Russian-American mathematician (d. 1996)
1896: Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
1895: George Halas, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
1895: Robert Philipp, American painter (d. 1981)
1895: George Sutcliffe, Australian public servant (d. 1964)
1893: Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1974)
1893: Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (d. 1970)
1893: Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian soldier and politician (d. 1924)
1892: Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (d. 1959)
1890: Charles Correll, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1972)
1889: Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general (d. 1952)
1887: Ernst Hanfstaengl, German businessman (d. 1975)
1886: William Rose Benét, American poet and author (d. 1950)
1885: Mikhail Frunze, Soviet revolutionary, politician, army officer and military theorist (d. 1925)
1883: Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter, created Zorro (d. 1958)
1883: Julia Nava de Ruisánchez, Mexican activist and writer (d. 1964)
1882: Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (d. 1944)
1882: James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1941)
1881: Orval Overall, American baseball player and manager (d. 1947)
1880: Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
1878: Joe Lydon, American boxer (d. 1937)
1877: Frank L. Packard, Canadian author (d. 1942)
1875: Fritz Kreisler, Austrian-American violinist and composer (d. 1962)
1873: Leo Fall, Austrian composer (d. 1925)
1873: Konstantin von Neurath, German politician and diplomat, 13th German Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1956)
1869: Alexander Atabekian, Armenian physician and anarchist publisher (d. 1933)
1866: Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and academic (d. 1927)
1862: Émile Coste, French fencer (d. 1927)
1862: Cornelius McKane, American physician, educator, and hospital founder (d. 1912)
1861: Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)
1860: Curtis Guild, Jr., American journalist and politician, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1857: Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (d. 1918)
1856: Frederick William Vanderbilt, American railway magnate (d. 1938)
1856: Makar Yekmalyan, Armenian composer (d. 1905)
1851: José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican illustrator and engraver (d. 1913)
1849: Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet and playwright (d. 1921)
1842: Julian Sochocki, Polish-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1927)
1841: François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and hydrologist (d. 1912)
1829: Alfred Brehm, German zoologist and illustrator (d. 1884)
1829: William Stanley, English engineer and philanthropist (d. 1909)
1803: Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (d. 1862)
1802: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (d. 1887)
1786: Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1856)
1782: Henri de Rigny, French admiral and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1835)
1754: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1838)
1717: Ernst Gideon von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
1714: Gottfried August Homilius, German organist and composer (d. 1785)
1711: Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (d. 1794)
1700: Johann Christoph Gottsched, German author and critic (d. 1766)
1695: William Borlase, English geologist and archaeologist (d. 1772)
1695: François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
1677: Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer (d. 1745)
1669: Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (d. 1732)
1651: William Phips, Royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1695)
1650: Pope Benedict XIII (d. 1730)
1650: Nell Gwyn, English actress, mistress of King Charles II of England (d. 1687)
1621: Johannes Schefferus, Swedish author and hymn-writer (d. 1679)
1613: Noël Chabanel, French missionary and saint (d. 1649)
1611: Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (d. 1633)
1600: Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
1588: Georg II of Fleckenstein-Dagstuhl, German nobleman (d. 1644)
1585: Judith Quiney, William Shakespeare's youngest daughter (d. 1662)
1585: Hamnet Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's only son (baptised; d. 1596)
1576: Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and foundress (d. 1622)
1551: Nicolaus Reimers, German astronomer (d. 1600)
1536: Piotr Skarga, Polish writer (d. 1612)
1522: Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1565)
1517: Gotthard Kettler, the last Master of the Livonian Order and the first Duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1587)
1509: John of Leiden, Dutch Anabaptist leader (d. 1536)
1506: René de Birague, Italian-French cardinal and politician (d. 1583)
1502: Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher and historian (d. 1574)
1494: Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
1467: Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican sister (d. 1501)
1457: Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-Spanish historian and author (d. 1526)
1455: John, King of Denmark (d. 1513)
1443: Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (d. 1486)
1425: (or 1426) Eleanor of Navarre, Queen regnant of Navarre (d. 1479)
1208: James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
450: Justin I, Byzantine emperor (d. 527)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Don Murray, American actor (b. 1929)
2024: Carl Weathers, American football player and actor (b. 1948)
2023: K. Viswanath, Indian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2023: Butch Miles, American jazz drummer (b. 1944)
2021: Captain Sir Tom Moore, British Army officer and charity campaigner (b. 1920)
2020: Bernard Ebbers, Canadian businessman, the co-founder and CEO of WorldCom (b. 1941)
2016: Bob Elliott, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2015: Joseph Alfidi, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1949)
2015: Dave Bergman, American baseball player (b. 1953)
2015: Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1968)
2015: Molade Okoya-Thomas, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1935)
2015: Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (b. 1922)
2015: The Jacka, American rapper and producer (b. 1977)
2014: Gerd Albrecht, German conductor (b. 1935)
2014: Tommy Aquino, American motorcycle racer (b. 1992)
2014: Nicholas Brooks, English historian (b. 1941)
2014: Eduardo Coutinho, Brazilian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2014: Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1967)
2014: Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican comedian and actor (b. 1962)
2014: Bunny Rugs, Jamaican singer (b. 1948)
2014: Nigel Walker, English footballer (b. 1959)
2013: Abraham Iyambo, Namibian politician (b. 1961)
2013: John Kerr, American actor and lawyer (b. 1931)
2013: Chris Kyle, American soldier and sniper (b. 1974)
2013: Lino Oviedo, Paraguayan general and politician (b. 1943)
2013: Pepper Paire, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2013: P. Shanmugam, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Puducherry (b. 1927)
2013: Walt Sweeney, American football player (b. 1941)
2013: Guy F. Tozzoli, American architect (b. 1922)
2012: Joyce Barkhouse, Canadian author (b. 1913)
2012: Frederick William Danker, American lexicographer and scholar (b. 1920)
2012: George Esper, American journalist and academic (b. 1932)
2012: Dorothy Gilman, American author (b. 1923)
2012: James F. Lloyd, American pilot and politician (b. 1922)
2011: Edward Amy, Canadian general (b. 1918)
2011: Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress (b. 1975)
2011: Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
2008: Barry Morse, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2008: Katoucha Niane, Guinean model and author (b. 1960)
2007: Vijay Arora, Indian actor (b. 1944)
2007: Billy Henderson, American singer (b. 1939)
2007: Joe Hunter, American pianist (b. 1927)
2007: Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007: Eric Von Schmidt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
2007: Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2005: Birgitte Federspiel, Danish actress (b. 1925)
2005: Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2004: Bernard McEveety, American director and producer (b. 1924)
2003: Lou Harrison, American composer and educator (b. 1917)
2002: Paul Baloff, American singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
2002: Claude Brown, American author (b. 1937)
1999: David McComb, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)
1998: Haroun Tazieff, German-French geologist and cinematographer (b. 1914)
1997: Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997: Sanford Meisner, American actor and coach (b. 1904)
1996: Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1912)
1995: Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (b. 1917)
1995: Fred Perry, English tennis player (b. 1909)
1995: Donald Pleasence, English-French actor (b. 1919)
1994: Marija Gimbutas, Lithuanian-American archeologist (b. 1921)
1993: François Reichenbach, French director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1992: Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality; Miss America telecast presenter (b. 1914)
1990: Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic (b. 1905)
1990: Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1989: Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach (b. 1951)
1989: Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (b. 1901)
1988: Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1987: Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
1987: Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1986: Anita Cobby, Australian murder victim (b. 1959)
1986: Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
1983: Sam Chatmon, American singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
1982: Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
1980: William Howard Stein, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1979: Jim Burke, Australian cricketer (b. 1930)
1979: Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (b. 1957)
1975: Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian and academic (b. 1883)
1974: Imre Lakatos, Hungarian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1922)
1973: Hendrik Elias, Belgian academic and politician, 9th Mayor of Ghent (b. 1902)
1972: Natalie Clifford Barney, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1970: Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898)
1970: Bertrand Russell, English mathematician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
1970: Hannah Ryggen, Norwegian textile artist (b. 1894)
1969: Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
1968: Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director (b. 1878)
1966: Hacı Ömer Sabancı, Turkish businessman (b. 1906)
1962: Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1914)
1957: Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1890)
1956: Charley Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
1956: Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (b. 1878)
1956: Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1954: Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author and politician (b. 1886)
1952: Callistratus of Georgia, Georgian patriarch (b. 1866)
1950: Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician and academic (b. 1873)
1948: Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)
1948: Bevil Rudd, South African runner and journalist (b. 1894)
1945: Alfred Delp, German priest and philosopher (b. 1907)
1945: Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German economist and politician (b. 1884)
1945: Johannes Popitz, German lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
1942: Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1883)
1942: Daniil Kharms, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1905)
1942: Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (b. 1876)
1939: Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet (b. 1860)
1939: Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1879)
1932: Agha Petros, Assyrian general and politician (b. 1880)
1926: Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general and politician (b. 1848)
1925: Antti Aarne, Finnish historian and academic (b. 1867)
1925: Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
1919: Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian lieutenant (b. 1894)
1918: John L. Sullivan, American boxer (b. 1858)
1913: Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer (b. 1845)
1909: Carlo Acton, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1907: Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (b. 1834)
1905: Henri Germain, French banker and politician, founded Le Crédit Lyonnais (b. 1824)
1904: Ernest Cashel, American-Canadian criminal (b. 1882)
1904: William Collins Whitney, American financier and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1841)
1881: Henry Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1808)
1861: Théophane Vénard, French Catholic missionary (b. 1829)
1836: Letizia Ramolino, Italian noblewoman (b. 1750)
1831: Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (b. 1768)
1804: George Walton, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1749)
1802: Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, English politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1713)
1798: Ferdinand Ashmall, English centenarian, Catholic priest, died in 73rd year of his ministry (b. 1695)
1769: Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
1768: Robert Smith, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1689)
1723: Antonio Maria Valsalva, Italian anatomist and physician (b. 1666)
1714: John Sharp, English archbishop (b. 1643)
1712: Martin Lister, English physician and geologist (b. 1639)
1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital, French mathematician and academic (b. 1661)
1688: Abraham Duquesne, French admiral (b. 1610)
1675: Ivan Belostenec, Croatian linguist and lexicographer (b. 1594)
1661: Lucas Holstenius, German geographer and historian (b. 1596)
1660: Gaston, Duke of Orléans (b. 1608)
1660: Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
1648: George Abbot, English author and politician (b. 1603)
1594: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer and educator (b. 1525)
1580: Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese daimyō (b. 1558)
1529: Baldassare Castiglione, Italian soldier and diplomat (b. 1478)
1512: Hatuey, Caribbean tribal chief
1461: Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty (b. c. 1400)
1448: Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1372)
1446: Vittorino da Feltre, Italian humanist (b. 1378)
1435: Joan II of Naples, Queen of Naples (b. 1371)
1416: Racek Kobyla of Dvorce
1348: Narymunt, Prince of Pinsk
1347: Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln, was the bishop of Lincoln (b. 1282)
1294: Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1229)
1250: Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1237: Joan, Lady of Wales
1218: Konstantin of Rostov (b. 1186)
1124: Bořivoj II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1064)
880: Bruno, duke of Saxony
619: Laurence of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint

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