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June 29

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June 29

June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 185 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Missouri woman admits to stealing $24,000 worth of lottery tickets at her own workplace. A former Missouri Lottery retailer employee admitted to stealing over $24,000 worth of lottery tickets from her own workplace over the course of six months.
2021: NC man is second person in hometown to win $1 million in a week. A North Carolina player became the second person in their hometown to win a $1 million prize within less than a week.
2017: IT'S OFFICIAL: Tipton pleads guilty to rigging computerized lottery drawings. The cyber security expert and brainpower behind a lottery rigging scandal that netted $2 million in illegal winnings from five state lotteries pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony charge of ongoing criminal conduct charge.
2016: $415 MILLION: 3rd-largest Mega Millions jackpot ever. Lottery players across the United States will be lining up at lottery retailers for their chance to win Friday's massive $415 million Mega Millions jackpot, after nobody won Tuesday's $390 million grand prize.
2015: Illinois postal worker wins $4 million lottery prize. An Elgin, Illinois, man has won a $4 million lottery prize after purchasing a ticket from Lundeen's Liquors in St. Charles.
2015: Man forgets glasses, mistakenly buys winning lottery ticket. A man in southwestern Connecticut who mistakenly bought the wrong lottery ticket is $30,000 wealthier.
2013: Virginia lawmaker wins car on $5 lottery ticket. A longtime Virginia lawmaker is the soon-to-be owner of a new Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, which he won on a $5 scratcher he bought June 12.
2012: Idaho man is state's first Hot Lotto jackpot winner. The Idaho Lottery introduced retired Army veteran Steve Colson of Nampa as the sole winner of a Hot Lotto jackpot worth $3.43 million.
2011: NJ Lottery to be first with live draws on Internet. The New Jersey Lottery will be the first state lottery to stream its lottery drawings live over the Internet -- on Facebook.
2011: Michigan man quits job, wins lottery. A western Michigan man said he quit his job so he could show up to qualify for the lottery drawing Monday night in Detroit, and it paid off.
2011: PA Lottery raffle ticket worth $1M set to expire this week. Time is running out for the holder of a Pennsylvania Lottery Millionaire Raffle ticket worth $1 million from the July 10, 2010, drawing to claim the prize.
2011: Man wins lottery with numbers from fortune cookie. A National City, California, man who has played the same Fantasy 5 numbers for a decade finally hit the jackpot, California Lottery officials announced Tuesday.
2010: Michigan workers claim Mega Millions, Powerball lottery jackpots. Factory workers in Detroit and Kalamazoo are winners of multimillion-dollar lottery prizes.
2010: N.H. Lottery delays online game amid controversy. The state Lottery Commission has pulled back its planned July 1 launch of new games that add an Internet element to scratch ticket gambling.
2009: Calif. man with 3 jobs wins $39M lottery jackpot. A man who works three jobs to support his family -- including one as a limousine driver -- has won a $39 million jackpot in California's SuperLotto Plus.
2009: $800,000 lottery ticket expires Wednesday. A winning lottery ticket worth $800,000 sold in Belton, South Carolina, expires this Wednesday, and the lottery has not heard from the ticket's owner.
2006: $98 Million: Gigantic California lottery jackpot gets even bigger. The jackpot in the California SuperLotto Plus lottery game grew to $98 million Thursday -- currently the largest lottery jackpot in the world.
2006: Idaho Lottery to pay state a record $33 million. Idaho Lottery officials say school districts and public buildings hit a record jackpot this year with $33 million in profits from ticket sales.
2006: N.C. Lottery to transfer $50 million to education. North Carolina's newly adopted lottery will make a $50 million contribution to the state's Education Lottery Fund on Wednesday -- the first transfer since the inception of scratch-off games three months ago.
2006: Oklahoma lottery winners not in a hurry to claim prizes. Oklahoma retailers have sold winning lottery tickets totaling nearly $110 million, but ten winners have yet to claim more than $102 million in prizes.
2006: Texas Lottery hires interim director to full-time post. Anthony Sadberry, a longtime Houston attorney who led a reorganization of the Texas Lottery in the past five months as acting director, was named the agency's permanent head Wednesday.
2006: Minnesota Lottery renews contract with GTECH. GTECH Holdings Corporation today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GTECH Corporation, signed a two-year contract extension with the Minnesota State Lottery to commence on February 9, 2011.
2006: UK Lottery opens bidding for 10-year license. The United Kingdom National Lottery opened the competition for a ten-year license to run the operation on Thursday.
2005: Conn. couple claims $59.5 million Powerball lottery jackpot. A couple from Seymour, Connecticut has claimed Saturday's $59.5 million Powerball jackpot, the largest prize in the 33-year-old history of the Connecticut State Lottery.
2005: Loan For Oklahoma’s Lottery Operation Delayed. Oklahoma Lottery Commission officials said Monday instant lottery tickets should still go on sale in October, despite an unexpected delay in obtaining loan funds for the state's new lottery operation.
2005: Texas lawmakers to grill lottery officials about inflated jackpots. Texas lottery officials could face tough questions and some nasty wrist-slapping today when they testify before lawmakers about inflating several Texas Lotto jackpot estimates.
2005: Store owner who stole customer's winnings stripped of lottery license. A North Andover, Massachusetts, convenience store owner who admitted stealing a customer's winning lottery ticket has been stripped of his license to sell Massachusetts Lottery tickets, a lottery spokeswoman said.
2004: Bahamas debates starting national lottery. Chairman of the Gaming Board, Kenyatta Gibson, MP, announced to parliament last week that the Gaming Board is currently reviewing the feasibility of The Bahamas introducing a national lottery.
2004: Lines, dreams grow for tonight's $220 Million lottery jackpot. If you waited until today to buy your Mega Millions lottery ticket, you could be standing in line. A long one. Sales for tonight's $220 million jackpot have been higher than normal for the past few days, and the day of the drawing is usually the busiest, ticket sellers said.
2004: Texas Lottery moves Two Step drawing days. Drawing days for the twice-weekly Texas Two Step lottery game have been changed.
2004: South Carolina Awaits $66 Million Powerball Lottery Winner. South Carolina officials are waiting for the winner of the latest Powerball drawing to come forward.
2004: Tennessee Lottery Director Lauds Startup. Tennessee's lottery is on track to be either the best or second-best lottery startup in U.S. history, lottery President Rebecca Paul said yesterday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$502.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2023
2.$415 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 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.$360 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2022
6.€230.36 Million US$240.82 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 30, 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.€152 Million US$220.6 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2011
10.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2004
11.€198 Million
US$206.53 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2022
12.€178.1 Million
US$202.59 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2019
13.$165 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2003
14.$158 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2017
15.$145 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 30, 1999
16.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2019
16.$137 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 2, 2024
18.$115.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2024
19.€100 Million
US$114.18 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2017
20.€101.19 Million
US$112.34 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2016
21.$106 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2017
22.€90 Million
US$105.05 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 29, 2018
23.$105 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2011
24.$98 Million: California
SuperLotto Plus
Draw Date
Jul 1, 2006
25.$94 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 30, 2009

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1995: lwill95
Thursday, Jun 29, 1995
29 years old
1981: rickey30
Monday, Jun 29, 1981
43 years old
1981: Robstory
Monday, Jun 29, 1981
43 years old
1970: prettybrown136
Monday, Jun 29, 1970
54 years old
1969: CoJe$t629
Sunday, Jun 29, 1969
55 years old
1968: tbird668
Saturday, Jun 29, 1968
56 years old
1963: chbaca
Saturday, Jun 29, 1963
61 years old
1962: Bilyb
Friday, Jun 29, 1962
62 years old
1960: chusub1
Wednesday, Jun 29, 1960
64 years old
1960: ricola
Wednesday, Jun 29, 1960
64 years old
1956: bdailey0266
Friday, Jun 29, 1956
68 years old
1951: Kayla2007
Friday, Jun 29, 1951
73 years old
1950: rlwilson
Thursday, Jun 29, 1950
74 years old
: aumira
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2014: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant self-declares its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq.
2012: A derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
2007: Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2006: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2002: Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
1995: Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
1995: The Sampoong Department Store collapses in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea, killing 502 and injuring 937.
1987: Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
1976: The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1976: The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
1974: Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Perón is terminally ill.
1974: Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1972: The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1972: A Convair CV-580 and De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter collide above Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, killing 13.
1971: Prior to re-entry (following a record-setting stay aboard the Soviet Union’s Salyut 1 space station), the crew capsule of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft depressurizes, killing the three cosmonauts on board. Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev are the first humans to die in space.
1956: The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1952: The first Miss Universe pageant is held. Armi Kuusela from Finland wins the title of Miss Universe 1952.
1950: Korean War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman authorizes a sea blockade of Korea.
1945: The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
1927: The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
1922: France grants "one square kilometer" at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
1916: British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1915: The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
1889: Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
1888: George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1881: In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1880: France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
1874: Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
1864: At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
1850: Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
1807: Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1786: Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1764: One of the strongest tornadoes in history strikes Woldegk, Germany, killing one person while leveling numerous mansions with winds estimated greater than 300 miles per hour (480 km/h).
1659: At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russians led by Prince Trubetskoy.
1644: Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge.
1620: English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
1613: The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, burns to the ground.
1534: Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1457: The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire
1444: Skanderbeg defeats an Ottoman invasion force at Torvioll.
1194: Sverre is crowned King of Norway, leading to his excommunication by the Catholic Church and civil war.
1170: A major earthquake hits Syria, badly damaging towns such as Hama and Shaizar and structures such as the Krak des Chevaliers and the cathedral of St. Peter in Antioch.
1149: Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
226: Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of Wei.

Births On This Day

2006: Sam Lavagnino, American child voice actor
2003: Jude Bellingham, English footballer
2001: Julian Champagnie, American basketball player
2001: Aaron Schoupp, Australian rugby league player
1998: Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
1996: Joseph Manu, New Zealand rugby league player
1994: Camila Mendes, American actress and model
1993: Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor
1991: Suk Hyun-jun, South Korean footballer
1991: Kawhi Leonard, American basketball player
1991: Addison Timlin, American actress
1990: Kim Little, Scottish footballer
1990: Yann M'Vila, French footballer
1988: Éver Banega, Argentinian footballer
1986: José Manuel Jurado, Spanish footballer
1986: Edward Maya, Romanian singer-songwriter and producer
1985: Quintin Demps, American football player
1984: Aleksandr Shustov, Russian high jumper
1983: Aundrea Fimbres, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1983: Jeremy Powers, American cyclist
1982: Colin Jost, American comedian
1982: Dusty Hughes, American baseball player
1982: Lily Rabe, American actress
1981: Luke Branighan, Australian rugby league player
1981: Joe Johnson, American basketball player
1981: Nicolás Vuyovich, Argentinian race car driver (d. 2005)
1981: Shmuly Yanklowitz, American rabbi, author, and educator
1980: Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano and actress
1979: Matthew Bode, Australian footballer
1979: Andy O'Brien, English footballer
1979: Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
1978: Nicole Scherzinger, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1977: Sotiris Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1977: Zuleikha Robinson, English actress
1976: Daniel Carlsson, Swedish race car driver
1976: Bret McKenzie, New Zealand comedian, actor, musician, songwriter, and producer
1973: George Hincapie, American cyclist
1971: Matthew Good, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970: Melanie Paschke, German sprinter
1970: Emily Skinner, American actress and singer
1969: Claude Béchard, Canadian politician (d. 2010)
1969: Pavlos Dermitzakis, Greek footballer and manager
1969: Tōru Hashimoto, Japanese lawyer and politician
1968: Brian d'Arcy James, American actor and musician
1968: Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player
1967: Jeff Burton, American race car driver
1967: Melora Hardin, American actress and singer
1967: Seamus McGarvey, Northern Irish cinematographer
1966: Yoko Kamio, Japanese author and comic artist
1965: Tripp Eisen, American guitarist
1965: Paul Jarvis, English cricketer
1964: Stedman Pearson, English singer-songwriter and dancer
1963: Anne-Sophie Mutter, German violinist
1963: Judith Hoag, American actress and educator
1962: Amanda Donohoe, English actress
1962: Joan Laporta, Spanish lawyer and politician
1962: George D. Zamka, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1961: Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer, and dancer
1958: Dieter Althaus, German politician
1958: Rosa Mota, Portuguese runner
1957: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Turkmen dentist and politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
1957: María Conchita Alonso, Cuban-Venezuelan singer and actress
1957: Robert Forster, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957: Michael Nutter, American politician, 98th Mayor of Philadelphia
1957: Terry Wyatt, English physicist and academic
1956: Nick Fry, English economist and businessman
1956: David Burroughs Mattingly, American illustrator and painter
1956: Pedro Guerrero, Dominican baseball player and manager
1956: Pedro Santana Lopes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of Portugal
1956: Pyotr Vasilevsky, Belarusian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1955: Charles J. Precourt, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1954: Rick Honeycutt, American baseball player and coach
1954: Léo Júnior, Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
1953: Don Dokken, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953: Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer and guitarist
1951: Craig Sager, American sportscaster (d. 2016)
1950: Bobby London, American illustrator
1950: Don Moen, American singer and songwriter
1950: Michael Whelan, American artist
1949: Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster
1949: Joan Clos, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona
1949: Ann Veneman, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture
1948: Sean Bergin, South African-Dutch saxophonist and flute player (d. 2012)
1948: Fred Grandy, American actor and politician
1948: Ian Paice, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
1948: Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar, Kenyan-English politician
1947: Richard Lewis, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2024)
1946: Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panamanian politician, 33rd President of Panama
1946: Egon von Fürstenberg, Swiss fashion designer (d. 2004)
1945: Chandrika Kumaratunga, Sri Lankan journalist and politician, 5th President of Sri Lanka
1944: Gary Busey, American actor
1944: Claude Humphrey, American football player (d. 2021)
1944: Andreu Mas-Colell, Spanish economist, academic, and politician
1944: Seán Patrick O'Malley, American cardinal
1943: Little Eva, American singer (d. 2003)
1943: Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC (d. 2017)
1942: Charlotte Bingham, English author and screenwriter
1942: Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (d. 2019)
1941: John Boccabella, American baseball player
1941: Stokely Carmichael, Trinidadian-American activist (d. 1998)
1940: Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer
1940: John Dawes, Welsh rugby player and coach (d. 2021)
1939: Alan Connolly, Australian cricketer
1939: Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Brazilian footballer and coach
1936: Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)
1935: Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos, Greek captain and businessman (d. 2011)
1935: Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
1934: Corey Allen, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2010)
1933: Bob Shaw, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
1933: John Bradshaw, American theologian and author (d. 2016)
1932: Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British jurist; Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland (d. 2020)
1931: Sevim Burak, Turkish author (d. 1983)
1930: Ernst Albrecht, German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 2014)
1930: Robert Evans, American actor and producer (d. 2019)
1930: Viola Léger, American-Canadian actress and politician (d. 2023)
1930: Sławomir Mrożek, Polish-French author and playwright (d. 2013)
1929: Pat Crawford Brown, American actress (d. 2019)
1929: Pete George, American weightlifter (d. 2021)
1929: Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and author (d. 2006)
1928: Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (d. 1999)
1928: Jean-Louis Pesch, French author and illustrator (d. 2023)
1928: Radius Prawiro, Indonesian economist and politician (d. 2005)
1927: Pierre Perrault, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1927: Marie Thérèse Killens, Canadian politician
1926: Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, 3rd Emir of Kuwait (d. 2006)
1926: Julius W. Becton, Jr., U.S lieutenant general (d. 2023)
1926: Roger Stuart Bacon, Nova Scotia politician (d. 2021)
1926: Bobby Morgan, American professional baseball player (d. 2023)
1925: Francis S. Currey, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2019)
1925: Giorgio Napolitano, Italian journalist and politician, 11th President of Italy (d. 2023)
1925: Chan Parker, American dancer and author (d. 1999)
1925: Jackie Lynn Taylor, American actress (d. 2014)
1925: Cara Williams, American actress (d. 2021)
1924: Ezra Laderman, American composer and educator (d. 2015)
1924: Roy Walford, American pathologist and gerontologist (d. 2004)
1924: Philip H. Hoff, American politician (d. 2018)
1923: Chou Wen-chung, Chinese-American composer and educator (d. 2019)
1922: Ralph Burns, American songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist (d. 2001)
1922: Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (d. 1991)
1922: John William Vessey, Jr., American general (d. 2016)
1921: Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1921: Jean Kent, English actress (d. 2013)
1921: Reinhard Mohn, German businessman (d. 2009)
1921: Harry Schell, French-American race car driver (d. 1960)
1920: César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (d. 1995)
1920: Ray Harryhausen, American animator and producer (d. 2013)
1920: Nicole Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 2012)
1920: David Snellgrove, British tibetologist (d. 2016)
1919: Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mexican cardinal (d. 2008)
1919: Walter Babington Thomas, Commander of British Far East Land Forces (d. 2017)
1919: Juan Blanco, Cuban composer (d. 2008)
1919: Slim Pickens, American actor and rodeo performer (d. 1983)
1919: Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean (d. 2006)
1918: Heini Lohrer, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1918: Gene La Rocque, U.S admiral (d. 2016)
1918: Francis W. Nye, United States Air Force major general (d. 2019)
1917: Ling Yun, Chinese politician (d. 2018)
1916: Ruth Warrick, American actress and activist (d. 2005)
1914: Rafael Kubelík, Czech-American conductor and composer (d. 1996)
1914: Christos Papakyriakopoulos, Greek-American mathematician and academic (d. 1976)
1913: Earle Meadows, American pole vaulter (d. 1992)
1912: José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1958)
1912: Émile Peynaud, French oenologist and academic (d. 2004)
1912: John Toland, American historian and author (d. 2004)
1911: Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 2004)
1911: Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (d. 1995)
1911: Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
1910: Frank Loesser, American composer and conductor (d. 1969)
1910: Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1908: Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (d. 1975)
1908: Erik Lundqvist, Swedish javelin thrower (d. 1963)
1906: Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1906: Heinz Harmel, German general (d. 2000)
1904: Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1956)
1903: Alan Blumlein, English engineer, developed the H2S radar (d. 1942)
1901: Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (d. 1967)
1900: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French poet and pilot (d. 1944)
1898: Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist and educator (d. 1986)
1897: Fulgence Charpentier, Canadian journalist and publisher (d. 2001)
1893: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian economist and statistician (d. 1972)
1893: Aarre Merikanto, Finnish composer and educator (d. 1958)
1890: Robert Laurent, American sculptor and academic (d. 1970)
1890: Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005)
1889: Willie Macfarlane, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1961)
1888: Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (d. 1927)
1886: Robert Schuman, Luxembourgian-French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1963)
1885: Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (d. 1941)
1882: Henry Hawtrey, English runner (d. 1961)
1882: Franz Seldte, German captain and politician, Reich Minister for Labour (d. 1947)
1881: Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent (d. 1929)
1881: Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist (d. 1959)
1880: Ludwig Beck, German general (d. 1944)
1879: Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal (d. 1970)
1873: Leo Frobenius, German ethnologist and archaeologist (d. 1938)
1870: Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director (d. 1926)
1868: George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and journalist (d. 1938)
1866: Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (d. 1939)
1863: Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1934)
1861: William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
1858: George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (d. 1928)
1858: Julia Lathrop, American activist and politician (d. 1932)
1849: Pedro Montt, Chilean lawyer and politician, 15th President of Chile (d. 1910)
1849: Sergei Witte, Russian politician, 1st Chairmen of Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire (d. 1915)
1849: John Hunn, American businessman and politician, 51st Governor of Delaware (d. 1926)
1844: Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
1835: Celia Thaxter, American poet and story writer (d. 1894)
1833: Peter Waage, Norwegian chemist and academic (d. 1900)
1819: Thomas Dunn English, American poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1902)
1818: Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1878)
1803: John Newton Brown, American minister and author (d. 1868)
1801: Frédéric Bastiat, French economist and theorist (d. 1850)
1798: Willibald Alexis, German author and poet (d. 1871)
1798: Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1837)
1793: Josef Ressel, Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (d. 1857)
1787: Lavinia Stoddard, American poet, school founder (d. 1820)
1768: Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (d. 1831)
1746: Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist, author, and educator (d. 1818)
1686: Pietro Paolo Troisi, Maltese artist (d. 1743)
1621: Willem van der Zaan, Dutch Admiral (d. 1669)
1596: Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (d. 1680)
1543: Christine of Hesse, Duchess consort of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1604)
1528: Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1589)
1525: Peter Agricola, German humanist, theologian, diplomat and statesman (d. 1585)
1517: Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (d. 1585)
1488: Pedro Pacheco de Villena, Catholic cardinal (d. 1560)
1482: Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1517)
1443: Anthony Browne, English knight (d. 1506)
1398: John II of Aragon and Navarre (d. 1479)
1326: Murad I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1389)
1136: Petronilla of Aragon (d. 1173)

Deaths On This Day

2023: Alan Arkin, American actor (b. 1934)
2022: Hershel W. Williams, American Marine Corps warrant officer, last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II (b. 1923)
2021: Donald Rumsfeld, American captain and politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1932)
2020: Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2020: Stepa J. Groggs, American rap artist (b. 1988)
2020: Hachalu Hundessa, Ethiopian singer, songwriter (b. 1986)
2018: Steve Ditko, American comic writer and illustrator (b. 1927)
2017: Louis Nicollin, French entrepreneur and chairman of Montpellier HSC from 1974 to his death (b. 1943)
2017: Dave Semenko, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1957)
2016: Jan Hettema, Springbok cyclist and five times South African National Rally Champion (b. 1933)
2015: Hisham Barakat, Egyptian lawyer and judge (b. 1950)
2015: Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (b. 1931)
2015: Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (b. 1927)
2014: Damian D'Oliveira, South African cricketer (b. 1960)
2014: Dermot Healy, Irish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1947)
2013: Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1937)
2013: Jack Gotta, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
2013: Margherita Hack, Italian astrophysicist and author (b. 1922)
2013: Gilma Jiménez, Colombian politician (b. 1956)
2012: Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (b. 1918)
2012: Vincent Ostrom, American political scientist and academic (b. 1919)
2012: Juan Reccius, Chilean triple jumper (b. 1911)
2012: Floyd Temple, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1926)
2011: K. D. Sethna, Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic (b. 1904)
2009: Joe Bowman, American, target shooter and boot-maker (b. 1925)
2007: Fred Saberhagen, American soldier and author (b. 1930)
2007: Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (b. 1943)
2006: Fabián Bielinsky, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1959)
2006: Lloyd Richards, Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean (b. 1919)
2006: Randy Walker, American football player and coach (b. 1954)
2004: Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (b. 1935)
2004: Alvin Hamilton, Canadian lieutenant and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1912)
2003: Katharine Hepburn, American actress (b. 1907)
2002: Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
2000: Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
2000: Jane Birdwood, Baroness Birdwood, Canadian-English publisher and politician (b. 1913)
1999: Karekin I, Syrian-Armenian patriarch (b. 1950)
1999: Allan Carr, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1937)
1998: Horst Jankowski, German pianist and composer (b. 1936)
1997: William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)
1997: Marjorie Linklater, Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (b. 1909)
1995: Lana Turner, American actress (b. 1921)
1994: Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor and educator (b. 1908)
1993: Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
1992: Mohamed Boudiaf, Algerian soldier and politician, President of Algeria (b. 1919)
1990: Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1986: Frank Wise, Australian politician, 16th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1897)
1982: Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer, founded Balmain (b. 1914)
1982: Henry King, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1886)
1981: Russell Drysdale, English-Australian painter (b. 1912)
1980: Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (b. 1903)
1979: Lowell George, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1945)
1978: Bob Crane, American actor (b. 1928)
1975: Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
1971: Nestor Mesta Chayres, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1908)
1969: Moise Tshombe, Congolese accountant and politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1919)
1967: Primo Carnera, Italian boxer and actor (b. 1906)
1967: Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
1964: Eric Dolphy, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1928)
1962: Charles Lyon Chandler, American historian (b. 1883)
1960: Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1885)
1955: Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (b. 1881)
1949: Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1860)
1942: Paul Troje, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1864)
1941: Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
1940: Paul Klee, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
1936: János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and missionary (b. 1872)
1935: Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
1933: Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
1931: Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)
1919: José Gregorio Hernández Venezuelan physician and educator (b. 1864)
1907: Konstantinos Volanakis, Greek painter and academic (b. 1837)
1900: Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1827)
1895: Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (b. 1825)
1875: Ferdinand I of Austria (b. 1793)
1873: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1824)
1861: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet and translator (b. 1806)
1860: Thomas Addison, English physician and endocrinologist (b. 1793)
1855: John Gorrie, American physician and humanitarian (b. 1803)
1853: Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, French botanist and academic (b. 1797)
1852: Henry Clay, American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (b. 1777)
1840: Lucien Bonaparte, French prince (b. 1775)
1831: Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Prussian minister and politician (b. 1757)
1779: Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (b. 1728)
1764: Ralph Allen, English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1693)
1744: André Campra, French composer and conductor (b. 1660)
1729: Edward Taylor, American-English poet, pastor, and physician (b. circa 1642)
1725: Arai Hakuseki, Japanese philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1657)
1646: Laughlin Ó Cellaigh, Gaelic-Irish Lord
1626: Scipione Cobelluzzi, Italian cardinal and archivist (b. 1564)
1594: Niels Kaas, Danish politician, Chancellor of Denmark (b. 1535)
1575: Baba Nobuharu, Japanese samurai (b. 1515)
1520: Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler (b. 1466)
1509: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (b. 1443)
1432: Janus of Cyprus (b. 1375)
1374: Jan Milíč of Kroměříž, Czech priest and reformer
1344: Joan of Savoy, duchess consort of Brittany, throne claimant of Savoy (b. 1310)
1315: Ramon Llull, Spanish philosopher (b. 1235)
1293: Henry of Ghent, philosopher (b. c.1217)
1252: Abel, King of Denmark (b. 1218)
1153: Óláfr Guðrøðarson, King of the Isles
1149: Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch (b. 1115)
1059: Bernard II, Duke of Saxony (b. 995)
976: Gero, archbishop of Cologne
884: Yang Shili, general of the Tang Dynasty
226: Cao Pi, Chinese emperor (b. 187)

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