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October 2

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October 2

October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 90 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2021: Florida woman wins two $2 million Mega Millions prizes in one night. There's one lucky woman in Florida whose bet is paying off two times over — technically four times — when she bought two matching Mega Millions tickets, both with the Megaplier option.
2020: UPDATE: Florida winner whose ticket was lost in mail gets her prize. Every lottery player's worst nightmare came true for a Florida woman whose ticket was supposedly lost in the mail by the United States Postal Service over a month ago. After telling her she would have to forfeit her $1,000 prize and then awarding it to another player, the Florida Lottery looked again and discovered the winning ticket was in their possession after all.
2019: Record number of people win SC Lottery Pick 4 game. We now know that a lot of people in South Carolina have the same strategy for the Pick 4 lottery game — and it just won them a lot of money.
2017: Odd Brits furious that lottery jackpot is so high. British media is reporting that lottery players in the United Kingdom are 'disappointed' and 'furious' that lottery jackpots in the island nation have reached record levels.
2015: Oregon man claims $6.3 million Arizona Lottery jackpot. An Oregon man who purchased a lottery ticket in Arizona is now a multi-millionaire.
2015: Group of 12 co-workers claim $60M Lotto Max jackpot. A group of 12 colleagues from Markham, Ont., say they don't plan on retiring after picking up the $60 million jackpot at the Ontario Lottery headquarters Thursday.
2014: Supermarket chain accused of allowing lottery sales to minors. Northeastern University's Public Health Advocacy Institute is demanding that Star Market remove scratch lottery ticket vending machines from its Massachusetts stores after, PHAI claims, a 14-year-old was able to purchase tickets from two stores.
2013: $189 million Mega Millions winning ticket sold in Maryland. In the Tuesday night Mega Millions drawing only one ticket sold in Severn, Maryland, matched all five numbers plus the Mega Ball to win the jackpot of $189 million.
2009: N.M. Lottery's Roadrunner Cash game changing this weekend. The New Mexico Lottery is changing the in-state Roadrunner Cash game to create a larger starting prize and jackpots that grow larger, faster.
2009: Frequent lottery wins by retailers investigated. In this 2-part video report, MSNBC revealed the findings of their investigation, in which the most frequent lottery winners were almost always retailers.
2003: Army sergeant wins $150 million Mega Millions jackpot. A U.S. Army sergeant on leave from South Korea claimed the $150 million jackpot on Wednesday in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery.
2003: Powerball Soars to $79 Million. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 394,341 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.8 million in prizes in America's Game. The Saturday Powerball jackpot is now $79 million, with a cash option of $42.3 million.
2003: Blue Springs man wins $2.5 million in Missouri Lotto game. A suburban Kansas City man won $2.5 million in last Saturday's Missouri Lotto game.
2003: Sanford asks S.C. Education Lottery to make small cuts. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he doesn't approve of a state lottery but since it's here, it should be as efficient as possible.
2003: Free lotto ticket promotion taken lightly. Some in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Lincoln communities are concerned that a lotto promotion at a UNL restaurant sent the wrong message to students about gambling.
2003: $10M jackpot winner's luck runs out. A multimillion-dollar lottery jackpot winner had a reversal of fortune yesterday when he was sent to jail for his part in a high-speed police chase.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.04 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 2, 2023
2.$651.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 2, 2021
3.$380 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 4, 2022
4.$367 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 2, 2018
5.$338.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 3, 2022
6.$300 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 3, 2023
7.€282.39 Million US$280.64 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 4, 2022
8.$229 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 3, 2018
9.€190 Million US$223.16 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 3, 2017
10.€190 Million
US$208.56 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 4, 2019
11.€178 Million
US$206.43 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 5, 2021
12.$193 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 3, 2009
13.€162 Million
US$187.06 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 2, 2018
14.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 5, 2005
15.€129 Million
US$179.59 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 8, 2010
16.€150.7 Million
US$168.62 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 4, 2016
17.€141 Million
US$157.76 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 4, 2016
18.$151 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 2, 2004
19.€100 Million
US$132.5 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 4, 2011
20.€100 Million
US$125.58 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 3, 2014
21.$120 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 3, 2014
22.$105 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 2, 2009
23.€89.23 Million
US$103.47 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 2, 2021
24.€90 Million
US$100.49 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Oct 7, 2016
25.$94 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 4, 2017

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1994: Akramali
Sunday, Oct 2, 1994
28 years old
1994: Rayanne Josey
Sunday, Oct 2, 1994
28 years old
1984: Blackjack
Tuesday, Oct 2, 1984
38 years old
1974: ForestB3
Wednesday, Oct 2, 1974
48 years old
1971: igoeufaula
Saturday, Oct 2, 1971
51 years old
1967: thompson2010
Monday, Oct 2, 1967
55 years old
1966: fran-smith52
Sunday, Oct 2, 1966
56 years old
1962: Sayvi$n17
Tuesday, Oct 2, 1962
60 years old
1961: chickenkid
Monday, Oct 2, 1961
61 years old
1954: Renaissaiceyx54
Saturday, Oct 2, 1954
68 years old
1951: Pick
Tuesday, Oct 2, 1951
71 years old
1951: The Deer Hunter
Tuesday, Oct 2, 1951
71 years old
1949: ARR1002
Sunday, Oct 2, 1949
73 years old
1948: slysly
Saturday, Oct 2, 1948
74 years old
1946: ejo127
Wednesday, Oct 2, 1946
76 years old
1944: Cuckey72
Monday, Oct 2, 1944
78 years old
: scott_one
(year not provided)
: Bettyboop777
(year not provided)
: Cashless
(year not provided)
: fran438
(year not provided)
: MamaWins
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
2018: The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
2016: Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
2007: President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
2006: Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
2004: The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
2002: The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.
1996: Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
1996: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1992: Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
1990: Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.
1980: Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
1971: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
1971: British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.
1970: An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1968: Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
1967: Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1958: Guinea declares its independence from France.
1944: World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1942: World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
1937: Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.
1928: The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
1920: Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
1870: By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
1864: American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
1835: Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1789: The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
1780: American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
1552: Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.
1470: The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1263: The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
939: Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
829: Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.

Births On This Day

1996: Tom Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
1995: Tepai Moeroa, Cook Islands rugby league player
1994: Joana Eidukonytė, Lithuanian tennis player
1991: Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer
1989: Aaron Hicks, American baseball player
1989: George Nash, English rower
1988: Brittany Howard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1988: Kirara Asuka, Japanese model and adult video actress
1987: Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player
1987: Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
1987: Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
1987: Joel Reinders, American football player
1987: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., American race car driver
1985: Çağlar Birinci, Turkish footballer
1985: Brandon Jackson, American football player
1984: Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
1982: Esra Gümüş, Turkish volleyball player
1981: Santi Kolk, Dutch footballer
1981: Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
1978: Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer, songwriter, actress
1977: Didier Défago, Swiss skier
1976: Mark Chilton, English cricketer
1974: Bjarke Ingels, Danish architect
1974: Brian Knight, American baseball player
1974: Matthew Nicholson, Australian cricketer
1974: Sam Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
1974: Paul Teutul Jr., American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers
1973: Melissa Harris-Perry, American journalist, author, and educator
1973: Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
1972: Aaron McKie, American basketball player
1971: Tiffany Darwish, American singer-songwriter
1971: Jim Root, American guitarist and songwriter
1971: Chris Savino, American comic book artist, writer, animator and creator of The Loud House
1970: Eddie Guardado, American baseball player
1970: Patricia O'Callaghan, Canadian soprano
1970: Kelly Ripa, American actress and talk show host
1970: Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
1969: Badly Drawn Boy, English musician
1968: Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
1968: Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player
1968: Kelly Willis, American country music singer-songwriter
1967: Frankie Fredericks, Namibian sprinter
1967: Thomas Muster, Austrian tennis player
1967: Gillian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965: Darren Cahill, Australian tennis player
1965: Tom Moody, Australian cricketer
1964: Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
1963: Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricketer
1963: Maria Ressa, Filipino-American journalist
1962: Mark Rypien, Canadian-American football player
1960: Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
1960: Django Bates, English musician and composer
1960: Joe Sacco, Maltese-American journalist and cartoonist
1960: Dereck Whittenburg, American basketball player and coach
1957: John Cook, American golfer
1957: Wade Dooley, English rugby player
1956: Freddie Jackson, American soul singer
1955: Philip Oakey, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1953: Vanessa Bell Armstrong, American singer
1951: Sting, English singer-songwriter and actor
1950: Mike Rutherford, English guitarist
1949: Richard Hell, American singer-songwriter and bass player
1949: Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
1948: Trevor Brooking, English footballer and manager
1948: Avery Brooks, American actor
1948: Donna Karan, American fashion designer, founded DKNY
1948: Siim Kallas, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia
1948: Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, (d. 1998)
1947: Ward Churchill, American author and activist
1946: Sonthi Boonyaratglin, Thai general and politician
1945: Martin Hellman, American cryptographer and academic
1945: Don McLean, American singer-songwriter
1944: Vernor Vinge, American author
1943: Anna Ford, English journalist
1943: Henri Szeps, Australian actor
1942: Steve Sabol, American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (d. 2012)
1941: Diana Hendry, English poet and author
1941: Ron Meagher, American rock bass player
1939: Budhi Kunderan, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)
1938: Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1983)
1938: Rex Reed, American film critic
1937: Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (d. 2005)
1936: Dick Barnett, American basketball player
1936: Connie Dierking, American basketball player (d. 2013)
1935: Omar Sívori, Italian-Argentine footballer and manager (d. 2005)
1934: Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote, English lawyer and judge
1934: Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1933: John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1933: Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (d. 2015)
1932: Maury Wills, American baseball player and manager (d. 2022)
1930: Dave Barrett, Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2018)
1929: Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (d. 1996)
1929: Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)
1928: George McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
1928: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic (d. 2014)
1926: Jan Morris, Welsh historian and author (d. 2020)
1925: Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
1921: Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer (d. 1978)
1921: Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer (d. 2006)
1921: Robert Runcie, English archbishop (d. 2000)
1919: John W. Duarte, English guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1917: Christian de Duve, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1917: Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
1915: Chuck Williams, American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma (d. 2015)
1914: Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952)
1914: Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian (d. 1998)
1912: Frank Malina, American engineer and painter (d. 1981)
1909: Alex Raymond, American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (d. 1956)
1907: Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
1907: Alexander R. Todd, Scottish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1906: Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (d. 1971)
1905: Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal (d. 1981)
1904: Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1904: Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian and politician, Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
1902: Leopold Figl, Austrian politician, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1965)
1900: Leela Roy Nag, Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and politician (d. 1970)
1895: Ruth Cheney Streeter, American colonel (d. 1990)
1893: Leroy Shield, American composer and conductor (d. 1962)
1890: Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1883: Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian geologist and engineer (d. 1963)
1882: Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel (d. 1945)
1879: Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
1875: Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist (d. 1935)
1873: Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
1873: Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager (d. 1963)
1871: Cordell Hull, American politician, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1871: Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscaper and author (d. 1959)
1869: Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (d. 1948)
1866: Swami Abhedananda, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1939)
1854: Patrick Geddes, Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932)
1852: William Ramsay, Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1851: Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (d. 1929)
1847: Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (d. 1934)
1832: Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
1828: Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)
1821: Alexander P. Stewart, American general (d. 1908)
1815: James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1901)
1800: Nat Turner, American slave and uprising leader (d. 1831)
1798: Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49) (d. 1849)
1768: William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English general and politician (d. 1854)
1718: Elizabeth Montagu, English author and critic (d. 1800)
1538: Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1584)
1527: William Drury, English politician (d. 1579)
1470: Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
1452: Richard III of England (d. 1485)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Sacheen Littlefeather, American actress, model and activist for Native American civil rights (b. 1946)
2020: Anne-Marie Hutchinson, British lawyer (b. 1957)
2018: Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (b. 1958)
2017: Tom Petty, American musician (b. 1950)
2016: Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
2015: Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (b. 1929)
2015: Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-English bassist and composer (b. 1914)
2015: Johnny Paton, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1923)
2014: Robert Flower, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
2013: Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
2012: Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (b. 1939)
2012: Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1933)
2012: J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (b. 1943)
2010: Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean lawyer and scholar (b. 1920)
2007: Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
2007: George Grizzard, American actor (b. 1928)
2007: Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1902)
2006: Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
2006: Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
2005: Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2005: August Wilson, American author and playwright (b. 1945)
2003: John Thomas Dunlop, American scholar and politician, United States Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
2002: Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
2001: Franz Biebl, German composer and academic (b. 1906)
2000: David Tonkin, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (b. 1929)
1999: Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (b. 1921)
1998: Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and guitarist (b. 1907)
1996: Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
1996: Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1938)
1991: Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
1991: Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
1988: Alec Issigonis, English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
1988: Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)
1987: Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
1987: Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1985: Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
1981: Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
1981: Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
1975: K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
1974: Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1973: Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
1973: Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
1971: Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (b. 1883)
1968: Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
1955: William R. Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
1953: John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
1943: John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
1938: Alexandru Averescu, Romanian military leader and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
1927: Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1920: Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
1853: François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician (b. 1786)
1850: Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
1803: Samuel Adams, American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
1786: Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
1782: Charles Lee, English-born American general (b. 1732)
1780: John André, English soldier (b. 1750)
1764: William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
1746: Josiah Burchett, English admiral and politician (b. 1666)
1724: François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian and author (b. 1644)
1709: Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639)
1708: Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
1678: Wu Sangui, Qing Chinese general (b. 1612)
1674: George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, officer in the Dutch Army (b. 1606)
1629: Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
1629: Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian (b. 1575)
1626: Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (b. 1567)
1559: Jacquet of Mantua, French-Italian composer (b. 1483)
1264: Pope Urban IV
939: Eberhard of Franconia
939: Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
829: Michael II, Byzantine emperor
534: Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths in Italy

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