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March 8

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March 8

March 8 is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 298 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Two major Michigan lottery tickets, including $250,000 Powerball prize, expiring soon. There are just a few days left until a $250,000 Powerball lottery prize won in Michigan goes out the window, in addition to another major Lucky for Life prize expiring later this month.
2021: Kansas woman wins lottery four days after turning 18. A Kansas woman took home a $25,000 top prize while playing the lottery for the very first time, just four days after her 18th birthday.
2020: Malfunction delays Saturday's Powerball lottery drawing. People hoping to win the Powerball jackpot Saturday night had to wait a little longer to see the numbers.
2017: Pennsylvania Lottery observes 45th anniversary of first ticket sales. The Pennsylvania Lottery Tuesday marked the 45th anniversary of its very first game, which went on sale March 7, 1972.
2016: Connecticut considers allowing online lottery ticket sales. Lawmakers are considering legislation that would move the Connecticut Lottery online for state residents.
2014: $309 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot rolls into top 25. The multi-state Mega Millions lottery game continued growing its jackpot toward frenzy levels last night.
2012: State cuts lottery winner's benefits. A Lincoln Park, Michigan, woman who won $1 million in the state lottery but continued to get food stamps has an unusual connection to the legislator seeking to outlaw what she was she's doing.
2011: Texas lawmaker aims to bring video gaming to state. Texas state senator Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa has filed legislation that would legalize video lottery games, a form of slot machine, in Texas.
2010: Store clerk stole $100,000 in lottery tickets, police say. A Kroger employee was arrested Thursday on charges she stole more than $100,000 in lottery tickets.
2010: 1 ticket wins $133M Mega Millions lottery jackpot. One lucky lottery player from California can lay claims to a $133 million jackpot.
2010: S.C. Lottery sales up by 3 percent; Powerball sales down. It's early yet, but the multi-state lottery game Mega Millions has not sent lottery ticket sales shooting through the roof in South Carolina.
2010: Lottery ticket thief tries to claim prize at same store. Police say a 22-year-old Winter Haven man walked into a Circle K last week and stole $70 worth of Florida Scratch-Off tickets then returned to the same store to cash a winning $50 ticket.
2008: N.J. lottery midday draws held late, not televised. The New Jersey Lottery's computer system is back on-line, after being down for about 3 1/2 hours this afternoon, officials said.
2006: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $31 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $31 million when none of the tickets sold for Tuesday's drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball.
2006: Oregon store owner gives share of lottery prize to the schools. The owner of a Medford, Oregon, grocery store has donated his share of an $800,000 lottery prize to two elementary schools.
2006: Ticket Holder Claims $10.6M Ohio Lottery Jackpot. The winner of the Feb. 1 Lot 'O Play drawing has stepped forward to claim the $10.6 million prize.
2006: Iowa lottery records show sales trends. Mason City TouchPlay outlets took in more than $3.2 million in their machines over the past eight months, with gamblers in Clear Lake throwing in another $663,000, according to an analysis by Lee Enterprises newspapers.
2006: Montana lottery system getting facelift. New lottery ticket machines being installed in Montana allow consumers to buy lottery tickets 24-hours-a-day.
2006: N.C. Lottery officials mum on payout of first tickets. Scratch-off tickets for North Carolina's first lottery games will range in cost from $1 to $5, lottery officials said Tuesday.
2005: Illinois lawmakers debate Internet lottery sales. If store lines have kept you from the big bucks possible in playing the state lottery, a Chicago senator has the solution - just buy the tickets online.
2005: Lottery trial sheds lights on OLGC miscues. An 81-year-old Canadian man, a cancer survivor, is suing the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLGC), saying it refused to properly investigate a retailer who allegedly cheated him out of a $250,000 winning Encore ticket.
2005: Tennessee flooded with a multitude of lottery bills. On the brink of $1 billion in ticket sales, the year-old Tennessee lottery is the subject of 53 bills in the General Assembly to alter its operations.
2005: Nevada Assembly passes lottery measure. A resolution to legalize a Nevada state lottery was approved 33-9 Monday in the Assembly after supporters emphasized profits would buy textbooks for schoolchildren.
2005: Ohio Lottery Posts Wrong Results on Official Web Site. Ohio Lottery Commission officials say two employees responsible for posting an incorrect Super Lotto Plus number over the weekend will be disciplined.
2005: Oregon Gov. pushes for larger lottery cut. Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has become a quiet backroom force in pushing the Oregon Lottery into considering a nearly 50 percent cut in the share of proceeds that bars, restaurants and taverns receive for the lottery's new electronic slot games.
2005: Georgia Lottery looks to install kiosks at airport. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue and the Georgia Lottery Corp. hope to offer lottery tickets to the 84 million people who pass through the Atlanta airport each year.
2005: Wisconsin Powerball winner mystery solved. The winner of a $36.8 million Powerball jackpot, who kept his good fortune to himself since Jan. 8, ended the mystery Monday and came forward to claim his prize.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Grows To $79 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $79 million, with a cash option of $44 million.
2004: Mega Millions jackpot increases to $13 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $13 million Saturday.
2004: Governor Proposes Powerball for Maine. Maine Gov. John Baldacci proposed adding Powerball to the Maine State Lottery games as part of the supplemental budget presented Friday to lawmakers.
2004: Florida Lotto rolls over to $15 million. Saturday's Lotto drawing resulted in a rollover when no player matched all six numbers to win the Jackpot prize, the Florida Lottery reported on Sunday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$687 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2024
2.$536 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2026
3.$511.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2024
4.$414 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2019
5.$380.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2018
6.$320.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2025
7.$309 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2014
8.$290 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2018
9.$256 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2025
10.€181.07 Million
US$210.57 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2026
11.$203 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2023
12.$200 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2008
13.€167.81 Million
US$182.89 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2022
14.$170 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2010
15.$157 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2016
16.€143 Million
US$155.96 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2025
17.€112 Million
US$155.22 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2014
18.$154.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2021
19.€132.07 Million
US$153.58 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2026
20.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2013
21.$148 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2012
22.$142 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2007
23.€118.82 Million
US$141.28 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2021
24.€110.16 Million
US$136.02 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 8, 2018
25.€117.05 Million
US$131.5 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2019

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2001: McRemington
Thursday, Mar 8, 2001
25 years old
1986: PlraX
Saturday, Mar 8, 1986
40 years old
1986: claymore
Saturday, Mar 8, 1986
40 years old
1981: ladidiamondc
Sunday, Mar 8, 1981
45 years old
1980: TomekaO6
Saturday, Mar 8, 1980
46 years old
1978: jsparks22
Wednesday, Mar 8, 1978
48 years old
1975: LOTTOMIKE
Saturday, Mar 8, 1975
51 years old
1974: moneytalks
Friday, Mar 8, 1974
52 years old
1971: wgittings
Monday, Mar 8, 1971
55 years old
1960: Crazybob35
Tuesday, Mar 8, 1960
66 years old
1959: Suremoney
Sunday, Mar 8, 1959
67 years old
1957: fjgct
Friday, Mar 8, 1957
69 years old
1954: DOGFIRE101
Monday, Mar 8, 1954
72 years old
1943: john barile
Monday, Mar 8, 1943
83 years old
: carissimi1
(year not provided)
: Get-Cash47
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.
2021: Twenty-eight political institutions in Myanmar establish the National Unity Consultative Council, a historic alliance of ethnic armed organizations and democratically elected leaders, in response to the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.
2018: The first Aurat March (social/political demonstration) is held on International Women's Day in Karachi, Pakistan, since then held annually across Pakistan, and the feminist slogan "Mera Jism Meri Marzi" (My body, my choice), in demand for women's right to bodily autonomy and against gender-based violence, came into vogue in Pakistan.
2017: The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo, collapses in stormy weather.
2014: In one of aviation's greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The fate of the flight remains unknown.
2010: Headlined by Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair, TNA Wrestling moves its flagship program, TNA Impact!, to Monday night. This effort to go "big time live" failed but is notable in the history of professional wrestling television.
2004: A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2001: Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-102, carrying the Expedition 2 crew to the International Space Station.
1994: A collision at Indira Gandhi International Airport kills 9 people.
1988: Aeroflot Flight 3379 is hijacked by the Ovechkin family and diverted to Veshchevo in the Soviet Union.
1985: A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills 80 and injures 200 others.
1983: Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1979: Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
1979: Images taken by Voyager 1 prove the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
1966: Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, is destroyed by a bomb.
1965: Vietnam War: US Marines arrive at Da Nang.
1965: Aeroflot Flight 513 crashes during takeoff from Kuybyshev Airport, killing 30 and injuring 9.
1963: The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état.
1962: A Turkish Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes into Mount Medetsiz in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, killing all 11 people on board.
1950: The iconic Volkswagen Type 2 "Bus" begins production.
1949: President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1942: World War II: The Dutch East Indies surrender Java to the Imperial Japanese Army.
1942: World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces capture Rangoon, Burma from the British.
1937: Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1936: Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1924: A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1921: Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while on his way home from the parliament building in Madrid.
1917: International Women's Day protests in Petrograd mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23 in the Julian calendar).
1917: The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1916: World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1910: French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1868: Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
1844: King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1844: The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, was reopened after 45 years of closure.
1801: War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1782: Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity, are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1736: Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1722: The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad.
1702: Queen Anne, the younger sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1658: Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655-1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark-Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden.
1558: The city of Pori (Swedish: Björneborg) is founded by Duke John on the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia.
1262: Battle of Hausbergen between bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg.
1126: Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
1010: Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.

Births On This Day

2004: Kit Connor, English actor
2003: Montana Jordan, American actor
1999: Nathan McSweeney, Australian cricketer
1997: Tijana Bošković, Serbian volleyball player
1996: Kyle Allen, American football player
1995: Marko Gudurić, Serbian basketball player
1995: Isaiah Whitehead, American basketball player
1994: Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer
1993: Rui Machida, Japanese basketball player
1991: Yoon Ji-sung, South Korean singer and actor
1990: Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and actress
1990: Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
1990: Brandon Kozun, American-Canadian ice hockey player
1990: Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
1990: Kevin Zeitler, American football player
1989: Robbie Hummel, American basketball player and sportscaster
1988: Benny Blanco, American record producer
1988: Tommy Pham, American baseball player
1987: Milana Vayntrub, Uzbekistani-American actress and comedian
1987: Jonathan Wright, Australian rugby league player
1986: Chad Gable, American wrestler
1986: Thomas Morstead, American football player
1985: Maria Ohisalo, Finnish politician and researcher
1984: Yoshihisa Hirano, Japanese baseball player
1984: Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
1984: Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player
1983: André Santos, Brazilian footballer
1983: Mark Worrell, American baseball player
1982: Erik Ersberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1982: Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer
1982: Keemstar, American YouTuber
1982: Kat Von D, American tattoo artist and model
1979: Tom Chaplin, English singer-songwriter and musician
1978: Nick Zano, American actor
1977: James Van Der Beek, American actor (died 2026)
1977: Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
1976: Chris Clark, American ice hockey player
1976: Juan Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
1976: Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976: Hines Ward, Korean-American football player
1973: Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-German actor
1972: Matt Nable, Australian rugby league player and actor
1972: Lena Sundström, Swedish journalist and author
1970: Jason Elam, American football player
1970: Andrea Parker, American actress
1968: Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1968: Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter
1966: Greg Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, English politician
1965: Kenny Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster
1962: Leon Robinson, American actor
1961: Camryn Manheim, American actress
1961: Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player
1960: Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer
1960: Buck Williams, American basketball player and coach
1959: Lester Holt, American journalist
1959: Aidan Quinn, American actor
1958: Gary Numan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1957: Clive Burr, English rock drummer (died 2013)
1957: Billy Childs, American pianist and composer
1956: Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (died 1989)
1956: David Malpass, American economist and government official
1954: Steve James, American documentary filmmaker
1954: David Wilkie, Sri Lankan-Scottish swimmer (died 2024)
1953: Jim Rice, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1951: Phil Edmonds, Zambian-English cricketer
1951: Dianne Walker, American tap dancer
1949: Teofilo Cubillas, Peruvian footballer
1948: Mel Galley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)
1948: Peggy March, American singer-songwriter
1948: Jonathan Sacks, English rabbi, philosopher, and scholar (died 2020)
1947: Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (died 2011)
1946: Randy Meisner, American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2023)
1945: Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter and actor
1945: Anselm Kiefer, German painter and sculptor
1944: Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter
1944: Sergey Nikitin, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943: Susan Clark, Canadian actress and producer
1943: Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (died 2010)
1942: Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor (died 2020)
1942: Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper
1941: Norman Stone, British historian, author, and academic (died 2019)
1939: Jim Bouton, American baseball player and journalist (died 2019)
1939: Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina and choreographer (died 2023)
1939: Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater and coach
1939: Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor (died 2011)
1937: Richard Fariña, American singer-songwriter and author (died 1966)
1937: Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, President of Rwanda (died 1994)
1936: Panditrao Agashe, Indian businessman (died 1986)
1936: Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer
1935: George Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
1934: Marv Breeding, American baseball player and scout (died 2006)
1931: Neil Adcock, South African cricketer (died 2013)
1931: John McPhee, American author and educator
1931: Neil Postman, American author and social critic (died 2003)
1931: Gerald Potterton, English-Canadian animator, director, and producer (died 2022)
1930: Bob Grim, American baseball player (died 1996)
1930: Douglas Hurd, English politician
1928: Lore Segal, American novelist (died 2024)
1927: Ramon Revilla Sr., Filipino actor and politician (died 2020)
1926: Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2001)
1925: Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic (died 2014)
1924: Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator (died 2013)
1924: Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director (died 2003)
1924: Addie L. Wyatt, American civil rights activist and labor leader (died 2012)
1922: Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (died 2014)
1922: Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (died 2008)
1922: Carl Furillo, American baseball player (died 1989)
1922: Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (died 2015)
1921: Alan Hale Jr., American actor and restaurateur (died 1990)
1918: Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (died 2008)
1914: Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer (died 1987)
1912: Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, Governor of Texas (died 2003)
1912: Meldrim Thomson Jr., American publisher and politician, Governor of New Hampshire (died 2001)
1911: Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (died 2000)
1910: Claire Trevor, American actress (died 2000)
1909: Beatrice Shilling, English motorcycle racer and engineer (died 1990)
1907: Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, President of Greece (died 1998)
1902: Louise Beavers, American actress and singer (died 1962)
1902: Jennings Randolph, American journalist and politician (died 1998)
1896: Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (died 1975)
1892: Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author (died 1979)
1886: Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1972)
1879: Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
1865: Frederic Goudy, American type designer (died 1947)
1859: Kenneth Grahame, British author (died 1932)
1858: Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist and homesteader (died 1915)
1856: Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (died 1929)
1856: Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (died 1937)
1851: Frank Avery Hutchins, American librarian and educator (died 1914)
1841: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American lawyer and jurist (died 1935)
1836: Harriet Samuel, English businesswoman and founder the jewellery retailer H. Samuel (died 1908)
1830: João de Deus, Portuguese poet and educator (died 1896)
1827: Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (died 1875)
1822: Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (died 1882)
1804: Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician (died 1887)
1799: Simon Cameron, American journalist and politician, United States Secretary of War (died 1889)
1761: Jan Potocki, Polish ethnologist, historian, linguist, and author (died 1815)
1748: William V, Prince of Orange (died 1806)
1746: André Michaux, French botanist and explorer (died 1802)
1726: Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (died 1799)
1714: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (died 1788)
1712: John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (died 1780)
1495: John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (died 1550)

Deaths On This Day

2025: Athol Fugard, South African actor, director, and playwright (born 1932)
2020: Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (born 1929)
2019: Marshall Brodien, American actor (born 1934)
2019: Cedrick Hardman, American football player and actor (born 1948)
2018: Kate Wilhelm, American author (born 1928)
2016: George Martin, English composer, conductor, and producer (born 1926)
2015: Sam Simon, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)
2014: Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (born 1921)
2014: William Guarnere, American sergeant (born 1923)
2013: John O'Connell, Irish politician, Irish Minister of Health (born 1927)
2013: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (born 1922)
2012: Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (born 1921)
2009: Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)
2007: John Inman, English actor (born 1935)
2007: John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (born 1947)
2005: César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (born 1924)
2005: Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen commander and politician, President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (born 1951)
2004: Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded the Palestinian Liberation Front (born 1948)
2003: Adam Faith, English singer (born 1940)
2003: Karen Morley, American actress (born 1909)
1999: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (born 1914)
1999: Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (born 1924)
1999: Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (born 1914)
1998: Ray Nitschke, American football player (born 1936)
1996: Jack Churchill, British colonel (born 1906)
1993: Billy Eckstine, American jazz singer (born 1914)
1983: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician (born 1904)
1983: William Walton, English composer (born 1902)
1982: Hatem Ali Jamadar, Bengali politician (born 1872)
1975: George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1904)
1973: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (born 1945)
1971: Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (born 1893)
1961: Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (born 1879)
1957: Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (born 1886)
1948: Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (born 1889)
1944: Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (born 1916)
1943: Cipto Mangunkusumo, Indonesian independence leader (born 1886)
1942: José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (born 1888)
1941: Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (born 1876)
1937: Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1902)
1932: Minna Craucher, Finnish socialite and spy (born 1891)
1930: William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (born 1857)
1930: Edward Terry Sanford, American jurist and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (born 1865)
1923: Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1837)
1917: Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman (born 1838)
1889: John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer (born 1803)
1887: Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (born 1813)
1887: James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (born 1820)
1874: Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (born 1800)
1872: Priscilla Susan Bury, British botanist (born 1799)
1872: Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (born 1815)
1869: Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (born 1803)
1844: Charles XIV John of Sweden (born 1763)
1723: Povel Juel, Norwegian civil servant (born c.1673)
1723: Christopher Wren, English architect, designed St. Paul's Cathedral (born 1632)
1717: Abraham Darby I, English blacksmith (born 1678)
1702: William III of England (born 1650)
1641: Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer (born 1587)
1619: Veit Bach, German baker and miller
1550: John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (born 1495)
1466: Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan (born 1401)
1403: Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan (born 1360)
1144: Pope Celestine II
1137: Adela of Normandy, by marriage countess of Blois (born c. 1067)
1126: Urraca of León and Castile (born 1079)

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