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November 5

On This Day in History

November 5

November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 56 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: 620,000 Montana Lottery Montana Millionaire raffle tickets sell out in 6 hours. The Montana Lottery's annual Montana Millionaire raffle was sold out in six and a half hours this year, with some dedicated players lining up at stores as early as 4:30 a.m. to make sure they don't miss out.
2024: Maryland woman realizes she won $1.8 million lottery jackpot after reading about it online. A Maryland woman was ecstatic about her $1.8 million Multi-Match prize after reading about the win in an article online.
2022: Chinese man hides $30 million lottery jackpot from family, worries that money will make them "lazy". A man who won a 219 million yuan ($30.5 million) lottery jackpot kept the news from his wife and child, fearing that the extra fortune would curb their motivation.
2021: Iowa man unknowingly carries around $25,000 a year for life Lucky for Life lottery ticket for weeks. It pays to check your lottery tickets, as one Iowa man walked around with a winning Lucky for Life ticket worth $25,000 a year for life in his wallet for a couple weeks before realizing its value.
2020: North Carolina veteran plans on using $10 million lottery prize to honor his son. A retired veteran from North Carolina will be using his $10 million lottery prize to honor his recently deceased son by giving back to the community.
2020: Oklahoma Lottery director Rollo Redburn retires. Last week, the Oklahoma Lottery said farewell to the Director who was instrumental in vouching for and establishing the state's lottery.
2019: Illinois Lottery winner puts half of $500,000 prize into Bitcoin. An Illinois resident who won $500,000 in the state lottery has revealed he put half of it into Bitcoin (BTC) back in May.
2016: Nebraska Lottery adding Sunday drawings. Starting Sunday, Nebraska gamblers can place even more bets on the weekend.
2015: Player in Tennessee wins first Powerball jackpot since game changed in Oct.. A Tennessee Lottery player who purchased a ticket in Antioch has won the first Powerball jackpot since the game was changed in October.
2014: New York lottery player wins $321M Mega Millions jackpot. For the first time since Aug. 22, someone has won the Mega Millions jackpot.
2013: Fresno man is $213 million California Powerball winner. A retired nuclear medicine technician from Saint Agnes Medical Center was the winner of the $213 million Powerball jackpot, the California Lottery confirmed Monday.
2011: Professional lottery player wins tax dispute. When the Massachusetts Lottery tried to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes for the state's most prolific winning lottery ticket redeemer, the 'professional' lottery player appealed -- and won.
2011: Oregon man finds millions on fridge door. A Portland, Oregon, man who bought a Megabucks ticket back in July, put it on his refrigerator and then forgot all about it found out this week that he had actually won $21.8 million.
2009: Multi-state lottery shockwave sweeping America. In January 2010 the state lines that have been dividing the United States into "Powerball states" and "Mega Millions states" will be blurred by a cross-selling arrangement between the two multi-state lottery titans. In this exclusive report by Lottery Post, learn which states will be selling both games, and which ones will not.
2008: Voters overwhelmingly approve Arkansas state lottery. Arkansas' push for a State Lottery has won voter approval by a two-to-one margin.
2007: One Hell of a lucky day. John and Sue Wilson, from Hell, won a Fantasy 5 prize of $115,001 on Wednesday, which also just happened to be Halloween.
2007: Mega lottery winner to open school for witches (well, not quite). Ellwood "Bunky" Bartlett -- Mega Millions lottery winner, Wiccan high priest, recently retired accountant -- would like to clear up a few misconceptions about his plans for a "witch school."
2005: Oregon Powerball winner will finally be announced. A Milton, West Virginia, native living in Oregon claims he won the $340 million Powerball lottery jackpot, according to his sister in Milton.
2003: Mega Millions jackpot increases to $60 million. None of the tickets sold for Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball, increasing the Friday jackpot to $60 million.
2003: Paul says to expect multistate lotto games by summer. Tennesseans hoping to try their luck at big multistate lottery games like Mega Millions or Powerball likely will get their wish by next summer, lottery chief Rebecca Paul said Tuesday.
2003: New games are boon for Michigan. Club Keno and Pull Tabs, the Michigan Lottery's latest lottery games, are selling better than expected in their first week.
2003: State plans to give lottery vendors prizes for ideas to increase sales. Illinois Lottery vendors can win prize money from a pot of $200,000 if they generate ideas on how to entice customers to buy more lottery tickets.
2003: Lottery winner imprisoned for buying tickets with drug money. A $12 million Texas lottery winner who bought his lucky ticket with drug proceeds got two strikes today: a 24-year federal prison sentence and an order to return the money.
2003: S.C. makes bid to help Tenn. lottery. The South Carolina lottery, much like its neighbor in Georgia, has pitched the idea of helping out with the Tennessee lottery startup.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.66 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2022
2.$843 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2025
3.$439.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2025
4.$303 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2024
5.€301.39 Million US$300.36 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2022
6.$225 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 8, 2005
7.$217 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2016
8.$196 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2023
9.€152 Million US$194.27 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2006
10.$181.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2023
11.$178 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2014
12.€132 Million
US$169.01 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2012
13.$164 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2015
14.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 8, 2022
15.$149 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2020
16.€100 Million
US$148.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2009
17.$143.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2021
18.$143 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2012
19.$142 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2020
20.$127 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2019
21.$123 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2010
22.€105.64 Million
US$122.12 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2021
23.€120 Million
US$120.7 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 8, 2022
24.€108 Million
US$117.55 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2024
25.€97 Million
US$112.15 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2025

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1999: Lotterymilliboy
Friday, Nov 5, 1999
26 years old
1988: Jordi88
Saturday, Nov 5, 1988
37 years old
1979: bestresult32
Monday, Nov 5, 1979
46 years old
1975: Tbertsch
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1975
50 years old
1972: zeta8
Sunday, Nov 5, 1972
53 years old
1972: Kalvin92
Sunday, Nov 5, 1972
53 years old
1968: hypersoniq
Tuesday, Nov 5, 1968
57 years old
1968: Snakeyes
Tuesday, Nov 5, 1968
57 years old
1964: badstuff
Thursday, Nov 5, 1964
61 years old
1958: larry888
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1958
67 years old
1958: dog4ucat
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1958
67 years old
1958: helpwinco
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1958
67 years old
1951: mrlottery15
Monday, Nov 5, 1951
74 years old
: dede_tn
(year not provided)
: Teneshias
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2024: Donald Trump becomes the first president of the United States to be elected to a non-consecutive second term in 132 years, since Grover Cleveland won the 1892 election.
2021: The Astroworld Festival crowd crush results in 10 deaths and 25 people being hospitalized
2017: Devin Patrick Kelley kills 26 and injures 22 in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
2015: An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
2015: Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2013: India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
2010: JS Air Flight 201 crashes after takeoff from Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing all 21 aboard.
2009: U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
2007: China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
2007: The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
2006: Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
1996: Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly.
1996: Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
1995: André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
1991: Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people.
1990: Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
1986: USS Rentz, USS Reeves and USS Oldendorf visit Qingdao, China; the first US naval visit to China since 1949.
1983: The Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
1970: The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
1968: Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
1956: Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
1955: After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1950: Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.
1945: The three-day anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania commence.
1943: World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
1940: World War II: The British armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay is sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer.
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the first and only President of the United States to be elected to a third term.
1925: Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1917: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
1917: Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
1916: The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1916: The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1914: World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
1913: King Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III.
1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1911: After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
1898: Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
1895: George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1881: In New Zealand, 1600 armed volunteers and constabulary field forces led by Minister of Native Affairs John Bryce march on the pacifist Māori settlement at Parihaka, evicting upwards of 2000 residents, and destroying the settlement in the context of the New Zealand land confiscations.
1872: Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1862: American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
1862: American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to death. Thirty-eight are ultimately hanged and the others reprieved.
1834: Founding of the Free University of Brussels by Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
1828: Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
1811: Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and launching the 1811 Independence Movement.
1780: French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1768: The Treaty of Fort Stanwix is signed, the purpose of which is to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
1757: Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1688: Prince William III of Orange lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham to challenge the rule of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland).
1605: Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
1556: Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar.
1499: The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1138: Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
1009: Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the Battle of Qantish.

Births On This Day

2002: Matty Beniers, American ice hockey player
1997: Jordan Bone, American basketball player
1995: Trey Lyles, Canadian basketball player
1994: Astou Ndour-Fall, Senegalese-Spanish basketball player
1993: Hideya Tawada, Japanese actor and model
1992: Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
1992: Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
1991: Flume, Australian DJ and producer
1991: Jon Gray, American baseball player
1991: Shōdai Naoya, Japanese sumo wrestler
1989: D. J. Kennedy, American basketball player
1988: Yannick Borel, French fencer
1988: Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
1987: Kevin Jonas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1987: Jason Kelce, American football player
1987: O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
1986: BoA, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer and actress
1986: Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
1986: Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1986: Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
1985: Michel Butter, Dutch runner
1985: Kate DeAraugo, Australian singer-songwriter
1985: Annet Mahendru, American actress
1984: Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
1984: Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
1984: Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
1984: Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long-distance runner
1984: John Sutton, Australian rugby league player
1984: Nick Tandy, English racing driver
1984: Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1983: Alexa Chung, English model and television host
1983: Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983: Juan Morillo, Dominican baseball player
1982: Leah Culver, American computer scientist and programmer, co-founder of Pownce
1982: Bryan LaHair, American baseball player
1982: Rob Swire, Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1982: Matthew Williams, Welsh footballer
1981: Paul Chapman, Australian footballer
1981: Ümit Ergirdi, Turkish footballer
1980: Jaime Camara, Brazilian racing driver
1980: Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
1980: Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
1980: Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980: Orkun Uşak, Turkish footballer
1979: Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
1979: Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
1979: Keith McLeod, American basketball player
1979: David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
1978: Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (died 2011)
1978: Bubba Watson, American golfer
1977: Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
1977: Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
1976: Sebastian Arcelus, American actor
1975: Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter
1974: Ryan Adams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974: Angela Gossow, German singer-songwriter
1974: Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer and coach
1974: Taine Randell, New Zealand rugby player
1974: Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player and sportscaster
1973: Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1973: Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player and manager
1971: Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
1971: Jonny Greenwood, English guitarist and songwriter
1971: Rob Jones, Welsh-English footballer and coach
1971: Corin Nemec, American actor, producer and screenwriter
1971: Mårten Olander, Swedish golfer
1970: Javy López, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1969: Pat Kilbane, American actor, comedian, director and screenwriter
1968: Ricardo Fort, Argentinian actor, director and businessman (died 2013)
1968: Seth Gilliam, American actor
1968: Sam Rockwell, American actor
1967: Judy Reyes, American actress and producer
1966: James Allen, English journalist and sportscaster
1966: Nayim, Spanish footballer and manager
1966: Urmas Kirs, Estonian footballer and manager
1965: Atul Gawande, American surgeon and journalist
1965: Angelo Moore, American singer and musician
1963: Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer and scout
1963: Andrea McArdle, American actress and singer
1963: Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author
1963: Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer and manager
1963: Brian Wheat, American bass player and songwriter
1962: Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (died 2015)
1962: Michael Gaston, American actor
1962: Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer and manager
1962: Marcus J. Ranum, American computer scientist and author
1961: Alan G. Poindexter, American captain, pilot and astronaut (died 2012)
1960: René Froger, Dutch singer-songwriter
1960: Tilda Swinton, English actress
1960: Mark West, American basketball player
1959: Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer and actor
1959: Tomo Česen, Slovenian mountaineer
1958: Don Falcone, American keyboard player, songwriter and producer
1958: Mo Gaffney, American actress and screenwriter
1958: Robert Patrick, American actor
1957: Mike Score, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1956: Rob Fisher, English keyboard player and songwriter (died 1999)
1956: John Harwood, American journalist
1956: Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019)
1956: Michael Sorridimi, Australian rugby league player
1956: Jeff Watson, American guitarist and songwriter
1955: Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist and academic
1955: Kris Jenner, American talent manager and businesswoman
1955: Nestor Serrano, American actor
1955: Karan Thapar, Indian journalist and author
1954: Vincenzo D'Amico, Italian footballer (died 2023)
1954: Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and manager (died 2020)
1954: Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and academic
1953: Joyce Maynard, American journalist, author and academic
1952: Oleh Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer and manager
1952: Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher and author
1952: Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (died 2024)
1950: Thorbjørn Jagland, Norwegian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Norway
1950: James Kennedy, American psychologist and author
1949: Armin Shimerman, American actor
1949: Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (died 1984)
1948: Bob Barr, American lawyer and politician
1948: Peter Hammill, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1948: Bernard-Henri Lévy, French philosopher and author
1948: William Daniel Phillips, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1947: Quint Davis, American director and producer
1947: Peter Noone, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947: Tonin Çobani, Albanian folklorist and writer.
1946: Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1973)
1945: Peter Pace, American general
1945: Aleka Papariga, Greek accountant and politician
1945: Svetlana Tširkova-Lozovaja, Russian fencer and coach
1943: Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and author (died 2007)
1943: Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper (died 2022)
1943: Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (died 2017)
1942: Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002)
1941: Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941: Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
1941: Bill Schlesinger, American baseball player (died 2023)
1940: Ted Kulongoski, American soldier, lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Oregon
1940: Elke Sommer, German actress
1939: Lobsang Tenzin, Tibetan religious leader
1938: Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (died 1980)
1938: Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator
1937: Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore
1937: Harris Yulin, American actor (died 2025)
1936: Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (died 2001)
1936: Uwe Seeler, German footballer (died 2022)
1936: Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (died 2015)
1935: Lester Piggott, English flat racing jockey and trainer (died 2022)
1935: Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (died 2015)
1934: Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (died 2014)
1933: Herb Edelman, American actor (died 1996)
1932: Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (died 2001)
1931: Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist and academic (died 2013)
1931: Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (died 2016)
1931: Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (died 1971)
1931: Diane Pearson, British book editor and novelist (died 2017)
1931: Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (died 2007)
1930: Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2016)
1930: Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (died 2015)
1927: Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (died 2009)
1926: John Berger, English author, poet, painter and critic (died 2017)
1923: Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel (died 2002)
1922: Violet Barclay, American illustrator (died 2010)
1922: Yitzchok Scheiner, American-Israeli rabbi (died 2021)
1922: Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (died 2008)
1921: Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1994)
1921: Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (died 2013)
1920: Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (died 2012)
1920: Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
1919: Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (died 1978)
1919: Myron Floren, American accordionist and pianist (died 2005)
1917: Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (died 2000)
1917: Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (died 2007)
1917: James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (died 2002)
1917: Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player
1914: Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (died 2005)
1913: Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter and cinematographer (died 2005)
1913: Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (died 1967)
1913: John McGiver, American actor (died 1975)
1912: W. Allen Wallis, American economist and statistician (died 1998)
1911: Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (died 2010)
1911: Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor (died 1998)
1910: John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (died 1997)
1906: Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (died 1944)
1906: Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (died 2004)
1905: Joel McCrea, American actor (died 1990)
1905: Louis Rosier, French racing driver (died 1956)
1905: Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (died 1973)
1904: Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1985)
1901: Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (died 2004)
1901: Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge and politician (died 1972)
1901: Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (died 1979)
1900: Natalie Schafer, American actress (died 1991)
1900: Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (died 1993)
1899: Margaret Atwood Judson, American historian and author (died 1991)
1895: Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (died 1956)
1895: Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1956)
1894: Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (died 1960)
1893: Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (died 1986)
1892: J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (died 1964)
1892: John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (died 1919)
1890: Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (died 1977)
1887: Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (died 1961)
1886: Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (died 1961)
1885: Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (died 1981)
1884: James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1915)
1883: P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (died 1940)
1881: George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (died 1961)
1879: Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (died 1963)
1873: Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (died 1935)
1870: Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (died 1925)
1857: Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (died 1944)
1855: Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (died 1926)
1855: Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (died 1913)
1854: Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (died 1920)
1854: Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
1851: Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (died 1923)
1850: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (died 1919)
1846: Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1869)
1835: Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (died 1902)
1818: Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (died 1893)
1789: William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (died 1868)
1742: Richard Cosway, English painter (died 1821)
1739: Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (died 1819)
1722: William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (died 1798)
1715: John Brown, English author and playwright (died 1766)
1705: Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (died 1770)
1701: Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (died 1785)
1688: Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1757)
1667: Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (died 1719)
1666: Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (died 1729)
1615: Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (died 1648)
1613: Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (died 1691)
1607: Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (died 1678)
1592: Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (died 1672)
1549: Philippe de Mornay, French theologian and author (died 1623)
1494: Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (died 1576)
1436: Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, Earl of Tankerville, 1450-1460 (died 1466)
1271: Ghazan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (died 1304)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Dorothy Allison, American writer (born 1949)
2024: Ben Baldanza, American economist and business executive (born 1961)
2024: Elwood Edwards, American voice actor (born 1949)
2023: Pat E. Johnson, American martial artist and actor (born 1939)
2022: Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer and actor (born 1987)
2021: Marília Mendonça, Brazilian singer (born 1995)
2020: Geoffrey Palmer, English actor (born 1927)
2015: George Barris, American engineer and car designer (born 1925)
2015: Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (born 1923)
2015: Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)
2015: Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (born 1925)
2015: Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (born 1930)
2014: Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (born 1921)
2014: Lane Evans, American lawyer and politician (born 1951)
2014: Wally Grant, American ice hockey player (born 1927)
2014: Abdelwahab Meddeb, Tunisian-French author, poet, and scholar (born 1946)
2013: Habibollah Asgaroladi, Iranian politician (born 1932)
2013: Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor and screenwriter (born 1934)
2013: Tony Iveson, English soldier and pilot (born 1919)
2013: Charles Mosley, English genealogist and author (born 1948)
2013: Charlie Trotter, American chef and author (born 1959)
2013: Stuart Williams, Welsh footballer and manager (born 1930)
2012: Olympe Bradna, French-American actress and dancer (born 1920)
2012: Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (born 1908)
2012: Leonardo Favio, Argentinian actor, singer, director and screenwriter (born 1938)
2012: Bob Kaplan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1936)
2012: Louis Pienaar, South African lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Internal Affairs (born 1926)
2011: Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer-songwriter, director, and poet (born 1926)
2010: Jill Clayburgh, American actress and singer (born 1944)
2010: Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet, journalist, and politician (born 1943)
2010: Shirley Verrett, American soprano and actress (born 1931)
2009: Félix Luna, Argentinian lawyer, historian, and academic (born 1925)
2007: Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer and manager (born 1922)
2006: Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1925)
2005: John Fowles, English novelist (born 1926)
2005: Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (born 1912)
2005: Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)
2004: Donald Jones, American-Dutch actor, singer, and dancer (born 1932)
2003: Bobby Hatfield, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
2001: Roy Boulting, English director and producer (born 1913)
2001: Milton William Cooper, American radio host, author, and activist (born 1943)
2000: Jimmie Davis, American singer-songwriter and politician, 47th Governor of Louisiana (born 1899)
2000: Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (born 1926)
1999: James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (born 1931)
1999: Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (born 1920)
1997: James Robert Baker, American author and screenwriter (born 1946)
1997: Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian, author, and academic (born 1909)
1997: Peter Jackson, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster (born 1964)
1996: Eddie Harris, American saxophonist (born 1934)
1992: Adile Ayda, Russian-Turkish engineer and diplomat (born 1912)
1992: Arpad Elo, American physicist and chess player (born 1903)
1992: Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1900)
1991: Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (born 1923)
1991: Fred MacMurray, American actor and businessman (born 1908)
1989: Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (born 1903)
1987: Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (born 1922)
1986: Adolf Brudes, German race car driver (born 1899)
1986: Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1930)
1986: Bobby Nunn, American singer (born 1925)
1985: Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (born 1898)
1985: Spencer W. Kimball, American religious leader, 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1895)
1981: Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (born 1924)
1980: Louis Alter, American musician (born 1902)
1979: Al Capp, American cartoonist (born 1909)
1977: René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (born 1926)
1977: Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (born 1902)
1977: Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (born 1906)
1975: Edward Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1909)
1975: Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (born 1905)
1972: Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (born 1898)
1971: Sam Jones, American baseball player (born 1925)
1964: Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (born 1916)
1964: Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1893)
1963: Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet and critic (born 1902)
1960: Ward Bond, American actor (born 1903)
1960: Donald Grey Barnhouse, American pastor and theologian (born 1895)
1960: August Gailit, Estonian author and poet (born 1891)
1960: Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1925)
1960: Mack Sennett, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1880)
1956: Art Tatum, American pianist and composer (born 1909)
1955: Maurice Utrillo, French painter (born 1883)
1951: Reggie Walker, South African runner (born 1889)
1950: Mary Harris Armor, American suffragist (born 1863)
1946: Joseph Stella, Italian-American painter (born 1877)
1944: Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1873)
1942: George M. Cohan, American actor, singer, composer, author and theatre manager/owner (born 1878)
1941: Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish activist (born 1905)
1939: Mary W. Bacheler, American physician and Baptist medical missionary (born 1860)
1938: Thomas Dewing, American painter and educator (born 1851)
1933: Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (born 1884)
1933: Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (born 1856)
1931: Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (born 1866)
1930: Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
1930: Luigi Facta, Italian politician, journalist and Prime Minister of Italy (born 1861)
1928: Vlasios Tsirogiannis, Greek general (born 1872)
1923: Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French author and poet (born 1880)
1879: James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician (born 1831)
1876: Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (born 1824)
1872: Thomas Sully, English-American painter (born 1783)
1807: Angelica Kauffman, painter (born 1741)
1758: Hans Egede, Norwegian-Danish bishop and missionary (born 1686)
1752: Carl Andreas Duker, German scholar and jurist (born 1670)
1714: Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (born 1633)
1701: Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (born 1659)
1660: Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (born 1591)
1660: Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle (born 1599)
1605: Nyaungyan Min, Birmese king (born 1555)
1559: Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and educator (born 1476)
1515: Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter and educator (born 1474)
1459: John Fastolf, English soldier (born 1380)
1450: John IV, Count of Armagnac (born 1396)
1370: Casimir III the Great, Polish king (born 1310)
1235: Elisabeth of Swabia, queen consort of Castile and León (born 1205)
1176: Diego Martínez de Villamayor, Castilian nobleman
1011: Mathilde, Abbess of Essen (born 949)
964: Fan Zhi, chancellor of the Song Dynasty (born 911)
425: Atticus, archbishop of Constantinople

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