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May 21

May 21 is the 141st day of the year (142nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 224 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2026
Arizona Lottery delays expiration date of $12.8 million jackpot-winning ticket in legal battle. The Arizona Lottery granted a retailer's request to extend the expiration deadline of a $12.8 million Arizona Lottery jackpot-winning ticket while the court figures out who is legally entitled to the prize.
2025
Massachusetts Lottery introduces $50 scratch-off ticket with $25 million top prize. The Massachusetts Lottery launched a $50 scratch-off game last week that offers three top prizes of $25 million, as well as several other million-dollar prizes in lesser prize tiers.
2024
Washington Lottery retailer sells 3 winning tickets in 1 week, including $4.6M Lotto jackpot winner. A Washington Lottery retailer sold three winning tickets for three different games in one week, with two winning prizes in the six-figure range and one hitting a $4.6 million Lotto jackpot.
2021
NC man almost chokes on his food after winning $150,000 jackpot. Winning the lottery certainly came as a shock for a North Carolina man, who nearly choked on his meal after playing a scratch-off ticket over dinner.
2017
Critic calls a Mississippi lottery 'new tax' and 'false hope'. The vice president for policy at the Mississippi Center for Public Policy writes an anti-lottery column, and illustrates how lottery opponents feel they should be able to decide how you live your life, the type of entertainment you should be allowed to enjoy, and how you should spend your money.
2016
Audit: Illinois Lottery broke law to get around budget impasse. Eleven months ago, just as the state budget impasse was about to take hold, the Illinois Lottery violated state finance law by prepaying $20 million to take part in future multi-state lottery games, according to an Auditor General's report.
2014
Pennsylvania has its first Mega Millions lottery winner. Someone who bought a multi-state Mega Millions lottery ticket in Pennsylvania is millions of dollars richer.
2012
8 lottery scam suspects arrested in Jamaica. Eight people accused of defrauding U.S. citizens through a multinational lottery scam were arrested during raids of several homes on a single street in Jamaica's capital, police announced Thursday.
2010
Woman takes Fla. Lottery to court for ticket misprint. A Florida woman is suing the state lottery for $500,000, claiming Florida's lottery officials are refusing to honor a scratch-off ticket because of a printing error.
2009
Mega Millions lottery winner proved his wife wrong. A retired New York Air Brake worker won $250,000, proving his doubting wife wrong, when he nailed five out of six numbers Tuesday in the Mega Millions lottery.
2008
Contract controversy reveals D.C. Lottery's tangled roots. The battle for the Washington, D.C. lottery contract has been nasty and aggressive, a contest complete with accusations of bias and incompetence.
2008
Man claims $16M Florida Lotto prize. A Bradenton, Florida, man Monday stepped forward to claim his winnings for a $16 million lottery ticket, which was $10 million higher than the base jackpot, thanks to a new Florida Lotto feature.
2008
Lottery-winning couple's White Sox love story. Alex Snelius is synonomous with White Sox home runs. Every time they go yard, he donates $100 dollars in memory of his wife, Ursula, who was a huge Sox fan.
2007
Mom finds $10, buys $1M lottery ticket. A single mother bought what turned out to a $1 million winning lottery ticket with a $10 bill she found in the store Friday.
2004
UK Lottery funds digital movie projection. The UK Film Council has been awarded _19.25m (£13m, US$23.14m) by the UK National Lottery to furnish some 150 cinemas across Britain with digital projectors in an effort to increase the viewership of independent films.
2004
Can you beat the odds to win the Powerball jackpot?. If you've played the Powerball drawings and lost, would you like to improve your odds of winning the multi-million dollar jackpot? The head of the University of Tennessee's math department explains whether it's possible to beat the odds.
2004
Lotto winner sits on lucky ticket for weeks. A Newark, Ohio man cashed in on a Mega Millions ticket for a cool $175,000, after the winning ticket sat idly in his car for nearly a month.
2004
Lotto prediction comes true for Kentucky couple. After signing to purchase a new home Friday, Pati and Stephen Kohl said they would have to win the lottery to make ends meet. The next day, they did just that.
2004
Tennessee Lottery To Fully Fund Scholarships. The Tennessee Education Lottery today celebrates its four-month anniversary with "higher-than projected revenues and an optimistic outlook for its next transfer to the Tennessee Lottery for Education fund scheduled for July 15."
2004
Stolen lottery tickets land pair in jail. Two Kentucky men are accused of stealing more than $10,000 in lottery tickets and were arrested after trying to cash some of the winning ones, law enforcement officials said.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$516 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 21, 2021
2.$421 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
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May 21, 2024
3.$367 Million
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Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 21, 2019
4.$298 Million
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May 22, 2020
5.$296 Million
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Draw Date
May 22, 2026
6.$288 Million
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Draw Date
May 22, 2019
7.$250 Million
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Draw Date
May 24, 2017
8.$219.9 Million
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Draw Date
May 22, 2021
9.€207.72 Million
US$219.31 Million
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May 21, 2022
10.€185 Million
US$209.96 Million
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Euro Millions
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May 23, 2025
11.$203 Million
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Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 24, 2016
12.€167.4 Million
US$194.4 Million
Draw Date
May 21, 2026
13.$194 Million
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Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 22, 2015
14.$192 Million
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Draw Date
May 23, 2009
15.€156.29 Million
US$190.37 Million
Draw Date
May 22, 2021
16.$178.7 Million
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Powerball
Draw Date
May 22, 2023
17.€155.5 Million
US$173.51 Million
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May 21, 2019
18.$170 Million
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Powerball
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May 22, 2010
19.$155 Million
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May 21, 2005
20.$154 Million
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Mega Millions
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May 23, 2025
21.$150 Million
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Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 23, 2023
22.$146.6 Million
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Powerball
Draw Date
May 21, 2025
23.$143 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 24, 2022
24.€120 Million
US$139.3 Million
Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
May 22, 2026
25.$138 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 23, 2015

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990
Monday, May 21, 1990
36 years old
1985
Tuesday, May 21, 1985
41 years old
1985
Tuesday, May 21, 1985
41 years old
1983
Saturday, May 21, 1983
43 years old
1979
Monday, May 21, 1979
47 years old
1978
Sunday, May 21, 1978
48 years old
1975
Wednesday, May 21, 1975
51 years old
1974
Tuesday, May 21, 1974
52 years old
1966
Saturday, May 21, 1966
60 years old
1964
Thursday, May 21, 1964
62 years old
1962
Monday, May 21, 1962
64 years old
1959
Thursday, May 21, 1959
67 years old
1959
Thursday, May 21, 1959
67 years old
1959
Thursday, May 21, 1959
67 years old
1957
Tuesday, May 21, 1957
69 years old
1955
Saturday, May 21, 1955
71 years old
1952
Wednesday, May 21, 1952
74 years old
1948
Friday, May 21, 1948
78 years old
1948
Friday, May 21, 1948
78 years old
1947
Wednesday, May 21, 1947
79 years old
1941
Wednesday, May 21, 1941
85 years old
(year not provided)
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Worldwide Events On This Day

2024
The Greenfield tornado kills 5 and injures 35 across rural Iowa, United States. Wind speeds in excess of 480 kilometres per hour (300 mph) are estimated from measurements for the third time in history.
2024
A stabbing spree on the Green line of the Taichung MRT injures four people, including the perpetrator.
2017
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
2014
Random killings occurred on the Bannan Line of the Taipei MRT, killing four and injuring 24.
2012
A bus accident near Himara, Albania kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
2012
A suicide bombing kills more than 120 people in Sanaa, Yemen.
2011
Radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicted that the world would end on this date.
2010
JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
2006
The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
2005
The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
2003
The 6.8 Mw  Boumerdès earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the Balearic Islands.
2001
French Taubira law is enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
2000
Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
1998
In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
1998
President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
1996
The ferry MV Bukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
1996
The seven Trappist monks of Tibhirine that were abducted on March 27 are killed under uncertain circumstances.
1994
The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the Republic of Yemen; a war breaks out.
1992
After 30 seasons Johnny Carson hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests (Robin Williams and Bette Midler) of The Tonight Show.
1991
Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
1991
Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
1988
Margaret Thatcher holds her controversial Sermon on the Mound before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
1982
Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
1981
The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
1981
Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
1979
White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
1976
Twenty-nine people are killed in the Yuba City bus disaster in Martinez, California.
1972
Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal, the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth.
1969
Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, known as Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
1966
The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
1961
American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
1951
The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
1946
Physicist Louis Slotin is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1939
The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
1937
A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
1936
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1934
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1932
Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1927
Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
1925
The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden.
1924
University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
1917
The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
1917
The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
1911
President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
1904
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
1894
The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
1881
The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Dansville, New York.
1879
War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
1871
French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
1871
Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
1864
Russia declares an end to the Russo-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated the Circassian Day of Mourning.
1864
American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
1864
The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
1863
American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
1856
Lawrence, Kansas is captured and burned by pro-slavery forces.
1851
Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
1809
The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
1799
The end of the Siege of Acre (1799): Napoleon Bonaparte abandons his siege of the Ottoman city of Acre after two months. This was the turning point of Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign and one of the first major defeats he suffered in his military career.
1792
A lava dome collapses on Mount Unzen, near the city of Shimbara on the Japanese island of Kyūshū, creating a deadly tsunami that killed nearly 15,000 people.
1758
Ten-year-old Mary Campbell is abducted in Pennsylvania by Lenape during the French and Indian War. She is returned six and a half years later.
1725
The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by Empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
1703
Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
1674
The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1660
The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy.
1659
In the Concert of The Hague, the Dutch Republic, the Commonwealth of England and the Kingdom of France set out their views on how the Second Northern War should end.
1554
Queen Mary I grants a royal charter to Derby School, as a grammar school for boys in Derby, England.
1424
Coronation of James I of Scotland at Scone.
1403
Henry III of Castile sends Ruy González de Clavijo as ambassador to Timur to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the Ottoman Empire.
1349
Dušan's Code, the constitution of the Serbian Empire, is enacted by Dušan the Mighty.
1347
Coronation of John VI Kantakouzenos as Byzantine Emperor by patriarch Isidore I of Constantinople at the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae.
1294
Coronation of Michael IX Palaiologos as Byzantine Emperor.
996
Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
879
Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
878
Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
293
Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.

Births On This Day

2002
Elena Huelva, Spanish cancer activist and influencer (died 2023)
1997
Ivan De Santis, Italian footballer
1997
Sisca Folkertsma, Dutch footballer
1997
Viktoria Petryk, Ukrainian singer-songwriter
1997
Kevin Quinn, American actor and singer
1996
Josh Allen, American football player
1996
Indy de Vroome, Dutch tennis player
1996
Karen Khachanov, Russian tennis player
1995
Diego Loyzaga, Filipino actor
1994
Tom Daley, English diver
1993
Grete Gaim, Estonian biathlete
1993
Luke Garbutt, English footballer
1993
Matías Kranevitter, Argentine footballer
1993
Lynn Williams, American soccer player
1992
Hutch Dano, American actor
1992
Lisa Evans, Scottish footballer
1992
Philipp Grüneberg, German footballer
1992
Olivia Olson, American singer and actress
1991
Guilherme, Brazilian footballer
1990
Kierre Beckles, Barbadian athlete
1990
Rene Krhin, Slovenian footballer
1989
Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer
1989
Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer
1988
Claire Cashmore, English Paralympic swimmer
1988
Park Gyu-ri, South Korean singer
1988
Jonny Howson, English footballer
1988
Kaire Leibak, Estonian triple jumper
1987
Beau Falloon, Australian rugby league player
1986
Mario Mandžukić, Croatian footballer
1986
Myra, American singer and actress
1986
Eder Sánchez, Mexican race walker
1986
Park Sojin, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1986
Greg Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player
1986
Matt Wieters, American baseball player
1985
Mark Cavendish, Manx cyclist
1985
Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (died 2012)
1985
Isa Guha, English cricketer and sportscaster
1985
Lucie Hradecká, Czech tennis player
1985
Kano, English rapper, producer, and actor
1985
Dušan Kuciak, Slovak footballer
1985
Heath L'Estrange, Australian rugby league player
1985
Andrew Miller, American baseball player
1984
Brandon Fields, American football player
1984
Sara Goller, German volleyball player
1983
Līga Dekmeijere, Latvian tennis player
1983
Deidson Araújo Maia, Brazilian footballer
1981
Craig Anderson, American ice hockey player
1981
Edson Buddle, American soccer player
1981
Josh Hamilton, American baseball player
1981
Maximilian Mutzke, German singer-songwriter
1981
Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter
1980
Gotye, Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter
1979
Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian-Mexican footballer
1979
Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician, Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health
1979
James Clancy Phelan, Australian author and academic
1979
Scott Smith, American mixed martial artist
1978
Max B, American rapper and songwriter
1978
Briana Banks, German-American porn actress and model
1978
Jamaal Magloire, Canadian basketball player and coach
1977
Quinton Fortune, South African international footballer and coach
1977
Michael Fuß, German footballer
1977
Ricky Williams, American football player
1976
Stuart Bingham, English snooker player
1976
Abderrahim Goumri, Moroccan runner (died 2013)
1976
Deron Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975
Anthony Mundine, Australian rugby league player and boxer
1974
Brad Arthur, Australian rugby league coach
1974
Fairuza Balk, American actress
1974
Havoc, American rapper and producer
1973
Stewart Cink, American golfer
1973
Noel Fielding, English comedian, musician and television presenter
1972
The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (died 1997)
1971
Shane Cloete, Zimbabwean-British ex-cricketer and teacher
1970
Brigita Bukovec, Slovenian hurdler
1970
Dorsey Levens, American football player and sportscaster
1970
Pauline Menczer, Australian surfer
1970
Carl Veart, Australian footballer and coach
1969
Pierluigi Brivio, Italian footballer
1969
Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (died 2000)
1969
Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress and singer
1969
George LeMieux, American lawyer and politician
1969
Brian Statham, Rhodesian born English footballer and manager
1968
Ilmar Raag, Estonian director, producer, and screenwriter
1968
Matthias Ungemach, German-Australian rower
1968
Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (died 1985)
1967
Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (died 2007)
1967
Alain Yzermans, Belgian politician
1966
Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright
1966
Tatyana Ledovskaya, Belarusian hurdler
1964
Danny Bailey, English footballer and coach
1964
Pete Sandoval, Salvadoran-American drummer
1963
Richard Appel, American screenwriter and producer
1963
Patrick Grant, American musician and producer
1963
David Lonsdale, English actor
1963
Dave Specter, American guitarist
1963
Laurie Spina, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1962
David Crumb, American composer and educator
1960
Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer (died 1994)
1960
Kent Hrbek, American baseball player and sportscaster
1960
Mohanlal, Indian actor
1960
Mark Ridgway, Australian cricketer
1960
Vladimir Salnikov, Russian swimmer
1959
Nick Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1959
Abdulla Yameen, Maldivian politician, 6th President of the Maldives
1958
Christian Audigier, French fashion designer (died 2015)
1958
Muffy Calder, Canadian-Scottish computer scientist and academic
1958
Michael Crick, English journalist and author
1958
Naeem Khan, Indian-American fashion designer
1958
Jefery Levy, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1957
James Bailey, American basketball player
1957
Nadine Dorries, English politician
1957
Judge Reinhold, American actor and producer
1957
Renée Soutendijk, Dutch actress
1955
Paul Barber, English field hockey player
1955
Stan Lynch, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
1954
Marc Ribot, American guitarist and composer
1953
Nora Aunor, Filipino actress and recording artist (died 2025)
1953
Jim Devine, British politician
1952
Mr. T, American actor and wrestler
1951
Al Franken, American actor, screenwriter, and politician
1951
Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (died 2016)
1950
Will Hutton, English economist and journalist
1949
Andrew Neil, Scottish journalist and academic
1949
Denis O'Connor, British police officer
1949
Rosalind Plowright, English soprano
1948
Elizabeth Buchan, English author and critic
1948
Joe Camilleri, Maltese-Australian singer-songwriter and saxophonist
1948
Jonathan Hyde, Australian-English actor
1948
Denis MacShane, Scottish journalist and politician, UK Minister of State for Europe
1948
Leo Sayer, English-Australian singer-songwriter and musician
1947
Bill Champlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947
Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (died 1992)
1947
İlber Ortaylı, Turkish historian and academic (died 2026)
1946
Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (died 2013)
1946
Wayne Roycroft, Australian equestrian rider and coach
1945
Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut
1945
Richard Hatch, American actor, writer, and producer (died 2017)
1944
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, Iranian-English academic and politician (died 2022)
1944
Marcie Blane, American singer
1944
Janet Dailey, American author and entrepreneur (died 2013)
1944
Mary Robinson, Irish lawyer and politician, President of Ireland
1943
Vincent Crane, English pianist and composer (died 1989)
1943
John Dalton, English bass player
1943
Hilton Valentine, English guitarist and songwriter (died 2021)
1942
David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales
1942
John Konrads, Australian swimmer (died 2021)
1942
Danny Ongais, American race car driver (died 2022)
1941
Martin Carthy, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1941
Bobby Cox, American baseball player and manager
1941
Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway, English photographer and politician
1941
Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter and producer
1940
Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
1939
Heinz Holliger, Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor
1938
Lee "Shot" Williams, American singer (died 2011)
1936
Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
1935
Terry Lightfoot, English clarinet player and bandleader (died 2013)
1934
Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (died 2013)
1934
Bob Northern, American horn player and bandleader (died 2020)
1934
Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
1933
Maurice André, French trumpet player (died 2012)
1933
Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (died 1993)
1932
Inese Jaunzeme, Latvian javelin thrower and surgeon (died 2011)
1932
Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral and intelligence chief (died 2014)
1930
Tommy Bryant, American bassist (died 1982)
1930
Keith Davis, New Zealand rugby player (died 2019)
1930
Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (died 2015)
1929
Larance Marable, American drummer (died 2012)
1929
Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer (died 2000)
1928
Tom Donahue, American radio host and producer (died 1975)
1928
Alice Drummond, American actress (died 2016)
1927
Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (died 1959)
1927
Péter Zwack, Hungarian businessman and diplomat (died 2012)
1926
Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist, and poet (died 2005)
1924
Peggy Cass, American actress, comedian, and game show panelist (died 1999)
1923
Vernon Biever, American photographer (died 2010)
1923
Armand Borel, Swiss-American mathematician and academic (died 2003)
1923
Ara Parseghian, American football player and coach (died 2017)
1923
Dorothy Hewett, Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright (died 2002)
1923
Evelyn Ward, American actress (died 2012)
1921
Sandy Douglas, English computer scientist and academic, designed OXO (died 2010)
1921
Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
1920
Bill Barber, American tuba player and educator (died 2007)
1920
Forrest White, American businessman, co-founded the Music Man Company (died 1994)
1919
George P. Mitchell, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)
1917
Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (died 1993)
1916
Dennis Day, American singer and actor (died 1988)
1916
Tinus Osendarp, Dutch sprinter and police officer (died 2002)
1916
Harold Robbins, American author and screenwriter (died 1997)
1915
Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Indian Civil Service Officer and former Under Secretary-General of the UN (died 2003)
1914
Romain Gary, French novelist, diplomat, film director, aviator (died 1980)
1913
Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (died 1976)
1912
Chen Dayu, Chinese painter and calligrapher (died 2001)
1912
John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic (died 1986)
1912
Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (died 1982)
1907
John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (died 1979)
1904
Robert Montgomery, American actor and director (died 1981)
1904
Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1943)
1903
Manly Wade Wellman, American author (died 1986)
1902
Earl Averill, American baseball player (died 1983)
1902
Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the Ameritrust Tower (died 1981)
1902
Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1974)
1901
Regina M. Anderson, Multiracial playwright and librarian (died 1993)
1901
Horace Heidt, American pianist, bandleader, and radio host (died 1986)
1901
Sam Jaffe, American film producer and agent (died 2000)
1901
Suzanne Lilar, Belgian author and playwright (died 1992)
1898
Armand Hammer, American physician and businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (died 1990)
1898
Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge (died 1967)
1898
Carl Johnson, American long jumper (died 1932)
1898
John McLaughlin, American painter and translator (died 1976)
1895
Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general, president (1934-1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (died 1970)
1893
Arthur Carr, English cricketer (died 1963)
1893
Giles Chippindall, Australian public servant (died 1969)
1885
Princess Sophie of Albania, (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) (died 1936)
1884
Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and publisher (died 1920)
1880
Tudor Arghezi, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (died 1967)
1878
Glenn Curtiss, American cyclist and engineer (died 1930)
1873
Hans Berger, German neurologist and academic (died 1941)
1867
Anne Walter Fearn, American physician (died 1939)
1864
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (died 1945)
1863
Archduke Eugen of Austria (died 1954)
1861
Abel Ayerza, Argentinian physician and academic (died 1918)
1860
Willem Einthoven, Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1927)
1858
Édouard Goursat, French mathematician (died 1936)
1856
José Batlle y Ordóñez, Uruguayan journalist and politician, President of Uruguay (died 1929)
1855
Ella Stewart Udall, American telegraphist (died 1937)
1853
Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (died 1905)
1851
Léon Bourgeois, French police officer and politician, 64th Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1925)
1850
Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest and volcanologist (died 1914)
1849
Édouard-Henri Avril, French painter (died 1928)
1844
Henri Rousseau, French painter (died 1910)
1843
Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
1843
Louis Renault, French jurist, educator, and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)
1837
Itagaki Taisuke, Japanese soldier and politician (died 1919)
1835
František Chvostek, Czech-Austrian physician and academic (died 1884)
1828
Rudolf Koller, Swiss painter (died 1905)
1827
William P. Sprague, American banker and politician (died 1899)
1808
David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (died 1890)
1806
Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland, English duchess (died 1868)
1801
Princess Sophie of Sweden, Swedish princess (died 1865)
1799
Mary Anning, English paleontologist (died 1847)
1792
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, French mathematician and engineer (died 1843)
1790
William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Lord Chamberlain of the Household (died 1858)
1780
Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker (died 1845)
1775
Lucien Bonaparte, French soldier and politician (died 1840)
1759
Joseph Fouché, French lawyer and politician (died 1820)
1756
William Babington, Irish-born, English physician and mineralogist (died 1833)
1755
Alfred Moore, American lawyer and judge (died 1810)
1688
(O.S.) Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and translator (died 1744)
1653
Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland (died 1697)
1527
Philip II of Spain (died 1598)
1497
Al-Hattab, Muslim jurist (died 1547)
1471
Albrecht Dürer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician (died 1528)

Deaths On This Day

2025
Gerry Connolly, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia's 11th congressional district (born 1950)
2024
Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, Polish composer (born 1953)
2020
Alan Merten, fifth President of George Mason University (born 1941)
2019
Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director (born 1925)
2019
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (born 1971)
2016
Nick Menza, American drummer and songwriter (born 1964)
2015
Annarita Sidoti, Italian race walker (born 1969)
2015
Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (born 1948)
2015
Jassem Al-Kharafi, Kuwaiti businessman and politician, 8th Kuwaiti Speaker of the National Assembly (born 1940)
2015
Fred Gladding, American baseball player and coach (born 1936)
2015
Louis Johnson, American bass player and producer (born 1955)
2014
Tunku Annuar, Malaysian son of Badlishah of Kedah (born 1939)
2014
Johnny Gray, American baseball player (born 1926)
2014
Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (born 1924)
2014
Alireza Soleimani, Iranian wrestler (born 1956)
2013
Count Christian of Rosenborg, member of the Danish royal family (born 1942)
2013
Frank Comstock, American trombonist, composer, and conductor (born 1922)
2013
Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach (born 1923)
2013
Leonard Marsh, American businessman, co-founded Snapple (born 1933)
2013
Bob Thompson, American pianist and composer (born 1924)
2013
Dominique Venner, French journalist and historian (born 1935)
2012
Eddie Blazonczyk, American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
2012
Otis Clark, American butler and preacher, survivor of the Tulsa race riot (born 1903)
2012
Constantine of Irinoupolis, Metropolitan of Irinoupolis and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (born 1936)
2012
Roman Dumbadze, Georgian commander (born 1964)
2012
Douglas Rodríguez, Cuban boxer (born 1950)
2012
Bill Stewart, American football player and coach (born 1952)
2012
Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist and academic (born 1939)
2006
Spencer Clark, American race car driver (born 1987)
2006
Katherine Dunham, American dancer, choreographer, and author (born 1909)
2006
Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)
2006
Billy Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)
2005
Deborah Berger, American outsider artist (born 1956)
2005
Stephen Elliott, American actor (born 1918)
2005
Howard Morris, American actor and director (born 1919)
2003
Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (born 1928)
2003
Frank D. White, American captain, banker, and politician, 41st Governor of Arkansas (born 1933)
2002
Niki de Saint Phalle, French-American sculptor and painter (born 1930)
2000
Barbara Cartland, English author (born 1901)
2000
John Gielgud, English actor (born 1904)
2000
Mark R. Hughes, American businessman, founded Herbalife (born 1956)
1998
Robert Gist, American actor and director (born 1917)
1996
Paul Delph, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1957)
1996
Lash LaRue, American actor and producer (born 1917)
1996
Villem Raam, Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator (born 1910)
1995
Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1938)
1991
Rajiv Gandhi, Indian politician, 6th Prime Minister of India (born 1944)
1988
Sammy Davis Sr., American actor and dancer (born 1900)
1984
Ann Little, American actress (born 1891)
1983
Kenneth Clark, English historian and author (born 1903)
1981
Raymond McCreesh, PIRA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)
1981
Patsy O'Hara, INLA volunteer and Hunger Striker (born 1957)
1973
Vaughn Monroe, American singer, trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (born 1911)
1973
Ivan Konev, Soviet Marshal and general (born 1897)
1970
E. L. Grant Watson, English-Australian biologist and author (born 1885)
1968
Doris Lloyd, English actress (born 1896)
1965
Marguerite Bise, French chef (born 1898)
1965
Geoffrey de Havilland, English pilot and engineer, designed the de Havilland Mosquito (born 1882)
1964
James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)
1957
Alexander Vertinsky, Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (born 1889)
1956
Harry Bensley, English businessman and adventurer (born 1877)
1952
John Garfield, American actor (born 1913)
1949
Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1906)
1940
Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (born 1888)
1935
Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)
1935
Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (born 1848)
1932
Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (born 1873)
1929
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1847)
1926
Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (born 1886)
1925
Hidesaburō Ueno, Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of Hachikō (born 1871)
1920
Venustiano Carranza, Mexican politician, 54th President of Mexico (born 1859)
1919
Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (born 1853)
1915
Leonid Gobyato, Russian general and engineer (born 1875)
1911
Williamina Fleming, Scottish-American astronomer and academic (born 1857)
1901
Joseph Olivier, French rugby player (born 1874)
1895
Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1819)
1894
Émile Henry, French anarchist (born 1872)
1894
August Kundt, German physicist and academic (born 1839)
1879
Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and commander (born 1848)
1862
John Drew, Irish-American actor and manager (born 1827)
1858
José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (born 1783)
1844
Giuseppe Baini, Italian priest and composer (born 1775)
1829
Sikandar Jah, 3rd Nizam (born 1768)
1810
Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat and spy (born 1728)
1790
Thomas Warton, English poet and critic (born 1728)
1786
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (born 1742)
1771
Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet (born 1722)
1762
Alexander Joseph Sulkowski, Polish and Saxon general (born 1695)
1742
Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic (born 1664)
1724
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1661)
1719
Pierre Poiret, French mystic and philosopher (born 1646)
1690
John Eliot, English-American minister and missionary (born 1604)
1686
Otto von Guericke, German physicist and inventor of the Magdeburg Hemispheres (born 1602)
1670
Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (born 1586)
1664
Elizabeth Poole, English settler, founded Taunton, Massachusetts (born 1588)
1650
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, Scottish general and politician (born 1612)
1647
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and playwright (born 1581)
1639
Tommaso Campanella, Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (born 1568)
1619
Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (born 1537)
1617
Luis Fajardo, Spanish admiral and nobleman (born c. 1556)
1607
John Rainolds, English scholar and academic (born 1549)
1563
Martynas Mažvydas, Lithuanian writer (born 1510)
1542
Hernando de Soto, Spanish-American explorer (born 1496)
1524
Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English soldier and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1443)
1512
Pandolfo Petrucci, Italian ruler (born 1452)
1481
Christian I, king of Denmark (born 1426)
1471
Henry VI, king of England (born 1421)
1416
Anna of Celje, queen consort of Poland (born 1386)
1254
Conrad IV, king of Germany (born 1228)
1237
Olaf the Black, Manx son of Godred II Olafsson
1086
Wang Anshi, Chinese statesman and poet (born 1021)
1075
Richeza of Poland, queen of Hungary (born 1013)
987
Louis V, king of West Francia (born c. 966)
954
Feng Dao, Chinese prince and chancellor (born 882)
252
Sun Quan, Chinese emperor of Eastern Wu (born 182)
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