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May 10

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May 10

May 10 is the 130th day of the year (131st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 235 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Maryland Lottery launches Cash Pop game. The Maryland Lottery launched Cash Pop on Monday, giving players access to the game that has seen a rise in popularity among other states over the last few years.
2023: North Carolina woman wins $1 million lottery prize a week after buying house. A North Carolina woman who bought her first house won $1 million in the lottery just a week after closing on the home.
2022: North Carolina lottery winners "had to pinch each other" after winning $200,000. A couple who won $200,000 in the North Carolina Lottery had to pinch each other to make sure their win was real.
2021: Minnesota will allow anonymous lottery prize claims. Minnesota will join the growing list of states that allow players to claim lottery prizes anonymously when a new law goes into effect granting winners of certain big prizes the option to withhold their names from the public record.
2019: Alabama lottery plan changed; vote next week. An Alabama House committee today adopted a new version of a bill to set up a state lottery in Alabama, changing how the money would be distributed.
2018: Iowa man claims $4.38 million Lotto America prize. A Davenport, Iowa, man on Thursday claimed a $4.38 million lottery jackpot, acknowledging he had beaten long odds to win a jackpot with a ticket he received as a free play in a lottery promotion.
2018: Lottery tickets will not be sold in South Carolina for more than 12 hours this weekend. You're out of luck if you planned on buying Powerball or Pick 3 tickets in South Carolina on Mother's Day morning.
2017: Army soldier wins $5 million lottery jackpot. An Army soldier based in Fort Drum has won a $5 million New York Lottery jackpot.
2016: Breast cancer patient wins lottery second time. North Carolina Education Lottery officials said a woman who has been battling breast cancer for six years has won the lottery two times in the past three months.
2016: Police track down burglary suspects by tracing stolen lottery tickets. Stolen lottery tickets, worth $6, led to the arrest of two men caught on camera burglarizing a home.
2015: Alabama lottery proposal set for Senate debate Tuesday. A public hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in a Senate committee on a bill to create an Alabama state lottery.
2014: Phoenix couple claim $3.3 million lottery prize. After almost two weeks of remaining silent, the winners of the $3.3 million Arizona Lottery "The Pick" jackpot claimed their winnings.
2013: Tennessee to add Hot Lotto multi-state lottery game. Starting Sunday, Tennessee Lottery players will be able to purchase tickets for Hot Lotto, a multi-state game currently played in 14 states and Washington, D.C.
2011: Financial advisor wins the lottery. A Webster City, Iowa, man today claimed a $9 million prize from Saturday night's Hot Lotto drawing, one of the biggest prizes ever awarded in the history of the Iowa Lottery.
2011: N.Y. Lottery to launch new ad slogan. The lottery that contributed "Hey, you never know" to the lengthy list of memorable advertising catch phrases vernacular is hoping to do it again, with a new slogan for its scratch-off games.
2010: Accused lottery killer expected to make plea in court. A woman accused of killing a Lakeland, Florida, lottery winner is expected to make a plea in court Monday morning.
2007: West Virginia resisting trend to privatize Lottery. West Virginia officials say they so far have not seriously considered an initiative to sell the lottery to a private company in exchange for quick cash.
2007: Expensive Michigan Lottery tickets sell-out quickly. Tickets to the Michigan Lottery's most expensive game sold out Wednesday after less than three days on sale.
2007: Schwarzenegger may try to privatize California Lottery. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to call for privatizing the state lottery, a move that would bring California a cash infusion of as much as $37 billion to help solve pressing budget problems but also could sacrifice a major revenue source for decades to come.
2006: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increased to $80 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game grew to $80 million for Friday's drawing.
2006: 4 Massachusetts lottery licenses suspended. A top official with the Massachusetts Lottery Commission said yesterday that it has indefinitely suspended lottery licenses for four establishments where video slot machines were seized last week by state police investigating possible illegal gambling.
2006: S.C. lottery sales top $1 billion mark for first time. South Carolina lottery sales for this fiscal year have topped $1 billion for the first time.
2005: 2 Players Share $1.17 Million Tenn. Lotto 5 Jackpot. Two tickets, worth $589,973 each, matched all five of the Tennessee Lotto 5 numbers in last night's drawing.
2005: Missouri Director hired to run Oklahoma Lottery. James R. Scroggins, the executive director of the Missouri lottery for the last 13 years, was hired Tuesday to direct the startup of the Oklahoma lottery.
2005: S.C. Lottery may learn lessons from Georgia. Lottery officials in Georgia may be enjoying a sense of irony, as South Carolina is now undergoing the same uncomfortable feeling that they created for the Georgia Lottery when they started their new lottery in 2002.
2005: Embattled lottery pyramid scheme slammed by Australian court. World Games Inc (WGI), a loosely-based international company that has been on the run from legal authorities around the world for several years, was found to be in violation of the 1974 Trade Practices Act by the Australia Full Federal Court for organizing an international online pyramid scheme.
2004: Australian Man Wins Lottery Three Times in One Night. For a 60-year-old Sydney grandfather, it was third time lucky - and second time and first.
2004: Pennsylvania store sells $213M winning Powerball ticket. One lucky player purchased the winning ticket for Saturday's Powerball drawing from a convenience store near the spot where George Washington crossed the Delaware River in 1776.
2004: Lottery winner's dreams live on after his death. Despite a troubled past, James Craig's family said he had started to turn his life around long before he struck it rich and won a $9.7 million Indiana Lotto jackpot earlier this year.
2004: Winning lottery ticket photocopy upheld in appeal. An Alberta court has upheld a decision ordering the Western Canada Lottery Corp. to award Calgarian Valerie Murphy $100,000 after she lost her winning ticket.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$402 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 11, 2021
2.$331 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 10, 2024
3.$295 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 10, 2019
4.$270 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 11, 2013
5.$257 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 12, 2018
6.$248 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 12, 2020
7.$235 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 11, 2019
8.€215 Million US$226.72 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 10, 2022
9.€201.41 Million US$212.39 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 10, 2022
10.€150.62 Million
US$179.24 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 11, 2021
11.€150.5 Million
US$169.06 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 11, 2019
12.$168.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 12, 2021
13.$166 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2008
14.$165 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 10, 2017
15.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 10, 2013
16.$150 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 10, 2016
17.€100 Million
US$143.68 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 10, 2011
18.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 12, 2015
19.$129 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 13, 2009
20.€99 Million
US$123.06 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 14, 2010
21.$121 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 13, 2014
22.$112 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 11, 2007
23.€101.51 Million
US$109.39 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 10, 2024
24.$109.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 10, 2023
25.€90 Million
US$102.72 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
May 15, 2015

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1985: dadoune23456
Friday, May 10, 1985
39 years old
1984: daphie1990
Thursday, May 10, 1984
40 years old
1984: tone0037
Thursday, May 10, 1984
40 years old
1984: tyedyegoddess
Thursday, May 10, 1984
40 years old
1976: sylmoyd
Monday, May 10, 1976
48 years old
1974: nyrngrs01
Friday, May 10, 1974
50 years old
1972: Eric Scott
Wednesday, May 10, 1972
52 years old
1969: dgrant
Saturday, May 10, 1969
55 years old
1967: gtracey
Wednesday, May 10, 1967
57 years old
1965: Cieli Diverde
Monday, May 10, 1965
59 years old
1965: dejavous
Monday, May 10, 1965
59 years old
1952: Doug $!
Saturday, May 10, 1952
72 years old
1951: Yugort
Thursday, May 10, 1951
73 years old
1949: JSopher49
Tuesday, May 10, 1949
75 years old
: MonkeysUncle
(year not provided)
: TabbyLivvy
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State.
2017: Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Al-Tabqah, bringing the Battle of Tabqa to an end.
2013: One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
2012: The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.
2005: A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 20 m from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.
2002: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
1997: The 7.3 M_w Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
1996: A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
1994: Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
1993: In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.
1975: Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.
1969: Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.
1967: The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.
1962: Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1961: Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78.
1946: First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
1942: World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
1941: World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
1941: World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
1940: World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.
1940: World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. On the same day, Germany invades France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom occupies Iceland.
1933: Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1924: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
1922: The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
1916: Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
1908: Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
1904: The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
1899: Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.
1881: Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
1876: The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
1872: Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
1869: The First transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike.
1865: American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
1857: Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.
1849: Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.
1837: Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
1833: A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet.
1824: The National Gallery in London opens to the public.
1801: First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
1796: War of the First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
1775: American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
1775: American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
1774: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
1773: The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
1768: Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.
1713: Great Northern War: The Russian Navy led by Admiral Fyodor Apraksin land both at Katajanokka ja Hietalahti during the Battle of Helsinki.
1688: King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to the revolution of 1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.
1534: Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.
1503: Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
1497: Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
1294: Temür, Khagan of the Mongols, is enthroned as Emperor of the Yuan dynasty.
1291: Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.
28 BC: A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.

Births On This Day

1998: Priscilla Hon, Australian tennis player
1997: Brittany Broski, American comedian and singer
1997: Richarlison, Brazilian footballer
1996: Tyus Jones, American basketball player
1996: Kateřina Siniaková, Czech tennis player
1996: Alex Tuch, American ice hockey player
1995: Missy Franklin, American swimmer
1995: Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer
1990: Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player
1990: Ivana Vuleta, Serbian long jumper
1987: Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
1985: Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
1985: Jon Schofield, English canoe racer
1984: Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player
1983: Gustav Fridolin, Swedish journalist and politician, Swedish Minister of Education
1981: Samuel Dalembert, Haitian-Canadian basketball player
1981: Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
1978: Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer
1978: Kenan Thompson, American actor and comedian
1977: Adrian Morley, English rugby league player
1975: Hazem Emam, Egyptian footballer
1975: Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver
1975: Adam Deadmarsh, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1974: Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
1973: Joshua Eagle, Australian tennis player
1973: Ollie le Roux, South African rugby player
1972: Christian Wörns, German footballer
1971: Ådne Søndrål, Norwegian speed skater
1970: Gabriela Montero, Venezuelan-American pianist
1970: Craig Mack, American rapper (d. 2018)
1970: David Weir, Scottish footballer
1969: Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer and manager
1969: John Scalzi, American author and blogger
1968: Al Murray, English comedian and television host
1968: William Regal, English wrestler
1968: Tatyana Shikolenko, Russian javelin thrower
1967: Eion Crossan, New Zealand rugby player
1966: Jonathan Edwards, English triple jumper
1965: Linda Evangelista, Canadian model
1965: Greg Fasala, Australian swimmer
1965: Paul Langmack, Australian rugby league player and coach
1963: Lisa Nowak, American commander and astronaut
1963: Debbie Wiseman, English composer and conductor
1960: Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and activist
1960: Dean Heller, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator from Nevada, Secretary of State of Nevada
1960: Kerry Hemsley, Australian rugby league player
1960: Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-Slovenian runner
1959: Victoria Rowell, American actress
1959: Danny Schayes, American basketball player
1959: Cindy Hyde-Smith, American politician, United States Senator from Mississippi, Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
1958: Gaétan Boucher, Canadian speed skater
1958: Rick Santorum, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator from Pennsylvania
1957: Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (d. 1979)
1956: Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)
1955: Chris Berman, American sportscaster
1955: Mark David Chapman, American murderer
1954: Mike Hagerty, American actor (d. 2022)
1952: Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer
1949: Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer
1947: Caroline B. Cooney, American author
1946: Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter
1946: Graham Gouldman, English guitarist and songwriter
1946: Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944: Jim Abrahams, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1944: Marie-France Pisier, French actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)
1942: Jim Calhoun, American basketball player and coach
1940: Arthur Alexander, American country-soul singer-songwriter (d. 1993)
1940: Sven-Gunnar Larsson, Swedish retired football player
1940: Wayne Dyer, American author and educator (d. 2015)
1938: Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player (d. 2021)
1937: Tamara Press, Ukrainian shot putter and discus thrower (d. 2021)
1937: Emiko Miyamoto,Japanese volleyball player (d. 2023)
1935: Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1980)
1933: Jean Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1931: Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1930: George E. Smith, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1929: Audun Boysen, Norwegian runner (d. 2000)
1929: George Coe, American actor and producer (d. 2015)
1929: Antonine Maillet, Canadian author and playwright
1928: Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician, President of Estonia
1928: Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013)
1927: Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
1926: Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, President of Bolivia (d. 2002)
1923: Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan general and politician, President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)
1923: Otar Korkia, Georgian basketball player and coach (d. 2005)
1922: David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)
1922: Nancy Walker, American actress, singer, and director (d. 1992)
1920: Basil Kelly, Northern Irish barrister, judge and politician (d. 2008)
1920: Bert Weedon, English guitarist (d. 2012)
1919: Ella T. Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1981)
1918: T. Berry Brazelton, American pediatrician and author (d. 2018)
1918: Desmond MacNamara, Irish painter, sculptor, and author (d. 2008)
1916: Milton Babbitt, American composer and educator (d. 2011)
1915: Denis Thatcher, English soldier and businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2003)
1911: Bel Kaufman, American author and educator (d. 2014)
1909: Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player (d. 1978)
1908: Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2000)
1905: Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (d. 1972)
1903: Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer (d. 1994)
1902: David O. Selznick, American director and producer (d. 1965)
1901: John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (d. 1971)
1901: Hildrus Poindexter, American bacteriologist (d. 1987)
1900: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979)
1899: Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)
1898: Ariel Durant, American historian and author (d. 1981)
1897: Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)
1895: Joe Murphy, (Irish-American), died during the 1920 Cork hunger strike (d. 1920)
1894: Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (d. 1979)
1893: Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist (d. 1949)
1891: Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic (d. 1934)
1890: Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)
1888: Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1971)
1886: Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1968)
1879: Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (d. 1926)
1878: Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (d. 1967)
1878: Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
1876: Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (d. 1918)
1872: Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1950)
1855: Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator (d. 1936)
1847: Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (d. 1923)
1843: Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1920)
1841: James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American publisher and broadcaster (d. 1918)
1838: John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)
1813: Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General (d. 1883)
1812: William Henry Barlow, English engineer (d. 1902)
1788: Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)
1770: Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1823)
1760: Johann Peter Hebel, German author and poet (d. 1826)
1760: Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer (d. 1836)
1755: Robert Gray, American captain and explorer (d. 1806)
1727: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French economist and politician (d. 1781)
1697: Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)
1604: Jean Mairet, French author and playwright (d. 1686)
1491: Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon (d. 1521)
955: Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (d. 996)
874: Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general and emperor (d. 934)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Bob Lanier, American professional basketball player (b. 1948)
2022: Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician (b.1934)
2021: Pauline Tinsley, British soprano (b. 1928)
2020: Betty Wright, American soul singer (b. 1953)
2019: Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician and chemist (b. 1951)
2018: David Goodall, Australian botanist and ecologist (b. 1914)
2015: Chris Burden, American sculptor, illustrator, and academic (b. 1946)
2012: Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist (b. 1933)
2012: Carroll Shelby, American race car driver and designer (b. 1923)
2012: Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian captain and author (b. 1918)
2010: Frank Frazetta, American illustrator and painter (b. 1928)
2008: Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
2006: Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)
2003: Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist and chess player (b. 1937)
2002: Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
2002: Yves Robert, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2001: Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)
2000: Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
2000: Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
1999: Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator (b.1930)
1994: John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
1990: Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)
1989: Dominik Tatarka, Slovak writer (b.1913)
1988: Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)
1982: Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)
1977: Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
1974: Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
1968: Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)
1965: Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
1964: Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
1960: Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
1950: Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)
1945: Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
1945: Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
1910: Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
1905: Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican artist and illustrator (d. 1998)
1897: Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
1891: Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
1889: Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)
1868: Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)
1865: William Armstrong, American lawyer, civil servant, politician, and businessperson (b. 1782)
1863: Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)
1849: Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)
1829: Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)
1818: Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)
1807: Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)
1798: George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (b. 1757)
1794: Élisabeth of France, French princess and youngest sibling of Louis XVI (b.1764)
1787: William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)
1774: Louis XV of France (b. 1710)
1726: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1670)
1717: John Hathorne, American merchant and politician (b. 1641)
1641: Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596)
1569: John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1500)
1566: Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)
1521: Sebastian Brant, German author (b. 1457)
1493: Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1433)
1482: Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)
1403: Katherine Swynford, widow of John of Gaunt
1299: Theingapati, heir to the Pagan Kingdom

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