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June 26

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June 26

June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 188 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: New Jersey resident says no thanks to road rage, wins $600,000 lottery prize instead. A New Jersey resident was not in the mood to engage with road rage during a traffic stall, and the strategy of avoidance led to a $600,000 lottery win instead.
2024: Illinois Lottery commemorates 50th anniversary. The Illinois Lottery is kicking off its 50th anniversary celebration with new promotions, sweepstakes, and events for players across the state to enjoy.
2023: Canada man "wins" twice — $35 million Lotto Max jackpot one week after daughter's graduation. A lot of good happened for one Ontario man who won a $35 million (US$26.58 million) Lotto Max jackpot one week after his daughter's college graduation.
2021: Irish family claims €12.7 million Lotto jackpot after two months of waiting. A close-knit Irish family hit the jackpot in the National Lottery's Lotto draw game in April and wisely did everything they could to prepare for the sudden influx of cash they were about to accept.
2017: Network of dummy online stores used to hide internet gambling payments. A network of dummy online stores offering household goods has been used as a front for internet gambling payments, according to a recent investigation.
2017: Chicago woman wins $250K from her first-ever lottery ticket. A Chicago woman won $250,000 from her first-ever lottery ticket, which she wasn't even planning to buy.
2015: Lottery Post moves to total encryption. As of June 26, 2015, Lottery Post is serving all of its pages over SSL encryption.
2014: $12M Texas Lottery jackpot set to expire Monday. According to the Texas Lottery Commission, there could be a multi-millionaire in the League City-area sitting on a winning lotto ticket from January 1.
2013: Winning lottery ticket pits Pa. brothers against each other. A winning lottery ticket has pitted two brothers from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, against each other in Cumberland County Court, fracturing a close familial kinship that may never exist again.
2013: Two tickets share massive €188 million EuroMillions jackpot. Two very lucky EuroMillions players in Ireland and Belgium have won almost €94 million each in the latest jackpot draw Tuesday evening.
2013: Michigan Lottery puts Internet ticket sales on hold. The Michigan Lottery is indefinitely halting plans to sell tickets and offer games on the Internet after skeptical lawmakers blocked funding to launch an online lottery in early 2014.
2012: Minn. store clerk accused of "micro-scratching" lottery tickets. What began as a complaint from a lottery customer about the loss of $15 led to an undercover operation and eventually the arrest of a store clerk for lottery fraud.
2012: Montana Lottery celebrates 25th anniversary. The Montana Lottery has changed a lot in 25 years when it began after voters overwhelmingly approved it with 60 percent in support.
2012: $60 million winning lottery ticket sold in CT. Somebody in Connecticut is $60 million richer and they might not even know it yet.
2006: $89 Million: California lottery fever hits as jackpot rises. California lottery players woke up Sunday morning to find a SuperLotto Plus jackpot that hasn't been so big since 2004 -- the kind of jackpot that will have people standing in long lines at the local convenience store.
2006: N.Y. lottery jackpot raised to $45 million. There was no first prize winner in Saturday night's New York Lotto drawing, causing the jackpot to rollover to $45 million for Wednesday evening's drawing.
2006: N.Y. store clerk busted in Lotto scam. A man who bought a Lotto ticket worth $1 million at a Huntington Station store was almost swindled out of his winnings by the clerk, State Police said.
2006: Powerball not hurting N.C. lottery sales. People have been playing North Carolina's lottery for a few months now, and even though Powerball is less than a month old, the game has paid out more than $2 million to residents so far.
2006: Big scratch games reinvigorate lottery sales. High-priced scratch-off tickets have revived lottery sales, restoring growth to a state-run business that had sagged in the face of casino and Internet gambling.
2006: Indiana Lottery may spend $1M to settle lawsuit. A lawsuit over a winning $5 scratch-off lottery ticket may end up costing the state of Indiana more than $1 million.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$442.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 26, 2023
2.$390 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2016
3.$348.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 27, 2022
4.$348 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 27, 2025
5.$343 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 27, 2023
6.$333 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2022
7.€229.09 Million US$241.57 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2022
8.$222 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2016
9.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2004
10.$212 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 26, 2018
11.€176.62 Million
US$200.77 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 27, 2019
12.€132 Million
US$189.01 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2011
13.€176 Million
US$185.59 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2022
14.$152.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2025
15.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 27, 2017
16.$135 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2003
17.$122 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 26, 2019
18.$116 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2024
19.€100.15 Million
US$110.82 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2016
20.€90 Million
US$105.05 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2018
21.$103 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 27, 2007
22.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 26, 1999
23.$96.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 26, 2024
24.€59 Million
US$92.95 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 27, 2008
25.$92 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2017

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: Needtohitano
Wednesday, Jun 26, 1991
34 years old
1991: younghotricardo
Wednesday, Jun 26, 1991
34 years old
1988: mohammadsia
Sunday, Jun 26, 1988
37 years old
1988: Steevy1
Sunday, Jun 26, 1988
37 years old
1986: mzshahida
Thursday, Jun 26, 1986
39 years old
1980: WinnerWin2018
Thursday, Jun 26, 1980
45 years old
1978: bigswiss
Monday, Jun 26, 1978
47 years old
1978: Honey_Bee
Monday, Jun 26, 1978
47 years old
1974: cashwanted
Wednesday, Jun 26, 1974
51 years old
1973: Stinka1973
Tuesday, Jun 26, 1973
52 years old
1969: jjames1592
Thursday, Jun 26, 1969
56 years old
1968: Lstayfocus
Wednesday, Jun 26, 1968
57 years old
1967: John2025
Monday, Jun 26, 1967
58 years old
1966: TOPDOGZ
Sunday, Jun 26, 1966
59 years old
1965: Toni33
Saturday, Jun 26, 1965
60 years old
1964: Valerie Smith
Friday, Jun 26, 1964
61 years old
1959: beb!
Friday, Jun 26, 1959
66 years old
1959: meki
Friday, Jun 26, 1959
66 years old
1959: OttolBall
Friday, Jun 26, 1959
66 years old
1952: rick52
Thursday, Jun 26, 1952
73 years old
1952: slhlottery
Thursday, Jun 26, 1952
73 years old
1941: fmselph
Thursday, Jun 26, 1941
84 years old
: AceKicka
(year not provided)
: kimber45
(year not provided)
: All*Star
(year not provided)
: bdc4life
(year not provided)
: looking4$
(year not provided)
: Mixablehoney
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2024: Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, returns to Australia after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a Saipan court and subsequently being released by the United States Department of Justice.
2015: Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
2015: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2013: Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others.
2013: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2012: The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
2008: A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people.
2007: Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2006: Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest.
2003: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that sex-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2000: The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
1997: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1997: J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in United Kingdom.
1995: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état.
1991: Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
1988: The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse-Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board.
1981: Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish.
1978: Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
1977: Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
1975: Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1974: The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1967: Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1963: Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
1960: The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
1960: Madagascar gains its independence from France.
1959: Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
1955: The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
1953: Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo.
1952: The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
1948: Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade.
1948: William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1948: Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1945: The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California.
1944: World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths.
1944: World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
1942: The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
1941: World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
1940: World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
1936: Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1934: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1927: The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1924: The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
1918: World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood.
1917: World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat in the Battle of Hamel on July 4.
1909: The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1906: The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
1889: Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
1886: Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
1857: The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London.
1848: End of the June Days Uprising in Paris.
1843: Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity".
1830: William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover.
1794: French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marks the first successful military use of aircraft and turns the tide of the War of the First Coalition.
1740: A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1723: After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians.
1718: Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1579: Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins.
1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed.
1522: Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes.
1483: Richard III becomes King of England.
1460: War of the Roses: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London.
1409: Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon.
1407: Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights.
1295: Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms.
1243: Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ.
699: En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima.
684: Pope Benedict II is the last pope to require confirmation by the Byzantine emperor before taking office.
363: Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire.
221: Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
4: Augustus adopts Tiberius.

Births On This Day

2005: Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
2004: Mikey Williams, American basketball player
2002: Chandler Smith, American race car driver
2000: Ann Li, American tennis player
1997: Baek Ye-rin, South Korean singer
1997: Jacob Elordi, Australian actor
1997: Callum Taylor, English cricketer
1994: Hollie Arnold, English javelin thrower
1994: Leonard Carow, German actor
1993: Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1992: Joel Campbell, Costa Rican footballer
1992: Rudy Gobert, French basketball player
1992: Jennette McCurdy, American actress and singer-songwriter
1991: Houssem Chemali, French footballer
1991: Diego Falcinelli, Italian footballer
1991: Dustin Martin, Australian rules footballer
1990: Belaynesh Oljira, Ethiopian runner
1990: Iman Shumpert, American basketball player
1990: Igor Subbotin, Estonian footballer
1988: Oliver Stang, German footballer
1988: King Bach, Canadian-American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer and social media personality
1987: Carlos Iaconelli, Brazilian race car driver
1987: Samir Nasri, French footballer
1986: Duvier Riascos, Colombian footballer
1985: Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan spiritual leader, 17th Karmapa Lama
1984: J. J. Barea, Puerto Rican-American basketball player
1984: Yankuba Ceesay, Gambian footballer
1984: Elijah Dukes, American baseball player
1984: Raymond Felton, American basketball player
1984: Indila, French singer
1984: Priscah Jeptoo, Kenyan runner
1984: Aubrey Plaza, American actress
1984: Preslava, Bulgarian singer
1984: Jūlija Tepliha, Latvian figure skater
1984: Deron Williams, American basketball player
1983: Vinícius Rodrigues Almeida, Brazilian footballer
1983: Nick Compton, South African-English cricketer
1983: Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1983: Felipe Melo, Brazilian footballer
1983: Antonio Rosati, Italian footballer
1982: Zuzana Kučová, Slovak tennis player
1981: Natalya Antyukh, Russian sprinter and hurdler
1981: Paolo Cannavaro, Italian footballer
1981: Kanako Kondō, Japanese voice actress and singer
1981: Takashi Toritani, Japanese baseball player
1980: Hamílton Hênio Ferreira Calheiros, Togolese footballer
1980: Michael Jackson, English footballer
1980: Jason Schwartzman, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
1980: Chris Shelton, American baseball player
1980: Michael Vick, American football player
1979: Ryō Fukuda, Japanese race car driver
1979: Walter Herrmann, Argentinian basketball player
1979: Ryan Tedder, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1977: Quincy Lewis, American basketball player
1976: Ed Jovanovski, Canadian ice hockey player
1976: Pommie Mbangwa, Zimbabwean cricketer and sportscaster
1976: Chad Pennington, American football player and sportscaster
1976: Dave Rubin, American political commentator
1975: Chris Armstrong, Canadian ice hockey player
1975: Terry Skiverton, English footballer and manager
1974: Derek Jeter, American baseball player
1974: Jason Kendall, American baseball player
1973: Gretchen Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972: Jai Taurima, Australian long jumper and police officer
1971: Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
1970: Paul Thomas Anderson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1970: Paul Bitok, Kenyan runner
1970: Irv Gotti, American record producer, co-founded Murder Inc Records (died 2025)
1970: Sean Hayes, American actor
1970: Matt Letscher, American actor and playwright
1970: Adam Ndlovu, Zimbabwean footballer (died 2012)
1970: Chris O'Donnell, American actor
1970: Nick Offerman, American actor
1969: Colin Greenwood, English bass player and songwriter
1969: Ingrid Lempereur, Belgian swimmer
1969: Geir Moen, Norwegian sprinter
1969: Mike Myers, American baseball player
1968: Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Icelandic lecturer and politician, 6th President of Iceland
1968: Paolo Maldini, Italian footballer
1968: Shannon Sharpe, American football player
1967: Inha Babakova, Ukrainian high jumper
1967: Olivier Dahan, French director and screenwriter
1966: Dany Boon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1966: Kirk McLean, Canadian ice hockey player
1966: Jürgen Reil, American drummer
1964: Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
1963: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian-Swiss businessman and philanthropist
1963: Mark McClellan, American economist and politician
1963: Harriet Wheeler, English singer-songwriter
1962: Jerome Kersey, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
1961: Greg LeMond, American cyclist
1961: Terri Nunn, American singer-songwriter and actress
1960: Mark Durkan, Irish politician
1959: Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and screenwriter
1957: Al Hunter Ashton, English actor and screenwriter (died 2007)
1957: Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec
1957: Patty Smyth, American singer-songwriter and musician
1956: Chris Isaak, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1956: Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of the Central African Republic
1956: Patrick Mercer, English colonel and politician
1955: Mick Jones, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955: Gedde Watanabe, American actor
1954: Luis Arconada, Spanish footballer
1952: Gordon McQueen, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2023)
1952: Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist (died 1979)
1952: Simon Mann, British military officer and mercenary (died 2025)
1951: Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (died 2014)
1949: Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (died 2015)
1949: Adrian Gurvitz, English singer-songwriter and producer
1949: Mary Styles Harris, American biologist and geneticist
1946: Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (died 2013)
1945: Issa al-Haadi al-Mahdi (Dwight York), American criminal, black supremacist, pedophile, convicted child molester, and musician
1944: Gennady Zyuganov, Russian politician
1943: Georgie Fame, English singer, pianist, and keyboard player
1943: Warren Farrell, American author and educator
1942: J. J. Dillon, American wrestler and manager
1942: Gilberto Gil, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and politician, Brazilian Minister of Culture
1941: Yves Beauchemin, Canadian author and academic
1939: Chuck Robb, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 64th Governor of Virginia
1939: Zainuddin Maidin, Malaysian politician (died 2018)
1938: Neil Abercrombie, American sociologist and politician, 7th Governor of Hawaii
1938: Billy Davis Jr., American pop-soul singer
1938: Gerald North, American climatologist and academic
1937: Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
1937: Reggie Workman, American bassist and composer
1936: Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (died 2014)
1936: Hal Greer, American basketball player (died 2018)
1936: Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, Scottish politician (died 2020)
1936: Edith Pearlman, American short story writer (died 2023)
1936: Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (died 2015)
1936: Nancy Willard, American author and poet (died 2017)
1935: Carlo Facetti, Italian race car driver
1935: Sandro Riminucci, Italian basketball player
1934: Dave Grusin, American pianist and composer
1934: Toru Goto, Japanese swimmer
1933: Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (died 2014)
1933: Gene Green, American baseball player (died 1981)
1933: David Winnick, English politician
1932: Dame Marguerite Pindling, Bahamian politician; Governor-General of the Bahamas
1932: Don Valentine, American venture capitalist (died 2019)
1931: Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author (died 2013)
1930: Jackie Fargo, American wrestler and trainer (died 2013)
1930: Wolfgang Schwanitz, East German secret police (died 2022)
1929: June Bronhill, Australian soprano and actress (died 2005)
1929: Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer and author (died 2013)
1929: Milton Glaser, American illustrator and graphic designer (died 2020)
1928: Jacob Druckman, American composer and academic (died 1996)
1928: Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1928: Bill Sheffield, American politician; 5th Governor of Alaska (died 2022)
1928: Samuel Belzberg, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 2018)
1927: Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author and poet (died 2011)
1926: Kenny Baker, American fiddler (died 2011)
1926: Mahendra Bhatnagar, Indian poet (died 2020)
1926: Fernando Mönckeberg Barros, Chilean surgeon
1926: Dinu Zamfirescu, Romanian politician
1925: Pavel Belyayev, Soviet soldier, pilot and cosmonaut (died 1970)
1925: Wolfgang Unzicker, German chess player (died 2006)
1925: Jean Frydman, French resistant and businessman (died 2021)
1924: Kostas Axelos, Greek-French philosopher and author (died 2010)
1924: James W. McCord Jr., CIA officer (died 2017)
1923: Franz-Paul Decker, German conductor (died 2014)
1923: Ed Bearss, American military historian and author (died 2020)
1922: Walter Farley, American author (died 1989)
1922: Eleanor Parker, American actress (died 2013)
1922: Enzo Apicella, English artist, cartoonist, designer, and restaurateur (died 2018)
1921: Violette Szabo, French-British secret agent (died 1945)
1921: Robert Everett, American computer scientist (died 2018)
1920: Jean-Pierre Roy, Canadian-American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (died 2014)
1919: Richard Neustadt, American political scientist and academic (died 2003)
1919: Jimmy Newberry, American pitcher (died 1983)
1919: George Athan Billias, American historian (died 2018)
1919: Donald M. Ashton, English art director (died 2004)
1918: Leo Rosner, Polish-born Austrian Jewish musician (died 2008)
1918: Raleigh Rhodes, American combat fighter pilot (died 2007)
1918: J. B. Fuqua, American entrepreneur and philanthropist (died 2006)
1917: Idriz Ajeti, Albanian albanologist (died 2019)
1916: Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (died 1988)
1916: Giuseppe Taddei, Italian actor and singer (died 2010)
1915: Paul Castellano, American gangster (died 1985)
1915: George Haigh, English professional footballer (died 2019)
1915: Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (died 2013)
1914: Laurie Lee, English author and poet (died 1997)
1914: Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (died 1997)
1914: Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, European royalty (died 2001)
1913: Aimé Césaire, French poet, author, and politician (died 2008)
1913: Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (died 2010)
1911: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (died 1956)
1911: Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (died 2009)
1909: Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (died 1997)
1909: Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (died 1985)
1908: Salvador Allende, Chilean physician and politician, 29th President of Chile (died 1973)
1907: Debs Garms, American baseball player (died 1984)
1906: Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer (died 1974)
1906: Viktor Schreckengost, American sculptor and educator (died 2008)
1905: Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (died 1985)
1904: Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor and singer (died 1964)
1903: Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1958)
1902: Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and educator (died 2010)
1901: Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force (died 1988)
1899: Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918)
1898: Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and businessman (died 1978)
1898: Chesty Puller, US general (died 1971)
1895: George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician (died 1950)
1893: Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist and news anchor (died 1989)
1892: Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer Nobel Prize laureate (died 1973)
1881: Ya'akov Cohen, Israeli linguist, poet, and playwright (died 1960)
1880: Mitchell Lewis, American actor (died 1956)
1878: Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (died 1957)
1869: Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (died 1954)
1866: George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and banker (died 1923)
1865: Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-American historian and author (died 1959)
1854: Robert Laird Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (died 1937)
1852: Daoud Corm, Lebanese painter (died 1930)
1839: Sam Watkins, American soldier and author (died 1901)
1835: Thomas W. Knox, American journalist and author (died 1896)
1824: William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (died 1907)
1821: Bartolomé Mitre, Argentinian soldier, journalist, and politician, 6th President of Argentina (died 1906)
1819: Abner Doubleday, American general (died 1893)
1817: Branwell Brontë, English painter and poet (died 1848)
1798: Wolfgang Menzel, German poet and critic (died 1873)
1796: Jan Paweł Lelewel, Polish painter and engineer (died 1847)
1786: Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (died 1855)
1764: Jan Paweł Łuszczewski, Polish politician (died 1812)
1730: Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (died 1817)
1726: Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (died 1796)
1703: Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (died 1767)
1702: Philip Doddridge, English hymn-writer and educator (died 1751)
1699: Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, French businesswoman (died 1777)
1694: Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died 1768)
1689: Edward Holyoke, American pastor and academic (died 1769)
1681: Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (died 1708)
1600: Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Spanish-born bishop and viceroy of New Spain (died 1659)
1581: San Pedro Claver, Spanish Jesuit saint (died 1654)
1575: Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (died 1612)
1467: Ferdinand II of Naples (died 1496)
1399: John, Count of Angoulême (died 1467)
12 BC: Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (died 14)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Taiki Matsuno, Japanese voice actor (born 1967)
2022: Margaret Keane, American artist (born 1927)
2021: Mike Gravel, American politician (born 1930)
2020: Milton Glaser, American graphic designer (born 1929)
2019: Beth Chapman, American reality Television star, Bounty Hunter (born 1967)
2015: Yevgeny Primakov, Ukrainian-Russian journalist and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Russia (born 1929)
2015: Chris Thompson, American screenwriter and producer (born 1952)
2014: Howard Baker, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 12th White House Chief of Staff (born 1925)
2014: Bill Frank, American-Canadian football player (born 1938)
2014: Rollin King, American businessman, co-founded Southwest Airlines (born 1931)
2014: Bob Mischak, American football player and coach (born 1932)
2014: Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor (born 1921)
2014: Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (born 1931)
2013: Henrik Otto Donner, Finnish trumpet player and composer (born 1939)
2013: Edward Huggins Johnstone, Brazilian-American sergeant and judge (born 1922)
2013: Byron Looper, American politician (born 1964)
2013: Justin Miller, American baseball player (born 1977)
2013: Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman (born 1934)
2012: Sverker Åström, Swedish diplomat, Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations (born 1915)
2012: Pat Cummings, American basketball player (born 1956)
2012: Nora Ephron, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1941)
2012: Mario O'Hara, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)
2012: Doris Singleton, American actress (born 1919)
2011: Edith Fellows, American actress (born 1923)
2011: Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach (born 1948)
2010: Algirdas Brazauskas, Lithuanian engineer and politician, 4th President of Lithuania (born 1932)
2010: Harald Keres, Estonian physicist and academic (born 1912)
2007: Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (born 1929)
2007: Joey Sadler, New Zealand rugby player (born 1914)
2006: Tommy Wonder, Dutch magician (born 1953)
2005: Tõnno Lepmets, Estonian basketball player (born 1938)
2005: Richard Whiteley, English journalist and game show host (born 1943)
2004: Ott Arder, Estonian poet and translator (born 1950)
2004: Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (born 1929)
2004: Naomi Shemer, Israeli singer-songwriter (born 1930)
2003: Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroon footballer (born 1975)
2003: Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman (born 1915)
2003: Strom Thurmond, American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (born 1902)
2002: Jay Berwanger, American football player (born 1914)
2002: Arnold Brown, English-Canadian 11th General of The Salvation Army (born 1913)
2001: Gina Cigna, French-Italian soprano (born 1900)
1998: Hacı Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (born 1935)
1997: Don Hutson, American football player and coach (born 1913)
1996: Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist (born 1958)
1996: Necmettin Hacıeminoğlu, Turkish linguist and academic (born 1932)
1994: Jahanara Imam, Bangladeshi author and activist (born 1929)
1993: Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (born 1921)
1993: William H. Riker, American political scientist and academic (born 1920)
1992: Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (born 1921)
1990: Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (born 1909)
1989: Howard Charles Green, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Public Works (born 1895)
1979: Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian soldier and politician, 3rd Head of State of Ghana (born 1936)
1975: Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish priest and saint (born 1902)
1967: Françoise Dorléac, French actress and singer (born 1942)
1964: Léo Dandurand, American-Canadian businessman (born 1889)
1958: George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler (born 1873)
1958: Andrija Štampar, Croatian physician and scholar (born 1888)
1957: Alfred Döblin, Polish-German physician and author (born 1878)
1957: Malcolm Lowry, English novelist and poet (born 1909)
1956: Clifford Brown, American trumpet player and composer (born 1930)
1956: Richie Powell, American pianist (born 1931)
1955: Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer (born 1895)
1949: Kim Koo, South Korean educator and politician, 13th President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (born 1876)
1947: R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1870)
1946: Max Kögel, German SS officer (born 1895)
1946: Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1880)
1945: Emil Hácha, Czech lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Czechoslovakia (born 1872)
1943: Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
1939: Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and critic (born 1873)
1938: James Weldon Johnson, American poet, lawyer and politician (born 1871)
1938: Daria Pratt, American golfer (born 1859)
1932: Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (born 1900)
1927: Armand Guillaumin, French painter (born 1841)
1922: Albert I, Prince of Monaco (born 1848)
1918: Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (born 1843)
1883: Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (born 1788)
1879: Richard H. Anderson, American general (born 1821)
1878: Mercedes of Orléans (born 1860)
1870: Armand Barbès, French lawyer and politician (born 1809)
1860: George Montgomery White, American politician (born 1828)
1856: Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (born 1806)
1836: Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French soldier and composer (born 1760)
1830: George IV of the United Kingdom (born 1762)
1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (born 1740)
1808: Ludwik Tyszkiewicz, Polish poet and politician (born 1748)
1798: James Dickey, Irish revolutionary (born 1776)
1795: Johannes Jährig, German linguist and translator (born 1747)
1793: Gilbert White, English ornithologist and ecologist (born 1720)
1784: Caesar Rodney, American lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Delaware (born 1728)
1757: Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (born 1705)
1752: Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (born 1664)
1688: Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher and academic (born 1617)
1677: Francesco Buonamici, Italian architect, painter and engraver (born 1596)
1574: Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, captain of the Scottish Guard of Henry II of France (born 1530)
1541: Francisco Pizarro, Spanish explorer and politician, Governor of New Castile (born c. 1471)
1487: John Argyropoulos, Byzantine philosopher and scholar (born 1415)
1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (born 1201)
1265: Anne of Bohemia, duchess of Silesia (born 1203 or 1204)
1095: Robert, bishop of Hereford
1090: Jaromír, bishop of Prague
985: Ramiro III, king of León
969: George El Mozahem, Egyptian martyr (born 940)
822: Saichō, Japanese Buddhist monk (born 767)
405: Vigilius, bishop of Trent (born 353)
363: Julian the Apostate, Roman emperor (born 332)
116 BC: Ptolemy VIII, king of Egypt

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