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November 5

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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

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.$303 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2024
3.€301.39 Million US$300.36 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2022
4.$225 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 8, 2005
5.$217 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2016
6.$196 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2023
7.€152 Million US$194.27 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2006
8.$181.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2023
9.$178 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2014
10.€132 Million
US$169.01 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2012
11.$164 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2015
12.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 8, 2022
13.$149 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2020
14.€100 Million
US$148.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2009
15.$143.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2021
16.$143 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 7, 2012
17.$142 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2020
18.$127 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2019
19.$123 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2010
20.€105.64 Million
US$122.12 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2021
21.€120 Million
US$120.7 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 8, 2022
22.€108 Million
US$117.55 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2024
23.€100 Million
US$107.88 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2015
24.€90 Million
US$102.05 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 9, 2018
25.$99 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2013

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1999: Lotterymilliboy
Friday, Nov 5, 1999
25 years old
1988: Jordi88
Saturday, Nov 5, 1988
36 years old
1979: bestresult32
Monday, Nov 5, 1979
45 years old
1975: Tbertsch
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1975
49 years old
1972: zeta8
Sunday, Nov 5, 1972
52 years old
1972: Kalvin92
Sunday, Nov 5, 1972
52 years old
1968: hypersoniq
Tuesday, Nov 5, 1968
56 years old
1968: Snakeyes
Tuesday, Nov 5, 1968
56 years old
1964: badstuff
Thursday, Nov 5, 1964
60 years old
1958: larry888
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1958
66 years old
1958: helpwinco
Wednesday, Nov 5, 1958
66 years old
1951: mrlottery15
Monday, Nov 5, 1951
73 years old
: dede_tn
(year not provided)
: Teneshias
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

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.
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.

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 (d. 2011)
1978: Bubba Watson, American golfer
1977: Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
1977: Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
1976: Sebastian Arcelus, American actor
1976: Mr. Fastfinger, Finnish guitarist and songwriter
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 (d. 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: Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress
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 (d. 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 (d. 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 (d. 1999)
1956: John Harwood, American journalist
1956: Lavrentis Machairitsas, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 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 (d. 2023)
1954: Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and manager (d. 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 (d. 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 (d. 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
1946: Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 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 (d. 2007)
1943: Percy Hobson, Australian high jumper (d. 2022)
1943: Sam Shepard, American playwright and actor (d. 2017)
1942: Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)
1941: Art Garfunkel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941: Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
1941: Bill Schlesinger, American baseball player (d. 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 (d. 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
1936: Michael Dertouzos, Greek-American computer scientist and academic (d. 2001)
1936: Uwe Seeler, German footballer (d. 2022)
1936: Billy Sherrill, American record producer, songwriter and arranger (d. 2015)
1935: Lester Piggott, English flat racing jockey and trainer (d. 2022)
1935: Christopher Wood, English author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1934: Jeb Stuart Magruder, American minister and civil servant (d. 2014)
1933: Herb Edelman, American actor (d. 1996)
1932: Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (d. 2001)
1931: Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist and academic (d. 2013)
1931: Gil Hill, American actor, police officer and politician (d. 2016)
1931: Harold McNair, Jamaican-English saxophonist and flute player (d. 1971)
1931: Diane Pearson, British book editor and novelist (d. 2017)
1931: Ike Turner, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2007)
1930: Wim Bleijenberg, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2016)
1930: Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (d. 2015)
1927: Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (d. 2009)
1926: John Berger, English author, poet, painter and critic (d. 2017)
1923: Rudolf Augstein, German soldier and journalist, co-founder of Der Spiegel (d. 2002)
1922: Violet Barclay, American illustrator (d. 2010)
1922: Yitzchok Scheiner, American-Israeli rabbi (d. 2021)
1922: Cecil H. Underwood, American educator and politician, 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
1921: Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1994)
1921: Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (d. 2013)
1920: Tommy Godwin, American-English cyclist and coach (d. 2012)
1920: Douglass North, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1919: Hasan Askari, Pakistani linguist, scholar and critic (d. 1978)
1919: Myron Floren, American accordionist and pianist (d. 2005)
1917: Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
1917: Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian activist and politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1917: James Lawton Collins Jr., American brigadier general (d. 2002)
1917: Giuseppe Salvioli, Italian football player
1914: Alton Tobey, American painter and illustrator (d. 2005)
1913: Guy Green, English-American director, screenwriter and cinematographer (d. 2005)
1913: Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress (d. 1967)
1913: John McGiver, American actor (d. 1975)
1912: W. Allen Wallis, American economist and statistician (d. 1998)
1911: Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (d. 2010)
1911: Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor (d. 1998)
1910: John Hackett, Australian-English general and academic (d. 1997)
1906: Endre Kabos, Hungarian fencer (d. 1944)
1906: Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (d. 2004)
1905: Joel McCrea, American actor (d. 1990)
1905: Louis Rosier, French racing driver (d. 1956)
1905: Sajjad Zaheer, Indian author and poet (d. 1973)
1904: Cooney Weiland, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1985)
1901: Etta Moten Barnett, American actress and singer (d. 2004)
1901: Martin Dies, Jr., American lawyer, judge and politician (d. 1972)
1901: Eddie Paynter, English cricketer (d. 1979)
1900: Natalie Schafer, American actress (d. 1991)
1900: Ethelwynn Trewavas, British ichthyologist, over a dozen fish species named in her honor (d. 1993)
1899: Margaret Atwood Judson, American historian and author (d. 1991)
1895: Walter Gieseking, French-German pianist and composer (d. 1956)
1895: Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1956)
1894: Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (d. 1960)
1893: Raymond Loewy, French-American engineer and designer (d. 1986)
1892: J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (d. 1964)
1892: John Alcock, captain in the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force (d. 1919)
1890: Jan Zrzavý, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1977)
1887: Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist and educator (d. 1961)
1886: Sadae Inoue, Japanese general (d. 1961)
1885: Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (d. 1981)
1884: James Elroy Flecker, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1915)
1883: P Moe Nin, Burmese author and translator (d. 1940)
1881: George A. Malcolm, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1961)
1879: Otto Wahle, Austrian-American swimmer and coach (d. 1963)
1873: Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (d. 1935)
1870: Chittaranjan Das, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1925)
1857: Ida Tarbell, American journalist, author, reformer, and educator (d. 1944)
1855: Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (d. 1926)
1855: Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and climatologist (d. 1913)
1854: Alphonse Desjardins, Canadian journalist and businessman, co-founded Desjardins Group (d. 1920)
1854: Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
1851: Charles Dupuy, French academic and politician, 60th Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
1850: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919)
1846: Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)
1835: Moritz Szeps, Ukrainian-Austrian journalist and publisher (d. 1902)
1818: Benjamin Butler, American general, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
1789: William Bland, Australian surgeon and politician (d. 1868)
1742: Richard Cosway, English painter (d. 1821)
1739: Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, Scottish composer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire (d. 1819)
1722: William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English lieutenant and politician (d. 1798)
1715: John Brown, English author and playwright (d. 1766)
1705: Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French violinist and composer (d. 1770)
1701: Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter and educator (d. 1785)
1688: Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1757)
1667: Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1666: Attilio Ariosti, Italian viola player and composer (d. 1729)
1615: Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)
1613: Isaac de Benserade, French poet and educator (d. 1691)
1607: Anna Maria van Schurman, Dutch painter (d. 1678)
1592: Charles Chauncy, English-American pastor, theologian, and academic (d. 1672)
1549: Philippe de Mornay, French theologian and author (d. 1623)
1494: Hans Sachs, German poet and playwright (d. 1576)
1436: Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Tankerville, Earl of Tankerville, 1450-1460 (d. 1466)
1271: Ghazan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (d. 1304)

Deaths On This Day

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

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