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November 30

On This Day in History

November 30

November 30 is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 31 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Iowa Lottery blames "human reporting error" for posting incorrect Powerball results. The Iowa Lottery attributed posting the wrong Powerball numbers on their website for Monday's draw to a "human reporting error" and told players who already redeemed prizes that they can keep the winnings.
2022: Arkansas Lottery's Lotto jackpot worth nearly $800,000; has yet to be won since game's launch. Since the Arkansas Lottery launched its newest game more than two months ago, Lotto has yet to produce its first big winner, with the jackpot climbing to nearly $800,000 for Wednesday's drawing.
2020: Massachusetts Lottery to allow prize claims via mobile app. Players who are tired of traveling to claim centers or mailing away their winning lottery tickets to claim their prizes will soon have a new option. Next spring, the Massachusetts Lottery will begin allowing players to claim larger prizes through their phones.
2020: Lottery winner taskforce in United Kingdom unites to spread early Christmas joy. A team of lottery winners from the United Kingdom have been working together to make Christmas happen a little earlier this year by gifting holiday baskets to charity workers and care staff who look after the elderly.
2019: Unclaimed $14.6 million Arizona Lottery ticket expires Monday. If you played the Arizona Lottery this past summer, look around the house for lottery tickets you might have missed; you might be sitting on $14.6 million.
2013: $257 MILLION: Mega Millions jackpot expands. The last time the multi-state Mega Millions jackpot was this big, it was busy setting the record for the largest lottery jackpot in history.
2012: Mechanic and his wife are Missouri winners of $588M Powerball jackpot. Cindy Hill, a laid-off office manager who lives in a small town in Missouri, called her husband Thursday with urgent news that would change everything: "We won the lottery."
2012: Apparent Arizona winner captured on video the moment he learned of win. A man, who appeared to be a construction or highway worker, walked into a Prince George's County, Maryland, Exxon Thursday afternoon and -- according to witnesses -- walked out a multi-multi-millionaire.
2012: Winning Powerball ticket in Mo. turned in. Lottery officials in Missouri say a winning Powerball ticket for the record $588 million drawing has been turned-in and verified.
2011: Virginia woman dreams of Obama, wins lottery. A Virginia Beach woman says she dreamed about chatting with President Barack Obama, and the next day won the lottery by playing the president's birthday.
2011: Connecticut Powerball mystery deepens. Three money managers who claimed the state's record-breaking $254.2 million Powerball jackpot on Monday may still have a fight ahead of them in the court of public opinion.
2011: Atlanta man wins $1 million lottery for second time in three years. An Atlanta man has won a $1 million prize for the second time in three years playing an instant lottery game, according to Georgia Lottery officials.
2010: Unclaimed Pa. lottery prize worth $50K to expire. Time is running out for a Pennsylvania Lottery winner to claim a $50,000 prize.
2010: California Lottery has Thanksgiving millionaire. Someone was especially thankful this Thanksgiving: He won $8 million in Wednesday's California SuperLotto Plus drawing.
2006: N.C. lottery excitement: first Powerball jackpot winner. Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket this week in North Carolina is $74.5 million richer this morning.
2005: Two winning Mega Millions lottery tickets in $35 Million drawing. Two tickets will share the $35 million jackpot in Tuesday night's multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing.
2005: Mass. Lottery expanding Keno with new Bonus game. As of Wednesday, Dec. 14, the Massachusetts Lottery will launch a new way for residents to play the popular Keno game.
2005: Californians targeted by Spanish lottery scam. Imagine receiving a letter in the mail that you're the big winner of a lottery in Spain. If it sounds too good to be true, that's probably because it is.
2005: Texas Lottery Commission chair betting on future. The 72-year-old chairman of the Texas Lottery Commission is facing one last duty before retirement: overseeing the troubled agency's bid to win back public trust.
2005: Million-dollar ticket fight goes before Mass. Lottery board. In the opening round of what may be a lengthy legal battle, an 83-year-old local man who found a winning Massachusetts lottery ticket in a trash bin defended his right to the $1 million prize yesterday, fending off a rival claim.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Climbs to $127 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $127 million, with a cash option of $69.9 million.
2004: Syndicate Misses Out on Lottery Fortune. A school cleaner apologized to other members of his Lottery syndicate Friday after failing to put on a winning line that could have scooped them a share of an £8.5 million (US$16.2 million) jackpot.
2004: Tennessee grants fewer lottery scholarships than projected. Tennessee's HOPE scholarship program gave out fewer grants in its first year than state officials had expected.
2004: Record Oregon lottery jackpot still unclaimed. Nobody has claimed the record $30 million prize in the two weeks since the six winning numbers turned up on a ticket sold in Milwaukie.
2004: Satellite failure stops Nebraska lottery ticket sales. According to Nebraska Lottery, communication between the Nebraska Lottery and retailers was interrupted early Sunday morning after a communications satellite failed.
2004: Tenn. Lottery Director Gets Pay Cut. Tennessee Lottery director Rebecca Paul is getting a pay cut under a new plan adopted by the state's lottery board Monday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$744.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2025
2.$541 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 3, 2024
3.$397.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 2, 2023
4.$355 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2023
5.€318.63 Million US$334.21 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2022
6.$333 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 2, 2022
7.$266 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 3, 2019
8.$263.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2021
9.$257 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 3, 2013
10.$231 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 2, 2020
11.$229 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2020
12.€200 Million
US$217.68 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2023
13.€178 Million
US$214.03 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2020
14.$212.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 30, 2024
15.$190 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 30, 2018
16.$183 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2018
17.$177 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 2, 2017
18.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2017
19.€130 Million
US$136.83 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 2, 2022
20.€117.3 Million
US$132.95 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 30, 2021
21.$128 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 2, 2008
22.$127 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 1, 2004
23.€120 Million
US$126.12 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Dec 3, 2024
24.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 30, 2019
24.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 2, 2015

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1989: cdennis
Thursday, Nov 30, 1989
36 years old
1988: LynnM
Wednesday, Nov 30, 1988
37 years old
1987: Eskimo843
Monday, Nov 30, 1987
38 years old
1979: Louisiana 79
Friday, Nov 30, 1979
46 years old
1976: wantmetotry
Tuesday, Nov 30, 1976
49 years old
1974: Anson
Saturday, Nov 30, 1974
51 years old
1973: mdh1973
Friday, Nov 30, 1973
52 years old
1971: Xenia51
Tuesday, Nov 30, 1971
54 years old
1970: pixiedollsuez
Monday, Nov 30, 1970
55 years old
1969: bodybuilder
Sunday, Nov 30, 1969
56 years old
1969: Jamesalston1130
Sunday, Nov 30, 1969
56 years old
1964: param100
Monday, Nov 30, 1964
61 years old
1963: todmac
Saturday, Nov 30, 1963
62 years old
1961: stevensdai
Thursday, Nov 30, 1961
64 years old
1946: bnye46
Saturday, Nov 30, 1946
79 years old
1946: bsapp456
Saturday, Nov 30, 1946
79 years old
: TheGameGrl
(year not provided)
: Dillar$M
(year not provided)
: JZydor
(year not provided)
: msde61
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: The AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.
2021: Barbados becomes a republic.
2021: A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.
2018: A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.
2007: Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Keçiborlu while on approach to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport, killing 57.
2005: John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
2004: A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people.
2000: NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
1999: Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
1999: In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
1999: British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
1995: Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1995: U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men".
1981: Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)
1972: Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
1971: Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
1967: The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom
1967: The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
1967: Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
1966: Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1962: Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people.
1954: In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
1953: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1947: Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1942: World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
1941: The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre.
1940: World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands.
1939: World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
1936: In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1916: Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
1872: The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1864: American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio under General John Schofield in the Battle of Franklin.
1853: Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
1803: The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines.
1803: In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic.
1786: The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
1782: American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1718: Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
1707: Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida.
978: Franco-German war of 978-980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws.

Births On This Day

2000: Jane Paknia, American musician
1998: Grant Williams, American basketball player
1995: Lancey Foux, British rapper and singer
1994: Sofia Araújo, Portuguese tennis player
1994: Marko Daňo, Austrian-Slovak ice hockey player
1991: Agnatius Paasi, Tongan rugby league player
1990: Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
1990: Antoine N'Gossan, Ivorian footballer
1989: Adelaide Clemens, Australian actress
1989: Vladimír Weiss, Slovak footballer
1988: Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (died 2014)
1988: Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer
1988: Rebecca Rittenhouse, American actress
1988: Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer
1987: Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
1987: Christel Khalil, American actress
1987: Naomi, American wrestler, model, and dancer
1987: Daniel Noboa, Politician and businessman, President of Ecuador
1987: Dougie Poynter, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1986: Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
1986: Evgenia Linetskaya, Israeli tennis player
1985: Kaley Cuoco, American actress
1985: Hikari Mitsushima, Japanese actress and singer
1985: Chrissy Teigen, American model
1985: Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (died 2018)
1984: Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
1984: Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
1984: Olga Rypakova, Kazakhstani triple jumper
1984: Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
1983: Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
1983: Vladislav Polyakov, Kazakhstani swimmer
1982: Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
1982: Jason Pominville, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1981: Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
1980: Cem Adrian, Turkish singer-songwriter, producer, and director
1980: Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
1980: Shane Victorino, American baseball player
1979: Chris Atkinson, Australian racing driver
1979: Andrés Nocioni, Italian-Argentine basketball player
1978: Clay Aiken, American singer
1978: Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor and producer
1978: Benjamin Lense, German footballer
1977: Richard Elias Anderson, Canadian basketball player and coach
1977: Steve Aoki, American DJ and producer, founded Dim Mak Records
1977: Iván Guerrero, Honduran footballer and manager
1977: Kazumi Saito, Japanese baseball player and coach
1977: Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer and coach
1976: Marta Burgay, Italian astronomer
1976: Marco Castro, Peruvian-American director and cinematographer
1976: Andres Lacson, Filipino politician
1976: Josh Lewsey, English rugby player
1976: Paul Nuttall, British politician
1975: Mark Blount, American basketball player
1975: Mindy McCready, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)
1975: Ben Thatcher, English footballer
1973: Christian Cage, Canadian wrestler, actor, and podcaster
1972: Christophe Beck, Canadian television and film score composer and conductor
1972: Dan Jarvis, English soldier and politician
1972: Stanislav Kitto, Estonian footballer
1972: Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer and manager
1971: Ray Durham, American baseball player
1970: Phil Babb, English footballer and manager
1970: Walter Emanuel Jones, American actor and dancer
1970: Natalie Williams, American basketball player and executive
1969: Marc Forster, German-Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter
1969: Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver
1969: Chris Weitz, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1968: Des'ree, English R&B singer-songwriter
1968: Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist and sportscaster
1967: Joseph Corré, English fashion designer and businessman, co-founded Agent Provocateur
1967: Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (died 2010)
1967: Richard Harry, Australian rugby player
1966: Nigel Adams, English businessman and politician
1966: David Berkoff, American swimmer
1966: John Bishop, English comedian, presenter, and actor
1966: Philippe Bozon, French ice hockey player
1966: David Nicholls, English author and screenwriter
1966: Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver
1965: Aldair, Brazilian footballer
1965: Fumihito, Prince Akishino, Japanese royal (younger brother of Emperor Naruhito and first in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne)
1965: David Laws, English banker and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
1965: Ben Stiller, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1964: Jushin Thunder Liger, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1962: Jimmy Del Ray, American wrestler and manager (died 2014)
1962: Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
1962: Daniel Keys Moran, American computer programmer and author
1961: Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter and coach
1961: Ian Morris, Trinidadian footballer and sprinter
1960: Bill Halter, American scholar, activist, and politician, 14th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
1960: Gary Lineker, English footballer and sportscaster
1960: Michael O'Connor, Australian rugby player
1960: Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player and coach
1960: Ron Simons, American theatre producer and actor (died 2024)
1959: Cherie Currie, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
1959: Lorraine Kelly, Scottish journalist and actress
1959: Hugo Swire, English soldier and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
1958: Stacey Q, American pop singer-songwriter, dancer and actress
1957: John Ashton, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1957: Richard Barbieri, English keyboard player and songwriter
1957: Joël Champetier, Canadian author and screenwriter (died 2015)
1957: Thomas McElweem Irish Republican and hunger striker (died 1981)
1957: Patrick McLoughlin, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1957: Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1957: Margaret Spellings, American educator and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Education
1955: Michael Beschloss, American historian and author
1955: Richard Burr, American businessman, academic, and politician
1955: Kevin Conroy, American actor (died 2022)
1955: Andy Gray, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
1955: Billy Idol, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1954: Wayne Bartholomew, Australian surfer
1954: Lawrence Summers, American economist and academic
1953: Shuggie Otis, American singer-songwriter and musician
1953: June Pointer, American singer and actress (died 2006)
1953: David Sancious, American rock and jazz keyboard player and guitarist
1952: Semyon Bychkov, Russian-American conductor
1952: Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
1951: Daniel Petrie, Jr., American director, producer, and screenwriter
1950: Patricia Ann Tracey, American Naval Vice Admiral
1950: Paul Westphal, American basketball player and coach (died 2021)
1949: Jim Chones, American basketball player
1949: Matthew Festing, 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (died 2021)
1949: Jimmy London, Jamaican singer-songwriter
1947: Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean-Swedish poet and translator
1947: David Mamet, American playwright, screenwriter, and director
1946: George Duffield, English jockey and trainer
1945: Hilary Armstrong, Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1945: Roger Glover, Welsh bass player, songwriter, and producer
1945: Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (died 2023)
1945: John R. Powers, American author and playwright (died 2013)
1944: George Graham, Scottish footballer and manager
1943: Norma Alarcón, American author and professor
1943: Terrence Malick, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1941: Phil Willis, Baron Willis of Knaresborough, English politician
1940: Kevin Phillips, American political analyst and author (died 2023)
1940: Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (died 2012)
1938: Jean Eustache, French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)
1938: John M. Goldman, English haematologist and oncologist (died 2013)
1937: Jimmy Bowen, American record producer, songwriter, and pop singer
1937: Praveen Chaudhari, Indian-American physicist and academic (died 2010)
1937: Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer and guitarist (died 2024)
1937: Luther Ingram, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter (died 2007)
1937: Ridley Scott, English director, producer, and production designer
1937: Tom Simpson, English cyclist (died 1967)
1937: Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese-American physician and author
1936: Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2014)
1936: Abbie Hoffman, American activist and author, co-founded the Youth International Party (died 1989)
1935: Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1934: Marcel Prud'homme, Canadian politician (died 2017)
1933: Norman Deeley, English footballer and manager (died 2007)
1933: Sam Gilliam, American painter and educator (died 2022)
1932: Bob Moore, American bassist (died 2021)
1932: Cho Nam-chul, South Korean Go player (died 2006)
1931: Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (died 2018)
1931: Bill Walsh, American football player and coach (died 2007)
1931: Margot Zemach, American author and illustrator (died 1989)
1930: G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal (died 2021)
1929: Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (died 2012)
1929: Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street
1928: Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician 68th Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan (died 2014)
1928: Joe B. Hall, American basketball player and coach (died 2022)
1928: Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (died 2024)
1928: Andres Narvasa, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 19th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2013)
1928: Elmira Nazirova, Azerbaijani composer (died 2014)
1927: Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer (died 2017)
1926: Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, Bolivian architect and art historian (died 2018)
1926: Richard Crenna, American actor, director, and producer (died 2003)
1926: Andrew Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (died 2024)
1925: Maryon Pittman Allen, American journalist and politician (died 2018)
1925: William H. Gates, Sr., American lawyer and philanthropist (died 2020)
1924: Elliott Blackstone, American police officer and activist (died 2006)
1924: Shirley Chisholm, American activist, educator and politician (died 2005)
1924: Allan Sherman, American actor, comedian, singer, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)
1920: Virginia Mayo, American actress (died 2005)
1919: Jane C. Wright, American oncologist and cancer researcher (died 2013)
1918: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (died 2014)
1916: Dena Epstein, American musicologist and author (died 2013)
1916: Michael Gwynn, English actor (died 1976)
1915: Brownie McGhee, American folk-blues singer and guitarist (died 1996)
1915: Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
1912: Jaan Hargel, Estonian flute player, conductor, and educator (died 1966)
1912: Gordon Parks, American photographer and director (died 2006)
1911: Carle Hessay, German-Canadian painter (died 1978)
1911: Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (died 1953)
1909: Robert Nighthawk, American singer and guitarist (died 1967)
1907: Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (died 2012)
1906: John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (died 1977)
1906: Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican poet, linguist, and politician (died 2008)
1904: Clyfford Still, American painter and educator (died 1980)
1898: Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and manager (died 1976)
1889: Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)
1889: Reuvein Margolies, Ukrainian-Israeli author and scholar (died 1971)
1888: Harry Altham, English cricketer and coach (died 1965)
1887: Andrej Gosar, Slovenian economist, lawyer, and politician (died 1970)
1887: Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer and diver (died 1971)
1883: Gustav Suits, Estonian-Swedish poet and politician (died 1956)
1875: Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (died 1936)
1875: Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (died 1941)
1874: Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
1874: Lucy Maud Montgomery, English-Canadian author and poet (died 1942)
1873: Božena Benešová, Czech author and poet (died 1936)
1872: John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier, and poet (died 1918)
1869: Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937)
1869: James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (died 1953)
1866: Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (died 1933)
1863: Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino activist and politician, co-founded Katipunan (died 1897)
1858: Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (died 1937)
1857: Bobby Abel, English cricketer (died 1936)
1847: Afonso Pena, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Brazil (died 1909)
1843: Martha Ripley, American physician (died 1912)
1840: Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Birks & Mayors (died 1928)
1836: Lord Frederick Cavendish, Anglo-Irish soldier and politician, Chief Secretary for Ireland (died 1882)
1835: Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (died 1910)
1832: James Dickson, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of Queensland (died 1901)
1825: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter and educator (died 1905)
1821: Frederick Temple, English archbishop and academic (died 1902)
1817: Theodor Mommsen, German jurist, historian, and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1903)
1813: Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet and author (died 1890)
1813: Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (died 1888)
1810: Oliver Winchester, American businessman and politician, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (died 1880)
1796: Carl Loewe, German singer, composer, and conductor (died 1869)
1791: Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian field marshal and politician (died 1848)
1781: Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant, and explorer (died 1873)
1768: Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish physician, chemist, and biologist (died 1838)
1764: Franz Xaver Gerl, Austrian singer and composer (died 1827)
1756: Ernst Chladni, German physicist and author (died 1827)
1748: Joachim Albertini, Italian-Polish composer (died 1838)
1723: William Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (died 1790)
1719: Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (died 1772)
1699: King Christian VI of Denmark (died 1746)
1683: Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (died 1744)
1670: John Toland, Irish philosopher and author (died 1722)
1667: Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist (died 1745)
1645: Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, composer, and theorist (died 1706)
1642: Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit Brother, architect and painter (died 1709)
1637: Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian and author (died 1698)
1625: Jean Domat, French scholar and jurist (died 1696)
1614: William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (died 1680)
1599: Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (died 1661)
1594: John Cosin, English bishop and academic (died 1672)
1573: Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (died 1640)
1554: Philip Sidney, English soldier, courtier, and poet (died 1586)
1549: Sir Henry Savile, English scholar and mathematician (died 1622)
1508: Andrea Palladio, Italian architect and theoretician, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Teatro Olimpico (died 1580)
1485: Veronica Gambara, Italian poet and stateswoman (died 1550)
1466: Andrea Doria, Italian admiral (died 1560)
1459: Mingyi Nyo, founder of Toungoo dynasty of Burma (died 1530)
1427: Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (died 1492)
1426: Johann IV Roth, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1506)
1364: John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, Scottish soldier (died 1390)
1340: John, Duke of Berry (died 1416)
1310: Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (died 1349)
539: Gregory of Tours, French bishop and saint (probable; (died 594)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Lou Carnesecca, American basketball player and coach (born 1925)
2023: Alistair Darling, British Politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1953)
2023: Shane MacGowan, Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues (born 1957)
2022: Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (born 1926)
2022: Christine McVie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943)
2020: Irina Antonova, Russian art historian (born 1922)
2018: George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States and 43rd Vice President of the United States (born 1924)
2017: Jim Nabors, American actor and comedian (born 1930)
2017: Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat (born 1949)
2017: Marina Popovich, Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (born 1931)
2017: Alfie Curtis, British actor (born 1930)
2015: Pío Caro Baroja, Spanish director and screenwriter (born 1928)
2015: Minas Hatzisavvas, Greek actor and screenwriter (born 1948)
2015: Marcus Klingberg, Polish-Israeli physician and biologist (born 1918)
2015: Fatema Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist and author (born 1940)
2015: Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1922)
2015: Eldar Ryazanov, Russian director and screenwriter (born 1927)
2015: Nigel Buxton, British travel writer and wine critic (born 1924)
2014: Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic (born 1932)
2014: Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1961)
2014: Martin Litton, American rafter and environmentalist (born 1917)
2014: Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (born 1924)
2014: Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (born 1914)
2014: Kent Haruf, American novelist (born 1943)
2013: Paul Crouch, American broadcaster, co-founded Trinity Broadcasting Network (born 1934)
2013: Jean Kent, English actress (born 1921)
2013: Tabu Ley Rochereau, Congolese-Belgian singer-songwriter (born 1937)
2013: Doriano Romboni, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1968)
2013: Paul Walker, American actor (born 1973)
2012: Rogelio Álvarez, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1938)
2012: I. K. Gujral, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (born 1919)
2012: Munir Malik, Pakistani cricketer (born 1931)
2012: Susil Moonesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Western Province (born 1930)
2012: Merv Pregulman, American football player and businessman (born 1922)
2012: Homer R. Warner, American cardiologist and academic (born 1922)
2012: Mitchell Cole, English footballer (born 1985)
2010: Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (born 1967)
2010: Garry Gross, American photographer (born 1937)
2008: Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer and producer (born 1958)
2007: Engin Arık, Turkish physicist and academic (born 1948)
2007: Evel Knievel, American motorcycle rider and stuntman (born 1938)
2006: Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and songwriter (born 1927)
2006: Rafael Buenaventura, Filipino banker (born 1938)
2006: Shirley Walker, American composer and conductor (born 1945)
2005: Jean Parker, American actress (born 1915)
2004: Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and author (born 1920)
2004: Seungsahn, South Korean spiritual leader, founded the Kwan Um School of Zen (born 1927)
2003: Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (born 1905)
2000: Eloise Jarvis McGraw, American author (born 1915)
2000: Scott Smith, Canadian bass player (born 1955)
1998: Janet Lewis, American novelist and poet (born 1899)
1998: Margaret Walker, American author and poet (born 1915)
1997: Kathy Acker, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1947)
1996: Tiny Tim, American singer and ukulele player (born 1932)
1995: Til Kiwe, German actor and screenwriter (born 1910)
1994: Guy Debord, French theorist and author (born 1931)
1994: Lionel Stander, American actor (born 1908)
1993: David Houston, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)
1992: Peter Blume, American painter and sculptor (born 1906)
1990: Fritz Eichenberg, German-American illustrator and arts educator (born 1901)
1989: Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Cameroon (born 1924)
1989: Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (born 1930)
1988: Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American singer-songwriter (born 1913)
1987: Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and author (born 1913)
1979: Laura Gilpin, American photographer (born 1891)
1979: Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (born 1901)
1977: Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter (born 1911)
1972: Compton Mackenzie, English-Scottish actor, author, and academic (born 1883)
1967: Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and author (born 1904)
1966: Salah Suheimat, Jordanian lawyer and politician (born 1914)
1958: Hubert Wilkins, Australian pilot, ornithologist, geographer, and explorer (born 1888)
1955: Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer and educator (born 1896)
1954: Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer (born 1886)
1953: Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (born 1879)
1949: Frank Cooper, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland (born 1872)
1944: Paul Masson, French cyclist (born 1876)
1943: Etty Hillesum, Dutch author (born 1914)
1942: Anthony M. Rud, American journalist and author (born 1893)
1935: Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, philosopher, and critic (born 1888)
1934: Hélène Boucher, French pilot (born 1908)
1933: Arthur Currie, Canadian general (born 1875)
1931: Henry Walters, American art collector and philanthropist (born 1848)
1930: Ponnambalam Ramanathan, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 3rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka (born 1851)
1930: Mary Harris Jones, American Labor organizer (born 1837)
1923: John Maclean, Scottish educator and revolutionary socialist activist (born 1879)
1920: Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (born 1867)
1908: Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (born 1855)
1907: Ludwig Levy, German architect (born 1854)
1901: Edward John Eyre, English explorer and politician, Governor of Jamaica (born 1815)
1900: Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (born 1854)
1892: Dimitrios Valvis, Greek judge and politician, 69th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1814)
1864: Patrick Cleburne, Irish-American general (born 1828)
1863: Kamehameha IV, Hawaiian King (born 1834)
1765: George Glas, Scottish merchant and explorer (born 1725)
1761: John Dollond, English optician and astronomer (born 1706)
1760: Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actress (born 1697)
1718: Charles XII of Sweden (born 1682)
1703: Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (born 1672)
1694: Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (born 1628)
1675: Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (born 1605)
1654: John Selden, English jurist and scholar (born 1584)
1647: Bonaventura Cavalieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (born 1598)
1647: Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian painter (born 1582)
1623: Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer (born 1576)
1603: William Gilbert, English scientist (born 1544)
1600: Nanda Bayin, Burmese king (born 1535)
1580: Richard Farrant, English playwright and composer (born 1530)
1526: Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Italian captain (born 1498)
1525: Guillaume Crétin, French poet (born c. 1460)
1378: Andrew Stratford, English verderer and landowner
1283: John of Vercelli, Master General of the Dominican Order (born c. 1205)
1276: Kanezawa Sanetoki, Japanese member of the Hōjō clan (born 1224)
1204: Emeric, King of Hungary
1016: Edmund Ironside, English king (born 993)

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