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June 7

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June 7

June 7 is the 158th day of the year (159th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 207 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Massachusetts Lottery Mass Cash drawing delayed due to ball drawing machine blunder. A Massachusetts Lottery Mass Cash drawing was delayed after a ball drawing machine door was mistakenly left open, causing the balls to fall out of the drum before the first number could be drawn.
2021: Local retailers worry about future of UK National Lottery in stores. Lottery retailers in the United Kingdom are expressing concerns about the future of the lottery in brick-and-mortar stores now that the contract for operating the lottery is up for grabs.
2018: New law would stop Illinois Lottery from selling tickets after top prizes are gone. The Illinois Lottery would have to provide players with daily updates on how many top prizes remain in scratch-off games — and wouldn't be able to keep selling tickets for those games indefinitely — under a proposed change in state law.
2016: Maryland resident wins lottery twice in one day. A Cecil County resident won back-to-back Maryland Lottery scratch-offs Thursday, according to officials with the Maryland State Lottery Agency.
2016: In South Dakota you can now smoke and play video lottery. South Dakota video lottery terminals can be placed in vented smoke shacks that some bar owners have built onto their establishments, according to several state administration officials.
2016: Nebraska Lottery chooses new director. Brian Rockey, former manager in the Nebraska Department of Revenue's Lottery and Charitable Gaming Division, will return as its director beginning July 1, Tax Commissioner Tony Fulton announced Monday.
2016: Hoosier Lottery pays out 10x normal amount on triple-7s. Nearly 2,000 Hoosier Lottery players who picked 7-7-7 Sunday in the Daily 3 Evening game were winners.
2015: Extradition trial begins this week in $16.5M Hot Lotto fraud case. After months of investigation and legal wrangling, legal actions against two men accused of rigging a multi-state Hot Lotto computerized drawing are proceeding.
2015: NY plumber wins $136M Powerball jackpot, splits it with son. A New York plumber and his son are multimillionaires after sitting on a winning Powerball ticket because they thought the jackpot had been won by a teacher.
2015: NY lottery retailer won 16 times in 2 years. A Bronx businessman who has won more big lottery prizes than any other New Yorker doesn't have to go far to buy tickets — he owns a store that sells them.
2012: $205 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surges. There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $205 million for Saturday's drawing.
2011: N.J. woman suing state over lottery tax. A Rockaway, New Jersey, woman who won a $14.9 million prize in the New Jersey Lottery's Pick 6 drawing in 2009 is suing the state to get a $1.58 million income tax refund she says she is owed.
2011: Georgia Lottery sets Cash 4 bonus drawing date. Georgia Lottery players will have two chances to win with a bonus Cash 4 drawing scheduled for Friday, June 10.
2011: N.J. lottery retailer loses license after 'discounting' ticket. The New Jersey Lottery Commission has levied a $10,000 fine and permanently revoked the license held by Super Gold Deli on Morris Street in Morristown, New Jersey, to sell scratch-offs and online tickets.
2010: Hoosier Lottery's promotional RV destroyed by fire. It wasn't a lucky day for the Hoosier Lottery on Friday when one of its traveling RVs caught fire.
2006: "666" is hot with Maryland Lottery players. The Maryland State Lottery stopped selling midday and evening Pick 3 tickets with the combination "666" late yesterday morning, according to Buddy W. Roogow, the lottery's director.
2004: Brothers win $26.9 Million Powerball Jackpot Cash Prize. Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue Gregory C. Fajt and Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Lottery Edward Mahlman today presented a check for $26,934,553.39 cash - less 25 percent federal withholding - to brothers Jim Hare, 54, of Philadelphia, and Tom Hare, 50, of Drexel Hill, Delaware County, holders of the single winning ticket for the May 29, 2004, Powerball drawing.
2004: Florida Lotto ticket purchased in Miami wins $26 million. One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $26 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
2004: Thousands of smaller lottery prizes unclaimed in N.D.. More than $50,000 in small lottery prizes sit unclaimed in North Dakota, a common occurrence in states relatively new to the high-stakes Powerball game.
2004: N.D. to add two new lottery games. North Dakota lottery players will have two new games to play after June 24, four months after the state introduced Powerball.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$522 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2019
2.$414 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 9, 2020
3.$380.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2017
4.€250 Million US$285.5 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 10, 2025
5.$285.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2023
6.$260 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2016
7.$243 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 10, 2025
8.$240 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 9, 2023
9.€216.79 Million US$231.74 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2022
10.$221 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2014
11.$211.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 8, 2022
12.$207.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 8, 2024
13.$207 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2022
14.$205 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 9, 2012
15.€156 Million
US$204.89 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 8, 2012
16.€165.8 Million
US$187.97 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jun 8, 2019
17.€118 Million
US$159.9 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 10, 2014
18.€130 Million
US$147.07 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2019
19.€130 Million
US$140.89 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2024
20.€100 Million
US$132.29 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 7, 2013
21.$127 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jun 8, 2018
22.€110 Million
US$124.07 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 9, 2015
23.$123 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 8, 2016
24.€90 Million
US$105.91 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 8, 2018
25.$105 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 9, 2018

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1987: numerologyPro
Sunday, Jun 7, 1987
38 years old
1986: Tricey414
Saturday, Jun 7, 1986
39 years old
1980: angelarose929
Saturday, Jun 7, 1980
45 years old
1980: badboykilla_69
Saturday, Jun 7, 1980
45 years old
1977: Anglhrtd1
Tuesday, Jun 7, 1977
48 years old
1975: rubyred777
Saturday, Jun 7, 1975
50 years old
1973: gwen92
Thursday, Jun 7, 1973
52 years old
1971: Wintariofan
Monday, Jun 7, 1971
54 years old
1968: CamCam38
Friday, Jun 7, 1968
57 years old
1964: bananas
Sunday, Jun 7, 1964
61 years old
1964: inamkehar
Sunday, Jun 7, 1964
61 years old
1964: JohnnyRock1
Sunday, Jun 7, 1964
61 years old
1956: GalliMaufry
Thursday, Jun 7, 1956
69 years old
1954: thelostrose
Monday, Jun 7, 1954
71 years old
1950: standeman
Wednesday, Jun 7, 1950
75 years old
1948: Alfoxx
Monday, Jun 7, 1948
77 years old
1946: ALX
Friday, Jun 7, 1946
79 years old
: fudgeTex
(year not provided)
: HerecomesLucky
(year not provided)
: sunflowersmom
(year not provided)
: tqd95wn
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2017: A Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crashes into the Andaman Sea near Dawei, Myanmar, killing all 122 aboard.
2000: The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
1991: Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
1989: Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
1982: Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1981: The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
1977: Five hundred million people watch the high day of the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II begin on television.
1975: Sony launches Betamax, the first videocassette recorder format.
1971: The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1971: The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
1971: Allegheny Airlines Flight 485 crashes on approach to Tweed New Haven Airport in New Haven, Connecticut, killing 28 of 31 aboard.
1967: Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
1965: The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, prohibiting the states from criminalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1962: The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
1955: Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1948: Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
1948: Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
1946: The United Kingdom's BBC returns to broadcasting its television service, which has been off air for seven years because of World War II.
1945: King Haakon VII of Norway returns from exactly five years in exile during World War II.
1944: World War II: Battle of Normandy: At Ardenne Abbey, members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war.
1942: World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
1942: World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
1940: King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
1938: The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1938: Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred thousand to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
1929: The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
1919: Sette Giugno: Nationalist riots break out in Valletta, the capital of Malta. British soldiers fire into the crowd, killing four people.
1917: World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
1906: Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1905: Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1899: American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
1892: Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
1880: War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1866: One thousand eight hundred Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after looting and plundering the Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg areas of Canada East.
1862: The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons-Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
1832: The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.
1832: Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1810: The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
1800: David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1788: French Revolution: Day of the Tiles: Civilians in Grenoble toss roof tiles and various objects down upon royal troops.
1776: Richard Henry Lee presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and will lead to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1692: Port Royal, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1654: Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1640: Corpus de Sang in Barcelona: Catalan reapers rioted against Spanish Royal soldiers and officers, killing the Viceroy of Catalonia, Dalmau de Queralt. Escalation of hostilities between the Principality of Catalonia and the Spanish Monarchy, leading to the Reapers' War.
1628: The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1494: Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1420: Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patria del Friuli.
1099: First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1002: Henry II, a cousin of Emperor Otto III, is elected and crowned King of Germany.
879: Pope John VIII recognises the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
421: Emperor Theodosius II marries Aelia Eudocia at Constantinople (Byzantine Empire).

Births On This Day

1997: David Montgomery, American football player
1996: Christian McCaffrey, American football player
1993: George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
1993: Swae Lee, American rapper
1992: Jordan Clarkson, Filipino-American basketball player
1991: Fetty Wap, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
1991: Emily Ratajkowski, American model and actress
1990: Iggy Azalea, Australian rapper, singer, songwriter, and model
1988: Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician
1981: Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
1978: Bill Hader, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1975: Allen Iverson, American basketball player
1974: Bear Grylls, English adventurer, author, and television host
1970: Cafu, Brazilian footballer
1967: Dave Navarro, American musician
1965: Damien Hirst, English painter and art collector
1965: Mick Foley, American wrestler
1962: Lance Reddick, American actor (died 2023)
1960: Bill Prady, American screenwriter and producer
1959: Mike Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States, 50th Governor of Indiana
1958: Prince, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor (died 2016)
1957: Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer, composer, and record producer.
1954: Louise Erdrich, American novelist and poet
1952: Liam Neeson, Irish-American actor
1952: Orhan Pamuk, Turkish-American novelist, screenwriter, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947: Thurman Munson, American baseball player (died 1979)
1946: Zbigniew Seifert, Polish musician (died 1979)
1945: Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian lawyer and politician, 26th Chancellor of Austria
1944: Clarence White, American guitarist and singer (died 1973)
1943: Nikki Giovanni, American poet, writer and activist (died 2024)
1943: "Superstar" Billy Graham, American wrestler (died 2023)
1941: Lady Elizabeth Shakerley, British party planner, writer and socialite (died 2020)
1940: Tom Jones, Welsh singer and actor
1940: Ronald Pickup, English actor (died 2021)
1939: Yuli Turovsky, Russian-Canadian cellist, conductor and educator (died 2013)
1938: Ian St John, Scottish international footballer and manager (died 2021)
1936: Bert Sugar, American author and boxing historian (died 2012)
1935: Harry Crews, American novelist, playwright, short story writer, and essayist (died 2012)
1932: Per Maurseth, Norwegian historian, academic, and politician (died 2013)
1931: Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
1929: John Turner, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)
1928: James Ivory, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1927: Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (died 2014)
1927: Herbert R. Axelrod, American tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur (died 2017)
1926: Jean-Noël Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2020)
1925: Ernestina Herrera de Noble, Argentine publisher and executive (died 2017)
1923: Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2000)
1920: Georges Marchais, French mechanic and politician (died 1997)
1917: Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (died 2000)
1917: Dean Martin, American singer, actor, and producer (died 1995)
1912: Jacques Hélian, French bandleader (died 1986)
1911: Brooks Stevens, American engineer and designer, designed the Wienermobile (died 1995)
1910: Arthur Gardner, American actor and producer (died 2014)
1910: Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (died 1995)
1910: Mike Sebastian, American football player and coach (died 1989)
1910: Bradford Washburn, American mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer (died 2007)
1910: Marion Post Wolcott, American photographer (died 1990)
1910: Bluey, Australian cattle dog, second-oldest recorded dog (died 1939)
1909: Virginia Apgar, American anesthesiologist and pediatrician, developed the Apgar test (died 1974)
1909: Peter W. Rodino, American lawyer, and politician (died 2005)
1909: Jessica Tandy, English-American actress (died 1994)
1907: Sigvard Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (died 2002)
1906: Glen Gray, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1963)
1905: James J. Braddock, American world heavyweight boxing champion (died 1974)
1902: Georges Van Parys, French composer (died 1971)
1902: Herman B Wells, American banker, author, and academic (died 2000)
1899: Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author and critic (died 1973)
1897: George Szell, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (died 1970)
1896: Douglas Campbell, American lieutenant and pilot (died 1990)
1896: Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
1896: Imre Nagy, Hungarian soldier and politician, 44th Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1958)
1894: Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (died 1974)
1893: Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (died 1938)
1892: Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1975)
1890: Karl Lashley, American psychologist and behaviorist (died 1958)
1888: Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator (died 1958)
1886: Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 (died 1972)
1884: Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect (died 1931)
1883: Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar (died 1948)
1879: Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer (died 1933)
1879: Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic (died 1963)
1877: Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer (died 1960)
1868: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect (died 1928)
1863: Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (died 1952)
1862: Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1947)
1861: Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (died 1942)
1851: Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (died 1922)
1848: Paul Gauguin, French painter and sculptor (died 1903)
1847: George Washington Ball, American legislator from Iowa (died 1915)
1845: Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1930)
1840: Carlota of Mexico (died 1927)
1837: Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant (died 1903)
1831: Amelia Edwards, English journalist and author (died 1892)
1811: James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (died 1870)
1778: Beau Brummell, English cricketer and fashion designer (died 1840)
1770: Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1828)
1761: John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (died 1821)
1757: Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (died 1806)
1702: Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden (died 1761)
1687: Gaetano Berenstadt, Italian actor and singer (died 1734)
1561: John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count and military theorist (died 1623)
1529: Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and jurist (died 1615)
1502: John III of Portugal (died 1557)
1422: Federico da Montefeltro, Italian condottiero (died 1482)
1402: Ichijō Kaneyoshi, Japanese noble (died 1481)
1003: Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (died 1048)

Deaths On This Day

2024: William Anders, American astronaut and lunar explorer (born 1933)
2023: The Iron Sheik, Iranian-American wrestler and actor (born 1942)
2015: Christopher Lee, English actor (born 1922)
2013: Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1928)
2013: Richard Ramirez, American serial killer and sex offender (born 1960)
2012: Phillip V. Tobias, South African paleontologist and academic (born 1925)
2002: Signe Hasso, Swedish-American actress (born 1915)
2001: Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907)
2001: Betty Neels, English nurse and author (born 1910)
1995: Hsuan Hua, Chinese monk and educator (born 1918)
1992: Bill France Sr., American race car driver and businessman, co-founded NASCAR (born 1909)
1987: Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (born 1940)
1985: Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (born 1906)
1980: Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist (born 1883)
1980: Philip Guston, Canadian-American painter and educator (born 1913)
1980: Henry Miller, American novelist and essayist (born 1891)
1978: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)
1970: E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist (born 1879)
1968: Dan Duryea, American actor and singer (born 1907)
1967: Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1909)
1967: Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist (born 1893)
1966: Jean Arp, German-French sculptor, painter, and poet (born 1886)
1965: Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (born 1921)
1956: John Willcock, Australian politician, 15th Premier of Western Australia (born 1879)
1954: Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (born 1912)
1945: Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and academic (born 1870)
1942: Alan Blumlein, English engineer (born 1903)
1937: Jean Harlow, American actress and singer (born 1911)
1936: Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (born 1875)
1933: Dragutin Domjanić, Croatian lawyer, judge, and poet (born 1875)
1932: John Verran, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of South Australia (born 1856)
1927: Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905)
1927: Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847)
1924: William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1847)
1921: Patrick Maher, executed Irish republican (born 1889)
1921: Edmond Foley, executed Irish republican (born 1897)
1916: Émile Faguet, French author and critic (born 1847)
1915: Charles Reed Bishop, American banker and politician, founded the First Hawaiian Bank (born 1822)
1911: Maurice Rouvier, French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1842)
1896: Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (born 1829)
1879: William Tilbury Fox, English dermatologist and academic (born 1836)
1866: Chief Seattle, American tribal chief (born 1780)
1863: Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Latin American liberator (born 1790)
1861: Patrick Brontë, Anglo-Irish priest and author (born 1777)
1859: David Cox, English painter (born 1783)
1854: Charles Baudin, French admiral (born 1792)
1853: Norbert Provencher, Canadian missionary and bishop (born 1787)
1843: Friedrich Hölderlin, German lyric poet and author (born 1770)
1840: Frederick William III of Prussia (born 1770)
1826: Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1787)
1810: Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1765)
1792: Benjamin Tupper, American general and surveyor (born 1738)
1779: William Warburton, English bishop and critic (born 1698)
1740: Alexander Spotswood, Moroccan-American colonial and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia (born 1676)
1711: Henry Dodwell, Irish scholar and theologian (born 1641)
1660: George II Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania (born 1621)
1618: Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1577)
1594: Rodrigo Lopez, physician of Queen Elizabeth I (born 1525)
1492: Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1440 and King of Poland from 1447 (born 1427)
1394: Anne of Bohemia, English queen (born 1366)
1358: Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shōgun (born 1305)
1341: An-Nasir Muhammad, Egyptian sultan (born 1285)
1337: William I, Count of Hainaut (born 1286)
1329: Robert the Bruce, Scottish king (born 1274)
951: Lu Wenji, Chinese chancellor (born 876)
940: Qian Hongzun, heir apparent of Wuyue (born 925)
929: Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders (born 877)
862: Al-Muntasir, Abbasid caliph (born 837)
555: Vigilius, first pope of the Byzantine Papacy (born 500)

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