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October 12

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October 12

October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 80 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: $1.76 billion Powerball jackpot won by one ticket sold in California. For the fourth time, someone in the state of California has purchased a winning ticket for a lottery jackpot worth more than $1 billion.
2020: PA man ordered to give former girlfriend half of $100,000 lottery prize. A Pennsylvania Superior Court panel ruled on Friday that a man who split from his long-time girlfriend one week after winning $100,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket must give her half the winnings.
2018: NJ Lottery Pick 6 jackpot jumps to 9-year high. With the multi-state Mega Millions and Powerball lottery games stealing players' attention these days, New Jersey's popular Pick 6 game has been quietly rolling to levels seen around once a decade.
2017: N.J. man claims $24.1M lottery jackpot just 2 days before expiration. A 68-year-old New Jersey man claimed a $24.1 million New York lottery jackpot two days before the ticket was due to expire after seeing a story on the evening news about how time was running out for the winner to step forward.
2017: Washington Lottery director accused of gender discrimination. An outside investigation into complaints of a hostile workplace at the Washington state Lottery has found that the agency's director treats female employees differently than their male counterparts, calling them "criers" and excluding them from key discussions.
2017: N.C. Lottery director retiring. The North Carolina Education Lottery's top leader is retiring next spring, ending a stint with the agency that began before it started selling tickets more than a decade ago.
2017: Lottery winner guilty of attempted shoplifting. A Tewksbury, Massachusetts, woman was found guilty Wednesday of attempting to steal $80 worth of lipstick from a Kohl's department store two months after winning $1 million on a scratch ticket.
2015: What do Disneyland, an indoor slide, and a popcorn maker have in common?. A couple with a young family from Dublin, Ireland, have some unusual items on their wish list after winning a Lotto jackpot worth millions.
2014: S.C. Lottery to honor 2 sets of Pick 3 numbers. The South Carolina Lottery says it will honor two sets of Evening Pick 3 numbers for Tuesday night's drawing.
2014: Three Mass. Lottery games get new drawing schedules. The Massachusetts State Lottery has announced that there will be new drawing times for The Numbers Game, Mass Cash and Keno games.
2012: Maine couple claims $8.2M Tri-State Megabucks jackpot. The Von Oesens have five daughters and fourteen grandchildren, and have already begun planning ways to use their money to help them.
2012: Georgia Lottery board member resigns citing pressure to hire new director. A member of the Georgia Lottery Board resigned last week because she thought the panel was feeling pressured to hire the governor's budget director to run one of the country's most successful lotteries.
2011: N.C. man claims Mega Millions lottery jackpot. North Carolina's newest jackpot winners are members of a Greenville, N.C. family who claimed today their half of the Sept. 30 Mega Millions jackpot worth $114 million.
2011: Son of UK lottery winner says his mother kicked him out years ago. The son of Euro Millions winner Angela Dawes today claimed that his mother kicked him out when he was 12 and has not spoken to him since.
2009: Powerball coming to Maryland, Massachusetts. According to local media reports, Powerball lottery tickets will soon be sold in Maryland and Massachusetts. Other Mega Millions states are sure to follow.
2007: Restaurant workers split $4 million lottery jackpot. For 16 people who toil at a new Yorkville restaurant called "ONE", there was something special on the menu that turned out to be the special of the day -- a $4.6 million dollar win in Lotto 6/49.
2007: Man wins second $25K lottery prize in 3 months. Richard Bastemeyer of Lawrence on Friday won his second $25,000 Kansas Lottery prize in three months.
2007: W.V. Lottery Commission approves 24-7 table gaming. A unanimous vote Thursday of 6 to 0 by the state lottery commission will allow racetracks to operate table games 24 hours a day 7 days a week, but there's still no date for when dealers will be passing out the cards.
2007: Calif. Gov: Sell lottery to fund health care. Hoping to rejuvenate lagging negotiations over health care reform, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday that he wants to use the state lottery to help finance his plan that would require all Californians to have health insurance.
2007: Cat picks winning lottery numbers. A Chinese lottery player hit the jackpot after his cat jumped up and hit the right buttons on the ticket machine.
2007: Tattersall's loses lottery monopoly. In Australia, Tattersall's 54-year monopoly on Victoria's lotteries has been broken as the State Government seeks to make more money from the lucrative market.
2007: CPA turns $2 into $13M lottery jackpot. After one Illinois resident he discovered he was the single winner of $13.5 million Illinois Lotto jackpot, he "couldn't stop laughing."
2006: Male nurse wins record German lottery jackpot. The biggest jackpot in the history of Germany's national lottery went to a male nurse.
2006: Oklahoma Lottery Celebrates One Year Anniversary. Wednesday marked the one year anniversary of the beginning of the Oklahoma Lottery. Lottery officials say it's been an excellent year, even though sales are lagging slightly behind projections.
2006: GTECH explains pricey N.J. Lottery contract. Seeking to justify a price tag of nearly $32 million more than a competitor to run the New Jersey's lottery for the next five years, representatives of the state's lottery operator said Wednesday that their system is more convenient for vendors and would result in less down time and lost revenues for the state.
2006: N.C. Lottery trial: prosectutor calls ex-commissioner 'crafty'. Former lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings is a "very crafty individual" who chose to deliberately withhold information about his work for a lottery company, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments in Geddings' federal fraud trial.
2006: Poland faces EU legal action over foreign lottery tax laws. The European Commission has said Poland must end discriminatory taxation against foreign lottery winnings or face legal action.
2005: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $77 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $77 million Tuesday.
2005: Maine woman seeking second lottery jackpot. A Maine woman who won a lottery scratch game jackpot has a 1-in-4 chance of winning another $1 million.
2005: First Oklahoma lottery tickets go on sale. Oklahoma will become the 41st state to offer a lottery when 1,200 businesses start selling instant tickets this morning.
2005: Some Oklahoma lottery retailers struggle with last-minute details. Some Oklahoma retailers planning to sell the state's new lottery tickets today spent Tuesday wondering if that would come to pass.
2005: Intralot Signs Deal With Montana Lottery. Greek gaming operator Intralot said Wednesday it has signed a seven-year contract with the state lottery of Montana to supply a new online and instant gaming system.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$548 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2018
2.$502 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 14, 2022
3.$425.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2022
4.$314 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 13, 2018
5.€287.68 Million US$280.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 13, 2022
6.€220 Million US$253.99 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2021
7.$240 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2005
8.€142 Million US$179.81 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 14, 2014
9.€155.92 Million US$172.04 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 13, 2016
10.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 13, 2009
11.$166 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 14, 2014
12.$143 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 14, 2017
13.$133 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2013
14.$117 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2003
15.€93.7 Million
US$108.17 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2021
16.$107 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2016
17.€80 Million
US$100.29 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 13, 2006
18.€90 Million
US$98.97 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Oct 14, 2016
19.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2019
19.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2014
21.$86 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2011
22.$77 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 14, 2005
23.€79 Million
US$76.91 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 14, 2022
24.$75 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 13, 2015
25.$73 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 12, 2021

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: MM Punk
Saturday, Oct 12, 1991
32 years old
1985: Ivorylibra
Saturday, Oct 12, 1985
38 years old
1981: Lavishdreams
Monday, Oct 12, 1981
42 years old
1973: Hean Sei
Friday, Oct 12, 1973
50 years old
1960: Kazoo
Wednesday, Oct 12, 1960
63 years old
1954: D12ny54
Tuesday, Oct 12, 1954
69 years old
1948: sonnyboy11
Tuesday, Oct 12, 1948
75 years old
1947: stavros
Sunday, Oct 12, 1947
76 years old
1946: Wiff Griff
Saturday, Oct 12, 1946
77 years old
1939: lottaz
Thursday, Oct 12, 1939
84 years old
: keva-033
(year not provided)
: CaliWinner
(year not provided)
: Rainbow$Pigeon
(year not provided)
: Richalan
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, killing 10 and forcing the evacuation of one million people.
2019: Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
2019: The Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which is under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring 20.
2018: Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
2017: The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.
2013: Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
2012: The European Union wins the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
2010: The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
2005: The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
2002: Terrorists detonate bombs in two nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2000: The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
1999: Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999: The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
1998: Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
1997: The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.
1996: New Zealand holds its first general election under the new mixed-member proportional representation system, which led to Jim Bolger's National Party forming a coalition government with Winston Peters's New Zealand First.
1994: The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1994: Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 crashes near Nantaz, Iran, killing all 66 people on board.
1992: A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1988: Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1984: The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1983: Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
1979: Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
1977: Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as paramount leader of China.
1976: Indian Airlines Flight 171 crashes at Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, killing 95.
1973: President Nixon nominates House Majority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
1971: The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.
1970: Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1968: Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
1967: A bomb explodes on board Cyprus Airways Flight 284 while flying over the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66.
1964: The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
1963: After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1962: The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.
1960: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
1959: At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1945: World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1945: The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
1944: World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
1933: The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1928: An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.
1918: A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
1917: World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1915: World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium.
1901: President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1892: The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
1890: Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
1871: The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
1856: An M 7.7-8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta.
1849: The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.
1822: Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.
1810: The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
1799: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
1798: Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
1793: The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1792: The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1773: America's first insane asylum opens.
1748: War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
1692: The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
1654: The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1492: Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically on San Salvador Island. (Julian calendar)
1406: Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.
1398: In the Treaty of Salynas, Lithuania cedes Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.
1279: The Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan.
633: Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
539 BC: The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)

Births On This Day

2004: Darci Lynne, American ventriloquist
2002: Iris Apatow, American actress
1999: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Irish actor and musician
1997: Curtis Scott, Australian rugby league player
1996: James Graham, British singer
1996: Owen Watkin, Welsh rugby player
1995: Jessica Hogg, Welsh artistic gymnast
1994: Sean Monahan, Canadian ice hockey player
1994: Olivia Smoliga, American swimmer
1993: Ketel Marte, Dominican baseball player
1992: Josh Hutcherson, American actor and producer
1991: Nicolao Dumitru, Italian footballer
1990: Henri Lansbury, English footballer
1989: Anna Ohmiya, Japanese curler
1988: Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
1988: Calum Scott, British singer
1987: Marvin Ogunjimi, Belgian footballer
1986: Ioannis Maniatis, Greek footballer
1986: Sergio Peter, German footballer
1986: Tyler Blackburn, American actor
1985: Michelle Carter, American shot putter
1985: Mike Green, Canadian hockey player
1985: Anna Iljuštšenko, Estonian high jumper
1985: Greig Laidlaw, Scottish rugby player
1985: Carl Söderberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1983: Alex Brosque, Australian footballer
1983: Carlton Cole, English footballer
1983: Katie Piper, English philanthropist, broadcaster, and acid violence survivor
1983: Mariko Yamamoto, Japanese cricketer
1981: Tom Guiry, American actor
1981: Marcel Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
1981: Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer and manager
1981: Giuseppe Lanzone, American rower
1981: Brian J. Smith, American actor
1981: Conrad Smith, New Zealand rugby player
1981: Sun Tiantian, Chinese tennis player
1980: Ledley King, English footballer
1980: Ann Wauters, Belgian basketball player
1979: Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician
1979: Steve Borthwick, English rugby player
1979: Jordan Pundik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978: Stefan Binder, German footballer
1978: Baden Cooke, Australian cyclist
1978: Marko Jarić, Serbian basketball player
1977: Cristie Kerr, American golfer
1977: Bode Miller, American skier
1977: Javier Toyo, Venezuelan footballer
1976: Simon Bridges, New Zealand politician
1975: Susana Félix, Portuguese singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1975: Marion Jones, American basketball player and runner
1975: Randy Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
1974: Stephen Lee, English snooker player
1973: Lesli Brea, Dominican baseball player
1973: Martin Corry, English rugby player
1972: Juan Manuel Silva, Argentinian race car driver
1972: Tom Van Mol, Belgian footballer
1971: Tony Fiore, American baseball player
1971: Steve Johnston, Australian motorcycle racer
1971: Bronzell Miller, American football player and actor (d. 2013)
1970: Kirk Cameron, American actor, screenwriter, and Christian evangelical/anti-evolution activist
1970: Patrick Musimu, Belgian diver and physiotherapist (d. 2011)
1970: Tanyon Sturtze, American baseball player
1970: Charlie Ward, American basketball player and coach
1969: Martie Maguire, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and producer
1969: Željko Milinovič, Slovenian footballer
1969: Dwayne Roloson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1969: José Valentín, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1968: Bill Auberlen, American race car driver
1968: Paul Harragon, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1968: Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer, and producer
1968: Leon Lett, American football player
1968: Adam Rich, American actor (d. 2023)
1967: Becky Iverson, American golfer
1966: Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor and voice over artist (d. 2015)
1966: Wim Jonk, Dutch footballer
1966: Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966: Brenda Romero, American game designer
1965: Dan Abnett, English author
1965: Chris Chandler, American football player
1965: J. J. Daigneault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1965: Scott O'Grady, American captain and pilot
1963: Raimond Aumann, German footballer
1963: Hideki Fujisawa, Japanese composer
1963: Satoshi Kon, Japanese animator and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1963: Dave Legeno, English actor and mixed martial artist (d. 2014)
1963: Alan McDonald, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1963: Luis Polonia, Dominican baseball player
1962: Carlos Bernard, American actor and director
1962: Michelle Botes, South African actress
1962: Chris Botti, American trumpet player and composer
1962: John Coleman, English footballer and manager
1962: Branko Crvenkovski, Macedonian engineer and politician, 3rd President of the Republic of Macedonia
1962: Deborah Foreman, American actress and photographer
1962: Mads Eriksen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
1961: Chendo, Spanish footballer
1960: Steve Lowery, American golfer
1960: Carlo Perrone, Italian footballer and manager
1960: Hiroyuki Sanada, Japanese actor and martial artist
1960: Dorothee Vieth, German Paralympic cyclist
1959: Anna Escobedo Cabral, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Treasurer of the United States
1958: Steve Austria, American lawyer and politician
1958: Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, Portuguese historian, author, and academic (d. 2013)
1958: Jeff Keith, American rock singer-songwriter
1958: Bryn Merrick, Welsh bass player (d. 2015)
1957: Clémentine Célarié, French actress, singer, and director
1957: Serge Clerc, French comic book artist and illustrator
1957: Mike Dowler, Welsh football goalkeeper
1957: Annik Honoré, Belgian journalist and music promoter (d. 2014)
1957: William F. Laurance, Australian biologist
1956: Rafael Ábalos, Spanish author
1956: Allan Evans, Scottish footballer
1956: Lutz Haueisen, German cyclist
1956: Catherine Holmes, Australian judge
1956: Gerti Schanderl, German figure skater
1956: David Vanian, English singer-songwriter
1955: Einar Jan Aas, Norwegian footballer
1955: Pat DiNizio, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
1955: Ante Gotovina, Croatian general
1955: Jane Siberry, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1954: Evalie A. Bradley, Anguillian politician and member of the House of Assembly of Anguilla
1954: Massimo Ghini, Italian actor
1954: Michael Roe, American singer, songwriter, and record producer
1954: Linval Thompson, Jamaican singer and producer
1953: Les Dennis, English comedian and actor
1953: David Threlfall, English actor and director
1952: Trevor Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
1952: Béla Csécsei, Hungarian educator and politician (d. 2012)
1952: Roger Heath-Brown, English mathematician and theorist
1951: Sally Little, South African-American golfer
1951: Ed Royce, American businessman and politician
1951: Norio Suzuki, Japanese golfer
1950: Susan Anton, American actress and model
1950: Dave Freudenthal, American economist and politician, 31st Governor of Wyoming
1949: Dave Lloyd, English cyclist and coach
1949: Carlos the Jackal, Venezuelan terrorist
1949: Paul Went, English footballer and manager (d. 2017)
1948: John Engler, American businessman and politician, 46th Governor of Michigan
1948: Rick Parfitt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1947: Chris Wallace, American journalist
1946: Drew Edmondson, American politician
1946: Ashok Mankad, Indian cricketer (d. 2008)
1946: Daryl Runswick, English bassist and composer
1945: Aurore Clément, French actress
1945: Dusty Rhodes, American wrestler (d. 2015)
1944: Angela Rippon, English journalist and author
1943: Kostas Tsakonas, Greek actor (d. 2015)
1942: Melvin Franklin, American soul bass singer (d. 1995)
1941: Michael Mansfield, English lawyer, academic, and republican
1937: Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (d. 1969)
1937: Robert Mangold, American painter
1935: Don Howe, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1935: Tony Kubek, American baseball player and sportscaster
1935: Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter
1935: Shivraj Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence
1935: Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2007)
1934: James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2012)
1934: Richard Meier, American architect, designed the Getty Center and City Tower
1934: Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician and academic
1934: Oğuz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (d. 1977)
1933: Guido Molinari, Canadian painter and art collector (d. 2004)
1932: Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2017)
1932: Ned Jarrett, American race car driver and sportscaster
1931: Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula (d. 2002)
1930: Denis Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and photographer (d. 2013)
1930: Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian and author (d. 2021)
1929: Nappy Brown, American R&B singer-songwriter (d. 2008)
1929: Robert Coles, American psychologist, author, and academic
1929: Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist and academic (d. 2007)
1928: Al Held, American painter and academic (d. 2005)
1928: Domna Samiou, Greek singer and musicologist (d. 2012)
1926: Eliška Misáková, Czech gymnast (d. 1948)
1925: Denis Lazure, Canadian psychiatrist and politician (d. 2008)
1924: Leonidas Kyrkos, Greek politician (d. 2011)
1923: Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (d. 2015)
1923: Goody Petronelli, American boxer, trainer, and manager (d. 2012)
1922: William H. Sullivan, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (d. 2013)
1921: Art Clokey, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor, created Gumby (d. 2010)
1921: Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English tennis player and ice hockey player (d. 2001)
1921: Logie Bruce Lockhart, Scottish rugby player and journalist (d. 2020)
1920: Christopher Soames, English politician and diplomat, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (d. 1987)
1919: Gilles Beaudoin, Canadian politician, 34th Mayor of Trois-Rivières (d. 2007)
1919: Doris Miller, American cook and soldier (d. 1943)
1917: Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer and manager (d. 2004)
1916: Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994)
1916: Lock Martin, American actor (d. 1959)
1914: John E. Hodge, African-American chemist (d. 1996)
1913: Alice Chetwynd Ley, English author and educator (d. 2004)
1912: Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2006)
1911: Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (d. 1987)
1910: Robert Fitzgerald, American poet, critic, and translator (d. 1985)
1910: Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (d. 2013)
1909: Dorothy Livesay, Canadian poet (d. 1996)
1908: Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1908: Ann Petry, American novelist (d. 1997)
1906: Joe Cronin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
1906: John Murray, American playwright and producer (d. 1984)
1906: Piero Taruffi, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 1988)
1904: Lester Dent, American journalist and author (d. 1959)
1904: Anthony F. DePalma, American orthopedic surgeon and professor (d. 2005)
1904: Ding Ling, Chinese author and educator (d. 1986)
1903: Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (d. 1998)
1896: Eugenio Montale, Italian poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
1894: Elisabeth of Romania, queen consort of Greece (d. 1956)
1893: Velvalee Dickinson, American spy (d. 1980)
1892: Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano and actress (d. 1975)
1891: Edith Stein, Polish nun and martyr; later canonized (d. 1942)
1891: Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese soldier and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1945)
1880: Louis Hémon, French-Canadian author (d. 1913)
1880: Kullervo Manner, Finnish Speaker of the Parliament, the Prime Minister of the FSWR and the Supreme Commander of the Red Guards (d. 1939)
1878: Truxtun Hare, American football player and hammer thrower (d. 1956)
1875: Aleister Crowley, English magician and author (d. 1947)
1874: Jimmy Burke, American baseball player and manager (d. 1942)
1872: Ralph Vaughan Williams, English composer and educator (d. 1958)
1868: August Horch, German engineer and businessman, founded Audi (d. 1951)
1868: Mariano Trías, Filipino general and politician, 1st Vice President of the Philippines (d. 1914)
1866: Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1937)
1865: Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1864: Kamini Roy, British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist, and feminist writer (d. 1933)
1860: Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass (d. 1930)
1855: Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (d. 1922)
1840: Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (d. 1909)
1838: George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
1815: William J. Hardee, American general (d. 1873)
1801: Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Swiss lawyer and politician, 5th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1873)
1798: Pedro I, emperor of Brazil (d. 1834)
1792: Christian Gmelin, German chemist and pharmacist (d. 1860)
1725: Étienne Louis Geoffroy, French pharmacist and entomologist (d. 1810)
1710: Jonathan Trumbull, American colonel and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1785)
1687: Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (d. 1750)
1614: Henry More, English philosopher (d. 1687)
1602: William Chillingworth, English scholar and theologian (d. 1644)
1576: Thomas Dudley, English-American soldier and politician, 3rd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1653)
1558: Maximilian III, archduke of Austria (d. 1618)
1555: Peregrine Bertie, 13th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, English diplomat (d. 1601)
1537: Edward VI, king of England (d. 1553)
1533: Asakura Yoshikage, Japanese ruler (d. 1573)
1490: Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer and priest (d. 1548)
1350: Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Duke of Moscow (d. 1389)
1240: Trần Thánh Tông, emperor of Vietnam (then Đại Việt) (d. 1290)
1008: Go-Ichijō, emperor of Japan (d. 1036)

Deaths On This Day

2020: Conchata Ferrell, American actress (b. 1943)
2020: Roberta McCain, American socialite and oil heiress (b. 1912)
2017: Margarita D'Amico, Venezuelan journalist (b. 1938)
2015: Abdallah Kigoda, Tanzanian politician, 8th Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade (b. 1953)
2015: Joan Leslie, American actress, dancer, and vaudevillian (b. 1925)
2014: Ali Mazrui, Kenyan-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1933)
2014: Graham Miles, English snooker player (b. 1941)
2014: Roberto Telch, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1943)
2013: George Herbig, American astronomer and academic (b. 1920)
2013: Oscar Hijuelos, American author and academic (b. 1951)
2013: Hans Wilhelm Longva, Norwegian diplomat (b. 1942)
2013: Malcolm Renfrew, American chemist and academic (b. 1910)
2012: James Coyne, Canadian lawyer and banker, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (b. 1910)
2012: Norm Grabowski, American hot rod builder and actor (b. 1933)
2012: Sukhdev Singh Kang, Indian judge and politician, 14th Governor of Kerala (b. 1931)
2012: Torkom Manoogian, Iraqi-Armenian patriarch (b. 1919)
2012: Erik Moseholm, Danish bassist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1930)
2012: Břetislav Pojar, Czech animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2011: Patricia Breslin, American actress (b. 1931)
2011: Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (b. 1941)
2010: Austin Ardill, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1917)
2010: Woody Peoples, American football player (b. 1943)
2010: Belva Plain, American author (b. 1919)
2009: Dickie Peterson American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1948)
2009: Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
2008: Karl Chircop, Maltese physician and politician (b. 1965)
2007: Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower (b. 1934)
2006: Angelika Machinek, German glider pilot (b. 1956)
2006: Eugène Martin, French race car driver (b. 1915)
2006: Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1919)
2005: C. Delores Tucker, American activist and politician (b. 1927)
2003: Jim Cairns, Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1914)
2003: Joan Kroc, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
2003: Bill Shoemaker, American jockey (b. 1931)
2002: Ray Conniff, American bandleader and composer (b. 1916)
2002: Audrey Mestre, French biologist and diver (b. 1974)
2001: Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, English academic and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1907)
2001: Hikmet Şimşek, Turkish conductor (b. 1924)
2001: Richard Buckle, Ballet critic and writer (b. 1916)
1999: Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (b. 1936)
1999: Robert Marsden Hope, Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1919)
1998: Mario Beaulieu, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
1998: Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
1997: John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1943)
1996: René Lacoste, French tennis player and fashion designer, co-founded Lacoste (b. 1904)
1996: Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (b. 1911)
1994: Gérald Godin, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1938)
1993: Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1902)
1991: Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b. 1916)
1991: Arkady Strugatsky, Russian author and translator (b. 1925)
1991: Regis Toomey, American actor (b. 1898)
1990: Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
1990: Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (b. 1899)
1989: Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b. 1920)
1988: Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)
1988: Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
1987: Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
1987: Fahri Korutürk, Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)
1985: Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)
1985: Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
1984: Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)
1978: Nancy Spungen, American figure of the 1970s punk rock scene (b. 1958)
1973: Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (b. 1899)
1972: Robert Le Vigan, French-Argentinian actor and politician (b. 1900)
1971: Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
1971: Gene Vincent, American musician (b. 1935)
1970: Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian-American illustrator and painter (b. 1891)
1970: Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet and academic (b. 1930)
1969: Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater and actress (b. 1912)
1969: Serge Poliakoff, Russian-French painter and academic (b. 1906)
1969: Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier (b. 1891)
1967: Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian activist and politician (b. 1910)
1965: Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1960: Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
1958: Gordon Griffith, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
1957: Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)
1956: Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
1954: George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
1948: Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
1946: Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
1940: Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
1933: John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
1926: Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
1924: Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
1923: Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1915: Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
1914: Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
1898: Calvin Fairbank, American minister and activist (b. 1816)
1896: Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish lawyer and politician, 9th Council President of Denmark (b. 1817)
1875: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
1870: Robert E. Lee, American general (b. 1807)
1858: Hiroshige, Japanese painter (b. 1797)
1845: Elizabeth Fry, English prison reformer, Quaker and philanthropist (b. 1780)
1828: Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, Aromanian physician and noble (b. 1737)
1812: Juan José Castelli, Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1764)
1758: Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1680)
1730: Frederick IV, king of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
1685: Christoph Ignaz Abele, Austrian lawyer and jurist (b. 1628)
1679: William Gurnall, English minister, theologian, and author (b. 1617)
1678: Edmund Berry Godfrey, English lawyer and judge (b. 1621)
1654: Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (b. 1622)
1646: François de Bassompierre, French general and courtier (b. 1579)
1632: Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese commander (b. 1549)
1601: Nicholas Brend, English landowner (b. 1560)
1600: Luis de Molina, Spanish priest and philosopher (b. 1535)
1590: Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (b. 1543)
1576: Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1527)
1565: Jean Ribault, French-American lieutenant and navigator (b. 1520)
1492: Piero della Francesca, Italian mathematician and painter (b. 1415)
1491: Fritz Herlen, German painter (b. 1449)
1448: Zhu Quan, Chinese prince, historian and playwright (b. 1378)
1328: Clementia of Hungary, queen consort of France and Navarre (b. 1293)
1320: Michael IX Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1277)
1176: William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1109)
1152: Adolf III of Berg, German nobleman (b. 1080)
1095: Leopold II, margrave of Austria (b. 1050)
974: Al-Muti, Abbasid caliph (b. 913/14)
884: Tsunesada, Japanese prince (b. 825)
642: John IV, pope of the Catholic Church
638: Honorius I, pope of the Catholic Church
322 BC: Demosthenes, Athenian statesman, (b. 384 BC)

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