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October 24

On This Day in History

October 24

October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 68 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Georgia lottery player makes state history with $478.2 million Powerball jackpot win. Someone in Georgia made state history last night by winning a $478.2 million Powerball jackpot, setting the record for the biggest lottery win in the state.
2022: Canadian woman "never dreamt" she would win a second lottery jackpot in three years. Luck is on the side of a woman who was shocked to have won the lottery not once, but twice in the span of three years, having played for the past 30 years.
2021: Infamous lottery winner Michael Carroll remarries ex-wife. The self-proclaimed "King of Chavs," who won a £9.7 million (US$13.35 million) National Lottery jackpot in 2002 and blew it on drugs, prostitutes, and outlandish parties, has remarried his ex-wife after she left him for his behavior.
2019: Northern Michigan father of 7 claims $80M Powerball lottery jackpot. A northern Michigan father of seven and grandfather of 21 was revealed Wednesday as the winner of an $80 million Powerball jackpot.
2018: $1.537 billion Mega Millions jackpot won by 1 ticket sold in South Carolina. The largest lottery jackpot the world has ever seen has been won Tuesday night by a single lottery ticket sold in South Carolina.
2017: Multi-state Mega Millions lottery game changing this week. Later this week, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game will undergo changes — including a price hike — designed to increase jackpots and make them grow faster.
2016: Trying to teach husband not to buy lottery tickets, woman wins $1 million. An Asheville area woman hit it big, and you might say she got "schooled" by the North Carolina Education Lottery.
2016: Massachusetts man hits $4 million lottery jackpot on a $10 bet. A Massachusetts man will be receiving lottery riches for the next 20 years after turning a $10 bet into a $4 million lottery jackpot.
2016: Man wanted for stealing lottery scratch tickets twice. Police are searching for a man who they believe stole Washington Lottery scratch tickets twice this month.
2014: Massachusetts man is lucky for two lifetimes. Luck struck twice for a Norwood, Massachusetts, man who found out his lottery ticket had the winning numbers in this week's Lucky For Life drawing — then realized, minutes later, that he had another ticket with the same number.
2012: Iowan gets probation for stealing lottery tickets. A former Kanawha, Iowa, convenience store worker has been given a deferred judgment after stealing lottery tickets from her employer.
2012: Trial begins for man linked to double-murder by lottery tickets. A Chicago man accused of fatally shooting a cashier and customer inside a Southwest Side convenience store in 2005 "almost got away with it," but a trail that started with lottery tickets he'd purchased moments before the killings ultimately led police to him, prosecutors said Tuesday as the man's double-murder trial got underway.
2009: N.H. man turns lottery losses into 1,500 wins. A 64-year-old retiree from Salem, New Hampshire, has collected more than 1,500 prizes including food, gift certificates and other goodies under the state lottery's "Replay" program, which gives losing lottery tickets a second chance to win.
2006: Powerball lottery jackpot climbs to $70 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $70 million, with a cash option of $32.6 million.
2006: $45 million Calif. SuperLotto winner claims jackpot. The holder of a $45 million California SuperLotto Plus ticket, which was purchased at a Calabasas Shell station, came forward Monday, lottery officials said.
2006: Minn. Lottery chief named head of North American association. Executive Director Clint Harris of the Minnesota State Lottery has been elected president of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries.
2006: N.J. police warn of lottery scams. Police are reminding residents to be wary of so-called international lottery scams in which large sums are promised but require recipients to send money before they can claim their prize.
2006: N.C. Lottery starts Pick 5 game Friday. The North Carolina Education Lottery turns seven months old next week, and its players will continue to try and cash in with the new Carolina Cash 5 game, to be released Friday.
2006: $55 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot claimed by immigrant couple. An immigrant couple from Laos who now live in the Seattle area have claimed a $55 million Mega Millions jackpot.
2005: Mega Millions lottery jackpot rises to $128 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery has grown to $128 million.
2005: Lottery 'syndicate' is a pyramid scam. Tony Hetherington of This is Money (UK) replies to a reader's letter about Global Lotto, a lottery pyramid scheme.
2005: Tennessee $1 Million Lottery Winner Will "Stay The Same". The Tennessee Lottery's latest winner of $1 million was jubilant after winning, but says the big prize won't mean any dramatic changes in her life.
2005: Nebraska cashes in on record lottery sales. Over the 10 weeks it took to amass the record $340 million jackpot, Nebraska profited about $2.1 million for education, environmental and State Fair trust funds.
2005: Powerball lottery 'winner' turns coy. A self-employed landscape contractor who says he won the record $340 million jackpot repeated that the family would talk to reporters Tuesday after meeting with a financial adviser.
2003: Aspiring actress and fiancé win half of $99 million Calif. lottery. An aspiring actress and her fiancé, a Navy man, claimed half of the $99 million dollar Superlotto jackpot from Wednesday's draw.
2003: New Michigan lottery games to start Monday, but controversy arises. A group on Thursday said it is opposing Monday's kickoff of two new Michigan lottery games because the games might let Indian casinos stop paying the state a share of their profits.
2003: Home-schooling advocates debate legality of lottery. State Attorney General Paul Summers has been asked to rule if Tennessee's lottery-funded scholarship program is unconstitutional for making home-schooled students meet higher standards to receive a scholarship than formally educated students.
2003: House approves spending unclaimed lottery jackpot on colleges. The Florida Legislature voted unanimously Thursday to direct $30 million from an unclaimed lottery jackpot to community colleges and state universities.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$637.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 24, 2022
2.$602.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 24, 2018
3.€294.48 Million US$292.24 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2022
4.€177.73 Million US$247.84 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 30, 2010
5.€190 Million US$240.54 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 24, 2014
6.$229 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2024
7.$224 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 24, 2014
8.$191.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2017
9.$190 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2003
10.€162.31 Million
US$176.63 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2016
11.$173 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 26, 2011
12.$164 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 26, 2016
13.€113 Million
US$142.93 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2006
14.$130 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 26, 2019
15.$128 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2005
16.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2014
17.$118 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 26, 2010
18.$117 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2015
19.€90 Million
US$116.38 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 26, 2012
20.€100.18 Million
US$116.23 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 26, 2021
21.€115 Million
US$114.13 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2022
22.$114 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 24, 2023
23.€77 Million
US$113.79 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 30, 2009
24.$109 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2020
25.$103.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 25, 2023

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1992: Sonson12
Saturday, Oct 24, 1992
32 years old
1992: WacyAllen
Saturday, Oct 24, 1992
32 years old
1984: In33dMO$
Wednesday, Oct 24, 1984
40 years old
1978: numbers369
Tuesday, Oct 24, 1978
46 years old
1976: pumpi76
Sunday, Oct 24, 1976
48 years old
1974: tiffanyrichard3
Thursday, Oct 24, 1974
50 years old
1969: Evileve978
Friday, Oct 24, 1969
55 years old
1966: NUMBERS65
Monday, Oct 24, 1966
58 years old
1961: topnail
Tuesday, Oct 24, 1961
63 years old
1961: index
Tuesday, Oct 24, 1961
63 years old
1960: armentamk
Monday, Oct 24, 1960
64 years old
1957: brandy102457
Thursday, Oct 24, 1957
67 years old
1954: chiapet
Sunday, Oct 24, 1954
70 years old
1953: crazysteve707
Saturday, Oct 24, 1953
71 years old
1947: jss-8
Friday, Oct 24, 1947
77 years old
1945: Sidu-zinn
Wednesday, Oct 24, 1945
79 years old
: beautifulj1j
(year not provided)
: ibrisbon
(year not provided)
: octobir1
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: The world’s longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic.
2016: A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board.
2016: Three heavily-armed terrorists from the Islamic State - Khorasan Province open fire on and eventually suicide bomb a police training centre in Balochistan, Pakistan, killing at least 59 cadets and injuring more than 165 others.
2015: A driver crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34.
2014: The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
2008: "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
2007: Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
2005: Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
2004: Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
2003: Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
1998: Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.
1992: The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
1990: Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.
1986: Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing of an El Al flight at Heathrow Airport.
1980: The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
1975: In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gender inequality.
1964: Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia.
1963: An oxygen leak from an R-9 Desna missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people.
1960: Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100 people, including Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin.
1957: The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar crewed space program.
1954: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
1950: Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China: The People’s Liberation Army ceases all military operations in Tibet, ending the Battle of Chamdo.
1949: The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
1947: Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1947: United Air Lines Flight 608 crashes in the Bryce Canyon National Park in Garfield County, Utah, while attempting an emergency landing at Bryce Canyon Airport, killing 52 people.
1946: A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1945: The United Nations Charter comes into effect.
1944: World War II: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1931: The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic over the Hudson River.
1930: A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era.
1929: "Black Thursday" on the New York Stock Exchange.
1926: Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
1918: World War I: Italian victory in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
1917: World War I: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Caporetto on the Austro-Italian front.
1912: First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
1912: First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
1911: Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1902: Guatemala's Santa María volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
1901: Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1900: U.S. Government announces plans to buy Danish West Indies for $7 million.
1894: First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Jiuliancheng: Under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo, the Imperial Japanese Army covertly crosses the Yalu River into Qing territory and launches an assault on the fortifications at Hushan.
1889: Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.
1886: Normanton incident: As the British merchant vessel Normanton sinks off the coast of Japan, her European officers appear to commandeer the ship’s lifeboats for themselves, leaving her Asian crew and passengers to die and conjuring significant political outrage in Japan.
1876: Shinpūren rebellion: Upset at the Westernisation of Meiji Japan and the abolition of the Tokugawa feudal hierarchy, the Keishintō, a group of extremist Shinto former samurai, launch a surprise attack against the Meiji government in Kumamoto Prefecture.
1871: An estimated 17 to 22 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
1860: Convention of Peking: The Second Opium War formally comes to a close, with Qing China ceding Kowloon in perpetuity to the victorious British Empire.
1857: Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England.
1851: William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
1813: Treaty of Gulistan: The Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813 comes to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Gulistan, under which terms Qajar Iran agrees to cede the bulk of its Caucasian territories, which comprise much of modern Dagestan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, to the Russian Empire.
1812: Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1795: Poland is completely consumed by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
1648: The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
1641: Felim O'Neill of Kinard, the leader of the Irish Rebellion, issues his Proclamation of Dungannon, justifying the uprising and declaring continued loyalty to King Charles I of England.
1596: The second Spanish armada sets sail to strike against England, but is smashed by storms off Cape Finisterre forcing a retreat to port.
1590: John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
1360: The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1260: Chartres Cathedral is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.
1260: After defeating the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut and assassinating the previous Mamluk sultan, Qutuz, Baybars ascends to the Egyptian throne as the fourth sultan of the Mamluk Sultanate.
AD 69: In the Second Battle of Bedriacum, troops loyal to Vespasian defeat those of Emperor Vitellius.

Births On This Day

1999: Amon-Ra St. Brown, American football player
1998: Daya, American singer
1997: Bron Breakker, American wrestler
1997: Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast
1996: Jaylen Brown, American basketball player
1996: Rafael Devers, Dominican baseball player
1996: Océane Dodin, French tennis player
1996: Garrison Mathews, American basketball player
1996: Kyla Ross, American gymnast
1995: Vincent Leuluai, Australian rugby league player
1995: Ashton Sanders, American actor
1994: Krystal Jung, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
1994: Tereza Martincová, Czech tennis player
1994: Sean O'Malley, American mixed martial artist
1994: Jalen Ramsey, American football player
1993: R. J. Hunter, American basketball player
1992: Marrion Gopez, Filipino actor, singer, and dancer
1992: Ding Liren, Chinese chess grandmaster
1991: Torstein Andersen Aase, Norwegian footballer
1991: Bojan Dubljević, Montenegrin basketball player
1990: Elijah Greer, American middle-distance runner
1990: İlkay Gündoğan, German footballer
1990: Mohammed Jahfali, Saudi Arabia international footballer
1990: Danilo Petrucci, Italian motorcycle racer
1990: Nikola Vučević, Montenegrin basketball player
1989: David Castañeda, American actor
1989: Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
1989: Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
1989: Eric Hosmer, American baseball player
1989: PewDiePie, Swedish YouTuber
1989: Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
1988: Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player
1988: Christopher Linke, German race walker
1988: Demont Mitchell, Bahamian footballer
1988: Tarek Hamed, Egyptian footballer
1987: Jeremy Evans, American basketball player
1987: Chris Hogan, American football player
1987: Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1987: Charlie White, American figure skater
1986: Drake, Canadian rapper and actor
1986: Oliver Jackson-Cohen, English actor
1986: John Ruddy, English footballer
1985: Robert Cornthwaite, English-Australian footballer
1985: Tim Pocock, Australian actor
1985: Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (d. 2014)
1985: Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1985: Oscar Wendt, Swedish footballer
1984: Lougee Basabas, Filipino singer-songwriter
1984: Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1984: Kaela Kimura, Japanese singer-songwriter
1983: Adrienne Bailon, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1983: Chris Colabello, American baseball player
1983: Hernán Garin, Argentinian footballer
1983: Michael Gordon, Australian rugby league player
1983: Brian Vickers, American race car driver
1982: Fairuz Fauzy, Malaysian race car driver
1982: Macay McBride, American baseball player
1981: Kemal Aslan, Turkish footballer
1981: Sebastián Bueno, Argentinian footballer
1981: Fredrik Mikkelsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer
1981: Tila Tequila, Singaporean-American model, actress, and singer
1981: Alfred Vargas, Filipino actor and politician
1980: Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980: Kerrin McEvoy, Australian jockey
1980: Monica, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1980: Anna Montañana, Spanish basketball player
1980: Zac Posen, American fashion designer
1980: Christian Vander, German footballer
1980: Casey Wilson, American actress and screenwriter
1979: Ben Gillies, Australian drummer and songwriter
1979: Marijonas Petravičius, Lithuanian basketball player
1978: Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
1978: James Hopes, Australian cricketer
1977: Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
1976: Matteo Mazzantini, Italian rugby player
1976: Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1975: Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
1975: Frank Seator, Liberian footballer (d. 2013)
1974: Gábor Babos, Hungarian footballer
1974: Kalen DeBoer, American football coach
1974: Corey Dillon, American football player
1974: Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player and scout
1974: Jamal Mayers, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1973: Meelis Friedenthal, Estonian author and academic
1973: Kurt Kuenne, American filmmaker
1973: Levi Leipheimer, American cyclist
1973: Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer and manager
1973: Laura Veirs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973: Jeff Wilson, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and radio host
1972: Pat Williams, American football player and coach
1972: Jeremy Wright, English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
1971: Aaron Bailey, American football player
1971: Gustavo Jorge, Argentina international rugby union player
1971: Zephyr Teachout, American academic
1971: Diane Guthrie-Gresham, Jamaican track and field athlete
1971: Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
1970: Rob Leslie-Carter, English field hockey player and engineer
1970: Jeff Mangum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Emma Donoghue, Irish-Canadian author
1969: Arthur Rhodes, American baseball player
1968: Francisco Clavet, Spanish tennis player
1968: Mark Walton, American voice actor and illustrator
1968: Robert Wilonsky, American journalist and critic
1967: Ian Bishop, Trinidadian cricketer and sportscaster
1967: Olo Brown, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player
1967: Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
1967: Esther McVey, English television host and politician
1966: Roman Abramovich, Russian businessman and politician
1966: Simon Danczuk, English academic and politician
1966: Zahn McClarnon, American actor
1965: Kyriakos Velopoulos, German-Greek journalist and politician
1964: Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964: Paul Bonwick, Canadian businessman and politician
1964: Dmitri Gorkov, Russian footballer and manager
1964: Janele Hyer-Spencer, American lawyer and politician
1964: Ray LeBlanc, American ice hockey player
1964: Doug Lee, American basketball player
1963: Mark Grant, American baseball player and sportscaster
1963: John Hendrie, Scottish footballer and manager
1962: Yves Bertucci, French footballer and manager
1962: Ian Dalziel, English footballer and manager
1962: Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby player and television host
1962: Debbie Googe, English bass player and songwriter
1962: Andrea Horwath, Canadian politician
1962: Gibby Mbasela, Zambian footballer (d. 2000)
1961: Mary Bono, American gymnast and politician
1961: Bruce Castor, American lawyer and politician
1960: Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer and sportscaster
1960: Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist, lawyer, and activist (d. 1999)
1960: Joachim Winkelhock, German race car driver
1960: BD Wong, American actor
1959: Dominique Baert, French lawyer and politician
1959: Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician, 65th Mayor of Bergen
1959: Chihiro Fujioka, Japanese director and composer
1959: Michelle Lujan Grisham, American lawyer and politician
1959: Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist and songwriter (d. 2009)
1959: Denis Troch, French footballer and manager
1959: Annette Vilhelmsen, Danish educator and politician, Danish Minister of Social Affairs
1957: Ron Gardenhire, German-American baseball player and manager
1957: John Kassir, American actor and voice actor
1956: Jeff Merkley, American businessman and politician
1955: Cheryl Studer, American soprano and actress
1954: Doug Davidson, American actor
1954: Tom Mulcair, Canadian lawyer and politician
1954: Jožo Ráž, Slovak singer-songwriter and bass player
1954: Mike Rounds, American businessman and politician
1954: Brad Sherman, American accountant, lawyer, and politician
1954: Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia
1953: Christoph Daum, German footballer and manager (d. 2024)
1952: Keith Bain, Canadian educator and politician
1952: Francesco Camaldo, Italian priest
1952: Ángel Torres, Dominican baseball player
1951: George Tsontakis, American composer and conductor
1950: Iggy Arroyo, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
1950: Pablove Black, Jamaican singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1950: Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Argentinian lawyer and politician
1950: Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician
1950: Gabriella Sica, Italian poet and author
1950: Maria Teschler-Nicola, Austrian biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist
1949: John Markoff, American journalist and author
1949: Keith Rowley, Trinidadian volcanologist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1948: Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player (d. 2022)
1948: Kweisi Mfume, American lawyer and politician
1947: Kevin Kline, American actor and singer
1946: Jerry Edmonton, Canadian drummer (d. 1993)
1945: Gérald Larose, Canadian educator and union leader
1944: Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
1944: Bettye Swann, American singer-songwriter
1943: Bill Dundee, Scottish-American wrestler and manager
1943: Phil Hawthorne, Australian rugby player and coach (d. 1994)
1942: Stephen R. Bloom, English physician and academic
1942: Maggie Blye, American actress (d. 2016)
1942: Frank Delaney, Irish journalist and author (d. 2017)
1942: Rafael Cordero Santiago, Puerto Rican politician, 132nd Mayor of Ponce (d. 2004)
1942: Fernando Vallejo, Colombian biologist and author
1941: William H. Dobelle, American medical researcher (d. 2004)
1941: Peter Takeo Okada, Japanese archbishop (d. 2020)
1941: Merle Woo, Asian American activist
1940: Martin Campbell, New Zealand director and producer
1940: Rafał Piszcz, Polish canoe racer (d. 2012)
1940: David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville, English businessman and academic
1940: Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
1939: F. Murray Abraham, American actor
1938: Stephen Resnick, American economist and academic (d. 2013)
1937: Miguel Ángel Coria, Spanish composer and educator (d. 2016)
1937: Santo Farina, American guitarist and songwriter
1937: John Goetz, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1937: Heribert Offermanns, German chemist and academic
1937: M. Rosaria Piomelli, Italian-American architect and academic
1937: Petar Stipetić, Croatian general (d. 2018)
1936: Jüri Arrak, Estonian painter (d. 2022)
1936: Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
1936: David Nelson, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2011)
1936: Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1935: Malcolm Bilson, American pianist, musicologist, and educator
1935: Antonino Calderone, Italian mobster (d. 2013)
1935: Mark Tully, Indian-English journalist and author
1934: John G. Cramer, American physicist and author
1934: Glen Glenn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2022)
1934: Margie Masters, Australian golfer (d. 2022)
1934: Sammy Petrillo, American actor (d. 2009)
1934: Sanger D. Shafer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2019)
1933: Reginald Kray, English gangster (d. 2000)
1933: Ronald Kray, English gangster (d. 1995)
1933: Norman Rush, American author and educator
1932: Stephen Covey, American author and educator (d. 2012)
1932: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1932: Adrian Mitchell, English journalist, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2008)
1932: Robert Mundell, Canadian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1931: Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-German pianist and composer
1931: Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
1930: Jack Angel, American voice actor (d. 2021)
1930: The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
1930: Elaine Feinstein, English poet, author, and playwright (d. 2019)
1930: Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician (d. 2024)
1930: James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (d. 1969)
1930: Ahmad Shah of Pahang (d. 2019)
1929: Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director (d. 1977)
1929: George Crumb, American composer and educator (d. 2022)
1929: Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (d. 2012)
1929: Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright (d. 2004)
1929: Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (d. 2013)
1928: George Bullard, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1927: Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2001)
1927: Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor and singer (d. 1992)
1927: Barbara Robinson, American author and poet (d. 2013)
1926: Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1926: Y. A. Tittle, American football player (d. 2017)
1925: Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (d. 2003)
1925: Al Feldstein, American author and illustrator (d. 2014)
1925: Willie Mabon, American-French singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1985)
1925: Ken Mackay, Australian cricketer (d. 1982)
1925: Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician co-founded the Khmer Rouge (d. 2013)
1925: Paul Vaughan, English journalist and radio host (d. 2014)
1924: John Brereton Barlow, South African cardiologist and physician (d. 2008)
1924: Mary Lee, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
1924: Fuat Sezgin, Turkish historian and academic (d. 2018)
1923: Robin Day, English lieutenant and journalist (d. 2000)
1923: Denise Levertov, British-born American poet (d. 1997)
1922: George Miller, American educator and politician, Mayor of Tucson (d. 2014)
1921: Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (d. 2005)
1921: R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator (d. 2015)
1920: Steve Conway, British singer (d. 1952)
1920: Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
1919: Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot (d. 2008)
1918: Doreen Tovey, English author (d. 2008)
1917: Marie Foster, American activist (d. 2003)
1916: Anne Sharp, Scottish soprano and actress (d. 2011)
1915: Bob Kane, American author and illustrator (d. 1998)
1915: Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author (d. 1988)
1914: Charles Craig Cannon, American colonel (d. 1992)
1914: František Čapek, Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2008)
1914: Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian Independence movement revolutionary and Officer of Indian National Army (d. 2012)
1913: Tito Gobbi, Italian actor and singer (d. 1984)
1912: Silviu Bindea, Romanian footballer (d. 1992)
1912: Peter Gellhorn, German conductor (music) (d. 2004)
1912: Murray Golden, American television director (d. 1991)
1911: Paul Grégoire, Canadian cardinal (d. 1993)
1911: Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1986)
1910: Stella Brooks, American singer (d. 2002)
1910: Gunter d'Alquen, German SS officer and journalist (d. 1998)
1910: Joe L. Evins, American lawyer and politician (d. 1984)
1910: James K. Woolnough, American general (d. 1996)
1910: Yoel Zussman, Polish-Israeli lawyer and judge (d. 1982)
1909: Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966)
1909: Thomas F. Connolly, American admiral (d. 1996)
1908: John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist and geophysicist (d. 1993)
1907: Patricia Griffin, Montserratian nurse and social worker (d. 1986)
1906: Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician and cryptographer (d. 1968)
1905: Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian and academic (d. 1988)
1904: Moss Hart, American director and playwright (d. 1961)
1904: A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi activist (d. 1932)
1903: Melvin Purvis, American FBI agent (d. 1960)
1901: Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1959)
1899: Teikō Shiotani, Japanese photographer (d. 1988)
1898: Peng Dehuai, Chinese general, 1st Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China (d. 1974)
1896: Marjorie Joyner, American make-up artist and businesswoman (d. 1994)
1895: Jack Warner, English actor and singer (d. 1981)
1894: Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1987)
1891: Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and politician, 36th President of the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
1891: Brenda Ueland, American journalist, author, and educator (d. 1985)
1887: Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (d. 1969)
1887: Octave Lapize, French cyclist and pilot (d. 1917)
1885: Alice Perry, Irish engineer and poet (d. 1969)
1884: Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (d. 1944)
1882: Sybil Thorndike, English actress (d. 1976)
1879: B. A. Rolfe, American bandleader and producer (d. 1956)
1876: Saya San, Burmese monk and activist (d. 1931)
1875: Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1958)
1873: E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (d. 1956)
1872: Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (d. 1957)
1868: Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian-French explorer and author (d. 1969)
1857: Ned Williamson, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1855: James S. Sherman, American lawyer and politician, 27th Vice President of the United States (d. 1912)
1854: Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (d. 1907)
1838: Annie Edson Taylor, American stuntwoman and educator (d. 1921)
1830: Marianne North, English biologist and painter (d. 1890)
1811: Ferdinand Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1885)
1811: Georg August Wallin, Finnish explorer, orientalist, and professor (d. 1852)
1804: Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (d. 1891)
1798: Massimo d'Azeglio, Piedmontese-Italian statesman, novelist and painter (d. 1866)
1788: Sarah Josepha Hale, American author and poet (d. 1879)
1784: Moses Montefiore, British philanthropist, sheriff and banker (d. 1885)
1763: Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (d. 1839)
1713: Marie Fel, French soprano and actress (d. 1794)
1675: Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1749)
1650: Steven Blankaart, Dutch entomologist (d. 1704)
1637: Lorenzo Magalotti, Italian philosopher (d. 1712)
1632: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (d. 1723)
1561: Anthony Babington, English conspirator (Babington Plot) (d. 1586)
1503: Isabella of Portugal (d. 1539)
1378: David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay heir to the throne of Scotland (d. 1402)
AD 51: Domitian, Roman emperor (d. 96)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Leslie Jordan, American actor, writer, and singer (b. 1955)
2021: James Michael Tyler, American actor (b. 1962)
2018: Tony Joe White, American singer/songwriter (b. 1943)
2017: Fats Domino, American pianist and singer-songwriter (b. 1928)
2017: Robert Guillaume, American actor (b. 1927)
2017: Girija Devi, Indian classical singer (b. 1929)
2016: Bobby Vee, American pop singer (b. 1943)
2016: Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, Uruguayan politician, former president (2000-2005) (b. 1927)
2015: Michael Beetham, English commander and pilot (b. 1923)
2015: Alvin Bronstein, American lawyer and academic (b. 1928)
2015: Margarita Khemlin, Ukrainian-Russian author and critic (b. 1960)
2015: Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (b. 1924)
2015: Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (b. 1920)
2014: Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African runner (b. 1980)
2014: S. S. Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
2014: Marcia Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2013: Antonia Bird, English director and producer (b. 1951)
2013: Brooke Greenberg, American girl with a rare genetic disorder (b. 1993)
2013: Ana Bertha Lepe, Mexican model and actress (b. 1934)
2013: Lew Mayne, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
2012: Peggy Ahern, American actress (b. 1917)
2012: Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
2012: Jeff Blatnick, American wrestler and sportscaster (b. 1957)
2012: Bill Dees, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
2012: Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
2011: Sansan Chien, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1967)
2011: John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (b. 1927)
2010: Mike Esposito, American author and illustrator (b. 1927)
2010: Lamont Johnson, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1922)
2010: Joseph Stein, American author and playwright (b. 1912)
2008: Moshe Cotel, American pianist and composer (b. 1943)
2007: Petr Eben, Czech organist and composer (b. 1929)
2007: Ian Middleton, New Zealand author (b. 1928)
2007: Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyzstan journalist (b. 1981)
2007: Anne Weale, English journalist and author (b. 1929)
2006: Enolia McMillan, American educator and activist (b. 1904)
2006: William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1909)
2005: Joy Clements, American soprano and actress (b. 1932)
2005: José Azcona del Hoyo, Honduran businessman and politician, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2005: Mokarrameh Ghanbari, Iranian painter (b. 1928)
2005: Immanuel C. Y. Hsu, Chinese sinologist and scholar (b. 1923)
2005: Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
2005: Robert Sloman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2004: Randy Dorton, American engineer (b. 1954)
2004: Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1980)
2004: James Aloysius Hickey, American cardinal (b. 1920)
2004: Maaja Ranniku, Estonian chess player (b. 1941)
2002: Winton M. Blount, American soldier and politician, 59th United States Postmaster General (b. 1921)
2002: Hernán Gaviria, Colombian footballer (b. 1969)
2002: Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (b. 1912)
2002: Peggy Moran, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
2001: Kathleen Ankers, American actress and set designer (b. 1919)
2001: Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German author and critic (b. 1937)
2001: Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1935)
1999: Berthe Qvistgaard, Danish actress (b. 1910)
1997: Don Messick, American voice actor and singer (b. 1926)
1994: Yannis Hotzeas, Greek theoretician and author (b. 1930)
1994: Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor and singer (b. 1940)
1993: Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
1992: Laurie Colwin, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1944)
1991: Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (b. 1921)
1991: Ismat Chughtai, Indian author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1989: Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
1985: Richie Evans, American race car driver (b. 1941)
1985: Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (b. 1905)
1983: Jiang Wen-Ye, Taiwanese composer and educator (b. 1910)
1979: Carlo Abarth, Italian automobile designer and founded of Abarth (b. 1908)
1975: İsmail Erez, Turkish lawyer and diplomat, Turkish Ambassador to France (b. 1919)
1975: Zdzisław Żygulski, Polish historian, author, and academic (b. 1888)
1974: David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1972: Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1919)
1972: Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1892)
1971: Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
1971: Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1936)
1971: Chuck Hughes, NFL player died during a game (b. 1943)
1970: Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (b. 1916)
1969: Behçet Kemal Çağlar, Turkish poet and politician (b. 1908)
1966: Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (b. 1896)
1965: Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879)
1964: Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
1960: Yevgeny Ostashev, the test pilot of rocket, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Lenin prize winner, Candidate of Technical Sciences (b. 1924)
1958: G. E. Moore, English philosopher and academic (b. 1873)
1949: Yaroslav Halan, Ukrainian playwright and publicist (b. 1902)
1948: Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (b. 1870)
1948: Frederic L. Paxson, American historian and author (b. 1877)
1945: Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)
1944: Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
1943: Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
1938: Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
1937: Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
1935: Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
1922: George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
1917: James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
1915: Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
1898: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
1875: Raffaello Carboni, Italian-Australian author and poet (b. 1817)
1852: Daniel Webster, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Secretary of State (b. 1782)
1824: Israel Bissell, American patriot post rider during American Revolutionary War (b. 1752)
1821: Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1799: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1739)
1725: Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1660)
1672: John Webb, English architect and scholar (b. 1611)
1669: William Prynne, English lawyer and author (b. 1600)
1655: Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1592)
1642: Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English peer and courtier (b. 1582)
1633: Jean Titelouze, French organist and composer (b. 1562/3)
1601: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (b. 1546)
1572: Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire (b. 1508)
1537: Jane Seymour, English queen and wife of Henry VIII of England (b. c. 1508)
1375: Valdemar IV, Danish king (b. 1320)
1260: Qutuz, Egyptian sultan
1168: William IV, French nobleman
1152: Jocelin of Soissons, French theologian, philosopher and composer
996: Hugh Capet, French king
935: Li Yu, Chinese official and chancellor

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