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July 22

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July 22

July 22 is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 162 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: UK National Lottery potential victim to worldwide "blue screen of death" catastrophe. In what is being dubbed the largest IT outage in history, the U.K. National Lottery fell victim to the "Blue Screen of Death" update over the weekend, which completely took their website and mobile app offline and left thousands of players unable to cash or buy tickets.
2024: Virginia woman wins $180,000 in a single Pick 5 drawing. Buying six tickets for one Pick 5 drawing paid off for one Virginia woman, who ended up winning $180,000 in a single drawing.
2023: $820 MILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for Tuesday. The Mega Millions multi-state lottery game continued its jackpot run last night when no tickets matched all six numbers.
2021: Texas Lottery to add third weekly Lotto Texas drawing. Texas Lottery players will get an additional chance to hit the Lotto Texas jackpot with a new weekly drawing to be added this August.
2020: 'Darth Vader' collects $95 million Jamaican Lotto jackpot. Some people might use masks, others might wear dark sunglasses. While these sound like easy and viable go-to options for concealing one's identity, there's one winner who knows how to step up their anonymity game.
2019: Lottery losers could get paid after lottery scam lawsuit settles for $4.3 million. A class-action lawsuit to benefit potentially millions of owners of losing tickets linked to the largest lottery scam in U.S. history has been settled for $4.3 million, according to a statement sent by an attorney in the case.
2015: $1M Mega Millions prize sold in Michigan to expire soon. Just two weeks remain for the lucky Michigan winner of a $1 million Mega Millions prize to come forward and claim the big prize.
2014: N.M. man had jackpot-winning lottery ticket in car for 2 months. For almost two months, Dennis Romero of Albuquerque, New Mexico, drove around town with a lottery ticket worth $385,000 in the backseat of his car.
2014: Seeing sales slowing, Missouri Lottery officials seek new customers. Steady growth has always been a challenge for state lotteries as they age, and the Missouri Lottery is trying to come up with solutions to that problem.
2011: Lottery winner busted on pot charge. A Massachusetts man riding high after winning $500 in the lottery jumped onto the roof of a car to celebrate, only to be brought back to earth by police, who busted him for property damage -- and possession of marijuana, officials said.
2009: Lottery winner picks up check, then gets arrested. It was a good news, bad news day for Barry Shell. The good news: he won more than $4 million. The bad news: he ended up in jail.
2009: Arkansas lottery panel to recommend salary survey for auditor position. The audit committee of the Arkansas Lottery Commission decided Wednesday to recommend a national survey of salaries paid to lottery auditors before setting pay for the person to be hired as internal auditor of Arkansas' lottery program.
2009: AR Lottery spokesperson: Wrong salary set for security chief because of Web page error. Arkansas lottery spokesperson Julie Baldridge claimed Wednesday that Grant County Sheriff Lance Huey was hired at what lottery staff members believed was the midpoint salary grade because a state Web site listed the salary as such.
2009: $25M lottery scam aimed at elderly busted. The feds on Tuesday dismantled an Israeli boiler-room operation that conned elderly U.S. victims out of $25 million by telling them they'd won a sweepstakes lottery.
2009: West Virginia Lottery brings in $20M more than expected. The West Virginia Lottery beat its forecast by $20 million during the just-completed fiscal year, despite the recession and competition from neighboring Pennsylvania, agency officials announced Wednesday.
2009: Washington Lottery-Seahawks team up on scratch game. Washington's Lottery is rolling out a scratch-off ticket with the Seattle Seahawks, now that the NFL owners have agreed to allow team logos to be used on lottery tickets.
2005: $170M Mega Millions jackpot has Calif. Lottery officials scrambling. Less than a month into Mega Millions sales, California Lottery officials find themselves scrambling to market a life-altering jackpot, instead of merely educating people about the game as they had planned.
2005: S.C. Lottery officials continue to investigate drawing error. South Carolina Lottery officials say it will be several months before the financial impact is clear from an error made in a Palmetto Cash Five drawing last month.
2004: $36 Million Powerball Jackpot Up For Grabs. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $36 million, with a cash option of $19.1 million.
2004: Mega Millions lottery fraudster tries boxing. Elecia Battle, the woman who caused a controversy when she falsely claimed that she lost a winning Mega Millions lottery ticket, is back in the news, and she's literally fighting to get there.
2004: N.D. Powerball lottery winner claims $100,000 prize. After more than two weeks, the winner of $100,000 from the July 3 Powerball drawing has come forward in North Dakota.
2004: Kentucky Lottery sales set record last fiscal year. Kentucky Lottery ticket sales for the fiscal year ending June 30 totaled a record $725.2 million, a 7.7 percent increase over the previous year, state lottery officials announced yesterday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$820 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 25, 2023
2.$660 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2022
3.$543 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 24, 2018
4.$391.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2016
5.$279 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2024
6.$262 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 25, 2017
7.€242.46 Million US$247.63 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2022
8.€193.54 Million US$216.03 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2019
9.$205 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2017
10.$173.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 24, 2021
11.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2005
12.$168 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2019
13.$166 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 24, 2013
14.$147 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 25, 2018
15.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2021
16.€112 Million
US$135.33 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 24, 2012
17.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 22, 1998
17.$125 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2008
19.$124 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 24, 2020
20.€112.05 Million
US$122.97 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2016
21.$122.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 23, 2022
22.€120 Million
US$122.36 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2022
23.$121 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 25, 2012
24.€96 Million
US$116.92 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2005
25.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2006

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1986: zacgrey
Tuesday, Jul 22, 1986
38 years old
1984: Only1Sweets84
Sunday, Jul 22, 1984
40 years old
1984: TheTrap2024
Sunday, Jul 22, 1984
40 years old
1982: Jross722
Thursday, Jul 22, 1982
42 years old
1977: ReppinNC
Friday, Jul 22, 1977
47 years old
1977: MarkG336
Friday, Jul 22, 1977
47 years old
1972: Paullysr
Saturday, Jul 22, 1972
52 years old
1971: doughman
Thursday, Jul 22, 1971
53 years old
1970: Kercher73
Wednesday, Jul 22, 1970
54 years old
1969: cashamillion
Tuesday, Jul 22, 1969
55 years old
1968: sweetnae68
Monday, Jul 22, 1968
56 years old
1968: alfredstevenjr
Monday, Jul 22, 1968
56 years old
1958: MED722
Tuesday, Jul 22, 1958
66 years old
1930: lottery80
Tuesday, Jul 22, 1930
94 years old
: OldTurkey
(year not provided)
: Juwan44
(year not provided)
: blood922
(year not provided)
: fos1474
(year not provided)
: Rkgl
(year not provided)
: WILLBURNS22
(year not provided)
: Wyndra
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: Chandrayaan-2, the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after Chandrayaan-1 is launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a GSLV Mark III M1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the Vikram lander, and the Pragyan lunar rover.
2013: Dingxi earthquakes: A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more than 500 others.
2012: Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) captured the cities of Serê Kaniyê and Dirbêsiyê, during clashes with pro-government forces in Al-Hasakah.
2011: Norway attacks: A bomb explodes, targeted at government buildings in central Oslo, followed by a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
2005: Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings.
2003: Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
1997: The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario.
1993: Great Flood of 1993: Levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers.
1992: Near Medellín, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
1990: Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.
1983: Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
1981: The first game of the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand and the United States is held in Gisborne, New Zealand.
1977: Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1976: Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
1973: Pan Am Flight 816 crashes after takeoff from Faa'a International Airport in Papeete, French Polynesia, killing 78.
1963: Crown Colony of Sarawak gains self-governance.
1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.
1946: King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
1944: The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.
1943: World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
1943: World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
1942: The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942: Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
1937: New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
1936: Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
1933: Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
1921: Rif War: The Spanish Army suffers its worst military defeat in modern times to the Berbers of the Rif region of Spanish Morocco.
1916: Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
1894: The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the "official" victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his three-horsepower petrol engined Peugeot.
1893: Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
1833: The Slavery Abolition Act passes in the British House of Commons, initiating the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire.
1812: Napoleonic Wars: Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca: British forces led by Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) defeat French troops near Salamanca, Spain.
1805: Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Cape Finisterre: An inconclusive naval action is fought between a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve of France and a British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder.
1802: Emperor Gia Long conquers Hanoi and unified Viet Nam, which had experienced centuries of feudal warfare.
1797: Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
1796: Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1793: Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1706: The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each country's Parliament, leads to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1686: Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan.
1598: William Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers' Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers' Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1594: The Dutch city of Groningen defended by the Spanish and besieged by a Dutch and English army under Maurice of Orange, capitulates.
1587: Roanoke Colony: A second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
1499: Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
1484: Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
1456: Ottoman wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade: John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire.
1443: Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl in the Old Zürich War.
1342: St. Mary Magdalene's flood is the worst such event on record for central Europe.
1298: Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk: King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk.
1209: Massacre at Béziers: The first major military action of the Albigensian Crusade.
1099: First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
838: Battle of Anzen: The Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids.

Births On This Day

2013: Prince George of Wales
2002: Prince Felix of Denmark
1999: Sidney Chu, Hong Kong skater
1998: Sahaphap Wongratch, Thai actor, model, and singer
1996: Kevin Fiala, Swiss ice hockey player
1996: Skyler Gisondo, American actor
1995: Ezekiel Elliott, American football player
1995: Armaan Malik, Indian playback singer, composer and songwriter
1993: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist
1992: Anja Aguilar, Filipino actress and singer
1992: Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
1992: Carolin Schnarre, German Paralympic equestrian
1991: Matty James, English footballer
1991: Tomi Juric, Australian footballer
1989: Keegan Allen, American actor, photographer and musician
1988: William Buick, Norwegian-British flat jockey
1988: Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer
1988: George Santos, American politician
1988: Thomas Kraft, German footballer
1988: Sercan Temizyürek, Turkish footballer
1987: Denis Gargaud Chanut, French slalom canoeist
1987: Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier
1986: Stevie Johnson, American football player
1986: Colin de Grandhomme, Zimbabwean-New Zealand cricketer
1985: Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
1985: Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
1985: Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
1984: Stewart Downing, English footballer
1983: Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
1983: Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
1983: Steven Jackson, American football player
1983: Andreas Ulvo, Norwegian pianist
1982: Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1980: Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
1980: Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver
1980: Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
1980: Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper
1979: Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
1979: Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
1978: Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (d. 2012)
1978: Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
1977: Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player
1977: Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer
1977: Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer
1974: Franka Potente, German actress
1973: Brian Chippendale, American singer and drummer
1973: Mike Sweeney, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973: Ece Temelkuran, Turkish journalist and author
1973: Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter
1972: Franco Battaini, Italian motorcycle racer
1972: Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor, director, and producer
1972: Seth Fisher, American illustrator (d. 2006)
1972: Keyshawn Johnson, American football player and sportscaster
1970: Jason Becker, American guitarist and songwriter
1970: Steve Carter, Australian rugby league player
1970: Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1969: Rebecca Kiessling, American attorney and anti-abortion activist
1969: Despina Vandi, German-Greek singer and actress
1967: Lauren Booth, English journalist and activist
1967: Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
1966: Tim Brown, American football player and manager
1965: Derrick Dalley, Canadian educator and politician
1965: Shawn Michaels, American wrestler, trainer, and actor
1965: Richard B. Poore, New Zealand humanitarian
1965: Doug Riesenberg, American football player and coach
1964: Will Calhoun, American rock drummer
1964: Bonnie Langford, English actress and dancer
1964: David Spade, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1963: Emilio Butragueño, Spanish footballer
1963: Emily Saliers, American singer-songwriter and musician
1962: Steve Albini, American record producer and musician (d. 2024)
1962: Alvin Robertson, American basketball player
1962: Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer and actress
1961: Calvin Fish, English racing driver and sportscaster
1961: Keith Sweat, American singer-songwriter and producer
1960: Jon Oliva, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1960: John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1958: Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach
1958: David Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1984)
1957: Dave Stieb, American baseball player
1956: Mick Pointer, English neo-progressive rock drummer
1956: Scott Sanderson, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2019)
1955: Richard J. Corman, American businessman, founded the R.J. Corman Railroad Group (d. 2013)
1955: Willem Dafoe, American actor
1954: Al Di Meola, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1954: Steve LaTourette, American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
1954: Lonette McKee, American actress and singer
1953: Brian Howe, English singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
1951: Richard Bennett, American guitarist and producer
1951: J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979)
1951: Patriarch Daniel of Romania
1951: Tisa Farrow, American actress and model (d. 2024)
1949: Alan Menken, American pianist and composer
1949: Lasse Virén, Finnish runner and police officer
1948: Neil Hardwick, British-Finnish theatre and television director
1948: S. E. Hinton, American author
1947: Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1947: Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
1947: Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer
1946: Danny Glover, American actor, director, and producer
1946: Paul Schrader, American director and screenwriter
1946: Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, Filipino archbishop
1946: Johnson Toribiong, Palauan lawyer and politician, 7th President of Palau
1945: Philip Cohen, English biochemist and academic
1944: Rick Davies, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1944: Sparky Lyle, American baseball player and manager
1944: Anand Satyanand, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 19th Governor-General of New Zealand
1943: Masaru Emoto, Japanese author and activist (d. 2014)
1943: Kay Bailey Hutchison, American lawyer and politician
1943: Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter and actor
1942: Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (d. 2012)
1942: Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer and skier
1942: Les Johns, Australian rugby league player and coach
1941: Estelle Bennett, American singer (d. 2009)
1941: Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (d. 1975)
1941: George Clinton, American singer-songwriter and producer
1941: David M. Kennedy, American historian and author
1940: Judith Walzer Leavitt, American historian and academic
1940: Alex Trebek, Canadian-American game show host and producer (d. 2020)
1938: Terence Stamp, English actor
1937: Chuck Jackson, American R&B singer and songwriter (d. 2023)
1937: Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese-American wrestler and manager (d. 1999)
1937: John Price, English cricketer
1937: Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer (d. 2011)
1936: Don Patterson, American organist (d. 1988)
1936: Harold Rhodes, English cricketer
1936: Geraldine Claudette Darden, American mathematician
1935: Tom Cartwright, English-Welsh cricketer and coach (d. 2007)
1934: Junior Cook, American saxophonist (d. 1992)
1934: Louise Fletcher, American actress (d. 2022)
1934: Leon Rotman, Romanian canoeist
1932: Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
1932: Tom Robbins, American novelist
1931: Leo Labine, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1929: John Barber, English racing driver (d. 2015)
1929: Leonid Stolovich, Russian-Estonian philosopher and academic (d. 2013)
1929: Neil Welliver, American painter (d. 2005)
1929: Baselios Thomas I, Indian bishop
1928: Orson Bean, American actor (d. 2020)
1928: Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1928: Per Højholt, Danish poet (d. 2004)
1927: Johan Ferner, Norwegian sailor (d. 2015)
1926: Bryan Forbes, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1926: Wolfgang Iser, German scholar, literary theorist (d. 2007)
1925: Jack Matthews, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 2013)
1925: Joseph Sargent, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1924: Margaret Whiting, American singer (d. 2011)
1923: Bob Dole, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2021)
1923: César Fernández Ardavín, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1923: The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (d. 2007)
1921: William Roth, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1916: Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
1916: Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
1915: Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Indian-Pakistani politician and diplomat (d. 2000)
1913: Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1995)
1910: Ruthie Tompson, American animator and artist (d. 2021)
1909: Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano and actress (d. 2014)
1909: Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)
1908: Amy Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974)
1899: Sobhuza II of Swaziland (d. 1982)
1898: Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (d. 1943)
1895: León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat (d. 1976)
1893: Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (d. 1978)
1893: Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (d. 1990)
1892: Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983)
1890: Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist (d. 1995)
1889: James Whale, English director (d. 1957)
1888: Kirk Bryan, American geologist and academic (d. 1950)
1888: Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
1887: Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1886: Hella Wuolijoki, Estonian-Finnish author (d. 1954)
1884: Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (d. 1967)
1882: Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher (d. 1967)
1881: Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (d. 1966)
1878: Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author (d. 1942)
1863: Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952)
1862: Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish fencer (d. 1931)
1856: Octave Hamelin, French philosopher (d. 1907)
1849: Emma Lazarus, American poet and educator (d. 1887)
1848: Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)
1844: William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1839: Jakob Hurt, Estonian theologist and linguist (d. 1907)
1820: Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, 3rd Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (d. 1903)
1784: Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846)
1755: Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839)
1733: Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
1713: Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect, designed the Panthéon (d. 1780)
1711: Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1753)
1651: Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1711)
1647: Margaret Mary Alacoque, French nun, mystic and saint (d. 1690)
1630: Madame de Brinvilliers, French aristocrat (d. 1676)
1621: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1683)
1618: Johan Nieuhof, Dutch traveler (d. 1672)
1615: Marguerite of Lorraine, princess of Lorraine, duchess of Orléans (d. 1672)
1559: Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (d. 1619)
1552: Anthony Browne, Sheriff of Surrey and Kent (d. 1592)
1552: Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (d. 1607)
1535: Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)
1531: Leonhard Thurneysser, scholar at the court of the Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1595)
1478: Philip I of Castile (d. 1506)
1476: Zhu Youyuan, Ming Dynasty politician (d. 1519)
1437: John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (d. 1498)
1210: Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (d. 1238)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Maria Petri, English association football supporter (b. 1939)
2018: Frank Havens, American canoeist (b. 1924)
2014: Johann Breyer, German SS officer (b. 1925)
2014: Louis Lentin, Irish director and producer (b. 1933)
2014: Nitzan Shirazi, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1971)
2013: Natalie de Blois, American architect, co-designed the Lever House (b. 1921)
2013: Dennis Farina, American policeman and actor (b. 1944)
2013: Lawrie Reilly, Scottish footballer (b. 1928)
2013: Rosalie E. Wahl, American lawyer and judge (b. 1924)
2012: Ding Guangen, Chinese engineer and politician (b. 1929)
2012: George Armitage Miller, American psychologist and academic (b. 1920)
2012: Frank Pierson, American director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
2011: Linda Christian, Mexican-American actress (b. 1923)
2011: Cees de Wolf, Dutch footballer (b. 1945)
2010: Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada (b. 1936)
2009: Richard M. Givan, American lawyer and judge (b. 1921)
2009: Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2008: Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
2007: Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (b. 1972)
2007: Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1968)
2007: László Kovács, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
2007: Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (b. 1906)
2006: Dika Newlin, American composer, singer-songwriter, and pianist (b. 1923)
2006: José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (b. 1965)
2005: Eugene Record, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
2004: Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
2004: Illinois Jacquet, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1922)
2001: Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)
2000: Eric Christmas, English-born Canadian actor (b. 1916)
2000: Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1925)
2000: Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
2000: Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1998: Fritz Buchloh, German footballer and coach (b. 1909)
1996: Rob Collins, English keyboard player (b. 1956)
1995: Harold Larwood, English-Australian cricketer (b. 1904)
1992: David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)
1990: Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
1990: Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (b. 1937)
1987: Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1900)
1986: Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
1986: Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
1979: J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
1979: Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
1974: Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
1970: George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (b. 1912)
1968: Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist and cartoonist (b. 1908)
1967: Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (b. 1878)
1958: Mikhail Zoshchenko, Ukrainian-Russian soldier and author (b. 1895)
1950: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
1948: Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (b. 1909)
1940: George Fuller, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1861)
1940: Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (b. 1877)
1937: Ted McDonald, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1891)
1934: John Dillinger, American gangster (b. 1903)
1932: J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet (b. 1858)
1932: Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and academic (b. 1866)
1932: Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and author (b. 1853)
1932: Flo Ziegfeld, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
1922: Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (b. 1854)
1920: William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder (b. 1849)
1918: Indra Lal Roy, Indian lieutenant and first Indian fighter aircraft pilot (b. 1898)
1916: James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (b. 1849)
1915: Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827)
1908: Randal Cremer, English politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828)
1906: William Snodgrass, Canadian minister and academic (b. 1827)
1904: Wilson Barrett, English actor and playwright (b. 1846)
1903: Cassius Marcellus Clay, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1810)
1902: Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski, Polish cardinal (b. 1822)
1869: John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (b. 1806)
1864: James B. McPherson, American general (b. 1828)
1833: Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (b. 1757)
1832: Napoleon II, French emperor (b. 1811)
1826: Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746)
1824: Thomas Macnamara Russell, English admiral
1802: Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771)
1789: Joseph Foullon de Doué, French politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1715)
1734: Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1669)
1726: Hugh Drysdale, English-American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia
1676: Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
1645: Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (b. 1587)
1619: Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian priest and saint (b. 1559)
1581: Richard Cox, English bishop (b. 1500)
1550: Jorge de Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1481)
1540: John Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1487)
1525: Richard Wingfield, English courtier and diplomat, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1426)
1461: Charles VII of France (b. 1403)
1387: Frans Ackerman, Flemish politician (b. 1330)
1376: Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1310)
1362: Louis, Count of Gravina (b. 1324)
1298: Sir John de Graham, Scottish soldier at the Battle of Falkirk
1274: Henry I of Navarre, Count of Champagne and Brie and King of Navarre
1258: Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol (b. c. 1200)
698: Wu Chengsi, nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetian

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