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June 12

On This Day in History

June 12

June 12 is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 202 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Minnesota Lottery adds age verification to vending machines. Minnesota Lottery players are now required to scan government-issued ID at all self-service vending machines when making a purchase.
2024: "The Breakfast Club" lottery group claims $842.4 million Powerball jackpot. The winner of the $842.4 million Powerball jackpot drawn on Jan. 1, 2024, the largest Powerball lottery prize ever won in Michigan, was announced as a three-member group called The Breakfast Club.
2023: Ukrainian refugee wins €500,000 in Belgium Lottery. A Ukrainian refugee won €500,000 (US$537,783) from a scratch-off ticket, the Belgium National Lottery announced on Monday.
2022: Maryland man wins his third Racetrax prize in five years. The Maryland Lottery recognized a familiar face visiting their offices this week when he returned to claim his third Racetrax prize in the last five years.
2019: Cash4Life multi-state lottery game goes daily in July. Starting July 1, you'll be able to play the multi-state Cash4Life lottery game on a daily basis.
2018: $1.5 million lottery ticket spent five weeks on the fridge. An Australian man who won a $1.5 million lottery prize said the ticket spent five weeks stuck to his refrigerator door before he discovered he was a winner.
2017: Mastermind of lottery fraud will explain how he rigged jackpots. Lottery Post's warning to the lottery industry about computerized drawings, issued more than a decade ago, is about to be confirmed as fact by Eddie Tipton, a former Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) security director.
2017: $447.8 million Powerball jackpot sets off shock, speculation in Menifee. For the owners of a Menifee, California, liquor store, a bad year just got $1 million better.
2016: Puzzling cliff-hanger remains in case of poisoned lottery winner. With his departure from office this week, a county medical examiner leaves behind a beguiling mystery set in motion more than three years ago with his sensational declaration that a Chicago businessman who had just won a $1 million lottery prize was poisoned by cyanide.
2016: State lawmaker calls for Illinois Lottery probe in light of audit findings. A state lawmaker is calling for an investigation of the Illinois Lottery after a recent audit revealed it had violated the state finance law.
2014: One winner in $260 million Powerball jackpot. One person in Tennessee is $259.8 million richer after picking the winning numbers in the Wednesday Powerball lottery drawing.
2013: Union fails to derail NJ Lottery's privatization effort. The Christie administration is allowed move forward with its plan to have a private firm to take over parts of the New Jersey lottery after a state appellate court denied a request by the state's largest public workers union to block the deal.
2013: Did Fla. Powerball winner pay for everyone's meal?. Close to 200 people got treated to dinner Sunday at BuddyFreddy's in Plant City, Florida, by someone who appeared to be the 84-year-old Zephyrhills woman who stepped forward last week to claim the largest single jackpot in American lottery history.
2012: California lottery winner arrested. A Linda, California, man who made headlines earlier this year when his $5 lotto scratch card turned out to be worth $2 million used some of his winnings to post bail on Sunday.
2008: Arizona Lottery's Millionaire Raffle results. The Arizona Lottery's raffle-style game, Millionaire Raffle, was drawn last night, awarding two $1 million jackpots and more than 700 other cash prizes.
2007: 8-time B.C. Lottery winner has history of fraud. A Kamloops store clerk who won the lottery eight times over the past five years was convicted of fraud in 2001.
2007: Fla. man, Va. woman win $44 million lottery prize. A Florida financial-services firm employee and a Henrico County dental-clinic worker came forward Monday to claim a $44 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot.
2007: Disabled man wins $37M lottery jackpot. He's 55 years old, single, with no children, lives in a rooming house, and has been on disability since October... and Graham Gelineau just won $37 million in Saturday's whopping Lotto 6/49 jackpot.
2006: Powerball lottery jackpot increased to $86 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $86 million, with a cash option of $39 million.
2006: California lottery jackpot reaches $64 million. The jackpot in the California SuperLotto Plus lottery game grew to $64 million Sunday -- currently the second-largest lottery jackpot in the world, and the game's largest jackpot in 5 months.
2006: Lottery winner thought he'd won $12,000, ticket worth $12 million. On Tuesday, Ken Garbe was told he had won $12,000 in the Lotto Super 7, but later discovered his ticket was actually worth $12 million.
2006: Ohio lottery winner owes more than taxes on his prize. A big chunk of Kelvin D. Bostelman's first check for winning a top prize -- $7.5 million -- in the Ohio Lottery's Ohio Millionaire instant game will be going to repay child support owed to his four children.
2006: Record Mass. Lottery sales, despite high fuel prices. People are purchasing Massachusetts Lottery tickets in record numbers, Lottery Communications Director Beth Bresnahan said Thursday, despite rising gas prices.
2006: Mass. lottery player hits biggest Cash WindFall jackpot. Hector Diaz won $1.46 million playing the Massachusetts Lottery's Cash WindFall game, which is the largest jackpot ever won in that game.
2004: Mega Millions lottery jackpot hits $100 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $100 million Saturday, reaching that mark for the first time since April 9th.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$324.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 12, 2023
2.$293 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 14, 2016
3.€250 Million US$288.48 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2025
4.$264 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2025
5.$260 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2023
6.$247 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 14, 2022
7.$244.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2022
8.$240 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2012
9.€220.88 Million US$230.42 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 14, 2022
10.€168.1 Million
US$189.65 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2019
11.€135 Million
US$182.86 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2014
12.€129 Million
US$172.02 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 14, 2013
13.€160 Million
US$171.25 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 14, 2024
14.$153 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 15, 2016
15.€129 Million
US$145.03 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 12, 2015
16.$144 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 12, 2018
17.$121 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2018
18.$115 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2003
19.€76 Million
US$109.79 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 14, 2011
20.€98.37 Million
US$106.18 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2023
21.€94.39 Million
US$105.94 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 14, 2016
22.€90 Million
US$104.39 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 15, 2018
23.$101 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 13, 2017
24.$100 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 15, 2004
24.$100 Million: Texas
Lotto Texas
Draw Date
Jun 12, 2004

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1988: aboveaverage219
Sunday, Jun 12, 1988
37 years old
1985: Deanthony bolde
Wednesday, Jun 12, 1985
40 years old
1981: Happyfeet444
Friday, Jun 12, 1981
44 years old
1979: lenaharp
Tuesday, Jun 12, 1979
46 years old
1978: Awjones
Monday, Jun 12, 1978
47 years old
1978: Peppa1
Monday, Jun 12, 1978
47 years old
1977: Gemini77
Sunday, Jun 12, 1977
48 years old
1976: cheona
Saturday, Jun 12, 1976
49 years old
1976: p3p4ltryprpncss
Saturday, Jun 12, 1976
49 years old
1973: glytch
Tuesday, Jun 12, 1973
52 years old
1970: rudy22
Friday, Jun 12, 1970
55 years old
1970: misdee
Friday, Jun 12, 1970
55 years old
1969: bigboy
Thursday, Jun 12, 1969
56 years old
1969: Chap88
Thursday, Jun 12, 1969
56 years old
1968: Browneyedgirl47
Wednesday, Jun 12, 1968
57 years old
1967: dishwasher73
Monday, Jun 12, 1967
58 years old
1966: jodie nana
Sunday, Jun 12, 1966
59 years old
1965: Akamai612
Saturday, Jun 12, 1965
60 years old
1965: Myiross
Saturday, Jun 12, 1965
60 years old
1962: csteele1
Tuesday, Jun 12, 1962
63 years old
1957: tno02
Wednesday, Jun 12, 1957
68 years old
1953: BIGLEAD35
Friday, Jun 12, 1953
72 years old
1949: winner77
Sunday, Jun 12, 1949
76 years old
1948: Virgielt
Saturday, Jun 12, 1948
77 years old
: daryl12
(year not provided)
: HerMe2
(year not provided)
: shenaj612
(year not provided)
: swajeedarnee
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2024: A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, Kuwait City kills at least 50 people.
2019: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is inaugurated as the second president of Kazakhstan.
2018: United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
2016: Forty-nine civilians are killed and 58 others injured in an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States; the gunman, Omar Mateen, is killed in a gunfight with police.
2014: Between 1,095 and 1,700 Shia Iraqi people are killed in an attack by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq. It is the second deadliest act of terrorism in history, only behind 9/11.
2009: A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests.
1999: Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force, Kosovo Force (KFor), enters the province of Kosovo in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1993: An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military government of Ibrahim Babangida.
1991: In modern Russia's first democratic election, Boris Yeltsin is elected as the President of Russia.
1991: Kokkadichcholai massacre: The Sri Lankan Army massacres 152 minority Tamil civilians in the village of Kokkadichcholai near the Eastern Province town of Batticaloa.
1990: Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
1988: Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
1987: The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
1987: Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1982: A nuclear disarmament rally and concert is held in New York City.
1981: The first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters.
1979: Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man-powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
1975: State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain: Judge Jagmohanlal Sinha rules against Indira Gandhi in a case on her election to the Indian Parliament, and that she should be banned from holding any public office, triggering a political crisis.
1967: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws that prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1964: Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
1963: NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
1963: The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time.
1954: Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared as saints.
1950: An Air France Douglas DC-4 crashes near Bahrain International Airport, killing 46 people.
1944: World War II: Battle of Carentan: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.
1943: The Holocaust: Germany liquidates the Jewish Ghetto in Brzeżany, Poland (now Berezhany, Ukraine). Around 1,180 Jews are led to the city's old Jewish graveyard and shot.
1942: Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1940: World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1939: Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939: The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1935: A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.
1921: Mikhail Tukhachevsky orders the use of chemical weapons against the Tambov Rebellion, bringing an end to the peasant uprising.
1914: Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
1900: The Reichstag approves new legislation continuing Germany's naval expansion program, providing for construction of 38 battleships over a 20-year period. Germany's fleet would be the largest in the world.
1899: New Richmond tornado: The ninth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
1898: Philippine Declaration of Independence: General Emilio Aguinaldo declares the Philippines' independence from Spain.
1864: American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1830: Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: Thirty-four thousand French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1821: Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1817: The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
1813: Capture of USRC Surveyor.
1798: Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.
1776: The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1775: American War of Independence: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.
1772: French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men are killed by Māori in New Zealand.
1758: French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, commences.
1665: Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
1653: First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
1643: The Westminster Assembly is convened by the Parliament of England, without the assent of Charles I, in order to restructure the Church of England.
1550: The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1429: Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.
1418: Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter sympathizers of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.
1381: Peasants' Revolt: In England, rebels assemble at Blackheath, just outside London.
1240: At the instigation of Louis IX of France, an inter-faith debate, known as the Disputation of Paris, starts between a Christian monk and four rabbis.
1206: The Ghurid general Qutb ud-Din Aibak founds the Delhi Sultanate.
910: Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.

Births On This Day

1999: CarryMinati, Indian YouTuber
1996: Gustav Forsling, Swedish ice hockey player
1996: Shonica Wharton, Barbadian netball player
1994: Don Toliver, American rapper and singer-songwriter
1992: Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer
1992: Allie DiMeco, American actress and musician
1991: Avisaíl García, Venezuelan baseball player
1990: Jrue Holiday, American basketball player
1990: David Worrall, English footballer
1989: Emma Eliasson, Swedish ice hockey player
1989: Ibrahim Jeilan, Ethiopian runner
1988: Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer
1988: Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer
1986: Salim Mehajer, Australian politician
1985: Dave Franco, American actor
1985: Blake Ross, American computer programmer, co-created Mozilla Firefox
1985: Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1985: Kendra Wilkinson, American model, actress, and author
1984: James Kwalia, Kenyan-Qatari runner
1984: Bruno Soriano, Spanish footballer
1983: Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
1983: Christine Sinclair, Canadian soccer player
1982: Shailaja Pujari, Indian weightlifter
1982: James Tomlinson, English cricketer
1981: Raitis Grafs, Latvian basketball player
1981: Adriana Lima, Brazilian model and actress
1980: Marco Bortolami, Italian rugby player
1979: Dallas Clark, American football player
1979: Martine Dugrenier, Canadian wrestler
1979: Diego Milito, Argentine footballer
1979: Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
1979: Earl Watson, American basketball player and coach
1978: Lewis Moody, English rugby player
1977: Wade Redden, Canadian ice hockey player
1976: Antawn Jamison, American basketball player and sportscaster
1976: Ray Price, Zimbabwean cricketer
1976: Thomas Sørensen, Danish footballer
1976: Paul Stenning, English author
1975: Bryan Alvarez, American wrestler and journalist
1975: Stéphanie Szostak, French-American actress
1974: Flávio Conceição, Brazilian footballer
1974: Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
1973: Jason Caffey, American basketball player and coach
1973: Darryl White, Australian footballer
1971: Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler
1971: Ryan Klesko, American baseball player
1971: Jérôme Romain, Caribbean-Dominican triple jumper and coach
1969: Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian guitarist (died 2007)
1969: Héctor Garza, Mexican wrestler (died 2013)
1969: Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player
1969: Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
1968: Scott Aldred, American baseball player and coach
1968: Bobby Sheehan, American bass player and songwriter (died 1999)
1967: Aivar Kuusmaa, Estonian basketball player and coach
1967: Frances O'Connor, English-Australian actress
1966: Marc Glanville, Australian rugby league player
1966: Tom Misteli, Swiss cell biologist
1965: Adrian Toole, Australian rugby league player
1965: Gwen Torrence, American sprinter
1965: Cathy Tyson, English actress
1964: Derek Higgins, Irish racing driver
1964: Takashi Yamazaki, Japanese filmmaker
1963: Philippe Bugalski, French racing driver (died 2012)
1963: Warwick Capper, Australian footballer, coach, and actor
1962: Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, professor and cultural critic
1960: Joe Kopicki, American basketball player and coach
1959: John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and musician
1959: Scott Thompson, Canadian actor and comedian
1958: Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958: Barry Michael Cooper, American writer, producer and director (died 2025)
1957: Timothy Busfield, American actor, director, and producer
1957: Javed Miandad, Pakistani cricketer and coach
1956: Terry Alderman, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1953: Rocky Burnette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953: Árni Steinar Jóhannsson, Icelandic politician (died 2015)
1952: Spencer Abraham, American academic and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Energy
1952: Junior Brown, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951: Brad Delp, American musician and singer (died 2007)
1951: Andranik Margaryan, Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (died 2007)
1950: Oğuz Abadan, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950: Michael Fabricant, English politician
1950: Sonia Manzano, American actress
1949: Jens Böhrnsen, German judge and politician
1949: Marc Tardif, Canadian ice hockey player
1949: John Wetton, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 2017)
1948: Hans Binder, Austrian racing driver
1948: Herbert Meyer, German footballer
1948: Len Wein, American comic book writer and editor (died 2017)
1946: Michel Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1946: Bobby Gould, English footballer and manager
1946: Catherine Bréchignac, French physicist and academic
1945: Pat Jennings, Northern Irish footballer and coach
1942: Len Barry, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2020)
1942: Bert Sakmann, German physiologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1941: Marv Albert, American sportscaster
1941: Chick Corea, American pianist and composer (died 2021)
1941: Roy Harper, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1941: Reg Presley, English singer-songwriter (died 2013)
1941: Lucille Roybal-Allard, American politician
1940: Jacques Brassard, Canadian educator and politician
1939: Ron Lynch, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2024)
1939: Frank McCloskey, American sergeant and politician (died 2003)
1938: Jean-Marie Doré, Guinean lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Guinea (died 2016)
1938: Tom Oliver, English-Australian actor
1937: Vladimir Arnold, Russian-French mathematician and academic (died 2010)
1937: Klaus Basikow, German footballer and manager (died 2015)
1937: Antal Festetics, Hungarian-Austrian biologist and zoologist
1937: Chips Moman, American record producer, guitarist, and songwriter (died 2016)
1935: Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (died 2014)
1935: Paul Kennedy, English lawyer and judge
1934: John A. Alonzo, American actor and cinematographer (died 2001)
1934: Kevin Billington, English director and producer (died 2021)
1933: Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (died 2004)
1932: Mimi Coertse, South African soprano and producer
1932: Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian runner (died 2002)
1931: Trevanian, American author and scholar (died 2005)
1931: Rona Jaffe, American novelist (died 2005)
1930: Jim Burke, Australian cricketer (died 1979)
1930: Donald Byrne, American chess player (died 1976)
1930: Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver and engineer (died 1993)
1930: Jim Nabors, American actor and singer (died 2017)
1929: Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (died 1995)
1929: Roy Bull, Australian rugby league player (died 2004)
1929: Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (died 1945)
1929: Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani linguist and academic (died 2019)
1929: John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, Scottish lawyer, judge, and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (died 2017)
1928: Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2018)
1928: Petros Molyviatis, Greek politician and diplomat, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2025)
1928: Richard M. Sherman, American composer and director (died 2024)
1924: George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States (died 2018)
1924: Grete Dollitz, German-American guitarist and radio host (died 2013)
1922: Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (died 2013)
1921: Luis García Berlanga, Spanish director and screenwriter (died 2010)
1921: James Archibald Houston, Canadian author and illustrator (died 2005)
1920: Dave Berg, American soldier and cartoonist (died 2002)
1920: Peter Jones, English actor and screenwriter (died 2000)
1919: Uta Hagen, German-American actress and educator (died 2004)
1918: Georgia Louise Harris Brown, American architect (died 1999)
1918: Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (died 2001)
1916: Irwin Allen, American director and producer (died 1991)
1916: Raúl Héctor Castro, Mexican-American politician and diplomat, 14th Governor of Arizona (died 2015)
1915: Priscilla Lane, American actress (died 1995)
1915: Christopher Mayhew, English soldier and politician (died 1997)
1915: David Rockefeller, American banker and businessman (died 2017)
1914: William Lundigan, American actor (died 1975)
1914: Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (died 2014)
1913: Jean Victor Allard, Canadian general (died 1996)
1913: Desmond Piers, Canadian admiral (died 2005)
1912: Bill Cowley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1993)
1912: Carl Hovland, American psychologist and academic (died 1961)
1908: Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina and educator (died 2010)
1908: Otto Skorzeny, German SS officer (died 1975)
1906: Sandro Penna, Italian poet (died 1977)
1905: Ray Barbuti, American sprinter and football player (died 1988)
1902: Hendrik Elias, Belgian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Ghent (died 1973)
1899: Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
1899: Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (died 1968)
1897: Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1977)
1895: Eugénie Brazier, French chef (died 1977)
1892: Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (died 1982)
1890: Egon Schiele, Austrian soldier and painter (died 1918)
1888: Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1920)
1883: Fernand Gonder, French pole vaulter (died 1969)
1883: Robert Lowie, Austrian-American anthropologist and academic (died 1957)
1877: Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (died 1971)
1873: Jacques Pellegrin, French zoologist (died 1944)
1864: Frank Chapman, American ornithologist, photographer, and author (died 1945)
1861: William Attewell, English cricketer and umpire (died 1927)
1858: Harry Johnston, English botanist and explorer (died 1927)
1858: Henry Scott Tuke, English painter and photographer (died 1929)
1857: Maurice Perrault, Canadian architect, engineer, and politician, 15th Mayor of Longueuil (died 1909)
1851: Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (died 1940)
1843: David Gill, Scottish-English astronomer and author (died 1914)
1841: Watson Fothergill, English architect, designed the Woodborough Road Baptist Church (died 1928)
1831: Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (died 1905)
1827: Johanna Spyri, Swiss author, best known for Heidi (died 1901)
1819: Charles Kingsley, English priest, historian, and author (died 1875)
1812: Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (died 1890)
1807: Ante Kuzmanić, Croatian physician and journalist (died 1879)
1806: John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (died 1869)
1802: Harriet Martineau, English sociologist and author (died 1876)
1800: Samuel Wright Mardis, American politician (died 1836)
1798: Samuel Cooper, American general (died 1876)
1777: Robert Clark, American physician and politician (died 1837)
1775: Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (died 1851)
1771: Patrick Gass, American sergeant (Lewis and Clark Expedition) and author (died 1870)
1760: Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai, French author, playwright, journalist, and politician (died 1797)
1711: Louis Legrand, French priest and theologian (died 1780)
1686: Marie-Catherine Homassel Hecquet, French writer (died 1764)
1653: Maria Amalia of Courland, Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (died 1711)
1580: Adriaen van Stalbemt, Flemish painter (died 1662)
1577: Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (died 1643)
1573: Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex, soldier (died 1629)
1564: John Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (died 1633)
1561: Anna of Württemberg, German princess (died 1616)
1519: Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (died 1574)
1161: Constance, Duchess of Brittany (died 1201)
1107: Gao Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1187)
950: Reizei, Japanese emperor (died 1011)

Deaths On This Day

2024: William H. Donaldson, American businessman (born 1931)
2024: Neil Goldschmidt, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Governor of Oregon (born 1940)
2024: Jerry West, American basketball player and executive (born 1938)
2023: Silvio Berlusconi, Italian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936)
2023: Francesco Nuti, Italian actor and director, (born 1955)
2023: John Romita Sr., comic book artist and author (born 1930)
2023: Treat Williams, American actor (born 1951)
2022: Philip Baker Hall, American actor (born 1931)
2022: Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby union player (born 1948)
2019: Sylvia Miles, American actress (born 1924)
2018: Jon Hiseman, English drummer (born 1944)
2015: Fernando Brant, Brazilian journalist, poet, and composer (born 1946)
2013: Teresita Barajuen, Spanish nun (born 1908)
2013: Jason Leffler, American racing driver (born 1975)
2012: Hector Bianciotti, Argentinian-French journalist and author (born 1930)
2012: Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Danish-German psychoanalyst and author (born 1917)
2012: Medin Zhega, Albanian footballer and manager (born 1946)
2012: Elinor Ostrom, American political scientist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)
2012: Pahiño, Spanish footballer (born 1923)
2012: Frank Walker, Australian judge and politician, 41st Attorney General of New South Wales (born 1942)
2011: René Audet, Canadian bishop (born 1920)
2010: Al Williamson, American illustrator (born 1931)
2008: Miroslav Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player (born 1951)
2008: Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1932)
2006: Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player and fighter pilot (born 1915)
2006: György Ligeti, Romanian-Hungarian composer and educator (born 1923)
2006: Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (born 1923)
2005: Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (born 1918)
2003: Gregory Peck, American actor and political activist (born 1916)
2002: Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (born 1922)
2002: Zena Sutherland, American reviewer of children's literature (born 1915)
2000: Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1919)
1999: Malekeh Malekzadeh Bayani, Iranian numismatist (born 1910)
1999: J. F. Powers, American novelist and short story writer (born 1917)
1998: Leo Buscaglia, American author and educator (born 1924)
1998: Theresa Merritt, American actress and singer (born 1922)
1997: Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1924)
1995: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (born 1920)
1995: Pierre Russell, American basketball player (born 1949)
1994: Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O. J. Simpson (born 1959) and Ron Goldman, restaurant employee (born 1968)
1994: Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi and author (born 1902)
1994: Philip Vera Cruz, Filipino-American labor leader and farmworker (born 1904)
1990: Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1914)
1989: Bruce Hamilton, Australian public servant (born 1911)
1983: Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (born 1902)
1982: Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1953)
1982: Karl von Frisch, Austrian-German ethologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1886)
1980: Billy Butlin, South African-English businessman, founded the Butlins Company (born 1899)
1980: Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime minister of Japan (born 1910)
1980: Milburn Stone, American actor (born 1904)
1978: Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (born 1892)
1978: Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (born 1912)
1976: Gopinath Kaviraj, Indian philosopher and scholar (born 1887)
1972: Edmund Wilson, American critic, essayist, and editor (born 1895)
1972: Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar, Indian writer and documentary filmmaker (born 1909)
1969: Aleksandr Deyneka, Ukrainian-Russian painter and sculptor (born 1899)
1968: Herbert Read, English poet and critic (born 1893)
1966: Hermann Scherchen, German viola player and conductor (born 1891)
1963: Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (born 1925)
1962: John Ireland, English composer and educator (born 1879)
1957: Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (born 1904)
1952: Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (born 1875)
1946: Médéric Martin, Canadian politician, mayor of Montreal (born 1869)
1944: Erich Marcks, German general (born 1891)
1937: Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Russian general (born 1893)
1932: Theo Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1852)
1917: Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (born 1853)
1912: Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1822)
1904: Camille of Renesse-Breidbach (born 1836)
1900: Lucretia Peabody Hale, American journalist and author (born 1820)
1841: Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Greek composer, archaeologist, and philologist (born 1786)
1818: Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor
1816: Pierre Augereau, French general (born 1757)
1778: Philip Livingston, American merchant and politician (born 1716)
1772: Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (born 1724)
1758: Prince Augustus William of Prussia (born 1722)
1734: James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French-English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (born 1670)
1675: Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (born 1634)
1668: Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (born 1599)
1647: Thomas Farnaby, English scholar and educator (born 1575)
1574: Renée of France, Duchess of Ferrara (born1510)
1567: Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, English politician, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1490)
1565: Adrianus Turnebus, French philologist and scholar (born 1512)
1560: Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (born 1506)
1560: Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1519)
1524: Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador (born 1465)
1478: Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (born 1412)
1435: John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English commander (born 1408)
1420: Adolf I, Count of Nassau-Siegen (born 1362)
1418: Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac (born 1360)
1294: John I of Brienne, Count of Eu
1266: Henry II, Prince of Anhalt-Aschersleben (born 1215)
1152: Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1114)
1144: Al-Zamakhshari, Persian theologian (born 1075)
1036: Tedald, Italian bishop (born 990)
1020: Lyfing, English archbishop (born 999)
918: Æthelflæd, Mercian daughter of Alfred the Great (born 870)
816: Pope Leo III (born 750)
796: Hisham I, Muslim emir (b. 757)

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