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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

2025: Missouri lottery winner of $189,000 jackpot dreams of helping children in need. When asked what she plans to do with her $189,000 Show Me Cash jackpot, one Missouri lottery winner responded without hesitation that she plans on fulfilling her dream to help children in need.
2024: $180 million Powerball winners embroiled in court battle after losing $20M to financial advisor. A Minnesota couple who won a $180.1 million Powerball jackpot in 2008 have come forward to talk about how they lost millions to their financial advisor's poor management and spent five years embroiled in court battles.
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.$292.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2025
7.$251 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2024
8.€240.13 Million US$245.6 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
9.€230 Million US$235.24 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
10.$232 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2017
11.€190.37 Million
US$214.05 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2019
12.$187 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2017
13.$161 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 21, 2021
14.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2019
15.$152 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 21, 2015
16.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2005
17.$141 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2013
18.€111 Million
US$129.13 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2025
19.$128 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2021
20.€101 Million
US$123.15 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 20, 2012
21.€120 Million
US$122.74 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
22.€108 Million
US$121.41 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2019
23.€110.05 Million
US$121.4 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2016
24.€96 Million
US$116.92 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2005
25.$113 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 21, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1993: Bnkersey93
Sunday, Jul 18, 1993
32 years old
1989: Play2WinIt
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1989
36 years old
1986: mrpok
Friday, Jul 18, 1986
39 years old
1978: SHAWNTAEC
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1978
47 years old
1972: Picayunehuff5
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1972
53 years old
1972: VNLotto
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1972
53 years old
1967: Blessed55
Tuesday, Jul 18, 1967
58 years old
1966: Johnny5
Monday, Jul 18, 1966
59 years old
1965: blueny
Sunday, Jul 18, 1965
60 years old
1965: Nina8108
Sunday, Jul 18, 1965
60 years old
1964: lotteryrainman
Saturday, Jul 18, 1964
61 years old
1959: gwjr
Saturday, Jul 18, 1959
66 years old
1956: khan
Wednesday, Jul 18, 1956
69 years old
1954: Neneblue20
Sunday, Jul 18, 1954
71 years old
1952: Brenda33
Friday, Jul 18, 1952
73 years old
1948: evaluna
Sunday, Jul 18, 1948
77 years old
1946: msbusie11
Thursday, Jul 18, 1946
79 years old
: THALIA
(year not provided)
: fla-player
(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 36 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: James Oliver Huberty kills 21 people and injures 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.
1979: A landslide occurs on the Iliwerung volcano in Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that kills over 530 and leaves 700 missing.
1976: Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1970: An Antonov An-22 of the Soviet Air Forces crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 23 aboard.
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.
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.
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
2000: Sarah Kinsley, American singer-songwriter
1997: Bam Adebayo, American basketball player
1997: Noah Lyles, American sprinter
1996: Yung Lean, Swedish rapper and singer-songwriter
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
1991: Mandy Rose, American wrestler and television personality
1991: Eugenio Suárez, Venezuelan baseball player
1990: Canelo Álvarez, Mexican boxer
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
1984: Ben Askren, American mixed martial artist and boxer
1983: Mishaal Al-Saeed, Saudi 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, American-Israeli basketball player
1980: Ryōko Hirosue, Japanese actress
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
1977: Kelly Reilly, English actress
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 (died 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 (died 2001)
1950: Shahid Khan, Pakistani-American businessman and sports executive
1950: Jack Layton, Canadian political scientist, academic, and politician (died 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 (died 2016)
1948: Hartmut Michel, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947: Steve Forbes, American publisher and politician
1946: Kalpana Mohan, Indian actress (died 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 (died 2006)
1942: Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician, 84th President of the Swiss Confederation
1941: Frank Farian, German songwriter and producer (died 2024)
1941: Lonnie Mack, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
1941: Martha Reeves, American singer and politician
1940: James Brolin, American actor
1940: Joe Torre, American baseball player, manager, and executive
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 (died 2012)
1938: Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboard player and manager (died 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 (died 2005)
1935: Tenley Albright, American former figure skater and physician
1935: Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru, 69th Shankaracharya (died 2018)
1934: Edward Bond, English director, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2024)
1934: Darlene Conley, American actress (died 2007)
1933: Jean Yanne, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)
1933: Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet and playwright (died 2017)
1932: Robert Ellis Miller, American director and screenwriter (died 2017)
1929: Dick Button, American figure skater and actor (died 2025)
1929: Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (died 2000)
1928: Andrea Gallo, Italian priest and author (died 2013)
1928: Baddiewinkle, American internet personality
1927: Mehdi Hassan, Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer (died 2012)
1927: Kurt Masur, German conductor and educator (died 2015)
1927: Antonio García-Trevijano, Spanish republican, political activist, and author (died 2018)
1927: Keith MacDonald, Canadian politician (died 2021)
1927: Anthony Mirra, American gangster, member of the Bonanno Crime Family (died 1982)
1926: Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (died 1987)
1926: Nita Bieber, American actress (died 2019)
1926: Bernard Pons, French politician and medical doctor (died 2022)
1926: Maunu Kurkvaara, Finnish film director and screenwriter (died 2023)
1926: Elizabeth Jennings, English poet (died 2001)
1925: Shirley Strickland, Australian runner and hurdler (died 2004)
1925: Friedrich Zimmermann, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (died 2012)
1925: Raymond Jones, Australian Modernist architect (died 2022)
1925: Windy McCall, American baseball relief pitcher (died 2015)
1924: Inge Sørensen, Danish swimmer (died 2011)
1924: Tullio Altamura, Italian actor
1923: Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and businessman (died 1997)
1923: Michael Medwin, English actor (died 2020)
1922: Thomas Kuhn, American physicist, historian, and philosopher (died 1996)
1921: Peter Austin, English brewer, founded Ringwood Brewery (died 2014)
1921: Aaron Beck, American psychiatrist and academic (died 2021)
1921: John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (died 2016)
1921: Richard Leacock, English-French director and producer (died 2011)
1921: Heinz Bennent, German actor (died 2011)
1920: Eric Brandon, English race car driver and businessman (died 1982)
1919: Lilia Dale, Italian actress (died 1991)
1918: Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
1917: Henri Salvador, French singer and guitarist (died 2008)
1917: Paul Streeten, Austrian-born British economics professor (died 2019)
1916: Charles Kittel, American physicist (died 2019)
1915: Carequinha, Brazilian clown and actor (died 2006)
1915: Louis Le Bailly, British Royal Navy officer (died 2010)
1914: Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (died 2000)
1914: Oscar Heisserer, French footballer (died 2004)
1913: Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (died 1997)
1911: Hume Cronyn, Canadian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003)
1910: Diptendu Pramanick, Indian businessman (died 1989)
1910: Mamadou Dia, Senegalese politician; 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (died 2009)
1909: Bishnu Dey, Indian poet, critic, and academic (died 1982)
1909: Andrei Gromyko, Belarusian-Russian economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1989)
1909: Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan commander and politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (died 1978)
1909: Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (died 1994)
1908: Peace Pilgrim, American mystic and activist (died 1981)
1908: Lupe Vélez, Mexican-American actress and dancer (died 1944)
1908: Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (died 1997)
1906: S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American academic and politician (died 1992)
1906: Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1963)
1902: Jessamyn West, American author (died 1984)
1902: Chill Wills, American actor (died 1978)
1900: Nathalie Sarraute, French lawyer and author (died 1999)
1899: Ernst Scheller, German soldier and politician, 8th Mayor of Marburg (died 1942)
1898: John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (died 1979)
1897: Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver and engineer (died 1935)
1895: Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (died 1991)
1895: Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (died 1954)
1893: David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie, Scottish peer, soldier and courtier (died 1968)
1892: Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (died 1969)
1890: Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1983)
1889: Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (died 1977)
1887: Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian military officer and politician, Minister President of Norway (died 1945)
1886: Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., American general (died 1945)
1884: Alberto di Jorio, Italian cardinal (died 1979)
1881: Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (died 1921)
1872: Julius Fučík, Czech composer and conductor of military bands (died 1916)
1871: Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (died 1958)
1871: Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer (died 1946)
1867: Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist (died 1932)
1864: Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1937)
1861: Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree (died 1923)
1853: Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
1848: W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (died 1915)
1845: Tristan Corbière, French poet (died 1875)
1843: Virgil Earp, American marshal (died 1905)
1842: William D. Coleman, 13th President of Liberia (died 1908)
1837: Vasil Levski, Bulgarian priest and activist (died 1873)
1821: Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (died 1910)
1818: Louis Gerhard De Geer, Swedish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1896)
1811: William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (died 1863)
1796: Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher and academic (died 1879)
1750: Frederick Adolf, duke of Östergötland (died 1803)
1724: Maria Antonia of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (died 1780)
1720: Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (died 1793)
1718: Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (died 1808)
1702: Maria Clementina Sobieska, Polish noble (died 1735)
1670: Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (died 1747)
1659: Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (died 1743)
1634: Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (died 1695)
1552: Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1612)
1534: Zacharius Ursinus, German theologian (died 1583)
1504: Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss pastor and reformer (died 1575)
1501: Isabella of Austria, queen of Denmark (died 1526)
1013: Hermann of Reichenau, German composer, mathematician, and astronomer (died 1054)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Lou Dobbs, American political commentator and television host (born 1945)
2024: Abner Haynes, American football player (born 1937)
2024: Bob Newhart, American comedian and actor (born 1929)
2023: Oommen Chandy, Indian politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala (born 1943)
2021: Tom O'Connor, English comedian (born 1939)
2018: Jonathan Gold, American food critic (born 1960)
2018: Adrian Cronauer, American radio personality (born 1938)
2015: Alex Rocco, American actor (born 1936)
2014: Andreas Biermann, German footballer (born 1980)
2014: João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazilian journalist, author, and academic (born 1941)
2014: Dietmar Schönherr, Austrian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1926)
2013: Vaali, Indian poet, songwriter, and actor (born 1931)
2013: Olivier Ameisen, French-American cardiologist and academic (born 1953)
2012: Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, Lithuanian-Israeli rabbi and author (born 1910)
2012: Jean François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1928)
2012: Dawoud Rajiha, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (born 1947)
2012: Assef Shawkat, Syrian general and politician (born 1950)
2012: Hasan Turkmani, Syrian general and politician, Syrian Minister of Defense (born 1935)
2012: Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (born 1942)
2009: Henry Allingham, English soldier (born 1896)
2009: Jill Balcon, English actress (born 1925)
2007: Jerry Hadley, American tenor (born 1952)
2007: Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (born 1908)
2006: Henry Hewes, American theater writer (born 1917)
2005: Amy Gillett, Australian cyclist and rower (born 1976)
2005: William Westmoreland, American general (born 1914)
2004: André Castelot, Belgian-French historian and author (born 1911)
2004: Émile Peynaud, French wine maker (born 1912)
2002: Metin Toker, Turkish journalist and author (born 1924)
2001: Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
1990: Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (born 1896)
1990: Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (born 1897)
1989: Donnie Moore, American baseball player (born 1954)
1989: Rebecca Schaeffer, American model and actress (born 1967)
1988: Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (born 1938)
1988: Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (born 1924)
1987: Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (born 1907)
1984: Lally Bowers, English actress (born 1914)
1984: Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (born 1926)
1982: Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist (born 1896)
1981: Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (born 1890)
1975: Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (born 1941)
1973: Jack Hawkins, English actor (born 1910)
1969: Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (born 1940)
1968: Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
1966: Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
1954: Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster (born 1895)
1952: Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect and historian (born 1862)
1950: Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (born 1885)
1949: Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (born 1870)
1949: Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (born 1905)
1948: Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (born 1877)
1947: Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (born 1906)
1944: Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (born 1870)
1938: Marie of Romania (born 1875)
1937: Julian Bell, English poet and academic (born 1908)
1932: Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (born 1855)
1925: Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (born 1840)
1916: Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author (born 1835)
1899: Horatio Alger, American novelist and journalist (born 1832)
1892: Thomas Cook, English travel agent, founded the Thomas Cook Group (born 1808)
1890: Lydia Becker, English journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal (born 1827)
1884: Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (born 1829)
1872: Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician, 26th President of Mexico (born 1806)
1863: Robert Gould Shaw, American colonel (born 1837)
1837: Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant and rebel leader (born 1777)
1817: Jane Austen, English novelist (born 1775)
1792: John Paul Jones, Scottish-American admiral and diplomat (born 1747)
1756: Pieter Langendijk, Dutch poet and playwright (born 1683)
1730: François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general (born 1644)
1721: Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (born 1684)
1698: Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian and author (born 1633)
1695: Johannes Camphuys, Dutch politician, Governor-general of the Dutch East Indies (born 1634)
1650: Robert Levinz, English Royalist, hanged in London by Parliamentary forces as a spy (born 1615)
1639: Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, German general (born 1604)
1610: Caravaggio, Italian painter (born 1571)
1608: Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1546)
1591: Jacobus Gallus, Slovenian composer (born 1550)
1566: Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish bishop and historian (born c.1484)
1488: Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (born 1432)
1450: Francis I, Duke of Brittany (born 1414)
1300: Gerard Segarelli, Italian religious leader, founded the Apostolic Brethren (born 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 (born c. 1150)
1185: Stefan, first Archbishop of Uppsala (born before 1143)
1100: Godfrey of Bouillon, Frankish knight (born 1016)
984: Dietrich I, bishop of Metz
928: Stephen II, patriarch of Constantinople
924: Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn al-Furat, Abbasid vizier (born 855)
912: Zhu Wen, Chinese emperor (born 852)
715: Muhammad bin Qasim, Umayyad general (born 695)
707: Emperor Monmu of Japan (born 683)

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