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September 25

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September 25

September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 97 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Virginia woman finds two-month-old $100,000 Powerball lottery ticket while rifling through papers. A Virginia woman was "going through some papers" when she came across a forgotten winning Powerball ticket worth $100,000.
2020: State lotteries exceed expectations in 2020. In previous months defined by economic hardship brought on by the global pandemic, the lottery industry has proven to be a beacon of light, with some state lotteries defying expectations and exhibiting record sales.
2019: Mega Millions lottery winner worth $227 million sold in Texas. A single ticket sold in Texas matched the winning numbers from Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing and is worth an estimated $227 million.
2019: 81-year-old Mass. man sentenced to prison for part in multimillion-dollar lottery ticket scam. An 81-year-old man from Lynn, Massachusetts, was sentenced Monday to two months in prison for his part in a multimillion-dollar lottery scam, according to federal prosecutors.
2018: New York man wins $10 million after buying lottery ticket every day for decades. A 66-year-old man who's played the lottery his entire adult life is the newest lottery millionaire in New York.
2018: Audit reveals 'questionable' Colorado Lottery wins. A handful of people seem to have been winning the Colorado Lottery a bit more often than the odds would dictate, raising the specter of possible wrongdoing, a state audit revealed Monday.
2017: Lottery winner accused of child sex assault freed from jail. A New Jersey man who won a $338 million Powerball lottery jackpot will be freed from jail while he awaits trial on charges he sexually assaulted a child.
2015: ILLINOIS LOTTERY MOVES TO COMPUTERIZED DRAWINGS. Despite widespread player sentiment that is strongly against computerized drawings, the Illinois Lottery stated Friday that it is dropping real lottery ball drawings, and moving to the computerized draws.
2015: $1M lottery ticket found in Michigan woman's old mail. A Kentwood, Michigan, woman is $1 million richer after finding a winning Mega Millions ticket in a pile of old mail.
2014: Dad slowly reveals huge lotto win to his sons [video]. After Poul Hjortbøl won 15 million kroner (about $2.7 million) playing the lottery in Denmark, he decided to unveil his winnings to his sons in the most suspenseful way possible.
2014: $228.5M Powerball lottery ticket sold in California. Someone in the Bay Area could be $228.5 million richer after lottery officials announced Wednesday that the sole winning Powerball ticket was sold in San Mateo, California.
2013: NJ Powerball winner wants his old life back. "Wild" Willie Seeley of Manahawkin, New Jersey, has one piece of advice for the winner of last week's $400 million Powerball jackpot in South Carolina: Run.
2013: $173 MILLION: Mega Millions is the hot ticket. Lottery players across the United States are buying their Mega Millions tickets in preparation for Friday's massive $173 million drawing, after nobody won Tuesday's $160 million jackpot.
2012: N.J. Assembly panel clears one-year anonymity for lottery winners. The New Jersey Assembly Regulatory Oversight and Gaming Committee approved a bill (A2982) by a vote of 5-0 that would give lottery winners the option of remaining anonymous for a year after winning the jackpot.
2006: Costa Rica not caving to U.S. gambling arrests. Costa Rica finds itself in the middle of the fight between U.S. authorities and the online gambling industry.
2006: N.C. Lottery commissioner on lottery firm payroll for years. Four years before North Carolina lawmakers created the state lottery, a for-profit lottery company was paying former state lottery commissioner Kevin Geddings to work as a consultant, a company executive said Monday at Geddings' fraud trial.
2003: Powerball Jackpot Leaps to $60 Million. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Wednesday but 337,565 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.8 million in prizes in America's Game.
2003: Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $126 Million. None of the tickets sold for Tuesday night's $102 million Mega Millions drawing matched all six numbers, increasing the Friday jackpot to $126 million.
2003: N.D. Gets Lottery Director. North Dakota's lottery now has a permanent director, as Chuck Keller was hired for the job Wednesday.
2003: N.D. rules out credit cards for lottery. North Dakota should forbid credit-card sales of lottery tickets, and merchants should have the discretion to decide whether to take gamblers' checks or debit cards, a lottery advisory board concluded Wednesday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$793.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 25, 2023
2.$528.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 25, 2021
3.$325 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 27, 2022
4.$303 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 25, 2018
5.$286 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2022
6.€278.34 Million US$267.34 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 27, 2022
7.$267 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2015
8.$230 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2023
9.€190 Million US$207.75 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 27, 2019
10.$200 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 27, 2008
10.$200 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2012
12.$193 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2018
13.€163 Million
US$192.34 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2017
14.€130 Million
US$189.94 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2008
15.€130 Million
US$183.89 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 28, 2007
16.$173 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 27, 2013
17.€143 Million
US$167.07 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 28, 2021
18.€146.77 Million
US$164.72 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 27, 2016
19.€138 Million
US$162.37 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 25, 2018
20.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2009
21.$148 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 28, 2005
22.€130 Million
US$143.33 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 25, 2020
23.€100 Million
US$137.44 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Oct 1, 2010
24.$126 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 26, 2003
25.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 25, 2004

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1985: HaitianAmateur
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1985
38 years old
1985: sweet23
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1985
38 years old
1983: cookj187
Sunday, Sep 25, 1983
40 years old
1982: TotallyDavis
Saturday, Sep 25, 1982
41 years old
1981: Makedew912
Friday, Sep 25, 1981
42 years old
1979: kplenty79
Tuesday, Sep 25, 1979
44 years old
1976: lovely55
Saturday, Sep 25, 1976
47 years old
1971: GoArmy
Saturday, Sep 25, 1971
52 years old
1967: mken32
Monday, Sep 25, 1967
56 years old
1967: mken35
Monday, Sep 25, 1967
56 years old
1964: Casadachu58
Friday, Sep 25, 1964
59 years old
1963: jimhuber
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1963
60 years old
1961: teej7941
Monday, Sep 25, 1961
62 years old
1957: bigjesse
Wednesday, Sep 25, 1957
66 years old
1954: Mr LuckyIV
Saturday, Sep 25, 1954
69 years old
1943: martyh111
Saturday, Sep 25, 1943
80 years old
: MisterCash$
(year not provided)
: bahamaqueen
(year not provided)
: Apurple1
(year not provided)
: THICKnRICH
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2018: Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
2003: The 8.3 M_w Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.
1998: PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.
1992: NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
1987: Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
1983: Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
1981: Belize joins the United Nations.
1978: PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.
1977: About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
1974: Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
1969: The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.
1964: The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.
1963: Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.
1962: The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962: The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1959: Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
1957: Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1956: TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1955: The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1944: World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.
1937: Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
1926: The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
1918: World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.
1915: World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
1912: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
1911: An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
1906: Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km, in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.
1890: The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
1868: The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
1804: The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.
1790: Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
1789: The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
1775: American Revolution: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
1775: American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
1768: Unification of Nepal
1690: Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.
1555: The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1396: Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.
1237: England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
1066: In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.
762: Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
275: For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.

Births On This Day

1996: Anett Vilipuu, Estonian footballer
1996: Yue Yuan, Chinese tennis player
1995: Todd Hazelwood, Australian race car driver
1993: Toby Greene, Australian footballer
1992: Zoël Amberg, Swiss race car driver
1992: Kerrod Holland, Australian rugby league player
1992: Massimo Luongo, Australian footballer
1992: Keauna McLaughlin, American figure skater
1992: Rosalía, Spanish singer-songwriter
1992: Ruslan Zhiganshin, Russian ice dancer
1991: Emmy Clarke, American actress
1991: Alessandro Crescenzi, Italian footballer
1991: Calle Järnkrok, Swedish ice hockey player
1990: Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1990: Daria Strokous, Russian model, actress, and photographer
1989: Cuco Martina, Curaçaoan footballer
1989: Aldon Smith, American football player
1987: Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player
1987: Mustafa Yumlu, Turkish footballer
1986: Heidi El Tabakh, Egyptian-Canadian tennis player
1986: Jamie O'Hara, English footballer
1986: Marten Strauch, German rugby player
1986: Steve Forrest, American drummer
1986: Choi Yoon-young, South Korean actress
1985: Gökhan Güleç, Turkish footballer
1985: Marvin Matip, German footballer
1984: Cherine Anderson, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress
1984: Matías Silvestre, Argentinian footballer
1983: Donald Glover, American actor, rapper, producer, and screenwriter
1983: Terrance Pennington, American football player
1982: Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1981: Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981: Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1980: T.I., American rapper, songwriter, producer, and actor
1979: Kyle Bennett, American BMX rider (d. 2012)
1979: Rashad Evans, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1979: Jason Koumas, Welsh footballer
1979: Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player
1978: Joe Cotton, Canadian-New Zealand singer
1978: Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978: Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978: Jodie Kidd, English model and actress
1978: Ryan Leslie, American singer-songwriter and producer
1978: Joel Piñeiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1977: Clea DuVall, American actress
1977: Joel David Moore, American actor
1977: Mike Krahulik, American illustrator
1977: Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1976: Santigold, American singer-songwriter and producer
1976: Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
1976: Eric Roberson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1976: Charlotte Ayanna, Puerto Rican American actress
1975: Daniela Ceccarelli, Italian skier
1975: Declan Donnelly, English entertainer
1975: Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975: Dat Nguyen, American football player and coach
1974: Bill Bowler, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1974: Olivier Dacourt, French footballer
1974: John Granville, American scholar and diplomat (d. 2008)
1974: Paul Hurst, English footballer and manager
1974: Daniel Kessler, English-American singer and guitarist
1974: Frank Leder, German fashion designer
1974: Robbie Mears, Australian rugby league player and coach
1974: Eric Moss, American football player (d. 2019)
1974: Joel Prpic, Canadian ice hockey player
1974: Javier Rosas, Mexican triathlete
1974: Kemel Thompson, Jamaican hurdler
1973: Tijani Babangida, Nigerian footballer
1973: Jenny Chapman, English politician
1972: Douglas September, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1971: Nikos Boudouris, Greek basketball player and manager
1971: John Lynch, American football player and sportscaster
1971: Seb Sanders, English jockey
1970: Curtis Buckley, American football player and psychiatrist
1969: Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
1969: Bill Simmons, American journalist and author
1969: Hal Sparks, American actor, comedian, musician and political commentator
1969: Tony Womack, American baseball player
1969: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
1968: John A. List, American economist and academic
1968: Will Smith, American actor, producer, and rapper
1968: John Worsfold, Australian footballer and coach
1967: Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
1967: Ashwin Sood, English-Canadian drummer and producer
1966: Stanislav Bunin, Russian pianist and educator
1966: Todd Philcox, American football player
1965: Matt Battaglia, American football player, actor, and producer
1965: Saffron Henderson, Canadian voice actress and singer
1965: Scottie Pippen, American basketball player and sportscaster
1965: Anne Roumanoff, French actress and screenwriter
1965: Dave Rundle, South African cricketer
1965: Rob Schmidt, American director and screenwriter
1965: Rafael Martín Vázquez, Spanish footballer and coach
1965: Nicky Winmar, Australian footballer
1964: Gary Ayles, English race car driver
1964: Barbara Dennerlein, German organist
1964: Rebecca Gablé, German novelist
1964: Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress
1964: Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman
1963: Tate Donovan, American actor
1963: Keely Shaye Smith, American journalist and author
1962: Kalthoum Sarrai, Tunisian-French psychologist and journalist (d. 2010)
1962: Aida Turturro, American actress
1962: Dariusz Wdowczyk, Polish footballer and coach
1961: Mehmet Aslantuğ, Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961: Heather Locklear, American actress
1961: Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter
1961: Tim Zoehrer, Australian cricketer
1960: Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer and manager
1959: Jeon Soo-il, South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
1958: Randy Kerber, American keyboard player, composer, and conductor
1957: Michael Madsen, American actor and producer
1957: Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (d. 2014)
1956: W. Daniel Hillis, American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking Machines Corporation
1956: Jamie Hyneman, American special effects designer and television host, founded M5 Industries
1956: Miroslav Volf, Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual
1955: Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1955: Zucchero Fornaciari, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955: Amyr Klink, Brazilian sailor and explorer
1955: Luanne Rice, American author and activist
1955: Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer and manager
1955: Steven Severin, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
1954: Sylvester Croom, American football player and coach
1954: Joep Lange, Dutch physician and academic (d. 2014)
1954: Juande Ramos, Spanish footballer and manager
1953: Richard Harvey, English mandolin player, keyboard player, and composer
1953: Ron Rash, American novelist, short story writer, poet
1952: Colin Friels, Scottish-Australian actor
1952: Jimmy Garvin, American wrestler and manager
1952: bell hooks, American author and activist (d. 2021)
1952: Cherríe Moraga, American poet, playwright, and activist
1952: Tommy Norden, American actor
1952: Chris Pond, English politician
1952: Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (d. 2004)
1951: Yardena Arazi, Israeli singer
1951: Burleigh Drummond, American drummer and songwriter
1951: Graeme Knowles, English bishop
1951: Mark Hamill, American actor, singer, and producer
1951: Bob McAdoo, American basketball player and coach
1950: Stanisław Szozda, Polish cyclist and trainer (d. 2013)
1949: Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter
1949: Jeff Borowiak, American tennis player
1949: Steve Mackay, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2015)
1948: Mimi Kennedy, American actress and screenwriter
1948: Vasile Șirli, Romanian musical composer and producer
1948: Vladimir Yevtushenkov, Russian businessman
1947: Giannos Kranidiotis, Greek politician and diplomat (d. 1999)
1947: Cheryl Tiegs, American model and actress
1947: Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1946: Bishan Singh Bedi, Indian cricketer and coach
1946: Felicity Kendal, English actress
1946: Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1998)
1946: Janusz Majer, Polish mountaineer
1946: Gil Morgan, American golfer
1946: Ali Parvin, Iranian footballer
1946: Jerry Penrod, American bass player
1945: Kathleen Brown, American lawyer and politician, 29th California State Treasurer
1945: Carol Vadnais, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2014)
1944: Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1944: Doris Matsui, American politician
1944: Grayson Shillingford, Dominican cricketer (d. 2009)
1943: Robert Gates, American lieutenant, academic, and politician, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
1943: John Locke, American keyboard player (d. 2006)
1943: Aram Saroyan, American poet and novelist
1943: Robert Walden, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1942: Oscar Bonavena, Argentinian boxer (d. 1976)
1942: Robert Miano, American actor and producer
1942: Henri Pescarolo, French race car driver
1942: John Taylor, English pianist and educator (d. 2015)
1942: Dee Dee Warwick, American singer (d. 2008)
1941: Vivien Stern, Baroness Stern, English academic and politician
1940: Tim Severin, Indian-English explorer, historian, and author (d. 2020)
1939: Leon Brittan, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 2015)
1939: Feroz Khan, Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 2009)
1939: David S. Mann, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cincinnati
1938: Ron Hill, English runner and businessman (d. 2021)
1938: Jonathan Motzfeldt, Greenlandic priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (d. 2010)
1938: Enn Tarto, Estonian politician (d. 2021)
1937: Mary Allen Wilkes, American computer scientist and lawyer
1936: Ken Forsse, American toy creator and author, created Teddy Ruxpin (d. 2014)
1936: Juliet Prowse, South African-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)
1936: Moussa Traoré, Malian general and politician 2nd President of Mali (d. 2020)
1933: Hubie Brown, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1933: Ian Tyson, Canadian folk singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2022)
1932: Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
1932: Terry Medwin, Welsh footballer and manager
1932: Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2014)
1931: Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1931: Bryan John Birch, English mathematician and scholar
1930: Nino Cerruti, Italian fashion designer, founded Cerruti (d. 2022)
1930: Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter (d. 1999)
1929: Ronnie Barker, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1929: Delia Scala, Italian ballerina and actress (d. 2004)
1929: Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author (d. 2022)
1927: Carl Braun, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
1927: Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (d. 2013)
1926: Jack Hyles, American pastor and author (d. 2001)
1926: Aldo Ray, American actor (d. 1991)
1925: Silvana Pampanini, Italian model, actress, and director, Miss Italy 1946 (d. 2016)
1924: Norman Ayrton, English actor and director (d. 2017)
1924: Red Webb, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1923: Robert Laxalt, American author and academic (d. 2001)
1923: Sam Rivers, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 2011)
1922: Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruian educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1921: Rob Muldoon, New Zealand sergeant, accountant, and politician, 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1992)
1920: Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian-Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1994)
1920: Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (d. 2002)
1917: Phil Rizzuto, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1916: Jessica Anderson, Australian author and playwright (d. 2010)
1916: Deendayal Upadhyaya, Indian economist, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1968)
1914: John Manners, English naval officer and cricketer (d. 2020)
1911: Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1910: Ralph Jordan, American football player and coach (d. 1980)
1908: Jacqueline Audry, French director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1906: Volfgangs Dārziņš, Latvian composer, pianist, and music critic (d. 1962)
1906: Phyllis Pearsall, English painter, cartographer, and author (d. 1996)
1906: Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975)
1903: Mark Rothko, Latvian-American painter and educator (d. 1970)
1901: Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1901: Gordon Coventry, Australian footballer (d. 1968)
1900: Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 1937)
1899: Udumalai Narayana Kavi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1981)
1898: Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-American painter and educator (d. 1980)
1897: William Faulkner, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1896: Sandro Pertini, Italian journalist and politician, 7th President of Italy (d. 1990)
1893: Harald Cramér, Swedish mathematician and statistician (d. 1985)
1889: Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, Scottish author and translator (d. 1930)
1888: Hanna Ralph, German actress (d. 1978)
1884: Adolf Bolm, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1951)
1881: Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (d. 1936)
1879: Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (d. 1963)
1877: Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (d. 1945)
1867: Yevgeny Miller, Russian general (d. 1938)
1866: Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945)
1865: Henri Lebasque, French artist (d. 1937)
1862: Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (d. 1897)
1862: Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1839: Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist and geologist (d. 1904)
1825: William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and politician (d. 1888)
1825: Joachim Heer, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (d. 1879)
1816: Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893)
1798: Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (d. 1874)
1782: Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (d. 1824)
1773: Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and author (d. 1856)
1771: Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (d. 1829)
1766: Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822)
1764: Fletcher Christian, English sailor (d. 1793)
1761: William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1827)
1758: Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820)
1744: Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
1741: Wenzel Pichl, Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805)
1738: Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (d. 1789)
1711: Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1694: Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754)
1683: Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (d. 1764)
1663: Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (d. 1711)
1644: Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1710)
1636: Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (d. 1698)
1599: Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (d. 1667)
1529: Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1583)
1528: Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1603)
1525: Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (d. 1584)
1403: Louis III of Anjou (d. 1434)
1358: Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1408)

Deaths On This Day

2017: Jan Tříska, Czech actor (b. 1936)
2016: José Fernández, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1992)
2016: Arnold Palmer, American golfer (b. 1929)
2016: Nahid Hattar, Jordanian writer and political activist (b. 1960)
2015: Claudio Baggini, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1936)
2015: John Galvin, American general (b. 1929)
2015: Tom Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1944)
2015: Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist (b. 1939)
2014: Ulrick Chérubin, Haitian-Canadian educator and politician (b. 1943)
2014: Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1951)
2014: Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (b. 1920)
2013: Ron Fenton, English footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1940)
2013: Choi In-ho, South Korean author and screenwriter (b. 1945)
2013: José Montoya, American poet and academic (b. 1932)
2013: Billy Mure, American guitarist and composer (b. 1915)
2013: Pablo Verani, Italian-Argentinian lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2013: Bennet Wong, Canadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (b. 1930)
2012: Billy Barnes, American composer and songwriter (b. 1927)
2012: John Bond, English footballer and manager (b. 1923)
2012: Eric Ives, English historian and academic (b. 1931)
2012: Alonso Lujambio, Mexican academic and politician (b. 1962)
2012: Andy Williams, American singer (b. 1927)
2011: Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1940)
2009: Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
2009: Pierre Falardeau, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1946)
2008: Derog Gioura, Nauruan politician, 23rd President of Nauru (b. 1932)
2007: Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (b. 1919)
2007: André Emmerich, German-American art dealer (b. 1924)
2006: Jeff Cooper, American target shooter and author (b. 1920)
2006: John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2005: Don Adams, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2005: Madeline-Ann Aksich, Canadian businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1956)
2005: George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005: Urie Bronfenbrenner, Russian-American psychologist and ecologist (b. 1917)
2005: Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani linguist and critic (b. 1912)
2005: M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1936)
2005: Friedrich Peter, Austrian lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
2003: Aqila al-Hashimi, Iraqi translator and politician (b. 1953)
2003: Herb Gardner, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
2003: Franco Modigliani, Italian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2003: George Plimpton, American writer and literary editor (b. 1927)
1999: Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (b. 1930)
1997: Hélène Baillargeon, Canadian singer and actress (b. 1916)
1997: Jean Françaix, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
1995: Dave Bowen, Welsh footballer and manager (b. 1928)
1995: Annie Elizabeth Delany, American dentist and author (b. 1891)
1992: Ivan Vdović, Serbian musician (b. 1961)
1991: Klaus Barbie, German SS captain, known as the "Butcher of Lyon" (b. 1913)
1991: Viviane Romance, French actress and producer (b. 1912)
1990: Prafulla Chandra Sen, Indian accountant and politician, 3rd Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1897)
1988: Billy Carter, American farmer and businessman (b. 1937)
1988: Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American orientalist and scholar (b. 1909)
1987: Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
1987: Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (b. 1905)
1986: Darshan Singh Canadian, Indian-Canadian trade union leader and activist (b. 1917)
1986: Donald MacDonald, Canadian union leader and politician (b. 1909)
1986: Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
1986: Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (b. 1909)
1984: Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1897)
1983: Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
1980: John Bonham, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1948)
1980: Lewis Milestone, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
1980: Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1971: Hugo Black, American captain, jurist, and politician (b. 1886)
1970: Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss author and translator (b. 1898)
1968: Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (b. 1891)
1968: Cornell Woolrich, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)
1961: Frank Fay, American actor and singer (b. 1897)
1960: Emily Post, American author and educator (b. 1873)
1958: John B. Watson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1878)
1955: Martha Norelius Swedish-born American swimmer (b. 1909)
1946: Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (b. 1879)
1943: Alexander Hall, Scottish-Canadian soccer player (b. 1880)
1941: Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player, golfer, and race car driver (b. 1867)
1939: Ali Saip Ursavaş, Turkish soldier and politician (b. 1885)
1938: Lev Zadov, Ukrainian intelligence agent (b. 1893)
1933: Ring Lardner, American journalist and author (b. 1885)
1929: Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
1928: Richard F. Outcault, American cartoonist, created The Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (b. 1863)
1926: Herbert Booth, English songwriter and bandleader (b. 1862)
1918: Mikhail Alekseyev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1917: Thomas Ashe, Irish Republican Brotherhood volunteer and rebel commander. Died as a result of forced feeding while on hunger strike. (b. 1885)
1905: Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French educator and politician (b. 1853)
1901: Arthur Fremantle, English general and politician, Governor of Malta (b. 1835)
1900: Félix-Gabriel Marchand, Canadian journalist and politician, 11th Premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1900: John M. Palmer, American general and politician, 15th Governor of Illinois (b. 1817)
1893: Louise von François, German author (b. 1817)
1867: Oliver Loving, American rancher, co-developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail (b. 1812)
1849: Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1828: Charlotta Seuerling, Swedish singer, harpsichord player, and composer (b. 1783)
1794: Paul Rabaut, French pastor (b. 1718)
1792: Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish politician and diplomat (b. 1710)
1791: William Bradford, American soldier and publisher (b. 1719)
1777: Johann Heinrich Lambert, Swiss mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1728)
1774: John Bradstreet, Canadian-English general (b. 1714)
1703: Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish general (b. 1658)
1665: Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (b. 1610)
1630: Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, Italian general and politician, Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1569)
1626: Lancelot Andrewes, English bishop and scholar (b. 1555)
1621: Mary Sidney, English writer (b. 1561)
1617: Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan (b. 1572)
1617: Francisco Suárez, Spanish priest, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1548)
1615: Arbella Stuart, English noblewoman and woman of letters (b. 1575)
1602: Caspar Peucer, German physician, scholar, and reformer (b. 1525)
1588: Tilemann Heshusius, German Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (b. 1527)
1550: Georg von Blumenthal, German bishop (b. 1490)
1536: Johannes Secundus, Dutch author and poet (b. 1511)
1534: Pope Clement VII (b. 1478)
1506: Philip I of Castile (b. 1478)
1496: Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1447)
1396: Jean de Carrouges, French knight (b. 1330)
1396: Jean de Vienne, French general and admiral (b. 1341)
1367: Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese poet (b. 1290)
1333: Prince Morikuni, Japanese shōgun (b. 1301)
1087: Simon I de Montfort, French nobleman (b. c. 1025)
1086: William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1066: Harald Hardrada, Norwegian king (b. 1015)
1066: Maria Haraldsdotter, Norwegian princess
1066: Tostig Godwinson, English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. c. 1029)

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