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November 17

On This Day in History

November 17

November 17 is the 321st day of the year (322nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 44 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Arkansas woman credits husband's $550,000 lottery win to his "diligence". An Arkansas woman says it's thanks to her husband's "diligence" in playing the lottery that he scooped up a $550,000 Natural State Jackpot prize.
2023: $1.35 billion Mega Millions lottery winner suing mother of his child for revealing win to family. The winner of the $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot is suing the mother of his child for allegedly telling his family about the lottery win.
2022: Tennessee Lottery launches Daily Tennessee Jackpot draw game. The Tennessee Lottery released its first "Tennessee-only" jackpot game with drawings every day, including Sundays.
2021: Pennsylvania woman sues online slots company after being refused jackpot payout. A Pennsylvania slots player filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of an online slots game after it refused to pay out a $100,000 jackpot caused by a "bug."
2017: Michigan Lottery cracks down on retailers who cheat customers. The Michigan Lottery is placing renewed emphasis on cracking down on lottery retailers that cheat customers in order to enrich themselves.
2015: NJ man goes on 10-store, 900-ticket lotto theft spree. An alleged lottery ticket thief was not lucky enough to get away with stealing 900 New Jersey Lottery tickets, let alone hit the potential $5 million jackpot, according to police.
2015: $7 million lottery winner sees new opportunities on the horizon. An Indiana man says winning $7 million from the Hoosier Lottery brings "a lot of opportunity," but that's not the first thing he said when he scratched off his winning Lottery ticket.
2015: NY judge sides with attorney general against fantasy sports websites. New York convinced a state court late Monday to reject demands from DraftKings and FanDuel — two popular fantasy sports operators — to issue restraining orders blocking the state attorney general from making good on his threats to shut them down in New York.
2014: N.Y. doorman who won lottery loses battle with cancer. A Park Avenue doorman who catapulted to fame after winning a $5 million jackpot has lost his battle with cancer.
2012: Retired chaplain cleans desk, finds $1 million winning lottery ticket. A retired hospice chaplain from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, was sitting on a $1 million winning lottery ticket for two months until two weeks ago when he decided to clean up his desk.
2011: Another man claims to have lost $254M Powerball ticket. A 21-year-old Danbury, Connecticut, man claims he had the winning ticket for the Nov. 2 Powerball drawing but lost it.
2010: Former W.V. Lottery inspector admits lying to feds. A former inspector with the West Virginia Lottery Commission admitted Wednesday that she lied to investigators about taking money from a former state delegate who ran an illegal gambling ring in West Virginia and Kentucky.
2010: Colossal Fail: Cowboys lottery game winners not getting tickets after all. Two winners of a Cowboys-themed scratch game from the Texas Lottery were advised by letter that they won 2011 Season tickets, but then the lottery informed them it was a clerical error, and they would not get the tickets.
2010: S.C. Lottery crowns 2 millionaires in raffle draw. The winning numbers have been selected in the South Carolina lottery game that is going to make two instant millionaires.
2009: Idaho Lottery Commission approves Mega Millions. The Idaho State Lottery Commission announced Tuesday that Mega Millions could start selling tickets in Idaho early as Jan. 31, 2010.
2009: Louisiana Lottery reports $7.6M in October lotto prizes. Traveling to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, making upgrades to a recently purchased property and repairing a pick-up truck are just some of the ways winners of the Louisiana Lottery's scratch-off games plan to spend the more than $6 million claimed in October.
2009: Pa. clerk stole $48K in lottery tickets. A woman faces a preliminary hearing on charges she stole $48,000 worth of instant-win Pennsylvania lottery tickets from the convenience store where she worked.
2009: Iowa joins multi-state Mega Millions lottery. Iowa Lottery players will soon be able to make their first drawing for Mega Millions, a popular multistate game that paid a record $390 million jackpot two years ago.
2009: N.Y. Lottery looks to increase prizes through investment strategies. The New York Lottery is proposing a gamble where the odds aren't always in its favor -- moving its $1.3 billion prize fund into investments such as stocks, corporate bonds, real estate and hedge funds and out of the safety of U.S. Treasuries.
2005: N.C. lottery commission hires former New Mexico chief to run game. North Carolina has put the future of its new lottery in the hands of a former head of the New Mexico Lottery who has helped launch lotteries in three other states.
2004: For some lottery winners jackpot is a 'nightmare'. For a lot of people, winning the lottery is the American dream. But some say the reality is more like a nightmare.
2003: Powerball Jackpot Grows to $25 Million. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 303,827 players across the nation won a total of more than $3.1 million in prizes in America's Game.
2003: One ticket wins $6 million in Florida Lotto. One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $6 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
2003: Reaction to keno vote is mixed. The Kentucky Lottery Commission authorized the creation of a new keno game Friday to shore up a cash-strapped state scholarship program despite opposition to the move by state political leaders.
2003: Lottery winnings at heart of lawsuit. Deer hunting, snack food and Powerball have propelled two Laotian immigrants into a Polk County (Iowa) court battle over how they should split the proceeds of a winning lottery ticket.
2003: Lottery-ticket company wooing Tennessee. Already the country's leading supplier of instant lottery tickets, Scientific Games International is now moving into online gaming - and hopes to make Tennessee its newest customer.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$568.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2025
2.$420 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2024
3.$333.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2016
4.€309.3 Million US$320.46 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2022
5.$279.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 18, 2023
6.$267 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2023
7.$238 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 18, 2022
8.€180 Million US$230.71 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2006
9.$214 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2012
10.$192 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2019
11.$190.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2021
12.$179 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 18, 2020
13.€168 Million
US$177.81 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2024
14.$176 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2020
15.$165 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2013
16.€135 Million
US$156.41 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 18, 2025
17.€144 Million
US$153.37 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2015
18.$149 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2004
19.€131 Million
US$148.02 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2021
20.$143.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 18, 2024
21.$139 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 20, 2018
22.€123 Million
US$136.23 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2019
23.€120 Million
US$127.01 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 19, 2024
24.€111.09 Million
US$126.09 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 18, 2021
25.$124 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2018

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1986: DetroitTigersFa
Monday, Nov 17, 1986
39 years old
1983: Rtav82
Thursday, Nov 17, 1983
42 years old
1982: MysticScoprio82
Wednesday, Nov 17, 1982
43 years old
1981: Jen81
Tuesday, Nov 17, 1981
44 years old
1978: scsu0104
Friday, Nov 17, 1978
47 years old
1976: mommy
Wednesday, Nov 17, 1976
49 years old
1974: ladybugtricia
Sunday, Nov 17, 1974
51 years old
1974: KHollwy$96
Sunday, Nov 17, 1974
51 years old
1974: MoneyMama
Sunday, Nov 17, 1974
51 years old
1972: Tundra2006!Chri
Friday, Nov 17, 1972
53 years old
1968: Bettyboo1968
Sunday, Nov 17, 1968
57 years old
1968: melindadowns
Sunday, Nov 17, 1968
57 years old
1964: Pughmoore
Tuesday, Nov 17, 1964
61 years old
1963: SCMOM
Sunday, Nov 17, 1963
62 years old
1957: syntra
Sunday, Nov 17, 1957
68 years old
1956: galengrounds
Saturday, Nov 17, 1956
69 years old
1954: ESR54
Wednesday, Nov 17, 1954
71 years old
1952: minnie01
Monday, Nov 17, 1952
73 years old
1945: luckywilliam
Saturday, Nov 17, 1945
80 years old
: mnsweeps
(year not provided)
: miss pick3
(year not provided)
: beautifulybrkn8
(year not provided)
: Calimiaokc
(year not provided)
: Cheryl31701
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
2013: Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia.
2013: A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.
2012: At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.
2003: Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's tenure as the governor of California began.
2000: A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2000: Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
1997: In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
1993: United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1993: In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
1990: Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
1989: Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
1986: The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska.
1983: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973: The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
1970: Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
1970: Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
1969: Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
1968: British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
1968: Viewers of the Raiders-Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.
1967: Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress."
1962: President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
1957: Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
1953: The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
1950: Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
1950: United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted.
1947: The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1947: American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
1940: The Tartu Art Museum is established in Tartu, Estonia.
1939: Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut down and more than 1,200 students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.
1903: The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
1896: The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1885: Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.
1878: First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
1869: In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
1863: American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins: During the Knoxville campaign, Confederate forces under General James Longstreet besiege the city of Knoxville, Tennessee and its Union defenders led by General Ambrose Burnside.
1858: Modified Julian Day zero.
1858: The city of Denver, Colorado is founded.
1856: American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
1837: An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.
1831: Ecuador and Venezuela are separated from Gran Colombia.
1820: Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
1811: José Miguel Carrera, Chilean founding father, is sworn in as President of the executive Junta of the government of Chile.
1810: Sweden declares war on its ally the United Kingdom to begin the Anglo-Swedish War, although no fighting ever takes place.
1800: The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
1796: French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Bridge of Arcole: French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
1777: Articles of Confederation (United States) are submitted to the states for ratification.
1775: The city of Kuopio, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this time) is founded by King Gustav III of Sweden.
1603: English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1558: Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I.
1511: Henry VIII of England concludes the Treaty of Westminster, a pledge of mutual aid against the French, with Ferdinand II of Aragon.
1494: French King Charles VIII occupies Florence, Italy.
1405: Sharif ul-Hāshim establishes the Sultanate of Sulu.
1292: John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.
1183: Genpei War: The Battle of Mizushima takes place off the Japanese coast, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka's invasion force is intercepted and defeated by the Taira clan.
887: Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.

Births On This Day

2004: Linda Nosková, Czech tennis player
2000: Joanne Züger, Swiss tennis player
1999: Gabi Gonçalves, Brazilian politician
1997: Dragan Bender, Croatian basketball player
1997: Julian Ryerson, Norwegian footballer
1997: Yugyeom, South Korean singer
1996: Minkah Fitzpatrick, American football player
1996: Jamayne Taunoa-Brown, Australian rugby league player
1995: Elise Mertens, Belgian tennis player
1995: Panashe Muzambe, Scottish rugby union player
1994: Raquel Castro, American actress and singer
1994: Rose Ayling-Ellis, British actress
1993: Taylor Gold, American snowboarder
1992: Damiris Dantas, Brazilian basketball player
1992: Katarzyna Kawa, Polish tennis player
1992: Danielle Kettlewell, Australian synchronised swimmer
1990: Elías Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player
1989: Ryan Griffin, American football player
1989: Seth Lugo, American baseball player
1989: Roman Zozulya, Ukrainian footballer
1988: Justin Cooper, American actor
1987: Justine Michelle Cain, English actress
1987: Craig Noone, English footballer
1987: Gemma Spofforth, English swimmer
1986: Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player
1986: Fabio Concas, Italian footballer
1986: Aaron Finch, Australian cricketer
1986: Nani, Portuguese footballer
1986: Greg Rutherford, English long jumper
1985: Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer
1985: Sékou Camara, Malian footballer (died 2013)
1985: Carolina Neurath, Swedish journalist
1984: Amanda Evora, American figure skater
1984: Park Han-byul, South Korean model and actress
1983: Viva Bianca, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
1983: Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
1983: Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
1983: Ryan Braun, American baseball player
1983: Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
1983: Jodie Henry, Australian swimmer
1983: Harry Lloyd, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1983: Nick Markakis, American baseball player
1983: Scott Moore, American baseball player
1983: Christopher Paolini, American author
1982: Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player
1982: Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
1982: Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981: Sarah Harding, English singer, dancer, and actress (died 2021)
1981: Doug Walker, American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker
1980: Jay Bradley, American wrestler
1979: Matthew Spring, English footballer
1978: Glen Air, Australian rugby league player
1978: Zoë Bell, New Zealand actress and stuntwoman
1978: Tom Ellis, Welsh actor
1978: Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
1978: Reggie Wayne, American football player
1977: Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
1976: Brandon Call, American actor
1976: Diane Neal, American actress and director
1975: Kinga Baranowska, Polish mountaineer
1975: Lee Carseldine, Australian cricketer
1975: Jerome James, American basketball player
1974: Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper
1974: Leslie Bibb, American actress and producer
1974: Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor
1973: Andreas Hedlund, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
1973: Eli Marrero, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager
1973: Bernd Schneider, German footballer
1973: Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater and coach
1972: Kimya Dawson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972: Joanne Goode, English badminton player
1972: Lorraine Pascale, English model and chef
1972: Leonard Roberts, American actor
1971: David Ramsey, American actor
1971: Tonje Sagstuen, Norwegian handball player, journalist, newspaper editor, and gambling executive
1970: Paul Allender, English guitarist and songwriter
1970: Tania Zaetta, Australian actress
1969: Ryōtarō Okiayu, Japanese voice actor and singer
1969: Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
1969: Rebecca Walker, American author
1968: Sean Miller, American basketball player and coach
1967: Tab Benoit, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967: Ronnie DeVoe, American singer, producer, and actor
1966: Ben Allison, American bassist and composer
1966: Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997)
1966: Kate Ceberano, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1966: Richard Fortus, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1966: Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-American model and actress
1966: Sophie Marceau, French actress, director, and screenwriter
1966: Alvin Patrimonio, Filipino basketball player and manager
1965: Darren Beadman, Australian jockey
1965: Pam Bondi, American politician and attorney, 87th U.S. Attorney General
1965: Amanda Brown, Australian violinist and composer
1964: Susan Rice, American academic and politician, 24th United States National Security Advisor
1964: Mitch Williams, American baseball player and sportscaster
1963: Adrian Branch, American basketball player and sportscaster
1963: Daniel Scott, American novelist and short story writer
1963: Dylan Walsh, American actor
1962: Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2000)
1961: Robert Stethem, American soldier (died 1985)
1961: Pat Toomey, American businessman and politician
1960: Michael Hertwig, German footballer and manager
1960: Jonathan Ross, English actor and talk show host
1960: RuPaul, American drag queen performer, actor, and singer
1960: Steve Stipanovich, American basketball player
1959: Terry Fenwick, English footballer and manager
1959: William R. Moses, American actor and producer
1959: Jaanus Tamkivi, Estonian politician
1958: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, American actress and singer
1957: Jim Babjak, American guitarist and songwriter
1956: Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (died 2006)
1956: Jim McGovern, Scottish politician
1955: Peter Cox, English singer-songwriter
1955: Yolanda King, American actress and activist (died 2007)
1955: Dennis Maruk, Ukrainian-Canadian ice hockey player
1954: Chopper Read, Australian criminal and author (died 2013)
1953: Babis Tennes, Greek footballer and manager
1952: David Emanuel, Welsh fashion designer
1952: Ties Kruize, Dutch field hockey player
1952: Runa Laila, Bangladeshi singer
1952: Cyril Ramaphosa, South African businessman and politician, fifth President of South Africa
1951: Butch Davis, American football player and coach
1951: Werner Hoyer, German economist and politician
1951: Dean Paul Martin, American singer, actor, and pilot (died 1987)
1951: Stephen Root, American actor
1951: Jack Vettriano, Scottish painter and philanthropist (died 2025)
1950: Roland Matthes, German swimmer (died 2019)
1949: John Boehner, American businessman and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
1949: Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Vietnamese soldier and politician, eighth Prime Minister of Vietnam
1949: Michael Wenden, Australian swimmer
1948: Howard Dean, American physician and politician, 79th Governor of Vermont
1948: East Bay Ray, American guitarist
1948: Howard Fineman, American journalist and television commentator (died 2024)
1947: Rod Clements, British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist
1946: Martin Barre, English guitarist and songwriter
1946: Terry Branstad, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Governor of Iowa and U.S. Ambassador to China (2017-2020)
1946: Petra Burka, Dutch-Canadian figure skater and coach
1945: Lesley Abdela, English journalist and activist
1945: Jeremy Hanley, English accountant and politician, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
1945: Elvin Hayes, American basketball player and sportscaster
1945: Roland Joffé, English-French director, producer, and screenwriter
1945: Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algerian politician, 8th President of Algeria
1944: Jim Boeheim, American basketball player and coach
1944: Malcolm Bruce, English-Scottish journalist, academic, and politician
1944: Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1991)
1944: Danny DeVito, American actor, director, and producer
1944: Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and academic, designed the Seattle Central Library
1944: Lorne Michaels, Canadian-American screenwriter and producer, created Saturday Night Live
1944: Tom Seaver, American baseball pitcher (died 2020)
1944: Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (died 1966)
1943: Lauren Hutton, American model and actress
1942: Derek Clayton, English-Australian runner
1942: Partha Dasgupta, Bangladeshi economist and academic
1942: Bob Gaudio, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1942: Lesley Rees, English endocrinologist and academic
1942: István Rosztóczy, Hungarian-Japanese microbiologist and physician (died 1993)
1942: Martin Scorsese, American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
1940: Luke Kelly, Irish singer, folk musician and actor (died 1984)
1939: Auberon Waugh, English journalist and author (died 2001)
1938: Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, Scottish general
1938: Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)
1937: Peter Cook, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 1995)
1936: Crispian Hollis, English Roman Catholic bishop
1935: Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
1935: Toni Sailer, Austrian skier and actor (died 2009)
1935: Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer (died 2021)
1934: Jim Inhofe, American soldier and politician, senior senator of Oklahoma (died 2024)
1934: Anthony King, Canadian-English Psephologist and academic (died 2017)
1934: Terry Rand, American basketball player (died 2014)
1933: Dan Osinski, American baseball player (died 2013)
1933: Orlando Peña, Cuban-American baseball player and scout
1932: Jeremy Black, English admiral (died 2015)
1930: Bob Mathias, American decathlete, actor, and politician (died 2006)
1929: Gorō Naya, Japanese actor and director (died 2013)
1929: Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (died 1999)
1928: Arman, French-American painter and sculptor (died 2005)
1928: Rance Howard, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)
1928: Colin McDonald, Australian cricketer (died 2021)
1927: Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer (died 2015)
1927: Fenella Fielding, English actress (died 2018)
1927: Nicholas Taylor, Canadian geologist, businessman, and politician (died 2020)
1925: Jean Faut, American baseball player and bowler (died 2023)
1925: Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)
1925: Charles Mackerras, American-Australian oboe player and conductor (died 2010)
1923: Hubertus Brandenburg, Swedish bishop (died 2009)
1923: Mike Garcia, American baseball player (died 1986)
1923: Aristides Pereira, Cape Verdean politician, first President of Cape Verde (died 2011)
1923: Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand cricketer and coach (died 2001)
1922: Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
1922: Jack Froggatt, English footballer (died 1993)
1921: Albert Bertelsen, Danish painter and illustrator (died 2019)
1920: Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter (died 2005)
1920: Gemini Ganesan, Indian actor and director (died 2002)
1919: Kim Heungsou, Korean painter and educator (died 2014)
1917: Ruth Aaronson Bari, American mathematician (died 2005)
1916: Shelby Foote, American historian and author (died 2005)
1911: Christian Fouchet, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1974)
1907: Israel Regardie, English occultist and author (died 1985)
1906: Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, co-founded the Honda Motor Company (died 1991)
1906: Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (died 2007)
1905: Astrid of Sweden (died 1935)
1905: Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (died 1967)
1905: Arthur Chipperfield, Australian cricketer (died 1987)
1904: Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and architect (died 1988)
1902: Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
1901: Walter Hallstein, German academic and politician, first President of the European Commission (died 1982)
1901: Lee Strasberg, Ukrainian-American actor and director (died 1982)
1899: Douglas Shearer, Canadian-American engineer (died 1971)
1897: Frank Fay, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1961)
1896: Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and philosopher (died 1934)
1895: Gregorio López, Mexican journalist, author, and poet (died 1966)
1891: Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director (died 1949)
1887: Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (died 1976)
1886: Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant (died 1967)
1878: Grace Abbott, American social worker (died 1939)
1878: Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player (died 1963)
1877: Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman (died 1943)
1868: Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic (died 1918)
1866: Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist (died 1912)
1857: Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (died 1932)
1854: Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of War (died 1934)
1835: Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (died 1915)
1827: Petko Slaveykov, Bulgarian journalist and poet (died 1895)
1816: August Wilhelm Ambros, Austrian composer and historian (died 1876)
1793: Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic (died 1865)
1790: August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1868)
1769: Charlotte Georgine, duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1818)
1765: Jacques MacDonald, French general (died 1840)
1755: Louis XVIII, king of France (died 1824)
1753: Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American pastor and botanist (died 1815)
1749: Nicolas Appert, French chef, invented canning (died 1841)
1729: Maria Antonia Ferdinanda, Sardinian queen consort (died 1785)
1685: Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Canadian commander and explorer (died 1749)
1681: Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian and author (died 1776)
1612: Dorgon, Chinese prince and regent (died 1650)
1602: Agnes of Jesus, French Catholic nun (died 1634)
1587: Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1679)
1576: Roque González de Santa Cruz, Paraguayan missionary and saint (died 1628)
1503: Bronzino, Italian painter (died 1572)
1493: John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, English politician (died 1543)
1453: Alfonso, Asturian prince (died 1468)
1412: Zanobi Strozzi, Italian painter (died 1468)
1019: Sima Guang, Chinese politician (died 1086)
AD 9: Vespasian, Roman emperor (died 79)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Macoto Takahashi, Japanese manga artist (born 1934)
2021: Young Dolph, American rapper (born 1985)
2019: Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (born 1982)
2015: John Leahy, English lawyer and diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (born 1928)
2015: Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, Iranian poet and songwriter (born 1926)
2014: John T. Downey, American CIA agent and judge (born 1930)
2014: Bill Frenzel, American lieutenant and politician (born 1928)
2014: Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (born 1940)
2014: Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher (born 1922)
2013: Zeke Bella, American baseball player (born 1930)
2013: Alfred Blake, English colonel and lawyer (born 1915)
2013: Syd Field, American screenwriter and producer (born 1935)
2013: Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)
2013: Alex Marques, Portuguese footballer (born 1993)
2013: Mary Nesbitt Wisham, American baseball player (born 1925)
2012: Ponty Chadha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (born 1957)
2012: Armand Desmet, Belgian cyclist (born 1931)
2012: Lea Gottlieb, Hungarian-Israeli fashion designer, founded the Gottex Company (born 1918)
2012: Freddy Schmidt, American baseball player (born 1916)
2012: Billy Scott, American singer-songwriter (born 1942)
2012: Bal Thackeray, Indian cartoonist and politician (born 1926)
2012: Margaret Yorke, English author (born 1924)
2011: Kurt Budke, American basketball player and coach (born 1961)
2008: George Stephen Morrison, American admiral (born 1919)
2008: Pete Newell, American basketball player and coach (born 1915)
2007: Aarne Hermlin, Estonian chess player (born 1940)
2006: Ruth Brown, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1928)
2006: Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1927)
2006: Bo Schembechler, American football player and coach (born 1929)
2005: Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor and director (born 1942)
2004: Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler and manager (born 1970)
2004: Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (born 1941)
2003: Surjit Bindrakhia, Indian singer (born 1962)
2003: Arthur Conley, American-Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1946)
2002: Abba Eban, South African-Israeli soldier and politician, third Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1915)
2002: Frank McCarthy, American painter and illustrator (born 1924)
2001: Michael Karoli, German guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)
2001: Harrison A. Williams, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1919)
2000: Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
1998: Kea Bouman, Dutch tennis player (born 1903)
1998: Esther Rolle, American actress (born 1920)
1995: Alan Hull, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1945)
1993: Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, fifth Deputy Premier of Quebec (born 1926)
1992: Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (born 1934)
1990: Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
1989: Costabile Farace, American criminal (born 1960)
1988: Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (born 1904)
1987: Paul Derringer, American baseball player (born 1906)
1986: Georges Besse, French businessman (born 1927)
1982: Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (born 1905)
1979: John Glascock, English singer and bass player (born 1951)
1976: Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (born 1880)
1973: Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (born 1878)
1971: Gladys Cooper, English actress (born 1888)
1968: Mervyn Peake, English poet, author, and illustrator (born 1911)
1968: Abdul Wahed Bokainagari, Bengali politician (born 1876)
1959: Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (born 1887)
1958: Mort Cooper, American baseball player (born 1913)
1955: James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer (born 1894)
1954: Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli poet and journalist (born 1899)
1947: Victor Serge, Russian historian and author (born 1890)
1940: Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (born 1882)
1940: Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (born 1879)
1938: Ante Trumbić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 20th Mayor of Split (born 1864)
1937: Jack Worrall, Australian footballer, cricketer, and coach (born 1860)
1936: Ernestine Schumann-Heink, German-American singer (born 1861)
1929: Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman (born 1860)
1928: Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (born 1865)
1924: Gregory VII of Constantinople (born 1850)
1923: Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (born 1862)
1922: Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, 29th President of the Swiss Confederation (born 1847)
1917: Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator (born 1840)
1910: Ralph Johnstone, American pilot (born 1886)
1905: Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, (born 1817)
1902: Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh theologian and educator (born 1847)
1897: George Hendric Houghton, American pastor and theologian (born 1820)
1865: James McCune Smith, American physician and author (born 1813)
1835: Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (born 1758)
1818: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born 1744)
1812: John Walter, English Insurance underwriter and founder of The Times newspaper (born 1738/1739)
1808: David Zeisberger, Czech-American pastor and missionary (born 1721)
1796: Catherine the Great, of Russia (born 1729)
1780: Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1720)
1776: James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer and instrument maker (born 1710)
1768: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1693)
1747: Alain-René Lesage, French author and playwright (born 1668)
1713: Abraham van Riebeeck, South African-Indonesian merchant and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (born 1653)
1708: Ludolf Bakhuizen, German-Dutch painter (born 1631)
1690: Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French general and politician (born 1610)
1668: Joseph Alleine, English pastor and author (born 1634)
1665: John Earle, English bishop (born 1601)
1648: Thomas Ford, English viol player, composer, and poet (born 1580)
1643: Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, French general (born 1602)
1632: Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (born 1594)
1624: Jakob Böhme, German mystic (born 1575)
1600: Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese commander (born 1542)
1592: John III of Sweden (born 1537)
1562: Antoine of Navarre (born 1518)
1558: Mary I of England (born 1516)
1558: Reginald Pole, English cardinal and academic (born 1500)
1558: Hugh Aston, English composer (born 1485)
1525: Eleanor of Viseu, queen of João II of Portugal (born 1458)
1494: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (born 1463)
1492: Jami, Persian poet and saint (born 1414)
1417: Gazi Evrenos, Ottoman general (born 1288)
1326: Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (born 1285)
1307: Hethum II, King of Armenia (born 1266)
1307: Leo III, King of Armenia (born 1289)
1231: Elizabeth of Hungary (born 1207)
1188: Usama ibn Munqidh, Arab chronicler (born 1095)
1104: Nikephoros Melissenos, Byzantine general (born 1045)
935: Chen Jinfeng, empress of Min (born 893)
935: Wang Yanjun, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)
885: Liutgard of Saxony (born 845)
641: Emperor Jomei of Japan (born 593)
594: Gregory of Tours, Roman bishop and saint (born 538)
375: Valentinian I, Roman emperor (born 321)

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