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September 10

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September 10

September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 112 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: Best friends of 30 years split $15.7 million Lotto 6/49 lottery jackpot. A pair of longtime friends split a $15.7 million (US$12 million) Lotto 6/49 jackpot after playing the lottery together for the past three years.
2021: N.C. man wins three major lottery prizes from scratch-off tickets bought at the same store. A North Carolina man had his third stroke of luck this Labor Day when he won his third major scratch-off prize, having bought every one of those winning tickets at the same lottery retailer.
2020: Illinois lottery player wins $1 million Powerball prize and $10K scratch-off prize in a week. A Loves Park, Illinois, resident is over-the-moon after one major lottery prize leads to another, all within the same week.
2020: New Jersey Lottery to begin reopening headquarters for in-person claims. Starting Monday, Sept. 14, 2020, the New Jersey Lottery will begin allowing players to file some claims in-person at Lottery headquarters in Lawrence by appointment only.
2019: Missouri couple claim their second major lottery prize. A Missouri couple who won a $3.7 million lottery prize in 2007 saw their luck heat up a second time last week, narrowly missing out on another multi-million dollar prize.
2018: Last defendant in Jamaican lottery scam case going to trial. A Rhode Island woman accused of funneling lottery scam money between the U.S. and Jamaica through her airline job goes on trial in federal court in North Dakota this week.
2018: Oregon Lottery glitch in July made all Keno tickets losers. The Oregon Lottery's Keno game turned sour in the early morning hours of July 23, when scanners read all Keno tickets as losers, even when they weren't.
2017: Florida Lottery temporarily suspends daily drawings. An executive order issued Sunday by Gov. Rick Scott has temporarily suspended Florida Lottery drawings as Hurricane Irma bears down on the state.
2016: RI man nearly throws away $50,000 Powerball ticket. A Rhode Island man nearly threw out a $50,000 winning lottery ticket he bought months earlier.
2015: Illinois lottery winners file class-action lawsuit against state. A pair of lottery winners have filed a federal lawsuit against the Illinois Lottery, which still is selling tickets despite its inability to pay prizes greater than $25,000 until state lawmakers pass a budget.
2014: Illinois Lottery cancels My3 game. Illinois lottery officials, acting on the recommendation of its private manager, Northstar Lottery Group, announced Tuesday they are removing My3 from its draw game portfolio.
2013: Convicted murderer Dee Dee Moore denies killing lotto winner. Dee Dee Moore, the woman who was convicted of murdering Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, said in an interview from prison that she was not guilty and blamed her legal team for her guilty verdict.
2011: $107 million lottery winner turns out to be son of Marriott president. The 25 year-old winner of a $107 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot, about whom Lottery Post reported in August, is now revealed to be the son of the Marriott hotels president.
2010: Arkansas Lottery director survives attempted ouster. The director of the Arkansas Lottery survived an attempt this week to oust him from his job.
2010: Decision on privatizing Illinois Lottery 'within days'. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn could select a private firm to manage the Illinois State Lottery as soon as next week, but some lawmakers would rather keep the lottery under state government.
2009: 'Mind reader' lottery stunt debunked by British paper. The Lotto "miracle" performed by telly illusionist Derren Brown left millions mystified -- but today a British newspaper revealed how he might have done it.
2008: Winning Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in Maryland. A single ticket has won the grand prize in the Tuesday evening Mega Millions lottery drawing.
2008: Missouri Lottery sold tickets after game ended. The Missouri Lottery blundered Monday when it ended one numbers game and launched another, but will correct their mistake for players who saved their game tickets.
2008: Washington lottery winner claims jackpot anonymously. The winner of a $9.7 million Washington Lotto jackpot has claimed the prize more than a month after the drawing.
2008: Calif. man claims Daily Derby lottery jackpot. A Daily Derby Lottery ticket worth $651,867 was claimed by a man in his 80s who lives in the Tustin area, according to lottery officials.
2005: $200 Million lottery jackpot has Mega Millions players' attention. The hottest ticket in town these days is Mega Millions, now that the jackpot in the United States' biggest multi-state lottery game has reached $200 million.
2004: Mass. Lottery rolls out new game. The Massachusetts Lottery retired its 17-year-old Mass Millions game and replaced it with the new $2 CASH WinFall game.
2003: Merchants show strong interest in Tenn. lottery. To date, around 2,500 merchants representing as many as 2,900 Tennessee retail outlets have expressed an interest in selling lottery tickets next year, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. said Tuesday.
2003: Lottery chief says games will rarely be closed to public. Tennessee's new lottery chief cites three situations where operations of the games would be closed to public scrutiny - for recruiting employees, negotiating vendor contracts and discussing security issues.
2003: Lottery chief tours state. She's only been Tennessee's lottery chief for two days, but Rebecca Paul is already traveling the state gathering support for Tennessee's lottery. Wednesday she was in Memphis to talk with minority business owners.
2003: Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $65 Million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery increased to $65 million for Friday's game after there was no big winner in Tuesday night's $55 million drawing.
2003: Mega Millions or Powerball in Tennessee by July, Paul says. Tennesseans will get to play a multistate lottery game that offers giant jackpots - either Powerball or Mega Millions - by July 4, 2004, Rebecca Paul, who has been hired to run Tennessee's lottery, said yesterday.
2003: Lotto dream turns to dust. Some unlucky winner bought a Florida Lotto ticket worth $50 million in March, but lost his or her chance to cash it when the clock struck 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.
2003: Tenn. may pay Paul 6 times what Calif., Texas, Fla. pay lottery chiefs. Tennessee's new lottery director will make at least three times the salary - and perhaps as much as six times more - than the directors of many of the nation's largest state lotteries, a survey of lotteries shows.
2003: Paul recommends maximizing lottery prizes. Increasing lottery prizes by changing the law that sets aside nearly a third of game proceeds for scholarships will ultimately lead to more money for Tennessee students, the state's new lottery chief said Tuesday.
2003: Paul denies leaving Georgia lottery in quandary. Rebecca Paul, Tennessee's new lottery chief executive officer yesterday denied leaving the same position in Georgia because of problems with the Peach State's lottery scholarship program.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$526.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2023
2.$408.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2021
3.$368 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2021
4.€268.99 Million US$272.03 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2022
5.$248.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2013
6.$231 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
7.€159 Million US$217.35 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2011
8.$207 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2018
9.$205 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2016
10.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2005
11.$185.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2022
12.$167 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2015
13.€149 Million
US$164.56 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2019
14.€137.61 Million
US$154.57 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2016
15.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2019
16.€143 Million
US$143.63 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
17.$141 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2023
18.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2006
19.$135 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2006
20.$132 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2018
21.$127 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2014
22.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2016
23.$120 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2012
24.$115 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2017
25.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2012

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: debracjackson
Monday, Sep 10, 1990
33 years old
1990: shevaaurelia
Monday, Sep 10, 1990
33 years old
1982: MDRAJIBTALUKDAR
Friday, Sep 10, 1982
41 years old
1982: smileylove140
Friday, Sep 10, 1982
41 years old
1976: twist88
Friday, Sep 10, 1976
47 years old
1974: dee130come
Tuesday, Sep 10, 1974
49 years old
1971: SLEEPYOMARJONES
Friday, Sep 10, 1971
52 years old
1966: PipSqueek
Saturday, Sep 10, 1966
57 years old
1966: god1st
Saturday, Sep 10, 1966
57 years old
1965: angelchick
Friday, Sep 10, 1965
58 years old
1964: dam1024
Thursday, Sep 10, 1964
59 years old
1963: Blessed63
Tuesday, Sep 10, 1963
60 years old
1957: juli10
Tuesday, Sep 10, 1957
66 years old
1953: crash
Thursday, Sep 10, 1953
70 years old
1945: sparkie68
Monday, Sep 10, 1945
78 years old
1944: rsmith830
Sunday, Sep 10, 1944
79 years old
: glen mckinnie
(year not provided)
: moneylord02
(year not provided)
: redneckdoc
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: Death of Queen Elizabeth II: King Charles III is formally proclaimed as monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James's Palace.
2017: Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $64.76 billion (2017 USD) in damage.
2008: The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
2007: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2002: Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.
2001: Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
2001: During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.
2000: Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
1977: Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1976: A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1974: Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1967: The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1961: In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
1960: At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1943: World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
1942: World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1939: World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
1939: World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany receives royal assent.
1937: Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1936: First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1932: The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1919: The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ceding significant territories to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
1918: Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1897: Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
1858: George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1846: Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1813: The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1798: At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1776: American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1608: John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1607: Edward Maria Wingfield ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.
1573: German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg.
1570: Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1561: Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1547: The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1515: Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.
1509: An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
1419: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
506: The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

Births On This Day

2004: Gabriel Bateman, American actor
1999: Laura Taylor, Australian swimmer
1998: Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player
1997: Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
1997: Troy Terry, American ice hockey player
1994: Mohamed Sylla, French rapper
1993: Sam Kerr, Australian footballer
1992: Ricky Ledo, American basketball player
1992: Ayub Masika, Kenyan footballer
1991: Boadu Maxwell Acosty, Ghanaian footballer
1990: Corban Knight, Canadian ice hockey player
1989: Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer
1989: Matt Ritchie, English footballer
1989: Lee Sawyer, English footballer
1988: Bobby Sharp, Canadian wrestler
1988: Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player
1987: Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player
1987: Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
1987: Alex Saxon, American actor
1986: Angel McCoughtry, American basketball player
1986: Ashley Monroe, American singer-songwriter
1986: Eoin Morgan, Irish- English cricketer
1985: Aleksandrs Čekulajevs, Latvian footballer
1985: James Graham, English rugby league player
1985: Neil Walker, American baseball player
1984: Sander Post, Estonian footballer
1984: Harry Treadaway, English actor
1984: Luke Treadaway, English actor
1984: Drake Younger, American wrestler
1983: Fernando Belluschi, Argentinian footballer
1983: Shawn James, Guyanese-American basketball player
1983: Jérémy Toulalan, French footballer
1983: Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
1982: Misty Copeland, American ballerina and author
1982: Javi Varas, Spanish footballer
1981: Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player
1981: Germán Denis, Argentinian footballer
1981: Bonnie Maxon, American wrestler
1980: Roger Mason Jr., American basketball player
1980: Trevor Murdoch, American wrestler
1980: Mikey Way, American bass player and songwriter
1979: Jacob Young, American actor
1978: Julia Goldsworthy, English politician
1978: Alex Horne, British comedian
1978: Ramūnas Šiškauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
1977: Mike DiBiase, American wrestler
1977: Caleb Ralph, New Zealand rugby player
1976: Marty Holah, New Zealand rugby player
1976: Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
1976: Vassilis Lakis, Greek footballer
1976: Matt Morgan, American wrestler
1976: Reinder Nummerdor, Dutch volleyball player
1975: Dan O'Toole, Canadian sportscaster
1975: Melanie Pullen, American photographer
1974: Mohammad Akram, Pakistani cricketer and coach
1974: Mirko Filipović, Croatian mixed martial artist, boxer, and politician
1974: Ryan Phillippe, American actor and producer
1974: Ben Wallace, American basketball player
1973: Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer
1973: Mark Huizinga, Dutch martial artist
1973: Tim Stimpson, English rugby player
1972: James Duval, American actor and producer
1972: Bente Skari, Norwegian skier
1971: Joe Bravo, American jockey
1970: Ménélik, Cameroonian-French rapper
1970: Dean Gorré, Surinamese footballer and manager
1970: Paula Kelley, American singer-songwriter
1970: Neera Tanden, American lawyer and policy analyst
1969: Craig Innes, New Zealand rugby player
1969: Johnathon Schaech, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1968: Andreas Herzog, Austrian footballer and manager
1968: Big Daddy Kane, American rapper, producer, and actor
1968: Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter
1966: Yuki Saito, Japanese singer and actress
1966: Joe Nieuwendyk, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1964: Jack Ma, Chinese businessman, co-founder of Alibaba Group
1964: John E. Sununu, American engineer and politician
1963: Randy Johnson, American baseball player
1963: Bill Stevenson, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
1960: Alison Bechdel, American author and illustrator
1960: Margaret Ferrier, Scottish politician
1960: Colin Firth, English actor and producer
1960: Tim Hunter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960: David Lowery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959: Michael Earl, American actor, singer, and puppeteer (d. 2015)
1958: Chris Columbus, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1958: Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer-songwriter and producer
1957: Kate Burton, British-American actress
1957: Carol Decker, English singer-songwriter
1956: Johnnie Fingers, Irish keyboard player and songwriter
1955: Pat Mastelotto, American rock drummer
1954: Jackie Ashley, English journalist
1954: Lorely Burt, English politician
1954: Clark Johnson, American-Canadian actor
1954: Don Wilson, American kickboxer and actor
1953: Pat Cadigan, American science fiction author
1953: Amy Irving, American actress
1953: John Thurso, Scottish businessman and politician
1952: Medea Benjamin, American activist, founder of Code Pink
1952: Vic Toews, Paraguayan-Canadian lawyer and politician, 48th Canadian Minister of Justice
1951: Sarah Coakley, English philosopher, theologian, and academic
1951: Steve Keirn, American wrestler
1951: Bill Rogers, American golfer
1950: Rosie Flores, American singer and guitarist
1950: Tom Lund, Norwegian football player
1950: Joe Perry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949: Barriemore Barlow, English rock drummer and songwriter
1949: Babette Cole, English author and illustrator (d. 2017)
1949: Don Muraco, American wrestler
1949: Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and author
1948: Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese historian and author
1948: Brian Donohoe, Scottish politician
1948: Judy Geeson, English actress
1948: Bob Lanier, American basketball player and coach (d. 2022)
1948: Margaret Trudeau, Canadian actress and talk show host, 12th Spouse of the Prime Minister of Canada
1948: Charlie Waters, American football player, coach, and radio host
1947: Larry Nelson, American golfer
1947: David Pountney, English director and manager
1946: Michèle Alliot-Marie, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
1946: Jim Hines, American sprinter and football player (d. 2023)
1946: Don Powell, English rock drummer
1946: Patrick Norman, Canadian singer-songwriter
1945: José Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945: Gerard Henderson, Australian journalist and author
1945: Mike Mullane, American colonel and astronaut
1944: Thomas Allen, English actor, singer, and academic
1942: Danny Hutton, Irish-American singer
1941: Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and author (d. 2002)
1941: Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (d. 2014)
1941: Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (d. 1997)
1940: Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer
1940: Buck Buchanan, American football player (d. 1992)
1940: Bob Chance, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1938: David Hamilton, English radio and television host
1937: Jared Diamond, American biologist, geographer, and author
1937: Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1935: Mary Oliver, American poet (d. 2019)
1934: Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997)
1934: Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985)
1934: Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (d. 2014)
1934: Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator
1934: Mr. Wrestling II, American wrestler (d. 2020)
1933: Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and cosmonaut (d. 2000)
1933: Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer (d. 2019)
1932: Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2023)
1931: Isabel Colegate, English author and agent (d. 2023)
1931: Philip Baker Hall, American actor (d. 2022)
1930: Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (d. 2006)
1929: Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (d. 1997)
1929: John Golding, English historian, scholar, and curator (d. 2012)
1929: Arnold Palmer, American golfer and businessman (d. 2016)
1928: Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and politician
1928: Walter Ralston Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (d. 1989)
1928: Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche (d. 2019)
1927: Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (d. 2015)
1926: Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
1925: Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
1925: Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric
1925: Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1924: Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (d. 1988)
1924: Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (d. 2015)
1923: Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (d. 2013)
1921: Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (d. 2000)
1921: John W. Morris, American general (d. 2013)
1920: Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (d. 2001)
1919: Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (d. 1988)
1917: Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (d. 2009)
1915: Edmond O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1914: Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Anglo-Irish captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990)
1914: Robert Wise, American director and producer (d. 2005)
1913: Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (d. 2009)
1912: Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (d. 2002)
1908: Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (d. 2004)
1908: Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1994)
1908: Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (d. 1996)
1907: Alva R. Fitch, American general (d. 1989)
1907: Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1997)
1906: Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (d. 1937)
1904: Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (d. 2003)
1904: Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (d. 1972)
1903: Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (d. 1974)
1898: Bessie Love, American actress (d. 1986)
1898: Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (d. 1999)
1897: Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (d. 1962)
1897: Hilde Hildebrand, German actress and singer (d. 1976)
1896: Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
1896: Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (d. 1970)
1896: Ye Ting, Chinese general (d. 1946)
1895: Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (d. 1976)
1894: Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (d. 1956)
1892: Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1890: Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1978)
1890: Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 1973)
1890: Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1945)
1890: Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist and officer (d. 1976)
1889: Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (d. 1929)
1888: Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (d. 1976)
1887: Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1978)
1887: Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (d. 1976)
1887: Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (d. 1961)
1886: H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (d. 1961)
1885: Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955)
1885: Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (d. 1950)
1884: Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (d. 1964)
1880: Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (d. 1966)
1880: Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Native American activist (d. 1947)
1876: Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (d. 1942)
1875: George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist (d. 1957)
1874: Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (d. 1954)
1872: Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933)
1871: Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952)
1866: Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (d. 1930)
1864: Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (d. 1933)
1860: Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938)
1852: Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937)
1852: Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (d. 1935)
1844: Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (d. 1918)
1839: Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)
1839: Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (d. 1914)
1836: Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (d. 1906)
1821: William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897)
1801: Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)
1793: Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (d. 1834)
1788: Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (d. 1868)
1786: Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854)
1786: William Mason, American surgeon and politician (d. 1860)
1758: Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840)
1753: John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (d. 1837)
1714: Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774)
1659: Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (d. 1695)
1655: Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish anatomist (d. 1738)
1638: Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683)
1624: Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (d. 1689)
1588: Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1666)
1561: Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (d. 1634)
1550: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (d. 1615)
1547: George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596)
1497: Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (d. 1563)
1487: Pope Julius III (d. 1555)
1423: Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (d. 1425)
904: Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou
877: Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (d. 940)

Deaths On This Day

2020: Diana Rigg, British actress (b. 1938)
2015: Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (b. 1918)
2015: Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (b. 1928)
2015: Antoine Lahad, Lebanese general (b. 1927)
2014: Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (b. 1934)
2014: Richard Kiel, American actor (b. 1939)
2014: Edward Nelson, American mathematician and academic (b. 1932)
2014: George Spencer, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2014: Paul K. Sybrowsky, American religious leader and academic (b. 1944)
2013: John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (b. 1940)
2013: Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1925)
2013: Josef Němec, Czech boxer (b. 1933)
2013: E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant and politician (b. 1939)
2013: Jack Vance, Canadian general (b. 1933)
2012: Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (b. 1934)
2012: Robert Gammage, American captain, lawyer, and politician (b. 1938)
2012: Lance LeGault, American actor and stuntman (b. 1935)
2012: Stanley Long, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1933)
2012: John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (b. 1922)
2011: Cliff Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
2008: Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1929)
2008: Vernon Handley, English conductor (b. 1930)
2007: Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (b. 1942)
2007: Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (b. 1930)
2007: Ted Stepien, American businessman (b. 1925)
2007: Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
2006: Patty Berg, American golfer (b. 1918)
2006: Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (b. 1918)
2005: Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (b. 1919)
2005: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
2004: Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (b. 1927)
2000: Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (b. 1921)
1996: Joanne Dru, American actress (b. 1922)
1996: Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (b. 1896)
1994: Charles Drake, American actor (b. 1917)
1991: Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (b. 1908)
1988: Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (b. 1916)
1987: Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (b. 1937)
1985: Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
1985: Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
1983: Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1983: Norah Lofts, English author (b. 1904)
1983: Jon Brower Minnoch, American heaviest man (b. 1941)
1983: B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
1979: Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
1976: Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905)
1975: Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (b. 1899)
1975: George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1973: Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (b. 1884)
1971: Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (b. 1932)
1968: Erna Mohr, German zoologist (b. 1894)
1966: Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (b. 1891)
1965: Father Divine, American spiritual leader (b. 1880)
1961: Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (b. 1880)
1961: Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (b. 1928)
1954: Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (b. 1908)
1952: Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect, designed the Beirut City Hall (b. 1866)
1948: Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (b. 1861)
1939: Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (b. 1888)
1938: Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (b. 1852)
1937: Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (b. 1892)
1935: Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1893)
1934: George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1850)
1933: Giuseppe Campari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)
1933: Baconin Borzacchini, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
1933: Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (b. 1899)
1931: Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1869)
1931: Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (b. 1886)
1923: Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1887)
1922: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (b. 1840)
1919: J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher, founded the Archibald Prize (b. 1856)
1915: Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1822)
1915: Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1879 )
1905: Pete Browning, American baseball player (b. 1861)
1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1837)
1891: David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (b. 1804)
1889: Charles III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1818)
1867: Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1788)
1851: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (b. 1787)
1842: William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (b. 1792)
1842: Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790)
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (b. 1759)
1759: Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (b. 1703)
1749: Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1706)
1748: Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (b. 1663)
1676: Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (b. 1609)
1669: Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (b. 1609)
1607: Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1545)
1604: William Morgan, Welsh bishop and translator (b. 1545)
1591: Richard Grenville, English admiral and politician (b. 1542)
1549: Anthony Denny, English politician (b. 1501)
1519: John Colet, English theologian and scholar (b. 1467)
1504: Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1480)
1482: Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (b. 1422)
1479: Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, Italian cardinal and humanist (b. 1422)
1419: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1371)
1384: Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and Duchess of Brittany (b. 1319)
1382: Louis I of Hungary (b. 1326)
1364: Robert of Taranto, King of Albania
1308: Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (b. 1285)
1306: Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1245)
1281: John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (b. 1237)
1217: William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English politician
1197: Henry II, Count of Champagne (b. 1166)
1167: Matilda of England, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1102)
954: Louis IV, king of West Francia (b. 920)
952: Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (b. 885)
918: Baldwin II, Frankish margrave (b. c. 865)
710: Li Chongfu, imperial prince of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. c. 680)
689: Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
602: Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty (b. 544)
210 BC: Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China (b. 260 BC)

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