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November 22

On This Day in History

November 22

November 22 is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 39 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: $50 million Lotto Max winner refuses to leave job, says company would suffer without him. After winning a $50 million (US$36.5 million) Lotto Max jackpot, a Quebec man decided he would rather head right back to work than leave his coworkers hanging.
2021: Lottery scammers sentenced to prison after netting $700,000 from victims. Two lottery scammers who defrauded elderly victims of $700,000 will be spending time behind bars in federal prison, Acting United States Attorney Richard B. Myrus announced.
2019: France sells its lottery for $2 billion. France will bank 1.8 billion euros (US$2 billion) from selling down its stake in the country's lottery operator, according to the final price set on Wednesday in a listing that will serve as a test for France's privatization push.
2018: Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving from the Lottery Post staff!
2016: Oregon Gov. appoints new lottery director. Barry Pack is now the official nominee for director of the Oregon Lottery.
2013: Indiana man takes home third major lottery win. A Fort Wayne, Indiana, man took his third trip to the Hoosier Lottery claims office Thursday, this time to turn in the grand-prize winning ticket for the Million Dollar Holiday Scratch-off.
2013: Deadline passes: $16 million Powerball jackpot goes unclaimed. The 180-day window passed late Thursday with no one coming forward to claim a $16.66 Powerball jackpot from a ticket bought in Hillsborough County, Florida.
2012: Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving from the Lottery Post staff.
2012: $325 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot goes through the roof. For only the 16th time in the history of United States lotteries, a lottery jackpot run-up has crossed into $300 million+ territory.
2011: Millionaire janitor must leave the job he loves. After being elected to the Highline School Board, a millionaire janitor who won the Washington lottery must now step down from the job he loves and the teams he coaches.
2010: Ex-wife gets millions from lottery winner 10 years after leaving him. A UK man who won $90 million in the lottery has been ordered to share his winnings with his ex-wife, who left him for another man 10 years ago.
2009: After $10M lottery win, Mass. woman plans 'exceptional Christmas'. A Stoneham, Massachusetts, woman has won $10 million in a state lottery scratch ticket game.
2009: Texas Lottery takes step toward selling Powerball. The Texas Lottery Commission took a step Tuesday toward expanding state gambling options to include Powerball, with a chance for the first ticket to be sold here Jan. 31.
2009: N.H. Lottery will sell Mega Millions. The New Hampshire Lottery Commission on Wednesday unanimously voted to add the multi-state Mega Millions game to its lineup.
2007: Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving from the Lottery Post staff.
2003: Board chooses GTECH, Scientific Games to run Tennessee lottery. Tennessee's lottery will have two industry giants -- GTECH Corp. and Scientific Games International -- create and run its games for the first seven years.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$374.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 23, 2016
2.$325 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2012
3.€312.55 Million US$321.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2022
4.$316.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2023
5.$308 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2023
6.$259 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2022
7.$214.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2021
8.$208 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2019
9.$202 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 25, 2020
10.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2020
11.$181 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2013
12.€143 Million
US$169.9 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2020
13.€145 Million
US$163.11 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 23, 2021
14.$155 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 23, 2018
14.$155 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2018
16.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2007
17.$134 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2017
18.€113.6 Million
US$127.79 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 23, 2021
19.$119 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2017
20.€90 Million
US$99.48 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2019
21.$96 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 25, 2008
22.$95 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 24, 2004
23.$92 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 22, 2000
24.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 23, 2019
24.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 25, 2015

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1985: Andreahipp
Friday, Nov 22, 1985
38 years old
1984: Starke$
Thursday, Nov 22, 1984
39 years old
1982: Winnermc007
Monday, Nov 22, 1982
41 years old
1980: broke101
Saturday, Nov 22, 1980
43 years old
1977: tvaso
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1977
46 years old
1976: pg7376
Monday, Nov 22, 1976
47 years old
1961: amber
Wednesday, Nov 22, 1961
62 years old
1956: tapani
Thursday, Nov 22, 1956
67 years old
1953: PoodahChip2852
Sunday, Nov 22, 1953
70 years old
1952: MIKENAVY
Saturday, Nov 22, 1952
71 years old
1951: EASYPERSON
Thursday, Nov 22, 1951
72 years old
1949: Sweethelmai22
Tuesday, Nov 22, 1949
74 years old
1943: snshakirbham
Monday, Nov 22, 1943
80 years old
: Cscr22$
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: Getthis$22
(year not provided)
: JEFFCOMO
(year not provided)
: Meows
(year not provided)
: mom4dad
(year not provided)
: Slok88
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: A shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia leaves 7 workers dead, including the shooter, and 4 others injured.
2004: The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2003: Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: Shortly after takeoff, a DHL Express cargo plane is struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile and forced to land.
1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
1975: Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1971: In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau Disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
1967: UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
1963: Five Indian generals are killed in a helicopter crash, due to collision with two parallel lines of telegraph cables.
1955: The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.
1943: World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1943: Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government.
1942: World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
1940: World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.
1935: The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
1921: During The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920-1922), 22 Irish Nationalists are killed in Belfast in one day.
1908: The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
1873: The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
1869: In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched.
1855: In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute.
1837: Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
1718: Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself.
1635: Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.
1574: Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.
1307: Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
845: The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon.
498: After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.

Births On This Day

2002: Brandon Miller, American basketball player
2002: Owen Power, Canadian ice hockey player
2000: Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress and singer
1996: Hailey Bieber, American model
1996: Mackenzie Lintz, American actress
1996: JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player
1995: Katherine McNamara, American actress
1994: Samantha Bricio, Mexican volleyball player
1994: Dacre Montgomery, Australian actor
1994: Nicolás Stefanelli, Argentine footballer
1994: Keiji Tanaka, Japanese figure skater
1992: Natalie Achonwa, Canadian basketball player
1992: Carles Gil, Spanish footballer
1992: Vladislav Namestnikov, Russian ice hockey player
1991: Tarik Black, American basketball player
1990: Brock Osweiler, American football player
1989: Alden Ehrenreich, American actor
1989: Candice Glover, American singer
1989: Chris Smalling, English footballer
1989: Gabriel Torje, Romanian footballer
1988: Jamie Campbell Bower, English actor, singer, and model
1988: Drew Pomeranz, American baseball player
1988: Austin Romine, American baseball player
1987: Martti Aljand, Estonian swimmer
1987: Elias, American wrestler
1986: Oscar Pistorius, South African sprinter and convicted murderer
1985: Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian footballer
1985: Dieumerci Mbokani, Congolese footballer
1985: Mandy Minella, Luxembourgian tennis player
1985: Adam Ottavino, American baseball player
1985: James Roby, English rugby league player
1984: Scarlett Johansson, American actress
1983: Tyler Hilton, American actor and singer-songwriter
1983: Peter Ramage, English footballer
1982: Xavier Doherty, Australian cricketer
1982: Alasdair Duncan, Australian journalist and author
1982: Derrick Johnson, American football player
1982: Isild Le Besco, French actress, director, and screenwriter
1982: Yakubu, Nigerian footballer
1981: Asmaa Abdol-Hamid, Arab-Danish social worker and politician
1981: Ben Adams, English-Norwegian singer-songwriter and producer
1981: Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress and singer
1981: Shangela, American drag queen, comedian and reality television personality
1981: Pape Sow, Senegalese basketball player
1981: Jenny Owen Youngs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980: David Artell, English-Gibraltarian footballer and coach
1980: Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster
1980: Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player
1980: Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper
1979: Jeremy Dale, American illustrator (d. 2014)
1979: Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
1978: Colin Best, Australian rugby league player
1978: Mélanie Doutey, French actress and singer
1978: Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist
1977: Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player
1977: Annika Norlin, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977: Michael Preston, English footballer
1976: Adrian Bakalli, Belgian footballer
1976: Torsten Frings, German footballer and coach
1976: Regina Halmich, German boxer and businesswoman
1976: Ville Valo, Finnish singer-songwriter
1975: Aiko, Japanese singer-songwriter
1975: Yusaku Maezawa, Japanese entrepreneur and art collector
1975: Joshua Wheeler, American sergeant (d. 2015)
1974: Joe Nathan, American baseball player
1974: David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach
1973: Dmitri Linter, Russian-Estonian activist
1973: Chad Trujillo, American astronomer and scholar
1973: Andrew Walker, Australian rugby player
1972: Olivier Brouzet, French rugby player
1972: Russell Hoult, English footballer, coach, and manager
1972: Jay Payton, American baseball player and sportscaster
1971: Cath Bishop, English rower
1971: Kyran Bracken, Irish-English rugby player
1971: Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and producer
1970: Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lankan cricketer and coach
1970: Chris Fryar, American drummer
1970: Stel Pavlou, English author and screenwriter
1969: Byron Houston, American basketball player
1969: Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author and illustrator
1968: Daedra Charles, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
1968: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Danish actress
1968: Rasmus Lerdorf, Greenlandic-Canadian computer scientist and programmer, created PHP
1968: Sarah MacDonald, Canadian organist and conductor
1967: Boris Becker, German tennis player
1967: Tom Elliott, Australian investment banker
1967: Quint Kessenich, American lacrosse player and sportscaster
1967: Mark Ruffalo, American actor
1967: Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-Belgian speed skater, coach, and sportscaster
1966: Ed Ferrara, American wrestler and manager
1966: Mark Pritchard, English lawyer and politician
1966: Nicholas Rowe, British actor
1966: Richard Stanley, South African director, producer, and screenwriter
1966: Michael K. Williams, American actor (d. 2021)
1965: Sen Dog, Cuban-American rapper and musician
1965: Valeriya Gansvind, Estonian chess player
1965: Olga Kisseleva, Russian artist
1965: Jörg Jung, German footballer and manager
1965: Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
1965: Kristin Minter, American actress
1964: Apetor, Norwegian YouTuber (d. 2021)
1964: Benoit Benjamin, American basketball player
1964: Stephen Geoffreys, American actor
1964: Robbie Slater, English-Australian footballer and sportscaster
1963: Hugh Millen, American football player and sportscaster
1963: Tony Mowbray, English footballer and manager
1963: Kennedy Pola, Samoan-American football player and coach
1963: Brian Robbins, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1963: Corinne Russell, English model, actress, and dancer
1962: Sumi Jo, South Korean soprano
1962: Victor Pelevin, Russian engineer and author
1962: Rezauddin Stalin, Bangladeshi poet and educator
1961: Mariel Hemingway, American actress
1961: Stephen Hough, English-Australian pianist and composer
1961: Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer and author
1960: Jim Bob, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1960: Leos Carax, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1959: Eddie Frierson, American actor
1959: Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
1959: Fabio Parra, Colombian cyclist
1959: Lenore Zann, Australian-Canadian actress, singer, and politician
1958: Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
1958: Lee Guetterman, American baseball player
1958: Horse, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958: Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, Sultan of Johor
1958: Chic McSherry, Scottish musician, businessman and writer
1958: Jason Ringenberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957: Donny Deutsch, American businessman and television host
1957: Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist
1956: Lawrence Gowan, Scottish-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1956: Richard Kind, American actor
1956: Ron Randall, American author and illustrator
1955: George Alagiah, British journalist (d. 2023)
1955: James Edwards, American basketball player
1954: Denise Epoté, Cameroonian journalist at the head of the Africa management of TV5 Monde
1954: Paolo Gentiloni, Italian politician, 57th Prime Minister of Italy
1954: Carol Tomcala, Australian sports shooter
1953: Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer
1952: Nicholas Suntzeff, American astronomer and cosmologist
1951: Kent Nagano, American conductor, director, and manager
1950: Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1950: Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager
1950: Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer
1950: Art Sullivan, Belgian singer (d. 2019)
1950: Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
1950: Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1949: Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
1949: David Pietrusza, American author and historian
1948: Radomir Antić, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2020)
1948: Stewart Guthrie, New Zealand police officer (d. 1990)
1948: Saroj Khan, Indian dance choreographer, known as "The Mother of Dance/Choreography in India" (d. 2020)
1948: Mick Rock, English photographer (d. 2021)
1947: Sandy Alderson, American businessman and academic
1947: Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2005)
1947: Nevio Scala, Italian footballer and manager
1947: Salt Walther, American race car driver (d. 2012)
1947: Valerie Wilson Wesley, American journalist and author
1946: Aston Barrett, Jamaican bass player and songwriter
1945: Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (d. 2010)
1945: Elaine Weyuker, American computer scientist, engineer, and academic
1943: Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1943: Billie Jean King, American tennis player
1943: William Kotzwinkle, American novelist and screenwriter
1943: Ricky May, New Zealand-Australian jazz singer (d. 1988)
1943: Mushtaq Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer
1943: Roger L. Simon, American author and screenwriter
1942: Guion Bluford, American astronaut
1942: Floyd Sneed, Canadian drummer (d. 2023)
1941: Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
1941: Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941: Ron McClure, American jazz bassist
1941: Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist (d. 2013)
1941: Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
1941: Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1940: Terry Gilliam, American-English actor, director, animator, and screenwriter
1940: Roy Thomas, American author
1940: Andrzej Żuławski, Polish director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1939: Tom West, American engineer and author (d. 2011)
1939: Mulayam Singh Yadav, Indian politician, 24th Indian Minister of Defence (d. 2022)
1938: John Eleuthère du Pont, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Delaware Museum of Natural History (d. 2010)
1938: Henry Lee, Chinese-American criminologist and academic
1937: Zenon Jankowski, Polish pilot and military officer
1937: Nikolai Kapustin, Russian pianist and composer (d. 2020)
1936: John Bird, English actor, writer and satirist (d. 2022)
1936: Archie Gouldie, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2016)
1935: Ludmila Belousova, Soviet ice skater (d. 2017)
1934: Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
1933: Merv Lincoln, Australian Olympic athlete (d. 2016)
1932: Robert Vaughn, American actor and director (d. 2016)
1930: Peter Hall, English actor, director, and manager (d. 2017)
1930: Peter Hurford, English organist and composer
1929: Staughton Lynd, American lawyer, historian, author, and activist (d. 2022)
1929: Keith Rayner, Australian Archbishop
1928: Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (d. 2008)
1928: Mel Hutchins, American basketball player (d. 2018)
1927: Steven Muller, German-American scholar and academic (d. 2013)
1927: Robert E. Valett, American psychologist, teacher, and author (d. 2008)
1926: Lew Burdette, American baseball player and coach (d. 2007)
1926: Arthur Jones, American businessman, founded Nautilus, Inc. and MedX Corporation (d. 2007)
1925: Jerrie Mock, American pilot (d. 2014)
1925: Gunther Schuller, American horn player, composer, and conductor (d. 2015)
1924: Les Johnson, Australian politician (d. 2015)
1924: Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987)
1923: Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 2016)
1923: Dika Newlin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2006)
1922: Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984)
1922: Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
1922: Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle (d. 1997)
1921: Brian Cleeve, Irish sailor, author, and playwright (d. 2003)
1921: Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1920: Anne Crawford, Israeli-English actress (d. 1956)
1920: Baidyanath Misra, Indian economist (d. 2019)
1919: Máire Drumm, Irish politician (d. 1976)
1918: Claiborne Pell, American captain and politician (d. 2009)
1917: Jon Cleary, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
1917: Andrew Huxley, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1917: Mick Shann, Australian diplomat (d. 1988)
1915: Oswald Morris, British cinematographer (d. 2014)
1914: Peter Townsend, British captain and pilot (d. 1995)
1913: Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1976)
1913: Gardnar Mulloy, American tennis player (d. 2016)
1912: Doris Duke, American heiress and philanthropist (d. 1993)
1911: Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (d. 1987)
1910: Mary Jackson, American actress (d. 2005)
1906: Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (d. 1983)
1904: Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
1904: Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1904: Fumio Niwa, Japanese author (d. 2005)
1902: Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (d. 1947)
1902: Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian-American cellist (d. 1942)
1901: Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1971)
1901: Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999)
1899: Hoagy Carmichael, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1981)
1898: Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
1893: Harley Earl, American industrial designer (d. 1969)
1893: Lazar Kaganovich, Soviet politician (d. 1991)
1891: Edward Bernays, American publicist (d. 1995)
1890: Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, President of France (d. 1970)
1884: C. J. "Jack" De Garis, Australian entrepreneur (d. 1926)
1881: Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (d. 1922)
1877: Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet (d. 1919)
1877: Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona (d. 1930)
1876: Emil Beyer, American gymnast and triathlete (d. 1934)
1873: Leo Amery, Indian-English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (d. 1955)
1873: Johnny Tyldesley, English cricketer (d. 1930)
1870: Howard Brockway, American composer (d. 1951)
1870: Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (d. 1911)
1869: André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1951)
1868: John Nance Garner, American politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States (d. 1967)
1861: Ranavalona III of Madagascar (d. 1917)
1859: Cecil Sharp, English folk song scholar (d. 1924)
1857: George Gissing, English novelist (d. 1903)
1852: Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French politician and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1849: Christian Rohlfs, German painter and printmaker (d. 1938)
1820: Katherine Plunket, Irish supercentenarian (d. 1932)
1819: George Eliot, English novelist and poet (d. 1880)
1808: Thomas Cook, English businessman, founded Thomas Cook Group (d. 1892)
1787: Rasmus Rask, Danish linguist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1832)
1780: Conradin Kreutzer, German composer (d. 1849)
1780: José Cecilio del Valle, Honduran journalist, lawyer, and politician, Foreign Minister of Mexico (d. 1834)
1744: Abigail Adams, American wife of John Adams, 2nd First Lady of the United States (d. 1818)
1728: Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1811)
1710: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
1698: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-American politician, Governor of Louisiana (d. 1778)
1690: François Colin de Blamont, French composer (d. 1760)
1643: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
1635: Francis Willughby, English ornithologist and ichthyologist (d. 1672)
1602: Elisabeth of France (d. 1644)
1564: Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kent (d. 1619)
1533: Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Italian noble (d. 1597)
1519: Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (d. 1585)
1515: Mary of Guise, Queen of Scots (d. 1560)
1428: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (d. 1471)

Deaths On This Day

2022: John Y. Brown Jr., American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 55th Governor of Kentucky (b. 1933)
2020: Otto Hutter, Austrian-born British physiologist (b. 1924)
2017: Bob Avakian, American music producer (b. 1919)
2017: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian operatic baritone (b. 1962)
2017: Tommy Keene, American singer-songwriter (b. 1958)
2016: M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian vocalist and singer (b. 1930)
2015: Abubakar Audu, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Kogi State (b. 1947)
2015: Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1949)
2015: Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1948)
2015: Robin Stewart, Indian-English actor and game show host (b. 1946)
2015: Kim Young-sam, South Korean soldier and politician, 7th President of South Korea (b. 1929)
2014: Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
2014: Don Grate, American baseball and basketball player (b. 1923)
2014: Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947)
2014: Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920)
2013: Don Dailey, American computer programmer (b. 1956)
2013: Brian Dawson, English singer (b. 1939)
2013: Jancarlos de Oliveira Barros, Brazilian footballer (b. 1983)
2013: Tom Gilmartin, Irish businessman (b. 1935)
2013: Georges Lautner, French director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2013: Alec Reid, Irish priest and activist (b. 1931)
2012: Pearl Laska Chamberlain, American pilot (b. 1909)
2012: Bryce Courtenay, South African-Australian author (b. 1933)
2012: Bennie McRae, American football player (b. 1939)
2012: P. Govinda Pillai, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
2011: Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1926)
2011: Sena Jurinac, Bosnian-Austrian soprano and actress (b. 1921)
2011: Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (b. 1938)
2011: Paul Motian, American drummer and composer (b. 1931)
2010: Jean Cione, American baseball player and educator (b. 1928)
2010: Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (b. 1914)
2008: MC Breed, American rapper (b. 1971)
2007: Maurice Béjart, French-Swiss dancer, choreographer, and director (b. 1929)
2007: Verity Lambert, English television producer (b. 1935)
2006: Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (b. 1917)
2006: Pat Dobson, American baseball player and coach (b. 1942)
2005: Bruce Hobbs, American jockey and trainer (b. 1920)
2004: Arthur Hopcraft, English screenwriter and journalist (b. 1932)
2002: Parley Baer, American actor (b. 1914)
2001: Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay, Inc. (b. 1915)
2001: Theo Barker, English historian and academic (b. 1923)
2001: Norman Granz, American-Swiss record producer, founded Verve Records (b. 1918)
2000: Christian Marquand, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2000: Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (b. 1922)
1998: Stu Ungar, American poker player (b. 1953)
1997: Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1960)
1996: María Casares, Spanish-French actress (b. 1922)
1996: Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (b. 1936)
1996: Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
1994: Minni Nurme, Estonian writer and poet (b. 1917)
1994: Forrest White, American businessman (b. 1920)
1993: Anthony Burgess, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1917)
1992: Sterling Holloway, American actor (b. 1905)
1989: C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)
1989: René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
1988: Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
1986: Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
1981: Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1980: Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
1980: Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
1980: Mae West, American stage and film actress (b. 1893)
1976: Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (b. 1936)
1967: Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
1963: Wilhelm Beiglböck, Austrian-German physician (b. 1905)
1963: Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher (b. 1894)
1963: John F. Kennedy, American politician, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1963: C. S. Lewis, British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian (b. 1898)
1963: J. D. Tippit, American police officer (Dallas Police Department) (b. 1924)
1956: Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (b. 1882)
1955: Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1954: Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882)
1948: Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868)
1946: Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (b. 1889)
1944: Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882)
1943: Lorenz Hart, American playwright and composer (b. 1895)
1941: Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
1932: William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862)
1926: Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)
1923: Andy O'Sullivan died on Hunger Strike
1920: Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet and author (b. 1884)
1919: Francisco Moreno, Argentinian explorer and academic (b. 1852)
1917: Teoberto Maler, Italian-German archaeologist and explorer (b. 1842)
1916: Jack London, American novelist and journalist (b. 1876)
1913: Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1837)
1902: Walter Reed, American physician and entomologist (b. 1851)
1900: Arthur Sullivan, English composer (b. 1842)
1896: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, invented the Ferris wheel (b. 1859)
1886: Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (b. 1823)
1875: Henry Wilson, American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (b. 1812)
1871: Oscar James Dunn, African American activist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana 1868-1871 (b. 1826)
1819: John Stackhouse, English botanist (b. 1742)
1813: Johann Christian Reil, German physician, physiologist, and anatomist (b. 1759)
1774: Robert Clive, English general, politician and first British governor of Bengal (b. 1725)
1758: Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (b. 1680)
1718: Blackbeard, English pirate (b. 1680)
1697: Libéral Bruant, French architect and academic, designed Les Invalides (b. c.1635)
1694: John Tillotson, English archbishop (b. 1630)
1617: Ahmed I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam (b. 1590)
1538: John Lambert, English Protestant martyr
1318: Mikhail of Tver (b. 1271)
1286: Eric V of Denmark (b. 1249)
1249: As-Salih Ayyub, ruler of Egypt
950: Lothair II of Italy (b. 926)
365: Antipope Felix II

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