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October 16

On This Day in History

October 16

October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 76 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Washington Lottery to begin offering Cash Pop game. The Washington Lottery will become the latest lottery to launch Cash Pop, a draw game that has seen a rise in popularity among other states within the past couple years.
2022: North Carolina woman wins $500,000 after entering lottery draw minutes before sales closed. A North Carolina woman won a $501,544 Cash 5 prize after a voice motivated her to enter a lottery drawing just minutes before ticket sales closed.
2020: World Lottery Association unanimously re-elects Tennessee Lottery CEO as President. Rebecca Paul Hargrove, the current CEO of the Tennessee Lottery, will continue to serve as WLA President, marking the second time she was elected for the two-year term position.
2020: Ontario Lottery announces new President and CEO. The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) announced the appointment of A. Duncan Hannay as their new President and CEO, whose term will begin Oct. 26, 2020.
2019: Mississippi to start selling lottery tickets Nov. 25. People wanting to play the Mississippi lottery will be able to do so slightly sooner than expected.
2018: $667 MILLION: Biggest Mega Millions jackpot ever. Mega Millions is making history tonight, with the biggest jackpot the multi-state lottery game has ever seen.
2015: CT Lottery expands 5 Card Cash game to include progressive jackpot. Starting this Sunday, Connecticut lottery players will have a new "ALL IN" option on the state's 5 Card Cash game offering the chance to win bigger instant prizes, including a new progressive jackpot.
2015: NJ Lottery private operator on track to meet budget projections. Increased sales mean New Jersey's lottery contribution to the state budget is on track to meet its target for 2016 after falling short the first two years of a long-term contract with a private operator.
2013: German ordered to let ex-wife share in lottery win. A German federal court has ruled that a divorced man must pay his ex-wife 242,500 euros (US$328,000) out of his winnings from a lottery ticket because they weren't formally divorced at the time he won.
2012: Kansas woman has big prize taken away after it was awarded. A Pratt, Kansas, woman was thrilled when she won a NASCAR prize package for this weekend, but that feeling soon turned to disappointment when the Kansas Lottery took the prize back.
2011: Mass. Lottery game was sure-thing for a few groups. A Boston Globe investigation found that Massachusetts Lottery managers for years allowed and some say even encouraged gambling groups to manipulate the Cash WinFall game to reap big rewards.
2010: Canada lottery winner robbed, beaten. The daughter of a Canadian lottery winner said she believes her mother was robbed and beaten because information was published about the winner.
2007: Lottery Post member receives Distinguished Service Award. Lottery Post member "GoArmy" earned the highest-level civilian decoration for saving a woman and two children, at risk of his own life. Read the story of three heros who put the saftey of other people ahead of their own.
2007: Some States Consider Leasing Their Lotteries. An in-depth look at the issues and repercussions behind the current trend of lottery privitization.
2007: More than $240 million unclaimed by lottery winners. In the past ten years, more than $240 million has gone unclaimed by winners of the Illinois Lottery.
2007: Fight over lottery ticket heads to court. In a Bartow, Florida, courtroom, two men are dreaming of being a millionaire, but only one will.
2007: Tennessee couple accused of stealing thousands of lottery tickets. A Maryville, Tennessee, couple is out on bond after being accused of stealing thousands of lottery tickets.
2007: Lottery CEO fired one day after poll. The president of the B.C. Lottery Corporation was fired one day after an internal poll last May showed public trust in the corporation had plummeted in the wake of a warning by the province's Ombudsman of possible fraud by some retailers.
2005: Powerball Lottery Jackpot Grows to New Record of $340 Million. Wednesday's Powerball jackpot will be the largest in the game's history. The estimated $340 million jackpot breaks the game's previous record of $314.9 million won on December 25th, 2002.
2003: Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $140 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $140 million, with a cash option of $74.1 million. That ranks as the 8th largest Powerball jackpot ever.
2003: Texas may move to join Mega Millions today. The Texas Lottery Commission could formalize its decision to enter the multi-state lottery game Mega Millions today, a move expected to bring more than $50 million a year to state coffers.
2003: High Court OKs Lottery Worker's Prosecution. Massachusetts' high court cleared the way Tuesday for the prosecution of a septuagenarian former Lottery worker accused of stealing money and lottery tickets from the agency.
2003: $28M Calif. Lotto Ticket Still Unclaimed. Someone out there could be a millionaire tonight and not even know it. A huge California lottery jackpot has gone unclaimed for more than a month now.
2003: Lottery scammer jailed. The "bagman" in an Edmonton bogus lottery scam that bilked $368,000 from vulnerable U.S. seniors was handed a 26-month prison term yesterday.
2003: N.J. Lottery ticket worth $6.1M. According to a statement released by New Jersey Lottery, the owner of a Pick 6 ticket sold in Vineland won the contest's top prize in Monday's drawing, but has yet to come forward to claim the prize.
2003: S.C. Lottery puts $20 million in education account in October. The South Carolina lottery has transferred more than $78 million to education programs in the fiscal year that began July 1.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$667 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2018
2.$485 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2022
3.$378 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2018
4.$340 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 19, 2005
5.€290.45 Million US$286.13 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2022
6.€162 Million US$207.02 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2014
7.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2009
8.$180 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2014
9.€158.66 Million US$174.43 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2016
10.$156 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2013
10.$156 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2017
12.$140 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2003
13.$136 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 19, 2016
14.$124 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 19, 2011
15.€95 Million
US$119.37 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 20, 2006
16.€95.97 Million
US$111.32 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2021
17.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2014
17.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2019
19.$94 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 19, 2021
20.$90 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2005
21.€89 Million
US$87.67 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 18, 2022
22.$86 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 19, 2010
23.€74 Million
US$85.04 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Oct 19, 2018
24.$84 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 16, 2015
25.$82 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 17, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1983: Guens25
Sunday, Oct 16, 1983
40 years old
1983: QueenTiny1016
Sunday, Oct 16, 1983
40 years old
1970: sunshine007
Friday, Oct 16, 1970
53 years old
1965: Triple-l
Saturday, Oct 16, 1965
58 years old
1964: dinablessed
Friday, Oct 16, 1964
59 years old
1964: lanny38
Friday, Oct 16, 1964
59 years old
1956: OhSoClose
Tuesday, Oct 16, 1956
67 years old
1956: Jin16
Tuesday, Oct 16, 1956
67 years old
1956: Msmam6
Tuesday, Oct 16, 1956
67 years old
1954: Sweetpea66
Saturday, Oct 16, 1954
69 years old
1946: Jordan46
Wednesday, Oct 16, 1946
77 years old
1942: eka123
Friday, Oct 16, 1942
81 years old
1940: clemsuhy
Wednesday, Oct 16, 1940
83 years old
1940: Shannon Noland
Wednesday, Oct 16, 1940
83 years old
: hotcd31
(year not provided)
: StackinCa$h
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2017: Storm Ophelia strikes the U.K. and Ireland causing major damage and power loss.
2013: Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes on approach to Pakse International Airport in Laos, killing 49 people.
2002: The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.
1998: Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a murder extradition warrant.
1996: Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
1995: The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C. About 837,000 attend.
1995: The Skye Bridge in Scotland is opened.
1991: George Hennard runs amok in Killeen, Texas, killing 23 and wounding 20.
1984: Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978: Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1975: Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.
1975: Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
1975: The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
1973: Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1970: Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
1968: Tommie Smith and John Carlos are ejected from the US Olympic team for participating in the Olympics Black Power salute.
1968: Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
1968: Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1964: China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1964: Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of the Soviet Communist Party, while Alexei Kosygin becomes the head of government.
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
1953: Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his "History Will Absolve Me" speech, and is sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.
1951: The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1949: The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
1947: The Philippines takes over the administration of the Turtle Islands and the Mangsee Islands from the United Kingdom.
1946: Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
1943: Holocaust in Italy: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
1940: Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1939: World War II: No. 603 Squadron RAF intercepts the first Luftwaffe raid on Britain.
1934: Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
1923: Walt Disney and his brother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, today known as The Walt Disney Company.
1919: Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
1916: Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1909: William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
1905: The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1882: The Nickel Plate Railroad opens for business.
1875: Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1869: Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
1859: John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1847: The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
1846: William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.
1843: William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a three-dimensional system of complex numbers.
1841: Queen's University is founded in the Province of Canada.
1836: Great Trek: Afrikaner voortrekkers repulse a Matabele attack, but lose their livestock.
1834: Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1817: Italian explorer and archaeologist Giovanni Belzoni, uncovered the Tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings.
1817: Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
1813: The Sixth Coalition attacks Napoleon in the three-day Battle of Leipzig.
1805: War of the Third Coalition: Napoleon surrounds the Austrian army at Ulm.
1793: French Revolution: Queen Marie Antoinette is executed.
1793: War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
1780: American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.
1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles.
1736: Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
1590: Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover.
1384: Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1311: The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time.
955: King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
912: Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba.
690: Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
456: Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire.

Births On This Day

1997: Charles Leclerc, Monégasque Formula One driver
1997: Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
1994: Adam Elliott, Australian rugby league player
1993: Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer and actor (d. 2022)
1993: Caroline Garcia, French tennis player
1992: Kostas Fortounis, Greek footballer
1992: Bryce Harper, American baseball player
1992: Stuart Lightbody, Irish badminton player
1992: Viktorija Golubic, Swiss tennis player
1991: Shardul Thakur, Indian cricketer
1989: Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby player
1988: Zoltán Stieber, Hungarian footballer
1986: Nicky Adams, English-Welsh footballer
1986: Derk Boerrigter, Dutch footballer
1985: Jay Beagle, Canadian ice hockey player
1985: Verena Sailer, German sprinter
1985: Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
1985: Peter Wallace, Australian rugby league player
1984: François Pervis, French track cyclist
1984: Rachel Reilly, American talk show host and actress
1983: Philipp Kohlschreiber, German tennis player
1983: Kenny Omega, Canadian wrestler
1983: Loreen, Swedish singer
1982: Frédéric Michalak, French rugby player
1982: Cristian Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
1982: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, singer, and producer
1981: Brea Grant, American actress and writer
1981: Martin Halle, Danish footballer
1981: Boyd Melson, American boxer
1981: Anthony Reyes, American baseball player
1980: Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
1980: Timana Tahu, Australian rugby league player
1977: John Mayer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975: Ernesto Noel Aquino, Honduran footballer
1975: Brynjar Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer
1975: Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
1975: Kellie Martin, American actress, director, and producer
1974: Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
1974: Paul Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player
1973: Justin Credible, American wrestler
1973: David Unsworth, English footballer and manager
1972: Adrianne Frost, American comedian, actress, and author
1972: Darius Kasparaitis, Lithuanian-Russian ice hockey player and coach
1972: Kordell Stewart, American football player and radio host
1971: Chad Gray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971: Paul Sparks, American actor
1971: Frank Cuesta, Spanish television presenter
1970: Kazuyuki Fujita, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
1970: Mehmet Scholl, German footballer and manager
1969: Roy Hargrove, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2018)
1969: Takao Omori, Japanese wrestler
1969: Terri J. Vaughn, American actress and producer
1969: Wendy Wilson, American singer-songwriter
1968: Randall Batinkoff, American actor and producer
1968: Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and singer
1968: Francesco Libetta, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor
1968: Todd Stashwick, American actor and writer
1968: Elsa Zylberstein, French actress
1967: Michael Laffy, Australian footballer
1967: Davina McCall, English television host and actress
1966: Olof Lundh, Swedish journalist
1966: Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, American voice actress, singer, and director
1965: Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean illustrator
1965: Tom Tolbert, American basketball player and sportscaster
1964: Shawn Little, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1964: James Thompson, American-Finnish author (d. 2014)
1963: Brendan Kibble, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963: Timothy Leighton, English physicist and academic
1962: Flea, Australian-American bass player, songwriter, and actor
1962: Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (d. 2010)
1962: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian opera singer (d. 2017)
1962: Nico Lazaridis, German footballer
1962: Tamara McKinney, American skier
1961: Marc Levy, French author
1961: Randy Vasquez, American actor, director, and producer
1961: Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998)
1960: Guy LeBlanc, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2015)
1960: Bob Mould, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1959: Kevin Brennan, Welsh journalist and politician
1959: Brian Harper, American baseball player
1959: Gary Kemp, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1959: Philip Maini, Northern Irish mathematician at the University of Oxford
1959: Tessa Munt, English lawyer and politician
1959: Jamie Salmon, English-New Zealand rugby player and sportscaster
1959: Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian flute player and composer
1959: John Whittingdale, English politician
1958: Roy McDonough, English footballer and manager
1958: Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1957: Priidu Beier, Estonian poet and educator
1956: Marin Alsop, American violinist and conductor
1956: John Chavis, American football player and coach
1956: Meg Rosoff, American-English author
1956: Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (d. 1992)
1955: Kieran Doherty, Irish Republican hunger striker and politician (d. 1981)
1955: Ellen Dolan, American actress
1954: Lorenzo Carcaterra, American author and blogger
1954: Michael Forsyth, Baron Forsyth of Drumlean, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1954: Serafino Ghizzoni, Italian rugby player
1954: Corinna Harfouch, German actress
1953: Tony Carey, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
1953: Paulo Roberto Falcão, Brazilian footballer and manager
1952: Christopher Cox, American lawyer and politician
1952: Cordell Mosson, American bass player (d. 2013)
1952: Crazy Mohan, Indian actor, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2019)
1952: Glenys Thornton, Baroness Thornton, English politician
1950: Károly Horváth, Romanian-Hungarian cellist, flute player, and composer (d. 2015)
1950: Angry Grandpa, American internet personality (d. 2017)
1948: Alison Chitty, English production designer and costume designer
1948: Bruce Fleisher, American golfer (d. 2021)
1948: Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, and politician
1948: Leo Mazzone, American baseball player and coach
1947: Nicholas Day, English actor
1947: Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach
1947: Bob Weir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947: David Zucker, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946: Geoff Barnett, English footballer (d. 2021)
1946: Suzanne Somers, American actress and producer
1945: Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host
1945: Roger Hawkins, American session drummer (d. 2021)
1945: Paul Monette, American author and poet (d. 1995)
1944: Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
1944: Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist
1943: Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
1941: Tim McCarver, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2023)
1941: Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
1940: Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
1940: Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (d. 2003)
1940: Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2009)
1938: Carl Gunter, Jr., American politician (d. 1999)
1938: Nico, German singer-songwriter, model, and actress (d. 1988)
1936: Peter Bowles, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1936: Andrei Chikatilo, Ukrainian-Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936: Mladen Koščak, Croatian footballer (d. 1997)
1936: Akira Machida, Japanese lawyer and judge, 15th Chief Justice of Japan (d. 2015)
1934: Peter Ashdown, English race car driver
1933: Nobuyo Ōyama, Japanese voice actress
1932: John Grant, English journalist and politician (d. 2000)
1932: Henry Lewis, American bassist and conductor (d. 1996)
1932: Lucien Paiement, Canadian physician and politician (d. 2013)
1931: Charles Colson, American lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1931: Valery Klimov, Ukrainian-Russian violinist and educator (d. 2022)
1931: Rosa Rosal, Filipino actress
1931: P. W. Underwood, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1930: John Polkinghorne, English physicist, theologian and priest (d. 2021)
1930: Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress (d. 2023)
1929: Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
1928: Mary Daly, American philosopher and theologian (d. 2010)
1928: Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (d. 2016)
1927: Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1926: Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
1925: Daniel J. Evans, American politician, 16th Governor of Washington
1925: Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer (d. 2022)
1924: Gerard Parkes, Irish-Canadian actor (d. 2014)
1923: Linda Darnell, American actress (d. 1965)
1923: Bert Kaempfert, German conductor and composer (d. 1980)
1923: Bill McLaren, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster (d. 2010)
1922: Max Bygraves, English-Australian actor and singer (d. 2012)
1922: Leon Sullivan, American minister and activist (d. 2001)
1921: Matt Batts, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1921: Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and writer (d. 2003)
1921: MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (d. 2010)
1920: Paddy Finucane, Irish fighter pilot and flying ace (d. 1942)
1919: Kathleen Winsor, American journalist and author (d. 2003)
1918: Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1990)
1918: Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (d. 2013)
1918: Tony Rolt, English race car driver and engineer (d. 2008)
1912: Clifford Hansen, American rancher and politician, 26th Governor of Wyoming (d. 2009)
1911: Otto von Bülow, German commander (d. 2006)
1908: Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (d. 2006)
1908: Enver Hoxha, Albanian general and politician, Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1985)
1907: Richard Titmuss, English sociologist and academic (d. 1973)
1906: León Klimovsky, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1905: Ernst Kuzorra, German footballer and manager (d. 1990)
1904: Björn Berglund, Swedish actor (d. 1968)
1903: Cecile de Brunhoff, French author and pianist (d. 2003)
1903: Big Joe Williams, American Delta blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1982)
1900: Edward Ardizzone, Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (d. 1979)
1900: Primo Conti, Italian painter and poet (d. 1988)
1900: Goose Goslin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971)
1898: William O. Douglas, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1980)
1897: Louis de Cazenave, French soldier (d. 2008)
1890: Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance (d. 1922)
1890: Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint (d. 1902)
1890: Paul Strand, American photographer and director (d. 1975)
1888: Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
1888: Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (d. 1979)
1886: David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973)
1884: Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916)
1881: William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1955)
1876: Jimmy Sinclair, South African cricketer and rugby player (d. 1913)
1872: Walter Buckmaster, English polo player and businessman, co-founded Buckmaster & Moore (d. 1942)
1869: Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (d. 1930)
1867: Mario Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (d. 1963)
1863: Austen Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
1861: J. B. Bury, Irish historian and scholar (d. 1927)
1861: Richard Sears, American tennis player (d. 1943)
1855: Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (d. 1931)
1854: Karl Kautsky, Czech-German journalist, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1938)
1854: Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (d. 1900)
1852: Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (d. 1913)
1847: Maria Pia of Savoy (d. 1911)
1841: Itō Hirobumi, Japanese lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1909)
1840: Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1832: Vicente Riva Palacio, Mexican liberal intellectual, novelist (d. 1896)
1831: Lucy Stanton, American activist (d. 1910)
1819: Austin F. Pike, American lawyer and politician (d. 1886)
1818: William Forster, Indian-Australian politician, 4th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1882)
1815: Francis Lubbock, American colonel and politician, 9th Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1806: William P. Fessenden, American lawyer and politician, 26th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1869)
1804: Benjamin Russell, American painter and educator (d. 1885)
1803: Robert Stephenson, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1859)
1802: Isaac Murphy, American educator and politician, 8th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1882)
1795: William Buell Sprague, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1876)
1789: William Burton, American physician and politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (d. 1866)
1762: Paul Hamilton, American soldier and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1816)
1758: Noah Webster, American lexicographer (d. 1843)
1754: Morgan Lewis, American general, lawyer, and politician, 3rd Governor of New York (d. 1844)
1752: Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian and academic (d. 1827)
1729: Pierre van Maldere, Belgian violinist and composer (d. 1768)
1726: Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-German painter and educator (d. 1801)
1714: Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist and academic (d. 1795)
1710: András Hadik, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1790)
1679: Jan Dismas Zelenka, Czech viol player and composer (d. 1745)
1678: Anna Waser, Swiss painter (d. 1714)
1620: Pierre Paul Puget, French painter and sculptor (d. 1694)
1605: Charles Coypeau d'Assoucy, French writer and composer (d. 1677)
1588: Luke Wadding, Irish Franciscan friar and historian (d. 1657)
1535: Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (d. 1585)
1483: Gasparo Contarini, Italian cardinal and diplomat (d. 1542)
1430: James II of Scotland (d. 1460)
1396: William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450)
1351: Gian Galeazzo Visconti, first Duke of Milan (d. 1402)

Deaths On This Day

2017: Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist and blogger (b. 1964)
2017: Roy Dotrice, British actor (b. 1923)
2017: John Dunsworth, Canadian actor (b. 1946)
2017: Sean Hughes, British-born Irish stand-up comedian (b. 1965)
2016: Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, Canadian professor and computer scientist (b. 1921)
2015: Richard J. Cardamone, American lawyer and judge (b. 1925)
2015: James W. Fowler, American psychologist and academic (b. 1940)
2015: William James, Australian general and physician (b. 1930)
2015: Vera Williams, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2015: Memduh Ün, Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2014: Ioannis Charalambopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
2014: Allen Forte, American musicologist and theorist (b. 1926)
2014: Seppo Kuusela, Finnish basketball player and coach (b. 1934)
2014: John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (b. 1926)
2013: Govind Purushottam Deshpande, Indian playwright and academic (b. 1938)
2013: George Hourmouziadis, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1932)
2013: Ed Lauter, American actor (b. 1938)
2013: Laurel Martyn, Australian ballerina and choreographer (b. 1916)
2013: Robert B. Rheault, American colonel (b. 1925)
2013: Saggy Tahir, Pakistani-American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
2012: Frank Moore Cross, American scholar and academic (b. 1921)
2012: John A. Durkin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1936)
2012: Mario Gallegos, Jr., American firefighter and politician (b. 1950)
2012: Bódog Török, Hungarian handball player and coach (b. 1923)
2012: Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach (b. 1926)
2011: Dan Wheldon, English race car driver (b. 1978)
2010: Eyedea, American rapper and producer (b. 1981)
2010: Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915)
2008: Dagmar Normet, Estonian author and translator (b. 1921)
2007: Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
2007: Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer-songwriter (b. 1981)
2006: John Victor Murra, Ukrainian-American anthropologist and academic (b. 1916)
2006: Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian lawyer and politician, 91st President of Peru (b. 1936)
2004: Pierre Salinger, American journalist and politician, 11th White House Press Secretary (b. 1925)
2003: Avni Arbaş, Turkish painter (b. 1919)
2003: Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)
2003: László Papp, Hungarian boxer (b. 1926)
2001: Etta Jones, American singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
2000: Mel Carnahan, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 51st Governor of Missouri (b. 1934)
2000: Rick Jason, American actor (b. 1923)
1999: Jean Shepherd, American radio host, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1998: Jon Postel, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
1997: Audra Lindley, American actress (b. 1918)
1997: James A. Michener, American author and philanthropist (b. 1907)
1996: Jason Bernard, American actor (b. 1938)
1996: Eric Malpass, English author (b. 1910)
1992: Shirley Booth, American actress and singer (b. 1898)
1990: Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1919)
1990: Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator (b. 1914)
1989: Walter Farley, American author and educator (b. 1915)
1989: Scott O'Dell, American journalist and author (b. 1898)
1989: Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1912)
1986: Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist and pianist (b. 1921)
1983: Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895)
1982: Mario Del Monaco, Italian tenor (b. 1915)
1981: Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel (b. 1915)
1981: Eugene Eisenmann, Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist (b. 1906)
1979: Johan Borgen, Norwegian author and critic (b. 1903)
1978: Dan Dailey, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1913)
1975: Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1885)
1973: Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, and actor (b. 1909)
1972: Nick Begich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
1972: Hale Boggs, American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
1972: Leo G. Carroll, English-American actor (b. 1886)
1971: Robin Boyd, Australian architect and educator, designed the Domain Park Flats (b. 1919)
1968: Ellis Kinder, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1966: George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1964: Patsy Callighen, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1906)
1962: Gaston Bachelard, French poet and philosopher (b. 1884)
1959: Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)
1959: George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
1958: Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
1957: John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
1956: Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
1951: Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1895)
1947: Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Hans Frank, German lawyer, politician and war criminal (b. 1900)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (b. 1894)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician (b. 1887)
1946: Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893)
1937: Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
1936: Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
1913: Ralph Rose, American shot putter, discus, and hammer thrower (b. 1885)
1909: Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, German poet and playwright (b. 1856)
1908: Joseph Leycester Lyne, English monk (b. 1837)
1904: Haritina Korotkevich, Russian heroine (b. 1882)
1888: John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1815)
1877: Théodore Barrière, French playwright (b. 1823)
1822: Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (b. 1724)
1810: Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian religious leader, founded the Breslov Hasidic group (b. 1772)
1799: Veerapandiya Kattabomman Indian activist (b. 1760)
1796: Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (b. 1726)
1793: Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI of France (b. 1755)
1793: John Hunter, Scottish-English surgeon and philosopher (b. 1728)
1791: Grigory Potemkin, Russian general and politician (b. 1739)
1774: Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet (b. 1750)
1755: Gerard Majella, Italian saint (b. 1725)
1750: Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German lute player and composer (b. 1687)
1730: Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French-American explorer and politician, 3rd French Governor of Louisiana (b. 1658)
1730: Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Greek politician, 139th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1666)
1680: Raimondo Montecuccoli, Italian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1609)
1679: Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, Irish-English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
1660: John Cook, English politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales (b. 1608)
1655: Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, Italian physician, mathematician, and theorist (b. 1591)
1649: Isaac van Ostade, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1621)
1637: Johann Rudolf Stadler, Swiss clock-maker (b. 1605)
1628: François de Malherbe, French poet and critic (b. 1555)
1621: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1562)
1594: William Allen, English cardinal (b. 1532)
1591: Gregory XIV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1535)
1555: Hugh Latimer, English bishop and saint (b. 1487)
1555: Nicholas Ridley, English bishop and martyr (b. 1500)
1553: Lucas Cranach the Elder, German painter and engraver (b. 1472)
1523: Luca Signorelli, Italian painter (b. c.1450)
1438: Anne of Gloucester, English noblewoman (b. 1383)
1355: Louis the Child, king of Sicily (b. 1338)
1333: Nicholas V, antipope of Rome (b. 1260)
1323: Amadeus V, count of Savoy (b. 1249)
1284: Shams al-Din Juvayni, Persian statesman, vizier and minister of finance of the Ilkhanate
1130: Pedro González de Lara, Castilian magnate
1027: Fujiwara no Kenshi, Japanese empress (b. 994)
976: Al-Hakam II, Umayyad caliph (b. 915)
786: Lullus, archbishop of Mainz (b. 710)
385: Fú Jiān, Chinese emperor (b. 337)

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