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June 19

On This Day in History

June 19

June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 195 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Missouri man unknowingly holds onto Powerball lottery ticket worth $1 million for three months. A Missouri man didn't know he was holding onto a winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $1 million for three months.
2020: Arizona couple steps forward to claim $410 million Mega Millions jackpot. After it was announced that a lone winner from Arizona won big over a week ago, a couple from a residential area in Phoenix came forward on Thursday to claim the $410 million Mega Millions jackpot prize. It's the largest payout to any Arizona Lottery player ever and the 11th largest Mega Millions jackpot in history.
2020: 24 Bonus Match 5 lottery tickets sold at one Maryland store win top prize. Someone must have had a really good feeling that five particular numbers were going to be drawn in the Maryland Lottery's Bonus Match 5 game, because they won the top prize on 24 separate tickets purchased from one store.
2019: The California lottery, public schools and the mystery of the 'missing' money. A columnist discusses lottery funding of education, and why people never seem to get the sense of where lottery proceeds end up.
2017: FBI missed rigged jackpot in 2006 before lottery scheme grew. A 2006 inquiry by the FBI into a lottery won by Tommy Tipton, a Texas judge, failed to uncover a jackpot rigging conspiracy. A decade later, the inquiry stands out as a missed chance to stop a jackpot rigging scandal that would corrupt the $70 billion lottery industry for years while enriching a tiny group of insiders. The FBI didn't uncover one fact that its informant knew but didn't see as significant: that Tipton's brother, Eddie Tipton, was a lottery industry employee.
2016: $333 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot continues climb. The multi-state Mega Millions lottery game continued its months-long climb Friday night, and is now at the point where jackpot rolls are sharply increased.
2013: Washington man wins lottery twice in 24 hours. A Washington man had an incredibly lucky day when he won the lottery not once, but twice, within 24 hours.
2013: Texas Lottery delayed Monday night because of suspicious package. A suspicious package near a Texas Lottery facility on Monday night forced a delay of the nightly drawing and the reporting of the results, officials said Tuesday.
2012: Lucky store: Sells third $1M lottery ticket. The James Quick Mart on James Reynolds Road in Swansea, Massachusetts, must have a good luck charm stashed under its counter -- for the third time in the past five years, it sold a $1 million lottery ticket to one of its customers.
2010: Mistake on lottery ticket would have won $30M jackpot. A St. John's lottery player may have saved a dozen dollars while cancelling an overcharged lottery ticket, but missed out on a $30 million jackpot.
2007: Michigan Lottery's Super Raffle results announced. The winning numbers were selected Monday for the Michigan Lottery's most expensive game.
2006: Clash over $1 million lottery ticket outlives buyer. What are the odds that a man could throw away a $1 million scratch ticket, lose his father and then his own life all in four months' time?
2006: Winning Powerball lottery ticket sold in Oklahoma. Oklahoma has its first Powerball jackpot winner since it joined the multistate lottery game earlier this year -- a $101.8 million jackpot.
2006: Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $34 million sold in Calif.. A La Quinta liquor store sold the $34 million winning ticket for the Mega Millions lottery, the California Lottery announced Saturday.
2006: Washington Lottery to debut new ticket machines. Washington lottery players can expect new green tickets July 2, the date the state-run gambling enterprise switches to new machines in its retail outlets.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$380.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 19, 2023
2.$333 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2016
3.$300 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2023
4.$296.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2022
5.$290 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2022
6.€224.99 Million US$237.07 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2022
7.€166 Million US$218.51 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2013
8.€172.5 Million US$194.81 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2019
9.$184 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 22, 2016
10.$180 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2003
11.$175 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 19, 2018
12.$151 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2018
13.€143 Million
US$150.68 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2022
14.$150 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 22, 2004
15.€101 Million
US$145.17 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2011
16.$145 Million: Texas
Lotto Texas (old version)
Draw Date
Jun 19, 2004
16.$145 Million: Texas
Lotto Texas
Draw Date
Jun 19, 2004
18.€120 Million
US$131.02 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2023
19.$123 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2017
20.€97.42 Million
US$109.94 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2016
21.$105 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 19, 2013
22.€90 Million
US$104.85 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 22, 2018
23.$95 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 21, 2003
24.$92 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 19, 2019
25.$86 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 20, 2009

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1987: Salomomm
Friday, Jun 19, 1987
36 years old
1983: undone
Sunday, Jun 19, 1983
40 years old
1975: Da Unknown242
Thursday, Jun 19, 1975
48 years old
1975: Jgemini-19
Thursday, Jun 19, 1975
48 years old
1971: betty41
Saturday, Jun 19, 1971
52 years old
1971: browniee85
Saturday, Jun 19, 1971
52 years old
1961: TASHA61
Monday, Jun 19, 1961
62 years old
1957: rulucky2
Wednesday, Jun 19, 1957
66 years old
1950: cmitchner
Monday, Jun 19, 1950
73 years old
1939: elgan
Monday, Jun 19, 1939
84 years old
: Bryan
(year not provided)
: Mr Puntreturn
(year not provided)
: MzChicago
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
2018: Antwon Rose II was fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.
2012: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
2009: Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
2009: War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
2007: The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
2005: Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdrew after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.
1991: The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.
1990: The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
1990: The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
1988: Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
1987: Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
1987: Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.
1985: Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
1978: Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
1965: Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1961: Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1960: The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
1953: Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1947: Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.
1943: The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
1934: The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1921: The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, was burned by British forces.
1913: Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
1910: The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1903: Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
1875: The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1867: Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1865: Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
1862: The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1850: Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
1846: The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
1821: Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
1816: Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1800: War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
1785: The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, sans Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.
1770: New Church Day: Emanuel Swedenborg wrote: "The Lord sent forth His twelve disciples, who followed Him in the world into the whole spiritual world to preach the Gospel that the Lord God Jesus Christ reigns. This took place on the 19th day of June, in the year 1770."
1718: At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei-Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.
1667: Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
1586: English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
1306: The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1179: The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
325: The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.

Births On This Day

2004: Millie Gibson, English actress
1993: Olajide Olatunji, English YouTuber
1992: Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer
1992: C. J. Mosley, American football player
1990: Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
1990: Xavier Rhodes, American football player
1988: Jacob deGrom, American baseball player
1987: Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
1986: Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
1986: Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
1986: Marvin Williams, American basketball player
1985: Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
1985: José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer
1985: Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner
1984: Paul Dano, American actor
1984: Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
1984: Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter
1983: Macklemore, American rapper
1983: Aidan Turner, Irish actor
1982: Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player
1982: Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
1982: Michael Yarmush, American actor
1981: Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper
1981: Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
1980: Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer
1980: Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player
1980: Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager
1980: Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer
1979: José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
1978: Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
1978: Zoe Saldana, American actress
1978: Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
1976: Anar Baghirov, Azerbaijani lawyer
1976: Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare
1976: Bryan Hughes, English footballer and manager
1976: Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1975: Hugh Dancy, English actor and model
1975: Anthony Parker, American basketball player
1974: Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1974: Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament
1973: Jahine Arnold, American football player
1973: Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
1973: Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
1972: Jean Dujardin, French actor
1972: Ilya Markov, Russian race walker
1972: Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach
1972: Robin Tunney, American actress
1971: José Emilio Amavisca, Spanish footballer
1971: Chris Armstrong, English footballer
1970: Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
1970: Quincy Watts, American sprinter and football player
1970: Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968: Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1968: Timothy Morton, American philosopher and academic
1968: Kimberly Anne "Kim" Walker, American film and television actress (d. 2001)
1967: Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier and businessman
1966: Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player
1965: Sabine Braun, German heptathlete
1965: Sadie Frost, English actress and producer
1964: Brent Goulet, American soccer player and manager
1964: Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London
1964: Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963: Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author
1963: Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler
1963: Rory Underwood, English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot
1962: Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter
1962: Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
1962: Ashish Vidyarthi, Indian actor
1960: Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic
1960: Johnny Gray, American runner and coach
1960: Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1960: Patti Rizzo, American golfer
1959: Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player
1959: Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
1958: Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach
1957: Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)
1957: Jean Rabe, American journalist and author
1955: Mary O'Connor, New Zealand runner
1955: Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician
1954: Mike O'Brien, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales
1954: Lou Pearlman, American music producer and fraudster (d. 2016)
1954: Kathleen Turner, American actress
1954: Richard Wilkins, New Zealand-Australian journalist and television presenter
1952: Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence
1951: Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2022)
1951: Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1950: Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian
1950: Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician
1948: Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (d. 1974)
1948: Phylicia Rashad, American actress
1947: Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist
1947: John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author
1946: Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager
1945: Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska
1945: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
1945: Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
1945: Peter Bardens, British keyboardist
1944: Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, composer, writer and poet
1942: Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (d. 2010)
1941: Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic
1939: Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1939: John F. MacArthur, American minister and theologian
1938: Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
1937: André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (d. 2015)
1936: Marisa Galvany, American soprano and actress
1934: Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2023)
1933: Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (d. 1971)
1932: Pier Angeli, Italian actress (d. 1971)
1932: José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2011)
1932: Marisa Pavan, Italian actress
1930: Gena Rowlands, American actress
1928: Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist (d. 2020)
1928: Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)
1927: Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general and human rights violator (d. 2018)
1926: Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor
1923: Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012)
1922: Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
1922: Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo
1921: Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
1920: Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2002)
1919: Pauline Kael, American film critic (d. 2001)
1917: Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (d. 1999)
1915: Pat Buttram, American actor (d. 1994)
1915: Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (d. 2004)
1914: Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1914: Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (d. 1979)
1913: Helene Madison, American swimmer (d. 1970)
1912: Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (d. 2008)
1912: Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
1910: Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (d. 1966)
1910: Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1910: Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1982)
1909: Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (d. 1948)
1909: Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 1948)
1907: Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1906: Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
1906: Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (d. 1975)
1906: Walter Rauff, German SS officer (d. 1984)
1905: Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
1903: Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic (d. 1977)
1903: Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1903: Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach (d. 1965)
1903: Hans Litten, German lawyer (d. 1938)
1902: Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (d. 1977)
1897: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1897: Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975)
1896: Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (d. 1974)
1896: Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward VIII (d. 1986)
1891: John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (d. 1968)
1888: Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (d. 1970)
1886: Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (d. 1940)
1884: Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian (d. 1974)
1883: Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder (d. 1970)
1881: Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (d. 1966)
1877: Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)
1876: Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (d. 1941)
1874: Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (d. 1941)
1872: Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (d. 1963)
1871: Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (d. 1932)
1865: May Whitty, English actress (d. 1948)
1861: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (d. 1928)
1861: Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (d. 1927)
1861: José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (d. 1896)
1858: Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (d. 1911)
1855: George F. Roesch, American lawyer and politician (d. 1917)
1854: Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (d. 1893)
1854: Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (d. 1933)
1851: Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
1851: Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1916)
1850: David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1932)
1846: Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1928)
1845: Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1904)
1843: Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (d. 1929)
1840: Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (d. 1917)
1834: Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (d. 1892)
1833: Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (d. 1904)
1816: William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (d. 1899)
1815: Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1797: Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer (d. 1873)
1795: James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (d. 1860)
1793: Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1882)
1783: Friedrich Sertürner, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1841)
1776: Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1842)
1771: Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1859)
1764: José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (d. 1850)
1731: Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (d. 1822)
1701: François Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1775)
1633: Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (d. 1712)
1623: Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1662)
1606: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (d. 1649)
1598: Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1677)
1595: Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru (d. 1644)
1590: Philip Bell, British colonial governor (d. 1678)
1566: James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625)
1417: Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (d. 1468)
1301: Prince Morikuni, shōgun of Japan (d. 1333)

Deaths On This Day

2019: Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (b. 1990)
2018: Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (b. 1971)
2017: Otto Warmbier, American college student detained in North Korea (b. 1994)
2016: Anton Yelchin, American actor (b. 1989)
2015: James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (b. 1925)
2014: Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (b. 1915)
2014: Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (b. 1939)
2014: Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (b. 1985)
2013: Vince Flynn, American author (b. 1966)
2013: James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (b. 1961)
2013: Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
2013: Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1952)
2013: Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1965)
2013: Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
2012: Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
2010: Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (b. 1962)
2010: Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (b. 1925)
2010: Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (b. 1938)
2009: Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer and surveyor (b. 1895)
2008: Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (b. 1934)
2007: Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
2007: Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (b. 1925)
2007: Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (b. 1947)
2007: Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1932)
2004: Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (b. 1915)
2001: Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1912)
2001: John Heyer, Australian director and producer (b. 1916)
1995: Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (b. 1914)
1993: William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1991: Jean Arthur, American actress (b. 1900)
1990: George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
1990: Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)
1989: Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
1988: Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
1988: Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
1987: Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (b. 1896)
1986: Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
1984: Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (b. 1908)
1981: Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager (b. 1955)
1981: Subhash Mukherjee, Indian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitro fertilisation (b. 1931)
1979: Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
1977: Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (b. 1933)
1975: Sam Giancana, American mob boss (b. 1908)
1973: Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (b. 1916)
1968: James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (b. 1898)
1966: Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (b. 1886)
1962: Frank Borzage, American film director and actor (b. 1894)
1956: Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (b. 1874)
1953: Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1915)
1953: Julius Rosenberg, American spy (b. 1918)
1951: Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884)
1949: Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (b. 1885)
1941: C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (b. 1862)
1941: Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (b. 1885)
1940: Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (b. 1900)
1939: Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (b. 1878)
1937: J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (b. 1860)
1932: Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (b. 1876)
1922: Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (b. 1874)
1921: Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (b. 1888)
1918: Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (b. 1888)
1903: Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (b. 1832)
1884: Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (b. 1810)
1874: Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (b. 1838)
1867: Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico, 1859-1860 (b. 1832)
1867: Maximilian I of Mexico (b. 1832)
1865: Evangelos Zappas, Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1800)
1864: Richard Heales, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of Victoria (b. 1822)
1864: Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, American soldier (b. 1843)
1844: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (b. 1772)
1820: Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (b. 1743)
1805: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (b. 1724)
1786: Nathanael Greene, American general (b. 1742)
1768: Benjamin Tasker Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1762: Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (b. 1702)
1747: Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer and educator (b. 1669)
1747: Nader Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688)
1650: Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (b. 1593)
1608: Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (b. 1551)
1567: Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (b. 1507)
1545: Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian-Russian lawyer and jurist (b. 1509)
1542: Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1482)
1504: Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (b. 1430)
1364: Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (b. 1292)
1341: Juliana Falconieri, Italian nun and saint (b. 1270)
1312: Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (b. 1284)
1282: Eleanor de Montfort, Welsh princess (b. 1252)
1185: Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (b. 1147)
1027: Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (b. 951)
930: Xiao Qing, chancellor of Later Liang (b. 862)
626: Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (b. 551)
404: Huan Xuan, Jin-dynasty warlord and emperor of Huan Chu (b. 369)

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