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July 15

On This Day in History

July 15

July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 169 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Massachusetts Lottery to add second daily Mass Cash drawing. On Monday, the Massachusetts Lottery announced that it will be adding a second daily Mass Cash drawing starting later this month.
2024: West Virginia man diagnosed with cancer thankful for $140,001 Ohio Lottery Rolling Cash 5 jackpot. A West Virginia man who has been battling cancer is thankful for his $140,001 Rolling Cash 5 jackpot prize in the Ohio Lottery, calling the win a "blessing."
2023: Mississippi Lottery Match 5 will move to daily drawings. Later this year, the Mississippi Lottery's Match 5 draw game will move to a daily draw schedule, joining other daily draw games in the evenings.
2022: Trial begins for "Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland; claims he is as much of a victim as lottery winners. Trial is officially underway for the New York-based attorney who is charged by federal prosecutors with stealing millions of dollars from the dozens of significant lottery jackpot winners he advised.
2021: Florida man finds winning $1 million Powerball ticket while cleaning his house. One lucky Florida man is giving lottery players across the country a huge reason to clean up their home when he found a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million for a drawing that occurred months ago.
2020: Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Director Bishop Woosley resigns. As of August 3, 2020, Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Director Bishop Woosley will be moving on from the Lottery to "pursue other opportunities."
2020: Some lotteries see spike in sales growth amid pandemic. While some state lotteries are left trying to figure out how to make up for sales deficits in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, other states are experiencing surges in lottery sales inversely driven by the overall economic slump.
2019: The women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year. Winning online sweepstakes is supposedly an act of pure luck — but some contestants claim to have it down to a science.
2019: Maine man wins 2nd large lottery prize in as many years. A Maine man won $500,000 on a ticket he purchased at a Portland convenience store in June, less than 2 years after he won a $100,000 lottery prize.
2019: Lucky CT man wins $100,000 lottery prize for second time. A Connecticut man just won a $100,000 lottery, barely a year after winning the same jackpot.
2015: Lottery security chief: Rigging computerized game "sadly" possible. The top threat to any lottery's integrity is its own information technology employees, a former lottery security chief told jurors in the trial for his coworker accused of rigging a Hot Lotto drawing to win a $14.3 million ticket.
2015: NC residents can now play lottery at the pump. North Carolina residents can now play jackpot lottery games while pumping their gas.
2014: Judge rules boss must give waiter half of $1.7M lottery jackpot for predicting win. In a legal ruling no one could have predicted, a judge in England has ordered a lottery winner to split his jackpot with the waiter who predicted the win.
2014: Alabama man loses $80,000 in foreign lottery scam. An Alabama man fell victim to one of the most successful scams in the country that is destroying the lives of thousands of people.
2013: Wyoming lottery to reap estimated $20 million in first year of ticket sales. The Wyoming Lottery Board estimates it will get $20 million from ticket sales in the first year of the state's legal games of chance, which are now targeted to start February 2014.
2013: California Lottery director resigns. After less than two years on the job, the head of the California State Lottery has resigned his post.
2011: Britain's record lottery winners go public. A Scottish couple out of work due to ill health are Europe's biggest ever lottery winners, scooping £161.5 million (€184 million, or US$260.5 million) in the EuroMillions multi-country lottery game.
2009: Arkansas Lottery director hires core management staff. Ernie Passailaigue, who started his job two weeks ago as executive director of the Arkansas Lottery Commission, has been steadily hiring employees to fill core management positions, while defending the high salaries he is giving the new staff.
2008: Kansas Lottery officials mull GTECH systems failure. A casino data systems failure from GTECH, the Providence-RI-based firm that manages the Kansas Lottery's activities, is one more problem among many the state lottery has had to deal with lately.
2008: Connecticut Lottery sets sales record. The Connecticut Lottery Corp. says it set a record during the last fiscal year with $998.5 million in sales.
2008: Wardens probed over Kenyan prisoners' lottery scam. Kenya's prison officers are at the center of an investigation over their involvement in a SMS (Short Message Service) syndicate that defrauded the public through nonexistent lotteries.
2008: Maryland lottery sales exceed $1.6 billion. The Maryland Lottery said it has achieved its 11th straight year of record sales, topping $1.673 billion and surpassing state estimates for the fiscal year.
2008: Georgia Lottery had record sales. The Georgia Lottery announced Tuesday that sales for fiscal 2008, which ended June 30, were just under $3.52 billion, a record in the 15-year history of the games.
2008: Arkansas Lt. Gov. pushes lottery proposal. Four times members of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's staff have traveled to various corners of Arkansas to speak about the lottery proposal.
2005: Reporter investigates Internet lottery scam. On receipt of an e-mail from an Internet scam outfit, the Editor of Expatica Netherlands wasted no time in ringing up to collect the promised $1 million jackpot prize.
2005: Kentucky couple almost threw out the lottery jackpot. A Kuntucky couple literally threw away their jackpot-winning Lotto South lottery ticket, and rescued it just in time.
2004: California lottery struggles with tepid sales. Though California and its schools are begging for cash, one of the state's supposed gold mines produces roughly half of what it should for education, analysts say.
2004: Powerball jackpot increases to $21 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $21 million, with a cash option of $10.9 million.
2004: Maryland woman collects $175,000 Mega win. Sharon Bishop, 33, of Hagerstown, Maryland, says she's no expert on winning, but after Wednesday she has a little experience.
2004: Georgia lottery sales up. Revenue from the Georgia Lottery increased more than $100 million in the year ending June 30 - the ninth sales record since the games began in 1993.
2004: Iowa Lottery ’04 sales top $200 million. The Iowa Lottery reported Wednesday that its sales surpassed the $200 million mark for the just completed fiscal year 2004, a 16 percent increase in revenues and the culmination of a three-year rise in profits for the state.
2004: One ticket wins $37 million UK Lotto jackpot. Champagne corks were popping Wednesday night as one lucky winner celebrated scooping a whopping $37 million (£20 million) cash UK Lotto jackpot prize.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$829.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2023
2.$640 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2023
3.$480 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2022
4.$375 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2018
5.$335.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2016
6.$266.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2025
7.€238.98 Million US$240.99 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2022
8.$232 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2017
9.€230 Million US$231.45 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2022
10.$226 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2024
11.€188.92 Million
US$212.01 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
12.$172 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2017
13.$165 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2002
14.$149.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2021
15.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2015
16.$137 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
17.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2005
18.€108.89 Million
US$120.16 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2016
19.$117 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2021
20.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2013
21.€97 Million
US$112.86 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2025
22.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2018
23.€97 Million
US$108.85 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
24.€107.39 Million
US$108.06 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2022
25.€85 Million
US$104.39 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2012

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1996: Michel metoo
Monday, Jul 15, 1996
29 years old
1986: KENDALL561
Tuesday, Jul 15, 1986
39 years old
1986: KimK
Tuesday, Jul 15, 1986
39 years old
1985: FlaJackpot
Monday, Jul 15, 1985
40 years old
1979: billtn32
Sunday, Jul 15, 1979
46 years old
1979: Cris69$
Sunday, Jul 15, 1979
46 years old
1972: xxxDanielxxx
Saturday, Jul 15, 1972
53 years old
1971: dsb1129
Thursday, Jul 15, 1971
54 years old
1971: dsb2684
Thursday, Jul 15, 1971
54 years old
1971: ParacelsusUK
Thursday, Jul 15, 1971
54 years old
1969: Lisa1969
Tuesday, Jul 15, 1969
56 years old
1969: Sfish7
Tuesday, Jul 15, 1969
56 years old
1966: nutt
Friday, Jul 15, 1966
59 years old
1965: LILYODIBEAR
Thursday, Jul 15, 1965
60 years old
1965: lilyodibear172
Thursday, Jul 15, 1965
60 years old
1963: KenLynn
Monday, Jul 15, 1963
62 years old
1962: keych
Sunday, Jul 15, 1962
63 years old
1959: rgsc1234
Wednesday, Jul 15, 1959
66 years old
1951: Perfect858
Sunday, Jul 15, 1951
74 years old
1951: X2W8P9
Sunday, Jul 15, 1951
74 years old
1949: Edwardfec
Friday, Jul 15, 1949
76 years old
: SEXYTAI715
(year not provided)
: AceIsWild5
(year not provided)
: allscan
(year not provided)
: babygirls
(year not provided)
: glenny
(year not provided)
: Nikkye
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2.
2016: Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
2014: A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
2012: South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
2009: Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
2009: Space Shuttle program: Endeavour is launched on STS-127 to complete assembly of the International Space Station's Kibō module.
2006: Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
2003: AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2002: "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002: The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.
1998: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
1996: A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1983: An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
1983: Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan.
1979: U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
1975: Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
1974: In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1971: The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
1966: Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1954: The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.
1946: The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1941: The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
1927: Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
1922: The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
1920: Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
1918: World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1916: In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1910: In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1888: The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
1870: Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870: Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
1862: American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself.
1849: The first air raid in history occurs; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice
1838: Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1834: The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1823: A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
1815: Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1806: Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1799: The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1789: French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
1741: Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1738: Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
1640: The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
1482: Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
1410: Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1381: John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1240: Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1207: King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
1149: The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1099: First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
756: An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
70: First Jewish-Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
484 BC: Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome

Births On This Day

2008: Iain Armitage, American actor
2005: JuJu Watkins, American basketball player
1999: Mohamed Sobhy, Egyptian footballer
1998: Noah Gragson, American racing driver
1997: Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player
1996: Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player
1993: Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
1993: Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver
1993: Masataka Yoshida, Japanese baseball player
1992: Tobias Harris, American basketball player
1992: Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
1991: Danilo, Brazilian footballer
1991: Derrick Favors, American basketball player
1991: Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer
1991: Nuria Párrizas Díaz, Spanish tennis player
1990: Olly Alexander, English singer and actor
1990: Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
1990: Damian Lillard, American basketball player
1990: Tyler Young, American racing driver
1989: Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
1989: Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
1986: Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
1986: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, American actor
1984: Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
1984: Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, Slovak skier
1983: Salvatore Iovino, American racing driver
1983: Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
1983: Heath Slater, American wrestler
1982: Julien Canal, French racing driver
1982: Neemia Tialata, New Zealand rugby player
1982: Aída Yéspica, Venezuelan model and actress
1981: Alou Diarra, French footballer
1981: Petros Klampanis, Greek bassist and composer
1981: Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
1980: Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
1980: Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player
1980: Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (died 2017)
1979: Laura Benanti, American actress and singer
1979: Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1979: Edda Garðarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
1979: Renata Kučerová, Czech tennis player
1978: Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
1977: D. J. Kennington, Canadian racing driver
1977: André Nel, South African cricketer
1977: Lana Parrilla, American actress
1977: John St. Clair, American football player
1977: Ray Toro, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976: Steve Cunningham, American boxer
1976: Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
1976: Diane Kruger, German actress and model
1976: Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian and voice actor
1975: Cherry, American wrestler and manager
1975: Danny Law, English cricketer
1975: Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
1973: Brian Austin Green, American actor
1973: Buju Banton, Jamaican singer
1972: Scott Foley, American actor
1970: Tarkan Gözübüyük, Turkish bass player and producer
1969: Ain Tammus, Estonian footballer and coach
1968: Eddie Griffin, American comedian, actor, and producer
1967: Adam Savage, American actor and special effects designer
1967: Elbert West, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)
1966: Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter and drummer
1966: Irène Jacob, French-Swiss actress
1965: Alistair Carmichael, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1965: Gero Miesenböck, Austrian neuroscientist and educator
1965: David Miliband, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1963: Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
1963: Steve Thomas, English-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962: Nikos Filippou, Greek basketball player and manager
1962: Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
1961: Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
1961: Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
1961: Forest Whitaker, American actor
1959: Vincent Lindon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1958: Gary Heale, English footballer and coach
1958: Mac Thornberry, American lawyer and politician
1957: Cecile Richards, American activist and former Planned Parenthood president (died 2025)
1956: Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
1956: Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1980)
1956: Nicholas Harberd, British botanist, educator, and academician
1956: Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1956: Steve Mortimer, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator
1956: Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956: Wayne Taylor, South African racing driver
1954: John Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
1954: Giorgos Kaminis, American-Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Mayor of Athens
1954: Mario Kempes, Argentinian footballer and manager
1953: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian priest and politician, 49th President of Haiti
1953: Sultanah Haminah, Malaysian royal consort
1953: Mohamad Shahrum Osman, Malaysian politician
1953: Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter
1952: John Cleland, British racing driver
1952: Celia Imrie, English actress
1952: Terry O'Quinn, American actor
1952: David Pack, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1952: Marky Ramone, American drummer and songwriter
1952: Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1991)
1951: Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (died 2010)
1951: Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
1950: Colin Barnett, Australian economist and politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
1950: Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and publisher
1949: Carl Bildt, Swedish politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Sweden
1949: Trevor Horn, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1949: Richard Russo, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
1948: Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (died 2015)
1948: Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek anthropologist and critic
1948: Artimus Pyle, American rock drummer and songwriter
1947: Lydia Davis, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
1947: Pridiyathorn Devakula, Thai economist and politician, Thai Minister of Finance
1947: Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2019)
1946: Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1946: Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
1945: David Arthur Granger, Guyanese politician, 9th President of Guyana
1945: Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945: Jürgen Möllemann, German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (died 2003)
1944: Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
1944: Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (died 2019)
1944: Nigel Williams, English conservator (died 1992)
1943: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
1942: Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (died 2005)
1941: Livia Gouverneur, Venezuelan activist (died 1961)
1940: Chris Cord, American racing driver (died 2022)
1940: Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer (died 2015)
1940: Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and convicted murderer (died 1990)
1940: Robert Winston, English surgeon, academic, and politician
1939: Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
1938: Bill Alsup, American racing driver (died 2016)
1938: Ernie Barnes, American football player, actor, and painter (died 2009)
1938: Carmen Callil, Australian publisher, founded Virago Press (died 2022)
1938: Barry Goldwater, Jr., American lawyer and politician
1937: Prabhash Joshi, Indian journalist (died 2009)
1936: George Voinovich, American lawyer and politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (died 2016)
1935: Donn Clendenon, American baseball player and lawyer (died 2005)
1935: Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (died 2012)
1935: Ken Kercheval, American actor and director (died 2019)
1934: Harrison Birtwistle, English composer and academic (died 2022)
1934: Eva Krížiková, Czech actress (died 2020)
1934: Risto Jarva, Finnish director and producer (died 1977)
1933: Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (died 2003)
1933: M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter (died 2024)
1932: Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2010)
1931: Clive Cussler, American archaeologist and author (died 2020)
1931: Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director (died 2023)
1931: Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec (died 2023)
1930: Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (died 2004)
1930: Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (died 2013)
1930: Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
1930: Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
1929: Charles Anthony, American tenor and actor (died 2012)
1929: Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (died 2001)
1929: Ian Stewart, Scottish racing driver (died 2017)
1928: Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (died 2012)
1928: Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian (died 1967)
1927: Nan Martin, American actress (died 2010)
1927: Carmen Zapata, American actress (died 2014)
1927: Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier (died 2021)
1926: Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan-French journalist and author (died 2007)
1926: Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (died 2003)
1926: Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (died 2015)
1926: Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (died 2019)
1925: Philip Carey, American actor (died 2009)
1925: Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (died 2014)
1925: D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)
1925: Evan Hultman, American politician (died 2025)
1925: Antony Carbone, American actor (died 2020)
1925: Pandel Savic, American football player (died 2018)
1924: Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (died 2014)
1924: Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress and philanthropist (died 2025)
1922: Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
1922: Jean-Pierre Richard, French writer (died 2019)
1921: Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (died 2006)
1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
1919: Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (died 2012)
1919: Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher (died 1999)
1918: Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2003)
1918: Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
1917: Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (died 2015)
1917: Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (died 2012)
1917: Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician (died 1979)
1916: Sumner Gerard, American politician and diplomat (died 2005)
1915: Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (died 2010)
1915: Kashmir Singh Katoch, Indian army officer (died 2007)
1914: Birabongse Bhanudej, Thai racing driver and sailor, member of the Thai royal family (died 1985)
1914: Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist, scholar, and activist (died 1999)
1914: Howard Vernon, Swiss-French actor (died 1996)
1913: Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1963)
1913: Hammond Innes, English journalist and author (died 1998)
1913: Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet and author (died 2010)
1911: Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician, Secretary of State for Air (died 1994)
1909: Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (died 1992)
1906: R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic (died 1993)
1906: Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (died 1989)
1905: Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (died 1974)
1905: Anita Farra, Italian actress (died 2008)
1904: Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author (died 2007)
1903: Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author (died 1998)
1903: K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician (died 1975)
1902: Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (died 1983)
1899: Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (died 1971)
1894: Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (died 1989)
1893: Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (died 1969)
1893: Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (died 1970)
1892: Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (died 1940)
1887: Wharton Esherick, American sculptor (died 1970)
1883: Denny Barry Irish Republican died during the 1923 Irish Hunger Strikes (died 1923)
1880: Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician (died 1950)
1871: Doppo Kunikida, Japanese journalist, author, and poet (died 1908)
1867: Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (died 1936)
1865: Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Anglo-Irish businessman and publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press (died 1922)
1865: Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (died 1945)
1864: Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (died 1942)
1858: Emmeline Pankhurst, English political activist and suffragist (died 1928)
1852: Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (died 1920)
1850: Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (died 1917)
1848: Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (died 1923)
1827: W. W. Thayer American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (died 1899)
1817: Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (died 1898)
1812: James Hope-Scott, English lawyer and academic (died 1873)
1808: Henry Edward Manning, English cardinal (died 1892)
1800: Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (died 1878)
1799: Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (died 1882)
1796: Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (died 1867)
1793: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author, editor (died 1884)
1779: Clement Clarke Moore, American author, poet, and educator (died 1863)
1704: August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (died 1792)
1638: Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1693)
1631: Jens Juel, Danish politician and diplomat, Governor-general of Norway (died 1700)
1631: Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (died 1718)
1613: Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (died 1682)
1611: Jai Singh I, maharaja of Jaipur (died 1667)
1606: Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1669)
1600: Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter (died 1671)
1573: Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (died 1652)
1478: Barbara Jagiellon, duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (died 1534)
1471: Eskender, Ethiopian emperor (died 1494)
1455: Queen Yun, Korean queen (died 1482)
1442: Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (died 1496)
1359: Antonio Correr, Italian cardinal (died 1445)
1353: Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (died 1410)
1273: Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (died 1352)
980: Ichijō, Japanese emperor (died 1011)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (born 1956)
2017: Martin Landau, American film and television actor (born 1928)
2015: Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (born 1938)
2015: Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (born 1916)
2015: Aubrey Morris, British actor (born 1926)
2015: Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (born 1933)
2014: Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (born 1933)
2014: James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (born 1918)
2014: Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (born 1926)
2014: Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (born 1924)
2013: Ninos Aho, Syrian-American poet and activist (born 1945)
2013: Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (born 1944)
2013: Tom Greenwell, American lawyer and judge (born 1956)
2013: Earl Gros, American football player (born 1940)
2013: Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (born 1924)
2013: Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (born 1986)
2013: John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (born 1962)
2012: Boris Cebotari, Moldovan footballer (born 1975)
2012: Tsilla Chelton, Israeli-French actress (born 1919)
2012: Grant Feasel, American football player (born 1960)
2012: David Fraser, English general (born 1920)
2012: Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (born 1917)
2012: Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1931)
2011: Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and politician (born 1928)
2011: Googie Withers, British-Australian actress (born 1917)
2010: James E. Akins, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (born 1926)
2008: György Kolonics, Hungarian canoe racer (born 1972)
2006: Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (born 1937)
2006: Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (born 1942)
2003: Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (born 1953)
2003: Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (born 1904)
2001: C. Balasingham, Sri Lankan lawyer and civil servant (born 1917)
2000: Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (born 1925)
1998: S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (born 1960)
1997: Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (born 1924)
1997: Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (born 1946)
1992: Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (born 1922)
1992: Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (born 1960)
1991: Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (born 1933)
1990: Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (born 1920)
1990: Margaret Lockwood, English actress (born 1916)
1990: Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet and diplomat, 4th Syrian Ambassador to the United States (born 1910)
1989: Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (born 1956)
1988: Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (born 1906)
1986: Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (born 1923)
1982: Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (born 1926)
1981: Frédéric Dorion, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1898)
1979: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 29th President of Mexico (born 1911)
1977: Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (born 1933)
1976: Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (born 1897)
1974: Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (born 1944)
1969: Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (born 1885)
1966: Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (born 1903)
1965: Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (born 1908)
1961: John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (born 1884)
1961: Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (born 1901)
1960: Set Persson, Swedish politician (born 1897)
1960: Lawrence Tibbett, American singer and actor (born 1896)
1959: Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and academic (born 1880)
1959: Vance Palmer, Australian author and critic (born 1885)
1957: James M. Cox, American publisher and politician, 46th Governor of Ohio (born 1870)
1957: Vasily Maklakov, a Russian lawyer and politician (born 1869)
1953: Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (born 1882)
1948: John J. Pershing, American general (born 1860)
1947: Walter Donaldson, American soldier and songwriter (born 1893)
1946: Razor Smith, English cricketer and coach (born 1877)
1944: Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (born 1885)
1942: Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (born 1910)
1940: Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (born 1857)
1940: Robert Wadlow, American giant, 8"11' 271 cm (born 1918)
1933: Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (born 1865)
1933: Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (born 1890)
1932: Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (born 1846)
1932: Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (born 1873)
1931: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (born 1868)
1930: Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1845)
1930: Leonora Barry, Irish-born American social activist (born 1849)
1929: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (born 1874)
1919: Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)
1904: Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (born 1860)
1898: Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (born 1825)
1890: Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet and playwright (born 1819)
1885: Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (born 1837)
1883: General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (born 1838)
1858: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (born 1806)
1857: Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (born 1791)
1851: Anne-Marie Javouhey, French nun, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (born 1779)
1851: Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (born 1787)
1844: Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (born 1772)
1839: Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (born 1802)
1828: Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (born 1741)
1789: Jacques Duphly, French harpsichord player and composer (born 1715)
1765: Charles-André van Loo, French painter (born 1705)
1750: Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (born 1686)
1685: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Dutch-born English general and claimant to the throne, executed (born 1649)
1655: Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (born 1570)
1614: Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian and author (born 1540)
1609: Annibale Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1560)
1571: Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyō (born 1514)
1544: René of Châlon (born 1519)
1542: Lisa del Giocondo, subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa (born 1479)
1445: Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
1410: Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (born 1360)
1406: William, Duke of Austria
1397: Catherine of Henneberg, German ruler (born c. 1334)
1388: Agnes of Durazzo, titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (born 1313)
1381: John Ball, English Lollard priest
1299: King Eric II of Norway (born c. 1268)
1291: Rudolf I of Germany (born 1218)
1274: Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (born 1221)
1015: Vladimir the Great, Grand prince of Kievan Rus' (born c. 958)
998: Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Persian mathematician and astronomer (born 940)
756: Yang Guifei, consort of Xuan Zong (born 719)

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