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August 7

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August 7

August 7 is the 219th day of the year (220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 146 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: California man reinvests $500 lottery win into scratch-off book, scoops up $1 million prize. A California man reinvested his $500 lottery win back into a full book of scratch-off tickets and spent an entire day at work before he discovered one of the tickets in the booklet was worth $1 million.
2021: Oregon man wins two prizes for life in one drawing. An Oregon man is set for two lifetimes over after winning the top prize twice in the Oregon Lottery's Win for Life draw game.
2020: Couple wins £1 million lottery prize a day after husband loses job. A couple who suffered a year's worth of hardship was hanging on by a thread, but one well-timed lottery prize was the long-awaited good karma to tip the scales and help lift the husband and wife out of their streak of misfortune.
2019: What's it like to suddenly become rich?. We've all daydreamed about an unexpected windfall that would change our luck. But what's it really like to come into money? Meet five people who did.
2019: UK Lottery's first £10k a month for life winner goes public as he reveals bucket list. A 24-year-old Amazon worker is celebrating after becoming the first person to win the National Lottery's £10,000 a month for the next 30 years.
2018: Wells Fargo lottery winners poker-faced as they return to work. Customers strolling into a South San Jose Wells Fargo this morning had no idea that millionaires would be cashing their checks.
2017: $650 million in lottery jackpots up for grabs this week. The USA's two powerhouse multi-state lottery games have been steadily growing their jackpots over the past several weeks, and this week they offer a combined $650 million to lottery players who will take a chance to beat the odds.
2014: Cottage industry helps lottery winners dodge taxes. With few rules or law enforcement to stop it, a cottage industry has popped up to help lottery winners avoid taxes, child support, and other debts, potentially costing the state and federal governments millions in lost revenue.
2014: Michigan Lottery hot streak: Fantasy 5 has 43 jackpot winners in last 4 months. According to the Michigan Lottery, the Fantasy 5 jackpot is riding an unprecedented hot streak, claiming 43 winners since April 7.
2013: Stores with past Powerball winners lure crowds. When big jackpots roll around, stores known for selling winning tickets see their business pick up as superstitious dreamers pour in, hoping luck will strike again.
2011: $220 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot ramps up. There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $220 million for Wednesday's drawing.
2010: Federal online gambling legislation clears big hurdle. Maybe there are some teeth in the push for legalization and sensible federal regulation of the Internet gambling industry after all.
2009: Scientific Games sued a second time by Gameologist. Gameologist, a New Jersey based and minority-owned small business, filed a second lawsuit in New York Supreme Court against Scientific Games, for infringement of trademark.
2009: Italy Is a 'Mad House' for Lottery. With a record €119 million (US$177 million) jackpot at stake in Italy's state lottery, millions have been gripped by lotto fever.
2006: N.C. Lottery lagging behind revenue estimates. North Carolina's lottery commission has cut the lottery budget because of lower sales than state lawmakers originally expected.
2006: Reporter honored for lottery coverage. Steve Geissinger, the Sacramento bureau chief for ANG Newspapers, received a national award Friday night from the Association of Capital Reporters and Editors for coverage of California's controversial entrance into the multi-state Mega Millions lottery.
2006: One ticket wins $40 million Florida Lotto jackpot. The Food R Us convenience store in Palm Springs, Florida, a small neighborhood store on Congress Avenue, sold the sole winning ticket for Saturday's $40 million Florida Lotto jackpot.
2006: Wisconsin factory workers win $208M Powerball lottery. About 100 cheese factory workers in the Wisconsin town of St. Cloud have been celebrating -- because they say they're $208 million richer now.
2006: Andy Rooney: Lotteries and lottery players are stupid. Andy Rooney demonstrates how a critic with a loud voice, a bunch of pre-conceived notions, and the laziness to obtain all of their information from one biased source can create an embarrassingly wrong opinion piece.
2003: Interlott wins Arizona lottery contract. Interlott Technologies Inc. won a bid to supply instant ticket vending machines to the Arizona Lottery.
2003: Powerball Jackpot Reaches $53 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $53 million, with a cash option of $27.3 million.
2003: $3.4M Ticket Hasn’t Been Cashed. The sale of a winning Megabucks ticket worth $3.4 million at the Brooklin General Store in June continues to cause a stir.
2003: Court Orders City To Return Couple’s Tax On Lottery Winnings. Ohio's highest court says one Northeast Ohio city can't tax lottery winnings under its current law.
2003: Davis names Washington lottery director to head Calif. lottery. Gov. Gray Davis on Wednesday appointed the executive director of the Washington state lottery to head California's lottery.
2003: Wrong lottery numbers get transmitted. A computer error caused some television stations around Louisiana to broadcast the wrong Pick 4 numbers for the Louisiana Lottery's Tuesday night drawing, officials said.
2003: Facing Fraud Trial, Mayor Wins Lottery. The mayor of the small town of Dawson, Georgia won $500,000 in the Georgia Lottery a month before his trial on charges of insurance fraud and forgery.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.6 Billion: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2023
2.$448.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2013
3.$350 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2017
4.$323.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 9, 2017
5.€250.6 Million US$256.04 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 9, 2022
6.€190 Million US$235.71 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2012
7.€205.4 Million US$230.03 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2019
8.$228.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 10, 2011
9.$227.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2021
10.$223 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2018
11.$212 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2012
12.$208 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 10, 2021
13.$161 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2009
14.$158 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2020
15.$154.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2023
16.$141 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2007
17.€120.54 Million
US$133.86 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Aug 9, 2016
18.$115 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 8, 2014
19.$112 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2019
20.€94 Million
US$110.2 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Aug 10, 2021
21.€90 Million
US$105.99 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Aug 13, 2021
22.$102 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2009
23.$92 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 10, 2005
24.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Aug 9, 2014
25.$89 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Aug 7, 2007

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

2000: Dkstarr5687
Monday, Aug 7, 2000
23 years old
1991: Vaniessa2424
Wednesday, Aug 7, 1991
32 years old
1989: stop light
Monday, Aug 7, 1989
34 years old
1987: Newbienewme
Friday, Aug 7, 1987
36 years old
1984: prncss59
Tuesday, Aug 7, 1984
39 years old
1980: frikiton1980
Thursday, Aug 7, 1980
43 years old
1978: bluejay1234
Monday, Aug 7, 1978
45 years old
1972: mcleanboi
Monday, Aug 7, 1972
51 years old
1971: cheryl c
Saturday, Aug 7, 1971
52 years old
1970: Semira
Friday, Aug 7, 1970
53 years old
1969: Bigpt7
Thursday, Aug 7, 1969
54 years old
1968: bluemonkey
Wednesday, Aug 7, 1968
55 years old
1963: SHAUNWAN
Wednesday, Aug 7, 1963
60 years old
1962: Tammi8762
Tuesday, Aug 7, 1962
61 years old
1961: nova563
Monday, Aug 7, 1961
62 years old
1960: afplum
Sunday, Aug 7, 1960
63 years old
1952: karmastarman
Thursday, Aug 7, 1952
71 years old
1946: silvercream
Wednesday, Aug 7, 1946
77 years old
: Three2001
(year not provided)
: Jalessia
(year not provided)
: lily345
(year not provided)
: theking7
(year not provided)
: uncledougy
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
2008: The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
2007: At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
1999: The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.
1998: Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
1997: Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1997: Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.
1995: The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.
1993: Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1990: First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.
1989: U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
1987: Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
1985: Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
1981: The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
1978: U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
1976: Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1974: Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
1970: California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
1969: Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1964: Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1962: Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
1960: Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
1959: Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1947: Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
1947: The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
1946: The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1942: World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1933: The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
1930: The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1927: The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
1909: Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
1890: Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, became the last woman to be executed in Sweden.
1858: The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.
1819: Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
1794: U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1791: American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1789: The United States Department of War is established.
1786: The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
1782: George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1743: The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741-1743 Russo-Swedish War.
1714: The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.
1679: The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1479: Battle of Guinegate: French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg.
1461: The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.
936: Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
768: Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.
626: The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.
461: Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

Births On This Day

1998: Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver
1998: María Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer
1998: Jalen Hurts, American football player
1997: Matty Cash, Polish footballer
1997: Kyler Murray, American football player
1993: Francesca Eastwood, American actress and television personality
1993: Martti Nõmme, Estonian ski jumper
1993: Karol Zalewski, Polish sprinter
1992: Adam Yates, English cyclist
1992: Simon Yates, English cyclist
1992: E. J. Tackett, American bowler
1991: Luis Salom, Spanish motorcycle racer (d. 2016)
1991: Mitchell te Vrede, Dutch footballer
1991: Mike Trout, American baseball player
1990: Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter
1989: DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player
1988: Jonathan Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
1988: Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer
1988: Anisa Mohammed, West Indian cricketer
1988: Melody Oliveria, American blogger
1988: Erik Pieters, Dutch footballer
1988: Beanie Wells, American football player
1987: Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
1987: Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer
1987: Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player
1987: Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer
1986: Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
1986: Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
1986: Altaír Jarabo, Mexican model and actress
1986: Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer
1984: Stratos Perperoglou, Greek basketball player
1984: Tooba Siddiqui, Pakistani model and actress
1984: Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (d. 2003)
1983: Christian Chávez, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor
1983: Murat Dalkılıç, Turkish singer-songwriter
1983: Danny, Portuguese footballer
1983: Andriy Hrivko, Ukrainian cyclist
1983: Mark Pettini, English cricketer and journalist
1982: Ángeles Balbiani, Argentine actress and singer
1982: Abbie Cornish, Australian actress
1982: Juan Martín Hernández, Argentine rugby player
1982: Marquise Hill, American football player (d. 2007)
1982: Vassilis Spanoulis, Greek basketball player
1982: Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer and drummer
1981: David Testo, American soccer player
1981: Randy Wayne, American actor and producer
1980: Carsten Busch, German footballer
1980: Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress
1980: Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer
1980: Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer
1979: Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1979: Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer
1979: Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author
1978: Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter
1978: Jamey Jasta, American singer-songwriter
1978: Mark McCammon, English-Barbadian footballer
1978: Cirroc Lofton, American actor
1977: Charlotte Ronson, English fashion designer
1977: Samantha Ronson, English singer-songwriter and DJ
1977: Justin Brooker, Rugby League Player
1976: Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos, Greek footballer and manager
1976: Shane Lechler, American football player
1975: Koray Candemir, Turkish singer-songwriter
1975: Gerard Denton, Australian cricketer
1975: Megan Gale, Australian model and actress
1975: Ray Hill, American football player (d. 2015)
1975: Rebecca Kleefisch, American journalist and politician, 44th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
1975: Édgar Rentería, Colombian baseball player
1975: Charlize Theron, South African actress
1974: Chico Benymon, American actor
1974: Michael Shannon, American actor
1973: Mikhail Gorsheniov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1973: Danny Graves, Vietnamese-American baseball player
1973: Kevin Muscat, English-Australian footballer, coach, and manager
1972: Gerry Peñalosa, Filipino boxer and promoter
1971: Dominic Cork, England cricketer and sportscaster
1971: Rachel York, American actress and singer
1970: Eric Namesnik, American swimmer (d. 2006)
1969: Paul Lambert, Scottish footballer and manager
1969: Dana G. Peleg, Israeli writer and LGBT activist
1968: Francesca Gregorini, Italian-American director and screenwriter
1968: Trevor Hendy, Australian surfer and coach
1968: Sophie Lee, Australian actress and author
1967: Jason Grimsley, American baseball player
1966: David Cairns, Scottish laicised priest and politician, Minister of State for Scotland (d. 2011)
1966: Shobna Gulati, British actress
1966: Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966: Jimmy Wales, American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia
1965: Raul Malo, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1965: Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figure skater
1964: John Birmingham, English-Australian journalist and author
1964: Ian Dench, English guitarist and songwriter
1964: Peter Niven, Scottish jockey
1963: Paul Dunn, Australian rugby league player
1963: Nick Gillespie, American journalist and author
1963: Marcus Roberts, American pianist and educator
1962: Alison Brown, American banjo player, songwriter, and producer
1961: Brian Conley, English actor and singer
1961: Yelena Davydova, Russian gymnast
1961: Walter Swinburn, English jockey and trainer (d. 2016)
1961: Carlos Vives, Colombian singer, songwriter, and actor
1960: David Duchovny, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1959: Koenraad Elst, Belgian orientalist and author
1959: Ali Shah, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach
1958: Russell Baze, Canadian-American jockey
1958: Bruce Dickinson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958: Alberto Salazar, Cuban-American runner and coach
1957: Daire Brehan, Irish journalist, lawyer, and actress (d. 2012)
1957: Alexander Dityatin, Russian gymnast and colonel
1955: Wayne Knight, American actor, comedian and voice actor
1955: Greg Nickels, American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Seattle
1955: Vladimir Sorokin, Russian author and playwright
1954: Valery Gazzaev, Russian footballer, manager and politician
1954: Jonathan Pollard, Israeli spy
1954: Alan Reid, Scottish politician
1953: Anne Fadiman, American journalist and author
1952: Caroline Aaron, American actress and producer
1952: Eamonn Darcy, Irish golfer
1952: Kees Kist, Dutch footballer
1952: Alexei Sayle, English comedian, actor, and author
1950: Rodney Crowell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950: Alan Keyes, American politician and diplomat, 16th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
1950: S. Thandayuthapani, Sri Lankan educator and politician
1949: Walid Jumblatt, Lebanese journalist and politician
1949: Matthew Parris, South African-English journalist and politician
1948: Marty Appel, American businessman and author
1948: Greg Chappell, Australian cricketer and coach
1947: Franciscus Henri, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter
1947: Sofia Rotaru, Ukrainian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1945: Kenny Ireland, Scottish actor and director (d. 2014)
1945: Alan Page, American football player and jurist
1944: John Glover, American actor
1944: Robert Mueller, American soldier and lawyer, 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1943: Mohammed Badie, Egyptian religious leader
1943: Lana Cantrell, Australian singer-songwriter and lawyer
1943: Alain Corneau, French director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1942: Garrison Keillor, American humorist, novelist, short story writer, and radio host
1942: Carlos Monzon, Argentinian boxer and actor (d. 1995)
1942: Caetano Veloso, Brazilian singer-songwriter, writer and producer
1942: Richard Sykes, English biochemist and academic
1942: B. J. Thomas, American singer (d. 2021)
1941: Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, English publisher and politician (d. 2016)
1940: Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian lawyer and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
1940: Uwe Nettelbeck, German record producer, journalist and film critic (d. 2007)
1937: Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach (d. 2011)
1937: Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (d. 2012)
1935: Lee Corso, American college football coach and broadcaster
1935: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1977)
1934: Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1933: Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager
1933: Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
1933: Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author (d. 2017)
1933: Alberto Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat
1932: Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner (d. 1973)
1932: Edward Hardwicke, English actor (d. 2011)
1932: Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 1995)
1932: Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic (d. 2005)
1931: Jack Good, British television producer (d. 2017)
1931: Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author (d. 2015)
1930: Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic (d. 2013)
1930: Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator (d. 2017)
1929: Don Larsen, American baseball player (d. 2020)
1928: Betsy Byars, American author and academic (d. 2020)
1928: Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square (d. 2021)
1928: James Randi, Canadian-American stage magician and author (d. 2020)
1927: Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach (d. 2015)
1927: Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana (d. 2021)
1927: Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist (d. 2003)
1926: Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (d. 2015)
1925: Felice Bryant, American songwriter (d. 2003)
1924: Kenneth Kendall, Indian-English journalist and actor (d. 2012)
1921: Manitas de Plata, French guitarist (d. 2014)
1921: Karel Husa, Czech-American composer and conductor (d. 2016)
1918: C. Buddingh', Dutch poet and translator (d. 1985)
1918: Gordon Zahn, American sociologist and author (d. 2007)
1916: Kermit Love, American actor, puppeteer, and costume designer (d. 2008)
1913: George Van Eps, American guitarist (d. 1998)
1911: István Bibó, Hungarian lawyer and politician (d. 1979)
1911: Nicholas Ray, American director and screenwriter (d. 1979)
1910: Freddie Slack, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1965)
1907: Albert Kotin, Belarusian-American soldier and painter (d. 1980)
1904: Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
1903: Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English palaeontologist and archaeologist (d. 1972)
1901: Ann Harding, American actress and singer (d. 1981)
1890: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author and activist (d. 1964)
1887: Anna Elisabet Weirauch, German author and playwright (d. 1970)
1884: Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)
1884: Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter and illustrator (d. 1940)
1879: Johannes Kotze, South African cricketer (d. 1931)
1876: Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (d. 1917)
1869: Mary Frances Winston, American mathematician (d. 1959)
1868: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and statistician (d. 1931)
1868: Huntley Wright, English actor (d. 1941)
1867: Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and illustrator (d. 1956)
1862: Henri Le Sidaner, French painter (d. 1939)
1862: Victoria of Baden (d. 1931)
1860: Alan Leo, English astrologer and author (d. 1917)
1844: Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist and author (d. 1911)
1826: August Ahlqvist, Finnish professor, poet, scholar of the Finno-Ugric languages, author, and literary critic (d. 1889)
1779: Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (d. 1859)
1751: Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange (d. 1820)
1742: Nathanael Greene, American general (d. 1786)
1726: James Bowdoin, American banker and politician, 2nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1790)
1702: Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India (d. 1748)
1613: William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Dutch stadtholder (d. 1664)
1598: Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet and linguist (d. 1672)
1574: Robert Dudley, English explorer and cartographer (d. 1649)
1571: Thomas Lupo, English viol player and composer (d. 1627)
1560: Elizabeth Báthory, Hungarian aristocrat and purported serial killer (d. 1614)
1533: Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet (d. 1595)
1282: Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (d. 1316)
317: Constantius II, Roman emperor (d. 361)

Deaths On This Day

2022: David McCullough, American historian and author (b. 1933)
2021: Markie Post, American actress (b. 1950)
2021: Trevor Moore, American comedian (b. 1980)
2020: Lê Khả Phiêu, Vietnamese politician (b. 1931)
2019: David Berman, American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist (b. 1967)
2018: M. Karunanidhi, Indian politician, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and prominent leader of Tamils (b. 1924)
2018: Stan Mikita, Slovak hockey player (b. 1940)
2017: Don Baylor, American baseball player (b. 1949)
2017: David Maslanka, American composer (b. 1943)
2016: Bryan Clauson, American racing driver (b. 1989)
2015: Manuel Contreras, Chilean general (b. 1929)
2015: Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (b. 1914)
2015: Louise Suggs, American golfer, co-founded LPGA (b. 1923)
2014: Víctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (b. 1955)
2014: Perry Moss, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
2014: Henry Stone, American record producer (b. 1921)
2013: Samuel G. Armistead, American linguist, historian, and academic (b. 1927)
2013: Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
2013: Anthony Pawson, English-Canadian biologist, chemist, and academic (b. 1952)
2013: Margaret Pellegrini, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
2013: Meeli Truu, Estonian architect (d. 1946)
2013: Alexander Yagubkin, Russian boxer (b. 1961)
2012: Murtuz Alasgarov, Azerbaijani academic and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan (b. 1928)
2012: Judith Crist, American critic and academic (b. 1922)
2012: Vladimir Kobzev, Russian footballer and coach (b. 1959)
2012: Anna Piaggi, Italian journalist and author (b. 1931)
2012: Mayer Zald, American sociologist and academic (b. 1931)
2012: Dušan Zbavitel, Czech indologist and author (b. 1925)
2011: Mark Hatfield, American soldier, academic, and politician, 29th Governor of Oregon (b. 1922)
2011: Nancy Wake, New Zealand-English captain and spy (b. 1912)
2010: John Nelder, English mathematician and statistician (b. 1924)
2009: Louis E. Saavedra, American educator and politician, 48th Mayor of Albuquerque (b. 1933)
2009: Mike Seeger, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
2008: Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (b. 1931)
2008: Andrea Pininfarina, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1957)
2007: Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, and producer (b. 1917)
2007: Angus Tait, New Zealand businessman, founded Tait Communications (b. 1919)
2006: Mary Anderson Bain, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)
2005: Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (b. 1938)
2004: Red Adair, American firefighter (b. 1915)
2004: Colin Bibby, English ornithologist and academic (b. 1948)
2003: K. D. Arulpragasam, Sri Lankan zoologist and academic (b. 1931)
2003: Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
2001: Algirdas Lauritėnas, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1932)
1995: Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)
1994: Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
1989: Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
1987: Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
1985: Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)
1981: Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
1978: Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter (b. 1922)
1974: Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
1974: Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
1973: Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
1972: Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1929)
1970: Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
1970: Jonathan P. Jackson, American bodyguard and kidnapper (b. 1953)
1969: Jean Bastien, French professional footballer (b. 1915)
1969: Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (b. 1905)
1968: Giovanni Bracco, Italian race car driver (b. 1908)
1963: Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)
1960: Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
1958: Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
1957: Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
1953: Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
1948: Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
1941: Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
1938: Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
1917: Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
1912: François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
1900: Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
1899: Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
1893: Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (b. 1854)
1864: Li Xiucheng, Chinese field marshal (b. 1823)
1855: Mariano Arista, Mexican general and politician, 19th President of Mexico (b. 1802)
1848: Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic (b. 1779)
1834: Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor, invented the Jacquard loom (b. 1752)
1817: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French economist and politician (b. 1739)
1787: Francis Blackburne, English Anglican churchman and activist (b. 1705)
1661: Jin Shengtan, Chinese journalist and critic (b. 1608)
1639: Martin van den Hove, Dutch astronomer and mathematician (b. 1605)
1635: Friedrich Spee, German poet and academic (b. 1591)
1632: Robert de Vere, 19th Earl of Oxford, English soldier (b. 1575)
1616: Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect, designed Teatro Olimpico (b. 1548)
1613: Thomas Fleming, English judge and politician, Lord Chief Justice of England (b. 1544)
1547: Cajetan, Italian priest and saint (b. 1480)
1485: Alexander Stewart, duke of Albany (b. 1454)
1385: Joan of Kent, mother of Richard II (b. 1328)
1296: Heinrich II von Rotteneck, prince-bishop of Regensburg
1272: Richard Middleton, English Lord Chancellor
1234: Hugh Foliot, bishop of Hereford (b. c. 1155)
1106: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1028: Alfonso V, king of León (b. 994)
707: Li Chongjun, Chinese prince
461: Majorian, Roman emperor (b. 420)

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