On This Day in History

August 14

August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 139 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023
Utah man who drove across state lines to play lottery in Idaho wins $3 million Mega Millions prize. A Utah man is glad he drove across state lines into Idaho on two separate occasions to play the lottery after it led to him winning a $3 million prize in the Mega Millions multi-state game.
2022
Lottery Post launches new website. Lottery Post Founder Todd Northrop today announced the launch of the new Lottery Post website, unifying the mobile and desktop experience and implementing numerous improvements, while positioning the popular lottery website for the future.
2020
$32.25 million Lotto Texas jackpot is currently the largest in the USA. The Texas Lottery is up on the world stage as the Lotto Texas jackpot rolled to $32.35 million after no jackpot-winning tickets were sold for the Wednesday, August 12 drawing, making it the biggest prize in the United States right now.
2018
First sports betting licenses issued by West Virginia Lottery. Legalization of sports betting in West Virginia has reached another milestone, with the issuing of the first sports betting licenses by the state Lottery Commission.
2018
Lottery sales in Japan down for second straight year. In Japan, sales of Takarakuji lottery tickets issued by prefectural governments and ordinance-designated major cities totaled ¥786.6 billion (US$7.1 billion) in fiscal 2017, down 6.9 percent from the year before.
2017
Tennessee Lottery celebrates eclipse with new scratch-off game. There's nothing like the moon passing in front of the sun for 15 minutes to get people running to the store for scratch-off lottery tickets.
2016
Alabama lawmakers weigh in on lottery. Several Montgomery-area lawmakers say they could support letting Alabamians decide whether the state has a lottery, and whether Powerball and Mega Millions tickets are sold locally.
2014
$90M Colorado Powerball winner claims prize. The winner of the largest lottery jackpot in Colorado history claimed his prize in Grand Junction on Wednesday afternoon.
2012
$320 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot increased before draw date. As a result of brisker than expected ticket sales, lottery officials announced today that the Powerball jackpot has been raised from $305 million to $320 million for Wednesday's drawing.
2011
Starved state budgets prompt new interest in online gambling. More states are looking into online gambling as the ticket to a balanced budget, but they face difficult roadblocks on a federal level.
2010
Man wins Fla. Lottery jackpot for 7th time. An Orlando man is having a streak of incredible lottery luck, claiming his seventh lottery grand prize.
2010
N.J. Lottery sets record for lottery ticket sales. The slumping economy seemingly hasn't stopped lottery players in New Jersey who want to cash in on their dreams.
2010
Lottery winner has lucky numbers tattooed on his arm. It's not something most of us would need reminding about, but delighted Wayne Hughes has immortalized his £1.1 million (US$1.7 million) lottery win -- by having it etched on to his arm.
2010
2 quick Lotto Texas winners put state in bind. The luck of lottery winners is picking up. For the state, not so much: It has taken a $3.4 million hit in just the past 10 days.
2007
Book imagines low-IQ man winning $12 million in Washington lottery. Seattle native Patricia Wood used her first-hand knowledge of life as a lottery winner to create a fictional account of a low-IQ man winning $12 million in Washington lottery.
2007
Briton claims UK's biggest lottery win. Someone in Britain is a lot richer on Tuesday after claiming the country's biggest ever lottery win -- 35,425,411.80 pounds (US$71 million).
2007
Kentucky Lottery Lucky 7's raffle results. The Kentucky Lottery's latest raffle-style game, Lucky 7's, was drawn last night, awarding over a million dollars in prizes.
2005
Unclaimed New Mexico Powerball jackpot fuels speculation. The lucky -- and still unknown -- winner of Wednesday's $93.4 million Powerball jackpot bought the winning ticket in the Albuquerque area, the New Mexico Lottery revealed Friday.
2003
Prize for ticket may be prison. A Ohio woman accused of altering a lottery ticket to claim a $25,000 prize went on trial yesterday, with both sides agreeing that the ticket shown to jurors was a poor fake.
2003
Legality of Tennessee-Georgia lottery partnership questioned. Questions are being raised about the legality of the proposed marriage of the Tennessee and Georgia lotteries and whether a legal challenge by a jealous vendor could stall the start to the Tennessee lottery.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$432.5 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2017
2.$337 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2012
3.$259.3 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2021
4.€254.55 Million
US$258.65 Million
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2022
5.$242 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 17, 2021
6.$220.1 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2023
7.$213 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2009
8.$181 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2007
9.$146 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2009
10.$144 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2014
11.€123.8 Million
US$139.48 Million
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2016
12.$138 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2019
13.$122 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2007
14.€90 Million
US$102.3 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2018
15.$100 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 15, 2001
16.$97 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2004
17.$94 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 17, 2016
18.€85 Million
US$93.71 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2020
19.€70 Million
US$93.34 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2013
20.€84 Million
US$93.17 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2019
21.$86 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 17, 2010
22.€75 Million
US$83.19 Million
Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2019
23.$82 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 16, 2022
24.€57 Million
US$81.15 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2009
25.€67.6 Million
US$79.73 Million
Draw Date
Aug 14, 2021

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1984
Tuesday, Aug 14, 1984
39 years old
1980
Thursday, Aug 14, 1980
43 years old
1976
Saturday, Aug 14, 1976
47 years old
1974
Wednesday, Aug 14, 1974
49 years old
1973
Tuesday, Aug 14, 1973
50 years old
1970
Friday, Aug 14, 1970
53 years old
1968
Wednesday, Aug 14, 1968
55 years old
1966
Sunday, Aug 14, 1966
57 years old
1961
Monday, Aug 14, 1961
62 years old
1960
Sunday, Aug 14, 1960
63 years old
1959
Friday, Aug 14, 1959
64 years old
1957
Wednesday, Aug 14, 1957
66 years old
1945
Tuesday, Aug 14, 1945
78 years old
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Worldwide Events On This Day

2022
An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.
2021
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.
2015
The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba-United States relations were broken off.
2013
Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
2013
UPS Airlines Flight 1354 crashes short of the runway at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, killing both crew members on board.
2007
The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people.
2006
Lebanon War: A ceasefire takes effect three days after the United Nations Security Council’s approval of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, formally ending hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
2006
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
2005
Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
2003
A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
1996
Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is shot and killed by a Turkish security officer while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
1994
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
1980
Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
1972
An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany killing 156 people.
1971
Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
1969
The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland as political and sectarian violence breaks out, marking the start of the 37-year Operation Banner.
1967
UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
1959
Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1947
Pakistan gains independence from the British Empire.
1941
World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
1936
Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
1935
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
1933
Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; destroying 240,000 acres (970 km) of land.
1921
Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
1920
The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly-adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
1917
World War I: The Republic of China, which had heretofore been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war.
1914
World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive.
1901
The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
1900
Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
1893
France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
1885
Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
1880
Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1848
Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
1842
American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida.
1816
The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
1814
A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the Swedish-Norwegian War.
1791
Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
1790
The Treaty of Wereloe ended the 1788-1790 Russo-Swedish War.
1784
Russian colonization of North America: Awa’uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit. The consequent subjugation of the Alutiiq on Kodiak Island allows Shelikhov to establish the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska at Three Saints Bay.
1720
The Spanish military Villasur expedition is defeated by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
1598
Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
1592
The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis.
1385
Portuguese Crisis of 1383-85: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by John I of Portugal defeat the Castilian army of John I of Castile.
1370
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Karlovy Vary.
1352
War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
1264
After tricking the Venetian galley fleet into sailing east to the Levant, the Genoese capture an entire Venetian trade convoy at the Battle of Saseno.
1183
Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.
1040
King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
29 BC
Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
74 BC
A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating the 1,127 offences (sexual debauchery, fiscal negligence, cronyism, etc.) that the ministers found the new emperor to have committed over the course of his 27-day rule, result in the unprecedented impeachment - and summary deposition on the same day - of the emperor by the bureaucracy.

Births On This Day

2004
Marsai Martin, American actress and producer
1997
Greet Minnen, Belgian tennis player
1995
Léolia Jeanjean, French tennis player
1991
Richard Freitag, German ski jumper
1991
Giovanny Gallegos, Mexican baseball player
1989
Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer
1989
Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
1987
Johnny Gargano, American wrestler
1987
David Peralta, Venezuelan baseball player
1987
Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player and sportscaster
1986
Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
1985
Christian Gentner, German footballer
1985
Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
1984
Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player
1984
Clay Buchholz, American baseball player
1984
Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
1984
Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player
1984
Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host
1984
Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player
1984
Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
1983
Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
1983
Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
1983
Lamorne Morris, American actor and comedian
1983
Spencer Pratt, American television personality
1981
Earl Barron, American basketball player
1981
Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league player, boxer, and sportscaster
1981
Julius Jones, American football player
1981
Kofi Kingston, Ghanian-American wrestler
1981
Scott Lipsky, American tennis player
1980
Peter Malinauskas, Australian politician, 47th Premier of South Australia
1979
Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter
1978
Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
1978
Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand rugby player
1977
Juan Pierre, American baseball player
1976
Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper
1975
Mike Vrabel, American football player
1974
Chucky Atkins, American basketball player
1974
Christopher Gorham, American actor
1973
Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
1973
Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
1972
Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, Prime Minister of Haiti
1971
Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971
Benito Carbone, Italian footballer
1971
Peter Franzén, Finnish actor
1971
Mark Loretta, American baseball player
1970
Kevin Cadogan, American rock guitarist
1969
Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut
1969
Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer
1968
Ben Bass, American actor
1968
Catherine Bell, English-American actress and producer
1968
Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
1968
Jason Leonard, English rugby player
1966
Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer
1966
Karl Petter Løken, Swedish-Norwegian footballer
1965
Paul Broadhurst, English golfer
1964
Neal Anderson, American football player and coach
1964
Jason Dunstall, Australian footballer
1963
José Cóceres, Argentinian golfer
1962
Mark Gubicza, American baseball player
1961
Susan Olsen, American actress and radio host
1960
Sarah Brightman, English singer and actress
1960
Fred Roberts, American basketball player
1959
Frank Brickowski, American basketball player
1959
Marcia Gay Harden, American actress
1959
Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
1957
Peter Costello, Australian lawyer and politician
1956
Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality
1956
Andy King, English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1956
Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
1954
Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2009)
1954
Stanley A. McChrystal, American general
1953
James Horner, American composer and conductor (d. 2015)
1952
Debbie Meyer, American swimmer
1951
Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951
Carl Lumbly, American actor
1950
Gary Larson, American cartoonist
1949
Bob Backlund, American wrestler
1949
Morten Olsen, Danish footballer
1947
Maddy Prior, English folk singer
1947
Danielle Steel, American author
1947
Joop van Daele, Dutch footballer
1946
Antonio Fargas, American actor
1946
Larry Graham, American soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter
1946
Susan Saint James, American actress
1946
Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and businessman (d. 2010)
1945
Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
1945
Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
1943
Ronnie Campbell, English miner and politician
1943
Ben Sidran, American jazz and rock keyboardist
1942
Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
1941
David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2023)
1941
Connie Smith, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938
Bennie Muller, Dutch footballer
1935
John Brodie, American football player
1933
Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1932
Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
1931
Frederic Raphael, American journalist, author, and screenwriter
1930
Arthur Latham, British politician and Member of Parliament (d. 2016)
1930
Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
1929
Giacomo Capuzzi, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi from 1989 to 2005 (d. 2021).
1929
Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971)
1928
Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1926
René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (d. 1977)
1926
Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist (d. 2017)
1925
Russell Baker, American critic and essayist (d. 2019)
1924
Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum (d. 2009)
1924
Georges Prêtre, French conductor (d. 2017)
1923
Alice Ghostley, American actress (d. 2007)
1916
Frank and John Craighead, American naturalists (twins, Frank d. 2001, John d. 2016)
1916
Wellington Mara, American businessman (d. 2005)
1915
B. A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and publisher (d. 1998)
1914
Herman Branson, American physicist, chemist, and academic (d. 1995)
1913
Hector Crawford, Australian director and producer (d. 1991)
1913
Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1912
Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)
1910
Nüzhet Gökdoğan, Turkish astronomer and mathematician (d. 2003)
1910
Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
1910
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and producer (d. 1995)
1900
Margret Boveri, German journalist (d. 1975)
1896
Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (d. 1917)
1896
Theodor Luts, Estonian director and cinematographer (d. 1980)
1895
Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973)
1895
Amaza Lee Meredith, American architect (d. 1984)
1894
Frank Burge, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1958)
1892
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (d. 1988)
1890
Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (d. 1946)
1889
Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1976)
1886
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (d. 1950)
1883
Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic (d. 1941)
1881
Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1953)
1876
Alexander I of Serbia (d. 1903)
1875
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
1871
Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
1867
Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912)
1867
John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1933)
1866
Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (d. 1962)
1865
Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1952)
1863
Ernest Thayer, American poet and author (d. 1940)
1860
Ernest Thompson Seton, American author, artist, and naturalist (d. 1946)
1851
Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler (d. 1887)
1848
Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (d. 1915)
1847
Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician (d. 1922)
1840
Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychologist and author (d. 1902)
1817
Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1874)
1814
Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher (d. 1901)
1802
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist (d. 1838)
1777
Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist (d. 1851)
1758
Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer (d. 1836)
1742
Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
1738
Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1793)
1714
Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
1688
Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
1653
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica (d. 1688)
1642
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
1599
Méric Casaubon, Swiss-English scholar and author (d. 1671)
1552
Paolo Sarpi, Italian writer (d. 1623)
1530
Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1590)
1502
Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (d. 1550)
1499
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1526)
1479
Catherine of York (d. 1527)

Deaths On This Day

2021
Michael Aung-Thwin, American historian and scholar of Burmese and Southeast Asian history (b. 1946)
2020
Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (b. 1933)
2020
Angela Buxton, British tennis player (b. 1934)
2020
James R. Thompson, American politician, Governor of Illinois (1977-91) (b. 1936)
2019
Polly Farmer, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
2018
Jill Janus, American singer (b. 1975)
2016
Fyvush Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)
2015
Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932)
2014
Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934)
2014
George V. Hansen, American politician (b. 1930)
2013
Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928)
2012
Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)
2012
Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923)
2012
Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
2010
Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923)
2007
Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2006
Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
2004
Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2004
Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
2003
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2002
Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
1999
Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
1996
Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1994
Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1994
Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)
1992
John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
1991
Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1920)
1988
Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
1988
Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1945)
1988
Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898)
1985
Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
1984
Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904)
1984
J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
1982
Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (b. 1904)
1981
Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1894)
1981
Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
1980
Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)
1978
Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)
1973
Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
1972
Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
1972
Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
1967
Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)
1965
Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
1964
Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
1963
Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1958
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1956
Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
1956
Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
1955
Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1954
Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
1951
William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
1943
Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
1941
Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
1941
Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1938
Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)
1928
Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
1922
Rebecca Cole, American physician and social reformer (b. 1846)
1909
William Stanley, British engineer and author (b. 1829)
1905
Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
1891
Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
1890
Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
1870
David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
1860
André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
1854
Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
1852
Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (b. 1788)
1784
Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
1774
Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
1727
William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
1716
Madre María Rosa, Capuchin nun from Spain, to Peru (b. 1660)
1691
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1630)
1573
Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyō (b. 1548)
1464
Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1433
John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
1204
Minamoto no Yoriie, second Shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate
1167
Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop
1040
Duncan I of Scotland
582
Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor