The time is now 5:55 am

You last visited
June 4, 2026, 10:59 pm

All times shown are
Eastern Time (GMT-5:00)

September 10

On This Day in History

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

2025: North Carolina man scoops $2 million in Powerball thanks to family numbers. A North Carolina man is in the market for a new home after family numbers scooped him a $2 million Powerball lottery prize.
2024: Florida man wins $1 million in scratch-off game. A Floridian has claimed a massive scratch-off lottery prize that propels them toward millionaire status.
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.$800 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2024
2.$526.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2023
3.$408.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2021
4.$381 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2025
5.$368 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2021
6.€268.99 Million US$272.03 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2022
7.$248.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2013
8.$231 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
9.€159 Million US$217.35 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2011
10.$207 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2018
11.$205 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2016
12.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2005
13.$185.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2022
14.$167 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2015
15.€149 Million
US$164.56 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2019
16.€137.61 Million
US$154.57 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2016
17.$154 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2019
18.€143 Million
US$143.63 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
19.$141 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2023
20.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2006
21.$135 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2006
22.$134.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 11, 2024
23.$132 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2018
24.$127 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 10, 2014
25.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2016

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2000: JackedNY
Sunday, Sep 10, 2000
25 years old
1990: debracjackson
Monday, Sep 10, 1990
35 years old
1990: shevaaurelia
Monday, Sep 10, 1990
35 years old
1982: MDRAJIBTALUKDAR
Friday, Sep 10, 1982
43 years old
1982: smileylove140
Friday, Sep 10, 1982
43 years old
1976: twist88
Friday, Sep 10, 1976
49 years old
1974: dee130come
Tuesday, Sep 10, 1974
51 years old
1971: SLEEPYOMARJONES
Friday, Sep 10, 1971
54 years old
1966: PipSqueek
Saturday, Sep 10, 1966
59 years old
1966: god1st
Saturday, Sep 10, 1966
59 years old
1965: angelchick
Friday, Sep 10, 1965
60 years old
1964: dam1024
Thursday, Sep 10, 1964
61 years old
1963: Blessed63
Tuesday, Sep 10, 1963
62 years old
1959: nowere34
Thursday, Sep 10, 1959
66 years old
1957: Dreamhorse
Tuesday, Sep 10, 1957
68 years old
1957: juli10
Tuesday, Sep 10, 1957
68 years old
1953: crash
Thursday, Sep 10, 1953
72 years old
1945: sparkie68
Monday, Sep 10, 1945
80 years old
1944: rsmith830
Sunday, Sep 10, 1944
81 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 $77.2 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: The first world individual Speedway World Championship was held at London's 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.
1724: Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.
1640: Reapers' War: Junta de Braços (Assembly of Estates) of the Principality of Catalonia summoned. It assumes the sovereignty and enacts a series of revolutionary mesures which will lead to the Catalan Republic.
1622: Fifty-five Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom.
1608: John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1607: Edward Maria Wingfield is 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.
1089: The first synod of pope Urban II starts in Melfi, with seventy bishops and twelve abbots in attendance. The synod issues several decrees about church law and deals with the relation with the Greek part of the Church.
506: The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

Births On This Day

2004: Gabriel Bateman, American actor
2001: Armando Broja, Albanian-born English footballer
2001: Nick Cross, American football player
1999: Laura Taylor, Australian swimmer
1998: Anna Blinkova, Russian tennis player
1998: Sheck Wes, American rapper
1997: Brooke Henderson, Canadian golfer
1997: Troy Terry, American ice hockey player
1995: Jack Grealish, English footballer
1995: Matt Rife, American comedian and actor
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
1991: Sam Morsy, Egyptian 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
1988: Jared Lee Loughner, American mass murderer
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
1980: Tetsuya Yamagami, Japanese assassin of Shinzo Abe
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 (died 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 (died 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 (died 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 (died 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 (died 2002)
1941: Christopher Hogwood, English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (died 2014)
1941: Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (died 1997)
1940: Roy Ayers, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer (died 2025)
1940: Buck Buchanan, American football player (died 1992)
1940: Bob Chance, American baseball player (died 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 (died 2015)
1936: Peter Lovesey, British writer (died 2025)
1935: Mary Oliver, American poet (died 2019)
1934: Charles Kuralt, American journalist (died 1997)
1934: Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (died 1985)
1934: Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (died 2014)
1934: Larry Sitsky, Australian pianist, composer, and educator
1934: Mr. Wrestling II, American wrestler (died 2020)
1933: Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel and cosmonaut (died 2000)
1933: Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer and photographer (died 2019)
1932: Bo Goldman, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (died 2023)
1931: Isabel Colegate, English author and agent (died 2023)
1931: Philip Baker Hall, American actor (died 2022)
1930: Aino Kukk, Estonian chess player and engineer (died 2006)
1929: Michel Bélanger, Canadian businessman and banker (died 1997)
1929: John Golding, English historian, scholar, and curator (died 2012)
1929: Arnold Palmer, American golfer and businessman (died 2016)
1928: Roch Bolduc, Canadian civil servant and politician
1928: Walter Ralston Martin, American minister and author, founded the Christian Research Institute (died 1989)
1928: Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and humanitarian, founded L'Arche (died 2019)
1927: Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (died 2015)
1926: Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (died 2008)
1925: Roy Brown, American singer-songwriter (died 1981)
1925: Dick Lucas, English minister and cleric
1925: Boris Tchaikovsky, Russian pianist and composer (died 1996)
1924: Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and coach (died 1988)
1924: Boyd K. Packer, American educator and religious leader, 26th President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (died 2015)
1923: Glen P. Robinson, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta (died 2013)
1921: Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (died 2000)
1921: John W. Morris, American general (died 2013)
1920: Fabio Taglioni, Italian engineer (died 2001)
1919: Lex van Delden, Dutch composer (died 1988)
1917: Miguel Serrano, Chilean poet and diplomat (died 2009)
1915: Edmond O'Brien, American actor (died 1985)
1914: Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, Anglo-Irish captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (died 1990)
1914: Robert Wise, American director and producer (died 2005)
1913: Lincoln Gordon, American academic and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Brazil (died 2009)
1912: Basappa Danappa Jatti, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th Vice President of India (died 2002)
1908: Angus Bethune, Australian soldier and politician, 33rd Premier of Tasmania (died 2004)
1908: Raymond Scott, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1994)
1908: Waldo Rudolph Wedel, American archaeologist and author (died 1996)
1907: Alva R. Fitch, American general (died 1989)
1907: Dorothy Hill, Australian geologist and palaeontologist (died 1997)
1906: Karl Wien, German geographer, academic, and mountaineer (died 1937)
1904: Honey Craven, American horse rider and manager (died 2003)
1904: Max Shachtman, American theorist and politician (died 1972)
1903: Cyril Connolly, English author and critic (died 1974)
1898: Bessie Love, American actress (died 1986)
1898: Waldo Semon, American chemist and engineer (died 1999)
1897: Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet (died 1962)
1897: Hilde Hildebrand, German actress and singer (died 1976)
1896: Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer (died 1981)
1896: Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada (died 1970)
1896: Ye Ting, Chinese general (died 1946)
1895: Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author (died 1976)
1894: Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin (died 1956)
1892: Arthur Compton, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
1890: Bob Heffron, New Zealand-Australian miner and politician, 30th Premier of New South Wales (died 1978)
1890: Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian-French fashion designer (died 1973)
1890: Franz Werfel, Austrian-Bohemian author, poet, and playwright (died 1945)
1890: Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist and officer (died 1976)
1889: Ivar Böhling, Finnish wrestler (died 1929)
1888: Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (died 1976)
1887: Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (died 1978)
1887: Kenneth Mason, English soldier and geographer (died 1976)
1887: Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (died 1961)
1886: H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (died 1961)
1885: Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (died 1955)
1885: Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (died 1950)
1884: Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (died 1964)
1880: Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (died 1966)
1880: Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Native American activist (died 1947)
1876: Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (died 1942)
1875: George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist (died 1957)
1874: Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (died 1954)
1872: Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (died 1933)
1871: Charles Collett, English engineer (died 1952)
1866: Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (died 1930)
1864: Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (died 1933)
1860: Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (died 1938)
1852: Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (died 1937)
1852: Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (died 1935)
1844: Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (died 1918)
1839: Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (died 1912)
1839: Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (died 1914)
1836: Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (died 1906)
1821: William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (died 1897)
1801: Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (died 1881)
1793: Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (died 1834)
1788: Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (died 1868)
1787: John J. Crittenden, American statesman and politician (died 1863)
1787: Justina Jeffreys, Jamaican-born British gentlewoman (died 1869)
1786: Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (died 1854)
1786: William Mason, American surgeon and politician (died 1860)
1758: Hannah Webster Foster, American author (died 1840)
1753: John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (died 1837)
1714: Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (died 1774)
1659: Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (died 1695)
1655: Caspar Bartholin the Younger, Danish anatomist (died 1738)
1638: Maria Theresa of Spain (died 1683)
1624: Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (died 1689)
1588: Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1666)
1561: Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (died 1634)
1550: Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (died 1615)
1547: George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1596)
1497: Wolfgang Musculus, German theologian (died 1563)
1487: Pope Julius III (died 1555)
1423: Eleanor, Princess of Asturias (died 1425)
904: Guo Wei, posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Later Zhou
877: Eutychius, patriarch of Alexandria (died 940)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (born 1946)
2024: Jim Sasser, American lawyer and politician, 6th United States Ambassador to China (born 1936)
2023: Ian Wilmut, British embryologist (born 1944)
2020: Diana Rigg, British actress (born 1938)
2015: Norman Farberow, American psychologist and academic (born 1918)
2015: Adrian Frutiger, Swiss typeface designer (born 1928)
2015: Antoine Lahad, Lebanese general (born 1927)
2014: Emilio Botín, Spanish banker and businessman (born 1934)
2014: Richard Kiel, American actor (born 1939)
2014: Edward Nelson, American mathematician and academic (born 1932)
2014: George Spencer, American baseball player (born 1926)
2014: Paul K. Sybrowsky, American religious leader and academic (born 1944)
2013: John Hambrick, American journalist and actor (born 1940)
2013: Ibrahim Makhous, Syrian politician, Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1925)
2013: Josef Němec, Czech boxer (born 1933)
2013: Clay Shaw, American accountant and politician (born 1939)
2013: Jack Vance, Canadian general (born 1933)
2012: Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (born 1934)
2012: Robert Gammage, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1938)
2012: Lance LeGault, American actor and stuntman (born 1935)
2012: Stanley Long, English director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1933)
2012: John Moffatt, English actor and playwright (born 1922)
2011: Cliff Robertson, American actor (born 1923)
2008: Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1929)
2008: Vernon Handley, English conductor (born 1930)
2007: Anita Roddick, English businesswoman, founded The Body Shop (born 1942)
2007: Joe Sherlock, Irish politician (born 1930)
2007: Ted Stepien, American businessman (born 1925)
2007: Jane Wyman, American actress (born 1917)
2006: Patty Berg, American golfer (born 1918)
2006: Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Tongan king (born 1918)
2005: Hermann Bondi, Austrian mathematician and cosmologist (born 1919)
2005: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer and guitarist (born 1924)
2004: Brock Adams, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th United States Secretary of Transportation (born 1927)
2000: Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (born 1921)
1996: Joanne Dru, American actress (born 1922)
1996: Hans List, Austrian scientist and inventor (born 1896)
1994: Charles Drake, American actor (born 1917)
1991: Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (born 1908)
1988: Virginia Satir, American psychotherapist and author (born 1916)
1987: Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (born 1937)
1985: Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1893)
1985: Jock Stein, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1922)
1983: Felix Bloch, Swiss-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
1983: Norah Lofts, English author (born 1904)
1983: Jon Brower Minnoch, American heaviest man (born 1941)
1983: B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (born 1915)
1979: Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, 1st President of Angola (born 1922)
1976: Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (born 1905)
1975: Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator (born 1899)
1975: George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
1973: Cornelia Meigs, American author and playwright (born 1884)
1971: Pier Angeli, Italian-American actress and singer (born 1932)
1968: Erna Mohr, German zoologist (born 1894)
1966: Emil Julius Gumbel, German mathematician and statistician (born 1891)
1965: Father Divine, American spiritual leader (born 1880)
1961: Leo Carrillo, American actor and singer (born 1880)
1961: Wolfgang von Trips, German race car driver (born 1928)
1954: Peter Anders, German tenor and actor (born 1908)
1952: Youssef Aftimus, Lebanese engineer and architect, designed the Beirut City Hall (born 1866)
1948: Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (born 1861)
1940: Issy Smith, British-Australian soldier and Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1890)
1939: Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig, German general (born 1888)
1938: Charles Cruft, English businessman, founded Crufts (born 1852)
1937: Sergei Tretyakov, Russian author and playwright (born 1892)
1935: Huey Long, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana (born 1893)
1934: George Henschel, German-English pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1850)
1933: Giuseppe Campari, Italian race car driver (born 1892)
1933: Baconin Borzacchini, Italian race car driver (born 1898)
1933: Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish race car driver (born 1899)
1931: Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1869)
1931: Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (born 1886)
1923: Sukumar Ray, Indian poet and playwright (born 1887)
1922: Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (born 1840)
1919: J. F. Archibald, Australian journalist and publisher, founded the Archibald Prize (born 1856)
1915: Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Canadian physician and politician, 3rd Premier of Quebec (born 1822)
1915: Bagha Jatin, Indian philosopher and author (born 1879 )
1905: Pete Browning, American baseball player (born 1861)
1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria (born 1837)
1891: David Humphreys Storer, American physician and naturalist (born 1804)
1889: Charles III, Prince of Monaco (born 1818)
1867: Simon Sechter, Austrian organist, composer, and conductor (born 1788)
1851: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American minister and educator (born 1787)
1842: William Hobson, Irish-New Zealand soldier and politician, 1st Governor of New Zealand (born 1792)
1842: Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (born 1790)
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft, English philosopher, historian, and novelist (born 1759)
1759: Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian missionary and explorer (born 1703)
1749: Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (born 1706)
1748: Ignacia del Espíritu Santo, Filipino nun, founded the Religious of the Virgin Mary (born 1663)
1676: Gerrard Winstanley, English activist (born 1609)
1669: Henrietta Maria of France, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1609)
1607: Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Italian organist and composer (born 1545)
1604: William Morgan, Welsh bishop and translator (born 1545)
1591: Richard Grenville, English admiral and politician (born 1542)
1549: Anthony Denny, English politician (born 1501)
1519: John Colet, English theologian and scholar (born 1467)
1504: Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (born 1480)
1482: Federico da Montefeltro, Italian warlord (born 1422)
1479: Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati, Italian cardinal and humanist (born 1422)
1419: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (born 1371)
1384: Joanna of Dreux, Countess of Penthievre and Duchess of Brittany (born 1319)
1382: Louis I of Hungary (born 1326)
1364: Robert of Taranto, King of Albania
1308: Emperor Go-Nijō of Japan (born 1285)
1306: Nicholas of Tolentino, Italian mystic and saint (born 1245)
1281: John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (born 1237)
1217: William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon, English politician
1197: Henry II, Count of Champagne (born 1166)
1167: Matilda of England, Holy Roman Empress (born 1102)
954: Louis IV, king of West Francia (born 920)
952: Gao Xingzhou, Chinese general (born 885)
918: Baldwin II, Frankish margrave (born c. 865)
710: Li Chongfu, imperial prince of the Chinese Tang dynasty (born c. 680)
689: Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang dynasty
602: Dugu Qieluo, empress of the Chinese Sui dynasty (born 544)
210 BC: Qin Shi Huang, first emperor of China (born 260 BC)

Guest