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September 6

On This Day in History

September 6

September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 116 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Arkansas woman pauses grandmother's care to play the lottery and wins $350,000. An Arkansas woman took a break from caring for her grandmother to play the lottery and won a $350,000 prize on a feeling.
2023: New UK National Lottery operator Allwyn will implement online spending limit. As part of Allwyn Entertainment's upcoming takeover as the new operator of the UK National Lottery, a spending limit will be put in place for players buying lottery products online.
2019: Grocery store employee wins $9M lottery, immediately quits job. A California grocery store manager will need to fill a new employee opening after one lucky worker won a $9 million jackpot and quit.
2017: Mississippi panel studying other state lotteries. A special House panel has been looking at other states' experience with lotteries as it works on a study requested by House Speaker Philip Gunn, who opposes a lottery for Mississippi but says he wants the issue thoroughly vetted.
2016: Lottery-winning couple 'defrauded' by tax business. A husband and wife who won big off a 2014 Illinois Lottery scratch off say they don't want what happened to them to happen to anyone else.
2012: NJ bill aims to protect lottery winners' identity. A New Jersey assemblyman hopes to reduce the chances of a lottery winner being harmed with publicity through legislation that would keep winners out of the public eye.
2011: Lottery ticket sales increase across country. Despite a struggling economy -- or perhaps because of it -- lottery ticket sales have surged across the USA.
2010: Powerball lottery ticket worth $1M expired. Idaho Lottery officials say time has run out for someone holding a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.
2009: Arkansas Republicans upset about makeup of lottery officials. Arkansas Republican leaders are upset about a lack of representation in the formation and oversight of the Arkansas lottery.
2008: Missouri Lottery changing games Monday. Missouri Lottery players will get a new numbers game Monday, but also lose one.
2008: Powerball lottery jackpot raised to $92 million. Because there was no grand prize winner in the Wednesday evening Powerball drawing, the jackpot for the Saturday drawing is an estimated $92 million with a cash option of $46.3 million.
2008: Georgia woman wins $5 million lottery jackpot. A Cleveland, Georgia, woman who works on a chicken farm is celebrating an "eggs-cellent" $5 million dollar lottery win.
2008: Ohio Lottery's new Keno does $7.2M in business the first month. Keno, the Ohio Lottery's newest game, finished up its first month of operation this week, brining in $7.2 million and awarding $4.6 million in prizes.
2007: Delaware Lottery publishes winner pictures -- sort of. The Delaware Lottery takes pride in their privacy policy, only publishing winner names with their consent. To make the point, while still showing a real winner behind the story, the lottery takes the winners' pictures, but has each winner hold up a mask over their face.
2007: NJ store waiting for lottery winner to claim jackpot. A Cape May County grocery sold one of four winning tickets that will divide Friday's near-record $330 million jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions Lottery, New Jersey lottery officials said.
2005: Powerball lottery jackpot climbs to $60 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $60 million, with a cash option of $30.5 million.
2003: Bad breaks, but then a Lotto luck. A Williamsville, New York great-grandmother decided to try her luck by buying a NY Lotto Quick Pick ticket Aug. 30 - and found out that she was $33 million richer the next day.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.79 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2025
2.$740 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2024
3.$462.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2023
4.$374.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2021
5.$358 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 9, 2025
6.$345 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 7, 2021
7.€266.31 Million US$264.07 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2022
8.$208 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 7, 2013
9.$191 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2022
10.$187 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 7, 2018
11.$186 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 7, 2016
12.€126 Million
US$177.08 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2011
13.$168.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 7, 2022
14.€148 Million
US$164.27 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2024
15.€139 Million
US$153.75 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2019
16.€134.97 Million
US$151.31 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2016
17.$150 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2005
18.$149 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 9, 2015
19.$139 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2019
20.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 8, 2023
21.$114 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Sep 8, 2006
21.$114 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 8, 2018
23.$111.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 7, 2024
24.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 6, 2014
25.$108.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Sep 7, 2011

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1987: Moneypat20
Sunday, Sep 6, 1987
38 years old
1979: klilly30
Thursday, Sep 6, 1979
46 years old
1979: SP33dy13
Thursday, Sep 6, 1979
46 years old
1971: msmalibu
Monday, Sep 6, 1971
54 years old
1971: Niche
Monday, Sep 6, 1971
54 years old
1970: Tupac883
Sunday, Sep 6, 1970
55 years old
1969: MaxSugar87
Saturday, Sep 6, 1969
56 years old
1965: LechiBi
Monday, Sep 6, 1965
60 years old
1964: DLRussell
Sunday, Sep 6, 1964
61 years old
1962: babygirl51
Thursday, Sep 6, 1962
63 years old
1962: Money$back
Thursday, Sep 6, 1962
63 years old
: visiondude
(year not provided)
: Barbmh
(year not provided)
: ddarrell23
(year not provided)
: queenlexus
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: Boris Johnson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and is replaced by Liz Truss. Their meetings with Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle were the Queen's final official duties before her death two days later.
2022: Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukraine begins its Kharkiv counteroffensive, surprising Russian forces and retaking over 3,000 square kilometers of land, recapturing the entire Kharkiv Oblast west of the Oskil River, within the next week.
2018: Supreme Court of India decriminalised all consensual sex among adults in private, making homosexuality legal on the Indian lands.
2013: Forty-one elephants are poisoned with cyanide in salt pans, by poachers in Hwange National Park.
2012: Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.
2009: The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
2007: Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
2003: Mahmoud Abbas resigns from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.
1997: The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people line the streets and 21⁄2 billion watch around the world on television.
1997: Royal Brunei Airlines Flight 238 crashes in the Lambir Hills National Park while on approach to Miri Airport in Malaysia, killing 10.
1995: Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years.
1992: A group of hunters at the Stampede trail near Healy, Alaska came across a male corpse in abandoned bus, later identified as Christopher McCandless.
1991: The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
1991: The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1.
1986: In Istanbul, two terrorists from Abu Nidal's organization kill 22 and wound six congregants inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.
1985: Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 crashes near Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing all 31 people on board.
1983: The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
1976: Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
1972: Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1971: Paninternational Flight 112 crashes on the Bundesautobahn 7 highway near Hamburg Airport, in Hamburg, Germany, killing 22.
1970: Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
1968: Swaziland becomes independent.
1966: Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
1965: India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
1962: The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
1962: Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
1955: Istanbul's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government-sponsored pogrom; dozens are killed in ensuing riots.
1952: A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
1946: United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
1944: World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by Allied forces.
1944: World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
1943: The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
1943: Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
1940: King Carol II of Romania abdicates and is succeeded by his son Michael. General Ion Antonescu becomes the Conducător of Romania.
1939: World War II: The British Royal Air Force suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the Second World War at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
1939: World War II: Union of South Africa declares war on Germany.
1936: Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
1930: Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
1915: World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, was completed and given its first test drive.
1914: World War I: The First Battle of the Marne, which would halt the Imperial German Army's advance into France, begins.
1901: Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US president William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1885: Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
1870: Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
1863: American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
1861: American Civil War: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah, Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth.
1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
1781: American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Groton Heights takes place, resulting in a British victory.
1634: Thirty Years' War: In the Battle of Nördlingen, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces.
1628: Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1620: The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1522: The Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
1492: Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
394: Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later.

Births On This Day

2005: Elzhana Taniyeva, Kazakh rhythmic gymnast
2002: Asher Angel, American actor
2002: Leylah Fernandez, Canadian tennis player
2001: Freya Allan, English actress
2001: Terrence Clarke, American basketball player (died 2021)
2000: David Kushner, American singer-songwriter
1998: Michele Perniola, Italian singer
1997: Mallory Comerford, American swimmer
1997: Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
1996: Andrés Tello, Colombian footballer
1996: Lil Xan, American rapper
1995: Mark Andrews, American football player
1995: Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladeshi cricketer
1993: Famous Dex, American rapper
1993: Alex Poythress, American basketball player
1993: Mattia Valoti, Italian footballer
1992: Ryan Shazier, American football player
1992: Young Tonumaipea, Samoan rugby league player
1991: Brian Dumoulin, American ice hockey player
1991: Joe Harris, American basketball player
1990: John Wall, American basketball player
1989: Nikos Boutzikos, Greek footballer
1989: Kim So-eun, South Korean actress
1988: Max George, English singer-songwriter and actor
1988: Denis Tonucci, Italian footballer
1987: Emir Preldžić, Turkish basketball player
1985: Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian
1985: Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
1985: Małgorzata Rejmer, Polish novelist
1984: Helena Ekholm, Swedish skier
1984: William Porterfield, Northern Irish cricketer
1983: Jerry Blevins, American baseball player
1983: Pippa Middleton, English socialite and author
1983: Braun Strowman, American wrestler and strongman
1982: Temeka Johnson, American basketball player
1981: Yuki Abe, Japanese footballer
1981: Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1981: Andrew Richardson, Jamaican cricketer
1981: Mark Teahen, American baseball player
1980: Jillian Hall, American wrestler and singer
1980: Kerry Katona, English singer and actress
1980: Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer
1980: Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
1979: Mike Arnaoutis, Greek boxer
1979: Massimo Maccarone, Italian footballer
1979: Carlos Adrián Morales, Mexican footballer
1979: Low Ki, American wrestler
1978: Cisco Adler, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1978: Foxy Brown, American rapper
1978: Alex Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player
1978: Mathew Horne, English actor and screenwriter
1978: Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
1976: Rodrigo Amarante, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976: Naomie Harris, English actress
1976: Jon Ander López, Spanish footballer (died 2013)
1976: Tom Pappas, American decathlete and coach
1975: Derrek Lee, American baseball player and coach
1975: Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka and politician
1974: Tim Henman, English tennis player and sportscaster
1974: Nina Persson, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician
1974: Justin Whalin, American actor
1973: Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
1973: Greg Rusedski, Canadian-English tennis player and sportscaster
1973: Alessandro Troncon, Italian rugby player and coach
1972: Dylan Bruno, American actor and model
1972: Idris Elba, English actor
1972: Justina Machado, American actress
1972: Saulius Mikalajūnas, Lithuanian footballer
1972: Anika Noni Rose, American actress and singer
1971: Devang Gandhi, Indian cricketer
1971: Asko Künnap, Estonian poet and illustrator
1971: Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2018)
1970: Cheyne Coates, Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1970: Igor Korolev, Russian-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2011)
1970: Emily Maitlis, Canadian-English journalist
1970: Rhett Miller, American alternative country singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Tony DiTerlizzi, American author and illustrator
1969: Ben Finegold, American chess player and educator
1969: Michellie Jones, Australian-American triathlete
1969: CeCe Peniston, American singer-songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner
1968: Saeed Anwar, Pakistani cricketer
1968: Christopher Brookmyre, Scottish author
1968: Paul Rea, American journalist
1967: William DuVall, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967: Macy Gray, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1967: Kalli Kalde, Estonian painter and illustrator
1967: Milan Lukić, Bosnian Serb convicted of war crimes by the ICTY
1967: Igor Štimac, Croatian footballer and manager
1965: Terry Bickers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965: Darren Clark, Australian sprinter
1965: Tony Fleet, Australian darts player
1965: Christopher Nolan, Irish author and poet (died 2009)
1965: Van Tiffin, American football player
1964: Rosie Perez, American actress, dancer, and director
1963: Mark Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963: Pat Nevin, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
1963: Betsy Russell, American actress
1963: Alice Sebold, American author
1963: Bryan Simonaire, American engineer and politician
1963: Geert Wilders, Dutch lawyer and politician
1962: Chris Christie, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New Jersey
1962: Marina Kaljurand, Estonian badminton player and diplomat, Estonia Ambassador to Russia
1962: Elizabeth Vargas, American journalist
1962: Kevin Willis, American basketball player and fashion designer
1961: Simon Reeve, Australian journalist and game show host
1961: Wendi Richter, American wrestler
1961: Scott Travis, American rock drummer
1961: Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian musician and songwriter
1959: Bill Root, Canadian ice hockey player
1958: Buster Bloodvessel, English singer-songwriter
1958: Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1958: Nigel Westlake, Australian composer and conductor
1958: Michael Winslow, American actor
1958: The Barbarian, Tongan wrestler
1957: Ali Divandari, Iranian painter, sculptor, and journalist
1957: Michaëlle Jean, Haitian-Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Governor General of Canada
1957: José Sócrates, Portuguese engineer and politician, 119th Prime Minister of Portugal
1956: Bill Ritter, American lawyer and politician, 41st Governor of Colorado
1956: Steven Yearley, English sociologist and academic
1955: Raymond Benson, American author and playwright
1954: Carly Fiorina, American businesswoman and activist
1954: Demetris Kizas, Cypriot footballer
1954: Patrick O'Hearn, American bassist and composer
1954: John Sauven, English economist and environmentalist
1952: Simon Burns, English politician, Minister of State for Transport
1952: Vladimir Kazachyonok, Russian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2017)
1952: Buddy Miller, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1951: Melih Kibar, Turkish composer (died 2005)
1949: Iris Robinson, Northern Irish politician
1948: Claydes Charles Smith, American guitarist (died 2006)
1947: Jane Curtin, American actress and comedian
1947: Bruce Rioch, English footballer and manager
1947: Jacob Rubinovitz, Polish-Israeli engineer and academic (died 2018)
1947: Sylvester, American singer-songwriter (died 1988)
1946: Ron Boone, American basketball player and commentator
1946: Roger Knight, English cricketer and educator
1946: Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and educator
1944: Donna Haraway, American author, academic, and activist
1944: Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
1943: Gordon Birtwistle, English engineer and politician
1943: Richard J. Roberts, English biochemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943: Roger Waters, English singer-songwriter and bass player
1942: Dave Bargeron, American trombonist and tuba player (died 2025)
1942: Richard Hutton, English cricketer
1942: Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)
1941: Roger Law, English illustrator
1941: Monica Mason, South African ballerina and director
1940: John M. Hayes, American scientist (died 2017)
1940: Elizabeth Murray, American painter and illustrator (died 2007)
1940: Jackie Trent, English-Spanish singer-songwriter and actress (died 2015)
1939: Brigid Berlin, American actress, painter, and photographer (died 2020)
1939: David Allan Coe, American outlaw country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939: Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938: Joan Tower, American pianist, composer, and conductor
1937: Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator
1937: Janusz Kurczab, Polish fencer and mountaineer (died 2015)
1937: Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian, and singer
1935: Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French actress and author (died 2014)
1935: Jock Wallace Jr., Scottish footballer and coach (died 1996)
1932: Colin McColl, English intelligence officer
1932: Gilles Tremblay, Canadian composer and educator (died 2017)
1931: Bud Shrake, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2009)
1930: Charles Foley, American game designer, co-created Twister (died 2013)
1930: Helmut Piirimäe, Estonian historian and academic (died 2017)
1929: Yash Johar, Indian film producer, founded Dharma Productions (died 2005)
1929: Ljubov Rebane, Estonian physicist and mathematician (died 1991)
1928: Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect and academic, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe (died 2024)
1928: Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher (died 2017)
1928: Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (died 2002)
1928: Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon and academic (died 2012)
1926: Prince Claus of the Netherlands (died 2002)
1926: Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (died 2013)
1926: Arthur Oldham, English composer and conductor (died 2003)
1926: Maurice Prather, American photographer and director (died 2001)
1925: Andrea Camilleri, Italian author, screenwriter, and director (died 2019)
1925: Jimmy Reed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976)
1924: John Melcher, American veterinarian and politician (died 2018)
1923: Peter II of Yugoslavia (died 1970)
1922: Adriano Moreira, Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS - People's Party (died 2022)
1921: Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (died 2004)
1921: Norman Joseph Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (died 2012)
1920: Elvira Pagã, Brazilian actress, singer, and author (died 2003)
1919: Wilson Greatbatch, American engineer and philanthropist (died 2011)
1917: John Berry, American-French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1999)
1917: George Mann, English cricketer (died 2001)
1917: Philipp von Boeselager, German soldier and economist (died 2008)
1915: Ed Oliver, American golfer (died 1961)
1915: Franz Josef Strauss, German lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (died 1988)
1913: Julie Gibson, American actress and singer (died 2019)
1913: Leônidas, Brazilian footballer (died 2004)
1912: Wayne Barlow, American organist, composer, and director (died 1996)
1911: Harry Danning, American baseball player and coach (died 2004)
1911: Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, co-founder of the brand "DB (died 1980)
1910: Walter Giesler, American soccer player, referee, and coach (died 1976)
1909: Michael Gordon, American actor and director (died 1993)
1908: Anthony Wagner, English genealogist and academic (died 1995)
1908: Korczak Ziolkowski, American sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial (died 1982)
1906: Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentine physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1987)
1900: W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (died 1979)
1900: Julien Green, French-American author (died 1998)
1900: Nguyễn An Ninh, Vietnamese political journalist (died 1943)
1899: Billy Rose, American composer and manager (died 1966)
1893: Claire Lee Chennault, American general and pilot (died 1958)
1892: Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
1890: Clara Kimball Young, American actress and producer (died 1960)
1889: Louis Silvers, American composer (died 1954)
1888: Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman and diplomat, 44th United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (died 1969)
1885: Otto Kruger, American actor (died 1974)
1879: Max Schreck, German actor (died 1936)
1879: Joseph Wirth, German educator and politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 1956)
1876: John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
1869: Walford Davies, English organist and composer (died 1941)
1869: Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic (died 1945)
1868: Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (died 1947)
1863: Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (died 1935)
1861: William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia (died 1917)
1860: Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
1860: May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (died 1929)
1859: Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's (died 1945)
1857: Zelia Nuttall, American archeologist and historian (died 1933)
1855: Ferdinand Hummel, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1928)
1852: Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (died 1918)
1838: Samuel Arnold, American conspirator (died 1906)
1819: William Rosecrans, American general, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (died 1898)
1817: Alexander Tilloch Galt, English-Canadian businessman and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Finance (died 1893)
1814: George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (died 1873)
1808: Emir Abdelkader, Algerian religious and military leader (died 1883)
1802: Alcide d'Orbigny, French zoologist, palaeontologist, and geologist (died 1857)
1800: Catharine Beecher, American educator and activist (died 1878)
1795: Frances Wright, Scottish-American author and activist (died 1852)
1781: Vincent Novello, English composer and publisher (died 1861)
1766: John Dalton, English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist (died 1844)
1757: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (died 1834)
1732: Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (died 1796)
1729: Moses Mendelssohn, German philosopher and theologian (died 1786)
1711: Henry Muhlenberg, German-American pastor and missionary (died 1787)
1666: Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar (died 1696)
1656: Guillaume Dubois, French cardinal and politician (died 1723)
1633: Sebastian Knüpfer, German cantor and composer (died 1676)
1631: Charles Porter, English-born judge (died 1696)
1620: Isabella Leonarda, Italian composer and educator (died 1704)
1610: Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Italian noble (died 1658)
1475: Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy, French nobleman and politician (died 1519)
1475: Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect (died 1554)

Deaths On This Day

2024: Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, Turkish-American activist (born 1998)
2024: Rebecca Horn, German visual artist (born 1944)
2024: Will Jennings, American songwriter (born 1944)
2024: Cathy Merrick, Canadian First Nations leader (born 1961/1962)
2024: Ron Yeats, Scottish footballer (born 1937)
2021: Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (born 1933)
2021: Michael K. Williams, American actor (born 1966)
2020: Lou Brock, American baseball player (born 1939)
2019: Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (born 1924)
2018: Richard DeVos, American billionaire businessman (born 1926)
2018: Liz Fraser, English actress (born 1930)
2018: Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (born 1936)
2017: Peter Luck, Australian journalist and television host (born 1944)
2017: Kate Millett, American feminist author and activist (born 1934)
2015: Ralph Milne, Scottish footballer (born 1961)
2015: Martin Milner, American actor (born 1931)
2014: Odd Bondevik, Norwegian bishop and theologian (born 1941)
2014: Seth Martin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1933)
2014: Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player and educator (born 1919)
2013: Ann C. Crispin, American author (born 1950)
2013: Khin Maung Kyi, Burmese economist and scholar (born 1926)
2013: Santiago Rosario, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach (born 1939)
2012: Elisabeth Böhm, German architect (born 1921)
2012: Lawrie Dring, Scottish scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts (born 1931)
2012: Oscar Rossi, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1930)
2011: Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (born 1947)
2010: Boris Chetkov, Russian painter (born 1926)
2010: Clive Donner, English director and editor (born 1926)
2009: Catherine Gaskin, Irish-Australian author (born 1929)
2008: Anita Page, American actress (born 1910)
2007: Madeleine L'Engle, American author and poet (born 1918)
2007: Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (born 1935)
2005: Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (born 1929)
2005: Eugenia Charles, Dominican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Dominica (born 1919)
2000: Abdul Haris Nasution, Indonesian general (born 1918)
1999: Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, 3rd President of Nauru (born 1938)
1998: Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1910)
1998: Ric Segreto, American-Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and journalist (born 1952)
1998: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Swedish actor (born 1928)
1997: P. H. Newby, English author and broadcaster (born 1918)
1994: Nicky Hopkins, English pianist (born 1944)
1994: Max Kaminsky, American trumpet player and bandleader (born 1908)
1992: Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer (born 1912)
1990: Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1941)
1990: Len Hutton, English cricketer and soldier (born 1916)
1988: Leroy Brown, American wrestler (born 1950)
1986: Blanche Sweet, American actress (born 1896)
1985: Franco Ferrara, Italian conductor and composer (born 1911)
1984: Ernest Tubb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1914)
1982: Azra Erhat, Turkish archaeologist, author, and academic (born 1915)
1979: Ronald Binge, English organist and composer (born 1910)
1978: Max Decugis, French tennis player (born 1882)
1978: Tom Wilson, American record producer (born 1931)
1978: Adolf Dassler, German cobbler and entrepreneur, founded Adidas (born 1900)
1974: Olga Baclanova, Russian-Swiss actress and ballerina (born 1896)
1974: Otto Kruger, American actor (born 1885)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist (born 1945)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre David Berger, American-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (born 1944)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling judge (born 1931)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Eliezer Halfin, Russian-Israeli wrestler (born 1948)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Amitzur Shapira, Russian-Israeli runner and coach (born 1932)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Kehat Shorr, Romanian shooting coach (born 1919)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (born 1954)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Andre Spitzer, Romanian-Israeli fencer and coach (born 1945)
1972: Perpetrator and victims of the Munich massacre Yakov Springer, Polish-Israeli wrestler and coach (born 1921)
1969: Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (born 1892)
1966: Margaret Sanger, American nurse, educator, and activist (born 1879)
1966: Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-South African journalist and politician, 7th Prime Minister of South Africa (born 1901)
1962: Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian composer (born 1898)
1962: Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (born 1892)
1959: Edmund Gwenn, English actor (born 1877)
1959: Kay Kendall, English actress and comedian (born 1927)
1956: Witold Hurewicz, Polish mathematician (born 1904)
1956: Lee Jung-seob, North Korean painter (born 1916)
1952: Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, and dancer (born 1898)
1951: James W. Gerard, American lawyer and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Germany (born 1867)
1950: Olaf Stapledon, English philosopher and author (born 1886)
1949: Song Qiyun, communist activist (born 1904)
1949: Song Zhenzhong, child internee (born 1941)
1949: Xu Linxia, communist activist (born 1904/1905)
1949: Yang Hucheng, general (born 1893)
1945: John S. McCain Sr., American admiral (born 1884)
1944: James Cannon Jr., American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
1940: Thomas Harte (Irish republican) (born 1915)
1940: Patrick McGrath (Irish republican) (born 1894)
1939: Arthur Rackham, English illustrator (born 1867)
1938: John Stuart Hindmarsh, English race car driver and pilot (born 1907)
1927: William Libbey, American target shooter and geographer (born 1855)
1919: Lord Charles Beresford, English admiral and politician (born 1846)
1907: Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1839)
1902: Frederick Abel, English chemist and engineer (born 1827)
1891: Charles Jamrach, German-English businessman (born 1815)
1885: Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer, designed the Ictineo I and Ictineo II (born 1819)
1868: Pierre Adolphe Rost, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1797)
1836: Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three terms mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (born 1781)
1808: Louis-Pierre Anquetil, French historian and author (born 1723)
1783: Carlo Bertinazzi, Italian actor and author (born 1710)
1708: Sir John Morden, 1st Baronet, English merchant and philanthropist, founded Morden College (born 1623)
1683: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French economist and politician, French Controller-General of Finances (born 1619)
1649: Robert Dudley, English geographer and explorer (born 1574)
1635: Adriaan Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (born 1571)
1625: Thomas Dempster, Scottish historian and scholar (born 1579)
1566: Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman sultan (born 1494)
1553: Juan de Homedes y Coscon, 47th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (born c.1477)
1511: Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shōgun (born 1481)
1431: Demetrios Laskaris Leontares, Byzantine admiral and diplomat
1276: Vicedomino de Vicedominis, Italian cardinal (born 1210)
972: John XIII, pope of the Catholic Church (born 930)
957: Liudolf, duke of Swabia (born 930)
952: Suzaku, emperor of Japan (born 923)
926: Taizu of Liao, Khitan ruler (born 872)
394: Eugenius, Roman usurper

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