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April 13

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April 13

April 13 is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 262 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Michigan woman wins $500,000 in lottery the same day a tarot card reading predicts influx of money. Call it fate or call it the wildest luck yet, but one Michigan woman had the most coincidental experience ever when she won $500,000 in the lottery the same day a tarot card reading predicted money was headed her way.
2023: Michigan woman didn't realize she had Powerball lottery ticket worth $1 million for six weeks. A Michigan woman didn't realize she was in possession of a lottery ticket worth $1 million for six weeks.
2020: Kentucky Lottery now using computerized drawings. Starting today, you will no longer be able to watch how the Kentucky Lottery draws its daily numbers games because the drawings now take place inside a computer program.
2018: NJ man claims $533 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Friday morning the New Jersey Lottery revealed the sole winner of the mammoth $533 million Mega Millions jackpot won on March 30.
2018: Michigan woman buys entire bar drinks after lottery win. A Michigan woman bought a round for everyone in a Michigan bar after realizing she won a $189,912 prize from the Michigan Lottery.
2017: Idaho Lottery announces St. Patrick's Day Raffle winners. Idaho Lottery officials on Wednesday announced the winning ticket numbers for the St. Patrick's Day Raffle, including the $100,000 top prize.
2017: Are lawmakers selling the Texas Lottery short?. Texas Lottery officials are worried they will have to cut back on the variety of scratch-offs offered — and on the advertising that promotes the games — now that Texas budget writers are considering cutting as much as $18 million from the agency's budget.
2016: Lottery rigging scandal prompts security audit in South Dakota. The scandal unfolding in Iowa, where software allowed some results to be rigged in multi-state lotto drawings, has added to concerns among South Dakota Lottery officials, spurring them to proceed Thursday in requesting proposals for a security review of South Dakota Lottery facilities.
2016: Quebec bill would force Internet firms to block access to online gambling sites. A little-publicized bill that is making its way through Quebec's legislative process has digital-law experts and others worried that the concept of a free and open Internet is being threatened in the province.
2015: BOMBSHELL: MUSL employee might have rigged Hot Lotto computerized drawing. Lottery Post has been warning of the dangers of computerized drawings for over a decade, and now prosecutors of the mystery Hot Lotto winner from Iowa are looking at the possibility that those warnings have come true.
2014: Man threw away $1.25 million worth of lottery tickets. A Pennsylvania man misread his winning lottery tickets and threw them away, losing out on a $1.25 million payout.
2012: NY lottery winner charged with welfare fraud. A western New York lottery winner has been accused of improperly receiving more than $4,000 in public assistance.
2012: Six $1 million lottery prizes won at same Louisiana store. Lottery officials say six different $1 million Mega Millions lottery prizes were won from tickets sold at a gas station in Watson, Louisiana.
2011: $9.6M Washington Lotto jackpot claimed. A department store buyer is Washington's latest lottery millionaire, after collecting a lump-sum $4.8 million payout on a $9.6 million Lotto jackpot.
2007: Lotto tickets lead cops to murder suspect. Lottery tickets left at the scene of a double slaying at a Southwest Side grocery store in 2005 have led Chicago police to the suspected killer, police said today.
2007: Lottery declares 'foul' during evening Daily Number drawing. Pennsylvania Lottery officials declared a foul during the Thursday night Daily Number drawing.
2005: The Force is strong in California. Californians can be the first in the nation to try their luck with the release of the new collectible Star Wars Scratchers lottery ticket.
2005: Illinois House Votes To Create Lottery Game Supporting Veterans. The Illinois House Tuesday voted to create a new scratch-off lottery game and give the profit to veterans' programs.
2005: N.C. Religious Leaders Stage Anti-Lottery Rally. On the same day state Senate leaders appointed a special committee to review the lottery bill recently passed by the House, religious leaders rallied outside the Legislative Building to convince lawmakers to reject a lottery.
2005: Virginia Lottery sales top $1 billion for fifth straight year. Virginia Lottery sales have increased even as competition looms in neighboring states, lottery officials announced Tuesday.
2005: N.C. Senate lottery panel named. Nearly half of the North Carolina Senate is on a special committee that will debate the lottery bill approved last week by the House, including several members worried about state-sponsored gambling.
2005: Michigan Winfall to be eliminated on May 14. The Michigan Lotto game will end up in the grave yard of similar lottery contests and be replaced with a new game called Classic Lotto 47, said state Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters.
2004: Euro Millions $30.5 million lottery winner 'shocked'. A British woman who scooped the biggest ever EuroMillions jackpot was said Monday to be "pretty shocked".
2004: Minnesota Senate wants lottery examined. After soundly rejecting a call to abolish the state lottery, Minnesota senators voted unanimously Monday night to study ways to change its management and business practices.
2004: Lottery is bright spot in S.C. revenue. The South Carolina lottery has funded more than 300,000 college scholarships and sent tens of millions of dollars to aid primary education, buy new school buses and support an endowment fund for the state's three research universities, said Ernie Passailaigue, the lottery's executive director.
2004: Texas Lottery sales up for the year. Overall lottery ticket sales are up this year even as Lotto Texas, the state-run big jackpot game, is down about 26 percent, Texas Lottery Commission officials said Monday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$476 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2023
2.$331 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2002
3.$303.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2022
4.$224.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2023
5.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2021
5.$220 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2006
7.€187.85 Million US$203.8 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2022
8.$184 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2016
9.$175 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2010
10.€136.2 Million
US$162.08 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2021
11.€128.93 Million
US$159.03 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2018
12.$157 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2019
13.€135.47 Million
US$153.17 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2019
14.$148 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
15.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2020
16.$144 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2005
17.$113 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2012
18.€106 Million
US$112.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
19.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2014
20.€101.38 Million
US$107.71 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 16, 2024
21.€99 Million
US$107.02 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Apr 15, 2022
22.$106 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 14, 2018
23.$105 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2010
24.$101 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Apr 13, 2019
25.€90 Million
US$99.23 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Apr 17, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1988: casinoboi
Wednesday, Apr 13, 1988
36 years old
1978: jasean13
Thursday, Apr 13, 1978
46 years old
1978: Lucky$K
Thursday, Apr 13, 1978
46 years old
1978: Nicciluvsu13
Thursday, Apr 13, 1978
46 years old
1972: James413
Thursday, Apr 13, 1972
52 years old
1971: lbrazzill
Tuesday, Apr 13, 1971
53 years old
1966: Spikesmom2!
Wednesday, Apr 13, 1966
58 years old
1964: debell
Monday, Apr 13, 1964
60 years old
1964: AllansGaGa
Monday, Apr 13, 1964
60 years old
1963: keithporter
Saturday, Apr 13, 1963
61 years old
1962: JefferyA
Friday, Apr 13, 1962
62 years old
1961: Krissywins 7777
Thursday, Apr 13, 1961
63 years old
1959: LWHIT8859
Monday, Apr 13, 1959
65 years old
1955: Cash2000
Wednesday, Apr 13, 1955
69 years old
1948: achatha1
Tuesday, Apr 13, 1948
76 years old
1947: hamp-$
Sunday, Apr 13, 1947
77 years old
: aceemac13
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023: The house of Jack Teixeira was raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents, where he was later arrested on the same day.
2017: The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
1997: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
1996: Two women and four children are killed after Israeli helicopter fired rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
1976: The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
1976: Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
1975: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1972: The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
1972: Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins.
1970: An oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the Apollo command and service module (codenamed "Odyssey") while en route to the Moon.
1964: At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American man to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
1960: The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
1958: American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
1953: CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
1948: In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
1945: World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
1945: World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
1943: World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1943: The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1941: A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1919: Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379-1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
1909: The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1873: The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
1865: American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union forces.
1861: American Civil War: Union forces surrender Fort Sumter to Confederate forces.
1849: Lajos Kossuth presents the Hungarian Declaration of Independence in a closed session of the National Assembly.
1829: The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.
1777: American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.
1742: George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1699: The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1613: Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father.
1612: Samurai Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō in a duel at Funajima island.
1455: Thirteen Years' War: the beginning of the Battle for Kneiphof.
1204: Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1111: Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

Births On This Day

1994: Kahraba, Egyptian footballer
1993: Melvin Gordon, American football player
1993: Darrun Hilliard, American basketball player
1992: Jordan Silk, Australian cricketer
1991: Josh Gordon, American football player
1989: Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
1988: Allison Williams, American actress and singer
1987: John-Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
1986: Lorenzo Cain, American baseball player
1983: Hunter Pence, American baseball player
1982: Nellie McKay, British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
1982: Ty Dolla Sign, American singer, songwriter, and musician
1980: Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1979: Baron Davis, American basketball player
1978: Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
1977: Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician
1976: Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
1976: Dan Campbell, American football player and coach
1976: Glenn Howerton, American actor
1975: Lou Bega, German singer
1973: Bokeem Woodbine, American actor
1972: Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971: Franck Esposito, French swimmer
1971: Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor
1971: Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
1970: Ricky Schroder, American actor
1967: Dana Barros, American basketball player and coach
1967: Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic
1967: Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter
1965: Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator
1964: Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster
1963: Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author
1960: Rudi Völler, German footballer and manager
1955: Steve Camp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955: Muwenda Mutebi II, current King of Buganda Kingdom
1952: Gabrielle Gourdeau, Canadian writer (d. 2006)
1952: Jonjo O'Neill, Irish jockey and trainer
1951: Leszek Borysiewicz, Welsh immunologist and academic
1951: Peabo Bryson, American singer
1951: Peter Davison, English actor
1951: Max Weinberg, American musician and bandleader
1950: Ron Perlman, American actor
1950: Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2021)
1950: William Sadler, American actor
1949: Len Cook, New Zealand-English mathematician and statistician
1949: Frank Doran, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2017)
1949: Christopher Hitchens, English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (d. 2011)
1948: Nam Hae-il, South Korean admiral
1948: Drago Jančar, Slovenian author and playwright
1948: Mikhail Shufutinsky, Soviet and Russian singer, actor, TV presenter
1947: Rae Armantrout, American poet and academic
1947: Mike Chapman, Australian-English songwriter and producer
1947: Jean-Jacques Laffont, French economist and academic (d. 2004)
1947: Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer and politician (d. 2019)
1946: Al Green, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor
1945: Judy Nunn, Australian actress and author
1944: Susan Davis, Russian-American social worker and politician
1943: Alan Jones, Australian rugby coach and radio host
1943: Tim Krabbé, Dutch journalist and author
1943: Philip Norman, English journalist, author, and playwright
1942: Bill Conti, American composer and conductor
1941: Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941: Jean-Marc Reiser, French author and illustrator (d. 1983)
1940: Mike Beuttler, Egyptian-English racing driver (d. 1988)
1940: Lester Chambers, American singer and musician
1940: J. M. G. Le Clézio, Breton French-Mauritian author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940: Vladimir Cosma, French composer, conductor and violinist
1940: Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1940: Max Mosley, English racing driver and engineer, co-founded March Engineering, former president of the FIA (d. 2021)
1940: Ruby Puryear Hearn, African-American biophysicist
1939: Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1939: Paul Sorvino, American actor and singer (d. 2022)
1938: Klaus Lehnertz, German pole vaulter
1938: John Weston, English poet and diplomat
1937: Col Joye, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1937: Edward Fox, English actor
1937: Lanford Wilson, American playwright, co-founded the Circle Repertory Company (d. 2011)
1936: Pierre Rosenberg, French historian and academic
1934: John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2021)
1933: Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American soldier and politician
1932: Orlando Letelier, Chilean-American economist and politician, Chilean Minister of National Defense (d. 1976)
1931: Anita Cerquetti, Italian soprano (d. 2014)
1931: Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1931: Dan Gurney, American race car driver and engineer (d. 2018)
1931: Jon Stone, American composer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1929: Marilynn Smith, American golfer (d. 2019)
1928: Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister of State for Trade (d. 1999)
1928: Gianni Marzotto, Italian racing driver and businessman (d. 2012)
1927: Rosemary Haughton, English philosopher, theologian, and author
1927: Antonino Rocca, Italian-American wrestler (d. 1977)
1927: Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (d. 1983)
1926: Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
1926: John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, English businessman (d. 2014)
1924: John T. Biggers, American painter (d. 2001)
1924: Jack T. Chick, American author, illustrator, and publisher (d. 2016)
1924: Stanley Donen, American film director and choreographer (d. 2019)
1923: Don Adams, American actor and director (d. 2005)
1923: A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (d. 2014)
1922: Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (d. 1994)
1922: John Braine, English librarian and author (d. 1986)
1922: Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician and teacher, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
1922: Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (d. 2002)
1920: Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1920: Claude Cheysson, French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2012)
1920: Liam Cosgrave, Irish lawyer and politician, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2017)
1920: Theodore L. Thomas, American chemical engineer, Patent attorney and writer (d. 2005)
1919: Roland Gaucher, French journalist and politician (d. 2007)
1919: Howard Keel, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
1919: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founded American Atheists (d. 1995)
1917: Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007)
1917: Bill Clements, American soldier, engineer, and politician, 15th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (d. 2011)
1916: Phyllis Fraser, Welsh-American actress, journalist, and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books (d. 2006)
1914: Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet and author (d. 1950)
1913: Dave Albritton, American high jumper and coach (d. 1994)
1913: Kermit Tyler, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 2010)
1911: Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 1946)
1911: Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1994)
1911: Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1909: Eudora Welty, American short story writer and novelist (d. 2001)
1907: Harold Stassen, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2001)
1906: Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
1906: Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1991)
1905: Rae Johnstone, Australian jockey (d. 1964)
1904: David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1987)
1902: Philippe de Rothschild, French Grand Prix driver, playwright, and producer (d. 1988)
1902: Marguerite Henry, American author (d. 1997)
1901: Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1981)
1901: Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (d. 1988)
1900: Sorcha Boru, American potter and ceramic sculptor (d. 2006)
1900: Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1899: Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)
1899: Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete (d. 1975)
1897: Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1917)
1896: Fred Barnett, English footballer (d. 1982)
1894: Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
1894: Joie Ray, American runner (d. 1978)
1892: Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, English air marshal (d. 1984)
1892: Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented Radar (d. 1973)
1891: Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1921)
1891: Nella Larsen, Danish/African-American nurse, librarian, and author (d. 1964)
1891: Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (d. 1973)
1890: Frank Murphy, American jurist and politician, 56th United States Attorney General (d. 1949)
1890: Dadasaheb Torne, Indian director and producer (d. 1960)
1889: Herbert Yardley, American cryptologist and author (d. 1958)
1887: Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and golfer (d. 1995)
1885: Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1885: Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, Head of State of Estonia (d. 1942)
1885: György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and critic (d. 1971)
1885: Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch politician (d. 1961)
1880: Charles Christie, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded the Christie Film Company (d. 1955)
1879: Edward Bruce, American lawyer and painter (d. 1943)
1879: Oswald Bruce Cooper, American type designer, lettering artist, graphic designer, and educator (d. 1940)
1875: Ray Lyman Wilbur, American physician, academic, and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1949)
1873: John W. Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Solicitor General (d. 1955)
1872: John Cameron, Scottish international footballer and manager (d. 1935)
1872: Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian-Croatian journalist and author (d. 1945)
1866: Butch Cassidy, American criminal (d. 1908)
1860: James Ensor, English-Belgian painter, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism (d. 1949)
1854: Lucy Craft Laney, American founder of the Haines Normal and Industrial School, Augusta, Georgia (d. 1933)
1852: Frank Winfield Woolworth, American businessman, founded the F. W. Woolworth Company (d. 1919)
1851: Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (d. 1928)
1851: William Quan Judge, Irish occultist and theosophist (d. 1896)
1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
1841: Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (d. 1905)
1832: Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author and diplomat (d. 1889)
1828: Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (d. 1906)
1828: Joseph Lightfoot, English bishop and theologian (d. 1889)
1825: Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1824: William Alexander, Irish archbishop, poet, and theologian (d. 1911)
1810: Félicien David, French composer (d. 1876)
1808: Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (d. 1889)
1802: Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and herpetologist (d. 1884)
1794: Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867)
1787: John Robertson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1873)
1784: Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1780: Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse (d. 1868)
1771: Richard Trevithick, Cornish-English engineer and explorer (d. 1833)
1769: Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (d. 1830)
1764: Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1830)
1747: Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1743: Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
1735: Isaac Low, American merchant and politician, founded the New York Chamber of Commerce (d. 1791)
1732: Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1792)
1729: Thomas Percy, Irish bishop and poet (d. 1811)
1713: Pierre Jélyotte, French tenor (d. 1797)
1648: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
1636: Hendrik van Rheede, Dutch botanist (d. 1691)
1618: Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French author (d. 1693)
1593: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1641)
1573: Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625)
1570: Guy Fawkes, English soldier, member of the Gunpowder Plot (probable; d. 1606)
1519: Catherine de' Medici, Italian-French wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
1506: Peter Faber, French priest and theologian, co-founded the Society of Jesus (d. 1546)
1350: Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (d. 1405)
1229: Louis II, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1294)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Michel Bouquet, French stage and film actor (b. 1925)
2022: Gloria Parker, American musician and bandleader (b.1921)
2017: Dan Rooney, American football executive and former United States Ambassador to Ireland (b. 1932)
2015: Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (b. 1940)
2015: Günter Grass, German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
2015: Herb Trimpe, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)
2014: Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (b. 1935)
2014: Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
2013: Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924)
2012: Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (b. 1941)
2012: Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (b. 1936)
2008: John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (b. 1911)
2006: Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1918)
2005: Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
2005: Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
2004: Caron Keating, Northern Irish television host (b. 1962)
2000: Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (b. 1916)
2000: Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager (b. 1910)
1999: Ortvin Sarapu, Estonian-New Zealand chess player and author (b. 1924)
1999: Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (b. 1914)
1998: Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and base jumper (b. 1960)
1997: Bryant Bowles, American soldier and activist, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (b. 1920)
1997: Alan Cooley, Australian public servant (b. 1920)
1997: Dorothy Frooks, American author and actress (b. 1896)
1997: Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
1996: Leila Mackinlay, English author and educator (b. 1910)
1993: Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1909)
1992: Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1923)
1992: Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
1992: Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (b. 1968)
1988: Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920)
1984: Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichordist and musicologist (b. 1911)
1983: Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (b. 1934)
1983: Theodore Stephanides, Greek physician, author, and poet (b. 1896)
1980: Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
1978: Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (b. 1931)
1978: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and women's rights activist (b. 1900)
1975: Larry Parks, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1975: François Tombalbaye, Chadian soldier, academic, and politician, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
1971: Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1971: Juhan Smuul, Estonian author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1969: Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1901)
1967: Nicole Berger, French actress (b. 1934)
1966: Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi colonel and politician, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921)
1966: Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881)
1966: Georges Duhamel, French soldier and author (b. 1884)
1964: Kristian Krefting, Norwegian footballer and chemical engineer (b. 1891)
1962: Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876)
1961: John A. Bennett, American soldier (b. 1936)
1959: Eduard van Beinum, Dutch pianist, violinist, and conductor (b. 1901)
1956: Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and educator (b. 1867)
1954: Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880)
1954: Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
1945: Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (b. 1874)
1944: Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (b. 1857)
1942: Henk Sneevliet, Dutch politician (b. 1883)
1942: Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (b. 1879)
1941: Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (b. 1863)
1941: William Twaits, Canadian soccer player (b. 1879)
1938: Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author (b. 1888)
1936: Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician 129th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1927: Georg Voigt, German politician, Mayor of Frankfurt (b. 1866)
1918: Lavr Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1917: Diamond Jim Brady, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1856)
1912: Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet and author (b. 1886)
1911: John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
1911: George Washington Glick, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
1910: William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish-English painter and educator (b. 1835)
1909: Whitley Stokes, Anglo-Irish lawyer and scholar (b. 1830)
1890: Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1828)
1886: John Humphrey Noyes, American religious leader, founded the Oneida Community (b. 1811)
1882: Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
1880: Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and author (b. 1813)
1868: Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
1855: Henry De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1796)
1853: Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (b. 1788)
1853: James Iredell, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
1826: Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1763)
1794: Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright and poet (b. 1741)
1793: Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French botanist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1763)
1722: Charles Leslie, Irish priest and theologian (b. 1650)
1716: Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (b. 1648)
1695: Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (b. 1621)
1641: Richard Montagu, English bishop (b. 1577)
1638: Henri, Duke of Rohan (b. 1579)
1635: Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman prince (b. 1572)
1612: Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai (b. 1585)
1605: Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (b. 1551)
1592: Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
1367: John Tiptoft, 2nd Baron Tibetot (b. 1313)
1275: Eleanor of England (b. 1215)
1213: Guy of Thouars, regent of Brittany
1138: Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
1113: Ida of Lorraine, saint and noblewoman (b. c. 1040)
1093: Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1035: Herbert I, Count of Maine
989: Bardas Phokas, Byzantine general
862: Donald I, king of the Picts (b. 812)
814: Krum, khan of the Bulgarian Khanate
799: Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and historian (b. 720)
585: Hermenegild, Visigothic prince and saint
548: Lý Nam Đế, Vietnamese emperor (b. 503)

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