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September 12

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September 12

September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 110 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2025: Arkansas lottery player who waits for big jackpots rewarded with $100,000 in Powerball. An Arkansas man who prefers to wait to buy lottery tickets until the jackpots grow high enough had his patience rewarded when his strategy won him a $100,000 prize in Powerball.
2024: Massachusetts brother and sister win identical $25,000 a year for life lottery prizes. A brother and sister defied the odds by each winning $25,000 a year for life in the same Lucky for Life lottery drawing.
2023: $2 billion Powerball lottery winner Edwin Castro buys a third California mansion for $47 million. Edwin Castro, the winner of the largest lottery prize in history, has once again expanded his real-estate portfolio with the purchase of a $47 million mega mansion in Los Angeles, California.
2022: Major claim deadline approaching for Illinois lottery winner of $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot. A crucial deadline for claiming the record-breaking $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawn in July is approaching for the single Illinois-based lottery winner.
2020: Players vent frustrations as New York Lottery claim centers struggle to keep up. Players in New York City, and New York in general, have very limited options for claiming winnings since the pandemic hit, but players are increasingly growing more frustrated as wait times pile up with little relief in sight.
2017: Retired N.J. police chief scammed 95-year-old victim out of $29K. A retired New Jersey police chief pleaded no contest this morning to charges that he participated in a scam that cost a 95-year-old Northampton Township, Pennsylvania, man almost $29,000.
2017: Florida Lottery to resume drawings Tuesday. The Florida Lottery announced Monday that daily drawings will resume today and make-up drawings for all Lottery Draw games suspended due to Hurricane Irma will also be conducted in sequence Tuesday, September 12, with full security and auditing measures in place.
2016: NH family claims $487 million Powerball jackpot, wants 'to do great things'. Lawyers for a New Hampshire family claimed a $487 million Powerball jackpot on their behalf Monday, saying the winners wished to remain anonymous but would do "great things" with their newfound wealth.
2016: Idaho Lottery, legislature may be headed for showdown over new games. Idaho State Lottery officials are asking potential vendors to provide information on how they would offer Keno, simulated racing, fantasy sports and other illegal gambling games when they bid on a lucrative decade-long contract.
2016: Raised hackles and shears over a lottery card mix-up. A New Yorker has learned his lesson after he scratched off a lottery ticket at a lottery retailer without knowing its origin.
2015: Big payouts for Connecticut Lottery numbers players. Thousands of players of the Connecticut Lottery's Play 3 and Play 4 games are lining their pockets with some extra cash this weekend.
2014: Georgia Lottery cracks down on 'shadow winners'. The Georgia Lottery is launching a full-scale effort to crack down on so-called "shadow winners" -- people who take a percentage of the prize to stand in for the real winner.
2013: $317 MILLION: Huge Powerball lottery jackpot set for Saturday. Just over a month after the Powerball lottery created three mega-millionaires with a gigantic $448.4 million jackpot, the multi-state game is right back in the super-jackpot range with a massive $317 million grand prize up for grabs on Saturday.
2011: UK Lottery announces 'Millionaire Map'... but doesn't reveal the map. In a confounding twist of logic and reason, the UK National Lottery announced the creation of a 'Millionaire Map' that plots the number of winners in each region, but did not publish the map.
2011: Calif. woman uses family birthdates in lottery win. A Southern California woman won half of an $18 million California SuperLotto Plus jackpot, and she has her children and grandchildren to thank for the win.
2009: Arkansas Lottery scratch tickets, logo revealed. The first shipment of Arkansas Lottery tickets is being transported, and will arrive in the state Monday, Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue said Friday, and the lottery revealed its new logo.
2009: Fired lottery chief files $9M lawsuit. The fired chief executive of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is seeking $9 million from taxpayers in a wrongful dismissal suit for her lost $400,000-a-year job, sources say.
2008: Former Texas Lottery employee investigated for storing personal information at home. Authorities are investigating a former employee of the Texas Lottery Commission who illegally had the personal information of some employees, lottery winners and retailers stored on a home computer.
2008: Illinois House approves privatizing state lottery. Illinois would raise $10 billion for building roads and schools by privatizing its state-run lottery for half a century under a plan the House approved Wednesday night.
2008: International super lottery to create jackpots of $500 million or more. A massive, multi-country lottery with $500 million jackpots is expected to launch within four years.
2007: Retired auto worker, 2 children claim $314M Powerball lottery jackpot. A retired auto worker and his two adult children claimed a $314 million Powerball jackpot Monday after waiting two weeks to step forward.
2007: Ohio lottery winners say they won't go crazy. A Kinnikinnick, Ohio, man is ready to retire from his part-time job after winning the lottery last week.
2007: Iowa Lottery planning first ever raffle. They're used by all sorts of groups to raise money, and now the Iowa Lottery is preparing to launch its first ever raffle, joining several other state lotteries across the nation that have done the same.
2007: Major lottery winner says he's a fraud victim. British Columbia's biggest lottery winner claims he was bilked of more than $3.5 million less than 18 months after the windfall, by false friends helped by two Vancouver lawyers and an accountant.
2007: Jackpot winner says business as usual at executive assistant job. Judy Taylor won $93 million in the California Lottery, and said she was going to go back to work as an executive assistant.
2006: $5 Million lottery jackpot won by Canadian miltary women. A group of Canadian Forces women is getting a $5 million payout on Tuesday, but it isn't from the government.
2006: First N.C. lottery chairman Sanders resigns. The first chairman of the North Carolina lottery commission resigned Tuesday after a year on the job that began tumultuously and ended up with ticket sales of more than $400 million.
2006: Analyst's outlook on Scientific Games downgraded. A Bank of America analyst on Monday downgraded Scientific Games Corp., which sells instant lottery tickets to more than 50 countries, saying that he was bearish on growth expectations in Germany.
2006: Florida man claims $6 million Lotto jackpot. A trip to Publix netted a North Port, Florida, man $6 million.
2006: Second $1M lottery win for deli worker defies all odds. A Long Island woman who won one million dollars on a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again.
2006: Convenience Store Employee Accused Of Altering Lottery Tickets. A northern Kentucky woman has been indicted for allegedly altering lottery tickets.
2005: Texas Lottery critic applies for Director position. Dawn Nettles, the Garland woman who has made criticizing the troubled Texas Lottery Commission a full-time job in recent years, is applying for the job of running the state agency.
2005: Powerball lottery jackpot climbs to $80 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Powerball Saturday's drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $80 million, with a cash option of $40.5 million.
2005: Powerball lottery millionaire fields marriage, investment proposals. A 33-year-old Idaho man who won a state record $220.3 million Powerball lottery jackpot Memorial Day weekend has spent his summer appearing on TV shows, taking friends to Tahiti, fielding marriage proposals from strangers and starting to build a new stadium at his hometown high school.
2005: Lottery tickets may soon be sold on military bases. Congress is weighing a first-ever proposal from the Department of Defense to amend current law to allow lottery ticket sales in stateside exchanges, except where such sales would pinch the businesses of blind vendors already selling lottery tickets on base.
2005: Lottery vendors will fight for N.C. lottery business. Before North Carolina's lottery starts early next year, a handful of companies will jockey to win one of the state's biggest payouts: a lucrative contract to run the games.
2005: Will N.C. create a lottery-video poker partnership?. Video poker advocates are forwarding the idea of partnering video poker with North Caolina's new lottery increase revenue for the state.
2003: Florida couple wins $21 million Lotto. A couple who went shopping after lightning damaged a television left the store with a winning Lotto ticket worth $21 million.
2003: Florida Lawmaker: Large unclaimed lotto prizes should go to education. Instead of using an unclaimed $50 million Lotto jackpot to try to get more people to gamble, the state should have been able to spend the money on schools, a state lawmaker said Friday.
2003: Scientific Games to buy online lottery operator. Scientific Games Corp., a maker of betting equipment and lottery systems, on Friday said it would acquire International Game Technology's on-line lottery operator for $143 million in cash.
2003: B.C. man wants 10-year-old lottery ticket tested for his prints. A Vancouver man wants the courts to help him learn whether his fingerprints are on a decade-old $10 million lottery ticket.
2003: Minn. Lottery cuts staff, advertising, promotions despite record sales. The Minnesota Lottery will lay off 34 employees, nearly one-fifth of its workforce of 191, next month to meet state-imposed budget cuts, despite near-record sales stemming from changes in the popular multi-state Powerball game.
2003: Holmes to propose Alabama lottery bill. Alabama State Rep. Alvin Holmes said Wednesday he will introduce a bill to set up a state lottery during a special session of the Legislature that begins Monday.
2003: GTech signs contract extension with Danish lottery. GTech Corp. of West Greenwich, R.I., today announced that it has signed a two-year contract extension with Dansk Tipstjeneste A/S, the operator of the National Lottery in Denmark.
2003: Bredesen defends state lottery CEO's annual pay package. Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Thursday that Rebecca Paul's potential $752,000 annual salary package involves "a much more businesslike" arrangement than a similar amount paid to former University of Tennessee President John Shumaker.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$557.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2023
2.$419.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2021
3.$383 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2021
4.$381 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2025
5.$301 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2013
6.€270.29 Million US$271.48 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
7.$231 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
8.$227 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2018
9.$222 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2016
10.€159 Million
US$217.35 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2011
11.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2005
12.$194.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2022
13.€162 Million
US$179.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2019
14.$172 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2019
15.$167 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2015
16.€138.92 Million
US$155.95 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2016
17.$152.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2024
18.$149 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2014
19.€100 Million
US$147.08 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 18, 2009
20.€143 Million
US$143.63 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
21.$141 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2023
22.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2006
23.$135 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2006
24.$132 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 12, 2018
25.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2016

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1987: RKENNE912
Saturday, Sep 12, 1987
38 years old
1973: Irish1fan35
Wednesday, Sep 12, 1973
52 years old
1973: Thenewdays
Wednesday, Sep 12, 1973
52 years old
1970: sassyredhead
Saturday, Sep 12, 1970
55 years old
1969: Kaykay123
Friday, Sep 12, 1969
56 years old
1968: bainboy
Thursday, Sep 12, 1968
57 years old
1968: Charlynedorsett
Thursday, Sep 12, 1968
57 years old
1963: Lgordon21
Thursday, Sep 12, 1963
62 years old
1958: sweepy
Friday, Sep 12, 1958
67 years old
1958: Tumblindice58
Friday, Sep 12, 1958
67 years old
1957: Sputnik57
Thursday, Sep 12, 1957
68 years old
1953: Indianatom
Saturday, Sep 12, 1953
72 years old
1948: davidson1
Sunday, Sep 12, 1948
77 years old
1947: billmeeksasc
Friday, Sep 12, 1947
78 years old
1944: pokeatwat
Tuesday, Sep 12, 1944
81 years old
: fml4life
(year not provided)
: M0money$
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: spyc63
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: Answer me
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: Bctopgun143
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: csblues66
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: Rag12rap
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: Smiley804
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Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: Siberian Light Aviation Flight 51 crashes short of the runway at Kazachinskoye Airport, killing four.
2014: Synagogue Church building collapse saw the deaths of 115 people and several injured, in the Church run by Nigeria's, T. B. Joshua.
2013: NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
2012: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing 10 and injuring four.
2008: The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
2007: Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
2007: Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.
2005: Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the Israeli disengagement from Gaza is completed, leaving some 2,530 homes demolished.
2003: The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2003: Iraq War: In Fallujah, U.S. forces mistakenly shoot and kill eight Iraqi police officers.
2003: Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
2001: Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
1994: Frank Eugene Corder fatally crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. There were no other casualties.
1993: NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51.
1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
1992: Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Path's leadership fell as well.
1991: NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
1990: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
1990: The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
1988: Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
1984: Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
1983: A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
1983: The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
1980: The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.
1977: South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
1974: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, 'Messiah' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1970: Dawson's Field hijackings: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Zarqa, Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman.
1969: Philippine Air Lines Flight 158 crashes in Antipolo, near Manila International Airport in the Philippines, killing 45 people.
1966: Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).
1962: US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
1961: The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
1961: Air France Flight 2005 crashes near Rabat-Salé Airport, in Rabat, Morocco, killing 77 people.
1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.
1959: Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color, is launched in the United States.
1958: Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
1953: U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1944: World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.
1943: World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1942: World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
1942: World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army troops.
1940: Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1940: The Hercules Powder plant disaster in the United States kills 51 people and injures over 200.
1938: Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1923: Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1915: French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
1910: Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
1906: The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
1897: Tirah campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
1890: Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1885: Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional association football.
1857: The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship was carrying 13-15 tons of gold from the California gold rush.
1848: A new constitution marks the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state.
1847: Mexican-American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
1814: Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.
1683: Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
1634: A gunpowder factory explodes in Valletta, Malta, killing 22 people and damaging several buildings.
1609: Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1309: The First siege of Gibraltar takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada resulting in a Castilian victory.
1297: The Treaty of Alcañices, mediated by the pope, between the king Denis of Portugal and king Ferdinand IV of Castile defines the border between the two countries and establishes an alliance of friendship.
1229: Battle of Portopí: The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island.
1213: Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret.
372: Sixteen Kingdoms: Sima Yao, age 10, succeeds his father Emperor Jianwen as Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin dynasty.
490 BC: Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.

Births On This Day

2001: Ziaire Williams, American basketball player
1999: Jerome Ford, American football player
1997: Sydney Sweeney, American actress
1997: Almida de Val, Swedish curler
1996: Colin Ford, American actor
1995: Steven Gardiner, Bahamian sprinter
1994: Druski, American comedian and actor
1994: RM, South Korean rapper, songwriter and record producer
1994: Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis player
1993: Kelsea Ballerini, American country pop singer
1992: Alexia Fast, Canadian actress
1992: Sviatlana Pirazhenka, Belarusian tennis player
1991: Mike Towell, Scottish professional boxer (died 2016)
1991: Scott Wootton, English footballer
1989: Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player
1989: Andrew Luck, American football player
1988: Amanda Jenssen, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1988: Guðmundur Ari Sigurjónsson, Icelandic politician
1986: Alfie Allen, English actor
1986: Akwasi Fobi-Edusei, English footballer
1986: Joanne Jackson, English swimmer
1986: Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer
1986: Dimitrios Regas, Greek sprinter
1986: Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress
1984: Nashat Akram, Iraqi footballer
1984: Chelsea Carey, Canadian curler
1984: Petra Marklund, Swedish singer
1983: Tom Geißler, German footballer
1983: Rami Haikal, Jordanian guitarist
1983: Sebastian Hofmann, German footballer
1983: Daniel Muir, American football player
1983: Sergio Parisse, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1983: Clayton Richard, American baseball player
1983: Carly Smithson, Irish singer-songwriter
1983: Niels Tas, Belgian politician
1982: Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player
1982: Sal Rinauro, American wrestler
1981: Marty Adams, Canadian actor and screenwriter
1981: Alan Arruda, Brazilian footballer
1981: Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress
1981: Staciana Stitts, American swimmer
1980: Sean Burroughs, American baseball player (died 2024)
1980: Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer
1980: Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
1980: Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player
1980: Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player (died 2011)
1978: Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
1978: Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
1978: Ruben Studdard, American R&B, pop, and gospel singer
1977: Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
1977: Grant Denyer, Australian racing driver and journalist
1977: Jeff Irwin, American singer-songwriter and producer
1977: David Thompson, English footballer
1976: Lauren Stamile, American actress
1976: Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
1975: Luis Castillo, Dominican baseball player
1975: Bill Kirby, Australian swimmer and coach
1974: Caroline Aigle, French soldier and pilot (died 2007)
1974: Jennifer Nettles, American singer-songwriter
1974: Guy Smith, English race car driver
1974: Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor and singer-songwriter
1974: Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer and coach
1973: Kara David, Filipino journalist and documentarian
1973: Martina Ertl-Renz, German skier
1973: Martin Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1973: Paul Walker, American actor (died 2013)
1972: Gideon Emery, English-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1972: Paul Green, Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2022)
1972: Sidney Souza, Brazilian footballer
1971: Younes El Aynaoui, Moroccan tennis player
1971: Shocker, Mexican wrestler
1970: Will Chase, American actor, director, and singer
1970: Nathan Larson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Max Boot, Russian-American historian and author
1969: Ángel Cabrera, Argentinian golfer
1969: James Frey, American author and screenwriter
1969: Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
1968: Larry LaLonde, American guitarist and songwriter
1968: Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, English politician (died 2014)
1968: Richard Snell, South African cricketer and physiotherapist
1968: Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian, actor, and writer
1967: Louis C.K., American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1967: Pat Listach, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1966: Darren E. Burrows, American actor
1966: Ben Folds, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1966: Vezio Sacratini, Canadian ice hockey player
1965: Einstein Kristiansen, Norwegian animator and producer
1965: Vernon Maxwell, American basketball player
1965: Midnight, Jamaican wrestler
1964: Greg Gutfeld, American television journalist and author
1964: Dieter Hecking, German footballer and manager
1962: Sunay Akın, Turkish poet, journalist, and philanthropist
1962: Amy Yasbeck, American actress
1961: Mylène Farmer, Canadian-French singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1960: Road Warrior Animal, American wrestler (died 2020)
1960: Evan Jenkins, American academic and politician
1960: Stefanos Korkolis, Greek pianist and composer
1959: Scott Brown, American colonel and politician
1959: Deron Cherry, American football player and sportscaster
1959: Sigmar Gabriel, German educator and politician, 17th Vice-Chancellor of Germany
1958: Wilfred Benítez, American boxer
1958: Gregg Edelman, American actor and singer
1957: Paul M. Sharp, British academic and educator
1957: Jan Egeland, Norwegian politician, diplomat and humanitarian
1957: Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress
1957: Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer
1956: Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (died 2003)
1956: David Goodhart, English journalist and author
1956: BA Robertson, Scottish songwriter
1956: Walter Woon, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 7th Attorney-General of Singapore
1955: Peter Scolari, American actor (died 2021)
1955: Brian Smith, English footballer (died 2013)
1954: Robert Gober, American sculptor
1954: Scott Hamilton, American saxophonist
1954: Peeter Volkonski, Estonian singer-songwriter and actor
1953: Nan Goldin, American photographer
1952: Gerry Beckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952: Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 2020)
1951: Bertie Ahern, Irish accountant and politician, 11th Taoiseach of Ireland
1951: Norm Dubé, Canadian ice hockey player
1951: Ray Gravell, Welsh rugby player and actor (died 2007)
1951: Joe Pantoliano, American actor and producer
1951: Ali-Ollie Woodson, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2010)
1950: Marguerite Blais, Canadian journalist and politician
1950: Gustav Brunner, Austrian engineer
1950: Bruce Mahler, American actor and screenwriter
1950: Mike Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1949: Charles Burlingame, American captain and pilot (died 2001)
1949: Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skater and politician
1948: Steve Turre, American trombonist and educator
1948: Max Walker, Australian footballer, cricketer, sportscaster, and architect (died 2016)
1947: David Grant, English engineer and academic
1947: Gerald Howarth, English soldier, pilot, and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy
1947: Christopher Neame, English actor
1946: Tony Bellamy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2009)
1946: Neil Lyndon, British journalist and writer
1945: Russell "Jungle Jim" Liberman, American drag racer (died 1977)
1945: Milo Manara, Italian author and illustrator
1945: John Mauceri, American conductor and producer
1944: Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (died 1978)
1944: Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conductor
1944: Barry White, American singer-songwriter (died 2003)
1943: Ralph Neely, American football player (died 2022)
1943: Michael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet
1942: Michel Drucker, French journalist
1942: Tomás Marco, Spanish composer
1942: Maria Muldaur, American folk and blues singer
1942: François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic (died 2004)
1940: Linda Gray, American model and actress
1939: Henry Waxman, American lawyer and politician
1938: Judy Clay, American soul and gospel singer (died 2001)
1938: Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)
1938: Tatiana Troyanos, American operatic soprano (died 1993)
1937: George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer
1937: Wes Hall, Barbadian cricketer and politician
1935: Richard Hunt, American sculptor (died 2023)
1934: Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (died 2009)
1934: Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher and academic (died 2019)
1934: Nellie Wong, Chinese American poet and activist
1932: Atli Dam, Faroese engineer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (died 2005)
1931: Ian Holm, English actor (died 2020)
1931: George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
1930: Larry Austin, American composer and educator (died 2018)
1929: Harvey Schmidt, American composer and illustrator (died 2018)
1928: Robert Irwin, American painter and gardener (died 2023)
1928: Muriel Siebert, American businesswoman and philanthropist (died 2013)
1928: Ernie Vandeweghe, Canadian-American basketball player and physician (died 2014)
1928: Joseph John Gerry, American Roman Catholic prelate (died 2023)
1927: Mathé Altéry, French soprano and actress
1925: Stan Lopata, American baseball player (died 2013)
1925: Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)
1924: Amílcar Cabral, Guinea-Bissauan political leader (died 1973)
1922: Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (died 2014)
1922: Jackson Mac Low, American poet, playwright, and composer (died 2004)
1922: Mark Rosenzweig, American psychologist and academic (died 2009)
1921: Frank McGee, American journalist (died 1974)
1921: Stanisław Lem, Polish philosopher and author (died 2006)
1921: Turgut Cansever, Turkish architect, city planner, and thinker (died 2009)
1914: Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh-English soldier and actor (died 1999)
1913: Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (died 1980)
1909: Donald MacDonald, Canadian trade union leader and politician (died 1986)
1908: Werner Flume, German jurist (died 2009)
1905: Linda Agostini, English-Australian murder victim (died 1934)
1902: Juscelino Kubitschek, Brazilian physician and politician, 21st President of Brazil (died 1976)
1902: Marya Zaturenska, Ukrainian-American poet and author (died 1982)
1901: Shmuel Horowitz, Israeli agronomist and academic (died 1999)
1900: Martha Atwell, American radio director (died 1949)
1900: Haskell Curry, American mathematician, logician, and academic (died 1982)
1898: Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer (died 1963)
1898: Alma Moodie, Australian violinist and educator (died 1943)
1898: Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter and photographer (died 1969)
1897: Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956)
1897: Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author (died 1985)
1895: Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer (died 1973)
1894: Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (died 1953)
1894: Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (died 1976)
1892: Alfred A. Knopf Sr., American publisher, founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc. (died 1984)
1891: Pedro Albizu Campos, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician (died 1965)
1891: Jean-François Martial, Belgian actor (died 1977)
1891: Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (died 1968)
1889: Ugo Pasquale Mifsud, Maltese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Malta (died 1942)
1888: Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, and dancer (died 1972)
1885: Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer and art dealer (died 1957)
1884: Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (died 1947)
1882: Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop (died 1963)
1880: H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic (died 1956)
1875: Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor and director (died 1926)
1869: Paweł Owerłło, Polish actor (died 1957)
1866: Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English cricketer and politician, 13th Governor General of Canada (died 1941)
1862: Carl Eytel, German-American painter and illustrator (died 1925)
1857: Manuel Espinosa Batista, Colombian pharmacist and politician (died 1919)
1856: Johann Heinrich Beck, American composer and conductor (died 1924)
1855: Simon-Napoléon Parent, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Quebec (died 1920)
1852: H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1928)
1837: Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (died 1892)
1830: William Sprague, American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Rhode Island (died 1915)
1829: Anselm Feuerbach, German painter (died 1880)
1829: Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist and novelist (died 1900)
1828: William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (died 1883)
1818: Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor, invented the Gatling gun (died 1903)
1818: Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (died 1882)
1812: Edward Shepherd Creasy, English historian and jurist (died 1878)
1812: Richard March Hoe, American engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press (died 1886)
1797: Samuel Joseph May, American activist (died 1871)
1768: Benjamin Carr, English-American singer-songwriter, educator, and publisher (died 1831)
1740: Johann Heinrich Jung, German author and academic (died 1817)
1739: Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (died 1815)
1736: Hsinbyushin, Burmese king (died 1776)
1690: Peter Dens, Flemish theologian and academic (died 1775)
1605: William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (died 1686)
1590: María de Zayas, Spanish writer (died 1661)
1494: Francis I of France (died 1547)
1415: John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (died 1461)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Sitaram Yechury, Indian politician and leader of CPI(M) (born 1952)
2019: ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, Prime Minister of Tonga (born 1941)
2018: Shen Chun-shan, Taiwanese academic (born 1932)
2017: Allan MacEachen, Canadian economist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (born 1921)
2017: Edith Windsor, American LGBT rights activist and technology manager at IBM (born 1929)
2015: Claudia Card, American philosopher and academic (born 1940)
2015: Frank D. Gilroy, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1925)
2015: Al Monchak, American baseball player and coach (born 1917)
2015: Aronda Nyakairima, Ugandan general and politician (born 1959)
2014: Atef Ebeid, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1932)
2014: John Gustafson, English singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1942)
2014: Ian Paisley, Northern Irish evangelical pastor (Free Presbyterian Church) and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1926)
2014: Joe Sample, American pianist and composer (born 1939)
2014: Hugh Royer, Jr., American golfer (born 1936)
2013: Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (born 1933)
2013: Warren Giese, American football player, coach, and politician (born 1924)
2013: Erich Loest, German author and screenwriter (born 1926)
2013: Candace Pert, American neuroscientist and pharmacologist (born 1946)
2012: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Russian poet and author (born 1946)
2012: Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (born 1938)
2012: Derek Jameson, English journalist and broadcaster (born 1929)
2012: Tom Sims, American skateboarder and snowboarder, founded Sims Snowboards (born 1950)
2011: Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (born 1985)
2010: Claude Chabrol, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)
2010: Giulio Zignoli, Italian footballer (born 1946)
2009: Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
2009: Jack Kramer, American tennis player and sportscaster (born 1921)
2009: Willy Ronis, French photographer and author (born 1910)
2008: Bob Quinn, Australian footballer and coach (born 1915)
2008: David Foster Wallace, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1962)
2007: Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1934)
2005: Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (born 1927)
2003: Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)
2003: Arthur Johnson, canoeist (born 1921)
2000: Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (born 1934)
1999: Bill Quackenbush, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1922)
1997: Judith Merril, American-Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist (born 1923)
1996: Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian general and politician, 29th President of Brazil (born 1907)
1995: Jeremy Brett, English actor (born 1933)
1995: Yasutomo Nagai, Japanese motorcycle racer (born 1965)
1994: Tom Ewell, American actor (born 1909)
1994: Boris Yegorov, Russian physician and astronaut (born 1937)
1993: Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (born 1917)
1992: Ruth Nelson, American actress
1992: Anthony Perkins, American actor, singer, and director (born 1932)
1991: Bruce Matthews, Canadian general and businessman (born 1909)
1990: Athene Seyler, English actress (born 1889)
1987: John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (born 1899)
1986: Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (born 1894)
1986: Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (born 1897)
1982: Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (born 1891)
1981: Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)
1978: William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (born 1896)
1977: Steve Biko, South African activist (born 1946)
1977: Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (born 1898)
1977: Robert Lowell, American poet (born 1917)
1972: William Boyd, American actor and producer (born 1895)
1971: Walter Egan, American golfer (born 1881)
1968: Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and journalist (born 1894)
1967: Vladimir Bartol, Italian-Slovene author and playwright (born 1903)
1965: Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pakistani Major who received the Nishan-e-Haider in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
1962: Spot Poles, American baseball player and soldier (born 1887)
1962: Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright (born 1923)
1961: Carl Hermann, German physicist and academic (born 1898)
1956: Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of War (born 1882)
1953: James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, English politician, Governor of Northern Ireland (born 1869)
1953: Hugo Schmeisser, German engineer (born 1884)
1953: Lewis Stone, American actor (born 1879)
1949: Erik Adolf von Willebrand, Finnish physician (born 1870)
1945: Hajime Sugiyama, Japanese field marshal and politician, 44th Japanese Minister of War (born 1880)
1942: Valentine Baker, Welsh co-founder of the Martin-Baker Aircraft Company (born 1888)
1927: Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (born 1847)
1923: Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (born 1841)
1919: Leonid Andreyev, Russian author and playwright (born 1871)
1918: George Reid, Australian accountant and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1845)
1912: Pierre-Hector Coullié, French cardinal (born 1829)
1907: Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian poet, journalist, and lawyer (born 1837)
1903: Duncan Gillies, Scottish-Australian businessman and politician, 14th Premier of Victoria (born 1834)
1874: François Guizot, French historian and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of France (born 1787)
1870: Eleanora Atherton, English philanthropist (born 1782)
1870: Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American journalist, explorer, and author (born 1836)
1869: Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (born 1779)
1836: Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (born 1801)
1819: Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Prussian general (born 1742)
1814: Robert Ross, Irish general (born 1766)
1810: Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (born 1740)
1779: Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (born 1711)
1764: Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (born 1683)
1712: Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and illustrator (born 1637)
1683: Afonso VI of Portugal (born 1643)
1674: Nicolaes Tulp, Dutch anatomist and politician (born 1593)
1672: Tanneguy Le Fèvre, French scholar and author (born 1615)
1665: Jean Bolland, Belgian priest and hagiographer (born 1596)
1660: Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist, and politician (born 1577)
1642: Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, French conspirator (born 1620)
1612: Vasili IV of Russia (born 1552)
1544: Clément Marot, French poet (born 1496)
1500: Albert III, Duke of Saxony (born 1443)
1439: Sidi El Houari, Algerian imam (born 1350)
1368: Blanche of Lancaster (born 1345/1347)
1362: Pope Innocent VI (born 1295)
1213: Peter II of Aragon (born 1174)
1185: Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1118)
973: Nefingus, bishop of Angers
640: Sak Kʼukʼ, Mayan queen

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