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March 9

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March 9

March 9 is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 297 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: $2 billion Powerball lottery winner buys $25.5 million Hollywood Hills mansion. The winner of the $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot is ready to live it up in luxury, having already purchased a $25.5 million Hollywood Hills mansion.
2022: Missouri lottery player still in shock days after winning $100,000. A Missouri lottery winner of $100,000 is currently demonstrating an accurate representation of how many players would likely react upon landing a huge prize.
2021: NC man wins $1 million in lottery twice in one year. Most players can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to win a million dollars, but one North Carolina man is lucky enough to have experienced the exciting feeling twice after winning two $1 million prizes in the span of one year.
2020: Michigan Lottery has few options to stop players who spend millions. The Michigan Lottery — and lotteries in general — have trouble reining in abusive spending by players who take advantage of the anonymous nature of lottery ticket purchasing.
2017: California Lottery delaying payouts to winners. If you win a California Lottery scratchers prize above $600, you'll now have to wait much longer to get that money.
2016: French lottery 'winner' went on huge spending spree only to realize she had wrong number. A 46-year old French mother racked up thousands of euros in spending on jewelry and perfume after "winning" the Euro Millions lottery, only to discover she had the wrong number by one digit.
2016: Illinois Lottery to stop online, mobile app sales of single tickets. In less than two weeks, Illinois Lottery players hoping to strike it rich with single tickets purchased online or via the lottery's mobile app will be out of luck.
2016: FBI warns about lottery fraud. Criminals conducting lottery scams are as persuasive as they are sophisticated, according to a warning issued by the FBI.
2015: N.J. woman claims state's biggest-ever scratch-off jackpot. The winner of $5 million, the largest prize offered on a New Jersey Lottery instant ticket, said the reality of the situation hasn't quite sunk in yet.
2013: Lottery winnings will enable family reunion. An Illinois couple plans to use their lottery winnings to visit their son, a U.S. Navy pilot, in Hawaii -- and then get the once-in-a-lifetime chance to sail with him on an aircraft carrier as he returns from deployment in the Middle East.
2011: $151 Million: Lottery riches up for grabs in Mega Millions game. The jackpot for Friday night's multi-state Mega Millions lottery draw now stands at $151 million, the largest since January 4th, when a $380 million mega-jackpot was split by two winning tickets from Idaho and Washington.
2010: Kentucky Lottery earns first Responsible Gaming Certfication. The Kentucky Lottery Corporation has been awarded Level 2 Certification of the World Lottery Association's (WLA's) Responsible Gaming Framework.
2009: N.Y. man scratches way to lottery million. Michael Levy will never forget the New York lottery tickets he purchased on Friday, February 13.
2006: $200,000 N.M. Powerball lottery ticket expires Friday. Time is running out for the New Mexico Lottery player who may hold a Powerball second prize ticket worth $200,000.
2006: N.D. lawmaker quits anti-lottery group. The North Dakota Senate's top officer has quit a lottery opposition group, saying it has become too partisan.
2006: N.C. lottery director says lower payouts could hurt sales. The North Carolina Lottery's executive director says the law requiring the lottery to return at least 35 percent of all ticket sales to state education programs could inhibit sales and ultimately cost the state money.
2006: What would the experts do with a lottery jackpot?. If you won the lottery, as eight Nebraska meatpackers did last month, splitting a $365 million jackpot, what investment would be at the top of your wish list?
2004: Bank runs out of money while cashing lottery tickets. More than 1,100 people won Ohio's "Pick Four" lottery with the numbers 1111, causing one bank to run out of money while trying to pay multiple winners.
2004: Campus sales of Tennessee Lottery tickets unlikely. While colleges are ready to accept tuition payments funded by Tennessee's lottery, that doesn't mean tickets for the games of chance will be sold on state campuses.
2004: $28.5 million California lottery ticket unclaimed. California's public schools appeared to be the big winners Monday night when a $28.5 million lottery ticket went unclaimed after six months.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$414 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2019
2.$380.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2018
3.$309 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2014
4.$290 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2018
5.$230 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2008
6.$203 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2023
7.€168.98 Million US$186.16 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2022
8.$170 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2010
9.€112 Million US$155.22 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2014
10.$154.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2021
11.$151 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2011
12.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2013
13.$148 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2012
14.$142 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2007
15.€118.82 Million
US$141.28 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2021
16.€111.49 Million
US$137.21 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2018
17.€117.05 Million
US$131.5 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2019
18.$119 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2015
19.€80 Million
US$110.8 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2011
20.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2020
21.$106 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2017
22.$104 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 11, 2017
23.$99.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 9, 2022
24.€73 Million
US$82.34 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 12, 2019
25.$79 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 10, 2004

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1994: MrFlipTexas
Wednesday, Mar 9, 1994
29 years old
1989: Soul8888
Thursday, Mar 9, 1989
34 years old
1987: Ronald37
Monday, Mar 9, 1987
36 years old
1985: marlon39
Saturday, Mar 9, 1985
38 years old
1985: ncheavyhitter
Saturday, Mar 9, 1985
38 years old
1982: fieldysgrl98
Tuesday, Mar 9, 1982
41 years old
1981: Darkladi
Monday, Mar 9, 1981
42 years old
1978: Money4me
Thursday, Mar 9, 1978
45 years old
1977: Kumo
Wednesday, Mar 9, 1977
46 years old
1977: gelati24
Wednesday, Mar 9, 1977
46 years old
1971: Oscargrouch05$
Tuesday, Mar 9, 1971
52 years old
1968: Mislotto54
Saturday, Mar 9, 1968
55 years old
1968: paulfig911
Saturday, Mar 9, 1968
55 years old
1962: foxy lady
Friday, Mar 9, 1962
61 years old
1954: Allcash64
Tuesday, Mar 9, 1954
69 years old
1954: allcashh
Tuesday, Mar 9, 1954
69 years old
1953: lesonook
Monday, Mar 9, 1953
70 years old
1953: blcmjfq
Monday, Mar 9, 1953
70 years old
1950: Bijuan39
Thursday, Mar 9, 1950
73 years old
: calabs
(year not provided)
: profitstacks28
(year not provided)
: mymalwl
(year not provided)
: Reiz
(year not provided)
: Shay211!
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2012: A truce between the Salvadoran government and gangs in the country goes into effect when 30 gang leaders are transferred to lower security prisons.
2011: Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
1997: Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. As the comet made its closest approach to Earth on March 26, all 39 active members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed ritual mass suicide over a period of three days, in the belief that their spirits would be teleported into an alien spacecraft flying inside the comet's tail.
1997: The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles after attending the Soul Train Music Awards. He is gunned down leaving an after party at the Petersen Automotive Museum. His murder remains unsolved.
1987: Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation
1978: President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
1977: The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
1976: Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1974: The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars.
1967: Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people.
1961: Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1960: Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
1959: The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1957: The 8.6 M_w Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
1956: Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1954: McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1946: Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
1945: World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
1945: World War II: Allied forces carry out firebombing over Tokyo, destroying most of the capital and killing over 100,000 civilians.
1944: World War II: Soviet Army planes attack Tallinn, Estonia.
1942: World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
1933: Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1916: Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
1908: Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
1862: American Civil War: USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (rebuilt from the engines and lower hull of the USS Merrimack) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships.
1847: Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.
1842: Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
1842: The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1841: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1815: Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
1811: Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Tacuarí.
1796: Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1776: The Wealth of Nations by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is published.
1765: After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually died by suicide.
1701: Safavid troops retreat from Basra, ending a three-year occupation.
1500: The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
1230: Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus in the Battle of Klokotnitsa.
1226: Khwarazmian sultan Jalal ad-Din conquers the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
1009: First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
141 BC: Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.

Births On This Day

2000: Khabane Lame (Khaby Lame), Senegalese-Italian social media personality
1998: Najee Harris, American football running back
1997: Jane Chika Oranika (Chika), American rapper
1995: Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer
1994: Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player
1993: Min Yoon-gi (Suga), South Korean rapper, songwriter, record producer
1991: Kim Joo-young (Jooyoung), South Korean singer-songwriter
1990: Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
1990: Matt Robinson, New Zealand rugby league player
1990: Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson (YG), American rapper
1989: Kim Tae-yeon (Taeyeon), South Korean singer
1987: Shad Moss (Bow Wow), American rapper and actor
1986: Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player
1986: Brittany Snow, American actress and producer
1985: Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player
1985: Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
1985: Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan race car driver
1985: Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer
1984: Abdoulay Konko, French footballer
1984: Julia Mancuso, American skier
1983: Wayne Simien, American basketball player
1983: Clint Dempsey, American international soccer player
1982: Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist
1982: Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player
1982: Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
1981: Antonio Bryant, American football player
1981: Clay Rapada, American baseball player
1980: Howard Bailey Jr. (Chingy), American rapper
1980: Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor.
1979: Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
1977: Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
1977: Mark Tookey, Australian rugby league player
1975: Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentinian footballer
1973: Aaron Boone, American baseball player and manager
1973: Liam Griffin, English race car driver
1972: Jodey Arrington, American politician
1971: Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
1970: Naveen Jindal, Indian businessman and politician
1970: Martin Johnson, English rugby player and coach
1969: Kimberly Guilfoyle, American lawyer and journalist
1968: Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
1966: Brendan Canty, American drummer and songwriter
1966: Tony Lockett, Australian footballer
1965: Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor
1965: Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1964: Juliette Binoche, French actress
1964: Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach
1963: Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
1963: Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1961: Rick Steiner, American wrestler
1961: Darrell Walker, American basketball player and coach
1960: Finn Carter, American actress
1960: Željko Obradović, Serbian basketball coach
1959: Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1959: Lonny Price, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1958: Linda Fiorentino, American actress
1958: Paul MacLean, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1956: Mark Dantonio, American football player and coach
1956: Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs
1956: David Willetts, English academic and politician
1955: Teo Fabi, Italian race car driver
1955: Józef Pinior, Polish academic and politician
1954: Carlos Ghosn, Brazilian-Lebanese-French business executive
1954: Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer; Irish republican politician (d. 1981)
1954: Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle racer (d. 1982)
1952: Bill Beaumont, English rugby player and manager
1951: Helen Zille, South African journalist, politician and Premier of the Western Cape
1950: Doug Ault, American baseball player and manager (d. 2004)
1950: Andy North, American golfer
1950: Howard Shelley, English pianist and conductor
1949: Neil Hamilton, Welsh lawyer and politician
1948: Emma Bonino, Italian politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1948: Eric Fischl, American painter and sculptor
1948: Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer
1947: Keri Hulme, New Zealand author and poet
1946: Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (d. 2014)
1946: Warren Skaaren, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1990)
1946: Bernd Hölzenbein, German footballer and scout
1945: Robert Calvert, English singer-songwriter and playwright (d. 1988)
1945: Robin Trower, English rock guitarist and vocalist
1945: Dennis Rader (The BTK strangler) American serial killer.
1944: Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
1943: Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (d. 2008)
1942: John Cale, Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer
1942: Ion Caramitru, Romanian actor and artistic director (d. 2021)
1942: Mark Lindsay, American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
1941: Jim Colbert, American golfer
1941: Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (d. 1976)
1940: Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994)
1937: Bernard Landry, Canadian lawyer, politician and Premier of Quebec (d. 2018)
1937: Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1937: Brian Redman, English race car driver
1936: Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2022)
1936: Marty Ingels, American actor and comedian (d. 2015)
1935: Andrew Viterbi, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Qualcomm Inc.
1934: Yuri Gagarin, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut, first human in space (d. 1968)
1934: Joyce Van Patten, American actress
1933: Lloyd Price, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2021)
1933: David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic (d. 2018)
1932: Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 2014)
1932: Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican-American astrologer and actor (d. 2019)
1931: Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician (d. 2014)
1930: Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (d. 2015)
1929: Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana (d. 2002)
1929: Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)
1928: Gerald Bull, Canadian-American engineer and academic (d. 1990)
1928: Keely Smith, American singer and actress (d. 2017)
1926: Joe Franklin, American radio and television host (d. 2015)
1923: James L. Buckley, American lawyer, judge, and politician
1923: André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
1923: Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1922: Ian Turbott, New Zealand-Australian former diplomat and university administrator (d. 2016)
1921: Carl Betz, American actor (d. 1978)
1920: Franjo Mihalić, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (d. 2015)
1918: George Lincoln Rockwell, American sailor and politician, founded the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
1918: Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (d. 2006)
1915: Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (d. 2001)
1911: Clara Rockmore, American classical violin prodigy and theremin player, (d. 1998)
1910: Samuel Barber, American pianist and composer (d. 1981)
1904: Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American soldier and engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (d. 2002)
1902: Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
1892: Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian politician (d. 1971)
1892: Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener (d. 1962)
1891: José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer, politician and President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
1890: Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and lieutenant (d. 1915)
1890: Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
1887: Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician (d. 1976)
1863: Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (d. 1950)
1856: Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (d. 1928)
1850: Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (d. 1925)
1847: Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist, composer, and educator (d. 1924)
1824: Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician, founded Stanford University (d. 1893)
1820: Samuel Blatchford, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1893)
1815: David Davis, American jurist and politician (d. 1886)
1814: Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet and playwright (d. 1861)
1806: Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
1763: William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
1758: Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroanatomist and physiologist (d. 1828)
1753: Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
1749: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French journalist and politician (d. 1791)
1737: Josef Mysliveček, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1781)
1697: Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actress (d. 1760)
1662: Franz Anton von Sporck, German noble (d. 1738)
1568: Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint, namesake of Gonzaga University (d. 1591)
1564: David Fabricius, German theologian, cartographer and astronomer (d. 1617)
1451: Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer, namesake of the Americas (d. 1512)

Deaths On This Day

2021: James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943)
2021: Roger Mudd, American journalist (b. 1928)
2020: John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop (b. 1936)
2018: Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (b. 1965)
2017: Howard Hodgkin, British painter (b. 1932)
2016: Robert Horton, American actor (b. 1924)
2016: Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
2015: James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1920)
2013: Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat
2013: Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (b. 1928)
2011: David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (b. 1929)
2010: Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1940)
2010: Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (b. 1910)
2010: Wilfy Rebimbus, Indian singer (b. 1942)
2007: Brad Delp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)
2007: Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2006: Tom Fox, American activist (b. 1951)
2006: Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
2006: John Profumo, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1915)
2004: John Mayer, Indian composer (b. 1930)
2003: Stan Brakhage, American director and cinematographer (b. 1933)
2003: Bernard Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
2000: Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1908)
1999: Harry Somers, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1925)
1999: George Singh, Belizean jurist and Chief Justice of Belize (b. 1937)
1997: Jean-Dominique Bauby, French journalist and author (b. 1952)
1997: Terry Nation, Welsh author and screenwriter (b. 1930)
1997: The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper, songwriter, and actor (b. 1972)
1996: George Burns, American comedian, actor, and writer (b. 1896)
1994: Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1920)
1994: Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
1994: Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
1993: C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
1992: Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
1991: Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
1989: Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
1988: Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
1983: Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
1983: Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1974: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1974: Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
1971: Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Pope (b. 1902)
1969: Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
1964: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
1955: Miroslava Stern (Miroslava), Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
1954: Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
1943: Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
1937: Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
1926: Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (b. 1865)
1925: Willard Metcalf, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
1918: Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright (b. 1864)
1897: Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (b. 1825)
1895: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1836)
1888: William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
1876: Louise Colet, French poet (b. 1810)
1851: Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist, discovered electromagnetism and the element aluminium (b. 1777)
1847: Mary Anning, English paleontologist (b. 1799)
1831: Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger, German author and playwright (b. 1752)
1825: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, author, and critic (b. 1743)
1810: Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (b. 1742)
1808: Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (b. 1739)
1709: Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English courtier and politician (b. 1638)
1661: Cardinal Mazarin, Italian-French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1602)
1649: James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, (b. 1606)
1649: Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier and politician (b. 1590)
1566: David Rizzio, Italian-Scottish courtier and politician (b. 1533).
1463: Catherine of Bologna, Italian nun and saint (d. 1463)
1444: Leonardo Bruni, Italian humanist (b. c.1370)
1440: Frances of Rome, Italian nun and saint (b. 1384)
1202: Sverre of Norway, king of Norway and founder of the House of Sverre
886: Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Muslim scholar and astrologer (b. 787)

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