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May 22

May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 223 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2026
Nevadans mourn shuttering of California Lottery's top-selling retailer. Nevada residents are mourning the closing of the best-selling lottery retailer in California, a popular stop for Nevadans to play the lottery just right over the border.
2024
Former Georgia Lottery inspector accused of taking bribes to pass store inspections. A former Georgia Lottery employee was arrested and charged with three counts of bribery after investigators found he accepted bribes to pass store inspections.
2023
North Carolina lottery winner to use $100,000 prize to fund schools in Mali. A $100,000 lottery win is giving a North Carolina man the chance to contribute to his hometown in Mali by funding education and culture for schoolchildren there.
2021
Lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania wins $516 million Mega Millions jackpot. After a run of 26 drawings without a jackpot winner, the 27th drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions game produced a single $515 million winner last night when one lottery ticket sold in Pennsylvania matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball.
2020
Louisiana Lottery making changes to Lotto game in August. For just the fourth time in the Louisiana Lottery's 28-year history, the state's flagship Lotto game is being changed in August.
2020
$205K settlement reached, then rejected, in CT Lottery whistleblower case. Old disputes die hard at the Connecticut Lottery Corp. Here is the story of one of them.
2020
Hoosier Lottery operator facing $3.6M fine for not meeting sales goal. IGT Indiana, the private operator of the Hoosier Lottery, may be required to pay a $3.6 million fine to the state should it not meet its $300 million sales goal — a number that seems unobtainable at this point.
2019
Massachusetts man pleads guilty in lottery tax fraud scheme. A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in a scheme to buy millions of dollars' worth of winning Massachusetts State Lottery tickets at a discount to help the ticket holders avoid taxes, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
2019
Lottery bill stalls in Alabama House. Alabama lawmakers Tuesday rejected a plan to allow voters to decide whether to establish a state lottery, a question that was last on the ballot 20 years ago.
2018
Lottery giant IGT is sole bidder to run sports betting in R.I.. IGT, the company that runs Rhode Island's electronic lottery systems, is the sole bidder for a contract to run the state's proposed foray into sports betting.
2017
UK Lottery expecting sales surge with must-win £25M jackpot. The National Lottery is expecting a rush for tickets this week as a must-win £25 million (US$32.5 million) jackpot means the odds of winning the top prize are six times better than usual.
2015
Private management could be Alabama lottery option. If Alabama gets a lottery, private management may at least be an option.
2013
Maryland lets problem gamblers exclude themselves from lottery. Maryland has become the third state to offer a voluntary system to restrict the ability to play the lottery, officials announced Tuesday.
2012
$9.5M lottery win difficult for Canadian chef. Indulgences and reaction from his community made a $9.5 million lottery jackpot win hard for an Abbotsford, British Columbia, man to handle.
2011
New Hampshire repeals taxes on lottery prizes. Starting Monday, New Hampshire residents no longer have to pay taxes on their lottery winnings.
2007
PA Lottery's Millionaire Raffle returns on 7-7-07. Millionaire Raffle, the raffle-style game developed in 2005 by the Pennsylvania Lottery, will offer 7,777 cash prizes worth more than $6.4 million when the game is drawn at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 7 (7-7-07).
2007
Is the lottery a tax? N.C. appeals court hears arguments. The profit from the sale of lottery tickets in North Carolina is really a tax on the state's residents, which means the law that created the games was passed unconstitutionally, attorneys for a group of taxpayers argued Tuesday before the state Court of Appeals.
2007
Citizen, officer expose check lottery scam. A Virginia resident and a local police officer exposed a Canadian check lottery scam, after the citizen received a notification that he had won $125,000 in the "Hong Kong Lottery".
2007
Don't look at your lottery tickets while driving. A Michigan City man backed into a patrol car Tuesday afternoon because he was busy looking at recently purchased lottery tickets.
2007
Washington Lottery to give free gas for Quick Picks. On Friday, drivers who purchase $10 in quick pick Mega Millions tickets at three Safeway fuel centers in Washington are eligible for 10 free gallons of regular unleaded or diesel gasoline.
2006
Protesters storm UK National Lottery set. Protesters from paternal rights group Fathers 4 Justice stormed BBC TV studios last night to hold up the UK National Lottery draw.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$453 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 24, 2024
2.$393 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 24, 2019
3.$298 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 22, 2020
4.$296 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 22, 2026
5.$288 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 22, 2019
6.$250 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 24, 2017
7.€209.06 Million
US$224.05 Million
Draw Date
May 24, 2022
8.$219.9 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 22, 2021
9.€185 Million
US$209.96 Million
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Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 23, 2025
10.$203 Million
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Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 24, 2016
11.€168.02 Million
US$195.04 Million
Draw Date
May 22, 2026
12.$194 Million
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Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 22, 2015
13.$192 Million
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Powerball
Draw Date
May 23, 2009
14.€156.29 Million
US$190.37 Million
Draw Date
May 22, 2021
15.$180 Million
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Powerball
Draw Date
May 25, 2005
16.$178.7 Million
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Powerball
Draw Date
May 22, 2023
17.€156.68 Million
US$174.88 Million
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May 23, 2019
18.$170 Million
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Powerball
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May 22, 2010
19.$167 Million
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May 24, 2025
20.$154 Million
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Mega Millions
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May 23, 2025
21.$150 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 23, 2023
22.$144 Million
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Powerball
Draw Date
May 25, 2011
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

1998
Friday, May 22, 1998
28 years old
1996
Wednesday, May 22, 1996
30 years old
1995
Monday, May 22, 1995
31 years old
1994
Sunday, May 22, 1994
32 years old
1987
Friday, May 22, 1987
39 years old
1986
Thursday, May 22, 1986
40 years old
1986
Thursday, May 22, 1986
40 years old
1985
Wednesday, May 22, 1985
41 years old
1984
Tuesday, May 22, 1984
42 years old
1982
Saturday, May 22, 1982
44 years old
1982
Saturday, May 22, 1982
44 years old
1980
Thursday, May 22, 1980
46 years old
1979
Tuesday, May 22, 1979
47 years old
1977
Sunday, May 22, 1977
49 years old
1973
Tuesday, May 22, 1973
53 years old
1967
Monday, May 22, 1967
59 years old
1966
Sunday, May 22, 1966
60 years old
1962
Tuesday, May 22, 1962
64 years old
1962
Tuesday, May 22, 1962
64 years old
1961
Monday, May 22, 1961
65 years old
1955
Sunday, May 22, 1955
71 years old
1949
Sunday, May 22, 1949
77 years old
1944
Monday, May 22, 1944
82 years old
1916
Monday, May 22, 1916
110 years old
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021
Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
2020
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.
2017
Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
2017
United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
2015
The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to legalise gay marriage.
2014
General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
2014
An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
2013
Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by 2 Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London
2012
Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
2012
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
2011
An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
2010
Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.
2010
Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
2002
Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
2000
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
1998
A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
1996
The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
1994
A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
1992
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
1990
North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
1987
Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
1987
First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
1972
Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka.
1972
Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
1969
Apollo 10's Lunar Module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the Moon's surface.
1968
The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 nautical miles (740 km) southwest of the Azores.
1967
Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
1967
L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
1964
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson launches his Great Society program.
1963
Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is clubbed over the head, causing his death five days later.
1962
Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45.
1960
The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1958
The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths are estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
1957
South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
1948
Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi releases Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister after the Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945.
1947
Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
1943
Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
1942
Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
1941
During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
1939
World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1927
Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
1926
Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
1916
A British army defeats a force of the Darfur Sultanate under Sultan Ali Dinar due to its superior firepower in the battle of Beringia.
1915
Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
1915
Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
1906
The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
1905
The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II establishes the Ullah millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day, although most do so on May 23 instead, which is when this event was publicly announced.
1874
Verdi's Requiem was first performed at San Marco in Milan on the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.
1872
Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1866
Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms.
1864
American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
1863
American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
1856
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
1849
Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
1848
Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
1846
The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
1840
The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
1826
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1819
SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1816
A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
1809
On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is defeated in a major battle for the first time in his career, and repelled by an enemy army for the first time in a decade.
1807
A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
1804
The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1766
A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
1762
Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
1762
Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
1629
Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
1520
The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
1455
Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
1377
Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
1370
Brussels massacre: An estimated 13 Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, in an anti-Semitic attack, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host.
1254
Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
1246
Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV.
1200
King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
1176
The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.
853
A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
760
Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
192
Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.

Births On This Day

2004
Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress
2002
Anthony Richardson, American football player
2001
Enzo Barrenechea, Argentine footballer
2001
Emma Chamberlain, American internet personality
2001
Joshua Zirkzee, Dutch footballer
2000
Julián Carranza, Argentine footballer
1999
Samuel Chukwueze, Nigerian footballer
1999
Femke Huijzer, Dutch model
1999
Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1998
Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model
1997
Lauri Markkanen, Finnish basketball player
1994
Florian Luger, Austrian male model
1994
Athena Manoukian, Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter
1992
Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
1991
Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
1991
Suho, South Korean singer and actor
1990
Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
1989
Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
1988
Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
1987
Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
1987
Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
1986
Julian Edelman, American football player
1986
Matt Jarvis, English footballer
1986
Tatiana Volosozhar, Russian figure skater
1985
Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
1985
Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer me
1985
Tao Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
1984
Clara Amfo, English television and radio presenter
1984
Karoline Herfurth, German actress
1984
Didier Ya Konan, Ivorian footballer
1984
Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
1983
Natasha Kai, American soccer player and Olympic medalist
1982
Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress
1982
Apolo Ohno, American speed skater
1982
Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer
1981
Bryan Danielson, American wrestler
1981
Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer (died 2015)
1981
Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
1981
Mark O'Meley, Australian rugby league player
1980
Tarin Bradford, Australian rugby league player
1980
Sharice Davids, American politician
1980
Lucy Gordon, British actress and model (died 2009)
1979
Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress
1979
Tihomir Dovramadjiev, Bulgarian Chess boxer
1979
Maggie Q, American actress
1978
Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
1978
Katie Price, English television personality and glamour model
1977
Pat Smullen, Irish jockey (died 2020)
1976
Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist
1975
Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager
1974
Sean Gunn, American actor
1974
Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
1974
Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
1974
Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician
1974
Canek Sánchez Guevara, Cuban author and dissident (died 2015)
1974
Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Norwegian politician
1973
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
1972
Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
1970
Naomi Campbell, English model
1970
Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (died 2019)
1969
Michael Kelly, American actor
1969
Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician
1968
Graham Linehan, Irish comedy writer and activist
1966
Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer
1966
Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter
1965
Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary
1963
Claude Closky, French contemporary artist
1962
Andrew Magee, French-American golfer
1962
Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (died 1997)
1960
Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1959
David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball player and coach
1959
Olin Browne, American golfer
1959
Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
1959
Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter
1959
Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician
1957
Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician
1956
Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet (died 2018)
1955
Iva Davies, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954
Barbara May Cameron, Native American human rights activist (died 2002)
1954
Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1953
François Bon, French writer
1953
Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager
1953
Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2021)
1951
Kenneth Bianchi, American serial killer and rapist
1950
Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
1949
Cheryl Campbell, English actress
1949
Valentin Inzko, Austrian diplomat
1948
Tomás Sánchez, Cuban painter and engraver
1948
Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor and screenwriter (died 2021)
1946
George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2005)
1946
Michael Green, English physicist and academic
1946
Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (died 2015)
1946
Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
1946
Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
1945
Bob Katter, Australian politician
1944
John Flanagan, Australian fantasy author (died 2026)
1943
Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
1943
Tommy John, American baseball player
1942
Roger Brown, American basketball player (died 1997)
1942
Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber) (died 2023)
1942
Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
1942
Richard Oakes, Native American civil rights activist (died 1972)
1941
Menzies Campbell, Scottish sprinter and politician (died 2025)
1940
Kieth Merrill, American filmmaker
1940
E. A. S. Prasanna, Indian cricketer
1940
Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (died 2011)
1940
Bernard Shaw, American journalist (died 2022)
1940
Mick Tingelhoff, American football player (died 2021)
1939
Paul Winfield, American actor (died 2004)
1938
Richard Benjamin, American actor and director
1938
Susan Strasberg, American actress (died 1999)
1937
Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 2011)
1937
Tomáš Janovic, Slovak writer (died 2023)
1936
George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (died 2014)
1935
Billy Rayner, Australian rugby league player (died 2006)
1934
Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor (died 2023)
1933
Fred Anderson, Australian-South African rugby league player (died 2012)
1933
Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic (died 1996)
1932
Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (died 2015)
1930
Kenny Ball, English jazz trumpet player, vocalist, and bandleader (died 2013)
1930
Marisol Escobar, French-American sculptor (died 2016)
1930
Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician (died 1978)
1929
Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (died 2013)
1928
Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author (died 2017)
1928
John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer (died 2011)
1928
T. Boone Pickens, American businessman (died 2019)
1928
Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist (died 2013)
1927
Michael Constantine, American actor (died 2021)
1927
Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (died 2014)
1927
George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
1925
Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1991)
1924
Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor (died 2018)
1922
Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (died 1987)
1921
George S. Hammond, American scientist (died 2005)
1920
Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (died 2004)
1919
Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2001)
1917
George Aratani, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)
1917
Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (died 1995)
1914
Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat (died 2010)
1914
Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (died 1993)
1913
Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter (died 1986)
1913
Dominique Rolin, Belgian author (died 2012)
1912
Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
1909
Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (died 1984)
1909
Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator (died 1988)
1908
Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (died 1963)
1907
Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (died 1983)
1907
Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (died 1989)
1905
Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (died 1956)
1905
Tom Driberg, British politician (died 1976)
1904
Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (died 1989)
1902
Jack Lambert, English footballer and manager (died 1940)
1902
Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (died 1956)
1901
Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor (died 1953)
1900
Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (died 1985)
1897
Robert Neumann, German and English-speaking author (died 1975)
1894
Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1970)
1891
Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet (died 1958)
1887
A. W. Sandberg, Danish film director and screenwriter (died 1938)
1885
Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (died 1924)
1885
Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (died 1957)
1884
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (died 1957)
1880
Francis de Miomandre, French author and translator (died 1959)
1879
Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1947)
1879
Jean Cras, French admiral and composer (died 1932)
1879
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (died 1926)
1876
Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1942)
1874
Daniel François Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (died 1959)
1868
Augusto Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (died 1934)
1864
Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (died 1931)
1859
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (died 1930)
1859
Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (died 1935)
1858
Belmiro de Almeida, Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (died 1935)
1849
Aston Webb, English architect and academic (died 1930)
1848
Fritz von Uhde, German painter and educator (died 1911)
1846
Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (died 1908)
1844
Mary Cassatt, American painter and educator (died 1926)
1841
Catulle Mendès, French poet, author, and playwright (died 1909)
1833
Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher (died 1914)
1833
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1895)
1831
Henry Vandyke Carter, English anatomist and surgeon (died 1897)
1828
Albrecht von Graefe, German ophthalmologist and academic (died 1870)
1820
Worthington Whittredge, American painter (died 1910)
1814
Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (died 1891)
1813
Richard Wagner, German composer (died 1883)
1811
Giulia Grisi, Italian soprano (died 1869)
1811
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, English politician (died 1864)
1808
Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (died 1855)
1783
William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (died 1850)
1782
Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (died 1856)
1779
Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger, Austrian painter (died 1853)
1772
Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and reformer (died 1833)
1770
Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (died 1840)
1762
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (died 1834)
1752
Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician (died 1797)
1733
Hubert Robert, French painter (died 1808)
1715
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (died 1794)
1694
Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (died 1757)
1665
Magnus Stenbock, Swedish field marshal and Royal Councillor (died 1717)
1650
Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1702)
1644
Gabriël Grupello, Flemish Baroque sculptor (died 1730)
1622
Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (died 1698)
1539
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (died 1621)
1408
Annamacharya, Hindu saint (died 1503)
1009
Su Xun, Chinese writer (died 1066)
626
Itzam K'an Ahk I, Mayan king (died 686)

Deaths On This Day

2024
David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer (born 1954)
2022
Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (born 1931)
2020
Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (born 1938)
2019
Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (born 1923)
2017
Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (born 1981)
2016
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (born 1933)
2015
Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)
2015
Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (born 1921)
2013
Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (born 1922)
2012
Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (born 1970)
2012
Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (born 1927)
2011
Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (born 1938)
2010
Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (born 1914)
2008
Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (born 1946)
2007
Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (born 1970)
2006
Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (born 1945)
2005
Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (born 1914)
2005
Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (born 1914)
2004
Richard Biggs, American actor (born 1960)
2004
Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (born 1945)
2000
Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1916)
1998
John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (born 1926)
1998
José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1910)
1997
Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (born 1906)
1997
Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
1993
Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (born 1892)
1992
Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (born 1909)
1991
Lino Brocka, Filipino director and screenwriter (born 1939)
1991
Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1899)
1991
Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (born 1921)
1990
Rocky Graziano, American boxer (born 1922)
1989
Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (born 1953)
1988
Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (born 1914)
1985
Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (born 1909)
1984
Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1901)
1983
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
1983
Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (born 1893)
1982
Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (born 1899)
1975
Lefty Grove, American baseball player (born 1900)
1974
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (born 1903)
1972
Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (born 1904)
1972
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (born 1892)
1967
Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (born 1902)
1967
Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (born 1911)
1966
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (born 1900)
1965
Christopher Stone, English radio host (born 1882)
1954
Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1884)
1950
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina, Salvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (born 1874)
1948
Claude McKay, Jamaican writer and poet (born 1889)
1939
Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (born 1893)
1939
Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (born 1882)
1938
William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (born 1870)
1933
Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (born 1894)
1932
Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852)
1910
Jules Renard, French author and playwright (born 1864)
1901
Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (born 1869)
1885
Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1802)
1868
Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (born 1801)
1861
Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (born 1829)
1859
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (born 1810)
1851
Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (born 1755)
1802
Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (born 1731)
1795
Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (born 1725)
1772
Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (born 1687)
1760
Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (born 1700)
1745
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general (born 1671)
1667
Pope Alexander VII (born 1599)
1666
Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (born 1608)
1609
Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (born 1573)
1602
Renata of Lorraine (born 1544)
1553
Giovanni Bernardi, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1495)
1545
Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (born 1486)
1540
Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (born 1483)
1538
John Forest, English friar and martyr (born 1471)
1490
Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and magnate (born 1416)
1457
Rita of Cascia, Italian nun and saint (born 1381)
1455
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (born 1406)
1455
Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (born 1414)
1455
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (born 1393)
1409
Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (born 1392)
1310
Saint Humility, founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (born c.1226)
1068
Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (born 1025)
748
Empress Genshō of Japan (born 683)
337
Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (born 272)
192
Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician (born 138)
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