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March 27

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March 27

March 27 is the 86th day of the year (87th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 279 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: One New Jersey ticket is sole winner of $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot. After a run of 30 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 31st drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $1.13 billion winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in New Jersey matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball.
2019: Australian man wins $23 million lotto draw — twice. A Melbourne, Australia, man is $46.6 million richer after winning the lotto not once, but twice.
2018: $1.9M lottery win erases doubts for Michigan man. A Michigan man who thought the lottery was all a conspiracy had his opinion changed 12 days ago when he won a $1.9 million jackpot.
2015: Lottery ticket in get-well card wins man $7 million. A Pennsylvania man is feeling very well, thank you, after he won a $7 million lottery prize from a ticket that was enclosed in a get-well card from his father.
2012: Generous former lottery winner says she accidentally gave away second winning ticket. An existing million-dollar lottery winner says that when she handed out a $100 bill to a man in the store, she also accidentally included a Mega Millions ticket which happened to win a $260,000 prize, and she wants the winning ticket back.
2011: Seven Albany state workers won $319 million lottery prize. Seven lucky New York state government workers earned some 'Capitol gains' when their office pool won a whopping $319 million jackpot in Friday night's drawing.
2007: State Mourns Passing of Illinois Lottery Superintendent Carolyn Adams. Carolyn Adams, 44, Superintendent of the Illinois Lottery since May 2003, passed away Monday morning in Chicago following a private struggle with breast cancer.
2007: Party leader wants to repeal Okla. Lottery. The head of Oklahoma's Republican Party, citing lower-than-expected revenue and escalating social costs, is calling for repeal of the Oklahoma Lottery.
2007: Nevada Gov. opposes lottery bill. Gov. Jim Gibbons said Monday he opposes amending Nevada's Constitution to permit a state lottery.
2007: Ontario Lottery to undergo criminal investigation. The Ontario government called police yesterday after the province's ombud accused unscrupulous lottery-ticket retailers of collecting tens of millions of dollars in "dishonest'' winnings -- and the responsible Crown agency of letting them get away with it.
2007: Ontario Lottery Corp. ignored claims of corruption. In a scathing report, the provincial ombudsman said the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is more fixated on profits than the integrity of its lottery games and has turned a blind eye to allegations of corruption.
2006: Powerball jackpot jumps to $135 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $135 million, with a cash option of $63.8 million.
2006: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $96 million. The jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $96 million Saturday.
2006: Newspaper to decline advertising from N.C. Lottery Commission. The publisher of one small paper in eastern North Carolina says he's not going to be taking any lottery advertising.
2006: Big week ahead for N.C. lottery. The North Carolina Education Lottery gets under way this week and several major events are planned.
2006: N.C. Ministers resigned to lottery, but wary. With the fight against a lottery in North Carolina a lost cause, the mood for many in the faith community is best expressed by one of the lottery's leading opponents.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$873.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2024
2.$768.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2019
3.$458 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2018
4.$363 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2012
5.$322 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 28, 2023
6.$235.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2021
7.€179.07 Million US$198.26 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 29, 2022
8.$195.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 28, 2022
9.€130 Million US$166.65 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 29, 2013
10.$162 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 28, 2017
11.$160 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 28, 2020
12.$153 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 30, 2011
13.$152 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 30, 2021
14.€127.61 Million
US$150.45 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2021
15.€119.38 Million
US$148.21 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2018
16.€125 Million
US$146.59 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 30, 2021
17.€127.98 Million
US$143.63 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 30, 2019
18.$135 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 29, 2006
19.$122.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2023
20.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 30, 2016
21.$113 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 28, 2008
22.$107 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2020
23.$102 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 30, 1999
24.€88 Million
US$97.02 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2020
25.$96 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 28, 2006

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1986: Eleshastapus86
Thursday, Mar 27, 1986
38 years old
1978: getmine
Monday, Mar 27, 1978
46 years old
1973: Joliesj
Tuesday, Mar 27, 1973
51 years old
1973: carl6400
Tuesday, Mar 27, 1973
51 years old
1971: Brixx
Saturday, Mar 27, 1971
53 years old
1971: Chelle$
Saturday, Mar 27, 1971
53 years old
1967: yougotit7
Monday, Mar 27, 1967
57 years old
1965: Wendy G
Saturday, Mar 27, 1965
59 years old
1965: Abbylou001
Saturday, Mar 27, 1965
59 years old
1962: scateyes43
Tuesday, Mar 27, 1962
62 years old
1953: bayoudon
Friday, Mar 27, 1953
71 years old
1950: brich
Monday, Mar 27, 1950
74 years old
1933: Larlo
Monday, Mar 27, 1933
91 years old
: skittles777
(year not provided)
: SkyLine69
(year not provided)
: Borderpatrolcs
(year not provided)
: dherr27
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023: Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
2020: North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.
2016: A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
2015: Al-Shabab militants attack and temporarily occupy a Mogadishu hotel leaving at least 20 people dead.
2014: Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.
2009: The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2004: HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2002: Passover massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people at a Passover seder in Netanya, Israel.
2002: Nanterre massacre: In Nanterre, France, a gunman opens fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors; 19 other people are injured.
2000: A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
1999: Kosovo War: An American Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk is shot down by a Yugoslav Army SAM, the first and only Nighthawk to be lost in combat.
1998: The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1993: Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993: Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1990: The United States begins broadcasting anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba on TV Martí.
1986: A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
1981: The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1980: The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1977: Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history.
1976: The first section of the Washington Metro opens to the public.
1975: Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1964: The Good Friday earthquake, the most powerful earthquake recorded in North American history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1958: Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
1945: World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins. Argentina declares war on the Axis Powers.
1943: World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1942: The Holocaust: Nazi Germany and Vichy France begin the deportation of 65,000 Jews from Drancy internment camp to German extermination camps.
1941: World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
1938: Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
1933: Japanese invasion of Manchuria: Japan leaves the League of Nations after it approves the Lytton Report that ruled in favour of China.
1918: The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1915: Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1912: First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the origin of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
1901: Philippine-American War: Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by the Americans.
1899: Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine-American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
1886: Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1884: A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and burn down the courthouse.
1871: The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1866: President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
1836: Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican Army massacres 342 Texian Army POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1814: War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1809: Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad Real.
1794: The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1782: The Second Rockingham ministry assumes office in Great Britain and begins negotiations to end the American War of Independence.
1638: The first of four destructive Calabrian earthquakes strikes southern Italy. Measuring magnitude 6.8 and assigned a Mercalli intensity of XI, it kills 10,000-30,000 people.
1625: Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1329: Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1309: Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.

Births On This Day

2002: Daria Snigur, Ukrainian tennis player
1998: Giannis Bouzoukis, Greek footballer
1995: Bill Tuiloma, New Zealand footballer
1992: Marc Muniesa, Spanish footballer
1990: Erdin Demir, Swedish-Turkish footballer
1990: Ben Hunt, Australian rugby league player
1990: Nicolas Nkoulou, Cameroonian footballer
1990: Luca Zuffi, Swiss footballer
1990: Kimbra, New Zealand musician
1990: Brodha V, Indian Rapper and Music Producer
1989: Matt Harvey, American baseball player
1989: Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player
1988: Jessie J, English singer-songwriter
1988: Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer
1988: Brenda Song, American actress
1988: Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer
1988: Holliday Grainger, English actress
1987: Jefferson Bernárdez, Honduran footballer
1987: Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter
1987: Polina Gagarina, Russian singer-songwriter
1987: Buster Posey, American baseball player
1986: Manuel Neuer, German footballer
1985: Dustin Byfuglien, American ice hockey player
1985: Danny Vukovic, Australian footballer
1984: Adam Ashley-Cooper, Australian rugby player
1984: Ben Franks, Australian-born New Zealand rugby player
1984: Brett Holman, Australian footballer
1983: Yuliya Golubchikova, Russian pole vaulter
1983: Vasily Koshechkin, Russian ice hockey player
1983: Román Martínez, Argentinian footballer
1982: Shawn Beveney, Guyanese footballer
1981: Terry McFlynn, Irish footballer
1981: Akhil Kumar, Indian boxer
1981: Jukka Keskisalo, Finnish runner
1981: Hilda Kibet, Kenyan runner
1981: Cacau, Brazilian-German footballer
1980: Sean Ryan, American football player
1980: Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player
1980: Maksim Shevchenko, Kazakhstani footballer
1979: Tom Palmer, English rugby union player
1979: Mohsen Moeini, Iranian author and director
1979: Imran Tahir, Pakistani-South African cricketer
1979: Jennifer Wilson, Zimbabwean-South African field hockey player
1978: Gabriel Paraschiv, Romanian footballer
1978: Marius Bakken, Norwegian runner
1978: Amélie Cocheteux, French tennis player
1977: Vítor Meira, Brazilian race car driver
1977: Ioannis Melissanidis, Greek artistic gymnast
1976: Roberta Anastase, Romanian politician, 57th President of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania
1976: Danny Fortson, American basketball player
1976: Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
1975: Andrew Blowers, New Zealand rugby player
1975: Kim Felton, Australian golfer
1975: Fergie, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1975: Christian Fiedler, German footballer and manager
1974: Marek Citko, Polish footballer and manager
1974: George Koumantarakis, Greek-South African footballer
1974: Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1973: Roger Telemachus, South African cricketer
1972: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Surinamese-Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
1972: Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler
1971: David Coulthard, Scottish race car driver and sportscaster
1971: Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1970: Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran (d. 2001)
1970: Derek Aucoin, Canadian baseball player (d. 2020)
1970: Brent Fitz, Canadian-American multi-instrumentalist and recording artist
1970: Jarrod McCracken, New Zealand rugby league player
1970: Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1970: Uwe Rosenberg, German game designer, created Bohnanza
1969: Gianluigi Lentini, Italian footballer and manager
1969: Pauley Perrette, American actress
1969: Mariah Carey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1968: Irina Belova, Russian heptathlete
1967: Talisa Soto, American actress
1966: Žarko Paspalj, Serbian basketball player
1965: Gregor Foitek, Swiss race car driver
1963: Cory Blackwell, American basketball player
1963: Randall Cunningham, American football player, coach, and pastor
1963: Georgios Katrougalos, Greek jurist and politician
1963: Filippos Sachinidis, Greek-Canadian economist and politician
1963: Gary Stevens, English-Australian footballer and physiotherapist
1963: Quentin Tarantino, American director, producer, screenwriter and actor
1963: Xuxa, Brazilian actress, singer, businesswoman and television presenter
1962: Jann Arden, Canadian singer-songwriter
1962: Brett French, Australian rugby league player
1962: Rob Hollink, Dutch poker player
1962: John O'Farrell, English journalist and author
1962: Brad Wright, American-Spanish basketball player
1962: Kevin J. Anderson, American science fiction writer
1961: Ellery Hanley, English rugby league player and coach
1961: Tony Rominger, Swiss professional cyclist
1960: Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1960: Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
1959: Andrew Farriss, Australian rock musician and multi-instrumentalist
1959: Ivan Savvidis, Russian-Greek oligarch and politician
1958: Didier de Radiguès, Belgian race car driver and motorcycle racer
1957: Kostas Vasilakakis, Greek footballer and manager
1957: Stephen Dillane, English actor
1956: Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong activist and politician
1956: Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross country skier
1955: Patrick McCabe, Irish writer
1955: Mariano Rajoy, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
1955: Susan Neiman, American-German philosopher and author
1954: Gerard Batten, English lawyer and politician
1953: Herman Ponsteen, Dutch cyclist
1952: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, Austrian skier
1952: Maria Schneider, French actress (d. 2011)
1951: Andrei Kozyrev, Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia
1951: Chris Stewart, English musician and author
1950: Tony Banks, English keyboardist and songwriter
1950: Petros Efthymiou, Greek academic and politician, Greek Minister of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs
1950: Maria Ewing, American soprano (d. 2022)
1950: Terry Yorath, Welsh international footballer and international manager
1948: Jens-Peter Bonde, Danish lawyer and politician (d. 2021)
1947: Oliver Friggieri, Maltese author, critic, poet and philosopher (d. 2020)
1947: Brian Jones, English balloonist and pilot
1947: Walt Mossberg, American journalist
1947: Doug Wilkerson, American football player (d. 2021)
1946: Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (d. 1999)
1944: Jesse Brown, American marine and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (d. 2002)
1944: Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
1943: Mike Curtis, American football player and coach (d. 2020)
1942: Michael Jackson, English journalist and author (d. 2007)
1942: John Sulston, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1942: Michael York, English actor
1941: Ivan Gašparovič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Slovakia
1941: Liese Prokop, Austrian pentathlete and politician, Austrian Minister of the Interior (d. 2006)
1940: Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver
1940: Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright
1939: Jay Kim, South Korean-American engineer and politician
1939: Cale Yarborough, American race car driver and businessman (d. 2023)
1937: Alan Hawkshaw, English keyboard player and songwriter
1936: Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
1935: Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic priest and missionary (d. 1981)
1935: Julian Glover, English actor
1934: István Csurka, Hungarian journalist, author, and politician (d. 2012)
1934: Ioannis Palaiokrassas, Greek politician (d. 2021)
1933: Lê Văn Hưng, South Vietnamese Brigadier general (d. 1975)
1932: Junior Parker, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1971)
1932: Bailey Olter, Micronesian politician, 3rd President of the Federated States of Micronesia (d. 1999)
1931: David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1930: Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer, writer and artist
1929: Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
1929: Reg Evans, Australian actor (d. 2009)
1928: Jean Dotto, French cyclist (d. 2000)
1927: Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
1927: Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1926: Frank O'Hara, American writer (d. 1966)
1924: Sarah Vaughan, American singer (d. 1990)
1924: Ian Black, Scottish international footballer and lawn bowls player (d. 2012)
1924: Margaret K. Butler, American mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2013)
1923: Shūsaku Endō, Japanese author (d. 1996)
1923: Louis Simpson, Jamaican-American poet, translator, and academic (d. 2012)
1922: Dick King-Smith, English author (d. 2011)
1922: Stefan Wul, French author and surgeon (d. 2003)
1922: Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, and sculptor (d. 2007)
1921: Phil Chess, Czech-American record producer, co-founded Chess Records (d. 2016)
1921: Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2000)
1921: Harold Nicholas, American actor and dancer (d. 2000)
1920: Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (d. 1999)
1917: Cyrus Vance, American lawyer and politician, 57th United States Secretary of State (d. 2002)
1915: Robert Lockwood, Jr., American guitarist (d. 2006)
1914: Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998)
1914: Budd Schulberg, American author, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2009)
1913: Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1912: James Callaghan, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
1911: Veronika Tushnova, Russian poet and physician (d. 1965)
1910: Ai Qing, Chinese poet and author (d. 1996)
1909: Golo Mann, German historian and author (d. 1994)
1909: Ben Webster, American saxophonist (d. 1973)
1909: Valery Marakou, Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1937)
1906: Pee Wee Russell, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 1969)
1905: Leroy Carr, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1935)
1905: Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, German general (d. 1980)
1905: Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American author and engineer (d. 1980)
1903: Leif Tronstad, Norwegian chemist and military leader (d. 1945)
1903: Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet and playwright (d. 1950)
1902: Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1975)
1902: Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1901: Carl Barks, American illustrator and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1901: Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (d. 1963)
1901: Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1901: Kenneth Slessor, Australian journalist and poet (d. 1971)
1899: Francis Ponge, French poet and author (d. 1988)
1899: Herbert Arthur Stuart, German-Swiss physicist and academic (d. 1974)
1899: Gloria Swanson, American actress and producer (d. 1983)
1897: Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist (d. 1958)
1897: Fred Keating, American magician, stage and film actor (d. 1961)
1895: Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915)
1894: René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953)
1893: Karl Mannheim, Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (d. 1947)
1893: G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (d. 1981)
1893: George Beranger, Australian-American actor and director (d. 1973)
1892: Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
1892: Thorne Smith, American author (d. 1934)
1891: Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian novelist and playwright (d. 1974)
1891: Klawdziy Duzh-Dushewski, Belarusian-Lithuanian architect, journalist, and diplomat, created the Flag of Belarus (d. 1959)
1890: Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1967)
1890: Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (d. 1974)
1889: Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (d. 1974)
1889: Leonard Mociulschi, Romanian general (d. 1979)
1888: George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer (d. 1978)
1887: Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator (d. 1932)
1886: Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (d. 1934)
1886: Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator (d. 1917)
1886: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect, designed IBM Plaza and Seagram Building (d. 1969)
1885: Julio Lozano Díaz, Honduran accountant and politician, 40th President of Honduras (d. 1957)
1885: Reginald Fletcher, 1st Baron Winster, English navy officer and politician, Secretary of State for Transport (d. 1961)
1884: Gordon Thomson, English rower and lieutenant (d. 1953)
1883: Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1882: Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (d. 1965)
1881: Arkady Averchenko, Russian playwright and satirist (d. 1925)
1879: Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1947)
1879: Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1879: Edward Steichen, Luxembourger-American painter and photographer (d. 1973)
1878: Kathleen Scott, British sculptor (d. 1947)
1877: Oscar Grégoire, Belgian water polo player and swimmer (d. 1947)
1875: Albert Marquet, French painter (d. 1947)
1871: Heinrich Mann, German author and poet (d. 1950)
1871: Joseph G. Morrison, American captain and Nazarene minister (d. 1939)
1871: Piet Aalberse, Dutch politician, Minister of Labour (d. 1948)
1869: James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d. 1938)
1869: J. R. Clynes, English trade unionist and politician, Home Secretary (d. 1949)
1868: Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator (d. 1946)
1866: John Allan, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Victoria (d. 1936)
1863: Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
1862: Jelena Dimitrijević, Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist and polyglot (d. 1945)
1862: Arturo Berutti, Argentinian composer (d. 1938)
1860: Frank Frost Abbott, American-Swiss scholar and academic (d. 1924)
1859: George Giffen, Australian cricketer and footballer (d. 1927)
1857: Karl Pearson, English mathematician, eugenicist, and academic (d. 1936)
1855: William Libbey, American target shooter, colonel, mountaineer, geographer, geologist, and archaeologist (d. 1927)
1854: Giovanni Battista Grassi, Italian physician, zoologist, and entomologist (d. 1925)
1852: Jan van Beers, Belgian painter and illustrator (d. 1927)
1851: Ruperto Chapí, Spanish composer, co-founded Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (d. 1909)
1851: Vincent d'Indy, French composer and educator (d. 1931)
1847: Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
1845: Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
1845: Jakob Sverdrup, Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (d. 1899)
1844: Adolphus Greely, American general and explorer, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
1843: George Frederick Leycester Marshall, English colonel and entomologist (d. 1934)
1839: John Ballance, Irish-New Zealand journalist and politician, 14th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1893)
1824: Virginia Minor, American women's suffrage activist (d. 1894)
1822: Henri Murger, French novelist and poet (d. 1861)
1820: Edward Augustus Inglefield, English admiral and explorer (d. 1894)
1814: Charles Mackay, Scottish journalist, anthologist, and author (d. 1889)
1811: Edward William Cooke, English painter and illustrator (d. 1880)
1809: Georges-Eugène Haussmann, French engineer, urban planner, and politician (d. 1891)
1802: Charles-Mathias Simons, German-Luxembourger jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874)
1801: Alexander Barrow, American lawyer and politician (d. 1846)
1797: Alfred de Vigny, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1863)
1785: Louis XVII of France (d. 1795)
1784: Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Hungarian philologist, orientalist, and author (d. 1842)
1781: Alexander Vostokov, Estonian-Russian philologist and academic (d. 1864)
1765: Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
1746: Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (d. 1767)
1746: Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican-French lawyer and politician (d. 1785)
1724: Jane Colden, American botanist and author (d. 1766)
1714: Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian historian and theologian (d. 1795)
1712: Claude Bourgelat, French surgeon and author (d. 1779)
1710: Joseph Abaco, Belgian cellist and composer (d. 1805)
1702: Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (d. 1762)
1681: Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero, Spanish-Italian cardinal (d. 1760)
1679: Domenico Lalli, Italian poet and librettist (d. 1741)
1676: Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (b. 1676)
1627: Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1546: Johannes Piscator, German theologian (d. 1625)
1509: Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg, German nobleman (d. 1578)
1416: Francis of Paola, Italian friar and saint, founded Order of the Minims (d. 1507)
1401: Albert III, duke of Bavaria (d. 1460)

Deaths On This Day

2018: Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (b. 1936)
2016: Mother Angelica, American Roman Catholic religious leader and media personality (b. 1923)
2015: Johnny Helms, American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (b. 1935)
2015: T. Sailo, Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (b. 1922)
2014: Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (b. 1920)
2014: James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1929)
2013: Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1923)
2013: Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American scientist and engineer (b. 1924)
2013: Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1917)
2012: Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist and feminist (b. 1929)
2011: Clement Arrindell, Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (b. 1931)
2011: Farley Granger, American actor (b. 1925)
2010: Dick Giordano, American illustrator (b. 1932)
2009: Irving R. Levine, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
2008: Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921)
2007: Nancy Adams, New Zealand botanist and illustrator (b. 1926)
2007: Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
2006: Dan Curtis, American director and producer (b. 1928)
2006: Stanisław Lem, Ukrainian-Polish author (b. 1921)
2006: Rudolf Vrba, Czech Holocaust survivor and educator (b. 1924)
2006: Neil Williams, English cricketer (b. 1962)
2005: Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian soldier and surgeon (b. 1913)
2004: Robert Merle, French author (b. 1909)
2003: Edwin Carr, New Zealand composer and educator (b. 1926)
2002: Milton Berle, American comedian and actor (b. 1908)
2002: Dudley Moore, English actor (b. 1935)
2002: Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
2000: George Allen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1914)
2000: Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1942)
1999: Michael Aris, Cuban-English author and academic (b. 1946)
1998: David McClelland, American psychologist and academic (b. 1917)
1997: Lane Dwinell, American businessman and politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1906)
1997: Ella Maillart, Swiss skier, sailor, field hockey player, and photographer (b. 1903)
1995: René Allio, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1994: Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (b. 1912)
1994: Lawrence Wetherby, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1908)
1993: Kamal Hassan Ali, Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
1993: Paul László, Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1900)
1992: Colin Gibson, English footballer (b. 1923)
1992: Lang Hancock, Australian businessman (b. 1909)
1992: James E. Webb, American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (b. 1906)
1991: Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
1990: Percy Beard, American hurdler and coach (b. 1908)
1989: May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
1989: Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (b. 1898)
1988: Charles Willeford, American author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
1987: William Bowers, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1982: Fazlur Khan, Bangladeshi-American engineer and architect, designed the John Hancock Center and Willis Tower (b. 1929)
1981: Jakob Ackeret, Swiss engineer and academic (b. 1898)
1980: Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (b. 1912)
1978: Nat Bailey, Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (b. 1902)
1978: Kunwar Digvijay Singh, Indian field hockey (b. 1922)
1978: Sverre Farstad, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1920)
1977: Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, and composer (b. 1896)
1977: Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
1977: Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch airline pilot (b. 1927)
1976: Georg August Zinn, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Hesse (b. 1901)
1975: Arthur Bliss, English conductor and composer (b. 1891)
1974: Eduardo Santos, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
1973: Mikhail Kalatozov, Georgian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1903)
1972: Lorenzo Wright, American athlete (b. 1926)
1968: Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1934)
1968: Vladimir Seryogin, Russian soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
1967: Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1960: Gregorio Marañón, Spanish physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1887)
1958: Leon C. Phillips, American lawyer and politician, 11th Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1890)
1956: Évariste Lévi-Provençal, French orientalist and historian (b. 1894)
1952: Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (b. 1894)
1949: Elisheva Bikhovski, Israeli-Russian poet (b. 1888)
1946: Karl Groos, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1861)
1945: Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881)
1945: Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1866)
1943: George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1882)
1942: Julio González, Catalan sculptor and painter (b. 1876)
1940: Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1938: William Stern, German-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1871)
1934: Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1931: Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (b. 1867)
1928: Leslie Stuart, English organist and composer (b. 1863)
1927: Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (b. 1842)
1927: Klaus Berntsen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1844)
1926: Kick Kelly, American baseball player, manager, and umpire (b. 1856)
1926: Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1925: Carl Neumann, German mathematician and academic (b. 1832)
1923: James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (b. 1842)
1922: Nikolay Sokolov, Russian composer and educator (b. 1859)
1921: Harry Barron, English general and politician, 16th Governor of Western Australia (b. 1847)
1918: Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (b. 1838)
1918: Martin Sheridan, Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (b. 1881)
1913: Richard Montgomery Gano, American minister, physician, and general (b. 1830)
1910: Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist, zoologist, and engineer (b. 1835)
1900: Joseph A. Campbell, American businessman, founded the Campbell Soup Company (b. 1817)
1898: Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian philosopher and activist (b. 1817)
1897: Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek ophthalmologist, physician, and educator (b. 1826)
1890: Carl Jacob Löwig, German chemist and academic (b. 1803)
1889: John Bright, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1811)
1886: Henry Taylor, English poet and playwright (b. 1800)
1878: George Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (b. 1811)
1875: Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, Peruvian soldier and politician, President of Peru (b. 1808)
1875: Edgar Quinet, French historian and academic (b. 1803)
1869: James Harper, American publisher and politician, 65th Mayor of New York City (b. 1795)
1864: Jean-Jacques Ampère, French philologist and academic (b. 1800)
1850: Wilhelm Beer, Prussian astronomer and banker (b. 1797)
1849: Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, Irish-Canadian politician, 35th Governor General of Canada (b. 1776)
1848: Gabriel Bibron, French zoologist and herpetologist (b. 1805)
1770: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
1757: Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1717)
1729: Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1679)
1697: Simon Bradstreet, English businessman and politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1603)
1679: Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
1676: Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (b. 1597)
1635: Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1625: James VI and I of the United Kingdom (b. 1566)
1624: Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (b. 1578)
1621: Benedetto Giustiniani, Italian cardinal (b. 1554)
1615: Margaret of Valois (b. 1553)
1613: Sigismund Báthory (b. 1573)
1598: Theodor de Bry, Belgian-German engraver, goldsmith, and publisher (b. 1528)
1572: Girolamo Maggi, Italian polymath (b. c. 1523)
1564: Lütfi Pasha, Turkish historian and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1488)
1482: Mary of Burgundy, Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1457)
1472: Janus Pannonius, Hungarian bishop and poet (b. 1434)
1462: Vasily II of Moscow (b. 1415)
1378: Pope Gregory XI (b. 1336)
1248: Maud Marshal, English countess (b. 1192)
1184: Giorgi III, King of Georgia
1045: Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i, Fatimid vizier
973: Hermann Billung, Frankish lieutenant (b. 900)
965: Arnulf I, Count of Flanders (born c. 890)
916: Alduin I, Frankish nobleman
913: Du Xiao, chancellor of Later Liang
913: Zhang empress of Later Liang
853: Haymo of Halberstadt, German bishop and author (b. 778)
710: Rupert of Salzburg, Austrian bishop and saint (b. 660)

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