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October 27

On This Day in History

October 27

October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 65 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: $800 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surges on rollover. This week Powerball is the hot ticket, featuring a massive jackpot that is approaching a billion dollars.
2020: Delaware Lottery celebrates its 45th year in operation. This Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, the Delaware Lottery will celebrate its 45th year in operation with a year full of new featured games, events, and promotions for players to take part in.
2016: N.J. store clerk buys old workplace after lottery win. One New Jersey convenience store worker recently got to breathe life into the fantasy of buying the business he worked for, courtesy of a $1.25 million state lottery win.
2016: UPS worker busts up lottery scam. An alert New York UPS employee is credited with saving an elderly Iowa woman from losing thousands of dollars in cash.
2016: Woman receives realistic lottery scam letter, check. With two months left before Christmas, scammers are out in full force, trying to separate victims from their life savings.
2015: Illinois border states report increased lottery sales. With Illinois delaying payouts of more than $600 because of its budget mess, neighboring states are salivating at the chance to boost their own lottery sales. Businesses near borders, particularly in Indiana, Kentucky and Iowa, say they've already noticed a difference.
2015: Ex-Minnesota Lottery executive pleads guilty in car-crash case. A former top Minnesota Lottery official suing over her termination pleaded guilty Monday to a drunken-driving charge stemming from a serious car crash last December.
2013: N.Y. man accused of pulling box cutter on clerk after lottery mistake. A man who had losing lottery tickets due to a store clerk's error stood accused this weekend of threatening the clerk with a box cutter on Long Island.
2011: $203 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot heats up. There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $203 million for Saturday's drawing.
2011: Penn. newsstand sells $4.2M winning lottery ticket. At a newsstand in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a worker verified a customer's $4,206,027 winning lottery ticket, and then walked with him to the lottery offices to collect the prize.
2010: Georgia man's second big lottery win is for $1M. A Metter, Georgia, man won a $1 million prize playing the Georgia Lottery instant game Maximum Green.
2009: Maryland Lottery director hired by D.C. Lottery. Buddy Roogow is leaving the Maryland Lottery, and has accepted the post of Executive Director of the D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games.
2009: Calif. Lottery pays out $264,000 after game show mistake. The California Lottery will pay $264,000 in additional winnings to nine people whose names were mistakenly transposed on forms during a lottery game show.
2006: N.C. lottery begins pick 5 game today. Sales of the North Carolina lottery's new Cash 5 lotto game will begin today.
2006: Ontario lottery to be investigated. The Ontario Ombudsman will investigate allegations about "insiders" winning a disproportionate number of lotteries to restore public trust in the province's lottery corporation.
2004: Mega Millions jackpot increases to $57 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $57 million Wednesday.
2004: NY has new pair of lottery millionaires. Two men from Jamaica, New York who moved to the United States in search of the American dream have found both success and luck, after winning a combined $19 million in lottery prizes this month.
2004: Lottery-winning sisters to donate sizable portion. Two struggling, underpaid single mothers plan to donate a sizable portion of their $11.3 million jackpot win to their outpatient alcohol- and drug-treatment center.
2003: Mega Millions jackpot increases to $35 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $35 million Saturday.
2003: One ticket wins $15 million Florida Lotto jackpot. One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $15 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
2003: If you mail in a 'fee' to claim a 'sweepstakes' prize, you've lost. You have not won a sweepstakes that you can claim by mailing in a "processing fee." Anybody who asks you to send in a processing fee to win a prize is lying to you.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$822.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 29, 2022
2.$687.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2018
3.€295.73 Million US$295.87 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2022
4.$252 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 28, 2014
5.€177.73 Million US$247.84 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 30, 2010
6.$203 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 29, 2011
7.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 29, 2016
8.€163.54 Million US$178.37 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2016
9.$147 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 28, 2005
10.€113 Million
US$142.93 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2006
11.$142 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 29, 2014
12.$140 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 30, 2019
12.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 29, 2010
14.€101 Million
US$130.82 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 30, 2012
15.€130 Million
US$129.44 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 28, 2022
16.€100.96 Million
US$117.63 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Oct 28, 2021
17.$117 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2015
18.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 28, 2020
19.€77 Million
US$113.79 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 30, 2009
20.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 28, 2015
21.$109 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2020
22.€107.9 Million
US$107.43 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Oct 28, 2022
23.$105 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Oct 29, 2019
24.$103.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2021
25.€87 Million
US$102.73 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 27, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1996: skittles23
Sunday, Oct 27, 1996
26 years old
1991: lilibel
Sunday, Oct 27, 1991
31 years old
1990: Terentius2018
Saturday, Oct 27, 1990
32 years old
1985: Guru101
Sunday, Oct 27, 1985
37 years old
1983: dalotterybandit
Thursday, Oct 27, 1983
39 years old
1972: xavier102772
Friday, Oct 27, 1972
50 years old
1967: Dr Lottery
Friday, Oct 27, 1967
55 years old
1967: kimyachta
Friday, Oct 27, 1967
55 years old
1966: Jbet
Thursday, Oct 27, 1966
56 years old
1964: ladyluck2009
Tuesday, Oct 27, 1964
58 years old
1961: drifty1027
Friday, Oct 27, 1961
61 years old
1960: vicnurse
Thursday, Oct 27, 1960
62 years old
1960: Tamela
Thursday, Oct 27, 1960
62 years old
: abnmaclotto
(year not provided)
: BigDMike
(year not provided)
: vastine28
(year not provided)
: even
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
2018: A gunman opens fire on a Pittsburgh synagogue killing 11 and injuring six, including four police officers.
2018: Leicester City F.C. owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha dies in a helicopter crash along with four others after a Premier League match against West Ham United at the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England.
2017: Catalonia declares independence from Spain.
2014: Britain withdraws from Afghanistan at the end of Operation Herrick, after 12 years four months and seven days.
1999: Gunmen open fire in the Armenian Parliament, killing the Prime Minister and seven others.
1997: The 1997 Asian financial crisis causes a crash in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
1995: Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
1994: Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified.
1992: United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
1991: Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
1988: Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
1986: The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
1981: Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
1979: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1971: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1967: Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the 'Baltimore Four' protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
1964: Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launches his political career and comes to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
1962: Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
1962: By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
1962: An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
1961: NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
1958: Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
1954: Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
1944: World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
1936: Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
1930: Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.
1924: The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1922: A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
1916: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
1914: World War I: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
1907: Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
1904: The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line.
1870: Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
1838: Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
1810: United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1806: The French Army enters Berlin, following the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt.
1795: The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S.
1775: King George III expands on his Proclamation of Rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies in his speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament.
1682: Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1644: Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War.
1553: Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva.
1524: French troops lay siege to Pavia.
1275: Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
939: Æthelstan, the first king of all England, dies and is succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.
312: Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

Births On This Day

1999: Haruka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress
1997: Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
1997: James TW, English singer-songwriter
1996: Kim Woo-seok, South Korean singer and actor
1993: Kiefer Ravena, Filipino basketball player
1992: Stephan El Shaarawy, Italian footballer
1992: Emily Hagins, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1992: Brandon Saad, American ice hockey player
1991: Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1990: Dimitrios Gkourtsas, Greek footballer
1990: Oktovianus Maniani, Indonesian footballer
1989: Mark Barron, American football player
1988: Brady Ellison, American archer
1988: Viktor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
1988: Illimar Pärn, Estonian ski jumper
1988: Evan Turner, American basketball player
1987: Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
1987: Björn Barrefors, Swedish decathlete and heptathlete
1987: Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
1987: Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
1986: Jon Niese, American baseball player
1986: Matty Pattison, South African-English footballer
1986: David Warner, Australian cricketer
1985: Sirli Hanni, Estonian biathlete
1985: Sandra Volk, Slovenian tennis player
1984: Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
1984: Kostas Kapetanos, Greek footballer
1984: Kelly Osbourne, English television personality
1984: Brady Quinn, American football player
1984: Emilie Ullerup, Danish-Canadian actress
1983: Brent Clevlen, American baseball player
1983: Takuro Okuyama, Japanese footballer
1983: Martín Prado, Venezuelan baseball player
1982: Patrick Fugit, American actor and producer
1982: Takashi Tsukamoto, Japanese actor and singer
1981: Salem Al Fakir, Swedish singer and keyboard player
1981: Sririta Jensen, Thai actress and model
1981: Volkan Demirel, Turkish footballer
1981: Kristi Richards, Canadian skier
1980: Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist
1980: Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980: Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author
1979: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Japanese footballer
1978: Sergei Samsonov, Russian ice hockey player and scout
1978: Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean-English violinist and skier
1977: Jiří Jarošík, Czech footballer
1977: Sheeri Rappaport, American actress
1977: Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
1976: Bobby Fish, American professional wrestler
1976: Maneet Chauhan, Indian-American chef and author
1976: Wilson Raimundo Júnior, Brazilian footballer
1975: Nicola Mazzucato, Italian rugby player and coach
1975: Aron Ralston, American mountaineer and engineer
1973: Jason Johnson, American baseball player
1973: Semmy Schilt, Dutch kick-boxer and mixed martial artist
1972: Lee Clark, English footballer and manager
1972: Elissa, Lebanese singer
1972: Evan Coyne Maloney, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1972: Maria Mutola, Mozambican runner and coach
1972: Brad Radke, American baseball player
1971: Stefano Guidoni, Italian footballer
1971: Jorge Soto, Peruvian footballer
1971: Theodoros Zagorakis, Greek footballer and politician
1970: Karl Backman, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
1970: Felix Bwalya, Zambian boxer (d. 1997)
1970: Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
1970: Jonathan Stroud, English author
1970: Ruslana Taran, Ukrainian sailor
1969: Marek Napiórkowski, Polish jazz guitarist and composer
1969: Michael Tarnat, German footballer
1968: Dileep, Indian actor and producer
1968: Alain Auderset, Swiss author and illustrator
1968: Vinny Samways, English footballer and manager
1967: Simone Moro, Italian mountaineer and pilot
1967: Dejan Raičković, Montenegrin footballer and manager
1967: Scott Weiland, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1966: Steve Almond, American author and educator
1966: Kit Malthouse, English accountant and politician
1966: Hege Nerland, Norwegian lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
1966: Masanobu Takashima, Japanese actor
1965: Mohan Kapoor, Indian television and film actor
1964: Mary T. Meagher, American swimmer
1964: Mark Taylor, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
1964: Ian Wells, English footballer (d. 2013)
1963: David Hall, Australian horse trainer
1963: Marla Maples, American model and actress
1963: Tom McKean, Scottish runner
1960: Tom Nieto, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1959: Rick Carlisle, American basketball player and coach
1958: Gordon Cowans, English footballer
1958: David Hazeltine, American pianist and composer
1958: Simon Le Bon, English singer-songwriter
1958: Jonathan Shapiro, South African political cartoonist who uses the pseudonym Zapiro
1958: Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (d. 2009)
1957: Glenn Hoddle, English footballer and manager
1957: Peter Marc Jacobson, American actor, director, and producer
1956: Patty Sheehan, American golfer
1956: Babis Tsertos, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1955: Debra Bowen, American lawyer and politician, 31st Secretary of State of California
1954: Jan Duursema, American illustrator
1954: Mike Kelley, American artist and musician (d. 2012)
1954: Chris Tavaré, English cricketer and biologist
1953: Peter Firth, English actor
1953: Robert Picardo, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1952: Roberto Benigni, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
1952: Francis Fukuyama, American political scientist, economist, and author
1952: Atsuyoshi Furuta, Japanese footballer
1952: Topi Sorsakoski, Finnish singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1951: K. K. Downing, English guitarist and songwriter
1951: Carlos Frenk, Mexican-English physicist, cosmologist, and academic
1951: Nancy Jacobs, American politician
1951: Jayne Kennedy, American model, actress, and sportscaster
1950: Michael Driscoll, English economist and academic
1950: Fran Lebowitz, American author
1950: Július Šupler, Slovak ice hockey player and coach
1950: A. N. Wilson, English journalist, historian, and author
1949: Garry Tallent, American bass player and record producer
1946: Peter Martins, Danish dancer and choreographer
1946: Steven R. Nagel, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (d. 2014)
1946: Ivan Reitman, Slovak-Canadian actor, director, and producer (d. 2022)
1945: Arild Andersen, Norwegian bassist and composer
1945: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian union leader and politician, 35th President of Brazil
1945: Carrie Snodgress, American actress (d. 2004)
1944: J. A. Jance, American author and poet
1943: Carmen Argenziano, American actor and producer (d. 2019)
1943: Jerry Rook, American basketball player and coach
1942: Lee Greenwood, American singer-songwriter
1942: Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish journalist and politician
1941: Dave Costa, American football player (d. 2013)
1941: Warren Ryan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1941: Dick Trickle, American race car driver (d. 2013)
1940: John Gotti, American mob boss (d. 2002)
1940: Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic
1939: John Cleese, English actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer
1939: Suzy Covey, American scholar and academic (d. 2007)
1939: Dallas Frazier, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2022)
1938: Lara Parker, American actress and author
1936: Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author
1935: Maurício de Sousa, Brazilian journalist and cartoonist
1935: Charlie Tagawa, Japanese-American banjo player and educator (d. 2017)
1934: Giorgos Konstantinou, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
1933: Floyd Cramer, American singer and pianist (d. 1997)
1933: Ryō Hanmura, Japanese author (d. 2002)
1932: Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
1932: Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2020)
1932: Dolores Moore, American baseball player (d. 2000)
1932: Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1963)
1931: Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author (d. 2021)
1931: Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1930: Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (d. 2017)
1930: Barry Supple, English historian and academic
1929: Myra Carter, American actress (d. 2016)
1929: Bill George, American football player (d. 1982)
1929: Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
1928: Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
1927: Dominick Argento, American composer and educator (d. 2019)
1926: Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (d. 2010)
1926: Henri Fertet, French Resistance fighter (d. 1943)
1926: H. R. Haldeman, American businessman and diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (d. 1993)
1926: Takumi Shibano, Japanese author and translator (d. 2010)
1925: Warren Christopher, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (d. 2011)
1925: Jane Connell, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
1925: Paul Fox, English broadcaster
1925: Monica Sims, English radio host and producer (d. 2018)
1924: Bonnie Lou, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1923: Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (d. 1997)
1923: Ned Wertimer, American actor (d. 2013)
1922: Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
1922: Ruby Dee, American actress and poet (d. 2014)
1922: Michel Galabru, French actor and playwright (d. 2016)
1922: Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2014)
1921: Warren Allen Smith, American journalist, author, and activist (d. 2017)
1920: Nanette Fabray, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2018)
1920: K. R. Narayanan, Indian lawyer and politician, 10th President of India (d. 2005)
1918: Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian engineer and politician (d. 2003)
1918: Teresa Wright, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
1917: Augustine Harris, English bishop (d. 2007)
1917: Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and politician (d. 1993)
1915: Harry Saltzman, Canadian-French production manager and producer (d. 1994)
1914: Ahmet Kireççi, Turkish wrestler (d. 1979)
1914: Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (d. 1953)
1913: Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (d. 2016)
1913: Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1971)
1910: Jack Carson, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1963)
1910: Margaret Hutchinson Rousseau, American chemical engineer (d. 2000)
1908: Lee Krasner, American painter (d. 1984)
1906: Peter Blume, Belarusian-American painter and sculptor (d. 1992)
1906: Earle Cabell, American banker and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1975)
1906: Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer and educator (d. 2010)
1904: Riho Lahi, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1995)
1894: Agda Helin, Swedish actress (d. 1984)
1894: Oliver Leese, English-Welsh general (d. 1978)
1894: Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (d. 1946)
1890: Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (d. 1974)
1885: Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (d. 1948)
1884: Shirō Takasu, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
1877: Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (d. 1949)
1877: George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1943)
1868: William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (d. 1928)
1865: Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (d. 1958)
1858: Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1935)
1858: Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1936)
1858: Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
1854: William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade (d. 1914)
1844: Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1842: Giovanni Giolitti, Italian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1928)
1838: John Davis Long, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1915)
1814: Daniel H. Wells, American religious leader and politician, 3rd Mayor of Salt Lake City (d. 1891)
1811: Stevens T. Mason, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan (d. 1843)
1811: Isaac Singer, American actor and businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (d. 1875)
1806: Juan Seguín, American colonel, judge, and politician, 101st Mayor of San Antonio (d. 1890)
1782: Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1840)
1765: Nancy Storace, English soprano (d. 1817)
1760: August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (d. 1831)
1744: Mary Moser, English painter and academic (d. 1819)
1703: Johann Gottlieb Graun, German violinist and composer (d. 1771)
1661: Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral (d. 1728)
1615: Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, (d. 1691)
1572: Marie Elisabeth of France, French princess (d. 1578)
1561: Mary Sidney, English writer, patroness and translator (d. 1621)
1401: Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
1335: Taejo of Joseon (d. 1408)
1156: Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (d. 1222)
921: Chai Rong, Chinese emperor (d. 959)
892: Emperor Ai of Tang, Chinese emperor (d. 908)

Deaths On This Day

2019: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL); suicide (b. 1971)
2018: Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, chairman of Leicester City F.C (b. 1958)
2016: Takahito, Prince Mikasa, member of the Imperial Family of Japan (b. 1915)
2015: Ayerdhal, French author (b. 1959)
2015: Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Indian pharmacologist and academic (b. 1930)
2015: Betsy Drake, French-American actress and singer (b. 1923)
2015: Philip French, English journalist, critic, and producer (b. 1933)
2014: Daniel Boulanger, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2014: Shin Hae-chul, South Korean singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1968)
2014: Starke Taylor, American soldier and politician, mayor of Dallas (b. 1922)
2013: Noel Davern, Irish lawyer and politician, Minister for Education and Skills (b. 1945)
2013: Leonard Herzenberg, American immunologist, geneticist, and academic (b. 1931)
2013: Luigi Magni, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013: Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1942)
2013: Michael Wilkes, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (b. 1940)
2013: Vinko Coce, Croatian opera and pop singer (b. 1954)
2012: Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
2012: Angelo Maria Cicolani, Italian engineer and politician (b. 1952)
2012: Regina Dourado, Brazilian actress (b. 1952)
2012: Hans Werner Henze, German composer and educator (b. 1926)
2012: Rodney S. Quinn, American colonel, pilot, and politician, 44th Secretary of State of Maine (b. 1923)
2012: Göran Stangertz, Swedish actor and director (b. 1944)
2011: James Hillman, American psychologist and author (b. 1926)
2011: Robert Pritzker, American businessman, co-founded Marmon Group (b. 1926)
2010: Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (b. 1950)
2009: John David Carson, American actor (b. 1952)
2009: August Coppola, American author and academic (b. 1934)
2009: David Shepherd, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1940)
2008: Chris Bryant, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2008: Ray Ellis, American conductor and producer (b. 1923)
2008: Frank Nagai, Japanese singer (b. 1932)
2008: Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman (b. 1925)
2007: Moira Lister, South African actress (b. 1923)
2006: Jozsef Gregor, Hungarian opera singer (b. 1940)
2006: Reko Lundán, Finnish journalist and author (b. 1969)
2006: Marlin McKeever, American football player (b. 1940)
2006: Joe Niekro, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2006: Brad Will, American journalist and activist (b. 1970)
2005: Jerry Cooke, Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1921)
2004: Lester Lanin, American bandleader (b. 1907)
2004: Paulo Sérgio Oliveira da Silva, Brazilian footballer (b. 1974)
2004: Zdenko Runjić, Croatian songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
2003: Rod Roddy, American game show announcer (b. 1937)
2003: Stephanie Tyrell, American songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
2002: Tom Dowd, American record producer and engineer (b. 1925)
2002: Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
2001: Pradeep Kumar, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1925)
2000: Walter Berry (bass-baritone), Austrian lyric bass-baritone (b. 1929)
1999: Robert Mills, American physicist and academic (b. 1927)
1999: Charlotte Perriand, French architect and designer (b. 1903)
1997: Mahala Andrews, British vertebrae palaeontologist (b. 1939)
1996: Arthur Tremblay, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
1992: David Bohm, American-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1917)
1992: Allen R. Schindler, Jr. American sailor (b. 1969)
1991: George Barker, English author and poet (b. 1913)
1990: Xavier Cugat, Spanish-American violinist, bandleader, and actor (b. 1900)
1990: Jacques Demy, French actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
1990: Elliott Roosevelt, American general and author (b. 1910)
1990: Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1988: Charles Hawtrey, English actor, singer, and pianist (b. 1914)
1982: Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, President of Guatemala (1958 - 1963) (b. 1895)
1980: Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1924)
1980: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1977: James M. Cain, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
1975: Rex Stout, American detective novelist (b. 1886)
1974: C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician and academic (b. 1938)
1968: Lise Meitner, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1878)
1962: Rudolf Anderson, American soldier and pilot (b. 1927)
1962: Enrico Mattei, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
1957: James McGirr, Australian politician, 28th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1890)
1953: Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873)
1949: Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)
1947: William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
1944: Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
1942: Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
1935: Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
1930: Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
1929: Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)
1927: Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
1926: Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (b. 1887)
1917: Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
1880: Thrasyvoulos Zaimis, Greek soldier and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1822)
1816: Santō Kyōden, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1761)
1812: Isaac Brock, British army officer and administrator, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (b. 1769)
1789: John Cook, American farmer and politician, 6th Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1675: Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
1674: Hallgrímur Pétursson, Icelandic minister and poet (b. 1614)
1670: Vavasor Powell, Welsh minister (b. 1617)
1666: Robert Hubert, French watchmaker (b. 1640)
1617: Ralph Winwood, English lawyer and politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1563)
1613: Gabriel Báthory, Prince of Transylvania (b. 1589)
1605: Akbar, Mughal emperor (b. 1542)
1573: Laurentius Petri, Swedish archbishop (b. 1499)
1561: Lope de Aguirre, Spanish explorer (b. 1510)
1553: Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (b. 1511)
1513: George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros, English nobleman
1505: Ivan III of Russia (b. 1440)
1485: Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch philosopher, poet and educator (b. 1443)
1449: Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (b. 1394)
1441: Margery Jourdemayne, executed for treasonable witchcraft
1439: Albert II of Germany (b. 1397)
1430: Vytautas, Lithuanian ruler (b. 1350)
1331: Abulfeda, Arab historian and geographer (b. 1273)
1329: Mahaut, Countess of Artois (b. 1268)
1327: Elizabeth de Burgh, queen of Robert the Bruce
1326: Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester (b. 1262)
1312: John II, Duke of Brabant (b. 1275)
1303: Beatrice of Castile, wife of King Afonso III of Portugal
1277: Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor of England
1272: Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1213)
1269: Ulrich III, Duke of Carinthia (b. c.1220)
1052: Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir
939: Æthelstan, English king

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