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On This Day in History
November 19
November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 42 days remain until the end of the year.
Lottery News On This Day
- 2020
- Wisconsin man claims $120 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Ten years after selling the first Mega Millions lottery ticket in the state, Wisconsin finally had its first jackpot winner come forward to claim a $120 million Mega Millions prize from the Sept. 15 drawing.
- 2019
- I won the lottery at 22, here's what happened next. Learn what life is like years after a 22-year-old scratched off a lottery ticket that won £1M (US$1.3 million).
- 2018
- Homeless man dives into dumpster to retrieve lottery ticket worth $4.82M. A homeless Michigan man who realized he won the state's Lotto 47 game dived into a dumpster to retrieve the winning ticket.
- 2015
- $42 million NY Lottery winner wants to remain blue-collar worker for life. A Cayuga County, New York, man who won $42.5 million playing the Lotto said the winning numbers represented his parents' birth dates.
- 2013
- Texas Lottery reports record-breaking 2013. The Texas Lottery Commission today reported record results for fiscal year 2013, its best year for sales and revenue in the Lottery's 21-year history.
- 2013
- Despite publishing surveillance photos, Calif. Lottery fails to find winner. Despite months of trying to track him down, a mystery Lotto player in Los Angeles didn't claim his prize worth nearly half a million dollars by the deadline Monday evening.
- 2012
- New Fla. Lottery raffle to make a millionaire every week. Florida Lottery officials are betting that a new seven-week raffle series will attract players excited by weekly millionaires and great gifts with their new game, called 25th Anniversary Millionaire. The first drawing is Monday.
- 2010
- New Jersey lottery turns 40 with record $2.6B in revenue. The New Jersey Lottery, which turns 40 in December, continues to be an economic force in a state desperate for cash.
- 2010
- PA Millionaire Raffle lottery tickets on sale today. Tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery's 11th Millionaire Raffle, which offers 6,000 cash prizes totaling more than $5 million, go on sale today, Nov. 19.
- 2006
- N.J. Lottery to offer limited raffle-style New Year's drawing. The New Jersey Lottery is offering a special New Year's drawing in which a limited amount of tickets will be sold for four $1 million prizes.
- 2006
- Ohio lottery numbers same as game score. Ohio State's 42-39 victory over Michigan also was lucky for players of the Ohio Lottery.
- 2005
- Texas Lottery to change Lotto game back to 6/54 format. Texas lottery commissioners moved one step closer Friday to returning the Lotto Texas game to its original format by signing off on a plan to bounce the so-called bonus ball from the format that decides how the multimillion-dollar jackpots are won.
- 2004
- $83 Million Powerball Jackpot Waiting to Be Won. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $83 million, with a cash option of $45.6 million.
- 2004
- Florida Lotto Soars to $50 Million. No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers drawn Wednesday night, lottery officials said Thursday, pushing the jackpot to $50 million, the largest in more than a year.
- 2004
- Colorado Lottery cuts $1 million from budget. The Colorado Lottery cut nearly $1 million from its $22.8 million 2005-06 budget request in an era when many agencies are looking for additional funding from the already tight state budget.
- 2004
- Texas Lottery cuts 33 jobs. In a shake-up billed as a reorganization, the Texas Lottery Commission eliminated 33 jobs Thursday, saying it will save $296,000 annually in salaries.
- 2004
- Officials Say Oklahoma Lottery Could Take Year To Start. Oklahoma voters earlier this month ended Gov. Brad Henry's yearslong battle to get a statewide lottery, but the task of making the lottery a reality has just begun.
- 2004
- Canadian and U.S. officials shut down lottery scams. Canadian and U.S. investigators said Thursday that they had shut down four lottery scams that preyed on elderly consumers.
- 2003
- Colorado Lottery Director Takes Early Retirement. The director of the Colorado Lottery has retired, saying he chose to take advantage of a state personnel program, which allows early retirement with reduced benefits.
- 2003
- Mega Millions jackpot increases to $16 million. The jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $16 million after no tickets matched all six numbers in the Tuesday drawing.
- 2003
- Powerball revenue surges in Indiana. A record number of Indiana jackpots has sent Powerball revenues skyrocketing, with the state selling nearly twice as many tickets in the past four months as it did during the same period a year ago.
- 2003
- Passing through, worker hits lottery for $100,000 at mall. man from Hershey, Pennsylvania found some extra holiday cash at a lottery dealer at the Schuylkill Mall on Oct. 3 and collected his winnings Thursday.
- 2003
- Lottery fund may face changes. Two powerful Colorado legislators said they will push for changes in the state's management of the Conservation Trust Fund, a $43 million pot of lottery profits that is supposed to pay for parks and recreation.
Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day
- 1.$420 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 19, 2024 - 2.$333.5 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 19, 2016 - 3.€311.05 Million
US$321.44 Million - Italy
SuperEnalottoDraw Date
Nov 19, 2022 - 4.$295.5 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 20, 2023 - 5.$289 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 21, 2023 - 6.$259 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 22, 2022 - 7.$250 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 21, 2012 - 8.$206.2 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 20, 2021 - 9.$192 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 19, 2019 - 9.$192 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 21, 2020 - 11.$188 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 20, 2020 - 12.€168 Million
US$177.81 Million - Multi-Country
Euro MillionsDraw Date
Nov 19, 2024 - 13.€162 Million
US$172.84 Million - Multi-Country
Euro MillionsDraw Date
Nov 20, 2015 - 14.$165 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 19, 2013 - 15.$155.3 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 20, 2024 - 16.€130 Million
US$154.21 Million - Multi-Country
Euro MillionsDraw Date
Nov 20, 2020 - 17.$149 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 19, 2004 - 18.€131 Million
US$148.02 Million - Multi-Country
Euro MillionsDraw Date
Nov 19, 2021 - 19.$139 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 21, 2018 - 19.$139 Million
- Multi-State
Mega MillionsDraw Date
Nov 20, 2018 - 21.€123 Million
US$136.23 Million - Multi-Country
Euro MillionsDraw Date
Nov 19, 2019 - 22.$134 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 22, 2017 - 23.€120 Million
US$127.01 Million - Multi-Country
EuroJackpotDraw Date
Nov 19, 2024 - 24.€112.35 Million
US$126.74 Million - Italy
SuperEnalottoDraw Date
Nov 20, 2021 - 25.$120 Million
- Multi-State
PowerballDraw Date
Nov 21, 2007
Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day
- 2000
- Sunday, Nov 19, 2000
24 years old - 1983
- Saturday, Nov 19, 1983
41 years old - 1980
- Wednesday, Nov 19, 1980
44 years old - 1978
- Sunday, Nov 19, 1978
46 years old - 1973
- Monday, Nov 19, 1973
51 years old - 1970
- Thursday, Nov 19, 1970
54 years old - 1970
- Thursday, Nov 19, 1970
54 years old - 1970
- Thursday, Nov 19, 1970
54 years old - 1969
- Wednesday, Nov 19, 1969
55 years old - 1961
- Sunday, Nov 19, 1961
63 years old - 1944
- Sunday, Nov 19, 1944
80 years old - (year not provided)
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Worldwide Events On This Day
- 2023
- The 2023 Cricket World Cup final takes place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, played between host nation India and Australia.
- 2022
- A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 2013
- A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
- 2010
- The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
- 2004
- The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
- 2002
- The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
- 1999
- Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
- 1999
- John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- 1998
- Clinton-Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 1997
- Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-87.
- 1996
- Space Shuttle program: Columbia is launched on STS-80, which would become the longest mission in the program at 17 days. On this mission, astronaut Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.
- 1996
- A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.
- 1994
- In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
- 1988
- Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
- 1985
- Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- 1985
- Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
- 1985
- Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
- 1984
- San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
- 1979
- Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
- 1977
- TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
- 1969
- Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- 1969
- Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
- 1967
- The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
- 1955
- National Review publishes its first issue.
- 1954
- Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
- 1952
- Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1950
- US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
- 1946
- Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- 1944
- World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
- 1944
- World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
- 1943
- Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
- 1942
- World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
- 1942
- Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
- 1941
- World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
- 1916
- Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
- 1912
- First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
- 1911
- The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
- 1885
- Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
- 1881
- A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odesa, Ukraine.
- 1863
- American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1847
- The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
- 1816
- Warsaw University is established.
- 1808
- Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.
- 1802
- The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize).
- 1794
- The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
- 1493
- Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
- 636
- The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
- 461
- Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
Births On This Day
- 1999
- Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater
- 1998
- Nahuel Ferraresi, Venezuelan footballer
- 1997
- Zach Collins, American basketball player
- 1997
- Kotonowaka Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1996
- Fred Warner, American football player
- 1995
- Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model
- 1994
- Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
- 1993
- Justin Anderson, American basketball player
- 1993
- Joey Gallo, American baseball player
- 1993
- Suso, Spanish footballer
- 1992
- Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer
- 1992
- Roland Baumann, Austrian politician
- 1992
- James Tarkowski, English footballer
- 1991
- Fabien Antunes, French footballer
- 1991
- Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player
- 1990
- Marquise Goodwin, American football player
- 1990
- Josh Lambo, American football and soccer player
- 1990
- John Moore, American ice hockey player
- 1990
- Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
- 1989
- Kenneth Faried, American basketball player
- 1989
- John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1989
- Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper
- 1989
- Tyga, American rapper
- 1988
- Víctor Cuesta, Argentine footballer
- 1988
- Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player
- 1988
- Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
- 1987
- Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Spanish tennis player
- 1986
- Sam Betty, English rugby player
- 1986
- Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
- 1986
- Michael Saunders, Canadian baseball player
- 1986
- Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
- 1986
- Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer
- 1985
- Chris Eagles, English footballer
- 1985
- Alex Mack, American football player
- 1984
- Jorge Fucile, Uruguayan footballer
- 1984
- Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer
- 1984
- Brittany Maynard, American activist (d. 2014)
- 1983
- Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier
- 1983
- Adam Driver, American actor
- 1983
- Daria Werbowy, Polish-Canadian model
- 1982
- Jonathan Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1981
- Marcus Banks, American basketball player
- 1981
- Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player
- 1981
- André Lotterer, German race car driver
- 1981
- DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter
- 1981
- Mark Wallace, Welsh-English cricketer
- 1980
- Courtney Anderson, American football player
- 1980
- Otis Grigsby, American football player
- 1980
- Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player
- 1979
- Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter
- 1979
- Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower
- 1979
- John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
- 1979
- Ryan Howard, American baseball player
- 1979
- Barry Jenkins, American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1979
- Larry Johnson, American football player
- 1979
- Leam Richardson, English footballer and manager
- 1978
- Dries Buytaert, Belgian computer programmer
- 1978
- Matt Dusk, Canadian singer
- 1978
- Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower and shot putter
- 1977
- Reid Scott, American actor
- 1977
- Kerri Strug, American gymnast and runner
- 1976
- Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
- 1976
- Robin Dunne, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1976
- Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1976
- Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976
- Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer and manager
- 1975
- Toby Bailey, American basketball player and agent
- 1975
- Sushmita Sen, Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994
- 1973
- Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1973
- Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
- 1972
- Sandrine Holt, English-American model and actress
- 1971
- Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, American author and activist
- 1971
- Justin Chancellor, English bass player
- 1971
- Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
- 1971
- Alice Peacock, American singer-songwriter
- 1971
- Tony Rich, American R&B singer-songwriter and musician
- 1971
- Dmitri Yushkevich, Russian ice hockey player
- 1969
- Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver
- 1969
- Erika Alexander, American actress and screenwriter
- 1969
- Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish footballer and coach
- 1969
- Richard Virenque, Moroccan-French cyclist and sportscaster
- 1968
- Anja Vanrobaeys, Belgian politician
- 1967
- Randi Kaye, American journalist
- 1966
- Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author
- 1966
- Gail Devers, American sprinter and hurdler
- 1966
- Rocco DiSpirito, American chef and author
- 1966
- Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer and manager
- 1966
- Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist
- 1965
- Laurent Blanc, French footballer and manager
- 1965
- Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
- 1965
- Jason Pierce, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1965
- Paulo S. L. M. Barreto, Brazilian cryptographer and academic
- 1965
- Paul Weitz, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright
- 1964
- Fred Diamond, American-English mathematician and academic
- 1964
- Vincent Herring, American saxophonist and flute player
- 1964
- Phil Hughes, Irish footballer and coach
- 1964
- Jung Jin-young, South Korean actor
- 1964
- Eric Musselman, American basketball player and coach
- 1964
- Nicholas Patrick, English-American engineer and astronaut
- 1963
- Terry Farrell, American actress
- 1963
- Jon Potter, English-American field hockey player
- 1962
- Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer
- 1962
- Sean Parnell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Alaska
- 1962
- Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and trainer
- 1961
- Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach
- 1961
- Meg Ryan, American actress and producer
- 1961
- Pernille Svarre, Danish athlete
- 1960
- Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)
- 1960
- Matt Sorum, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
- 1959
- Robert Barron, American bishop, author, and theologian
- 1959
- Jo Bonner, American politician
- 1959
- Allison Janney, American actress
- 1958
- Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (d. 2007)
- 1958
- Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuanian sergeant and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania
- 1958
- Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer
- 1958
- Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian, author, and academic
- 1958
- Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1958
- Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and journalist
- 1957
- Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
- 1957
- Tom Virtue, American actor
- 1956
- Eileen Collins, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1956
- Ann Curry, Guamanian-American journalist
- 1956
- Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
- 1956
- Sergiy Vilkomir, Ukrainian-born computer scientist (d. 2020)
- 1955
- Sam Hamm, American screenwriter and producer
- 1954
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egyptian field marshal and politician, 6th President of Egypt
- 1954
- Réjean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1954
- Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
- 1953
- Robert Beltran, American actor
- 1953
- Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1951
- Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
- 1950
- Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player
- 1949
- Raymond Blanc, French chef and author
- 1949
- Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
- 1947
- Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
- 1947
- Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2024)
- 1947
- Lamar S. Smith, American lawyer and politician
- 1945
- Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (d. 2008)
- 1945
- Bobby Tolan, American baseball player and manager
- 1944
- Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano and actress
- 1944
- Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1943
- Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator
- 1943
- Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player and manager (d. 1990)
- 1942
- Roland Clift, English engineer and academic
- 1942
- Larry Gilbert, American golfer (d. 1998)
- 1942
- Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
- 1942
- Sharon Olds, American poet and academic
- 1941
- Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer (d. 2016)
- 1941
- Tommy Thompson, American captain and politician, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- 1940
- Gary Gruber, author and expert on test-prep (d. 2019)
- 1939
- Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania
- 1939
- Tom Harkin, American lawyer and politician
- 1939
- Jane Mansbridge, American political scientist and academic
- 1939
- Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)
- 1939
- Richard Zare, American chemist and academic
- 1938
- Len Killeen, South African rugby league player (d. 2011)
- 1938
- Frank Misson, Australian cricketer (d. 2024)
- 1938
- Ted Turner, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System
- 1937
- Penelope Leach, English psychologist and author
- 1936
- Dick Cavett, American actor and talk show host
- 1936
- Ray Collins, American singer (d. 2012)
- 1936
- Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1936
- Ljubiša Samardžić, Serbian actor and director (d. 2017)
- 1935
- Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and scholar (d. 1990)
- 1935
- Jack Welch, American engineer, businessman, and author (d. 2020)
- 1934
- Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer and scout (d. 2024)
- 1934
- Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
- 1934
- David Lloyd-Jones, English conductor (d. 2022)
- 1933
- Larry King, American journalist and talk show host (d. 2021)
- 1933
- Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author
- 1932
- Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (d. 2009)
- 1930
- Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2011)
- 1929
- Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004)
- 1928
- Dara Singh, Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)
- 1926
- Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
- 1926
- Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012)
- 1926
- Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (d. 2011)
- 1925
- Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic (d. 2017)
- 1924
- Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (d. 2014)
- 1924
- William Russell, English actor (d. 2024)
- 1924
- Knut Steen, Norwegian-Italian sculptor (d. 2011)
- 1924
- Margaret Turner-Warwick, English physician and academic (d. 2017)
- 1923
- Louis D. Rubin, Jr., American author, critic, and academic (d. 2013)
- 1922
- Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)
- 1922
- Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (d. 1999)
- 1922
- Rajko Mitić, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
- 1921
- Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993)
- 1921
- Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator (d. 2016)
- 1920
- Gene Tierney, American actress and singer (d. 1991)
- 1919
- Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
- 1919
- Alan Young, English-Canadian actor, singer, and director (d. 2016)
- 1917
- Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- 1915
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1912
- Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, American bishop (d. 2015)
- 1912
- George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
- 1912
- Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (d. 2014)
- 1910
- Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver, author, and explorer (d. 1970)
- 1909
- Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (d. 2005).
- 1909
- Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (d. 1980).
- 1907
- Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (d. 1983)
- 1907
- Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
- 1906
- Franz Schädle, German SS officer (d. 1945)
- 1905
- Eleanor Audley, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1905
- Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)
- 1904
- Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
- 1901
- Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (d. 1961)
- 1900
- Bunny Ahearne, Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)
- 1900
- Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
- 1900
- Anna Seghers, German author and politician (d. 1983)
- 1899
- Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (d. 1992)
- 1899
- Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
- 1898
- Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
- 1898
- Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)
- 1897
- Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)
- 1895
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
- 1895
- Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
- 1894
- Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
- 1893
- René Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952)
- 1892
- Thomas Clay, English footballer and coach (d. 1949)
- 1892
- Huw T. Edwards, Welsh poet and politician (d. 1970)
- 1889
- Clifton Webb, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1966)
- 1888
- José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban-American chess player and theologian (d. 1942)
- 1887
- James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1883
- Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)
- 1877
- Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)
- 1876
- Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)
- 1875
- Mikhail Kalinin, Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (d. 1946)
- 1873
- Elizabeth McCombs, the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand (d. 1935)
- 1862
- Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935)
- 1859
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1935)
- 1845
- Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939)
- 1843
- Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1896)
- 1843
- C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (d. 1914)
- 1834
- Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924)
- 1833
- Wilhelm Dilthey, German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (d. 1911)
- 1831
- James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
- 1828
- Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
- 1812
- Karl Schwarz, German theologian and politician (d. 1885)
- 1808
- Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician (d. 1881)
- 1805
- Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894)
- 1802
- Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)
- 1770
- Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor and academic (d. 1844)
- 1765
- Filippo Castagna, Maltese politician (d. 1830)
- 1752
- George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818)
- 1722
- Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
- 1722
- Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
- 1711
- Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)
- 1700
- Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770)
- 1617
- Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (d. 1655)
- 1600
- Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1649)
- 1600
- Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669)
- 1563
- Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English poet and politician (d. 1626)
- 1503
- Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1547)
- 1464
- Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
- 1417
- Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (d. 1480)
Deaths On This Day
- 2023
- Rosalynn Carter, American mental health activist, First Lady of the United States (1977-1981), and of Georgia (1971-1975) (b. 1927)
- 2023
- Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and publisher (b. 1935)
- 2022
- Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist (b. 1973)
- 2017
- Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (b. 1934)
- 2017
- Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1938)
- 2017
- Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (b. 1968)
- 2017
- Della Reese, American singer and actress (b. 1931)
- 2017
- Mel Tillis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
- 2015
- Armand, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
- 2015
- Allen E. Ertel, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
- 2015
- Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)
- 2015
- Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (b. 1953)
- 2015
- Mal Whitfield, American runner and diplomat (b. 1924)
- 2014
- Roy Bhaskar, English philosopher and academic (b. 1944)
- 2014
- Jeremiah Coffey, Irish-Australian bishop (b. 1933)
- 2014
- Pete Harman, American businessman (b. 1919)
- 2014
- Richard A. Jensen, American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1934)
- 2014
- Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1950)
- 2014
- Mike Nichols, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- 2013
- Babe Birrer, American baseball player (b. 1928)
- 2013
- Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (b. 1921)
- 2013
- Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (b. 1939)
- 2013
- Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- 2013
- Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (b. 1915)
- 2012
- John Hefin, Welsh director and producer (b. 1941)
- 2012
- Shiro Miya, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
- 2012
- Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
- 2012
- Boris Strugatskiy, Russian author (b. 1933)
- 2011
- Ömer Lütfi Akad, Turkish director and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- 2011
- John Neville, English actor (b. 1925)
- 2011
- Ruth Stone, American poet and author (b. 1915)
- 2010
- Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)
- 2009
- Johnny Delgado, Filipino actor (b. 1948)
- 2007
- Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
- 2007
- Mike Gregory, English rugby player and coach (b. 1964)
- 2005
- Erik Balling, Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2005
- Steve Belichick, American football player, coach and scout (b. 1919)
- 2004
- George Canseco, Filipino journalist and composer (b. 1934)
- 2004
- Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor and academic (b. 1914)
- 2004
- Helmut Griem, German actor and director (b. 1932)
- 2004
- Trina Schart Hyman, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)
- 2004
- Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
- 2004
- John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
- 2003
- Ian Geoghegan, Australian race car driver (b. 1939)
- 2001
- Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
- 1999
- Alexander Liberman, Russian-American artist and publisher (b. 1912)
- 1998
- Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
- 1998
- Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
- 1998
- Bernard Thompson, English director and producer (b. 1926)
- 1992
- Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
- 1992
- Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
- 1991
- Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (b. 1907)
- 1990
- Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1900)
- 1989
- Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
- 1988
- Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)
- 1988
- Peggy Parish, American author (b. 1927)
- 1985
- Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1902)
- 1985
- Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
- 1983
- Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
- 1976
- Basil Spence, Indian-Scottish architect and academic, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)
- 1975
- Roger D. Branigin, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
- 1975
- Rudolf Kinau, Low German writer (b. 1887)
- 1975
- Elizabeth Taylor (novelist), English novelist, (b. 1912)
- 1974
- George Brunies, American trombonist (b. 1902)
- 1974
- Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
- 1970
- Lewis Sargent, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1970
- Maria Yudina, Soviet pianist (b. 1899)
- 1968
- May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director (b. 1895)
- 1967
- Charles J. Watters, American priest and soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
- 1963
- Carmen Boni, Italian-French actress (b. 1901)
- 1963
- Henry B. Richardson, American archer (b. 1889)
- 1962
- Grigol Robakidze, Georgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
- 1960
- Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1959
- Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)
- 1956
- Francis L. Sullivan, English-American actor (b. 1903)
- 1955
- Marquis James, American journalist and author (b. 1891)
- 1954
- Walter Bartley Wilson, English footballer and manager (b. 1870)
- 1950
- Aage Redal, Danish actor (b. 1891)
- 1949
- James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
- 1943
- Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
- 1942
- Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)
- 1938
- Lev Shestov, Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and theologian (b. 1866)
- 1931
- Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet and translator (b. 1897)
- 1928
- Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (b. 1864)
- 1924
- Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
- 1918
- Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
- 1915
- Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist (b. 1879)
- 1910
- Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835)
- 1897
- William Seymour Tyler, American historian and academic (b. 1810)
- 1887
- Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
- 1883
- Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
- 1868
- Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
- 1850
- Richard Mentor Johnson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
- 1831
- Titumir, Bengali revolutionary (b. 1782)
- 1828
- Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1797)
- 1822
- Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
- 1810
- Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1727)
- 1804
- Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
- 1798
- Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
- 1785
- Bernard de Bury, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1720)
- 1773
- James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)
- 1772
- William Nelson, American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
- 1723
- Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
- 1703
- Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner
- 1692
- Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642)
- 1679
- Roger Conant, Massachusetts governor (b. 1592)
- 1672
- John Wilkins, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1614)
- 1665
- Nicolas Poussin, French-Italian painter (b. 1594)
- 1649
- Caspar Schoppe, German scholar and author (b. 1576)
- 1581
- Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)
- 1577
- Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese daimyō (b. 1508)
- 1557
- Bona Sforza, Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (b. 1494)
- 1481
- Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
- 1350
- Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu (b. 1315)
- 1298
- Mechtilde, Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)
- 1288
- Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1230)
- 1267
- Pedro Gallego, Franciscan scholar
- 1092
- Malik-Shah I, Seljuk Sultan (b. 1055)
- 1034
- Theodoric II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia (b. c. 990)
- 930
- Yan Keqiu, Chinese chief strategist
- 498
- Pope Anastasius II
- 496
- Pope Gelasius I