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July 1

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 183 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025
Ohio woman pleads guilty to stealing $89,000 in lottery tickets, starting fire in store as cover-up. An Ohio woman pleaded guilty to charges related to stealing over $89,000 in lottery tickets from her workplace and even started a fire in the store to destroy evidence.
2024
Michigan man wins $6 million on the second lottery ticket he bought this year. A Michigan man instantly became a millionaire his second lottery ticket purchase this year netted him a $6 million prize.
2022
$366.7 million Powerball jackpot won in Vermont. For the first time in history, the winning Powerball jackpot ticket was sold at a Vermont retailer, Vermont Lottery officials announced Thursday.
2020
Quebec couple married for 57 years wins $200,000 in Banco lottery game. A couple from Quebec has a plenty of reason to celebrate after bringing home a $200,000 (US$147,260) prize in the June 9 Banco lottery draw.
2020
Four out of five Illinois Lottery claim centers reopen today. Illinois lottery players will find it easier to claim winnings in person now that four out of five of the state's claim centers are open.
2019
NC Cash 5 lottery winner has one week left to claim $487K prize. The winner of a nearly $500,000 prize has one week left to claim it before their luck permanently runs out.
2017
N.J. Lottery remains operational during state closure. Even though the New Jersey state government has closed due to a budget impasse, the state lottery remains fully operational.
2016
Man buys wrong lottery ticket, wins $169 million. Her husband didn't listen — and it paid off to the tune of $169 million.
2016
Illinois Gov. signs bill ensuring lottery prize payments. Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner Thursday night signed a bill giving the Illinois Lottery legal authority to continue all prize payouts if a budget deal is not reached.
2016
Eddie Tipton's new trial delayed until 2017. The second trial for a former lottery official accused of fixing jackpots in five states will be postponed until next year.
2016
Texas couple wins a million in lottery on visit to NC. A retired Texas couple won't soon forget their trip to North Carolina. After all, they're leaving the state $1 million richer.
2011
Kentucky store clerks indicted for lottery fraud. A grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, has handed down indictments against four individuals charged with state lottery fraud. One of the four is also charged with providing false information to state lottery investigators.
2010
Idaho Lottery draws raffle last night -- but makes error reporting results. The Idaho Lottery conducted its 2010 $500,000 Spring Raffle drawing Wednesday evening, awarding one $500,000 cash prize and many smaller prizes.
2010
Oregon Lottery draws 4th of July Raffle. The Oregon Lottery yesterday held the state's fourth raffle drawing -- the first it has held around the 4th of July.
2010
Texas Lottery player wins fourth multi-million-dollar prize. A Texas lottery player has claimed a $10 million scratch-off prize -- their fourth multi-million-dollar Texas Lottery prize.
2010
Illinois lottery winner sends kids to Cubs game. Since winning $7 million in 1991, Loyd Elam has been paying for trips for 35 to 40 children and about 10 chaperones each year to see a professional baseball game.
2010
3 companies bid to run lucrative Texas Lottery. Three major gambling companies entered the competition by Tuesday to run Texas' lottery — a massive operation that could pay $100 million per year to the winning bidder.
2010
Judge orders release of ex-NC Lottery official. A judge on Tuesday ordered a former North Carolina lottery commissioner convicted of five counts of the honest services law released from a Georgia prison.
2009
New Hampshire crushes lottery winners with new 10% tax. The day before a massive 10 percent state tax on lottery prizes went into effect in the Granite State, two winners claimed separate $1 million jackpots -- something never before witnessed by a 20-year veteran of the lottery.
2009
Ohio Lottery operator switch has some glitches. A new company began running the Ohio Lottery's computer system on Wednesday, causing frustrating problems for some retailers and leaving some winning tickets incorrectly coming up as losers.
2009
Oklahoma Lottery starts daily drawings of Cash 5 game. Beginning tonight, July 1, the Oklahoma Lottery will conduct daily drawings of its Cash 5 game.
2009
Two winners to share record A$106 million Australian lottery. A couple from Queensland state and a man from South Australia will share more than A$106 million (US$86 million) as the only jackpot winners in the nation's record lottery drawn last night.
2008
$85M sought for "defective" Virginia lottery tickets. In the latest challenge to a state lottery's deceptive practices, a business professor's lawsuit seeks to hold the Virginia Lottery accountable for selling about $85 million in defective scratch-off tickets.
2005
Man sues Mass. Lottery for $1 million prize mistake. A Rhode Island man filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit this week against the Massachusetts State Lottery Commission and State Treasurer Tim Cahill seeking the $1 million he was denied because of his purported misinterpretation of how the prizes are awarded.
2005
North Carolina Still Working To Establish Lottery. North Carolinians continue to argue over the positive and negative effects of a lottery.
2005
All Kentucky lottery money to fund education. Finally fulfilling the promise made 17 years ago to voters who approved a state lottery, all of the Kentucky Lottery's revenue will go directly to education beginning today - specifically to fund college scholarships.
2005
Texas Lottery executive had no hint before firing. Weighing his words carefully when asked if he was the fall guy in the growing scandal over inflated Texas Lotto jackpots, Lee Deviney said only that his dismissal last month from the Texas Lottery Commission came with no prior warning.
2005
Texas Lottery chief could face punishment for inflated jackpots. The Texas Lottery Commission chairman laid blame for inflated lottery jackpots squarely on the agency's chief Wednesday, hinting to state lawmakers that executive director Reagan Greer could be punished.
2005
Georgia lottery bill would protect education funds. Ralph Reed, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, on Thursday endorsed Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue's call for a state constitutional amendment that would prevent lottery money from being used for anything except HOPE college scholarships, pre-kindergarten classes and building up financial reserves.
2004
$290 MILLION:" Mega Millions lottery jackpot increased. The Mega Millions lottery group decided to raise the jackpot again prior to the Friday drawing due to a ticket sales frenzy.
2004
$280M in dreams for only a dollar. For a buck, you could be richer than A-Rod.
2004
Lottery players rushing to play Mega Millions. As of 3 p.m. Wednesday, $107,000 worth of lottery tickets were being sold per hour in Ohio alone - more than twice the pace from the morning.
2004
Lottery player cries foul after missing $1M prize. Dennis Perry said he doesn't want to sound ungrateful after winning $10,000 in a Tennessee Lottery drawing last weekend, but the Fayetteville, Tenn., man said mistakes during the drawing might have cost him the $1 million top prize.
2004
Tenn. delays spending lottery funds. Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen said Wednesday that the spending of lottery dollars on early learning and after school programs won't occur until next year.
2004
Scratch tickets are boon for Ohio Lottery. Citing high growth in sales of instant games, the Ohio Lottery said Wednesday it earned $10 million more than projected this fiscal year, a slight bonus for schools down the road.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$502.4 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2023
2.$415 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2016
3.$400 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 4, 2023
4.$360 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2022
5.$294 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2004
6.$256 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 3, 2018
7.$243 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2016
8.€231.84 Million
US$241.73 Million
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2022
9.€152 Million
US$220.6 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2011
10.€198 Million
US$206.53 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2022
11.€179.65 Million
US$202.9 Million
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2019
12.$175 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2025
13.$172 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 4, 2017
14.$165 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2003
15.$150 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 3, 2019
16.€130 Million
US$143.33 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 3, 2020
17.$137 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2024
18.$126.6 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2024
19.€102.42 Million
US$114.09 Million
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2016
20.$113 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 3, 2009
21.$106 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2017
21.$106 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 3, 2007
23.€90 Million
US$105.61 Million
Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 6, 2018
24.$105 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2011
25.$101.5 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 3, 2021

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991
Monday, Jul 1, 1991
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1988
Friday, Jul 1, 1988
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1988
Friday, Jul 1, 1988
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1986
Tuesday, Jul 1, 1986
39 years old
1982
Thursday, Jul 1, 1982
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1980
Tuesday, Jul 1, 1980
45 years old
1979
Sunday, Jul 1, 1979
46 years old
1978
Saturday, Jul 1, 1978
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1977
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48 years old
1977
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1974
Monday, Jul 1, 1974
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1974
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1971
Thursday, Jul 1, 1971
54 years old
1971
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1970
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1968
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1967
Saturday, Jul 1, 1967
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1965
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1964
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1964
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1963
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1963
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1959
Wednesday, Jul 1, 1959
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1958
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1953
Wednesday, Jul 1, 1953
72 years old
1945
Sunday, Jul 1, 1945
80 years old
1942
Wednesday, Jul 1, 1942
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1938
Friday, Jul 1, 1938
87 years old
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Worldwide Events On This Day

2024
At the centennial ceremony of the Dominion of Newfoundland National War Memorial, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission allowed an unprecedented second Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldier was entombed in the memorial at this ceremony.
2020
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.
2013
Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
2008
Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2007
Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2006
The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
2004
Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
2003
Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
2002
The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
2002
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
1999
The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
1997
China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
1997
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-94, a re-flight of the prematurely-ended STS-83 mission with the same crew.
1991
Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
1991
The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network.
1990
German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1987
The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
1984
The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1983
A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
1983
The Ministry of State Security is established as China's principal intelligence agency
1980
"O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1979
Sony introduces the Walkman.
1978
The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1976
Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
1972
The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
1968
The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
1968
Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO in the United States.
1967
Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
1966
The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1966
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (The known as the 2nd Artillery Corps) is founded.
1963
ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1963
The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1962
Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
1960
The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.
1960
Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
1959
Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1958
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958
Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1957
The International Geophysical Year begins.
1949
The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
1948
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1947
The Philippine Air Force is established.
1946
Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
1943
The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
1942
World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942
The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
1935
Regina, Saskatchewan, police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
1932
Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
1931
United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1931
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
1924
The National War Memorial for the Dominion of Newfoundland was inaugurated by Field Marshall Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig in St. John's, Newfoundland. The date commemorates the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where at Beaumont-Hamel, 86 percent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out.
1923
The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
1922
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
1921
The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International.
1917
World War I: Russia launches an offensive against Austria-Hungary to capture Galicia, its final offensive of the war.
1917
Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and restores the monarchy, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republican troops regain control of the capital.
1916
World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1915
Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
1911
Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
1908
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1903
Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
1901
French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.
1898
Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
1890
Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1885
The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1885
The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
1881
The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
1881
General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
1879
Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1878
Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1874
The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
1873
Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
1870
The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1867
The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
1863
Slavery was abolished in the Dutch colony of Surinam, a date now celebrated as Ketikoti in independent Suriname.
1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
1862
The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
1862
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
1862
American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
1858
Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
1855
Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
1841
Thomas Lempriere and James Clark Ross carve a marker on the Isle of the Dead in Van Diemen's Land to measure tidal variations, one of the earliest surviving benchmarks for sea level rise.
1837
A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1823
The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the First Mexican Empire after being annexed the year prior.
1819
Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1782
Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1770
Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
1766
François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
1690
War of the Grand Alliance: Marshal de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the battle of Fleurus.
1690
Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
1643
First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
1569
Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
1523
Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1520
Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
1431
The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
1097
Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
552
Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
69
Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

Births On This Day

2003
Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
2003
Storm Reid, American actress
2001
Chosen Jacobs, American actor and singer
2000
Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter
1998
Chloe Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress
1998
Susan Bandecchi, Swiss tennis player
1998
Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater
1996
Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
1995
Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgian footballer
1995
Savvy Shields, Miss America 2017
1995
Taeyong, South Korea rapper
1994
Chloé Paquet, French tennis player
1992
Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player
1991
Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer
1991
Michael Wacha, American baseball player
1989
Kent Bazemore, American basketball player
1989
Hannah Murray, English actress
1989
Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver
1988
Dedé, Brazilian footballer
1988
Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete
1987
Michael Schrader, German decathlete
1986
Charlie Blackmon, American baseball player
1986
Andrew Lee, Australian footballer
1986
Julian Prochnow, German footballer
1985
Chris Perez, American baseball player
1985
Léa Seydoux, French actor
1984
Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
1983
Leeteuk, South Korean singer and entertainer
1982
Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
1982
Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982
Adrian Ward, American football player
1982
Fedi Nuril, Indonesian actor, model, and musician
1982
Hilarie Burton, American actress
1981
Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player
1981
Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer
1980
Nelson Cruz, Dominican-American baseball player
1979
Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor
1977
Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977
Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician
1977
Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
1977
Liv Tyler, American actress
1976
Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach
1976
Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976
Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player
1976
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager
1976
Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower
1975
Sean Colson, American basketball player and coach
1975
Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974
Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
1971
Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress
1971
Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1969
Séamus Egan, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967
Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress
1966
Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach
1966
Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2013)
1965
Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer
1965
Garry Schofield, English rugby player and coach
1965
Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer
1964
Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
1963
Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player
1963
Nick Giannopoulos, Australian actor
1963
David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist (died 2006)
1962
Andre Braugher, American actor (died 2023)
1962
Mokhzani Mahathir, Malaysian businessman
1961
Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist
1961
Ivan Kaye, English actor
1961
Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner
1961
Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997)
1961
Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1960
Michael Beattie, Australian rugby league player and coach
1960
Lynn Jennings, American runner
1960
Evelyn "Champagne" King, American soul/disco singer
1960
Kevin Swords, American rugby player
1958
Jack Dyer Crouch II, American diplomat, United States Deputy National Security Advisor
1957
Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (died 2010)
1957
Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1957
Sean O'Driscoll, English footballer and manager
1956
Alan Ruck, American actor
1955
Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator
1955
Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023)
1955
Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author
1955
Maʻafu Tukuiʻaulahi, Tongan politician and military officer, Deputy Prime Minister (died 2021)
1954
Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (died 1989)
1954
Hossein Nuri, Iranian artist and director
1953
Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta
1953
Mike Haynes, American football player
1953
Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia
1952
Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter
1952
David Arkenstone, American composer and performer
1952
David Lane, English oncologist and academic
1952
Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1952
Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (died 2006)
1951
Trevor Eve, English actor and producer
1951
Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist (died 2021)
1951
Julia Goodfellow, English physicist and academic
1951
Klaus-Peter Justus, German runner
1951
Tom Kozelko, American basketball player
1951
Terrence Mann, American actor, singer and dancer
1951
Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1951
Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor
1950
David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard
1949
Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter
1949
John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter
1949
David Hogan, American composer and educator (died 1996)
1949
Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician
1948
John Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947
Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver
1947
Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (died 2012)
1946
Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (died 2013)
1946
Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs
1946
Kojo Laing, Ghanaian novelist and poet (died 2017)
1945
Mike Burstyn, American actor and singer
1945
Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress
1944
Nurul Haque Miah, Bangladeshi professor and writer (died 2021)
1943
Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist
1943
Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn
1943
Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician and lyricist
1942
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (died 2020)
1942
Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
1942
Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer and pastor (died 2015)
1942
Julia Higgins, English chemist and academic
1941
Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2021)
1941
Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
1941
Nicolae Saramandu, Romanian linguist and philologist
1941
Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941
Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer
1940
Craig Brown, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2023)
1940
Ela Gandhi, South African activist and politician
1940
Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (died 1987)
1939
Karen Black, American actress (died 2013)
1939
Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2008)
1938
Craig Anderson, American baseball player and coach
1938
Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer
1936
Wally Amos, American entrepreneur, founder of Famous Amos (died 2024)
1935
James Cotton, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (died 2017)
1935
David Prowse, English actor (died 2020)
1934
Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 2009)
1934
Jamie Farr, American actor
1934
Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter (died 2025)
1934
Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (died 2008)
1933
C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (died 2010)
1932
Ze'ev Schiff, French-Israeli journalist and author (died 2007)
1931
Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
1930
Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (died 2005)
1930
Carol Chomsky, American linguist and academic (died 2008)
1929
Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
1927
Alan J. Charig, English paleontologist and author (died 1997)
1927
Winfield Dunn, American politician, 43rd Governor of Tennessee (died 2024)
1927
Joseph Martin Sartoris, American bishop
1927
Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007)
1926
Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
1926
Carl Hahn, German businessman (died 2023)
1926
Mohamed Abshir Muse, Somali general (died 2017)
1926
Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (died 2012)
1925
Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
1925
Art McNally, American football referee (died 2023)
1924
Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (died 2013)
1924
Florence Stanley, American actress (died 2003)
1924
Georges Rivière, French actor (died 2011)
1923
Scotty Bowers, American marine, author and pimp (died 2019)
1922
Toshi Seeger, German-American activist, co-founder of the Clearwater Festival (died 2013)
1922
Mordechai Bibi, Israeli politician (died 2023)
1921
Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (died 1980)
1921
Michalina Wisłocka, Polish gynecologist and sexologist (died 2005)
1921
Arthur Johnson, Canadian canoeist (died 2003)
1920
Henri Amouroux, French historian and journalist (died 2007)
1920
Harold Sakata, Japanese-American wrestler and actor (died 1982)
1920
George I. Fujimoto, American-Japanese chemist (died 2023)
1919
Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (died 2009)
1919
Malik Dohan al-Hassan, Iraqi politician (died 2021)
1919
Gerald E. Miller, American vice admiral (died 2014)
1918
Ralph Young, American singer and actor (died 2008)
1918
Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and public speaker (died 2005)
1918
Pedro Yap, Filipino lawyer (died 2003)
1917
Álvaro Domecq y Díez, Spanish aristocrat (died 2005)
1916
Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020)
1916
Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985)
1916
George C. Stoney, American director and producer (died 2012)
1915
Willie Dixon, American blues singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer (died 1992)
1915
Philip Lever, 3rd Viscount Leverhulme, British peer (died 2000)
1915
Boots Poffenberger, American baseball pitcher (died 1999)
1915
Joseph Ransohoff, American soldier and neurosurgeon (died 2001)
1915
Nguyễn Văn Linh, Vietnamese politician (died 1998)
1914
Thomas Pearson, British Army officer (died 2019)
1914
Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (died 2004)
1914
Bernard B. Wolfe, American politician (died 2016)
1913
Frank Barrett, American baseball player (died 1998)
1913
Lee Guttero, American basketball player (died 2004)
1913
Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician, 3rd Chief Minister of Maharashtra (died 1979)
1912
David Brower, American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (died 2000)
1912
Sally Kirkland, American journalist (died 1989)
1911
Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (died 1990)
1911
Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012)
1910
Glenn Hardin, American hurdler (died 1975)
1909
Emmett Toppino, American sprinter (died 1971)
1907
Norman Pirie, Scottish-English biochemist and virologist (died 1997)
1906
Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (died 1992)
1906
Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies (died 2004)
1903
Amy Johnson, English pilot (died 1941)
1903
Beatrix Lehmann, English actress (died 1979)
1902
William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1981)
1901
Irna Phillips, American screenwriter (died 1973)
1899
Thomas A. Dorsey, American pianist and composer (died 1993)
1899
Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962)
1899
Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (died 1987)
1892
James M. Cain, American author and journalist (died 1977)
1892
László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor (died 1963)
1887
Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (died 1981)
1885
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet (died 1968)
1883
Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1933)
1882
Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1962)
1881
Edward Battersby Bailey, English geologist (died 1965)
1879
Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
1878
Jacques Rosenbaum, Estonian-German architect (died 1944)
1876
T. J. Ryan, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Queensland (died 1921)
1875
Joseph Weil, American con man (died 1976)
1873
Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1968)
1873
Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 1954)
1872
Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (died 1936)
1872
William Duddell, English physicist and engineer (died 1917)
1869
William Strunk Jr., American author and educator (died 1946)
1863
William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (died 1892)
1859
DeLancey W. Gill, American painter (died 1940)
1858
Willard Metcalf, American painter (died 1925)
1858
Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor and writer of prose and poetry (died 1924)
1850
Florence Earle Coates, American poet (died 1927)
1834
Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet and author (died 1908)
1822
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Vietnamese poet and activist (died 1888)
1818
Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (died 1865)
1818
Karl von Vierordt, German physician, psychologist and academic (died 1884)
1814
Robert Richard Torrens, Irish-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of South Australia (died 1884)
1808
Ygnacio del Valle, Mexican-American landowner (died 1880)
1807
Thomas Green Clemson, American politician and educator, founder of Clemson University (died 1888)
1804
Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist and politician (died 1886)
1804
George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876)
1788
Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (died 1867)
1771
Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (died 1839)
1742
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)
1731
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish-English admiral (died 1804)
1726
Acharya Bhikshu, Jain saint (died 1803)
1725
Rhoda Delaval, English painter and aristocrat (died 1757)
1725
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (died 1807)
1663
Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (died 1738)
1646
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)
1633
Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (died 1698)
1586
Claudio Saracini, Italian lute player and composer (died 1630)
1574
Joseph Hall, English bishop and mystic (died 1656)
1553
Peter Street, English carpenter and builder (died 1609)
1534
Frederick II of Denmark (died 1588)
1506
Louis II of Hungary (died 1526)
1481
Christian II of Denmark (died 1559)
1464
Clara Gonzaga, Italian noble (died 1503)
1311
Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, statesman and poet (died 1375)

Deaths On This Day

2024
Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist (born 1936)
2024
Robert Towne, American screenwriter (born 1934)
2023
Dilano van 't Hoff, Dutch race car driver (born 2004)
2021
Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (born 1939)
2019
Bogusław Schaeffer, Polish composer (born 1929)
2016
Robin Hardy, English author and film director (born 1929)
2015
Val Doonican, Irish singer and television host (born 1927)
2015
Czesław Olech, Polish mathematician and academic (born 1931)
2015
Nicholas Winton, English lieutenant and humanitarian (born 1909)
2014
Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer and politician (born 1938)
2014
Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founder of The Farm (born 1935)
2014
Bob Jones, English lawyer and politician (born 1955)
2014
Anatoly Kornukov, Ukrainian-Russian general (born 1942)
2014
Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (born 1937)
2013
Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (born 1926)
2013
Charles Foley, American game designer, co-creator of Twister (born 1930)
2013
William H. Gray, American minister and politician (born 1941)
2012
Peter E. Gillquist, American priest and author (born 1938)
2012
Ossie Hibbert, Jamaican-American keyboard player and producer (born 1950)
2012
Evelyn Lear, American operatic soprano (born 1926)
2012
Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (born 1961)
2012
Jack Richardson, American author and playwright (born 1934)
2010
Don Coryell, American football player and coach (born 1924)
2010
Arnold Friberg, American painter and illustrator (born 1913)
2010
Ilene Woods, American actress and singer (born 1929)
2009
Karl Malden, American actor (born 1912)
2009
Onni Palaste, Finnish soldier and author (born 1917)
2009
Mollie Sugden, English actress (born 1922)
2008
Mel Galley, English guitarist (born 1948)
2006
Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japanese politician, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937)
2006
Robert Lepikson, Estonian race car driver and politician, Estonian Minister of the Interior (born 1952)
2006
Fred Trueman, English cricketer and sportscaster (born 1931)
2005
Renaldo Benson, American singer-songwriter (Four Tops) (born 1936)
2005
Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1923)
2005
Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (Change) (born 1951)
2004
Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1931)
2004
Marlon Brando, American actor and director (born 1924)
2004
Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer and conductor (born 1909)
2003
Herbie Mann, American flute player and saxophonist (born 1930)
2001
Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
2001
Jean-Louis Rosier, French race car driver (born 1925)
2000
Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920)
1999
Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-American director and producer (born 1908)
1999
Forrest Mars Sr., American businessman, creator of M&M's and the Mars chocolate bar (born 1904)
1999
Sylvia Sidney, American actress (born 1910)
1999
Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (born 1935)
1997
Robert Mitchum, American actor (born 1917)
1997
Charles Werner, American cartoonist (born 1909)
1996
William T. Cahill, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of New Jersey (born 1904)
1996
Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (born 1954)
1996
Steve Tesich, Serbian-American author and screenwriter (born 1942)
1995
Wolfman Jack, American radio host (born 1938)
1995
Ian Parkin, English guitarist (Be-Bop Deluxe) (born 1950)
1994
Merriam Modell, American author (born 1908)
1992
Franco Cristaldi, Italian screenwriter and producer (born 1924)
1991
Michael Landon, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
1990
Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer and educator (born 1926)
1984
Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1904)
1983
Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895)
1981
Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese author and poet (born 1921)
1978
Kurt Student, German general and pilot (born 1890)
1974
Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895)
1971
William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
1971
Learie Constantine, Trinidadian-English cricketer, lawyer and politician (born 1901)
1968
Fritz Bauer, German judge and politician (born 1903)
1967
Gerhard Ritter, German historian and academic (born 1888)
1966
Frank Verner, American runner (born 1883)
1965
Wally Hammond, English cricketer (born 1903)
1965
Robert Ruark, American journalist and author (born 1915)
1964
Pierre Monteux, French-American viola player and conductor (born 1875)
1962
Purushottam Das Tandon, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1882)
1962
Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1882)
1961
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (born 1894)
1951
Tadeusz Borowski, Polish poet, novelist and journalist (born 1922)
1950
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (born 1865)
1950
Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873)
1948
Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (born 1904)
1944
Carl Mayer, Austrian-English screenwriter (born 1894)
1944
Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (born 1930)
1943
Willem Arondeus, Dutch artist, author and anti-Nazi resistance fighter (born 1894)
1942
Peadar Toner Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish writer (born 1857)
1934
Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander (born 1887)
1925
Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (born 1866)
1912
Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (born 1875)
1905
John Hay, American journalist and politician, 37th United States Secretary of State (born 1838)
1896
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (born 1811)
1884
Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (born 1819)
1863
John F. Reynolds, American general (born 1820)
1860
Charles Goodyear, American chemist and engineer (born 1800)
1839
Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (born 1785)
1828
Lyncoya Jackson, a Muscogee war orphan adopted by Andrew Jackson
1819
The Public Universal Friend, American evangelist (born 1752)
1787
Charles de Rohan, French marshal (born 1715)
1784
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (born 1710)
1782
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1730)
1774
Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1705)
1749
William Jones, Welsh mathematician and academic (born 1675)
1736
Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (born 1673)
1681
Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (born 1629)
1622
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, English politician (born 1575)
1614
Isaac Casaubon, French philologist and scholar (born 1559)
1592
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer and educator (born 1535)
1589
Lady Saigō, Japanese concubine (born 1552)
1555
John Bradford, English reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's (born 1510)
1348
Joan, English princess
1321
María de Molina, queen of Castile and León
1287
Narathihapate, Burmese king (born 1238)
1277
Baibars, Egyptian sultan (born 1223)
1242
Chagatai Khan, Mongol ruler (born 1183)
1224
Hōjō Yoshitoki, regent of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan (born 1163)
1109
Alfonso VI, king of León and Castile (born 1040)
992
Heonjeong, Korean queen (born 966)
552
Totila, Ostrogoth king
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