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March 14

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March 14

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 292 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: New Hampshire man wins $4 million in Massachusetts Lottery: "You can win more in Mass!". A New Hampshire resident revealed what motivated him to play the lottery in Massachusetts after he won a $4 million top prize at a special store.
2025: Lucky number 19 is incredibly coincidental for California lottery winner of $1 million. The number 19 pulled through for one California man in an astonishing number of ways, including in the form of a $1 million top prize on a scratch-off ticket.
2024: Illinois stay-at-home mom wakes up to a crying baby and $1.4 million Lucky Day Lotto jackpot. An Illinois woman woke up to the sound of her crying baby in the middle of the night but found it rather difficult to fall back asleep once she also found out she won a $1.4 million Lucky Day Lotto jackpot.
2023: VIDEO: March Weekly Roundup in lottery news. Today, Lottery Post published the latest installment of the new Weekly Roundup series featuring some of the most prominent lottery stories in the month of March.
2022: Rising gas prices may impact lottery sales. With gas prices on the rise, players may be cutting back on their lottery spending in the near future.
2019: $495 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot climbs, awaits its first winner of 2019. Two and a half months into 2019, we still don't have a Powerball jackpot winner.
2018: IGT executive hired as NC Lottery chief. A top leader at a gambling operations vendor was hired Tuesday to become the North Carolina Education Lottery's next executive director.
2014: Husband plays late wife's 5 special numbers and wins lottery. A Chatsworth, Georgia, man claimed a lottery jackpot from the Georgia Lottery after playing his late wife's special numbers.
2013: Wyoming officially becomes 44th state with a lottery. Gov. Matt Mead cleared the way for Wyoming to begin the process of bringing a lottery to the state by signing House Bill 77 into law Wednesday.
2013: $216 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot rolls again. 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 $216 million for Saturday's drawing.
2012: $200 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot soars. Lottery players across the United States are buying their Mega Millions tickets in preparation for Friday's massive $200 million drawing.
2012: NJ man sued over $38.5M lottery ticket. A trail is underway in the case of a New Jersey construction worker who is being sued by his former co-workers after cashing in a $38.5 million lottery ticket.
2012: Jury awards jailed illegal alien $750,000 lottery ticket. A jailed illegal immigrant in Georgia is the rightful owner of a $750,000 lottery ticket, a jury decided Thursday.
2012: Toddler picks out winning NY lottery ticket. A 2-year-old Brooklyn girl made her mom an instant millionaire when she touched the winning ticket.
2011: 2 men survive deadly casino bus crash, then board another. Two gamblers who miraculously survived a catastrophic brush with death aboard a Chinatown casino bus climbed back aboard the same company's bus only hours later for another trip to the gaming tables.
2009: Powerball, Mega Millions explore agreement. Lottery behemoths Powerball and Mega Millions are discussing a possible arrangement to sell tickets for both games in the 42 states where they now operate alone.
2007: Newspaper photo reveals lottery winner's personal information. Lottery Post presents an exclusive story detailing how Maine's Morning Sentinel newspaper revealed a lottery winner's address and social security number in a published photo.
2006: Kansas Lottery adds 'Hot Lotto' game. Sales for the multi-state "Hot Lotto" numbers game began Sunday for Wednesday's first biweekly drawing that will include the Sunflower State.
2005: Internet lottery sales one step closer in Georgia. Georgia took its first step towards allowing lottery players to purchase tickets over the Internet, as the Georgia House approved a measure Thursday for setting up online accounts.
2005: N.C. residents divided over lottery question. As the speaker of the North Carolina House pledged this weekend to hold a vote on a bill that would create a state lottery, local Charlotte residents were divided on the issue.
2005: Tennessee Lottery Sales Pass $1 Billion. The Tennessee Lottery announced today that gross ticket sales have surpassed $1 billion after one year and seven weeks of ticket sales.
2005: Cardinal demands U.K. lottery boycott. Cardinal Keith O'Brien, leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics, called for a boycott of the UK National Lottery after it was revealed that the National Lottery gave £3.3 million (US$6.3 million) to Brook Advisory Centers and the FPA (Family Planning Association) - both of which support abortions as a means of family planning.
2005: Lottery winner ties the knot once again. Robert Swofford Jr., winner of a $60 million Florida Lotto jackpot, re-married his first wife, after his second wife dumped him when he won the big prize.
2005: N.C. Gov. may get 2nd try with lottery. When North Carolina Governor Mike Easley leaves office, assessments of his tenure undoubtedly will touch on whether he brought North Carolina into the lottery fold.
2005: Texas Lottery Approves Mega Millions Changes. Friday, the Texas Lottery Commission voted to propose rule amendments to the Mega Millions multi-state lottery game, which aim to make the game bigger than ever.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$815 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2024
2.$623.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2024
3.$495 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2019
4.$417.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2018
5.$380.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2025
6.$353 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2014
7.$345 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2018
8.$277 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2025
9.$276.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2008
10.$229 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2023
11.$216 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2013
12.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2012
13.€171.57 Million
US$188.25 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2022
14.$185.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 17, 2021
15.€129 Million
US$179.25 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2014
16.€162 Million
US$176.26 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2025
17.$172 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2011
18.$165 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2007
19.€134.61 Million
US$154.09 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2026
20.€105 Million
US$148.73 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 18, 2011
21.€122.15 Million
US$145.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2021
22.€130 Million
US$141.56 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2024
23.€113.51 Million
US$140 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2018
24.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2015
25.€119.37 Million
US$134.99 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2019

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: Payydayy314
Wednesday, Mar 14, 1990
36 years old
1987: chavez
Saturday, Mar 14, 1987
39 years old
1987: mildred578
Saturday, Mar 14, 1987
39 years old
1985: Romanabr123
Thursday, Mar 14, 1985
41 years old
1984: ladyluckone
Wednesday, Mar 14, 1984
42 years old
1980: LottoIntuitive
Friday, Mar 14, 1980
46 years old
1980: Marandaalisha
Friday, Mar 14, 1980
46 years old
1978: PhillyPhill
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1978
48 years old
1977: Josemcort864
Monday, Mar 14, 1977
49 years old
1975: hitthe$
Friday, Mar 14, 1975
51 years old
1971: hey dude
Sunday, Mar 14, 1971
55 years old
1969: Mets
Friday, Mar 14, 1969
57 years old
1968: MsDiva68
Thursday, Mar 14, 1968
58 years old
1967: ymar
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1967
59 years old
1966: dbell66
Monday, Mar 14, 1966
60 years old
1965: causha
Sunday, Mar 14, 1965
61 years old
1963: pam88
Thursday, Mar 14, 1963
63 years old
1961: Goddess0314
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1961
65 years old
1961: Jansen*
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1961
65 years old
1960: jerryfletch
Monday, Mar 14, 1960
66 years old
1960: TomF1403
Monday, Mar 14, 1960
66 years old
: tiparker119
(year not provided)
: kpmoney
(year not provided)
: wonder747
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
2019: Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
2017: A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.
2008: A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
2007: The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
2006: The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
2006: Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat.
1995: Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
1991: Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert - which was to become the worlds most productive copper mine - is officially inaugurated.
1988: In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
1982: The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
1980: LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1979: Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.
1978: The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
1972: Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.
1967: The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1964: Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy the previous year.
1961: A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California.
1951: Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
1945: The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
1943: The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
1942: Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
1939: Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1931: Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1926: The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
1923: Charlie Daly and three other members of the Irish Republican Army are executed by Irish Free State forces.
1921: Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists known as the Forgotten Ten are hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison.
1920: In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
1916: Battle of Verdun: German attack captures Côte 265 at the west end of Mort-Homme but the French 75th Infantry Brigade manages to hold Côte 295 at the east end.
1903: Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
1901: Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restrictions on polygamy.
1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
1885: The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
1864: Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium player in a mansion in Paris.
1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1780: American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
1757: Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1674: The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.
1663: According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion.
1647: Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1590: Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
1074: Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.

Births On This Day

2008: Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress
2001: Nico Mannion, Italian-American basketball player
2000: Chrisean Rock, American rapper and reality television personality
2000: Jihoon, South Korean singer
1999: Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player
1999: Olivia Dean, English singer-songwriter
1998: Tyson Jost, Canadian ice hockey player
1997: Simone Biles, American gymnast
1996: Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer
1995: Brandon Aubrey, American multi-sport athlete
1995: Nick Eh 30, Canadian live streamer and professional gamer
1994: Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ
1993: Anthony Bennett, Canadian basketball player
1993: J. T. Miller, American ice hockey player
1992: Shotzi Blackheart, American wrestler
1992: Erik Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1991: Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler
1990: Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
1990: Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer
1990: Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress
1990: Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer
1989: Marwin González, Venezuelan baseball player
1989: Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver
1989: Patrick Patterson, American basketball player
1988: Stephen Curry, American basketball player
1988: Rico Freimuth, German decathlete
1986: Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986: Jessica Gallagher, Australian skier and cyclist
1986: Andy Taylor, English footballer
1983: Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
1982: Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
1982: François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (died 2008)
1981: Bobby Jenks, American baseball player (died 2025)
1981: George Wilson, American football player
1980: Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach
1980: Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player and coach
1979: Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager
1979: Dan Avidan, American musician and internet personality
1979: Chris Klein, American actor
1979: Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer
1978: Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
1977: Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach
1977: Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (died 2011)
1977: Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby player
1976: Brian Quinn, American improvisational comedian and actor
1976: Phil Vickery, English rugby player and sportscaster
1975: Steve Harper, English footballer and referee
1975: Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter
1974: Santino Marella, Canadian wrestler
1974: Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
1973: Rohit Shetty, Indian film director and producer
1972: Irom Chanu Sharmila, Indian poet and activist
1970: Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Larry Johnson, American basketball player and actor
1968: Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress
1968: Magnús Árni Magnússon, Icelandic politician
1966: Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter
1966: Elise Neal, American actress and producer
1965: Kevin Brown, American baseball player and coach
1965: Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director
1965: Billy Sherwood, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1965: Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1964: Chris Johns, Australian rugby league player and administrator
1963: Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer and coach
1961: Mike Lazaridis, Greek-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited
1960: Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and academic
1960: Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (died 2006)
1959: Laila Robins, American actress
1959: Tamara Tunie, American actress
1958: Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1957: Tad Williams, American author
1956: Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
1956: Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach
1955: Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (died 2013)
1954: Brian Smith, Australian rugby league player and coach
1953: Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2013)
1951: Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's
1950: Rick Dees, American actor and radio host
1948: Tom Coburn, American physician and politician (died 2020)
1948: Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter
1948: Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor
1947: Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (died 1993)
1947: William J. Jefferson, American lawyer and politician
1947: Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1946: Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager (died 2020)
1945: Jasper Carrott, English comedian, actor, and game show host
1945: Michael Martin Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945: Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist
1944: Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor (died 2022)
1944: Clyde Lee, American basketball player
1944: Václav Nedomanský, Czech ice hockey player and manager
1944: Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager
1944: Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (died 2012)
1943: Anita Morris, American actress and singer (died 1994)
1942: Rita Tushingham, English actress
1941: Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022)
1939: Raymond J. Barry, American actor
1939: Bertrand Blier, French director and screenwriter (died 2025)
1939: Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter (died 2025)
1938: Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter
1938: Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (died 2016)
1938: John Gleeson, Australian cricketer (died 2016)
1938: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008)
1937: Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (died 2013)
1936: Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
1934: Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017)
1934: Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army
1933: Michael Caine, English actor
1933: Quincy Jones, American producer (died 2024)
1932: Mark Murphy, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015)
1932: Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia
1929: Bob Goalby, American golfer (died 2022)
1928: Frank Borman, American astronaut (died 2023)
1928: Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (died 1980)
1927: Chuck Share, American basketball player (died 2012)
1926: François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator (died 2018)
1925: William Clay Ford Sr., American businessman (died 2014)
1925: Francis A. Marzen, Roman Catholic priest (died 2004)
1925: Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (died 2013)
1923: Diane Arbus, American photographer (died 1971)
1922: Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (died 1996)
1921: S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (died 2014)
1921: Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (died 2013)
1920: Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (died 2001)
1920: Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (died 2014)
1919: Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (died 1988)
1918: Zoia Horn, American librarian (died 2014)
1917: Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (died 2013)
1916: Horton Foote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2009)
1915: Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2005)
1914: Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (died 1981)
1914: Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (died 1999)
1914: Lee Petty, American race car driver and businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (died 2000)
1913: Dominik Tatarka, Slovak writer (died 1989)
1912: Cliff Bastin, English footballer (died 1991)
1912: Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2001)
1912: W. Graham Claytor Jr. American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1994)
1912: W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (died 2010)
1911: Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (died 2005)
1908: Ed Heinemann, American designer of military aircraft (died 1991)
1908: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (died 1961)
1908: Phil Vincent, English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (died 1979)
1908: Koča Popović, Yugoslav politician and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans (died 1992)
1906: Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (died 1972)
1905: Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1983)
1904: Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (died 2010)
1903: Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (died 1974)
1901: Sid Atkinson, South African hurdler and long jumper (died 1977)
1899: K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (died 1992)
1898: Reginald Marsh, French-American painter and illustrator (died 1954)
1887: Sylvia Beach, American-French bookseller and publisher, who founded Shakespeare and Company (died 1962)
1886: Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (died 1964)
1885: Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (died 1918)
1882: Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1969)
1879: Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)
1874: Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (died 1951)
1869: Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (died 1951)
1868: Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and activist (died 1933)
1864: Casey Jones, American engineer (died 1900)
1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (died 1951)
1854: Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915)
1854: John Lane, English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (died 1925)
1854: Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (died 1920)
1854: Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (died 1925)
1853: Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918)
1847: Castro Alves, Brazilian poet and playwright (died 1871)
1844: Umberto I of Italy (died 1900)
1844: Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (died 1881)
1837: Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (died 1903)
1836: Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (died 1865)
1835: Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (died 1910)
1833: Frederic Shields, English painter and illustrator (died 1911)
1833: Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist and educator (died 1910)
1823: Théodore de Banville, French poet and critic (died 1891)
1822: Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (died 1889)
1820: Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (died 1878)
1813: Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (died 1892)
1804: Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1849)
1801: Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (died 1822)
1800: James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (died 1874)
1790: Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (died 1863)
1772: José Núñez de Cáceres, Dominican politician and writer. He was the leader of the Independence movement of the Dominican Republic against Spain in 1821 (died 1846)
1737: Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, Aromanian physician and noble (died 1828)
1638: Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (died 1710)
1297: Uljay Qutlugh Khatun, Mongol empress consort of the Ilkhanate.

Deaths On This Day

2025: Alan Simpson, United States senator from Wyoming (born 1931)
2022: Scott Hall, American wrestler (born 1958)
2019: Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (born 1962)
2019: Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (born 1952)
2019: Haig Young, Canadian politician (born 1928)
2018: Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (born 1937)
2018: Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (born 1979)
2018: Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (born 1942)
2018: Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (born 1945)
2016: John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (born 1928)
2016: Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (born 1934)
2016: Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1949)
2014: Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1925)
2014: Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (born 1934)
2013: Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1930)
2013: Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (born 1936)
2013: Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1925)
2012: Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (born 1928)
2012: Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and politician, 4th President of Malta (born 1913)
2010: Peter Graves, American actor (born 1926)
2008: Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (born 1920)
2007: Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (born 1912)
2006: Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (born 1929)
2003: Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (born 1945)
2003: Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (born 1928)
1999: Kirk Alyn, American actor (born 1910)
1999: John Broome, American author (born 1913)
1997: Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1907)
1995: William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
1994: Sheila Humphreys, Irish Republican, political activist and Hunger Striker (born 1899)
1991: Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer (born 1950)
1989: Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (born 1892)
1984: Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (born 1915)
1980: Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia (born 1902)
1980: Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (born 1928)
1979: Frank McEncroe, Australian businessman (born 1908)
1977: Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (born 1917)
1976: Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (born 1895)
1975: Susan Hayward, American actress (born 1917)
1973: Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1900)
1973: Chic Young, American cartoonist (born 1901)
1969: Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (born 1898)
1968: Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (born 1892)
1965: Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (born 1879)
1957: Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (born 1938)
1953: Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 14th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1896)
1941: C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, English historian (born 1887)
1937: Lars Edvard Phragmén, Swedish mathematician (born 1863)
1932: George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (born 1854)
1932: Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian (born 1861)
1930: A. A. Kannisto, Finnish politician (born 1876)
1923: Charlie Daly and three other Irish Republicans are executed by Irish Free State forces (born 1896)
1921: Bernard Ryan executed Irish republican (born 1901)
1884: Quintino Sella, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finances (born 1827)
1883: Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (born 1818)
1877: Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (born 1793)
1860: Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (born 1802)
1823: Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1739)
1811: Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1735)
1803: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (born 1724)
1791: Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and critic (born 1725)
1757: John Byng, British admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1704)
1748: George Wade, Irish field marshal and politician (born 1673)
1698: Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (born 1622)
1696: Jean Domat, French lawyer and jurist (born 1625)
1648: Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (born 1584)
1647: Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (born 1584)
1555: John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (born 1485)
1471: Thomas Malory, English writer, the author of Le Morte d'Arthur
968: Matilda of Ringelheim, Saxon queen (born c. 896)
840: Einhard, Frankish scholar

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