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March 12

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March 12

March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 294 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2026: Colorado bill would ban credit card lottery ticket purchases and online sales. Colorado legislators have introduced a bill that would roll back credit card purchases for lottery tickets and ban direct online ticket sales.
2025: Texas bill would prohibit sales to players attempting to buy all possible number combinations. A Texas Senator introduced a bill that would prohibit lottery retailers from selling tickets to an individual or group that is attempting to purchase all possible number combinations in a drawing.
2021: Michigan lottery club claims $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot. Nearly two months after it was announced that one single Michigan ticket matched all six numbers to win the unimaginably huge $1.05 billion Mega Millions jackpot, an Oakland County lottery club stepped forward to claim the prize.
2021: Idaho Lottery says it's working with Legislature on 'alternative path forward' for Powerball. The Idaho Lottery took to Facebook Wednesday after lawmakers killed legislation that would have allowed Powerball to be played in the state.
2020: Alabama lottery bill filed in House with 70 co-sponsors. Alabama Rep. Steve Clouse, R-Ozark, filed an education lottery bill Tuesday with 70 co-sponsors that if passed would go to the ballot as a constitutional amendment for people to vote on.
2020: Illinois Lottery releases 2020 MS Project instant ticket. The Illinois Lottery this week released its annual "MS Project" scratch-off ticket, with all proceeds going to research for a multiple sclerosis (MS) cure, as well as providing treatment for those living with the disease.
2020: Longtime Rhode Island Lottery chief Gerald Aubin retiring. The longtime head of the Rhode Island Lottery is stepping down.
2019: NJ joins DOJ lawsuit over Wire Act interpretation. New Jersey is joining New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and several lottery companies in a suit seeking to invalidate the U.S. Department of Justice's legal ruling last year which critics said could hurt the state's multibillion-dollar online gaming and sports betting industries, Attorney Gurbir Grewal announced Monday.
2018: Judge rules $560M Powerball lottery winner can stay anonymous. A judge ruled Monday that a New Hampshire woman who won a Powerball jackpot worth nearly $560 million can keep her identity private, but not her hometown.
2018: NJ Lottery holds annual second-chance grand prize drawing event. A lucky group of 15 people turned their losing New Jersey lottery tickets into big bucks, including a Monmouth County woman who won $1 million.
2015: Lottery windfalls can buy anything except anonymity. Former Canadian lottery winners discuss what it's like to win the jackpot, and say lucky ticket holders should prepare for a wave of unwanted attention after they claim their prize.
2015: Winner of $50 million Lotto Max jackpot claims prize just before it expires. A winning $50 million Lotto Max ticket has been presented to British Columbia lottery officials, just days before the one-year deadline to claim the prize was set to expire.
2014: $353 MILLION: Red hot Mega Millions jackpot set for Friday. Less than 3 months after the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game featured a near-record $648 million jackpot, it is two draws away from doing it again.
2014: Sick of traffic, man stops and buys lottery tickets... and wins $5 million. A Long Island electrician got sick of waiting in a traffic jam, so he pulled over at a gift shop to buy scratch-off tickets -- and won $5 million.
2011: Ohio Gov. considering privatizing management of lottery. A proposal to privatize the management of the Ohio Lottery Commission was submitted this week to the nonpartisan Legislative Service Commission, which researches Ohio's budgets and laws.
2010: Lottery slaying now a 1st-degree case. A grand jury indicted Dorice Donegan "Dee Dee" Moore on Thursday on a charge of first-degree murder in the death and disappearance of Florida Lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.
2007: Change in Penn. Lottery scratch tickets removes shortcut. A change in the format of Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off tickets to prevent fraud means that some lottery players could be mistakenly tossing away winning tickets, retailers said.
2004: Connecticut Lottery Systems will be Shut Down Sunday. The Connecticut Lottery Corp. is shutting down its system statewide on Sunday to upgrade its software system.
2004: Virginia Schools Got $12 Million from Mega Millions Jackpot Runup. The ticket worth $239 million in last month's Mega Millions lottery wasn't the only winner, as public schools got more than $11.5 million.
2004: Whittaker Robbed Again and Again. The man who won the largest single lottery jackpot in U.S. history has had a run of bad luck this week: He's been robbed twice and sued.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$735 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2024
2.$563.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2024
3.$448.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2019
4.$417.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2018
5.$353.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2025
6.$353 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2014
7.$318 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2018
8.$277 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2025
9.$230 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2008
10.$229 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2023
11.$212 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2010
12.€170.32 Million
US$185.79 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2022
13.$183 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2013
14.€129 Million
US$179.25 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2014
15.€162 Million
US$176.26 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2025
16.$172 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2011
17.$171 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2012
18.$170.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2021
19.$165 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2007
20.€132.94 Million
US$153.34 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2026
21.€105 Million
US$148.73 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 18, 2011
22.€120.96 Million
US$144.58 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2021
23.€112.7 Million
US$139.4 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 13, 2018
24.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2015
25.€118.25 Million
US$133.37 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2019

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: Troid
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1991
35 years old
1991: Vernal242
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1991
35 years old
1990: treasure1111
Monday, Mar 12, 1990
36 years old
1989: PolmanWeb
Sunday, Mar 12, 1989
37 years old
1985: Jordans121
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1985
41 years old
1983: Trent63S
Saturday, Mar 12, 1983
43 years old
1979: swngnblues
Monday, Mar 12, 1979
47 years old
1971: Leprechaun
Friday, Mar 12, 1971
55 years old
1970: Northdriver4580
Thursday, Mar 12, 1970
56 years old
1970: Linyrok
Thursday, Mar 12, 1970
56 years old
1969: Greenbacks$
Wednesday, Mar 12, 1969
57 years old
1969: o3rDbOrN
Wednesday, Mar 12, 1969
57 years old
1968: hansol1968
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1968
58 years old
1968: agn4542
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1968
58 years old
1968: jsavag06
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1968
58 years old
1966: HEHATEME
Saturday, Mar 12, 1966
60 years old
1957: Reap922
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1957
69 years old
1954: Blackie
Friday, Mar 12, 1954
72 years old
1954: jstrauss8
Friday, Mar 12, 1954
72 years old
1943: ggcroteau
Friday, Mar 12, 1943
83 years old
1929: tessa312
Tuesday, Mar 12, 1929
97 years old
: dphillips
(year not provided)
: rochanda12
(year not provided)
: Cuddlesteebaby
(year not provided)
: johladyJ
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019: In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
2018: US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.
2014: A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
2011: A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2009: Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
2006: In Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi is raped and murdered by five American soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, who also murder both of her parents and her sister.
2004: President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2003: Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2003: The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
1999: Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
1993: Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
1993: North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1992: Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1989: Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.
1971: The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1968: Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1967: Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
1950: The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
1947: Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1942: The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
1940: Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
1940: The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.
1938: Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.
1933: Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
1930: Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
1928: In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
1920: The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
1918: Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
1913: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
1912: The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1862: Paddle steamer Brother Jonathan docks in Fort Victoria (now Victoria, British Columbia), carrying smallpox infected passengers from San Francisco. The ensuing epidemic killed an estimated two thirds of First Nations in the province of British Columbia.
1811: Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.
1689: James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
1622: Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
1579: Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.
1391: Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).
1158: German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
1088: Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
538: Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.

Births On This Day

2008: Emma Kok, Dutch singer
2004: DannyLux, American singer-songwriter
2003: Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress and model
2003: Malina Weissman, American actress and model
2001: Max Duggan, American football player
2001: Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor
1998: Carsen Edwards, American basketball player
1998: Mecole Hardman, American football player
1998: Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater
1998: Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater
1997: Dean Henderson, English footballer
1997: Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
1997: Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
1996: Serhou Guirassy, French footballer
1996: Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
1996: Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
1996: Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper
1994: Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
1994: Jerami Grant, American basketball player
1994: Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (died 2016)
1994: Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
1993: Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer
1993: Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer
1992: Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer
1992: Jordan Ferri, French footballer
1992: Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner
1992: Jiří Skalák, Czech footballer
1991: Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer
1991: Felix Kroos, German footballer
1990: Dont'a Hightower, American football coach and former player
1990: Marvin Jones, American football player
1990: Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer
1990: Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper
1990: Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer
1990: Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player
1990: Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer
1990: Milena Raičević, Montenegrin handballer
1990: Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer
1989: Jordan Adéoti, French footballer
1989: Vytautas Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1989: Tyler Clary, American swimmer
1989: Evgenii Dadonov, Russian ice hockey player
1989: Richard Eckersley, English footballer
1989: Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player
1989: Dmitry Korobov, Belarusian ice hockey player
1989: Siim Luts, Estonian footballer
1988: Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer
1988: Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer
1988: Titi, Brazilian footballer
1987: Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist
1987: Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
1987: Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player
1987: Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
1987: Chris Seitz, American soccer player
1987: Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player
1987: Pablo Velázquez, Paraguayan footballer
1986: Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1986: Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer
1986: Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1986: Ben Offereins, Australian runner
1986: František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (died 2017)
1985: Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
1985: Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
1985: Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
1984: Jaimie Alexander, American actress
1984: Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1983: Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor
1983: Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
1982: Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress
1982: Samm Levine, American actor and comedian
1982: Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player
1982: Hisato Satō, Japanese footballer
1982: Yūto Satō, Japanese footballer
1982: Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1981: Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer
1981: Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
1981: Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980: Césinha, Brazilian footballer
1980: Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter
1980: Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist
1980: Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
1979: Charlie Bell, American basketball player and coach
1979: Rhys Coiro, American actor
1979: Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist
1979: Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
1979: Gerard López, Spanish footballer
1979: Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer
1979: Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
1979: Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer
1978: Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
1978: Casey Mears, American race car driver
1978: Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator
1977: Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete
1977: Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player
1977: Amdy Faye, Senegalese footballer
1977: Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player
1976: Deron Quint, American ice hockey player
1976: Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer
1975: Nicolae Grigore, Romanian footballer
1975: Edgaras Jankauskas, Lithuanian footballer
1975: Valérie Nicolas, French handball player
1975: Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer
1974: Charles Akonnor, Ghanaian footballer
1974: Walid Badir, Israeli footballer
1972: Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player
1971: Raúl Mondesí, Dominican baseball player and politician
1971: Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
1971: Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper
1970: Karen Bradley, English politician
1970: Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
1970: Mathias Grönberg, Swedish golfer
1970: Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
1969: Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
1968: Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
1968: Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer
1967: Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
1966: David Daniels, American countertenor
1966: Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster
1965: Steve Finley, American baseball player
1965: Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party
1964: Dieter Eckstein, German footballer
1964: Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna
1963: John Andretti, American race car driver (died 2020)
1963: Candy Costie, American swimmer
1963: Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach
1963: Reiner Gies, German boxer
1963: Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
1963: Paul Way, English golfer
1963: Jake Weber, English actor
1962: Julia Campbell, American actress
1962: Andreas Köpke, German footballer
1962: Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor
1962: Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister
1962: Titus Welliver, American actor
1960: Jason Beghe, American actor
1960: Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
1959: Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska
1959: Luenell, American comedian and actress
1959: Michael Walter, German luger (died 2016)
1958: Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist
1957: Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach
1957: Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
1957: Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player (died 2022)
1956: Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier
1956: Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (died 2010)
1956: Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter
1956: Lesley Manville, English actress
1956: Dale Murphy, American baseball player
1956: Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager (died 2019)
1954: Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
1953: Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion
1952: André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
1952: John Mitchell, English footballer
1952: Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
1950: Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
1949: Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1949: Mary Catherine Lamb, American textile artist
1949: David Mellor, British politician
1948: Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1948: Kent Conrad, American politician
1948: James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947: Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician
1947: Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician
1947: David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter
1947: Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
1946: Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director
1946: Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
1946: Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer
1945: Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer, editor, publisher and public servant
1944: Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player (died 2018)
1943: Ratko Mladić, Serbian general
1942: Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player (died 2020)
1941: Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer
1940: Al Jarreau, American singer (died 2017)
1938: Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor (died 2010)
1938: Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster
1938: Ken Spears, American writer (died 2020)
1938: Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop
1938: Ron Tutt, American drummer (died 2021)
1937: Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer
1937: Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (died 2017)
1936: Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author (died 2002)
1936: Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy
1936: Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)
1935: Chiam See Tong, Singaporean lawyer and politician
1934: Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher (died 2023)
1933: Myrna Fahey, American actress (died 1973)
1933: Barbara Feldon, American actress
1932: Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (died 2014)
1932: Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1931: Józef Tischner, Polish priest and philosopher (died 2000)
1930: Antony Acland, English former diplomat and Provost of Eton College (died 2021)
1930: Vern Law, American baseball player and manager
1929: Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (died 2014)
1928: Edward Albee, American director and playwright (died 2016)
1927: Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (died 2009)
1927: Emmett Leith, American professor of electrical engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography (died 2005)
1927: Sudharmono, Indonesian politician, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (died 2006)
1926: George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
1926: Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (died 2015)
1926: John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor (died 1988)
1926: David Nadien, American violinist (died 2014)
1925: Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1925: Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (died 2012)
1923: Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (died 2013)
1923: Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (died 2005)
1923: Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2007)
1923: Mae Young, American wrestler (died 2014)
1922: Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (died 1969)
1922: Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (died 1999)
1921: Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (died 2001)
1921: Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (died 1986)
1918: Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (died 1989)
1918: Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (died 2012)
1917: Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (died 1969)
1917: Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (died 2009)
1917: Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (died 2011)
1915: Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1995)
1915: Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist (died 1991)
1913: Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1984)
1913: Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (died 2010)
1912: Willie Hall, English footballer (died 1967)
1912: Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (died 2006)
1911: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (died 1979)
1910: László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (died 1986)
1910: Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1980)
1909: Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (died 1947)
1908: Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (died 1970)
1908: David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (died 1995)
1907: Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (died 2007)
1905: Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (died 1982)
1904: Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (died 1976)
1900: Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (died 1972)
1900: Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (died 1974)
1900: Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (died 1975)
1899: Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (died 1955)
1898: Tian Han, Chinese playwright (died 1968)
1898: Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (died 1984)
1896: Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1976)
1890: Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1976)
1888: Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (died 1965)
1888: Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (died 1965)
1883: Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist (died 1961)
1882: Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (died 1943)
1881: Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (died 1966)
1880: Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (died 1952)
1878: Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (died 1903)
1877: Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (died 1946)
1874: Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (died 1949)
1869: George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1947)
1868: Mary Karadja, Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (died 1943)
1864: W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (died 1922)
1864: Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (died 1943)
1863: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1938)
1863: Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist (died 1945)
1860: Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (died 1895)
1859: Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (died 1906)
1858: Adolph Ochs, American publisher (died 1935)
1857: William V. Ranous, American actor and director (died 1915)
1855: Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (died 1920)
1843: Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (died 1904)
1838: William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (died 1907)
1837: Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (died 1911)
1835: Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (died 1909)
1835: Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (died 1908)
1834: Hilary A. Herbert, American politician, Secretary of the Navy (died 1919)
1832: Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (died 1897)
1824: Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (died 1887)
1823: Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (died 1899)
1821: John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)
1821: Medo Pucić, Croatian writer and politician (died 1882)
1815: Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (died 1896)
1807: James Abbott, Indian Army officer (died 1896)
1806: Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (died 1863)
1795: William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (died 1861)
1795: George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (died 1858)
1784: William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (died 1856)
1781: Frederica of Baden, Queen consort to Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (died 1826)
1766: Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (died 1815)
1753: Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (died 1827)
1735: François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (died 1821)
1710: Thomas Arne, English composer (died 1778)
1685: George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (died 1753)
1672: Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (died 1729)
1637: Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (died 1671)
1626: John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (died 1697)
1613: André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (died 1700)
1607: Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (died 1676)
1515: Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (died 1553)
1270: Charles, Count of Valois (died 1325)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (born 1951)
2016: Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (born 1942)
2016: Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (born 1935)
2016: Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
2015: Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (born 1924)
2015: Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (born 1934)
2015: Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (born 1924)
2015: Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1948)
2014: Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)
2014: Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (born 1923)
2014: José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (born 1936)
2013: Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (born 1936)
2013: Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1937)
2012: Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (born 1930)
2012: Michael Hossack, American drummer (born 1946)
2012: Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (born 1938)
2011: Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (born 1919)
2010: Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (born 1920)
2008: Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (born 1949)
2008: Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (born 1897)
2006: Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (born 1947)
2004: Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (born 1917)
2003: Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1952)
2003: Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1914)
2003: Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (born 1948)
2002: Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (born 1932)
2002: Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1923)
2001: Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (born 1933)
2001: Robert Ludlum, American author (born 1927)
2001: Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (born 1916)
2000: Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (born 1924)
1999: Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1916)
1999: Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (born 1902)
1998: Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (born 1893)
1992: Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (born 1890)
1991: Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
1991: William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (born 1900)
1989: Maurice Evans, English-American actor (born 1901)
1985: Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (born 1899)
1974: George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (born 1904)
1973: Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)
1971: Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (born 1873)
1957: Josephine Hull, American actress (born 1877)
1955: Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (born 1920)
1955: Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (born 1892)
1954: Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (born 1870)
1949: Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (born 1879)
1946: Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (born 1897)
1943: Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (born 1869)
1942: William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
1935: Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (born 1858)
1929: Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (born 1851)
1925: Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1866)
1916: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (born 1830)
1898: Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (born 1818)
1699: Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (born 1635)
1539: Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (born 1477)
1322: Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1276)
1316: Stefan Dragutin (born c. 1244)
1160: Al-Muqtafi, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (born 1096)
1022: Symeon the New Theologian (born 949)
604: Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 540)
417: Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church

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