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July 9

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July 9

July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 175 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2020: Hoosier Lottery Executive Director Sarah Taylor elected MUSL President. Sarah Monnett Taylor will take on a new responsibility as the Board President of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) for the 2021 fiscal year while continuing to fulfill her role as the Executive Director of the Hoosier Lottery.
2020: Illinois Lottery decreases Lotto jackpot increments. The Illinois Lottery announced a change to its jackpot rollover increments on Tuesday.
2019: Florida grandmother says state agency's mistake cost her lottery winnings. When a Florida grandmother went to the Florida Lottery District Office in Orlando to cash her winning ticket, she got denied and was told the state had intercepted all her winnings — all because she reportedly owed more than $1,700 from almost 30 years ago.
2019: $5.9M Wisconsin Lottery jackpot claimed days before expiration. One lucky Wisconsin resident claimed a $5.9 million Megabucks jackpot Friday, the Wisconsin Lottery has announced.
2018: Maryland man wins $50,000 after friend checks discarded lotto ticket. A Maryland man who unknowingly struck gold with a scratch-off also hit the jackpot with his choice of friends, as the lotto player's pal alerted him to the big win after he had discarded the ticket.
2016: Indiana lottery ticket wins $540 million Mega Millions jackpot. One winning ticket sold in The Hoosier State beat the odds and matched all the numbers drawn in Friday's Mega Millions drawing to win the colossal $540 million jackpot.
2013: Lottery winner who blew $14.5M happy to be working in cookie factory. English lottery winner Michael Carroll says he's "happier because I'm back to reality again" after winning and then blowing through £9.7 million (US$14.5 million) in less than 10 years.
2013: Fla. Lottery sales top $5 billion for first time. The Florida Lottery topped $5 billion in sales for the first time during the fiscal year that ended June 30, the department announced Monday.
2013: Wyoming lottery board sets January 2014 as target start date. The nine-member Wyoming Lottery Board, meeting on Monday for the first time, set its sights on a January 2014 launch date for its games of chance.
2011: Pennsylvania Lottery's raffle makes 4 millionaires. The Pennsylvania Lottery's latest raffle game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn Saturday, and made four instant millionaires.
2010: Computer glitch takes down Penn. Lottery terminals. Pennsylvania Lottery officials said they've fixed a computer glitch that took down game terminals across the state for more than seven hours Thursday.
2009: Vermont adds multi-state Hot Lotto game. Wednesday night, Vermont lottery players had their first opportunity to play the multi-state Hot Lotto game.
2009: 12 Michigan women + 2 men share $12.7M lottery jackpot. Twelve women from a small town in Michigan's upper peninsula have claimed a $12.7 million Classic Lotto 47 jackpot.
2009: N.C. Lottery's Shaheen named president of Powerball group. North Carolina Education Lottery Executive Director Tom Shaheen has been elected to the top position of the association that offers the Powerball lottery game.
2009: Paula Bethea named interim S.C. Lottery chief. The S.C. lottery has hired one of the games' original commissioners to be its interim executive director, an official said Wednesday.
2009: Lottery ticket bought in Queens hits $133M Mega Millions jackpot. New York Lottery officials and a crew of convenience store workers are keeping their eyes peeled for the person holding a Mega Millions ticket worth $133 million.
2005: Texas Lottery Director Resigns Over Jackpot Scandal. The executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission resigned Friday, two weeks after admitting he had approved advertising Lotto Texas jackpots that were higher than ticket sales could support.
2004: Mass. Cleaning Woman Claims $294M Jackpot. Meet Geraldine Williams, a retired custodian and cleaning woman who will no longer have to mop her own floors or dust her own furniture.
2004: $294M lottery winner is 68-year-old cleaning woman. The winner of the $294 million Mega Millions jackpot, the largest in Massachusetts lottery history, is a 68-year-old cleaning woman.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$440 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2022
2.$306 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2018
3.$288 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2016
4.$261.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2003
5.€185 Million US$258.45 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2011
6.€235.17 Million US$239.53 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2022
7.€230 Million US$230.78 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2022
8.€184.28 Million US$206.5 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2019
9.$202 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2017
10.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2019
11.$155 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2017
12.$125.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2021
13.$122 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2014
14.€105.76 Million
US$116.87 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2016
15.$115 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2002
16.$107 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2019
17.$106 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2015
18.$100 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2005
19.€81 Million
US$97.9 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2005
20.$94 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2021
21.€92.52 Million
US$92.84 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2022
22.€81 Million
US$90.77 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 9, 2019
23.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2018
24.$83 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2020
25.€60 Million
US$81.63 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2014

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1983: alidj
Saturday, Jul 9, 1983
39 years old
1980: Cry$52
Wednesday, Jul 9, 1980
42 years old
1976: sexythang
Friday, Jul 9, 1976
46 years old
1974: melodym34
Tuesday, Jul 9, 1974
48 years old
1973: redslim73
Monday, Jul 9, 1973
49 years old
1971: candymand5
Friday, Jul 9, 1971
51 years old
1968: LeeLee4
Tuesday, Jul 9, 1968
54 years old
1966: Loricam
Saturday, Jul 9, 1966
56 years old
1953: triplenickle617
Thursday, Jul 9, 1953
69 years old
1953: morris456
Thursday, Jul 9, 1953
69 years old
1951: rthor2
Monday, Jul 9, 1951
71 years old
: kaizon7
(year not provided)
: results4me
(year not provided)
: sflottolover
(year not provided)
: ftdsn244
(year not provided)
: yyzena
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2011: South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
2011: A rally takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to call for fairer elections in the country.
2006: One hundred and twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, an Airbus A310 passenger jet, veers off the runway while landing in wet conditions at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia.
2002: The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
1999: Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
1997: A Fokker 100 from the Brazilian airline TAM launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into 2 400 meters of free fall after an explosion that depressurized the aircraft.
1995: The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
1993: The Parliament of Canada passes the Nunavut Act leading to the 1999 creation of Nunavut, dividing the Northwest Territories into arctic (Inuit) and sub-arctic (Dene) lands based on a plebiscite.
1986: The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
1982: Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
1979: A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
1977: The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
1962: Starfish Prime tests the effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes.
1961: Greece becomes the first member state to join the European Economic Community by signing the Athens Agreement, which was suspended in 1967 during the Greek junta.
1958: A 7.8 M_w strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
1956: The 7.7 M_w Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock.
1955: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
1944: World War II: American forces take Saipan, bringing the Japanese archipelago within range of B-29 raids, and causing the downfall of the Tojo government.
1944: World War II: Continuation War: Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Offensive.
1943: World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily soon causes the downfall of Mussolini and forces Hitler to break off the Battle of Kursk.
1937: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
1932: The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
1926: Chiang Kai-shek accepts the post of commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, marking the beginning of the Northern Expedition to unite China under the rule of the Nationalist government.
1922: Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
1900: The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
1900: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
1896: William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1893: Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
1877: The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
1875: The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
1868: The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
1863: American Civil War: The Siege of Port Hudson ends, giving the Union complete control of the Mississippi River.
1850: U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
1850: Persian prophet Báb is executed in Tabriz, Persia.
1821: Four hundred and seventy prominent Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos are executed in response to Cypriot aid to the Greek War of Independence.
1816: Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1815: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord becomes the first Prime Minister of France.
1811: Explorer David Thompson posts a sign near what is now Sacajawea State Park in Washington state, claiming the Columbia District for the United Kingdom.
1810: Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1807: The second Treaty of Tilsit is signed between France and Prussia, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1795: Financier James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt that had been accrued during the American Revolution.
1793: The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
1790: The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
1789: In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution.
1776: George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
1763: The Mozart family grand tour of Europe began, lifting the profile of prodigal son Wolfgang Amadeus.
1762: Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
1755: The Braddock Expedition is soundly defeated by a smaller French and Native American force in its attempt to capture Fort Duquesne in what is now downtown Pittsburgh.
1745: French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
1701: A Bourbon force under Nicolas Catinat withdraws from a smaller Habsburg force under Prince Eugene of Savoy in the Battle of Carpi.
1609: Bohemia is granted freedom of religion through the Letter of Majesty by the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II.
1572: Nineteen Catholics suffer martyrdom for their beliefs in the Dutch town of Gorkum.
1540: King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
1401: Timur attacks the Jalairid Sultanate and destroys Baghdad.
1386: The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Duchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
1357: Emperor Charles IV assists in laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
969: The Fatimid general Jawhar leads the Friday prayer in Fustat in the name of Caliph al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah, thereby symbolically completing the Fatimid conquest of Egypt.
869: The 8.4-9.0 M_w Sanriku earthquake strikes the area around Sendai in northern Honshu, Japan. Inundation from the tsunami extended several kilometers inland.
660: Korean forces under general Kim Yu-sin of Silla defeat the army of Baekje in the Battle of Hwangsanbeol.
551: A major earthquake strikes Beirut, triggering a devastating tsunami that affected the coastal towns of Byzantine Phoenicia, causing thousands of deaths.
491: Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, engaging Theoderic the Great in Ad Pinetam. Both sides suffer heavy losses, but in the end Theodoric forces Odoacer back into Ravenna.
381: The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
118: Hadrian, who became emperor a year ago on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.

Births On This Day

1999: Claire Corlett, American voice actress
1993: Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer
1993: DeAndre Yedlin, American footballer
1991: Mitchel Musso, American actor and singer
1990: Earl Bamber, New Zealand race car driver
1990: Fábio, Brazilian footballer
1990: Rafael, Brazilian footballer
1988: Raul Rusescu, Romanian footballer
1987: Gert Jõeäär, Estonian cyclist
1987: Rebecca Sugar, American animator, composer, and screenwriter
1986: Sébastien Bassong, Cameroonian footballer
1986: Simon Dumont, American skier
1986: Kiely Williams, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1985: Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
1985: Ashley Young, English footballer
1984: Chris Campoli, Canadian ice hockey player
1984: Gianni Fabiano, Italian footballer
1984: Jacob Hoggard, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984: Ave Pajo, Estonian footballer
1984: Piia Suomalainen, Finnish tennis player
1984: LA Tenorio, Filipino basketball player
1982: Alecko Eskandarian, American soccer player and manager
1982: Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese race car driver
1981: Lee Chun-soo, South Korean footballer
1981: Junauda Petrus, American author and performance artist
1979: Gary Chaw, Malaysian Chinese singer-songwriter
1978: Kara Goucher, American runner
1978: Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
1976: Thomas Cichon, Polish-German footballer and manager
1976: Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer
1976: Radike Samo, Fijian-Australian rugby player
1975: Shelton Benjamin, American wrestler
1975: Isaac Brock, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975: Robert Koenig, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1975: Craig Quinnell, Welsh rugby player
1975: Jack White, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1974: Siân Berry, English environmentalist and politician
1974: Ian Bradshaw, Barbadian cricketer
1974: Gary Kelly, Irish footballer
1974: Nikola Šarčević, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player
1973: Kelly Holcomb, American football player and sportscaster
1972: Ara Babajian, American drummer and songwriter
1971: Marc Andreessen, American software developer, co-founded Netscape
1970: Trent Green, American football player and sportscaster
1970: Masami Tsuda, Japanese author and illustrator
1969: Nicklas Barker, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Jason Kearton, Australian footballer and coach
1968: Paolo Di Canio, Italian footballer and manager
1967: Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
1967: Yordan Letchkov, Bulgarian footballer
1967: Mark Stoops, American football player and coach
1967: Julie Thomas, Welsh lawn bowler
1966: Pamela Adlon, American actress and voice artist
1966: Zheng Cao, Chinese-American soprano and actress (d. 2013)
1966: Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (d. 2016)
1966: Marco Pennette, American screenwriter and producer
1965: Frank Bello, American bass player
1965: Thomas Jahn, German director and screenwriter
1965: Jason Rhoades, American sculptor (d. 2006)
1964: Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1964: Gianluca Vialli, Italian footballer and coach
1963: Klaus Theiss, German footballer
1960: Yūko Asano, Japanese actress and singer
1960: Wally Fullerton Smith, Australian rugby league player
1960: Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Argentinian journalist, photographer, and author
1959: Jim Kerr, Scottish singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1959: Kevin Nash, American wrestler
1959: Clive Stafford Smith, English lawyer and author
1958: Abdul Latiff Ahmad, Malaysian politician
1958: Jacob Joseph, Malaysian football coach
1957: Marc Almond, English singer-songwriter
1957: Tim Kring, American screenwriter and producer
1957: Kelly McGillis, American actress
1957: Paul Merton, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1956: Tom Hanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1956: Michael Lederer, American author, poet, and playwright
1955: Steve Coppell, English footballer and manager
1955: Lindsey Graham, American lawyer and politician
1955: Jimmy Smits, American actor and producer
1955: Willie Wilson, American baseball player and manager
1954: Théophile Abega, Cameroonian footballer and politician (d. 2012)
1954: Kevin O'Leary, Canadian journalist and businessman
1953: Margie Gillis, Canadian dancer and choreographer
1953: Thomas Ligotti, American author
1952: John Tesh, American pianist, composer, and radio and television host
1951: Chris Cooper, American actor
1951: Māris Gailis, Latvian politician, businessman, and former Prime Minister of Latvia
1950: Amal ibn Idris al-Alami, Moroccan physician and neurosurgeon
1950: Adriano Panatta, Italian tennis player and sailor
1950: Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 4th President of Ukraine
1949: Raoul Cédras, Haitian military officer and politician
1948: Hassan Wirajuda, Indonesian lawyer and politician, 15th Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1947: Haruomi Hosono, Japanese singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1947: Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (d. 2008)
1947: O. J. Simpson, American football player and actor
1947: Patrick Wormald, English historian (d. 2004)
1946: Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
1945: Dean Koontz, American author and screenwriter
1945: Root Boy Slim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
1944: Judith M. Brown, Indian-English historian and academic
1944: John Cunniff, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1943: John Casper, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1942: David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey, English engineer and politician (d. 2022)
1942: Richard Roundtree, American actor
1941: Mac MacLeod, English musician (d. 2020)
1940: David B. Frohnmayer, American lawyer and politician, 12th Oregon Attorney General (d. 2015)
1940: Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (d. 2010)
1938: Brian Dennehy, American actor (d. 2020)
1938: Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (d. 1985)
1937: David Hockney, English painter and photographer
1936: June Jordan, American poet and educator (d. 2002)
1936: David Zinman, American violinist and conductor
1935: Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Finance (d. 2005)
1935: Mercedes Sosa, Argentinian singer and activist (d. 2009)
1935: Michael Williams, English actor (d. 2001)
1934: Michael Graves, American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (d. 2015)
1933: Oliver Sacks, English-American neurologist, author, and academic (d. 2015)
1932: Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2021)
1932: Amitzur Shapira, Israeli sprinter and long jumper (d. 1972)
1931: Haynes Johnson, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1931: Sylvia Bacon, American judge
1930: K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
1930: Buddy Bregman, American composer and conductor (d. 2017)
1930: Janice Lourie, American computer scientist and graphic artist
1930: Elsa Lystad, Norwegian actress
1930: Patricia Newcomb, American publicist
1930: Roy McLean, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 2007)
1929: Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2007)
1929: Jesse McReynolds, American singer and mandolin player
1929: Chi Haotian, Chinese general
1929: Hassan II of Morocco (d. 1999)
1928: Federico Bahamontes, Spanish cyclist
1928: Vince Edwards, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1996)
1927: Ed Ames, American singer and actor
1927: Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and politician (d. 2019)
1926: Murphy Anderson, American illustrator (d. 2015)
1926: Ben Roy Mottelson, American-Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
1926: Pedro Dellacha, Argentine football defender and coach (d. 2010)
1926: Mathilde Krim, Italian-American medical researcher and health educator (d. 2018)
1925: Guru Dutt, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1964)
1925: Charles E. Wicks, American engineer, author, and academic (d. 2010)
1925: Ronald I. Spiers, American ambassador (d. 2021)
1924: Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (d. 1984)
1922: Angelines Fernández, Spanish-Mexican actress (d. 1994)
1922: Jim Pollard, American basketball player and coach (d. 1993)
1921: David C. Jones, American general (d. 2013)
1918: Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 2012)
1918: Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1999)
1917: Krystyna Dańko, Polish orphan, survivor of Holocaust (d. 2019)
1916: Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
1916: Edward Heath, English colonel and politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1970-74 (d. 2005)
1915: David Diamond, American composer and educator (d. 2005)
1915: Lee Embree, American sergeant and photographer (d. 2008)
1914: Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of East Germany (d. 1999)
1914: Mac Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d. 2017)
1911: Mervyn Peake, English author and illustrator (d. 1968)
1911: John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and author (d. 2008)
1910: Govan Mbeki, South African anti-apartheid and ANC leader and activist (d. 2001)
1909: Basil Wolverton, American author and illustrator (d. 1978)
1908: Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Pakistani philosopher and scholar (d. 1973)
1908: Minor White, American photographer, critic, and educator (d. 1976)
1907: Eddie Dean, American singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
1905: Clarence Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 1984)
1902: Peter Acland, English soldier (d. 1993)
1901: Barbara Cartland, prolific English author (d. 2000)
1893: George Geary, English cricketer and coach (d. 1981)
1889: Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1964)
1887: James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1975)
1887: Saturnino Herrán, Mexican painter (d. 1918)
1887: Samuel Eliot Morison, American admiral and historian (d. 1976)
1879: Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist (d. 1934)
1879: Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1936)
1867: Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright (d. 1958)
1858: Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (d. 1942)
1856: John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (d. 1932)
1853: William Turner Dannat, American painter (d. 1929)
1848: Robert I, Duke of Parma (d. 1907)
1836: Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (d. 1904)
1834: Jan Neruda, Czech journalist and poet (d. 1891)
1828: Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (d. 1913)
1825: A. C. Gibbs, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Oregon (d. 1886)
1819: Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine (d. 1867)
1808: Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and colonel (d. 1887)
1800: Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (d. 1885)
1777: Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer and lay preacher (d. 1852)
1775: Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (d. 1818)
1764: Ann Ward, English author and poet (d. 1823)
1753: William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
1721: Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet and author (d. 1781)
1689: Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist and playwright (d. 1773)
1686: Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (d. 1749)
1654: Emperor Reigen of Japan (d. 1732)
1578: Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1637)
1577: Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English-American soldier and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (d. 1618)
1526: Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (d. 1545)
1511: Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, queen consort of Denmark and Norway (d. 1571)
1455: Frederick IV of Baden, Dutch bishop (d. 1517)
1249: Emperor Kameyama of Japan (d. 1305)

Deaths On This Day

2019: William E. Dannemeyer, American politician (b. 1929)
2019: Ross Perot, American businessman and politician (b. 1930)
2019: Fernando de la Rúa, 43rd President of Argentina (b. 1937)
2019: Rip Torn, American actor (b. 1931)
2019: Freddie Jones, English actor (b. 1927)
2015: Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (b. 1958)
2015: Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian economist and politician, Saudi Arabian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1940)
2014: Lorenzo Álvarez Florentín, Paraguayan violinist and composer (b. 1926)
2014: David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)
2014: Eileen Ford, American businesswoman, co-founded Ford Models (b. 1922)
2014: John Spinks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1953)
2013: Markus Büchel, Liechtensteiner politician, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1959)
2013: Andrew Nori, Solomon lawyer and politician (b. 1952)
2013: Kiril of Varna, Bulgarian metropolitan (b. 1954)
2013: Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (b. 1927)
2013: Toshi Seeger, American activist, co-founded the Clearwater Festival (b. 1922)
2012: Shin Jae-chul, South Korean-American martial artist (b. 1936)
2012: Chick King, American baseball player (b. 1930)
2012: Terepai Maoate, Cook Islander physician and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1934)
2012: Eugênio Sales, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1920)
2011: Don Ackerman, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2011: Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2010: Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (b. 1916)
2008: Séamus Brennan, Irish accountant and politician, Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (b. 1948)
2007: Charles Lane, American actor (b. 1905)
2006: Milan Williams, American keyboard player and producer (b. 1948)
2005: Chuck Cadman, Canadian engineer and politician (b. 1948)
2005: Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
2005: Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1914)
2004: Paul Klebnikov, American journalist and historian (b. 1963)
2004: Isabel Sanford, American actress (b. 1917)
2002: Mayo Kaan, American bodybuilder (b. 1914)
2002: Rod Steiger, American actor (b. 1925)
2000: Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
1999: Robert de Cotret, Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1944)
1996: Melvin Belli, American lawyer (b. 1907)
1994: Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
1993: Metin Altıok, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1940)
1992: Kelvin Coe, Australian ballet dancer (b. 1946)
1992: Eric Sevareid, American journalist (b. 1912)
1986: Patriarch Nicholas VI of Alexandria (b. 1915)
1985: Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
1985: Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish-American activist, founded Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
1984: Edna Ernestine Kramer, American mathematician (b. 1902)
1980: Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1913)
1979: Cornelia Otis Skinner, American actress and author (b. 1899)
1977: Alice Paul, American activist (b. 1885)
1974: Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1891)
1972: Robert Weede, American opera singer (b. 1903)
1971: Karl Ast, Estonian author and politician (b. 1886)
1970: Sigrid Holmquist, Swedish actress (b. 1899)
1967: Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic (b. 1874)
1967: Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (b. 1893)
1962: Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (b. 1897)
1961: Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case(b. 1901)
1959: Ferenc Talányi, Slovene journalist and painter (b. 1883)
1955: Don Beauman, English race car driver (b. 1928)
1955: Adolfo de la Huerta, Mexican politician and provisional president, 1920 (b. 1881)
1951: Harry Heilmann, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1894)
1949: Fritz Hart, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1874)
1947: Lucjan Żeligowski, Polish-Lithuanian general and politician (b. 1865)
1938: Benjamin N. Cardozo, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1870)
1937: Oliver Law, American commander (b. 1899)
1932: King Camp Gillette, American businessman, founded the Gillette Company (b. 1855)
1927: John Drew, Jr., American actor (b. 1853)
1903: Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (b. 1842)
1882: Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean captain (b. 1848)
1880: Paul Broca, French physician and anatomist (b. 1824)
1856: Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1776)
1856: James Strang, American religious leader and politician (b. 1813)
1852: Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1794)
1850: Báb, Persian religious leader, founded Bábism (b. 1819)
1850: Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
1828: Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (b. 1789)
1797: Edmund Burke, Irish-English philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1729)
1795: Henry Seymour Conway, English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1721)
1774: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Spanish anatomist (b. 1714)
1766: Jonathan Mayhew, American minister (b. 1720)
1747: Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1670)
1746: Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
1742: John Oldmixon, English historian, poet, and playwright (b. 1673)
1737: Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
1706: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain and explorer (b. 1661)
1654: Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (b. 1633)
1553: Maurice, Elector of Saxony (b. 1521)
1546: Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman (b. c. 1493)
1441: Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter (b.1359)
1386: Leopold III, Duke of Austria (b. 1351)
1270: Stephen Báncsa, Hungarian cardinal (b. c. 1205)
1228: Stephen Langton, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1150)
1169: Guido of Ravenna, Italian cartographer, entomologist and historian
981: Ramiro Garcés, king of Viguera
880: Ariwara no Narihira, Japanese poet (b. 825)
715: Naga, Japanese prince (b.c 637)
518: Anastasius I Dicorus, Byzantine emperor (b. 430)
230: Empress Dowager Bian, Cao Cao's wife (b. 159)

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