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July 18

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July 18

July 18 is the 199th day of the year (200th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 166 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: $1 BILLION: Powerball jackpot hits milestone for 3rd time. This week lottery players across the United States will be pulling out all the stops to try and win Powerball, featuring one of the largest lottery jackpots in history, worth an estimated $1 billion.
2022: Mississippi Lottery to add midday drawings and new Fireball feature to Cash 3 and Cash 4 games. Today the Mississippi Lottery announced a second daily drawing for two of their popular draw games, plus a new add-on feature called Fireball.
2021: Uber Eats driver wins $250,000 between food deliveries. A food delivery driver was sitting in her car between orders when she found out she hit the $250,000 top prize on a scratch-off lottery ticket from the Maryland Lottery.
2018: $422 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot is red hot. The multi-state Mega Millions lottery game continued its Summer climb Tuesday night, and is now at the point where jackpot rolls are sharply increased.
2017: N.Y. man's lottery fortune hurts home town state aid. Good fortune smiled on Richard Loveless in 2015, when the retired electrician won a $42.5 million lottery prize, but those winnings are bringing headaches to the Port Byron School District.
2014: Would you quit your job if you won the lottery?. Rich enough to quit, but would you? Most people would keep working, even if those lottery balls lined up in their favor, says a Harris Poll survey released today.
2011: Record EuroMillions winners in hiding after begging avalanche. The Scottish couple who won £161 million in the EuroMillions lottery were in hiding yesterday — apparently meeting with their family to decide what to do with their astonishing windfall after receiving an avalanche of begging requests for money.
2007: Georgia Lottery sets sales record with $3.4 billion sales. The Georgia lottery took in a record $3.4 billion dollars during the last fiscal year -- a $244 million jump from the previous year.
2007: Wisconsin man claims $14.4M lottery jackpot. The winner of a $14.4 million Wisconsin Megabucks jackpot claimed his prize at lottery headquarters Tuesday.
2007: Lottery Winner's Lucky Day Turns into One Heck of a Mess. The lure of quick cash from someone else's winning lottery ticket now has three women facing some serious charges, after their alleged plan proved to be very unlucky.
2006: Powerball lottery jackpot reaches $100 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $100 million, with a cash option of $45.3 million.
2006: Calif. lotto winner remains hidden. Somewhere in California, a man named Richard Furness Roberts is quietly sitting on $110 million.
2006: Arizona Lottery winner shows what not to do with $6.7M. When Shefik Tallmadge was 29, he became the biggest winner in the Arizona lottery "Pick" game at the time, but that may be the last good thing that happened to him.
2006: Maryland Lottery sales top $1.5 billion for first time. Maryland Lottery sales topped $1.5 billion for the first time in the fiscal year that ended in June, a jump of more than 5 percent from the year before, lottery director Buddy Roogow said yesterday.
2006: In 25 years, Arizona Lottery raised $5.5B. Twenty-five years after it started, the Arizona Lottery has contributed more than $1.8 billion to state and local projects and programs, far surpassing the annual revenue hopes of the original group of businessmen who started it.
2006: Okla. Lottery has generated $65 million for schools. An Oklahoma Lottery official says that more than $65 million dollars has been generated for education since the lottery began in October.
2006: Tenn. lottery sales up 18 percent since last year. The Tennessee Lottery saw an 18 percent increase in sales for its fiscal year ending in June, propelled upward in part by 36 new scratch-off games and two Powerball jackpots topping $300 million, according to lottery president and chief executive officer Rebecca Paul.
2006: Arizona Ballot Could Become Lottery Ticket. To anyone who ever said, "I wouldn't vote for that bum for a million bucks," Arizona may be calling your bluff.
2006: Dallas arrest sparks fears of internet gambling crackdown. The internet gambling industry was in disarray last night after the Scottish chief executive of BetOnSports, the Costa Rica-based operator, was arrested by the US federal authorities at Dallas Fort Worth airport.
2006: Arrest Made in Crackdown on Internet Betting. In a sharp escalation of their crackdown on Internet gambling, United States prosecutors said yesterday that they were pressing charges against the chief executive of BetOnSports, a prominent Internet gambling company that is publicly traded in Britain, and against several other current and former company officers.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.08 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2023
2.$640 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2023
3.$555 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
4.$433 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2018
5.$361 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2016
6.€240.13 Million US$245.6 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
7.€230 Million US$235.24 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
8.$232 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2017
9.€190.37 Million US$214.05 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2019
10.$187 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2017
11.$161 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 21, 2021
12.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2019
13.$152 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 21, 2015
14.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2005
15.$141 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2013
16.$128 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2021
17.€101 Million
US$123.15 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2012
18.€120 Million
US$122.74 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
19.€108 Million
US$121.41 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2019
20.€110.05 Million
US$121.4 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2016
21.€96 Million
US$116.92 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2005
22.$113 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 21, 2020
23.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2018
24.$105 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2008
25.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2006

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1989: Play2WinIt
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1989
34 years old
1986: mrpok
Friday, Jul 18, 1986
37 years old
1978: SHAWNTAEC
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1978
45 years old
1972: Picayunehuff5
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1972
51 years old
1972: VNLotto
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1972
51 years old
1967: Blessed55
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1967
56 years old
1966: Johnny5
Monday, Jul 18, 1966
57 years old
1965: blueny
Sunday, Jul 18, 1965
58 years old
1965: Nina8108
Sunday, Jul 18, 1965
58 years old
1956: khan
Wednesday, Jul 18, 1956
67 years old
1952: Brenda33
Friday, Jul 18, 1952
71 years old
1948: evaluna
Sunday, Jul 18, 1948
75 years old
1946: msbusie11
Thursday, Jul 18, 1946
77 years old
: THALIA
(year not provided)
: fla-player
(year not provided)
: ilikehits
(year not provided)
: Odb1629
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: A man sets fire to an anime studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan, killing at least 35 people and injuring dozens of others.
2014: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant requires Christians to either accept dhimmi status, emigrate from ISIL lands, or be killed.
2013: The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
2012: At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tour bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria.
2002: A Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer crashes near Estes Park, Colorado, killing both crew members.
1996: Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
1996: Battle of Mullaitivu: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam capture the Sri Lanka Army's base, killing over 1,200 soldiers.
1995: On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital, forcing most of the population to flee.
1994: The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
1994: Rwandan genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
1992: A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
1984: McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
1982: Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
1981: A Canadair CL-44 and Sukhoi Su-15 collide in mid-air near Yerevan, Armenia, killing four.
1976: Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1968: Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1966: A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
1944: World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1942: World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
1942: The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
1936: On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
1925: Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.
1914: The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1872: The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
1870: The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
1863: American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
1862: First ascent of Dent Blanche, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1857: Louis Faidherbe, French governor of Senegal, arrives to relieve French forces at Kayes, effectively ending El Hajj Umar Tall's war against the French.
1841: Coronation of Emperor Pedro II of Brazil.
1812: The Treaties of Orebro end both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1806: A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
1723: Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136, in Leipzig on the eighth Sunday after Trinity.
1555: The College of Arms is reincorporated by Royal charter signed by Queen Mary I of England and King Philip II of Spain.
1507: In Brussels, Prince Charles I is crowned Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders, a year after inheriting the title.
1389: France and England agree to the Truce of Leulinghem, inaugurating a 13-year peace, the longest period of sustained peace during the Hundred Years' War.
1334: The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
1290: King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.
1195: Battle of Alarcos: Almohad forces defeat the Castilian army of Alfonso VIII and force its retreat to Toledo.
645: Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo-Tang War.
452: Sack of Aquileia: After an earlier defeat on the Catalaunian Plains, Attila lays siege to the metropolis of Aquileia and eventually destroys it.
362: Roman-Persian Wars: Emperor Julian arrives at Antioch with a Roman expeditionary force (60,000 men) and stays there for nine months to launch a campaign against the Persian Empire.
387 BC: Roman-Gaulish Wars: Battle of the Allia: A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome.
477 BC: Battle of the Cremera as part of the Roman-Etruscan Wars. Veii ambushes and defeats the Roman army.

Births On This Day

2001: Agustina Roth, Argentine BMX rider
1997: Noah Lyles, American sprinter
1996: Smriti Mandhana, Indian cricketer
1996: Shudufhadzo Musida, Miss South Africa 2020
1994: Nilo Soares, East Timorese footballer
1993: Lee Tae-min, South Korean singer and actor
1993: Michael Lichaa, Australian rugby league player
1989: Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
1989: Sebastian Mielitz, German footballer
1989: Yohan Mollo, French footballer
1988: Änis Ben-Hatira, German-Tunisian footballer
1988: César Villaluz, Mexican footballer
1987: Tontowi Ahmad, Indonesian badminton player
1986: Natalia Mikhailova, Russian ice dancer
1985: Chace Crawford, American actor
1985: Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
1985: James Norton, English actor
1983: Mishaal Al-Saeed, Suadi Arabian footballer
1983: Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
1983: Aaron Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and drummer
1983: Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete
1983: Jan Schlaudraff, German footballer
1982: Ryan Cabrera, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982: Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress, singer, and film producer
1982: Carlo Costly, Honduran footballer
1981: Dennis Seidenberg, German ice hockey player
1980: Kristen Bell, American actress
1980: David Blu (born David Bluthenthal), American-Israeli basketball player
1979: Deion Branch, American football player
1979: Joey Mercury, American wrestler and producer
1978: Adabel Guerrero, Argentinian actress, singer, and dancer
1978: Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player and sportscaster
1978: Crystal Mangum, American murderer responsible for making false rape allegations in the Duke lacrosse case
1978: Joo Sang-wook, South Korean actor
1978: Ben Sheets, American baseball player and coach
1978: Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist
1977: Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess player and author
1976: Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
1976: Go Soo-hee, South Korean actress
1975: Torii Hunter, American baseball player
1975: Daron Malakian, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975: M.I.A., English rapper and producer
1974: Alan Morrison, British poet
1971: Penny Hardaway, American basketball player and coach
1971: Sukhwinder Singh, Indian singer-songwriter and actor
1969: Elizabeth Gilbert, American author
1969: The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler and politician
1968: Grant Bowler, New Zealand-Australian actor
1968: Scott Gourley, Australian rugby player
1967: Vin Diesel, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1966: Dan O'Brien, American decathlete and coach
1965: Vesselina Kasarova, Bulgarian soprano
1964: Wendy Williams, American talk show host
1963: Marc Girardelli, Austrian-Luxembourgian skier
1963: Martín Torrijos, Panamanian economist and politician, 35th President of Panama
1962: Shaun Micallef, Australian comedian, producer, and screenwriter
1961: Elizabeth McGovern, American actress
1961: Alan Pardew, English footballer and manager
1961: Pasi Rautiainen, Finnish footballer, coach, and manager
1960: Simon Heffer, English journalist and author
1957: Nick Faldo, English golfer and sportscaster
1957: Keith Levene, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2022)
1955: Bernd Fasching, Austrian painter and sculptor
1954: Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter, mandolin player, and producer
1951: Elio Di Rupo, Belgian chemist, academic, and politician, 68th Prime Minister of Belgium
1951: Margo Martindale, American actress
1950: Richard Branson, English businessman, founded Virgin Group
1950: Jack Dongarra, American computer scientist and academic
1950: Kostas Eleftherakis, Greek footballer
1950: Glenn Hughes, American disco singer and actor (d. 2001)
1950: Jack Layton, Canadian political scientist, academic, and politician (d. 2011)
1950: Mark Udall, American educator and politician
1949: Dennis Lillee, Australian cricketer and coach
1948: Carlos Colón Sr., Puerto Rican-American wrestler and promoter
1948: Jeanne Córdova, American journalist and activist (d. 2016)
1948: Hartmut Michel, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947: Steve Forbes, American publisher and politician
1946: Kalpana Mohan, Indian actress (d. 2012)
1945: Pat Doherty, Irish Republican politician
1944: David Hemery, English hurdler and author
1943: Joseph J. Ellis, American historian and author
1942: Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (d. 2006)
1942: Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician, 84th President of the Swiss Confederation
1941: Frank Farian, German songwriter and producer
1941: Lonnie Mack, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1941: Martha Reeves, American singer and politician
1940: James Brolin, American actor
1939: Brian Auger, English rock and jazz keyboard player
1939: Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939: Jerry Moore, American football player and coach
1938: John Connelly, English footballer (d. 2012)
1938: Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboard player and manager (d. 1985)
1938: Paul Verhoeven, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
1937: Roald Hoffmann, Polish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1937: Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (d. 2005)
1935: Tenley Albright, American former figure skater and physician
1935: Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru, 69th Shankaracharya (d. 2018)
1934: Edward Bond, English director, playwright, and screenwriter
1934: Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
1933: Jean Yanne, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1933: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright (d. 2017)
1932: Robert Ellis Miller, American director and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1929: Dick Button, American former figure skater and actor
1929: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 2000)
1928: Andrea Gallo, Italian priest and author (d. 2013)
1928: Baddiewinkle, American internet personality
1927: Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer (d. 2012)
1927: Kurt Masur, German conductor and educator (d. 2015)
1927: Antonio García-Trevijano, Spanish republican, political activist, and author (d. 2018)
1927: Keith MacDonald, Canadian politician (d. 2021)
1927: Anthony Mirra, American gangster, member of the Bonanno Crime Family (d. 1982)
1926: Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (d. 1987)
1926: Nita Bieber, American actress (d. 2019)
1926: Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (d. 2022)
1926: Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter
1925: Shirley Strickland, Australian runner and hurdler (d. 2004)
1925: Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 2012)
1925: Raymond Jones, Australian Modernist architect (d. 2022)
1925: Windy McCall, American baseball relief pitcher (d. 2015)
1924: Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (d. 2011)
1924: Tullio Altamura, Italian actor
1923: Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and businessman (d. 1997)
1923: Michael Medwin, English actor (d. 2020)
1922: Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1996)
1921: Peter Austin, English brewer, founded Ringwood Brewery (d. 2014)
1921: Aaron Beck, American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2021)
1921: John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (d. 2016)
1921: Richard Leacock, English-French director and producer (d. 2011)
1921: Heinz Bennent, German actor (d. 2011)
1920: Eric Brandon, English race car driver and businessman (d. 1982)
1919: Lilia Dale, Italian actress (d. 1991)
1918: Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1917: Henri Salvador, French singer and guitarist (d. 2008)
1917: Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (d. 2019)
1916: Charles Kittel, American physicist (d. 2019)
1915: Carequinha, Brazilian clown and actor (d. 2006)
1915: Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer (d. 2010)
1914: Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (d. 2000)
1914: Oscar Heisserer, French footballer (d. 2004)
1913: Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
1911: Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1910: Diptendu Pramanick, Indian businessman (d. 1989)
1910: Mamadou Dia, Senegalese politician; 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2009)
1909: Bishnu Dey, Indian poet, critic, and academic (d. 1982)
1909: Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1989)
1909: Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (d. 1978)
1909: Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
1908: Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (d. 1981)
1908: Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer (d. 1944)
1908: Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (d. 1997)
1906: S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American academic and politician (d. 1992)
1906: Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1963)
1902: Jessamyn West, American author (d. 1984)
1902: Chill Wills, American actor (d. 1978)
1900: Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author (d. 1999)
1899: Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg (d. 1942)
1898: John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (d. 1979)
1897: Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver and engineer (d. 1935)
1895: Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (d. 1991)
1895: Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (d. 1954)
1893: David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (d. 1968)
1892: Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (d. 1969)
1890: Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1983)
1889: Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (d. 1977)
1887: Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway (d. 1945)
1886: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (d. 1945)
1884: Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (d. 1979)
1881: Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1921)
1872: Julius Fučík, Czech composer and conductor of military bands (d. 1916)
1871: Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (d.1958)
1871: Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer (d. 1946)
1867: Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (d. 1932)
1864: Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1937)
1861: Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree (d. 1923)
1853: Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
1848: W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (d. 1915)
1845: Tristan Corbière, French poet (d. 1875)
1843: Virgil Earp, American marshal (d. 1905)
1842: William D. Coleman, 13th President of Liberia (d. 1908)
1837: Vasil Levski, Bulgarian priest and activist (d. 1873)
1821: Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (d. 1910)
1818: Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 1896)
1811: William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (d. 1863)
1796: Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1879)
1750: Frederick Adolf, duke of Östergötland (d. 1803)
1724: Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (d. 1780)
1720: Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (d. 1793)
1718: Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1808)
1702: Maria Clementina Sobieska, Polish noble (d. 1735)
1670: Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1747)
1659: Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1634: Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1695)
1552: Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1612)
1534: Zacharius Ursinus, German theologian (d. 1583)
1504: Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss pastor and reformer (d. 1575)
1501: Isabella of Austria, queen of Denmark (d. 1526)
1013: Hermann of Reichenau, German composer, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1013)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Tom O'Connor, English comedian (b. 1939)
2018: Jonathan Gold, American food critic (b. 1960)
2018: Adrian Cronauer, American radio personality (b. 1938)
2015: Alex Rocco, American actor (b. 1936)
2014: Andreas Biermann, German footballer (b. 1980)
2014: João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (b. 1941)
2014: Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013: Vaali, Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (b. 1931)
2013: Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and academic (b. 1953)
2012: Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)
2012: Jean François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1928)
2012: Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1947)
2012: Assef Shawkat, Syrian general and politician (b. 1950)
2012: Hasan Turkmani, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (b. 1935)
2012: Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (b. 1942)
2009: Henry Allingham, English soldier (b. 1896)
2009: Jill Balcon, English actress (b. 1925)
2007: Jerry Hadley, American tenor (b. 1952)
2007: Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2006: Henry Hewes, American theater writer (b. 1917)
2005: Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (b. 1976)
2005: William Westmoreland, American general (b. 1914)
2004: André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (b. 1911)
2004: Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (b. 1912)
2002: Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1924)
2001: Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
1990: Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1896)
1990: Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (b. 1897)
1989: Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
1989: Rebecca Schaeffer, American model and actress (b. 1967)
1988: Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938)
1988: Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
1987: Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)
1984: Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)
1984: Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
1982: Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
1981: Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)
1975: Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)
1973: Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
1969: Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)
1968: Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1966: Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
1954: Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (b. 1895)
1952: Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect and historian (b. 1862)
1950: Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)
1949: Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)
1949: Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (b.1905)
1948: Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)
1947: Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
1944: Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)
1938: Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
1937: Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)
1932: Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)
1925: Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
1916: Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (b. 1835)
1899: Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (b. 1832)
1892: Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (b. 1808)
1890: Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (b. 1827)
1884: Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (b. 1829)
1872: Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (b. 1806)
1863: Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (b. 1837)
1837: Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (b. 1777)
1817: Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775)
1792: John Paul Jones, Scottish-American admiral and diplomat (b. 1747)
1756: Pieter Langendijk, Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1683)
1730: François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general (b. 1644)
1721: Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (b. 1684)
1698: Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1633)
1695: Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1634)
1650: Robert Levinz, English Royalist, hanged in London by Parliamentary forces as a spy (b. 1615)
1639: Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (b. 1604)
1610: Caravaggio, Italian painter (b. 1571)
1608: Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1546)
1591: Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (b. 1550)
1566: Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop and historian (b. c.1484)
1488: Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432)
1450: Francis I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1414)
1300: Gerard Segarelli, Italian religious leader, founded the Apostolic Brethren (b. 1240)
1270: Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
1232: John de Braose, Marcher Lord of Bramber and Gower
1194: Guy of Lusignan, king consort of Jerusalem (b. c. 1150)
1185: Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala (b. before 1143)
1100: Godfrey of Bouillon, Frankish knight (b. 1016)
984: Dietrich I, bishop of Metz
928: Stephen II, patriarch of Constantinople
924: Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, Abbasid vizier (b. 855)
912: Zhu Wen, Chinese emperor (b. 852)
715: Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad general (b. 695)
707: Emperor Monmu of Japan (b. 683)

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