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May 16

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May 16

May 16 is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 229 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: College graduate can pay off student loans with $125,000 Kentucky Lottery prize. A recent college graduate is grateful to have come across a quick way to pay off his student loans after his four best friends witnessed him winning $125,000 on a lottery scratch-off ticket.
2023: Massachusetts store clerk indicted after stealing lottery ticket worth $3 million from customer. A liquor store clerk and her coworker have been indicted on charges that they stole a winning Massachusetts Lottery ticket worth $3 million and attempted to cash it in.
2022: Miami man is Florida's newest millionaire after playing Jackpot Triple Play. A Miami man is Florida's newest millionaire after hitting it big playing the state lottery's Jackpot Triple Play game.
2019: Massachusetts husband, wife are both $1 million lottery winners. A husband and wife from Southeastern Massachusetts have now each cashed winning $1 million Massachusetts State Lottery instant tickets.
2019: Alabama lottery plan approved by committee. A plan to allow voters to decide whether to set up a state lottery in Alabama advanced Wednesday in the House of Representatives.
2018: OOPS: Phone fraudster tries to scam cop. A phone scammer made a grave error when he dialed Officer Jeff Bowling and attempted to access his personal information last week.
2017: New interim CEO named at CT Lottery. A day after Frank Farricker resigned as Connecticut Lottery Corp. board chairman and interim CEO, the lottery's governing board named a new temporary chief executive to serve until a permanent president/CEO is hired in a month or two at the end of a national search that's now in progress.
2014: NY hospital orderly wins $20 million lottery jackpot. Long Island, New York, hospital worker Cameron Finney was so stunned over winning the Mega Millions jackpot he slept with the ticket under his pillow for two days.
2013: $550 MILLION: Powerball jackpot now more than a half-billion dollars. Just 12 hours after the initial Powerball jackpot estimate of $475 million was set, lottery officials announced that strong sales have pushed the official estimate for Saturday's drawing to $550 million.
2013: $475 MILLION: Powerball jackpot nears a half-billion dollars. You want to win a half-billion dollar jackpot? For only the third time in history, it is possible -- or will be, by the time Saturday's drawing comes around.
2012: Michigan couple killed after lottery win. Police in Michigan are investigating the stabbing death of a couple, and family members believe they were killed over a winning lottery ticket.
2012: Bell Helicopter employees win $28 million lottery jackpot. A $5 weekly investment in a lottery office pool has paid off for a group of Bell Helicopter employees in Fort Worth, Texas.
2010: British lottery ticket wins £84.4M Euro Millions jackpot. A single lottery ticket purchased in Great Britain won Friday's £84.4 million (US$122.7 million) Euro millions jackpot.
2008: California Gov. calls for expanding, privatizing lottery. Anxious to avoid deep cuts in education spending, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today on Wednesday proposed dramatically expanding the state lottery and slashing programs for the poor and disabled instead, to help close a budget gap now pegged at $17.2 billion.
2007: Woman gets 30 days for stealing lottery tickets. A Heath, Ohio, woman was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three years of community control on Monday after she admitted to stealing lottery tickets she knew were winners.
2007: Florida Lottery won't pay $500,000 winner, called 'misprint'. A Florida couple says they have a winning lottery ticket and they want their money, but the the Florida Lottery Commission isn't paying.
2007: First 2 winners of $1 million lottery prizes come forward. Burt Isabell had this reaction Tuesday when he learned he'd won $1 million in the Tennessee Lottery: "I just started hollering, 'You're looking at a millionaire!'"
2005: New Oklahoma Lottery Director Welcomes Challenge. New Oklahoma Lottery Director Jim Scroggins possesses a deep lottery industry skill set, but it was his personality as a 'heartland guy' that pushed him over the top of the other candidates, according to state lottery commissioners.
2005: One Florida Lotto Ticket Wins $3 million Jackpot. One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $3 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
2005: Virginia Pick 4 Lottery Player Wins Big. A Virginia woman's dream of winning the lottery came true to the tune of $90,200 - the result of multiple Pick 4 wins in one drawing.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$590.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 18, 2013
2.$475 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 18, 2021
3.$393 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 17, 2024
4.$339 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 17, 2019
5.$280 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 16, 2018
6.$277 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 19, 2026
7.$274 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 19, 2020
8.$270 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 18, 2019
9.€205.03 Million US$215.74 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 17, 2022
10.$204 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 17, 2017
11.$202.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 19, 2021
12.$196 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 16, 2008
13.€165.55 Million
US$192.43 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 16, 2026
14.$190 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 17, 2013
15.€153.77 Million
US$187.92 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 18, 2021
16.$174 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 17, 2016
17.$173 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 19, 2015
18.€154 Million
US$172.08 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 16, 2025
19.€152.86 Million
US$171.02 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 16, 2019
20.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 16, 2009
21.$146.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 17, 2023
22.$145 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 19, 2010
23.€120 Million
US$139.46 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
May 19, 2026
24.$136 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 16, 2014
25.$129 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 18, 2005

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1997: frostycake1010
Friday, May 16, 1997
29 years old
1990: sweetfantasea5
Wednesday, May 16, 1990
36 years old
1989: Lb1989
Tuesday, May 16, 1989
37 years old
1986: Tonymichel1986
Friday, May 16, 1986
40 years old
1982: Darey21
Sunday, May 16, 1982
44 years old
1977: Naenae77
Monday, May 16, 1977
49 years old
1975: Santina
Friday, May 16, 1975
51 years old
1973: NumberStudent
Wednesday, May 16, 1973
53 years old
1972: Firstladypr
Tuesday, May 16, 1972
54 years old
1972: Heavy101
Tuesday, May 16, 1972
54 years old
1970: Hot Toddy
Saturday, May 16, 1970
56 years old
1964: reese257
Saturday, May 16, 1964
62 years old
1961: Debkamki*
Tuesday, May 16, 1961
65 years old
1957: lucysbird
Thursday, May 16, 1957
69 years old
1956: Aimlesslady
Wednesday, May 16, 1956
70 years old
1956: BLACKSID
Wednesday, May 16, 1956
70 years old
1955: Taurusbull
Monday, May 16, 1955
71 years old
1949: Rainmaker2k
Monday, May 16, 1949
77 years old
1945: Twowin
Wednesday, May 16, 1945
81 years old
: Tcounc2c
(year not provided)
: Iwannawinbig
(year not provided)
: teetee0516
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2025: A devastating EF4 tornado kills nineteen people in Southeast Kentucky, hitting the towns of Somerset and London.
2014: Twelve people are killed in two explosions in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya.
2011: STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.
2005: Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2003: In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
1997: Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
1991: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
1988: A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1975: Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1974: Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
1972: An Antonov An-24 crashes into a kindergarten building in Svetlogorsk, killing 35.
1969: Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
1966: The Chinese Communist Party issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1961: Park Chung Hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
1960: Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1959: The Tritons' Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time.
1954: Beginning of the Kengir uprising in the Gulag.
1951: The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (now John F Kennedy International Airport) in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1945: Beginning of the Levant Crisis between Britain and France in Syria. The latter try to quell nationalist protests but backs down after threat of military action by the British.
1943: The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1943: Operation Chastise is undertaken by RAF Bomber Command with specially equipped Avro Lancasters to destroy the Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr valley.
1929: In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
1925: The first modern performance of Claudio Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria occurred in Paris.
1920: In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1919: A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1918: The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later.
1916: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
1891: The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
1888: Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
1877: The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
1874: A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people.
1868: The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
1866: The United States Congress establishes the nickel.
1863: American Civil War: During the Vicksburg campaign, the decisive Union victory by Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Champion Hill drives the Confederate army under John C. Pemberton back towards Vicksburg, Mississippi.
1842: The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.
1834: The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
1832: Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush.
1822: Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1812: Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia.
1811: Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Albuera. It is, in proportion to the numbers involved, the bloodiest battle of the war.
1777: Continental Army officer Lachlan McIntosh fatally wounds Button Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, in a duel in Savannah, Georgia.
1771: The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1770: The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, Dauphin de France, who later becomes king of France.
1739: The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army.
1584: Santiago de Vera becomes sixth governor-general of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
1568: Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
1532: Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1527: The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
1426: Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes King of Ava.
1364: Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel.
1204: Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1003: Patrician John Crescentius, who has seized control of Rome, selects Pope John XVII as the new pope.
999: Rebel Turkish warlord Mahmud of Ghazni defeats Samanid Emir Mansur II in battle at Merv.
946: Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.

Births On This Day

2002: Ryan Gravenberch, Dutch footballer
2000: Luis Garcia, Dominican-American baseball player
1996: Louisa Chirico, American tennis player
1995: Elizabeth Ralston, Australian footballer
1994: Kathinka von Deichmann, Liechtenstein tennis player
1993: Johannes Thingnes Bø, Norwegian biathlete
1993: Karol Mets, Estonian footballer
1993: IU, Korean singer-songwriter and actress
1992: Jeff Skinner, Canadian ice hockey player
1992: Kirstin Maldonado, American singer and songwriter
1991: Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
1991: Joey Graceffa, American internet celebrity
1991: Ashley Wagner, American figure skater
1990: Amanda Carreras, Gibraltarian tennis player
1990: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, English actor
1990: Darko Šarović, Serbian sprinter
1990: Omar Strong, American basketball player
1989: Behati Prinsloo, Namibian model
1988: Jesús Castillo, Mexican footballer
1988: Martynas Gecevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1988: Jaak Põldma, Estonian tennis player
1987: Tom Onslow-Cole, English race car driver
1986: Megan Fox, American actress
1986: Andy Keogh, Irish footballer
1986: Shamcey Supsup, Filipino model and architect
1985: Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985: Rodrigo Peters Marques, Brazilian footballer
1985: Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
1984: Darío Cvitanich, Argentinian footballer
1984: Tomáš Fleischmann, Czech ice hockey player
1984: Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
1984: Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2011)
1983: Daniel Kerr, Australian footballer
1983: Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
1982: Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
1981: Ricardo Costa, Portuguese footballer
1980: Nuria Llagostera Vives, Spanish tennis player
1979: Michael Oberlechner, Austrian politician
1978: Scott Nicholls, English motorcycle racer
1978: Lionel Scaloni, Argentinian footballer and manager
1977: Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
1977: Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer-songwriter
1976: Dirk Nannes, Australian-Dutch cricketer
1975: Tony Kakko, Finnish musician, composer, and vocalist
1975: Simon Whitfield, Canadian triathlete
1974: Laura Pausini, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1974: Sonny Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and rapper
1973: Tori Spelling, American actress, reality television personality, and author
1972: Christian Califano, French rugby player
1972: Matthew Hart, New Zealand cricketer
1971: Phil Clarke, English rugby league player and sportscaster
1971: Rachel Goswell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970: Gabriela Sabatini, Argentinian tennis player
1970: Danielle Spencer, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1969: David Boreanaz, American actor
1969: Tucker Carlson, American journalist, co-founded The Daily Caller
1969: Steve Lewis, American sprinter
1968: Ralph Tresvant, American singer and producer
1967: Doug Brocail, American baseball player and coach
1967: Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford, British politician
1966: Janet Jackson, American singer-songwriter actress
1966: Scott Reeves, American singer-songwriter and actor
1966: Thurman Thomas, American football player
1965: Krist Novoselic, American bass player, songwriter, author, and activist
1965: Tanel Tammet, Estonian computer scientist, engineer, and academic
1964: John Salley, American basketball player and actor
1964: Boyd Tinsley, American singer-songwriter and violinist
1964: Milton Jones, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1963: Rachel Griffith, Anglo-American economist
1963: David Wilkinson, English theologian and academic
1962: Helga Radtke, German long jumper
1961: Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor and screenwriter
1961: Charles Wright, American wrestler
1960: Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician, Nauruan Speaker of Parliament
1960: Bruce Norris, playwright
1960: S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan commander and politician (died 1998)
1959: Mitch Webster, American baseball player
1959: Mare Winningham, American actress and singer-songwriter
1957: Joan Benoit, American runner
1957: Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft, English politician
1957: Yuri Shevchuk, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957: Anthony St John, 22nd Baron St John of Bletso, English lawyer and businessman
1957: Bob Suter, American ice hockey player and coach (died 2014)
1956: Loretta Schrijver, Dutch television host, news anchor (died 2025)
1955: Olga Korbut, Soviet gymnast
1955: Jack Morris, American baseball player and sportscaster
1955: Hazel O'Connor, English-born Irish singer-songwriter and actress
1955: Páidí Ó Sé, Irish footballer and manager (died 2012)
1955: Debra Winger, American actress
1954: Dafydd Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut
1953: Pierce Brosnan, Irish-American actor and producer
1953: Peter Onorati, American actor
1953: Richard Page, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1953: Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (died 2015)
1953: David Maclean, Scottish politician
1953: Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman, Scottish judge and academic
1951: Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
1951: Jonathan Richman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951: Janet Soskice, Canadian philosopher and theologian
1950: Georg Bednorz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1950: Ray Condo, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2004)
1950: Bruce Coville, American author
1949: Rick Reuschel, American baseball player
1948: Jesper Christensen, Danish actor, director, and producer
1948: Judy Finnigan, English talk show host and author
1948: Enrico Fumia, Italian automobile and product designer
1948: Jimmy Hood, Scottish engineer and politician (died 2017)
1948: Emma Georgina Rothschild, English historian and academic
1948: Staf Van Roosbroeck, Belgian cyclist
1947: Cheryl Clarke, American writer
1947: Darrell Sweet, Scottish drummer (died 1999)
1947: Roch Thériault, Canadian religious leader (died 2011)
1946: John Law, English sociologist and academic
1946: Robert Fripp, English guitarist, songwriter and producer
1944: Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader
1944: Antal Nagy, Hungarian footballer
1944: Friedrich Schorlemmer, German Protestant theologian (died 2024)
1944: Danny Trejo, American actor
1943: Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews, English politician
1943: Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
1943: Wieteke van Dort, Dutch actress, comedian, singer, writer and artist (died 2024)
1942: David Penry-Davey, English lawyer and judge (died 2015)
1941: Denis Hart, Australian archbishop
1939: Mario Segni, Italian professor and politician
1938: Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician (died 2012)
1938: Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist and academic
1938: Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian television host and sexologist (died 2018)
1937: Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress (died 2015)
1937: Jim Hunt, American politician, 69th and 71st Governor of North Carolina (died 2025)
1936: Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (died 2018)
1935: Floyd Smith, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1934: Kenneth O. Morgan, Welsh historian and author
1934: Antony Walker, English general (died 2023)
1931: Vujadin Boškov, Serbian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2014)
1931: Hana Brady, Jewish-Czech Holocaust victim (died 1944)
1931: Lowell P. Weicker Jr., American soldier and politician, 85th Governor of Connecticut (died 2023)
1930: Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer (died 2000)
1929: Betty Carter, American singer-songwriter (died 1998)
1929: John Conyers, American lawyer and politician (died 2019)
1929: Claude Morin, Canadian academic and politician (died 2026)
1929: Adrienne Rich, American poet, essayist, and feminist (died 2012)
1929: K. Natwar Singh, Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (died 2024)
1928: Billy Martin, American baseball player and coach (died 1989)
1926: Glen Michael, British television presenter and entertainer (died 2025)
1925: Nancy Roman, American astronomer (died 2018)
1925: Ola Vincent, Nigerian banker and economist (died 2012)
1925: Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer (died 2013)
1924: Barbara Bachmann, American microbiologist (died 1999)
1924: Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia (died 2019)
1923: Victoria Fromkin, American linguist and academic (died 2000)
1923: Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
1923: Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist and author (died 2014)
1921: Harry Carey Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
1920: Martine Carol, French actress (died 1967)
1919: Liberace, American pianist and entertainer (died 1987)
1919: Ramon Margalef, Spanish ecologist and biologist (died 2004)
1918: Wilf Mannion, English footballer and manager (died 2000)
1917: Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (died 2015)
1917: James C. Murray, American lawyer and politician (died 1999)
1917: Juan Rulfo, Mexican author and photographer (died 1986)
1916: Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (died 2009)
1915: Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2010)
1914: Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author (died 2009)
1913: Gordon Chalk, Australian politician, 30th Premier of Queensland (died 1991)
1913: Woody Herman, American singer, saxophonist, and clarinet player (died 1987)
1912: Studs Terkel, American historian and author (died 2008)
1910: Olga Bergholz, Russian poet and author (died 1975)
1910: Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator (died 2014)
1909: Margaret Sullavan, American actress and singer (died 1960)
1909: Luigi Villoresi, Italian race car driver (died 1997)
1907: Bob Tisdall, Irish hurdler (died 2004)
1906: Ernie McCormick, Australian cricketer (died 1991)
1906: Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and educator (died 1988)
1906: Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, and author (died 2001)
1906: Margret Rey, German author and illustrator (died 1996)
1905: Henry Fonda, American actor (died 1982)
1903: Charles F. Brannock, American inventor and manufacturer (died 1992)
1898: Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (died 1980)
1898: Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic (died 1993)
1898: Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (died 1956)
1897: Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic (died 1993)
1894: Walter Yust, American journalist and writer (died 1960)
1892: Osgood Perkins (actor, born 1892), American actor (died 1937)
1890: Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist (died 1975)
1888: Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker (died 1971)
1887: Maria Lacerda de Moura, Brazilian teacher and anarcha-feminist (died 1945)
1883: Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey (died 1986)
1882: Simeon Price, American golfer (died 1945)
1879: Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic (died 1962)
1876: Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist (died 1948)
1862: Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (died 1940)
1859: Horace Hutchinson, English golfer (died 1932)
1831: David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (died 1900)
1827: Pierre Cuypers, Dutch architect, designed the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (died 1921)
1824: Levi P. Morton, American banker and politician, 22nd United States Vice President (died 1920)
1824: Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (died 1893)
1821: Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and statistician (died 1894)
1819: Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (died 1890)
1804: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, American educator who founded the first U.S. kindergarten (died 1894)
1801: William H. Seward, American lawyer and politician, 24th United States Secretary of State (died 1872)
1788: Friedrich Rückert, German poet and translator (died 1866)
1763: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist and chemist (died 1829)
1718: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (died 1799)
1710: William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician, Lord Steward of the Household (died 1782)
1641: Dudley North, English economist and politician (died 1691)
1611: Pope Innocent XI (died 1689)
1606: John Bulwer, British doctor (died 1656)
1542: Anna Sibylle of Hanau-Lichtenberg, German noblewoman (died 1580)
1455: Wolfgang I of Oettingen, German count (died 1522)
1418: John II of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Armenia and also titular King of Jerusalem from 1432 to 1458 (probable; (died 1458)

Deaths On This Day

2025: Domingos Maubere, East Timorese Catholic priest and activist (born 1952)
2024: Dabney Coleman, American actor (born 1932)
2024: Eddie Gossage, American public speaker and businessman (born 1958)
2023: Norm Green, American long-distance runner (born 1932)
2021: Bruno Covas, Brazilian lawyer, politician (born 1980)
2019: Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (born 1937)
2019: Bob Hawke, Australian politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia (born 1929)
2019: I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect (born 1917)
2015: Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (born 1973)
2015: Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (born 1935)
2015: Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (born 1928)
2014: Chris Duckworth, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (born 1933)
2014: Vito Favero, Italian cyclist (born 1932)
2014: Bud Hollowell, American baseball player and manager (born 1943)
2014: Clyde Snow, American anthropologist and author (born 1928)
2013: Angelo Errichetti, American politician (born 1928)
2013: Bryan Illerbrun, Canadian football player (born 1957)
2013: Frankie Librán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (born 1948)
2013: Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1933)
2013: Paul Shane, British actor and comedian (born 1940)
2013: Dick Trickle, American race car driver (born 1941)
2013: Bernard Waber, American author and illustrator (born 1921)
2012: Patricia Aakhus, American author and academic (born 1952)
2012: James Abdnor, American soldier and politician (born 1923)
2012: Chuck Brown, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1936)
2012: Ernie Chan, Filipino-American illustrator (born 1940)
2012: Kevin Hickey, American baseball player (born 1956)
2011: Ralph Barker, English author (born 1917)
2011: Bob Davis, Australian footballer and coach (born 1928)
2011: Edward Hardwicke, English actor (born 1932)
2011: Kiyoshi Kodama, Japanese actor (born 1934)
2010: Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1942)
2010: Hank Jones, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1918)
2008: Robert Mondavi, American winemaker, co-founded the Opus One Winery (born 1913)
2005: Andrew Goodpaster, American general (born 1915)
2003: Mark McCormack, American lawyer and sports agent, founded IMG (born 1930)
2002: Alec Campbell, Australian soldier (born 1899)
1997: Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (born 1903)
1996: Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (born 1939)
1994: Alain Cuny, French actor (born 1908)
1993: Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1938)
1990: Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (born 1925)
1990: Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, creator of The Muppets (born 1936)
1989: Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and songwriter (born 1939)
1985: Margaret Hamilton, American actress (born 1902)
1984: Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1949)
1984: Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (born 1913)
1981: Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1922)
1981: Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (born 1905)
1979: A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (born 1889)
1977: Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (born 1915)
1961: George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (born 1881)
1957: Eliot Ness, American federal agent (born 1903)
1956: H. B. Reese, American candy-maker and businessman, created Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (born 1876)
1955: James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(born 1909)
1955: Manny Ayulo, American race car driver (born 1921)
1954: Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (born 1893)
1953: Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (born 1910)
1947: Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)
1947: Kalle Hakala, Finnish politician (born 1880)
1947: Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (born 1903)
1946: Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (born 1890)
1944: George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (born 1866)
1944: Filip Mișea, Aromanian activist, physician and politician (born 1873)
1943: Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (born 1865)
1943: Nigger, black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron.
1938: Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (born 1870)
1936: Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (born 1860)
1926: Mehmed VI, the 36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (born 1861)
1920: Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (born 1824)
1913: Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (born 1849)
1910: Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (born 1856)
1891: Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (born 1821)
1890: Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (born 1843)
1882: Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (born 1799)
1862: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (born 1796)
1861: John Stevens Henslow, British priest, geologist and doctoral advisor to Charles Darwin (born 1796)
1830: Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (born 1768)
1823: Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (born c. 1754)
1818: Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (born 1775)
1790: Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire (born 1720)
1778: Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (born 1718)
1703: Charles Perrault, French author and academic (born 1628)
1696: Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (born 1634)
1691: Jacob Leisler, German-American politician, 8th Colonial Governor of New York (born 1640)
1669: Pietro da Cortona, Italian painter and architect, designed the Santi Luca e Martina (born 1596)
1667: Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1607)
1657: Andrew Bobola, Polish missionary and martyr (born 1591)
1620: William Adams, English sailor and navigator (born 1564)
1561: Jan Tarnowski, Polish noble and statesman (born 1488)
1412: Gian Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan (born 1388)
1375: Liu Bowen, Chinese military strategist, officer, statesman and poet (born 1311)
1265: Simon Stock, English-French saint (born 1165)
1182: John Komnenos Vatatzes, Byzantine general (born 1132)
1115: Lambert of Arras, Flemish bishop
995: Fujiwara no Michitaka, Japanese nobleman (born 953)
934: Meng Hanqiong, eunuch official of Later Tang
895: Qian Kuan, Chinese nobleman
290: Emperor Wu of Jin, Chinese emperor (born 236)

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