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September 13

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September 13

September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 109 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: UK woman who went through £1.8M lottery winnings says she "spent it wisely" and "had a great time". A lottery winner from the United Kingdom says she is tired of claims that she handled her win irresponsibly, saying that she's happy with how she spent her £1.8 million (US$2.25 million) in winnings and "had a great time."
2022: Employee strike at Québec Lottery halts introduction of new Lotto 6/49 in the province. Lottery players in Québec will be unable to participate in Canada's national Lotto 6/49 game due to an employee strike at the Québec Lottery (Loto-Québec).
2021: £27 million EuroMillions lottery winner found dead at home. A lottery winner of a £27 million (US$37.4 million) EuroMillions jackpot was found dead in her bungalow on Thursday.
2019: What happens when Michigan lottery retailers try to game the system. Though officials say the vast majority of the 10,500 Michigan lottery retailers deal honestly with both the agency and their customers, a few are always looking for a new way to game the system. It's the job of the lottery agency's eight-person security unit, which handles about 1,500 cases a year, to investigate those offenders, and, if necessary, shut them down.
2018: NJ Lottery Pick 6 jackpot highest in 4 years. New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director James Carey is urging New Jersey Lottery players to get their Pick 6 game tickets as early as possible in advance of the Thursday, September 13 drawing for the $16.7 million jackpot.
2018: Sales halted for Iowa Lottery scratch game. Sales are being stopped for one of the Iowa Lottery's $5 instant-scratch games.
2013: Lottery winner to send sales clerk on vacation. The grateful winner of a Mega Millions lottery prize has promised to give $10,000 to the clerk who sold him a winning ticket so her family can take trip to their home of South Korea.
2011: Unidentified Maryland couple claims $108.8M Powerball jackpot. An Abingdon, Maryland, couple has stepped forward to claim the first Powerball jackpot sold in Maryland, a state lottery spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.
2011: Opinion: Powerball winners will lose big if they go public. Should a big lottery winner go public or not? To grip a check the size of a Charlie Sheen poster for the cameras? Or to hide your good fortune from an admiring and envious world?
2011: UK Lottery 'Millionaire Map' obtained. In the category of 'better late than never', UK National Lottery operator Camelot has forwarded a copy of the Millionaire Map to Lottery Post for review.
2007: Tenn. Lottery: Curse of the computerized drawings?. Ever since the Tennessee Lottery switched to computerized drawings, they have suffered one mishap after another.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Soars to $72 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $72 million, with a cash option of $39.2 million.
2004: Great-great-grandmother wins $5.6m lottery jackpot. A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother from Everett, Massachusetts is thinking about fixing her leaky roof and maybe taking a cruise to someplace warm and sunny now that she's won $5.6 million in the state lottery, her great-granddaughter, Cynthia Smith, said yesterday.
2004: Factory Worker to Quit after Lottery Win. A manual worker at a lubricants factory was planning early retirement today after scooping more than £1.1 million in the UK National Lottery.

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.$301 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2013
5.€270.29 Million US$271.48 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
6.$231 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
7.$227 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2018
8.$222 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2016
9.€159 Million US$217.35 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2011
10.$207.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 14, 2022
11.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2005
12.$185 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 16, 2015
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.$163 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 15, 2006
16.$162 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 15, 2023
17.€138.92 Million
US$155.95 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2016
18.€130 Million
US$155.26 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 15, 2017
19.$149 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2014
20.€100 Million
US$147.08 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 18, 2009
21.$147 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 15, 2018
22.€143 Million
US$143.63 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2022
23.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2006
24.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 15, 2012
25.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 13, 2016

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1984: jessixpoo
Thursday, Sep 13, 1984
39 years old
1972: earthdragon72
Wednesday, Sep 13, 1972
51 years old
1966: gatesnc
Tuesday, Sep 13, 1966
57 years old
1964: boozer1964
Sunday, Sep 13, 1964
59 years old
1962: ditaylor251
Thursday, Sep 13, 1962
61 years old
1962: bonifacio09
Thursday, Sep 13, 1962
61 years old
1953: milochance
Sunday, Sep 13, 1953
70 years old
1917: Banng978
Thursday, Sep 13, 1917
106 years old
: paymenow
(year not provided)
: me-thinker
(year not provided)
: blessedlife
(year not provided)
: dbrow114
(year not provided)
: DivinePurpose
(year not provided)
: Lavar1
(year not provided)
: Lenny13
(year not provided)
: msjazzybizchic
(year not provided)
: Zoebiano
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: The Merrimack Valley gas explosions: One person is killed, 25 are injured, and 40 homes are destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions.
2013: Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.
2008: Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
2008: Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
2007: The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
2007: The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.
2001: Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
1997: A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia, killing 33.
1993: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
1989: Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
1988: Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
1987: Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
1986: A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes Kalamata, Greece with a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing at least 20 and causing heavy damage in the city.
1985: Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
1982: Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff, killing 50 of the 394 people on board.
1979: South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
1977: General Motors introduces Diesel engine, with Oldsmobile Diesel engine, in the Delta 88, Oldsmobile 98, and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser models amongst others.
1971: State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt, which claimed 43 lives.
1971: Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
1968: Cold War: Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact.
1964: South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh.
1964: Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
1962: An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
1956: The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1956: The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed.
1953: Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1948: Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
1948: Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
1944: World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions.
1942: World War II: Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.
1933: Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
1923: Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
1922: The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
1914: World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1906: The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.
1900: Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine-American War.
1899: Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1899: Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
1898: Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1882: Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
1880: The Basuto Gun War breaks out after the Basuto launch a rebellion against the Cape Colony.
1862: American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
1848: Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions.
1847: Mexican-American War: Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec. American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.
1843: The Greek Army rebels (OS date: September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution.
1814: In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
1812: War of 1812: A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
1808: Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.
1791: King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution.
1788: The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital.
1782: American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1759: Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
1743: Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
1645: Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.
1609: Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River.
1437: Battle of Tangier: a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier.
1229: Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
533: Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum, near Carthage, North Africa.
379: Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal
509 BC: The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September.
585 BC: Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia.

Births On This Day

1996: Playboi Carti, American rapper
1996: Adrian Kempe, Swedish ice hockey player
1996: Lili Reinhart, American actress
1995: Joca, Portuguese footballer
1995: Jerry Tollbring, Swedish handball player
1994: Leonor Andrade, Portuguese singer
1994: Anna Karolína Schmiedlová, Slovak tennis player
1994: Cameron Munster, Australian rugby league player
1993: Niall Horan, Irish singer
1993: Alice Merton, Irish-Canadian singer and songwriter
1992: Darren Waller, American football player
1991: Ksenia Afanasyeva, Russian gymnast
1990: Aoi Nakabeppu, Japanese model and actress
1990: Luciano Narsingh, Dutch footballer
1989: Elysée Irié Bi Séhi, Ivorian footballer
1989: Kenny Edwards, New Zealand rugby league player
1989: Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (d. 2013)
1989: Thomas Müller, German footballer
1989: William Owusu, Ghanaian footballer
1988: Luis Rentería, Panamanian footballer (d. 2014)
1988: Keith Treacy, Irish footballer
1987: Edenilson Bergonsi, Brazilian footballer
1987: Jonathan de Guzmán, Canadian-Dutch footballer
1987: Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby player
1987: Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player
1986: Steve Colpaert, Belgian footballer
1986: Derek Hardman, American football player
1986: Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese race car driver
1986: Sean Williams, American basketball player
1985: David Jordan, English singer-songwriter
1985: Tom Learoyd-Lahrs, Australian rugby league player
1984: Nabil Abou-Harb, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1984: Baron Corbin, American wrestler
1983: James Bourne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1983: Molly Crabapple, American illustrator and journalist
1983: Ryan Del Monte, Canadian ice hockey player
1983: Eduard Ratnikov, Estonian footballer
1982: Lloyd Dyer, English footballer
1982: Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
1982: Rickie Weeks, American baseball player
1982: Colin Marston, American guitarist, bassist, and producer/engineer
1982: Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player
1981: Koldo Fernández, Spanish cyclist
1981: Angelina Love, Canadian-American wrestler
1980: Andreas Biermann, German footballer (d. 2014)
1980: Han Chae-young, South Korean actress
1980: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
1980: Evangelos Nastos, Greek footballer
1980: Viren Rasquinha, Indian field hockey player
1980: Ben Savage, American actor
1979: Geike Arnaert, Belgian singer
1979: Tony Henry, English footballer
1978: Swizz Beatz, American rapper and producer
1978: Peter Sunde, Swedish businessman
1978: Masato Shibata, Japanese wrestler
1977: Fiona Apple, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pianist
1977: Ivan De Battista, Maltese actor, singer, director, and producer
1977: Daisuke Tsuda, Japanese singer-songwriter and drummer
1976: Ro Khanna, American politician
1976: Craig McMillan, New Zealand cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
1976: Elvis Mihailenko, Latvian boxer, trainer, and sportscaster
1976: José Théodore, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1976: Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress
1975: Akihiro Asai, Japanese race car driver
1975: Joe Don Rooney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975: Idan Tal, Israeli footballer
1974: Travis Knight, American basketball player
1974: Éric Lapointe, Canadian football player
1974: Craig Rivet, Canadian ice hockey player
1973: Christine Arron, French runner
1973: Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer and manager
1973: Carlo Nash, English footballer and photographer
1971: Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (d. 1992)
1971: Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player and coach
1971: Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
1971: Manabu Namiki, Japanese pianist and composer
1970: Lee Abramson, American bass player and composer (d. 2016)
1970: Martín Herrera, Argentinian footballer
1970: Louise Lombard, English actress
1969: Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan footballer
1969: Dominic Fumusa, American actor
1969: Tyler Perry, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1969: Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2022)
1968: Brad Johnson, American football player
1968: Bernie Williams, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and guitarist
1967: Michael Johnson, American former sprinter and journalist
1967: Tim "Ripper" Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967: Stephen Perkins, American drummer and songwriter
1966: Maria Furtwängler, German physician and actress
1966: Brendan Hall, Australian rugby league player
1966: Igor Kravchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1966: Louis Mandylor, Australian actor
1965: Annie Duke, American poker player and author
1965: Jeff Ross, American comedian, director, and author
1965: Zak Starkey, English drummer
1964: Tavis Smiley, American talk show host, journalist, and author
1963: Yuri Alexandrov, Russian boxer (d. 2013)
1963: Antony Galione, English pharmacologist
1963: Theodoros Roussopoulos, Greek journalist and politician
1963: Robin Smith, South African-English cricketer
1962: Neal Lancaster, American golfer
1962: Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian author
1961: Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1961: KK Null, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961: Peter Roskam, American lawyer and politician
1960: Kevin Carter, South African photojournalist (d. 1994)
1959: Tatyana Mitkova, Russian journalist
1958: Bobby Davro, English comedian and actor
1958: Paweł Przytocki, Polish conductor and academic
1958: Kōji Tamaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
1957: Vinny Appice, American rock drummer
1957: Judy Blumberg, American ice dancer and sportscaster
1957: Mal Donaghy, Irish footballer and manager
1957: Brad Hooker, English-American philosopher and academic
1957: Eleanor King, English lawyer and judge
1957: John G. Trueschler, American lawyer and politician
1957: Mark Wiebe, American golfer
1957: Keith Black, American neurosurgeon and academic
1957: Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines
1956: Alain Ducasse, French-Monégasque chef
1956: Anne Geddes, Australian-New Zealand photographer and fashion designer
1956: Martin Hurson, Irish Republican, hunger striker (d. 1981)
1956: Joni Sledge, American singer and songwriter (d. 2017)
1955: Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan, English rower and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
1955: Joe Morris, American guitarist and composer
1954: Steve Kilbey, English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass player
1954: Isiah Whitlock Jr., American actor
1952: Réjean Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
1952: Randy Jones, American pop and disco singer
1952: Don Was, American bass player and producer
1951: Anne Devlin, Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter
1951: Salva Kiir Mayardit, South Sudanese politician, 1st President of South Sudan
1951: Jean Smart, American actress
1950: Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Polish lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland
1950: Christine Estabrook, American actress
1950: Pat Holland, English footballer and manager
1950: Jeff Lowe, American mountaineer (d. 2018)
1949: Jim Cleamons, American basketball player and coach
1949: John W. Henry, American businessman
1948: Nell Carter, American actress and singer (d. 2003)
1948: Dimitri Nanopoulos, Greek physicist and academic
1948: Sitiveni Rabuka, Fijian general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji
1946: Frank Marshall, American director and producer
1946: Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer
1945: Noël Godin, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter
1945: Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (d. 2002)
1944: Carol Barnes, English journalist (d. 2008)
1944: Jacqueline Bisset, English actress and producer
1944: Peter Cetera, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1944: Midget Farrelly, Australian surfer (d. 2016)
1943: Mildred D. Taylor, American author
1942: Michel Côté, Canadian businessman and politician
1941: Tadao Ando, Japanese architect and academic, designed Piccadilly Gardens
1941: David Clayton-Thomas, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941: Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Turkish judge and politician, 10th President of the Republic of Turkey
1940: Óscar Arias, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica, Nobel Prize laureate
1940: Kerry Stokes, Australian businessman
1939: Arleen Auger, American soprano and educator (d. 1993)
1939: Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d. 2014)
1939: Guntis Ulmanis, Latvian economist and politician, 5th President of Latvia
1939: Joel-Peter Witkin, American photographer
1938: John Smith, Scottish lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1994)
1937: Don Bluth, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios
1936: Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian activist, founded National Vanguard (d. 2019)
1934: Tony Pickard, English tennis player and coach
1933: Eileen Fulton, American actress
1933: Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (d. 1977)
1933: Lewie Steinberg, American bass player (d. 2016)
1932: Fernando González Pacheco, Spanish-Colombian journalist and actor (d. 2014)
1932: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Czech actor (d. 2012)
1932: Bengt Hallberg, Swedish pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1931: Barbara Bain, American actress
1931: Robert Bédard, Canadian tennis player and sportscaster
1931: Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Australian sprinter and politician, 33rd Governor of South Australia
1931: Rein Maran, Estonian cinematographer
1931: Lauretta Ngcobo, South African novelist and essayist (d. 2015)
1930: Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher and philanthropist (d. 2015)
1928: Robert Indiana, American painter and sculptor (d. 2018)
1928: Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010)
1927: Laura Cardoso, Brazilian actress
1926: Andrew Brimmer, American economist and academic (d. 2012)
1926: Emile Francis, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2022)
1926: J. Frank Raley Jr., American soldier and politician (d. 2012)
1925: Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1924: Harold Blair, Australian tenor and educator (d. 1976)
1924: Scott Brady, American actor (d. 1985)
1924: Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (d. 2009)
1923: Édouard Boubat, French photographer and journalist (d. 1999)
1922: Charles Brown, American singer and pianist (d. 1999)
1922: Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)
1920: Else Holmelund Minarik, Danish-American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1919: Mary Midgley, English philosopher and author (d. 2018)
1919: George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, Austrian-English journalist, publisher, and philanthropist (d. 2016)
1918: Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2015)
1918: Dick Haymes, Argentinian actor and singer (d. 1980)
1917: Carol Kendall, American historian and author (d. 2012)
1917: Robert Ward, American soldier, composer, and educator (d. 2013)
1916: Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1914: Leonard Feather, English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (d. 1994)
1912: Maurice K. Goddard, American colonel and politician (d. 1995)
1912: Reta Shaw, American actress (d. 1982)
1911: Bill Monroe, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (d. 1996)
1909: Ray Bowden, English footballer (d. 1998)
1909: Frits Thors, Dutch journalist and radio host (d. 2014)
1908: Chu Berry, American saxophonist (d. 1941)
1908: Karolos Koun, Greek director and playwright (d. 1987)
1908: Sicco Mansholt, Dutch farmer and politician, 4th President of the European Commission (d. 1995)
1908: Mae Questel, American actress and vocal artist (d. 1998)
1904: Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1974)
1904: Gladys George, American actress (d. 1954)
1903: Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
1899: Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian politician (d. 1938)
1898: Roger Désormière, French conductor and composer (d. 1963)
1898: C. Sittampalam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1964)
1895: Morris Kirksey, American rugby player and sprinter (d. 1981)
1894: J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (d. 1984)
1894: Julian Tuwim, Polish poet, playwright, and director (d. 1953)
1893: Larry Shields, American clarinet player (d. 1953)
1891: Max Pruss, German captain and pilot (d. 1960)
1890: Antony Noghès, French-Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (d. 1978)
1887: Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1886: Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor (d. 1925)
1886: Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1885: Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1962)
1883: LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (d. 1956)
1883: Petros Voulgaris, Greek admiral and politician, 136th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1957)
1882: Ramón Grau, Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (d. 1969)
1880: Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Famous Players-Lasky (d. 1958)
1877: Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer (d. 1957)
1877: Stanley Lord, English captain (d. 1962)
1876: Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1941)
1874: Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician (d. 1962)
1874: Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter (d. 1951)
1873: Constantin Carathéodory, German mathematician and author (d. 1950)
1872: Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
1865: William Birdwood, Indian-English field marshal (d. 1951)
1860: John J. Pershing, American general and lawyer (d. 1948)
1857: Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel and activist (d. 1937)
1857: Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)
1851: Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)
1842: John H. Bankhead, American soldier and politician (d. 1920)
1830: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (d. 1916)
1819: Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1818: Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans (d. 1900)
1813: John Sedgwick, American general and educator (d. 1864)
1802: Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and author (d. 1880)
1755: Oliver Evans, American inventor, engineer and businessman (d. 1819)
1604: Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician (d. 1698)
1594: Francesco Manelli, Italian theorbo player and composer (d. 1667)
1521: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1598)
1502: John Leland, English poet and historian (d. 1552)
1475: Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (d. 1507)
1373: Minkhaung I, King of Ava (d. 1431)
1087: John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1143)
678: K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb III, Mayan ruler (d. 730)
AD 64: Julia Flavia, Roman daughter of Titus (d. AD 91)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1930)
2019: Eddie Money, American musician (b. 1949)
2017: Pete Domenici, American politician, senator of New Mexico (b. 1932)
2016: Jonathan Riley-Smith, British historian (b. 1938)
2015: Vivinho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1961)
2015: Erma Bergmann, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2015: Brian Close, English cricketer and coach (b. 1931)
2015: Moses Malone, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1955)
2014: Benjamin Adekunle, Nigerian general (b. 1936)
2014: Helen Filarski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
2014: Milan Galić, Serbian footballer (b. 1938)
2014: Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (b. 1931)
2013: Olusegun Agagu, Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (b. 1948)
2013: Robert J. Behnke, American biologist and academic (b. 1929)
2013: Rick Casares, American football player (b. 1931)
2013: Luiz Gushiken, Brazilian trade union leader and politician (b. 1950)
2012: William Duckworth, American composer and author (b. 1943)
2012: Peter Lougheed, Canadian football player, lawyer, and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (b. 1928)
2012: Edgar Metcalfe, English-Australian actor and director (b. 1933)
2012: Ranganath Misra, Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (b. 1926)
2011: Walter Bonatti, Italian mountaineer and journalist (b. 1930)
2009: Paul Burke, American actor (b. 1926)
2007: Whakahuihui Vercoe, New Zealand archbishop (b. 1928)
2006: Ann Richards, American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
2005: Toni Fritsch, Austrian footballer (b. 1945)
2005: Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916)
2004: Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill (b. 1925)
2003: Frank O'Bannon, American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)
2002: George Stanley, Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the Flag of Canada (b. 1907)
2001: Johnny Craig, American sailor and illustrator (b. 1926)
2001: Jaroslav Drobný, Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (b. 1921)
2001: Dorothy McGuire, American actress (b. 1916)
2000: Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (b. 1908)
1999: Benjamin Bloom, American psychologist and academic (b. 1913)
1998: Necdet Calp, Turkish civil servant and politician (b. 1922)
1998: Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)
1998: Frank Renouf, New Zealand businessman (b. 1918)
1998: George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (b. 1919)
1997: Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1915)
1997: Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (b. 1962)
1996: Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1971)
1993: Carl Voss, American ice hockey player and referee (b. 1907)
1991: Robert Irving, English soldier and conductor (b. 1913)
1991: Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1936)
1991: Joe Pasternak, Hungarian-American production manager and producer (b. 1901)
1987: Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1900)
1985: Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, composer, and author (b. 1895)
1982: Reed Crandall, American illustrator (b. 1917)
1977: Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
1976: Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
1976: Albert Tessier, Canadian priest, historian, and director (b. 1895)
1975: Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer, Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1897)
1973: Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
1973: Sajjad Zaheer, Indian poet and philosopher (b. 1905)
1971: Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)
1967: Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (b. 1903)
1967: Robert George, English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (b. 1896)
1967: Leonard Lord, English businessman (b. 1896)
1960: Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1885)
1953: Mary Brewster Hazelton, American painter (b. 1868)
1949: August Krogh, Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1946: Amon Göth, Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (b. 1908)
1946: Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1875)
1946: William Watt, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (b. 1871)
1944: W. Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (b. 1872)
1941: Elias Disney, Canadian-American farmer and businessman (b. 1859)
1937: David Robertson, Scottish rugby player and golfer (b. 1869)
1931: Lili Elbe, Danish model and painter (b. 1882)
1929: Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (b. 1904)
1928: Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright (b. 1861)
1918: Frederic Crowninshield, American artist and author (b. 1845)
1915: Andrew L. Harris, American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)
1913: Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian pilot and engineer (b. 1882)
1912: Joseph Furphy, Australian author and poet (b. 1843)
1912: Nogi Maresuke, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1910: Rajanikanta Sen, Bangladeshi poet and composer (b. 1865)
1905: René Goblet, French lawyer and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
1894: Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (b. 1841)
1885: Friedrich Kiel, German composer and educator (b. 1821)
1881: Ambrose Burnside, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1824)
1872: Ludwig Feuerbach, German anthropologist and philosopher (b. 1804)
1871: İbrahim Şinasi, Turkish journalist, author, and translator (b. 1826)
1847: Nicolas Oudinot, French general (b. 1767)
1813: Hezqeyas, Ethiopian emperor
1808: Saverio Bettinelli, Italian poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1718)
1806: Charles James Fox, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1749)
1800: Claude Martin, French-English general and explorer (b. 1735)
1766: Benjamin Heath, English scholar and author (b. 1704)
1759: James Wolfe, English general (b. 1727)
1632: Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (b. 1586)
1612: Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (b. 1550)
1598: Philip II of Spain (b. 1526)
1592: Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (b. 1533)
1557: John Cheke, English scholar and politician, Secretary of State for England (b. 1514)
1506: Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1431)
1488: Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1434)
1409: Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (b. 1389)
1313: Notburga, Austrian saint (b. 1265)
1171: Al-Adid, last Fatimid caliph (b. 1151)
908: Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king of Munster (Ireland)
864: Pietro Tradonico, doge of Venice
531: Kavad I, Sasanian King of Kings of Iran (b. 473)
413: Marcellinus of Carthage, martyr and saint
81: Titus, Roman emperor (b. AD 39)

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