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June 28

On This Day in History

June 28

June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 186 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: 32 winning tickets split $184,416 California Lottery Fantasy 5 jackpot. A notably large number of tickets won the California Lottery's Fantasy 5 jackpot in Friday's drawing.
2022: Arkansas woman wins largest Natural State Jackpot ever at $520,000. Someone in Arkansas has claimed the record $520,000 Natural State Jackpot after the prize continued to swell beyond record levels day by day.
2021: NC woman's favorite lottery ticket sold out, wins $200,000 after settling for another. A North Carolina lottery player had to choose the next best lottery ticket when her favorite game was sold out at the store — and she ended up winning a $200,000 prize.
2019: Florida Gov. vetoes bill to require warnings on lottery tickets. A bill that would have required warnings on all Florida Lottery tickets will not become a law.
2017: Iowa Lottery promises to work harder to stop cheaters. Iowa Lottery officials pledged Tuesday to tighten security of lottery tickets and bolster efforts to obtain restitution from persons convicted of lottery-related crimes.
2016: $390 MILLION: Huge Mega Millions jackpot up for grabs tonight. After an astounding 31 drawings without a grand prize winner, Mega Millions features an enormous jackpot promising multi-generational wealth to a ticketholder with enough luck to overcome the 1 in 259 million odds stacked against them.
2012: NAACP wants Texas Lottery shut down. The Dallas chapter of the NAACP wants to stop seeing low income Texans pumping money into the state lottery by putting it out of business.
2010: Lottery mistake wins Ohio store clerk $250,000. An Ohio store clerk's mistake when printing a Mega Millions lottery ticket has won her $250,000.
2005: S.C. Lottery posts wrong numbers; causes pay off problems. A South Carolina auditor certified the wrong number in Friday's Palmetto Cash Five lottery drawing, making several players happy when their prizes were increased.
2004: July El Gordo Sales End in One Day. A last-minute flurry of excitement is expected at El Gordo Online, where sales end Tuesday night at midnight for the world's biggest lottery draw to be held July 3.
2004: Heavy Sales Push Mega Millions Jackpot to $220 Million. With the excitement growing in anticipation of Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing, lottery forecasters today revised the estimated jackpot upward to $220 million.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$463.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2023
2.$390 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2016
3.$368 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2023
4.$366.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2022
5.$333 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2022
6.€229.09 Million US$241.57 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2022
7.$232 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2018
8.$222 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2016
9.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2004
10.€178.1 Million
US$202.59 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2019
11.€132 Million
US$189.01 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2011
12.€176 Million
US$185.59 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2022
13.$158 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2017
14.$145 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 30, 1999
15.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2019
16.$135 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2003
17.€100 Million
US$114.18 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2017
18.€100.15 Million
US$110.82 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2016
19.€90 Million
US$105.05 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2018
20.$94 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2009
21.$92 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2017
22.$91 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2007
23.$90 Million: California
SuperLotto Plus
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2006
24.$88 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 28, 2011
25.$87.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2021

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: BigBuxHustla
Friday, Jun 28, 1991
32 years old
1981: Sherie20
Sunday, Jun 28, 1981
42 years old
1981: x929x
Sunday, Jun 28, 1981
42 years old
1980: ashawn6280
Saturday, Jun 28, 1980
43 years old
1977: rainforest77
Tuesday, Jun 28, 1977
46 years old
1977: Noluck912
Tuesday, Jun 28, 1977
46 years old
1975: Banteel
Saturday, Jun 28, 1975
48 years old
1973: sroofe30
Thursday, Jun 28, 1973
50 years old
1963: mssue
Friday, Jun 28, 1963
60 years old
1962: kaykyle
Thursday, Jun 28, 1962
61 years old
1962: modbre
Thursday, Jun 28, 1962
61 years old
1957: cymoneys
Friday, Jun 28, 1957
66 years old
1953: kkkathleen
Sunday, Jun 28, 1953
70 years old
1952: DECO2BE
Saturday, Jun 28, 1952
71 years old
1949: fredog65
Tuesday, Jun 28, 1949
74 years old
: swissmocha
(year not provided)
: beaudad
(year not provided)
: ICUNod
(year not provided)
: MSNETTE34
(year not provided)
: Ga Jen
(year not provided)
: Sweettea69
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2016: A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
2009: Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
2004: Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
2001: Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
1997: Holyfield-Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
1989: On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
1987: For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
1982: Aeroflot Flight 8641 crashes in Mazyr, Belarus, killing 132 people.
1981: A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
1978: The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
1976: The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
1973: Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
1969: Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
1964: Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
1956: In Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
1950: Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
1950: Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.
1950: Korean War: The Korean People's Army kills almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
1948: Cold War: The Tito-Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
1948: Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
1945: Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
1942: World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
1940: Romania cedes Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
1936: The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
1926: Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
1922: The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
1921: Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
1919: The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
1917: World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
1911: The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
1904: The SS Norge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270 mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
1902: The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1896: An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
1895: The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
1894: Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1882: The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
1881: The Austro-Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
1880: Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
1870: The US Congress establishes the first federal holidays (New Year Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas).
1865: The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
1859: The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1855: Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
1841: The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1807: Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
1797: French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.
1778: American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
1776: American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
1776: American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
1745: A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
1651: The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
1635: Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
1575: Sengoku period of Japan: The combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu are victorious in the Battle of Nagashino.
1519: Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1495: A French force heavily defeats a much larger Neapolitan and Spanish army at the battle of Seminara, leading to the creation of the Tercios by Gonzalo de Córdoba.
1461: Edward, Earl of March, is crowned King Edward IV of England.
1360: Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
1098: Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.

Births On This Day

2002: Marta Kostyuk, Ukrainian tennis player
1999: Markéta Vondroušová, Czech tennis player
1997: Tadasuke Makino, Japanese racing driver
1997: Shakur Stevenson, American boxer
1996: Donna Vekić, Croatian tennis player
1996: Larissa Werbicki, Canadian rower
1994: Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan
1993: Bradley Beal, American basketball player
1992: Oscar Hiljemark, Swedish footballer
1992: Elaine Thompson, Jamaican sprinter
1991: Seohyun, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
1991: Kevin De Bruyne, Belgian footballer
1991: Kang Min-hyuk, South Korean singer, drummer, and actor
1989: Jason Clark, Australian rugby league player
1989: Andrew Fifita, Australian rugby league player
1989: David Fifita, Australian rugby league player
1989: Julia Zlobina, Russian-Azerbaijani figure skater
1989: Markiplier, American internet personality
1989: Nicole Rottmann, Austrian tennis player
1987: Sonata Tamošaitytė, Lithuanian hurdler
1987: Terrence Williams, American basketball player
1986: Kellie Pickler, American singer-songwriter
1985: Phil Bardsley, English footballer
1985: Colt Hynes, American baseball player
1982: Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper
1981: Savage, New Zealand rapper
1981: Michael Crafter, Australian singer-songwriter
1981: Guillermo Martínez, Cuban javelin thrower
1981: Brandon Phillips, American baseball player
1980: Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer
1979: Felicia Day, American actress and writer
1979: Randy McMichael, American football player
1979: Florian Zeller, French author and playwright
1978: Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player
1977: Chris Spurling, American baseball player
1977: Mark Stoermer, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1977: Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist
1976: Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
1976: Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
1975: Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer-songwriter, and guitarist (d. 2006)
1974: Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder, entrepreneur, and reality television star
1973: Adrián Annus, Hungarian hammer thrower
1973: Corey Koskie, Canadian baseball player
1972: Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese-French mathematician and academic
1972: Chris Leslie, English politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
1972: Geeta Tripathee, Nepali poet, lyricist and literary critic
1972: Alessandro Nivola, American actor
1971: Lorenzo Amoruso, Italian footballer
1971: Fabien Barthez, French footballer
1971: Bobby Hurley, American basketball player and coach
1971: Ron Mahay, American baseball player and scout
1971: Elon Musk, South African-born American entrepreneur
1971: Aileen Quinn, American actress and singer
1970: Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach
1970: Tom Merritt, American journalist
1970: Mike White, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1969: Tichina Arnold, American actress and singer
1969: Stéphane Chapuisat, Swiss footballer
1969: Fabrizio Mori, Italian hurdler
1968: Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor
1967: Leona Aglukkaq, Canadian politician, 7th Canadian Minister of Health
1967: Gil Bellows, Canadian actor and producer
1967: Zhong Huandi, Chinese runner
1967: Lars Riedel, German discus thrower
1966: Peeter Allik, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 2019)
1966: Bobby Bare Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966: John Cusack, American actor and screenwriter
1966: Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
1965: Jessica Hecht, American actress
1965: Tiaan Strauss, South African rugby player
1964: Christina Ashcroft, Canadian sport shooter
1964: Mark Grace, American baseball player and sportscaster
1964: Bernie McCahill, New Zealand rugby player
1964: Dan Stains, Australian rugby league player and coach
1964: Steve Williamson, English saxophonist and composer
1963: Peter Baynham, Welsh actor, producer, and screenwriter
1963: Charlie Clouser, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1962: Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu, Romanian long jumper
1962: Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (d. 2013)
1962: Ann-Louise Skoglund, Swedish hurdler
1961: Jeff Malone, American basketball player and coach
1960: John Elway, American football player and manager
1960: Roland Melanson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1959: Clint Boon, English singer and keyboard player
1959: John Shelley, British illustrator
1958: Donna Edwards, American lawyer and politician
1958: Félix Gray, Tunisian-French singer-songwriter
1957: Lance Nethery, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957: Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian historian and politician, 4th President of Bulgaria
1957: Mike Skinner, American race car driver
1957: Jim Spanarkel, American basketball player and sportscaster
1956: Amira Hass, Israeli journalist and author
1956: Noel Mugavin, Australian footballer and coach
1955: Shirley Cheriton, British actress
1954: A. A. Gill, Scottish author and critic (d. 2016)
1954: Alice Krige, South African actress
1952: Enis Batur, Turkish poet and author
1952: Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (d. 2013)
1952: Jean-Christophe Rufin, French physician and author
1951: Mick Cronin, Australian rugby league player and coach
1951: Mark Shand, English conservationist and author (d. 2014)
1951: Lalla Ward, English actress and author
1950: Philip Fowke, English pianist and educator
1950: Mauricio Rojas, Chilean-Swedish economist and politician
1950: Chris Speier, American baseball player and coach
1949: Don Baylor, American baseball player and coach (d. 2017)
1948: Kathy Bates, American actress
1948: Sergei Bodrov, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1948: Deborah Moggach, English author and screenwriter
1948: Daniel Wegner, Canadian-American psychologist and academic (d. 2013)
1947: Mark Helprin, American novelist and journalist
1947: Laura Tyson, American economist and academic
1946: Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (d. 2008)
1946: Bruce Davison, American actor and director
1946: David Duckham, English rugby player
1946: Robert Xavier Rodríguez, American classical composer
1946: Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (d. 1991)
1946: Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (d. 1989)
1945: Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer
1945: David Knights, English bass player and producer
1945: Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1989)
1945: Türkan Şoray, Turkish actress, director, and screenwriter
1943: Jens Birkemose, Danish painter
1943: Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic
1943: Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1942: Chris Hani, South African politician (d. 1993)
1942: Hans-Joachim Walde, German decathlete (d. 2013)
1942: Frank Zane, American professional bodybuilder and author
1941: Al Downing, American baseball player and sportscaster
1941: Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist and academic, developed the OBJ language (d. 2006)
1941: David Johnston, Canadian academic, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor General of Canada
1940: Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (d. 2014)
1940: Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1939: Klaus Schmiegel, German chemist
1938: John Byner, American actor and comedian
1938: Leon Panetta, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense
1938: S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician (d. 2006)
1938: Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn, British baron
1937: George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1937: Fernand Labrie, Canadian endocrinologist and academic (d. 2019)
1937: Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1995)
1936: Chuck Howley, American football player
1935: John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
1934: Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, Northern Irish lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
1934: Roy Gilchrist, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2001)
1934: Bette Greene, American journalist and author (d. 2020)
1934: Carl Levin, American lawyer and politician (d. 2021)
1934: Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French journalist and cartoonist (d. 2015)
1933: Gusty Spence, Northern Irish loyalist and politician (d. 2011)
1932: Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
1931: Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1931: Junior Johnson, American race car driver (d. 2019)
1931: Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
1930: William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930: Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (d. 2011)
1930: Jack Gold, English director and producer (d. 2015)
1929: Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician (d. 2021)
1928: Hans Blix, Swedish politician and diplomat, 33rd Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
1928: Patrick Hemingway, American writer
1928: Harold Evans, English-American historian and journalist (d. 2020)
1928: Peter Heine, South African cricketer (d. 2005)
1928: Cyril Smith, English politician (d. 2010)
1927: Correlli Barnett, English historian and author
1927: Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1926: George Booth, American cartoonist (d. 2022)
1926: Mel Brooks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1926: Robert Ledley, American academic and inventor (d. 2012)
1924: Kalevi Keihänen, Finnish entrepreneur (d. 1995)
1923: Pete Candoli, American trumpet player (d. 2008)
1923: Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, Argentinian racing driver (d. 2012)
1923: Gaye Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
1921: P. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Prime Minister of India (d. 2004)
1920: Clarissa Eden, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2021)
1919: Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (d. 1983)
1918: William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, Scottish-English politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1999)
1917: A. E. Hotchner, American author and playwright (d. 2020)
1914: Aribert Heim, Austrian SS physician and Nazi war criminal (d. 1992)
1913: Franz Antel, Austrian director and producer (d. 2007)
1913: George Lloyd, English soldier and composer (d. 1998)
1913: Walter Oesau, German colonel and pilot (d. 1944)
1912: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (d. 2007)
1909: Eric Ambler, English author and screenwriter (d. 1998)
1907: Jimmy Mundy, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1983)
1907: Yvonne Sylvain, First female Haitian physician (d. 1989)
1906: Maria Goeppert Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1902: Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (d. 1979)
1894: Jessie Baetz, Canadian-American artist, composer and pianist (d. 1974 or later)
1894: Francis Hunter, American tennis player (d. 1981)
1893: August Zamoyski, Polish-French sculptor (d. 1970)
1892: Carl Panzram, American serial killer (d. 1930)
1891: Esther Forbes, American historian and author (d. 1968)
1891: Carl Spaatz, American general (d. 1974)
1888: George Challenor, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1947)
1888: Stefi Geyer, Hungarian violinist and educator (d. 1956)
1884: Lamina Sankoh, Sierra Leonean banker and politician (d. 1964)
1883: Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (d. 1945)
1880: John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1971)
1879: Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (d. 1949)
1875: Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
1873: Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
1867: Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1936)
1852: Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show (d. 1938)
1844: John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (d. 1890)
1836: Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek journalist and author (d. 1904)
1831: Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1907)
1825: Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist (d. 1909)
1824: Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (d. 1880)
1742: William Hooper, American physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1790)
1734: Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1794)
1719: Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785)
1712: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher and polymath (d. 1778)
1703: John Wesley, English cleric and theologian (d. 1791)
1653: Muhammad Azam Shah, Mughal emperor (d. 1707)
1641: Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, consort to King John III Sobieski (d. 1716)
1604: Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet (d. 1651)
1582: William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (d. 1662)
1577: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter and diplomat (d. 1640)
1573: Henry Danvers, 1st Earl of Danby, English noble (d. 1644)
1560: Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (d. 1657)
1557: Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (d. 1595)
1547: Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1599)
1503: Giovanni della Casa, Italian author and poet (d. 1556)
1491: Henry VIII of England (d. 1547)
1490: Albert of Brandenburg, German archbishop (d. 1545)
1476: Pope Paul IV (d. 1559)
1444: Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus (d. 1487)
1243: Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (d. 1304)
751: Carloman I, king of the Franks (d. 771)

Deaths On This Day

2018: Harlan Ellison, American writer (b. 1934)
2016: Scotty Moore, American guitarist (b. 1931)
2016: Pat Summitt, American women's college basketball head coach (b. 1952)
2016: Buddy Ryan, American football coach (b. 1931)
2015: Jack Carter, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
2015: Jope Seniloli, Fijian politician, Vice-President of Fiji (b. 1939)
2015: Wally Stanowski, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
2014: Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (b. 1921)
2014: Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2014: On Kawara, Japanese painter (b. 1933)
2014: Meshach Taylor, American actor (b. 1947)
2013: Ted Hood, American sailor and architect (b. 1927)
2013: Tamás Katona, Hungarian historian and politician (b. 1932)
2013: Kenneth Minogue, New Zealand-Australian political scientist and academic (b. 1930)
2013: F. D. Reeve, American author and academic (b. 1928)
2013: David Rubitsky, American sergeant (b. 1917)
2012: Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1934)
2012: Leontine T. Kelly, American bishop (b. 1920)
2012: Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (b. 1923)
2012: Doris Sams, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2010: Robert Byrd, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
2009: A. K. Lohithadas, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2009: Billy Mays, American TV personality (b. 1958)
2007: Eugene B. Fluckey, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1913)
2007: Kiichi Miyazawa, Japanese lawyer and politician, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2006: Jim Baen, American publisher, founded Baen Books (b. 1943)
2006: Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1919)
2006: George Unwin, English pilot and commander (b. 1913)
2005: Brenda Howard, American activist (b. 1946)
2005: Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1976)
2004: Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912)
2003: Joan Lowery Nixon, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
2001: Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author (b. 1902)
2000: Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1999: Vere Bird, first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1910)
1995: Petri Walli, Finnish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
1992: Guy Nève, Belgian racing driver (b. 1955)
1992: Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (b. 1936)
1989: Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)
1985: Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
1984: Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (b. 1917)
1983: Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (b. 1918)
1981: Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958)
1980: José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
1978: Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
1975: Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
1975: Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1974: Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (b. 1890)
1971: Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908)
1966: Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Turkish historian and politician, 21st Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1890)
1965: Red Nichols, American cornet player, bandleader, and composer (b. 1905)
1962: Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)
1962: Cy Morgan, American baseball player (b. 1878)
1960: Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898)
1947: Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (b. 1875)
1945: Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist (b. 1879)
1944: Friedrich Dollmann, German general (b. 1882)
1940: Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and politician (b. 1896)
1939: Douglas H. Johnston, governor of the Chickasaw Nation (b. 1856)
1936: Alexander Berkman, American author and activist (d. 1870)
1929: Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)
1925: Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (b. 1861)
1925: Henry C. Berghoff, German-American politician (b. 1856)
1922: Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)
1917: Ștefan Luchian, Romanian painter and educator (b. 1868)
1915: Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (b. 1877)
1914: Sophie, duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868)
1914: Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (b. 1863)
1913: Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Brazil (b. 1841)
1892: Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet and politician, Greek Foreign Minister (b. 1810)
1889: Maria Mitchell, American astronomer and academic (b. 1818)
1881: Jules Armand Dufaure, French politician, 33rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1798)
1880: Texas Jack Omohundro, American soldier and hunter (b. 1846)
1836: James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (b. 1751)
1834: Joseph Bové, Russian architect, designed the Triumphal Arch of Moscow (b. 1784)
1813: Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general and politician, Prussian Minister of War (b. 1755)
1798: John Henry Colclough, Irish revolutionary (b. c. 1769)
1757: Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (b. 1687)
1716: George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1665)
1607: Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543)
1598: Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (b. 1527)
1586: Primož Trubar, Slovenian author and reformer (b. 1508)
1575: Yonekura Shigetsugu, Japanese samurai
1497: James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, English rebel leader (b. c. 1463)
1385: Andronikos IV, Byzantine emperor (b. 1348)
1194: Xiao Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1127)
1189: Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony, (b. 1156)
1175: Andrey Bogolyubsky, Russian Grand Prince (b. 1111)
1061: Floris I, count of Holland
1031: Taira no Tadatsune, Japanese governor
975: Cyneweard, bishop of Wells
767: Paul I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 700)
683: Leo II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 611)
572: Alboin, King of the Lombards
548: Theodora I, Byzantine empress
202: Yuan Shao, Chinese warlord

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