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May 5

On This Day in History

May 5

May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 240 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2026: $1 million Nebraska lottery winner in Powerball "Night of Millionaires" selected her own numbers. Powerball lottery results that aligned with patterns on several state play slips produced two jackpot winners and 89 second-tier prize winners of at least $1 million, but one Nebraska woman's win was a bit different.
2025: Michigan man wins $6 million prize after playing the lottery for 40 years. Playing the lottery for 40 years has finally paid off for one Michigan man, whose $6 million win was dizzying enough to nearly make him faint.
2022: Massachusetts man going through troubled times emerges victorious with $1 million lottery win. After making it through some trying times, one Massachusetts man is getting the pick-me-up he deserves in the form of a $1 million lottery prize from an instant game.
2020: Louisiana public education takes a toll from decreased lottery proceeds. With lower game participation levels amidst the nationwide COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, it is no surprise that state lottery revenues have taken a hit. Yesterday, Louisiana lottery officials announced that this would affect the proceeds used to help pay for K-12 public education.
2019: Country House declared Kentucky Derby winner after Maximum Security disqualified. Maximum Security led all the way in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, only to become the first winner disqualified for interference in the race's 145-year history. After a long wait, 65-1 shot Country House was declared the winner.
2016: $415 MILLION: Powerball jackpot surges on rollover. Just four months after people from every country went into frenzy trying to find creative ways to buy tickets for the biggest jackpot the world had ever seen, Powerball is back with another top-10 jackpot that can deliver multi-generational wealth.
2015: GOP proposal would open door to lottery, casinos in Alabama. Alabama Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, a Republican from Birmingham, introduced a draft bill that would create a constitutional amendment to legalize gambling in Alabama, authorizing a lottery, casino gambling and expanded Indian gaming.
2013: $222 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot rolls again. There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $222 million for Wednesday's drawing.
2011: Florida Lottery draws raffle winning numbers. This afternoon the Florida Lottery conducted its eighth raffle drawing, but its first using a new lower-cost and lower top prize format.
2011: Simon Cowell still buys lottery tickets. Simon Cowell says that he still plays the National Lottery in spite of his reported £200 million (US$330 million) fortune.
2010: California Lottery cancels 'Millionaire' TV show. California Lottery officials are canceling the lottery's weekly "Make Me a Millionaire" game, citing poor ratings. The last episode is July 3.
2010: One Calif. lottery ticket wins $266M Mega Millions jackpot. A single ticket matched all six numbers in Tuesday night's $266 million Mega Millions drawing, but unless you bought your ticket in California, you can keep on dreaming.
2009: Elderly $144M Powerball lottery winner shows right way to claim jackpot. The winner of a $144 million Powerball jackpot has finally stepped forward, nearly three weeks after the lottery drawing, demonstrating one of the best ways for a lottery player to claim a big prize.
2008: Minn. Lottery office hears from $180M Powerball winner. Officials at the Minnesota State Lottery headquarters said today they have heard from someone who claims to be holding the winning Powerball ticket from Saturday's drawing that's worth $180.1 million.
2008: $1 Quick Pick nets lottery riches. Kenneth Parsons, 59, of Live Oak, Florida, last week turned in the winning Mega Money ticket at the Florida Lottery's Tallahassee headquarters.
2004: Powerball $170 Million Drawing Tonight. Players around world are waiting for the numbers to be drawn in the $170 million Powerball drawing, which takes place tonight at 11:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.
2004: Mega Millions jackpot increases to $66 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $66 million Wednesday when none of the tickets sold for Tuesday night's $55 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball.
2004: S.C. lottery to hold $1 million second-chance drawing. This fall, the South Carolina Education Lottery will give away $1 million in a drawing of losing instant game tickets.
2004: Verizon Network Failure Halts Penn. Lottery Sales. Verizon, the telecommunications provider for the Pennsylvania Lottery, experienced a network failure in Central Pennsylvania around lunchtime Tuesday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$429.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 7, 2016
2.$370 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 7, 2021
3.$306 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 7, 2024
4.$273 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 7, 2019
5.$222 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 8, 2013
6.$215 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 5, 2018
6.$215 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 5, 2020
6.$215 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 8, 2019
9.$214.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 6, 2024
10.€198.58 Million
US$209.57 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 5, 2022
11.€195 Million
US$205.8 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 6, 2022
12.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 5, 2000
13.$195 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 5, 2026
14.€159.42 Million
US$186.43 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 5, 2026
15.€148.43 Million
US$176.63 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 6, 2021
16.€158 Million
US$174.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 5, 2023
17.$170 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 5, 2004
18.€123 Million
US$165.84 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 8, 2009
19.€147.85 Million
US$165.49 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 7, 2019
20.$147 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 6, 2017
21.$143.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 5, 2021
22.$139 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 7, 2013
23.$138 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 6, 2016
24.€120 Million
US$136.12 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
May 6, 2025
25.€110 Million
US$124.77 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 6, 2025

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2005: JKING
Thursday, May 5, 2005
21 years old
1995: kishan
Friday, May 5, 1995
31 years old
1995: Vegeta!
Friday, May 5, 1995
31 years old
1990: emmanuel84
Saturday, May 5, 1990
36 years old
1989: reva
Friday, May 5, 1989
37 years old
1987: Donashia Cooper
Tuesday, May 5, 1987
39 years old
1986: MaryamTahmasebi
Monday, May 5, 1986
40 years old
1985: Onlinepromo
Sunday, May 5, 1985
41 years old
1981: Tynda
Tuesday, May 5, 1981
45 years old
1978: Flashdealer
Friday, May 5, 1978
48 years old
1976: Timche$21
Wednesday, May 5, 1976
50 years old
1966: Mestizo
Thursday, May 5, 1966
60 years old
1963: richyrichpick3
Sunday, May 5, 1963
63 years old
1962: Emeraldgirl
Saturday, May 5, 1962
64 years old
1953: Glenn123
Tuesday, May 5, 1953
73 years old
1950: MsQ3
Friday, May 5, 1950
76 years old
1933: shoosh45
Friday, May 5, 1933
93 years old
: Gorgeou$
(year not provided)
: luckyduckydave
(year not provided)
: Luke55
(year not provided)
: mackwynn
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023: The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
2010: Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
2007: Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
2006: The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
1994: The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
1994: American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
1991: A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
1987: Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States.
1985: Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
1981: Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
1980: Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
1973: Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record.
1972: Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
1964: The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
1961: Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1955: The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
1946: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1945: World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
1945: World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
1945: World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
1941: Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
1940: World War II: Norwegian campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
1936: Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
1930: The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.
1920: Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
1912: The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published.
1905: The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
1904: Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
1891: The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1887: The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded.
1886: Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.
1877: American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1866: Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
1865: American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
1864: American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
1862: Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1835: The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
1821: Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1821: The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.
1809: Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
1789: In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
1762: Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
1654: Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
1640: King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
1609: Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
1494: On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.
1292: Election of Count Adolf of Nassau as King of the Romans in the Dominican monastery of Frankfurt.
1260: Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1215: Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England - part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
1192: Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem marries Henry II, Count of Champagne.
553: The Second Council of Constantinople begins.

Births On This Day

2004: Jenna Davis, American actress and YouTuber
2004: Kirsty Muir, Scottish freestyle skier
2003: Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player
1999: Nathan Chen, American figure skater
1999: Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
1998: Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
1997: Logan Gilbert, American baseball player
1997: Mitch Marner, Canadian hockey player
1996: Christopher Eubanks, American tennis player
1996: Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player
1995: James Conner, American football player
1994: Celeste, British singer
1991: Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
1989: Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1989: Agnes Knochenhauer, Swedish curler
1988: Adele, English singer-songwriter
1987: Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
1985: Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer
1985: Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
1985: P. J. Tucker, American basketball player
1983: Henry Cavill, English actor
1982: Vanessa Bryant, American philanthropist and model
1982: Corey Parker, Australian rugby league footballer
1981: Craig David, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
1981: Danielle Fishel, American actress
1980: Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
1980: Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator, and vlogger
1979: Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
1977: Tiffany Roberts, American footballer
1976: Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (died 2021)
1976: Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster
1975: Meb Keflezighi, American runner
1972: James Cracknell, English rower
1972: Žigmund Pálffy, Slovak ice hockey player
1972: Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1971: Harold Miner, American basketball player
1967: Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator
1967: Charles Nagy, American baseball player
1967: Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician
1966: Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer
1966: Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
1966: Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer
1964: Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget
1964: Heike Henkel, German high jumper
1964: Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (died 2013)
1964: Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer
1963: James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter
1963: Simon Rimmer, English chef and author
1963: Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer
1961: Marg Downey, Australian actress
1961: Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician
1960: Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1959: Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player
1959: Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959: Brian Williams, American journalist
1958: Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1957: Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter
1956: Steve Scott, American runner and coach
1955: Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer
1952: Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (died 2017)
1950: Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer
1948: Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter
1946: Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (died 2013)
1945: Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic
1944: Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer (died 2023)
1944: John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter
1944: Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (died 2015)
1943: Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
1943: Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author
1942: Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician
1942: Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998)
1940: Lance Henriksen, American actor
1939: Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (died 2013)
1938: Michael Murphy, American actor
1937: Beryl Burton, English racing cyclist (died 1996)
1937: Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer (died 2001)
1936: Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (died 2001)
1935: Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor (died 2023)
1935: Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer (died 2024)
1934: Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 2023)
1934: Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs (died 2022)
1933: Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (died 1959)
1932: Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (died 2014)
1929: Ilene Woods, American actress (died 2010)
1927: Pat Carroll, American actress (died 2022)
1925: Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (died 1978)
1923: William C. Campbell, American golfer (died 2013)
1923: Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (died 2017)
1922: Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian (died 2003)
1921: Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
1919: Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1999)
1916: Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (died 1994)
1915: Alice Faye, American actress and singer (died 1998)
1914: Tyrone Power, American actor (died 1958)
1913: Duane Carter, American race car driver (died 1993)
1911: Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player (died 2010)
1911: Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist (died 1932)
1910: Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (died 1999)
1907: Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian (Ukrainian) journalist and author (died 1982)
1905: Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (died 1986)
1903: James Beard, American chef and author (died 1985)
1901: Janne Mustonen, Finnish politician (died 1964)
1900: Helen Redfield, American geneticist (died 1988)
1899: Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (died 1982)
1898: Elsie Eaves, American engineer (died 1983)
1898: Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (died 1959)
1892: Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (died 1968)
1890: Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (died 1957)
1889: Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (died 1973)
1887: Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1941)
1885: Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician (died 1924)
1884: Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (died 1954)
1883: Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (died 1950)
1883: Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (died 1966)
1882: Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960)
1874: Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (died 1941)
1873: Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (died 1901)
1869: Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (died 1937)
1869: Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (died 1949)
1866: Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (died 1938)
1865: Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (died 1943)
1864: Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (died 1922)
1859: Charles B. Hanford, American Shakespearean actor (died 1926)
1858: John L. Leal, American physician (died 1914)
1846: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
1843: William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot (died 1900)
1834: Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (died 1873)
1833: Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (died 1905)
1832: Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (died 1918)
1830: John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (died 1906)
1826: Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (died 1920)
1818: Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (died 1883)
1813: Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (died 1855)
1800: Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (died 1864)
1764: Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (died 1812)
1749: Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer (died 1794)
1747: Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792)
1684: Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (died 1739)
1582: John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (died 1628)
1542: Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (died 1623)
1530: Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (died 1574)
1504: Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (died 1579)
1479: Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (died 1574)
1352: Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1410)
1310: Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (died 1376)
1282: Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (died 1348)
1210: Afonso III of Portugal (died 1279)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Jeannie Epper, American stuntwoman and actress (born 1941)
2024: Bernard Hill, English actor (born 1944)
2024: César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1938)
2020: Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1947)
2017: Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (born 1954)
2017: Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (born 1953)
2015: Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (born 1935)
2015: Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (born 1942)
2014: Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (born 1926)
2013: Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (born 1935)
2013: Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (born 1937)
2012: Surendranath, Indian cricketer (born 1937)
2012: Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (born 1916)
2012: Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (born 1932)
2012: George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922)
2012: Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (born 1950)
2011: Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (born 1901)
2011: Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (born 1924)
2011: Dana Wynter, British actress (born 1931)
2010: Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (born 1910)
2010: Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (born 1951)
2008: Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (born 1917)
2008: Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (born 1928)
2007: Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (born 1927)
2006: Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (born 1919)
2006: Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925)
2003: Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (born 1964)
2003: Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (born 1912)
2002: Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (born 1926)
2002: Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (born 1904)
2002: George Sidney, American director and producer (born 1916)
2002: Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (born 1917)
2001: Morris Graves, American painter and educator (born 1910)
2001: Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (born 1918)
2000: Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (born 1914)
2000: Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (born 1940)
1999: Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1920)
1995: Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (born 1911)
1994: Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (born 1906)
1993: Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (born 1920)
1988: Michael Shaara, American author and academic (born 1928)
1985: Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (born 1901)
1983: Horst Schumann, German physician (born 1901)
1983: John Williams, English-American actor (born 1903)
1981: Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (born 1954)
1977: Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897)
1973: Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (born 1948)
1971: Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (born 1887)
1965: Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (born 1915)
1965: John Waters, American director and screenwriter (born 1893)
1962: Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (born 1889)
1959: Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878)
1957: Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (born 1878)
1947: Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (born 1917)
1942: Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (born 1920)
1941: Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (born 1874)
1931: Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899)
1924: A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (born 1853)
1921: Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864)
1916: John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (born 1865)
1916: Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (born 1866)
1913: Henry Moret, French painter (born 1856)
1907: Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (born 1841)
1902: Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (born 1836)
1901: Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (born 1825)
1896: Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (born 1839)
1892: August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (born 1818)
1883: John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (born 1818)
1860: Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (born 1804)
1859: Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (born 1805)
1855: Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (born 1786)
1833: Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (born 1777)
1827: Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (born 1750)
1821: Napoleon, French general and emperor (born 1769)
1808: Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (born 1757)
1766: Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684)
1760: Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (born 1720)
1714: Nathaniel Lawrence, English politician (born c. 1627)
1705: Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1640)
1700: Angelo Italia, Italian architect (born 1628)
1672: Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist (born 1609)
1671: Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (born 1602)
1586: Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529)
1582: Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (born 1547)
1525: Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463)
1432: Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer
1380: Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr
1338: Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (born 1324)
1316: Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (born 1282)
1309: Charles II of Naples (born 1254)
1306: Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine general (born 1261)
1243: Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (born c. 1160)
1194: Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (born 1138)
465: Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan

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