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October 15

On This Day in History

October 15

October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 77 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: $2 billion Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro buys up lots destroyed by L.A. fires. $2 billion Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro's Malibu mansion was one of the many homes flattened in the Palisades fire disaster earlier this year. Now, he's buying up several plots of land to help rebuild the area he grew up in.
2024: Less than two weeks left to claim $250,000 Illinois Lucky Day Lotto prize. The deadline to claim an Illinois Lottery Lucky Day Lotto ticket worth $250,000 is frighteningly close, just in time for Halloween.
2023: New Jersey Lottery Pick 3 results "1-1-1" and "1-0-1" set new payout record. Lottery results for two New Jersey Pick 3 drawings in a row jointly produced a new prize payout record thanks to two combinations that were just one number off from each other.
2021: Canadian man has selfless plans for $2 million Ontario 49 lottery prize. It's not uncommon for newly minted lottery winners to put their prize money toward home improvements, a home, or simply investing it, but one Canadian man just wants to put a smile on his loved one's faces.
2020: Texas sheriff who won $85 million lottery jackpot arrested for tampering with video evidence. A lottery winner famous for his role as Sheriff on the now-canceled A&E television show "Live PD" was indicted and arrested for allegedly tampering with video footage that captured crucial moments of the death of a suspect in police custody.
2018: Lotteries offer $1B in jackpots as Mega Millions nears record. A record-smashing Mega Millions prize could be awaiting a lucky winner when the multi-state lottery and Powerball kick off a two-day, $1 billion jackpot grab Tuesday night.
2017: Lottery rigger warned officials about computerized drawing machines years ago. The mastermind behind a national lottery scam says he warned officials about a glitch in computer-generated drawings 11 years ago, but "nobody seemed too worried," his lawyer revealed in an exclusive interview.
2015: Payout situation getting worse for Illinois lottery winners. Now lottery winners of $600 or more in the Land of Lincoln will have to wait until the state budget stalemate is resolved before they can expect to be paid.
2015: UK couple credit dog with discovering lottery double-win. A couple who won nearly £150,000 (US$231,000) playing the multi-country Euromillions game doubled their prize after their dog found a second winning ticket for the same amount.
2014: Oregon man keeps childhood promise, splits $1M Powerball with brother. A Bend, Oregon, man who won $1 million with a Powerball ticket last month decided to share the wealth in a gesture of brotherly love.
2010: Mass. Lottery ad creates election controversy. Just 18 days ahead of Election Day, the Massachusetts Lottery now says it is pulling its ads from the air after accusations that the Cahill campaign may have been trying to benefit from them.
2009: Lottery hoax causes riot at Ohio coat store. A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
2008: Missouri Pick 3 players get bonus drawing. A special promotion is giving Missouri Lottery Pick 3 players a shot at doubling their chances of winning cash in the Midday drawing.
2008: Kansas Lottery sales decline. The economy is having its impact on the sale of Kansas Lottery tickets, according to lottery officials.
2008: Time running out to claim $184,000 lottery ticket. California Lottery officials say time is running out for the buyer of a winning Mega Millions ticket at a Watts liquor store to collect the $184,000 prize.
2008: Costa Rica court rejects washed lottery ticket. A Costa Rican who mistakenly washed a winning lottery ticket worth 112,000 dollars lost a court appeal to obtain the prize, a report said Wednesday.
2005: Powerball lottery states report brisk sales for huge jackpot. Hopeful lottery players are plunking down their money for Powerball lottery tickets at an astounding pace, in advance of tonight's estimated $300 million jackpot drawing.
2005: Man Picks $1 Million Lottery Ticket Out Of Trash. Trash turned into treasure at a Blackstone, Massacusetts, convenience store.
2003: Mega Millions jackpot increases to $16 million. None of the tickets sold for Tuesday's $12 million Mega Millions drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Mega Ball, increasing the Friday jackpot to $16 million.
2003: Spain Breaks Up Sweepstakes Fraud Ring. Madrid police broke up a fraud ring that cheated hundreds of Americans and Canadians out of $35 million through scams such as a lottery simulating a Spanish Christmas sweepstakes, officials said Tuesday.
2003: Store's trash proves to be lotto treasure. The manager of a Hackensack, New Jersey video store thought he had found a modern-day pot of gold this week when hundreds of unused, scratch-off instant Lottery tickets were discovered in the store basement.
2003: Paul shields panel picking lottery bid. The names of some top lottery officials who will pick the winner of Tennessee's multimillion-dollar lottery contract will remain secret until Oct. 27 to protect them from outside influence, Tennessee lottery CEO Rebecca Paul said yesterday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$667 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2018
2.$625 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2025
3.$464.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2022
4.$408.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2024
5.$378 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2018
6.$305 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2005
7.€289.15 Million US$281.12 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2022
8.$273.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2025
9.€220 Million US$255.2 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2021
10.€162 Million
US$207.02 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2014
11.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2009
12.$180 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2014
13.€157.35 Million
US$172.62 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2016
14.$169 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2024
15.$156 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2017
15.$156 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2013
17.$122 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2016
18.€95 Million
US$119.37 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 20, 2006
19.$117 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2003
20.€95.97 Million
US$111.32 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2021
21.$105 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2011
22.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2019
23.€89.22 Million
US$97.21 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2024
24.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 15, 2014
24.$90 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2005

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: MonopolyMan
Tuesday, Oct 15, 1991
34 years old
1982: Faisal66
Friday, Oct 15, 1982
43 years old
1976: MONEYISHERE!
Friday, Oct 15, 1976
49 years old
1976: myboys252231
Friday, Oct 15, 1976
49 years old
1976: vcarey1
Friday, Oct 15, 1976
49 years old
1975: latbri
Wednesday, Oct 15, 1975
50 years old
1975: LuckyMe75
Wednesday, Oct 15, 1975
50 years old
1975: oneorbit
Wednesday, Oct 15, 1975
50 years old
1973: crystal0053
Monday, Oct 15, 1973
52 years old
1972: imlucky
Sunday, Oct 15, 1972
53 years old
1971: nicquel
Friday, Oct 15, 1971
54 years old
1968: debh
Tuesday, Oct 15, 1968
57 years old
1967: WARJRytr1996
Sunday, Oct 15, 1967
58 years old
1965: Bold-6512
Friday, Oct 15, 1965
60 years old
1964: otoao34
Thursday, Oct 15, 1964
61 years old
1962: bpost51
Monday, Oct 15, 1962
63 years old
1958: frisky
Wednesday, Oct 15, 1958
67 years old
1958: jimbo58
Wednesday, Oct 15, 1958
67 years old
1956: jbeam
Monday, Oct 15, 1956
69 years old
1955: Babe1234
Saturday, Oct 15, 1955
70 years old
1953: MarieLee
Thursday, Oct 15, 1953
72 years old
1951: slyfox$69
Monday, Oct 15, 1951
74 years old
1949: Pinkwinner$
Saturday, Oct 15, 1949
76 years old
1940: rczomb
Tuesday, Oct 15, 1940
85 years old
1939: sagan
Sunday, Oct 15, 1939
86 years old
: claypot
(year not provided)
: JMorenoMars
(year not provided)
: Babe12345
(year not provided)
: blackberry334
(year not provided)
: guadriches
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.
2016: One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
2013: The 7.2 M_w Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
2008: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.
2007: Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
2006: The 6.7 M_w Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
2003: China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.
2001: NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
1997: The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
1994: The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.
1991: The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
1991: The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.
1990: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
1989: Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1987: Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
1987: A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
1979: Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
1979: A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.
1970: During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.
1966: The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
1965: Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
1956: FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
1954: Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
1951: Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
1944: World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
1940: President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
1939: The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.
1932: Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
1928: The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1923: The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
1910: Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1888: The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1878: The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1864: American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
1815: Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1793: Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.
1781: The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.
1651: Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.
1582: Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.
1529: The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
1211: Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.
1066: Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.

Births On This Day

2005: Christian, Crown Prince of Denmark
2000: Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender
1999: Bailee Madison, American-Canadian actress and singer
1998: Teuku Wariza Aris Munandar, Indonesian activist and politician
1996: Charly Musonda, Belgian footballer
1996: Grace Van Dien, American actress
1996: Zelo, South Korean rapper and dancer
1995: Jack Flaherty, American baseball player
1995: Jakob Pöltl, Austrian basketball player
1994: Lil' Kleine, Dutch rapper
1994: Babar Azam, Pakistani cricket player
1993: Richaun Holmes, American basketball player
1993: Roh Tae-hyun, South Korean singer and dancer
1992: Ncuti Gatwa, Rwandan-Scottish actor
1992: Teoscar Hernández, Dominican baseball player
1992: Vincent Martella, American actor
1991: Brock Nelson, American ice hockey player
1990: Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1989: Blaine Gabbert, American football player
1989: Anthony Joshua, British professional boxer
1989: Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer
1988: Dominique Jones, American basketball player
1988: Mesut Özil, German footballer
1987: Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver
1986: Lee Donghae, South Korean singer-songwriter
1986: Carlo Janka, Swiss skier
1986: Nolito, Spanish footballer
1985: Arron Afflalo, American basketball player
1985: Walter Alberto López, Uruguayan footballer
1985: Marcos Martínez, Spanish racing driver
1984: Izale McLeod, English footballer
1984: Johan Voskamp, Dutch footballer
1984: Jessie Ware, English singer-songwriter
1983: Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
1983: Bruno Senna, Brazilian ex-F1 Driver
1981: Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
1981: Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
1980: Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
1980: Brandon Jay McLaren, Canadian actor
1979: Blue Adams, American football player and coach
1979: Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
1979: Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater
1979: Paul Robinson, English footballer
1979: Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress
1979: Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
1978: Devon Gummersall, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1978: Wes Moore, American politician, author, nonprofit executive, and television producer, 63rd Governor of Maryland
1978: Takeshi Morishima, Japanese wrestler
1977: Masato Kawabata, Japanese racing driver
1977: David Trezeguet, French footballer
1977: Patricio Urrutia, Ecuadorian footballer
1976: Elisa Aguilar, Spanish basketball player
1976: Manuel Dallan, Italian rugby player
1975: Alessandro Doga, Italian footballer
1975: Glen Little, English footballer and manager
1974: Ömer Çatkıç, Turkish footballer
1974: Bianca Rinaldi, Brazilian actress
1973: Aleksandr Filimonov, Russian footballer
1973: Maria Hjorth, Swedish golfer
1972: Fred Hoiberg, American basketball player and coach
1972: Matt Keeslar, American actor
1972: Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer and manager
1971: Joey Abs, American wrestler
1971: Andy Cole, English footballer and coach
1971: Lauri Pilter, Estonian author and translator
1970: Ginuwine, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1970: Pernilla Wiberg, Swedish skier
1969: Vítor Baía, Portuguese footballer
1969: Dominic West, English actor and director
1968: Didier Deschamps, French footballer and manager
1968: Vanessa Marcil, American actress
1968: Rod Wishart, Australian rugby league player
1968: Trent Zimmerman, Australian politician
1967: Dan Forest, American politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina
1967: Götz Otto, German actor and screenwriter
1966: Eric Benét, American singer-songwriter
1966: Jorge Campos, Mexican footballer and manager
1966: Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer
1966: Ilse Huizinga, Dutch singer
1966: Dave Stead, English drummer
1965: Nasser El Sonbaty, German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)
1964: Roberto Vittori, Italian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1963: Stanley Menzo, Dutch footballer and manager
1961: Vyacheslav Butusov, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959: Emeril Lagasse, American chef and author
1959: Alex Paterson, English keyboard player
1959: Sarah, Duchess of York
1959: Todd Solondz, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1958: Stephen Clarke, English-French journalist and author
1957: Michael Caton-Jones, Scottish actor, director, and producer
1957: Mira Nair, Indian-American actress, director, and producer
1957: Stacy Peralta, American skateboarder, director, producer, and businessman, co-founded Powell Peralta
1955: Kulbir Bhaura, Indian field hockey player
1955: Emma Chichester Clark, English author and illustrator
1955: Tanya Roberts, American actress (died 2021)
1954: Peter Bakowski, Australian poet and educator
1954: Steve Bracks, Australian politician, 44th Premier of Victoria
1954: Jere Burns, American actor
1954: Julia Yeomans, English physicist and academic
1953: Betsy Clifford, Canadian skier
1953: Tito Jackson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
1953: Larry Miller, American actor and comedian
1953: Peter Phillips, English conductor and musicologist
1951: Peter Richardson, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1951: Roscoe Tanner, American tennis player
1951: Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess player
1950: Candida Royalle, American porn actress, director, and producer (died 2015)
1949: Laurie McBain, American author
1949: Prannoy Roy, Indian journalist, economist, and broadcaster, founded NDTV
1948: Renato Corona, Filipino lawyer and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (died 2016)
1948: Chris de Burgh, British-Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1947: Hümeyra, Turkish singer-songwriter and actress
1947: Jaroslav Erno Šedivý, Czech drummer
1946: Victor Banerjee, Indian actor and director
1946: Richard Carpenter, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1946: Palle Danielsson, Swedish bassist and composer
1946: Stewart Stevenson, Scottish engineer and politician, Minister for Environment and Climate Change
1945: Steve Camacho, Guyanese cricketer (died 2015)
1945: Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Spanish cardinal
1945: Neophyte of Bulgaria, Bulgarian patriarch (died 2024)
1945: Jim Palmer, American baseball player and sportscaster
1944: Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania
1944: A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician (died 2005)
1944: Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
1944: David Trimble, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd First Minister of Northern Ireland, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)
1943: Stanley Fischer, American and Israeli economist (died 2025)
1943: Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer (died 2018)
1942: Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
1942: Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
1942: Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
1941: Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
1940: Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
1940: Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938: Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1993)
1938: Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist (died 1997)
1938: Brice Marden, American painter (died 2023)
1938: Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)
1937: Linda Lavin, American actress and singer (died 2024)
1936: Michel Aumont, French actor (died 2019)
1936: Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman (died 2019)
1935: Barry McGuire, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1935: Dick McTaggart, Scottish boxer (died 2025)
1935: Bobby Morrow, American sprinter (died 2020)
1935: Willie O'Ree, Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
1934: Alan Elsdon, English trumpet player (died 2016)
1934: N. Ramani, Indian flute player (died 2015)
1933: Nicky Barnes, American drug lord (died 2012)
1932: Jaan Rääts, Estonian guitarist and composer (died 2020)
1931: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Indian engineer, academic, and politician, 11th President of India (died 2015)
1931: Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
1930: FM-2030, Belgian-Iranian basketball player, philosopher and diplomat (died 2000)
1930: Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (died 2011)
1929: Will Insley, American painter and architect (died 2011)
1927: B. S. Abdur Rahman, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 2015)
1926: James E. Akins, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (died 2010)
1926: Agustín García Calvo, Spanish philosopher and poet (died 2012)
1926: Michel Foucault, French historian and philosopher (died 1984)
1926: Ed McBain, American author and screenwriter (died 2005)
1926: Jean Peters, American actress (died 2000)
1926: Karl Richter, German organist and conductor (died 1981)
1925: Mickey Baker, American-French guitarist (died 2012)
1925: Aurora Bautista, Spanish actress (died 2012)
1925: Tony Hart, English painter and television host (died 2009)
1924: Marguerite Andersen, German-Canadian author and educator (died 2022)
1924: Lee Iacocca, American businessman and author (died 2019)
1924: Warren Miller, American director and screenwriter (died 2018)
1923: Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1985)
1923: Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and politician (died 2010)
1923: Eugene Patterson, American journalist and activist (died 2013)
1923: Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (died 2008)
1922: Agustina Bessa-Luís, Portuguese author (died 2019)
1922: Preben Munthe, Norwegian economist and politician, State Conciliator of Norway (died 2013)
1921: Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian-Israeli table tennis player (died 2006)
1920: Chris Economaki, American sportscaster and actor (died 2012)
1920: Patricia Jessel, Hong Kong-English actress (died 1968)
1920: Peter Koch, American industrial engineer and wood scientist (died 1998)
1920: Mario Puzo, American author and screenwriter (died 1999)
1920: Henri Verneuil, Turkish-French director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2002)
1919: Malcolm Ross, American captain, balloonist, and physicist (died 1985)
1919: Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (died 1995)
1917: Jan Miner, American actress (died 2004)
1917: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American historian and critic (died 2007)
1917: Paul Tanner, American trombonist and educator (died 2013)
1916: Al Killian, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1950)
1916: George Turner, Australian author and critic (died 1997)
1914: Mohammed Zahir Shah, Afghan king (died 2007)
1913: Wolfgang Lüth, German commander (died 1945)
1912: Nellie Lutcher, American singer and pianist (died 2007)
1910: Edwin O. Reischauer, Japanese-American scholar and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (died 1990)
1909: Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer and academic (died 2002)
1909: Robert Trout, American journalist (died 2000)
1908: Herman Chittison, American pianist (died 1967)
1908: John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist and diplomat, 7th United States Ambassador to India (died 2006)
1907: Varian Fry, American journalist and author (died 1967)
1906: Hiram Fong, American soldier and politician (died 2004)
1906: Alicia Patterson, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Newsday (died 1963)
1906: Victoria Spivey, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
1905: C. P. Snow, English chemist and author (died 1980)
1901: Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Spanish playwright and novelist (died 1952)
1900: Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)
1899: Adolf Brudes, Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)
1897: Johannes Sikkar, Estonian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1960)
1894: Moshe Sharett, Ukrainian-Israeli lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (died 1965)
1893: Carol II of Romania (died 1953)
1890: Álvaro de Campos, Portuguese poet and engineer (died 1935)
1888: S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)
1887: Frederick Fleet, English sailor (died 1965)
1884: Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (died 1910)
1882: Charley O'Leary, American baseball player and coach (died 1941)
1881: P. G. Wodehouse, English novelist and playwright (died 1975)
1879: Jane Darwell, American actress (died 1967)
1878: Paul Reynaud, French lawyer and politician, 118th Prime Minister of France (died 1966)
1874: Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1899)
1872: Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian educator and politician, 3rd President of Austria (died 1956)
1872: August Nilsson, Swedish pole vaulter, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (died 1921)
1865: Charles W. Clark, American singer and educator (died 1925)
1858: John L. Sullivan, American boxer, actor, and journalist (died 1918)
1844: Friedrich Nietzsche, German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)
1840: Honoré Mercier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of Quebec (died 1894)
1836: James Tissot, French painter and illustrator (died 1902)
1833: John Alexander MacPherson, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Victoria (died 1894)
1829: Asaph Hall, American astronomer and academic (died 1907)
1825: Marie of Prussia (died 1889)
1818: Alexander Dreyschock, Czech pianist and composer (died 1869)
1816: John Robertson, English-Australian politician, 5th Premier of New South Wales (died 1891)
1814: Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, poet, and painter (died 1841)
1802: Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, French general and politician, head of state of France in 1848 (died 1857)
1789: William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (died 1847)
1785: José Miguel Carrera, Chilean general and politician (died 1821)
1784: Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician, Governor-General of Algeria (died 1849)
1775: Bernhard Crusell, Finnish composer (died 1838)
1767: Gabriel Richard, French-born American Roman Catholic priest, missionary, educator, and politician (died 1832)
1762: Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer and educator (died 1820)
1711: Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (died 1741)
1701: Marie-Marguerite d'Youville, Canadian nun and saint, founded Grey Nuns (died 1771)
1686: Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (died 1758)
1622: Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (died 1686)
1608: Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist and mathematician (died 1647)
1599: Cornelis de Graeff, Dutch mayor and regent of Amsterdam (died 1664)
1564: Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1613)
1561: Richard Field, English cathedral dean (died 1616)
1542: Akbar, Mughal emperor (died 1605)
1471: Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (died 1526)
1440: Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (died 1483)
1265: Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (died 1307)
70 BC: Virgil, Roman poet (died 19 BC)
99 BC: Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (died 55 BCE)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Mike Jackson, English general (born 1944)
2021: David Amess, British politician, member of Parliament for Southend West (born 1952)
2018: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks (born 1953)
2017: Chinggoy Alonzo, Filipino theater, movie & television actor (born 1950)
2015: Sergei Filippenkov, Russian footballer and manager (born 1971)
2015: Nate Huffman, American basketball player (born 1975)
2015: Neill Sheridan, American baseball player (born 1921)
2015: Kenneth D. Taylor, Canadian businessman and diplomat (born 1934)
2015: Tyrone Young, American football player (born 1960)
2014: Giovanni Reale, Italian philosopher and historian (born 1931)
2014: Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic designer (born 1929)
2014: Robert Tiernan, American lawyer and politician (born 1929)
2014: Nobby Wirkowski, American-Canadian football player and coach (born 1926)
2013: Donald Bailey, American drummer (born 1933)
2013: Nevill Drury, English-Australian journalist and publisher (born 1947)
2013: Cancio Garcia, Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1937)
2013: Gloria Lynne, American singer (born 1931)
2013: Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (born 1930)
2013: Hans Riegel, German businessman (born 1923)
2012: Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1920)
2012: Erol Günaydın, Turkish actor and screenwriter (born 1933)
2012: Maria Petrou, Greek-English computer scientist and academic (born 1953)
2012: Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1922)
2012: Pat Ward, American lawyer and politician (born 1957)
2011: Betty Driver, English actress, singer, and author (born 1920)
2010: Richard C. Miller, American photographer (born 1912)
2010: Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and activist (born 1926)
2010: Johnny Sheffield, American actor (born 1931)
2009: Heinz Versteeg, Dutch-German footballer (born 1939)
2008: Edie Adams, American actress and singer (born 1927)
2008: Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, Turkish soldier and poet (born 1914)
2008: Jack Narz, American game show host and announcer (born 1922)
2007: Piet Boukema, Dutch jurist and politician (born 1933)
2005: Jason Collier, American basketball player (born 1977)
2005: Matti Wuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (born 1945)
2004: Per Højholt, Danish poet (born 1928)
2003: Ben Metcalfe, Canadian journalist and activist (born 1919)
2001: Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord (born 1901)
2000: Konrad Emil Bloch, Polish-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
2000: Vincent Canby, American journalist and critic (born 1924)
1999: Josef Locke, British-Irish soldier, policeman, tenor and actor (born 1917)
1995: Bengt Åkerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1967)
1995: Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver, only driver ever killed in the International Formula 3000 series (born 1976)
1994: Sarah Kofman, French philosopher and academic (born 1934)
1993: Aydın Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (born 1913)
1990: Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (born 1932)
1989: Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (born 1935)
1988: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (born 1892)
1987: Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)
1987: Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (born 1908)
1983: Pat O'Brien, American actor (born 1899)
1980: Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (born 1900)
1980: Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (born 1896)
1978: W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (born 1918)
1978: Rolf Stenersen, Norwegian businessman (born 1899)
1976: Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (born 1902)
1968: Virginia Lee Burton, American author and illustrator (born 1909)
1966: Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician (born 1876)
1965: Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1891)
1964: Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (born 1891)
1963: Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (born 1908)
1961: Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Indian poet and author (born 1896)
1960: Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (born 1890)
1959: Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian soldier and politician (born 1909)
1959: Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (born 1880)
1958: Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (born 1907)
1958: Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (born 1908)
1955: Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (born 1914)
1948: Edythe Chapman, American actress (born 1863)
1946: Hermann Göring, German general and politician (born 1893)
1945: Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (born 1883)
1940: Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (born 1882)
1934: Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (born 1860)
1930: Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (born 1866)
1925: Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (born 1848?)
1918: Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (born 1838)
1917: Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (born 1876)
1910: Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (born 1886)
1900: Zdeněk Fibich, Czech pianist and composer (born 1850)
1891: Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, English author and songwriter (born 1837)
1838: Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (born 1802)
1837: Ivan Dmitriev, Russian poet and politician, Russian Minister of Justice (born 1760)
1820: Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (born 1771)
1819: Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and politician, War Governor of Saint Petersburg (born 1744)
1817: Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish-Lithuanian general and engineer (born 1746)
1811: Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (born 1735)
1810: Alfred Moore, American captain and judge (born 1755)
1788: Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral (born 1735)
1715: Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (born 1675)
1690: Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter and illustrator (born 1622)
1684: Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (born 1626)
1674: Robert Herrick, English poet (born 1591)
1564: Andreas Vesalius, Belgian-Greek anatomist, physician, and author (born 1514)
1496: Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (born 1443)
1404: Marie Valois, French princess (born 1344)
1389: Pope Urban VI (born 1318)
1385: Dionysius I, Metropolitan of Moscow
1326: Walter Stapledon, bishop and Lord High Treasurer of England, and his brother Sir Richard Stapledon, judge and politician.
1243: Hedwig of Silesia, Polish saint (born 1174)
1240: Razia Sultana, sultan of Delhi (born 1205)
1173: Petronilla of Aragon (born 1135)
1080: Rudolf of Rheinfelden (born 1025)
1002: Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (born 946)
961: Abd-al-Rahman III, caliph of Córdoba
925: Rhazes, Persian polymath (born 864)
912: Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Spanish emir (born 844)
898: Lambert of Italy (born 880)
892: Al-Mu'tamid, Abbasid caliph
412: Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria

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