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January 7

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January 7

January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 358 days remain until the end of the year (359 in leap years).

Lottery News On This Day

2026: Georgia lottery winner starts off new year by claiming $983 million Mega Millions jackpot. The Georgia Lottery has announced that the single lottery winner of the $983 million Mega Millions jackpot has come forward to claim the largest prize in Georgia state history.
2025: North Carolina woman starts off 2025 with $1 million Powerball lottery prize on New Year's Day. A North Carolina woman entered the New Year with a $1 million Powerball prize, having bought her ticket on New Year's Eve for the New Year's Day drawing.
2024: $1 million winning Powerball lottery ticket bought in Texas will expire in a week. Sadly, more than one $1 million winning Powerball lottery ticket from the same drawing is expiring, including one bought in Texas.
2023: $1.1 BILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for Tuesday. For the fourth time in the past two years a lottery jackpot has crossed into billion-dollar territory.
2022: Cash Pop lottery game starting in South Carolina this month. Cash Pop is coming to yet another state after the South Carolina Lottery announced that it will be adding the game to its lineup this month.
2020: Mississippi men tried cashing in lottery ticket after gluing on the winning numbers, officials say. Two men in Mississippi wanted to claim a $100,000 lottery prizes so bad, they glued the winning numbers onto a losing ticket, authorities said.
2019: Texas Lottery generated more than $100 million in one week from scratch-off ticket sales. The Texas Lottery has, for the first time in its history, sold more than $100 million in scratch ticket sales in just one week. From Dec. 23, 2018 to Dec. 29, 2018, scratch ticket sales totaled $100,776,586, shattering the old record of $99,679,358 achieved in March of 2018.
2018: One lottery ticket from New Hampshire wins $559.7 million Powerball jackpot. One Powerball ticket holder in New Hampshire is the winner of the $559.7 million jackpot prize, the 8th-largest in US lottery history.
2016: $700 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot raised just hours after initial estimate. Less than 12 hours after the initial estimate for Saturday's Powerball jackpot was set early this morning, the already record-breaking grand prize has now increased to an estimated $700 million.
2016: $675 MILLION: POWERBALL SETS ALL-TIME LOTTERY JACKPOT RECORD. It's been four years since the last lottery jackpot record was broken, but Wednesday night it finally happened again.
2015: Player sues Oregon Lottery, charging video poker game rigged. The Oregon State Lottery's rigged video poker games have cost players $134 million, a man claims in a class action lawsuit.
2015: Michigan Lottery pays out $7.4 million in Daily 4 drawing of 1-0-0-1. On Tuesday evening, the Michigan Lottery drew the numbers 1-0-0-1 in the Daily 4 drawing, resulting in more than $7.4 million in prizes.
2015: Spain's El Niño lottery spreads $663M in winnings. A lottery on Tuesday spread €560 million (US$663 million) among jubilant ticket holders throughout Spain, which is struggling to emerge from a financial crisis that has left it saddled with high unemployment.
2013: Lottery winner's death was blamed on natural causes — until a relative raised questions. A month after winning one million dollars, a Chicago man died, and now Chicago police and county prosecutors are investigating his death as a homicide.
2012: Pa. couple claims $128 million Powerball jackpot. An excited Pennsylvania couple arrived at Maryland Lottery Headquarters Friday, accompanied by legal counsel, to claim their $128.8 million Powerball prize.
2010: N.Y. couple wins $162M lottery jackpot - but owes $1M. A Long Island couple will step forward Thursday to claim a $162 million jackpot, but Suffolk County already has their hands in winners' pockets.
2008: Relative gives lottery ticket gift worth $1 million. A Pittsburgh pharmacist has learned the $20 Pennsylvania lottery ticket he gave to relatives for Christmas has paid off big -- $1 million.
2004: Record lottery winner accused of making death threats. The winner of the largest single lottery jackpot in U.S. history has been accused of threatening to kill the manager of a bar.
2004: Trading clerk surrenders to face charges of stealing lottery ticket. The trading clerk at the center of a $175,000 Mega Millions lottery ticket dispute in Chicago surrendered to police Tuesday on felony theft charges.
2004: Police Officer Wins $1.65 Million Playing Hot Lotto. A Des Moines police officer is starting the new year with a bigger paycheck after claiming a Hot Lotto jackpot worth more than $1.6 million.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.1 Billion: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 10, 2023
2.$949.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2016
3.$520 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2021
4.$489.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2021
5.€343.9 Million US$366.29 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2023
6.$320.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2023
7.$278 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2022
8.$258 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2020
9.$238 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2025
10.$221 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2015
11.$199 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2026
12.€127 Million
US$173 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2014
13.$165 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2024
13.$165 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2016
15.€136.36 Million
US$154.92 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2022
16.$146 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2015
17.€120 Million
US$131.22 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2024
18.$131 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 10, 2007
19.$126 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 10, 2017
20.€103 Million
US$124.76 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jan 13, 2006
21.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2007
22.€102 Million
US$118.95 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2026
23.€88.18 Million
US$108.21 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2021
24.$105 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2009
25.$104 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2026

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: GaboyJ$
Monday, Jan 7, 1991
35 years old
1990: SHARLA
Sunday, Jan 7, 1990
36 years old
1990: zimeba
Sunday, Jan 7, 1990
36 years old
1986: hughes4456
Tuesday, Jan 7, 1986
40 years old
1986: Ujermoul222
Tuesday, Jan 7, 1986
40 years old
1982: Lhewitt2020
Thursday, Jan 7, 1982
44 years old
1981: mighty7power
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1981
45 years old
1980: sexyG
Monday, Jan 7, 1980
46 years old
1979: cbluewaters
Sunday, Jan 7, 1979
47 years old
1978: bburnsgtm
Saturday, Jan 7, 1978
48 years old
1977: Shonnte Cannada
Friday, Jan 7, 1977
49 years old
1976: CosmicSin
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1976
50 years old
1970: kahlele
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1970
56 years old
1969: mrsd446
Tuesday, Jan 7, 1969
57 years old
1965: sohan sharma
Thursday, Jan 7, 1965
61 years old
1962: Tzahrah
Sunday, Jan 7, 1962
64 years old
1959: maze59
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1959
67 years old
1954: dimaggio5berra8
Thursday, Jan 7, 1954
72 years old
1942: amms1933
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1942
84 years old
: JackpotWanna
(year not provided)
: Demetrios
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2025: A series of wildfires ravage the Greater Los Angeles area, resulting in at least 16 deaths and 13,401 structures destroyed.
2023: The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 - February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
2020: The 6.4M_w 2019-20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
2015: Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, executing twelve people and wounding eleven others.
2015: A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
2012: A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
1999: The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
1994: A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
1993: The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
1993: Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1991: Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1989: Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.
1985: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1984: Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1980: U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1979: Third Indochina War: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1973: In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, before being shot to death by police officers.
1972: Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
1968: Surveyor program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36A.
1959: The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1955: Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1954: Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1950: In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force - 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
1948: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1940: Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1935: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1931: Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1928: A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
1927: The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
1922: Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1920: The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1919: Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1904: The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1894: Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1867: The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction-era South Carolina.
1835: HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1785: Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1782: The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1738: A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
1708: Battle of Zlatoust: Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704-1711.
1708: Bashkir rebels besiege Yelabuga.
1610: Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following night.
1608: Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1558: French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1325: Afonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
49 BC: The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.

Births On This Day

2012: Blue Ivy Carter, American singer and actress
2007: Chloe Chua, Singaporean violinist, 2018 joint 1st prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists
2004: Sofia Wylie, American actress, singer, and dancer
2003: Ryan Dunn, American basketball player
2000: Marcus Scribner, American actor
1997: Ozzie Albies, Curaçaoan baseball player
1997: Lamar Jackson, American football player
1996: Alex Nedeljkovic, American ice hockey player
1995: Jordan Bell, American basketball player
1995: Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstani tennis player
1994: Jarnell Stokes, American basketball player
1994: Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer
1994: MacKenzie Weegar, Canadian ice hockey player
1992: Erik Gudbranson, Canadian ice hockey player
1992: Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league player
1991: Tucker Barnhart, American baseball player
1991: Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
1991: Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
1991: Michael Walters, Australian footballer
1990: Liam Aiken, American actor
1990: Gentleman Jack Gallagher, English mixed martial artist and wrestler
1990: Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990: Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
1988: Haley Bennett, American actress and singer
1988: Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
1988: Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1987: Davide Astori, Italian footballer (died 2018)
1987: Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
1987: Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
1985: Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
1985: Wayne Routledge, English footballer
1984: Jon Lester, American baseball player
1983: Brett Dalton, American actor
1983: Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
1983: Cappie Pondexter, American basketball player
1983: Robert Ri'chard, American actor
1982: Lauren Cohan, American-English actress
1982: Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
1982: Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
1981: Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
1981: Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
1981: Travis Friend, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980: Reece Simmonds, Australian rugby league player
1979: Reggie Austin, American actor
1979: Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist
1978: Dean Cosker, English cricketer and umpire
1978: Israel Keyes, American serial killer (died 2012)
1977: Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (died 2021)
1977: Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright
1977: Brent Sopel, Canadian ice hockey player
1976: Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer
1976: Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
1976: Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1974: Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and politician
1972: Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist
1971: Kevin Rahm, American actor
1971: Jeremy Renner, American actor
1970: Andy Burnham, English politician
1970: Doug E. Doug, American actor
1969: Rex Lee, American actor
1969: Marco Simone, Italian footballer and manager
1967: Nick Clegg, English academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1967: Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (died 2020)
1967: Ricky Stuart, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1965: Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1965: Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian runner
1964: Nicolas Cage, American actor
1963: Rand Paul, American politician and physician
1962: Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political analyst and strategist known for his fascist views
1962: Ron Rivera, American football player and coach
1962: Hallie Todd, American actress
1961: John Thune, American lawyer and politician
1960: David Marciano, American actor
1960: Loretta Sanchez, American politician
1959: Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician
1959: Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter
1957: Nicholson Baker, American novelist and essayist
1957: Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author
1956: David Caruso, American actor
1955: Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress
1954: Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
1953: Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
1952: Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
1950: Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (died 2016)
1950: Erin Gray, American actress and model
1948: Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter
1947: Tony Elliott, English publisher, founded Time Out (died 2020)
1946: Michele Elliott, author, psychologist and founder of child protection charity Kidscape
1946: Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone
1945: Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (died 1990)
1945: Raila Odinga, Kenyan engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya (died 2025)
1945: Peter Schowtka, German politician (died 2022)
1944: Mike McGear, British performing artist and rock photographer
1944: Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist and academic (died 2020)
1943: Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand origami cranes (died 1955)
1942: Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German weightlifter and coach (died 2011)
1941: Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (died 2004)
1941: John Steiner, English actor (died 2022)
1941: John E. Walker, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1938: Bob Boland, Australian rugby league player and coach
1938: Lou Graham, American golfer
1938: Rory Storm, English singer-songwriter (died 1972)
1936: Hunter Davies, Scottish author and journalist
1935: Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and saxophonist (died 2006)
1935: Valery Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2014)
1935: Li Shengjiao, Chinese diplomat and international jurist (died 2017)
1934: Jean Corbeil, Canadian lawyer and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (died 2002)
1934: Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (died 2008)
1933: Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (died 2010)
1931: Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (died 2013)
1929: Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (died 2012)
1929: Terry Moore, American actress
1928: William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter (died 2017)
1926: Kim Jong-pil, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea (died 2018)
1925: Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (died 1995)
1924: Geoffrey Bayldon, English actor (died 2017)
1923: Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (died 2003)
1923: Vaklush Tolev, Bulgarian theologian, educator, public figure and lecturer (died 2013)
1922: Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)
1922: Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (died 2000)
1921: Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (died 1997)
1921: Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (died 1975)
1920: Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (died 1992)
1916: W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (died 1989)
1916: Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1988)
1913: Francis de Wolff, English actor (died 1984)
1913: Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (died 1993)
1912: Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (died 1988)
1910: Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (died 1994)
1908: Red Allen, American trumpet player (died 1967)
1904: Joseph Whitty, Irish Republican died while on hunger strike at Curragh Internment camp (died 1923)
1903: Alan Napier, English actor (died 1988)
1903: Hooley Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1963)
1900: John Brownlee, Australian actor and singer (died 1969)
1899: Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (died 1963)
1899: F. Orlin Tremaine, American magazine executive, writer, and magazine editor (Astounding Stories) (died 1956)
1898: Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; (died 1941)
1895: Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (died 1974)
1891: Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (died 1960)
1890: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book (died 1965)
1889: Vera de Bosset, Russian-American ballerina (died 1982)
1877: William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (died 1928)
1876: William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (died 1906)
1875: Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (died 1945)
1873: Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist (died 1914)
1873: Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (died 1976)
1871: Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (died 1956)
1863: Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden (died 1955)
1858: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (died 1922)
1856: Evald Relander, Finnish teacher, agronomist and banker (died 1926)
1852: Quianu Robinson, New Mexican Congressman and political ally of Conrad Hilton (died 1919)
1844: Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (died 1879)
1837: Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (died 1899)
1834: Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (died 1874)
1832: James Munro, Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (died 1908)
1831: Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (died 1897)
1830: Albert Bierstadt, American painter (died 1902)
1827: Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (died 1915)
1815: Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (died 1882)
1814: Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (died 1837)
1800: Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (died 1874)
1797: Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (died 1849)
1768: Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king (died 1844)
1746: George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician (died 1823)
1718: Israel Putnam, American general (died 1790)
1713: Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director and manager (died 1785)
1706: Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (died 1751)
1685: Jonas Alströmer, Swedish agronomist and businessman (died 1761)
1647: William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (died 1677)
1634: Adam Krieger, German organist and composer (died 1666)
1502: Pope Gregory XIII (died 1585)
1414: Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (died 1451)
1355: Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (died 1397)
889: Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (died 943)

Deaths On This Day

2025: Jean-Marie Le Pen, French intelligence officer and politician (born 1928)
2025: Peter Yarrow, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1938)
2024: Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager (born 1945)
2021: Michael Apted, English filmmaker (born 1941)
2021: Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1927)
2021: Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (born 1932)
2020: Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (born 1952)
2020: Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (born 1974)
2020: Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist (born 1967)
2018: Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (born 1938)
2018: France Gall, French singer (born 1947)
2017: Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (born 1924)
2016: Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (born 1929)
2016: John Johnson, American basketball player (born 1947)
2016: Kitty Kallen, American singer (born 1921)
2016: Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (born 1938)
2016: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (born 1936)
2015: Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (born 1936)
2015: Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (born 1930)
2015: Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist (born 1934)
2014: Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (born 1907)
2012: Tony Blankley, British-born American child actor, journalist and pundit (born 1948)
2008: Alwyn Schlebusch, South African academic and politician, Vice State President of South Africa (born 1917)
2007: Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver and businessman (born 1957)
2007: Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and academic (born 1929)
2006: Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (born 1912)
2005: Pierre Daninos, French author (born 1913)
2004: Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (born 1926)
2002: Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (born 1935)
2001: James Carr, American singer (born 1942)
2000: Gary Albright, American wrestler (born 1963)
1998: Owen Bradley, American record producer (born 1915)
1998: Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)
1996: Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1930)
1995: Murray Rothbard, American economist, historian, and theorist (born 1926)
1992: Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (born 1951)
1990: Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (born 1908)
1989: Hirohito, Japanese emperor (born 1901)
1988: Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (born 1919)
1988: Trevor Howard, English actor (born 1913)
1986: Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (born 1917)
1984: Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)
1981: Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer (born 1908)
1981: Eric Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (born 1926)
1972: John Berryman, American poet and scholar (born 1914)
1968: J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (born 1897)
1967: David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (born 1917)
1967: Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (born 1880)
1964: Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (born 1911)
1963: Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (born 1876)
1960: Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (born 1878)
1951: René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (born 1886)
1943: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American inventor and engineer (born 1856)
1941: Charles Finger, English journalist and author (born 1869)
1936: Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (born 1858)
1932: André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (born 1877)
1931: Edward Channing, American historian and author (born 1856)
1927: Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1851)
1920: Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (born 1849)
1919: Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (born 1843)
1912: Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist (born 1840)
1893: Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (born 1835)
1892: Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (born 1852)
1888: Golam Ali Chowdhury, Bengali landlord and philanthropist (born 1824)
1864: Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (born 1808)
1858: Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1800)
1830: John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian public servant and politician (born 1770)
1830: Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (born 1769)
1812: Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (born 1768)
1770: Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (born 1695)
1767: Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (born 1703)
1758: Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (born 1686)
1715: François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (born 1651)
1700: Raffaello Fabretti, Italian scholar and author (born 1618)
1694: Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (born 1618)
1658: Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician, 1st Governor of the New Haven Colony (born 1590)
1655: Pope Innocent X (born 1574)
1625: Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and author (born 1560)
1619: Nicholas Hilliard, English painter and goldsmith (born 1547)
1566: Louis de Blois, Flemish monk and author (born 1506)
1536: Catherine of Aragon (born 1485)
1529: Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (born 1455)
1451: Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (born 1383)
1400: John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English Earl (born 1350)
1355: Inês de Castro, Castilian noblewoman (born 1325)
1325: Denis of Portugal (born 1261)
1285: Charles I of Naples (born 1226)
1131: Canute Lavard, Danish prince and saint (born 1096)
856: Aldric, bishop of Le Mans
838: Babak Khorramdin, Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate
312: Lucian of Antioch, Christian martyr, saint, and theologian (born 240)

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