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August 4

On This Day in History

August 4

August 4 is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 149 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: One lottery ticket in Pennsylvania wins $206.9 million Powerball jackpot. A single ticket sold in Pennsylvania matched all six numbers in the Powerball lottery drawing Wednesday night, lottery officials announced today.
2021: How the UK Lottery helped Great Britain win 100 Olympic gold medals. Great Britain has officially secured its 100th gold medal in the Olympics, part of which can be attributed to support from the UK National Lottery.
2016: New Mexico lottery players now able to buy tickets at gas pumps. A state lawmaker is concerned over a new program that allows people to purchase lottery tickets at gasoline pumps in New Mexico.
2016: New York Governor signs bill to allow daily fantasy sports. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law Wednesday to allow the resumption of daily fantasy sports in New York.
2015: Ga. man throws away -- then recovers -- $10,000 in winning Cash 4 lottery tickets. Imagine having lottery tickets worth $10,000, and then realizing you had thrown them away.
2015: California Lottery begins offering tickets at gas pumps. Play at the Pump, the California Lottery's latest expansion of the lotto market, is both convenient and controversial.
2015: NY man claims friend broke deal to split lottery prize, files lawsuit. A Queens, New York, man claims one of his best friends is bilking him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, after improbably striking the jackpot on a lottery ticket the two had agreed to split — and refusing to share the million dollar bounty.
2015: Suspected lottery ticket thief causes major wreck in getaway. A suspect is in a Houston-area hospital after fleeing the scene of a daring robbery in Conroe and causing a serious traffic accident as he was attempting to make his getaway.
2015: $1 million hasn't changed Iowa lottery winner. Five years since winning $1 million, Bob Boehm stands in roughly the same place.
2015: N.J. lottery drawing games offline across the state over the weekend. Half of all lottery retailers across New Jersey were not been able to issue any tickets from Friday night through Monday as a result of a "technical issue," a state Treasury spokesman confirmed Monday.
2013: $400 MILLION: Powerball jackpot skyrockets. For only the 4th time in the history of United States lotteries, a lottery jackpot has grown to $400 million or more.
2011: Powerball lottery jackpot increased to $180 million. The multi-state Powerball lottery drawing took place last night without any jackpot winners, causing the new jackpot for Saturday's drawing to grow to an estimated $180 million, with a cash option of $100.3 million.
2010: Playing same lottery numbers for 15 years paid off. The five numbers Chris Hoffman played in the Maryland lottery for 15 years never meant anything special to him -- until he won.
2010: Iowa Lottery to look at online options. The 25-year-old Iowa Lottery is an "offline business in an online world," but Director Terry Rich is out to change that.
2009: CT Lottery partners with Giants for new scratch game. Monday the New York Giants announced a partnership with the Connecticut Lottery Corporation to launch a Giants-branded scratch-off ticket game later this month.
2009: Texas Lottery launches Dallas Cowboys scratch-off game this month. The Texas Lottery Commission announced Monday that it will start a Dallas Cowboys scratch-off game Aug. 17. The $5 tickets will have cash prizes of up to $100,000 as well as chances to win packages that include a stadium suite, private tours, and airfare and tickets to an away game.
2009: Ohio Lottery director resigns. Ohio's lottery director resigned Tuesday from a rocky tenure serving in Gov. Ted Strickland's cabinet, as the state tries to expand the lottery to include video slot machines at horse racing tracks.
2009: All four PA Lottery raffle jackpots claimed. All four of the $1 million top-prize winners from the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 4 Millionaire Raffle drawing have claimed their prizes.
2009: Maryland Lottery's Green Ball promotion adds bonus drawings. The Maryland Lottery's Green Ball Double Draw promotion was triggered three times this past weekend, paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars in extra prize money to players of the Pick 3 game.
2007: Largest Texas Lottery jackpot claimed by trust. The winners of the largest Mega Millions jackpot ever won on a ticket sold in Texas have stepped forward to collect their prize money.
2006: $204 Million: Saturday Powerball Jackpot. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $204 million, with a cash option of $92.7 million.
2005: Brothers sharing $11 million lottery win return to work. Thirteen years after James and John Daly split an $11 million lottery prize, the twin brothers have returned to their old jobs as maintenance workers in the Brockton, Massachusetts, schools.
2005: Euro Millions lottery winner wants 'normality'. Irish housewife Dolores McNamara wants to return to normality as soon as possible, her solicitor said today as she collected the biggest jackpot in European Lottery history.
2005: Maryland Lottery to replace classic Lotto game. The first Maryland lottery game to offer $1 million prizes seems likely to become extinct, a victim of players who opt to gamble instead on mega-jackpots.
2004: Mega Millions jackpot increases to $20 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $20 million Wednesday.
2003: Mega Millions Jackpot Grows to $42 Million. There were no Mega Millions jackpot winners Friday but 271,367 players across the nation won a total of almost $1.5 million in prizes.
2003: Powerball Jackpot Grows To $42 Million. There were no Powerball jackpot winners Saturday but 369,986 players across the nation won a total of more than $2.6 million in prizes in America's Game.
2003: Canadians Face Lottery Fraud Charges. Seven Canadians face criminal charges that they ran a phony lottery scheme that sought to defraud consumers in the United States using telemarketing, the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston said Friday.
2003: Poll: Lottery finds favor for raising revenue in Nevada. Most Nevadans favor a state lottery as an alternative means of funding education and are happy that state lawmakers didn't impose any more taxes than it did, according to a new statewide poll.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.35 Billion: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2023
2.$448.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2013
3.$323 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2017
4.$286 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 5, 2017
5.€247.95 Million US$253.26 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2022
6.€190 Million US$235.71 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2012
7.€203.41 Million US$227.82 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 6, 2019
8.$211.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2021
9.$204 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 5, 2006
10.$203 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2018
11.$191 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 6, 2021
12.$181 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2012
13.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 6, 2011
14.$147 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 5, 2020
15.$138 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 5, 2009
16.$136 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 5, 2023
17.€117.96 Million
US$131.34 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2016
18.€117.24 Million
US$128.93 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2023
19.$123 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 4, 2007
20.$112 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2019
21.$100 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 5, 2014
22.$99 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 5, 2011
23.€84 Million
US$98.96 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 6, 2021
24.$89 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2007
25.€75 Million
US$86.95 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2018

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: Tracirfoster32
Sunday, Aug 4, 1991
32 years old
1987: dnddos5
Tuesday, Aug 4, 1987
36 years old
1982: aliasgharcp
Wednesday, Aug 4, 1982
41 years old
1967: Paperchamp
Friday, Aug 4, 1967
56 years old
1958: Blackapple
Monday, Aug 4, 1958
65 years old
1953: Johnbelly
Tuesday, Aug 4, 1953
70 years old
1952: wardog55
Monday, Aug 4, 1952
71 years old
1951: caltman4094
Saturday, Aug 4, 1951
72 years old
1947: lucky47
Monday, Aug 4, 1947
76 years old
1934: Bettyjai
Saturday, Aug 4, 1934
89 years old
: 7cityreppa
(year not provided)
: specialkaye
(year not provided)
: Sweet Tea
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: At least 220 people are killed and over 5,000 are wounded when 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate explodes in Beirut, Lebanon.
2019: Nine people are killed and 26 injured in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio. This comes only 13 hours after another mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed.
2018: Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) expel the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Iraq-Syria border, concluding the second phase of the Deir ez-Zor campaign.
2007: NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.
2006: A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger (known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF).
1995: Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
1987: The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
1984: The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
1983: Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, president of the military government of Upper Volta, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Captain Thomas Sankara.
1977: U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
1975: The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The hostages include the U.S. consul and the Swedish Chargé d'affaires. The gunmen win the release of five imprisoned comrades and fly with them to Libya.
1974: A bomb explodes in the Italicus Express train at San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy, killing 12 people and wounding 22.
1972: Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Uganda is no longer responsible for the care of British subjects of Asian origin, beginning the expulsions of Ugandan Asians.
1969: Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuân Thuỷ begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail.
1965: The Constitution of the Cook Islands comes into force, giving the Cook Islands self-governing status within New Zealand.
1964: Civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
1964: Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy mistakenly report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
1947: The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
1946: An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1944: The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
1944: The Finnish Parliament, by derogation, elected Marshal C. G. E. Mannerheim as President of Finland to replace Risto Ryti, who had resigned.
1936: Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
1924: Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
1921: Bolshevik-Makhnovist conflict: Mikhail Frunze declares victory over the Makhnovshchina.
1915: World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
1914: World War I: In response to the German invasion of Belgium, Belgium and the British Empire declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
1892: The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
1889: The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
1873: American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
1863: Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
1854: The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1821: The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1796: French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
1791: The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman-Habsburg wars.
1790: A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).
1789: France: abolition of feudalism by the National Constituent Assembly.
1783: Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people (Tenmei eruption). The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.
1704: War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1701: Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.
1693: Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.
1578: Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir: The Moroccans defeat the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir. This initiates a succession crisis in Portugal.
1327: First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.
1265: Second Barons' War: Battle of Evesham: The army of Prince Edward (the future king Edward I of England) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
598: Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during the Manchurian rainy season, with a Chinese army and navy.

Births On This Day

1995: Bruna Marquezine, Brazilian actress
1992: Daniele Garozzo, Italian fencer
1992: Cole Sprouse, American actor
1992: Dylan Sprouse, American actor
1991: Thiago Cardoso, Brazilian footballer
1991: Izet Hajrović, Bosnian footballer
1990: Hikmet Balioğlu, Turkish footballer
1990: Siim Tenno, Estonian footballer
1989: Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
1989: Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1989: Wang Hao, Chinese chess player
1988: Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress
1988: Kelley O'Hara, American soccer player
1987: Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
1987: Marreese Speights American basketball player
1987: Tomoya Warabino, Japanese actor
1986: Nick Augusto, American drummer
1986: Leon Camier, English motorcycle racer
1986: Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
1986: Iosia Soliola, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
1986: David Williams, Australian rugby league player
1985: Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1985: Robbie Findley, American soccer player
1985: Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
1985: Ha Seung-jin, South Korean basketball player
1985: Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
1984: Terry Campese, Australian rugby league player
1984: Mardy Collins, American basketball player
1983: Greta Gerwig, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1981: Marques Houston, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1981: Benjamin Lauth, German footballer
1981: Abigail Spencer, American actress
1981: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, American actress and humanitarian, and member of British Royal Family
1980: Richard Dawson, English cricketer and coach
1979: Robin Peterson, South African cricketer
1978: Jeremy Adduono, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1978: Luke Allen, American baseball player (d. 2022)
1978: Kurt Busch, American race car driver
1978: Agnė Eggerth, Lithuanian sprinter
1978: Ibán Espadas, Spanish footballer
1978: Jon Knott, American baseball player
1978: Karine Legault, Canadian swimmer
1978: Sandeep Naik, Indian politician
1978: Siri Nordby, Norwegian footballer
1978: Ricardo Serrano, Spanish cyclist
1978: Per-Åge Skrøder, Norwegian ice hockey player
1978: Satoshi Hino, Japanese voice actor
1977: Frankie Kazarian, American wrestler
1977: Luís Boa Morte, Portuguese footballer and manager
1976: Paul Goldstein, American tennis player
1976: Andrew McLeod, Australian footballer
1976: Trevor Woodman, English rugby player and coach
1975: Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
1975: Nikos Liberopoulos, Greek footballer
1975: Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Finland
1975: Daniella van Graas, Dutch model and actress
1974: Kily González, Argentine footballer
1973: Eva Amaral, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1973: Xavier Marchand, French swimmer
1973: Marek Penksa, Slovak footballer
1973: Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis, Brazilian footballer
1972: Stefan Brogren, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971: Bethan Benwell, English linguist, author, and academic
1971: Jeff Gordon, American race car driver and actor
1970: John August, American director and screenwriter
1970: Bret Baier, American journalist
1970: Steve House, American mountaineer
1970: Steven Jack, South African cricketer
1970: Kate Silverton, English journalist
1969: Mark Bickley, Australian footballer and coach
1969: Max Cavalera, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Troy O'Leary, American baseball player
1968: Daniel Dae Kim, South Korean-American actor
1968: Lee Mack, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1967: Michael Marsh, American sprinter
1965: Vishal Bhardwaj, Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, music composer and playback singer
1965: Adam Afriyie, English businessman and politician
1965: Dennis Lehane, American author, screenwriter, and producer
1965: Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish soldier and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Sweden
1965: Michael Skibbe, German footballer and manager
1964: Andrew Bartlett, Australian social worker and politician
1963: Keith Maurice Ellison, 30th Attorney General of Minnesota
1962: Roger Clemens, American baseball player and actor
1962: Paul Reynolds, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961: Barack Obama, American lawyer and politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate
1960: Chuck C. Lopez, American jockey
1960: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spanish academic and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Spain
1960: Bernard Rose, English director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1960: Tim Winton, Australian author and playwright
1959: Robbin Crosby, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2002)
1959: John Gormley, Irish politician, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government
1958: Allison Hedge Coke, American-Canadian poet and academic
1958: Mary Decker, American runner
1958: Silvan Shalom, Tunisian-Israeli sergeant and politician, 30th Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
1957: Rupert Farley, British actor and voice actor
1957: Brooks D. Simpson, American historian and author
1957: Valdis Valters, Latvian basketball player and coach
1957: John Wark, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
1955: Alberto Gonzales, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 80th United States Attorney General
1955: Billy Bob Thornton, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1954: Anatoliy Kinakh, Ukrainian engineer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Ukraine
1954: Steve Phillips, English footballer
1954: François Valéry, Algerian-French singer-songwriter
1953: Hiroyuki Usui, Japanese footballer and manager
1952: James Arbuthnot, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1952: Moya Brennan, Irish singer-songwriter and harp player
1952: Gábor Demszky, Hungarian sociologist, lawyer, and politician
1951: Peter Goodfellow, English geneticist and academic
1950: Caldwell Jones, American basketball player and coach (d. 2014)
1950: N. Rangaswamy, Indian lawyer and politician, 9th Chief Minister of Puducherry
1949: John Riggins, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
1948: Johnny Grubb, American baseball player and coach
1947: Klaus Schulze, German keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2022)
1946: Aleksei Turovski, Estonian zoologist and ethologist
1945: Paul McCarthy, American painter and sculptor
1945: Alan Mulally, American engineer and businessman
1944: Richard Belzer, American actor (d. 2023)
1944: Doudou Ndoye, Senegalese lawyer and politician
1943: Vicente Álvarez Areces, Spanish politician, 6th President of the Principality of Asturias (d. 2019)
1943: Barbara Saß-Viehweger, German politician, lawyer and civil law notary
1943: Bjørn Wirkola, Norwegian ski jumper and footballer
1942: Don S. Davis, American actor (d. 2008)
1942: Cleon Jones, American baseball player
1942: David Lange, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 2005)
1941: Martin Jarvis, English actor
1941: Andy Smillie, English footballer
1941: Ted Strickland, American psychologist and politician, 68th Governor of Ohio
1940: Coriún Aharonián, Uruguayan composer and musicologist (d. 2017)
1940: Robin Harper, Scottish academic and politician
1940: Larry Knechtel, American bass player and pianist (d. 2009)
1940: Frances Stewart, English economist and academic
1940: Timi Yuro, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1939: Jack Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, English politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
1939: Frankie Ford, American R&B/rock and roll singer (d. 2015)
1938: Ellen Schrecker, American historian and academic
1937: David Bedford, English keyboard player, composer, and conductor (d. 2011)
1936: Giorgos Zographos, Greek singer and actor (d. 2005)
1935: Carol Arthur, American actress and producer (d. 2020)
1935: Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer and coach (d. 1997)
1935: Michael J. Noonan, Irish farmer and politician, 25th Minister of Defence for Ireland (d. 2013)
1934: Dallas Green, American baseball player and manager (d. 2017)
1932: Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2020)
1932: Liang Congjie, Chinese environmentalist, founded Friends of Nature (d. 2010)
1931: Naren Tamhane, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
1930: Ali al-Sistani, Iranian-Iraqi cleric and scholar
1929: Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1987)
1929: Vellore G. Ramabhadran, Mridangam artiste from Tamil Nadu, India (d. 2012)
1928: Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver (d. 2003)
1928: Gerard Damiano, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1928: Nadežka Mosusova, Serbian composer
1926: George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (d. 2000)
1926: Perry Moss, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
1922: Mayme Agnew Clayton, American librarian (d.2006)
1922: Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican cardinal (d. 2012)
1921: Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
1921: Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2000)
1920: Helen Thomas, American journalist and author (d. 2013)
1919: Michel Déon, French novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2016)
1918: Brian Crozier, Australian-English historian and journalist (d. 2012)
1917: John Fitch, American race car driver and engineer (d. 2012)
1915: Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System (d. 2007)
1913: Wesley Addy, American actor (d. 1996)
1913: Robert Hayden, American poet and educator (d. 1980)
1913: Johann Niemann, German lieutenant (d. 1943)
1912: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Russian mathematician, physicist, and mountaineer (d. 1999)
1912: David Raksin, American composer and educator (d. 2004)
1912: Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish architect and diplomat (d. 1947)
1910: Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008)
1910: William Schuman, American composer and educator (d. 1992)
1910: Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter and photographer (d. 2011)
1909: Glenn Cunningham, American runner and academic (d. 1988)
1908: Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor (d. 1994)
1906: Eugen Schuhmacher, German zoologist, director, and producer (d. 1973)
1905: Abeid Karume, 1st President of Zanzibar (d. 1972)
1904: Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author and playwright (d. 1969)
1904: Helen Kane, American singer and actress (d. 1966)
1904: Joe Tate, English footballer and manager (d. 1973)
1902: Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (d. 1981)
1901: Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer (d. 1971)
1901: Clarence Passailaigue, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1972)
1900: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1899: Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1994)
1898: Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (d. 1975)
1893: Fritz Gause, German historian and curator (d. 1973)
1890: Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1957)
1888: Taher Saifuddin, Indian religious leader, 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 1965)
1887: Albert M. Greenfield, Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1967)
1884: Béla Balázs, Hungarian poet and critic (d. 1949)
1884: Henri Cornet, French cyclist (d. 1941)
1877: Dame Laura Knight, English artist (d. 1970)
1876: Giovanni Giuriati, Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1970)
1876: John Scaddan, Australian politician, 10th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1934)
1871: William Holman, English-Australian politician, 19th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1934)
1870: Harry Lauder, Scottish actor and singer (d. 1950)
1868: Master C. V. V., Indian philosopher, yogi and guru (d. 1922)
1867: Jake Beckley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1918)
1861: Daniel Edward Howard, 16th president of Liberia (d. 1935)
1859: Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)
1853: John Henry Twachtman, American painter, etcher, and academic (d. 1902)
1844: Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (d. 1929)
1839: Walter Pater, English author, critic, and academic (d. 1894)
1836: Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup, Danish architect (d. 1907)
1834: John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1923)
1821: Louis Vuitton, French fashion designer, founded Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)
1821: James Springer White, American religious leader, co-founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church (d. 1881)
1805: William Rowan Hamilton, Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1865)
1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet and playwright (d. 1822)
1755: Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French soldier, painter, balloonist, and inventor (d. 1805)
1721: Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1803)
1719: Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German mineralogist and geologist (d. 1767)
1704: Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans (d. 1752)
1701: Thomas Blackwell, Scottish historian and scholar (d. 1757)
1623: Friedrich Casimir, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1641-1680) and Hanau-Münzenberg (1642-1680) (d. 1685)
1604: François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac, French cleric and author (d. 1676)
1522: Udai Singh II, King of Mewar (d. 1572)
1521: Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1470: Bernardo Dovizi, Italian cardinal (d. 1520)
1470: Lucrezia de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (d. 1553)
1469: Margaret of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1528)
1463: Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Florentine patron of the arts (d. 1503)
1290: Leopold I, Duke of Austria (d. 1326)
1281: Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan (d. 1311)
1222: Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (d. 1262)

Deaths On This Day

2019: Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician and theorist for the Khmer Rouge (b. 1926)
2015: Elsie Hillman, American philanthropist and politician (b. 1925)
2015: Les Munro, New Zealand soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
2015: John Rudometkin, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2015: Billy Sherrill, American songwriter and producer (b. 1936)
2014: James Brady, American activist and politician, 15th White House Press Secretary (b. 1940)
2014: Chester Crandell, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
2014: Jake Hooker, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1953)
2013: Keith H. Basso, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1940)
2013: Art Donovan, American football player and radio host (b. 1925)
2013: Olavi J. Mattila, Finnish engineer and politician, Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1918)
2013: Renato Ruggiero, Italian lawyer and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1930)
2013: Tony Snell, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1922)
2013: Sandy Woodward, English admiral (b. 1932)
2012: Johnnie Bassett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
2012: Brian Crozier, Australian-English journalist and historian (b. 1918)
2012: Bud Riley, American football player and coach (b. 1925)
2011: Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (b. 1977)
2009: Blake Snyder, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1957)
2008: Craig Jones, English motorcycle racer (b. 1985)
2007: Lee Hazlewood, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
2007: Raul Hilberg, Austrian-American political scientist and historian (b. 1926)
2005: Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and theorist (b. 1932)
2005: Iván Szabó, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance of Hungary (b. 1934)
2004: Mary Sherman Morgan, American chemist and engineer (b. 1921)
2004: Hossein Panahi (Persian: حسین پناهی), Iranian actor and poet (b. 1956)
2003: Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
1999: Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)
1998: Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
1997: Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
1996: Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
1992: Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
1990: Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1894)
1985: Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1933)
1982: Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
1981: Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
1977: Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
1976: Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop and martyr (b. 1923)
1976: Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
1967: Peter Smith, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1964: Nätti-Jussi, Finnish lumberjack and forest laborer (b. 1890)
1962: Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (b. 1926)
1961: Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (b. 1878)
1959: József Révai, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1898)
1958: Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (b. 1883)
1957: John Cain Sr., Australian politician, 34th Premier of Victoria (b. 1882)
1957: Washington Luís, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 13th President of Brazil (b. 1869)
1944: Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Polish soldier and poet (b. 1921)
1942: Alberto Franchetti, Italian composer and educator (b. 1860)
1941: Mihály Babits, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1883)
1940: Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Ukrainian-American general, journalist, and activist (b. 1880)
1938: Pearl White, American actress (b. 1889)
1932: Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (b. 1868)
1922: Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician (b. 1881)
1919: Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1845)
1914: Jules Lemaître, French playwright and critic (b. 1853)
1900: Isaac Levitan, Russian painter and educator (b. 1860)
1886: Samuel J. Tilden, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of New York (b. 1814)
1875: Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1805)
1873: Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (b. 1834)
1859: John Vianney, French priest and saint (b. 1786)
1844: Jacob Aall, Norwegian economist, historian, and politician (b. 1773)
1822: Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet and author (b. 1801)
1804: Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish admiral (b. 1731)
1795: Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1711)
1792: John Burgoyne, English general and politician (b. 1723)
1778: Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, Canadian-French politician, Governor General of New France (b. 1698)
1741: Andrew Hamilton, Scottish-American lawyer and politician (b. 1676)
1727: Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (b. 1647)
1718: René Lepage de Sainte-Claire, French-Canadian founder of Rimouski (b. 1656)
1639: Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Mexican actor and playwright (b. 1581)
1612: Hugh Broughton, English scholar and theologian (b. 1549)
1598: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1520)
1578: Sebastian of Portugal (b. 1554)
1526: Juan Sebastián Elcano, Spanish explorer and navigator (b. 1476)
1430: Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
1378: Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan (b. c. 1320)
1345: As-Salih Ismail, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1326)
1306: Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (b. 1289)
1266: Eudes of Burgundy, Count of Nevers (b. 1230)
1265: Peter de Montfort, English politician (b. 1215)
1265: Henry de Montfort (b. 1238)
1265: Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, French-English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward (b. 1208)
1265: Hugh le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer, English politician (b. 1223)
1113: Gertrude of Saxony, countess and regent of Holland (b. c. 1030)
1060: Henry I of France (b. 1008)
966: Berengar II of Italy (b. 900)
221: Lady Zhen, Chinese empress (b. 183)

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