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December 21

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December 21

December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 10 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Virginia man who won $1,000 a week lottery prize in Cash4Life says it's just "good". A Virginia man didn't really have anything enthusiastic to say about winning a lottery prize of $1,000 a week for life in Cash4Life.
2016: Anonymous donor gives church $100k winning lottery ticket. Somebody won a $100,000 lottery ticket and instead of cashing it in themselves, they handed it over to a church for a higher use.
2015: Prosecutors say Tipton rigged two jackpots he purchased tickets for in Kansas. The former security chief for a national association that operates lotteries personally bought two tickets that won jackpots in Kansas, investigators said Monday, bringing to five the number of states where he may have rigged lottery drawings.
2012: Million-dollar lottery jackpot revives college dream for Brooklyn woman. Hard times forced Linza Ford to drop out of college, but a $1 million lottery jackpot has revived her educational dreams.
2011: $173 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot rolls. Will an incredibly lucky lottery player win a life-changing windfall this week, or will the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game enter into the realm of $200+ million jackpots?
2010: $145M jackpot for tonight's Mega Millions lottery draw. The jackpot for tonight's multi-state Mega Millions lottery draw is $145 million, the most since May 4th.
2010: Idaho Lottery offers free ticket deal. Just in time for the late holiday season shoppers, the Idaho Lottery is offering a two-day special for players on Tuesday and Wednesday this week only.
2009: Idaho Lottery's $1 million raffle almost sold out. The Idaho $1,000,000 Raffle is 90 percent sold out, meaning there are about 25,000 of the $10 tickets still available.
2009: Tenn. lottery scholarships outstrip revenue; day of reckoning looms. A day of reckoning is coming for students and parents over Tennessee's lottery scholarships that could result in tightened eligibility, reduced scholarship awards or both.
2009: $50 lottery game remains popular. The sour economy isn't stopping some big-spending Texans from plopping down $50 for a single lottery ticket.
2009: Ontario Lottery may be sold off. The Liberal government will sign a $200,000 deal with two investment banks within days to do "preliminary research" on privatizing all or part of the problem-prone Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, the Toronto Star has learned.
2007: Georgia Lottery launches talent search. The Georgia Lottery Corporation is searching for a new host/spokesperson for its daily televised drawings and to make special appearances around the state.
2007: $3 million Florida Lottery ticket expires Monday. A lottery winner has one last chance to claim a $3 million Florida Lotto prize.
2007: Vermont could become first state to privatize lottery. No other state has leased its lottery, but Vermont wants to be the first.
2007: GTECH takes half ownership of Chinese lottery firm. Providence, R.I.-based lottery technology company GTECH Global Services Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italy's Lottomatica S.p.A., has spent $20 million to acquire 50 percent of Tabcorp International Hong Kong Ltd. (TIHK), a Chinese lottery provider.
2007: Don't buy lottery tickets for kids, researcher warns. Parents who buy lottery tickets as presents for their kids are gambling with their children's futures, says a McGill University researcher.
2007: D.C. Lottery thefts tied to lax security processes. D.C. officials learned last year that lax enforcement of security procedures made it possible for a handful of contract employees to steal tens of thousands of dollars in lottery tickets and prize money, according to records released this week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the District of Columbia Lottery & Charitable Games Control Board.
2007: Stolen lottery money returned to real winners. Four school board employees, allegedly cheated out of their winning lottery ticket by a retailer who claimed the prize money as his own, received a check for $5.7 million -- plus interest -- Wednesday from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation.
2005: Police called to convince German lottery winner. A lottery company had to call the police to convince an elderly German woman that she had hit the jackpot, police said on Tuesday.
2005: S.C. Laments N.C.'s Move To Powerball. Now that North Carolina announced that it will be a part of the Powerball lottery, lottery stores in South Carolina said they will lose half of their business, not to mention there won't be as much cash for education.
2004: Details of lottery winner kin's death still sketchy. The 17-year-old granddaughter of the nation's largest lottery winner was found dead near her boyfriend's home, her body wrapped in a sheet and plastic tarp.
2004: NJ couple wins $2.2M Pick 6 Lotto jackpot. A Bayonne couple has claimed the winning ticket in the Dec. 2 New Jersey Pick 6 Lotto jackpot drawing, which carried a jackpot of nearly $2.2 million.
2004: GTECH lands 5-year deal with Finland lottery. Lottery systems operator Gtech Holdings Corp. reported Monday that it signed a five year deal with the Finnish national lottery.
2004: Tennesse lottery markets tickets as Christmas gifts. For the first Christmas in the Volunteer State since the lottery started last January, Tennessee Lottery President Rebecca Paul is marketing lottery tickets as inexpensive gifts that can potentially grow in value.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$626.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2023
2.$510 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2022
3.$378.6 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2021
4.€332.01 Million US$352.26 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2022
5.$330 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2020
6.$321 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2020
7.$305 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2018
8.$300 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2017
9.$281 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2018
10.$253 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2017
11.$227 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2015
12.$216.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2002
13.$173 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2011
14.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2019
14.$171 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2021
16.$170.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2022
17.$162 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 22, 2009
18.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2010
19.€128.1 Million
US$144.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2021
20.$142 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2014
21.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 24, 2003
22.€100 Million
US$131.91 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2012
23.€101 Million
US$115.18 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2018
24.$106 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 23, 2009
25.$104 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Dec 21, 2011

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1996: ThaJackpotkid
Saturday, Dec 21, 1996
27 years old
1981: R Hines
Monday, Dec 21, 1981
42 years old
1978: ILLotteryX
Thursday, Dec 21, 1978
45 years old
1978: Tonye78
Thursday, Dec 21, 1978
45 years old
1977: KMOMO
Wednesday, Dec 21, 1977
46 years old
1977: Juicy$969706
Wednesday, Dec 21, 1977
46 years old
1977: LadyT96
Wednesday, Dec 21, 1977
46 years old
1976: bake
Tuesday, Dec 21, 1976
47 years old
1976: Mystomelo
Tuesday, Dec 21, 1976
47 years old
1975: owanna3711
Sunday, Dec 21, 1975
48 years old
1975: sagitariorobles
Sunday, Dec 21, 1975
48 years old
1972: softysecret
Thursday, Dec 21, 1972
51 years old
1968: vblar
Saturday, Dec 21, 1968
55 years old
1957: ejpete
Saturday, Dec 21, 1957
66 years old
1951: Mamomark
Friday, Dec 21, 1951
72 years old
1946: purpleheart
Saturday, Dec 21, 1946
77 years old
1943: marymoon
Tuesday, Dec 21, 1943
80 years old
: UniverseNumbers
(year not provided)
: Buckeye
(year not provided)
: whodeani
(year not provided)
: Chi-Chi
(year not provided)
: dudes$place
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: spiritmonkey
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Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.
2004: Iraq War: A suicide bomber kills 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
1999: The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid, Spain.
1999: Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
1995: The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
1992: A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.
1988: A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur on British soil.
1988: The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.
1979: Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
1973: The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
1970: First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.
1968: Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
1967: Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a human-to-human heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant.
1965: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
1963: "Bloody Christmas" begins in Cyprus, ultimately resulting in the displacement of 25,000-30,000 Turkish Cypriots and destruction of more than 100 villages.
1946: An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.
1941: World War II: A Thai-Japanese Pact of Alliance is signed.
1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1936: First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
1934: Lieutenant Kijé, one of Sergei Prokofiev's best-known works, premiered.
1923: United Kingdom and Nepal formally sign an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal-Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.
1919: American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1910: An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
1907: The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
1883: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.
1879: World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1872: Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England.
1861: Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
1844: The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.
1832: Egyptian-Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
1826: American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
1620: Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land near what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1598: Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
1361: The Battle of Linuesa is fought in the context of the Spanish Reconquista between the forces of the Emirate of Granada and the combined army of the Kingdom of Castile and of Jaén resulting in a Castilian victory.
1237: The city of Ryazan is sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan.
1140: After a siege of several weeks, the city of Weinsberg and its castle surrender to Conrad III of Germany.
1124: Pope Honorius II is consecrated, having been elected after the controversial dethroning of Pope Celestine II.
AD 69: The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.

Births On This Day

2002: Clara Tauson, Danish tennis player
1997: Charlie McAvoy, American ice hockey player
1995: Ronnie Bassett Jr., American race car driver
1995: Kelly Smith, English rugby union player
1991: Riccardo Saponara, Italian footballer
1989: Mark Ingram II, American football player
1989: Tamannaah, South Indian actress
1988: Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler
1985: Tom Sturridge, English actor
1983: Steven Yeun, American actor
1982: Philip Humber, American baseball player
1981: Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer
1979: Steve Montador, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1978: Emiliano Brembilla, Italian swimmer
1978: Charles Dera, American pornographic actor, dancer, model, and mixed martial arts fighter
1978: Shaun Morgan, South African musician, singer, and guitarist
1977: Emmanuel Macron, President of France
1977: Leon MacDonald, New Zealand rugby player
1975: Paloma Herrera, Argentinian ballerina
1974: Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
1973: Irakli Alasania, Georgian colonel and politician, Georgian Minister of Defense
1973: Matías Almeyda, Argentine footballer and manager
1972: Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, Indian Politician, 17th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
1971: Matthieu Chedid, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Julie Delpy, French model, actress, director, and screenwriter
1969: Mihails Zemļinskis, Latvian footballer, coach, and manager
1967: Terry Mills, American basketball player and coach
1967: Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Georgia
1966: William Ruto, 5th President of Kenya
1966: Kiefer Sutherland, British-Canadian actor, director, and producer
1965: Glenn Coleman, Australian rugby league player
1965: Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
1965: Anke Engelke, Canadian-German actress, director, and screenwriter
1964: Joe Kocur, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1964: Kunihiko Ikuhara, Japanese director and illustrator
1963: Govinda, Indian actor, singer, and politician
1961: Ryuji Sasai, Japanese bass player and composer
1960: Sherry Rehman, Pakistani journalist, politician, and diplomat, 25th Pakistan Ambassador to the United States
1959: Florence Griffith Joyner, American sprinter and actress (d. 1998)
1959: Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Indian cricketer
1958: Tamara Bykova, Russian high jumper
1957: Ray Romano, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1956: Dave Laut, American shot putter (d. 2009)
1955: Jane Kaczmarek, American actress
1955: Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
1954: Chris Evert, American tennis player and coach
1953: András Schiff, Hungarian-English pianist and conductor
1953: Betty Wright, American singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
1952: Joaquín Andújar, Dominican baseball player (d. 2015)
1952: Steve Furniss, American swimmer
1951: Steve Perryman, English footballer and manager
1950: Jeffrey Katzenberg, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded DreamWorks Animation
1950: Lillebjørn Nilsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950: Max Maven, American magician and mentalist (d. 2022)
1949: Thomas Sankara, Burkinabé captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987)
1949: Nikolaos Sifounakis, Greek lawyer and politician
1948: Barry Gordon, American actor and voice artist; longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild (1988-95)
1948: Samuel L. Jackson, American actor and producer
1948: Dave Kingman, American baseball player
1947: Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 2014)
1946: Roy Karch, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946: Carl Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
1945: Doug Walters, Australian cricketer
1944: Michael Tilson Thomas, American pianist, composer, and conductor
1944: Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese diplomat (d. 2007)
1943: Albert Lee, English guitarist and songwriter
1943: Walter Spanghero, French rugby player
1942: Hu Jintao, Chinese engineer and politician, 5th Paramount leader of China
1940: Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer and producer (d. 1993)
1939: Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian academic and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1939: Wafic Saïd, Syrian-Saudi Arabian financier, businessman and philanthropist
1937: Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
1935: John G. Avildsen, American director, producer, and cinematographer (d. 2017)
1935: Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racing driver (d. 1967)
1935: Phil Donahue, American talk show host and producer
1935: Edward Schreyer, Canadian academic and politician, Governor General of Canada
1935: Stela Popescu, Romanian actress (d. 2017)
1934: Giuseppina Leone, Italian sprinter
1934: Hanif Mohammad, Pakistani cricketer (d. 2016)
1933: Jackie Hendriks, Jamaican cricketer
1933: Robert Worcester, American businessman and academic, founded MORI
1932: U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and critic (d. 2014)
1932: Edward Hoagland, American author and critic
1930: Phil Roman, American animator
1926: Arnošt Lustig, Czech author and playwright (d. 2011)
1926: Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
1923: Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (d. 2019)
1922: Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (d. 1989)
1922: Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist (d. 2005)
1922: Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist (d. 2017)
1920: Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina and choreographer, founded the Cuban National Ballet (d. 2019)
1920: Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer (d. 1964)
1919: Doug Young, American voice actor (d. 2018)
1918: Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff (d. 2003)
1918: Kurt Waldheim, Austrian colonel and politician; 9th President of Austria (d. 2007)
1917: Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
1915: Werner von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2007)
1914: Frank Fenner, Australian microbiologist and virologist (d. 2010)
1913: Arnold Friberg, American illustrator and painter (d. 2010)
1911: Josh Gibson, American baseball player (d. 1947)
1909: Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese journalist and author (d. 1992)
1905: Anthony Powell, English author (d. 2000)
1905: Käte Fenchel, German mathematician (d. 1983)
1900: Luis Arturo González López, Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (d. 1965)
1896: Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (d. 1968)
1892: Walter Hagen, American golfer (d. 1969)
1892: Rebecca West, English journalist and author (d. 1983)
1891: John William McCormack, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1980)
1890: Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1889: Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist (d. 1988)
1888: Jean Bouin, French runner and rugby player (d. 1914)
1885: Frank Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960)
1884: María Cadilla, Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist (d. 1951)
1878: Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish-Irish mathematician and philosopher (d. 1956)
1877: Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (d. 1954)
1876: Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1975)
1872: Trevor Kincaid, Canadian-American zoologist and academic (d. 1970)
1872: Lorenzo Perosi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1956)
1872: Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author (d. 1942)
1868: George W. Fuller, American chemist and engineer (d. 1934)
1866: Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and political activist (d. 1953)
1859: Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic (d. 1936)
1857: Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1932)
1851: Thomas Chipman McRae, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)
1850: Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer and poet (d. 1900)
1843: Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealander journalist, poet, and politician (d. 1898)
1840: Namık Kemal, Turkish journalist, playwright, and activist (d. 1888)
1832: John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (d. 1906)
1830: Bartolomé Masó, Cuban soldier and politician (d. 1907)
1820: William H. Osborn, American businessman (d. 1894)
1815: Thomas Couture, French painter and educator (d. 1879)
1811: Archibald Tait, Scottish-English archbishop (d. 1882)
1805: Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist and academic (d. 1869)
1804: Benjamin Disraeli, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1881)
1803: Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (d. 1894)
1795: Jack Russell, English priest, hunter, and dog breeder (d. 1883)
1795: Leopold von Ranke, German historian, author, and academic (d. 1886)
1778: Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish jurist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1860)
1728: Hermann Raupach, German harpsichord player and composer (d. 1778)
1714: John Bradstreet, Canadian-English general (d. 1774)
1672: Benjamin Schmolck, German pastor and composer (d. 1737)
1615: Benedict Arnold, Rhode Island colonial governor (d. 1678)
1603: Roger Williams, English minister, theologian, and politician, 9th President of the Colony of Rhode Island (d. 1684)
1596: Peter Mohyla, Ruthenian Orthodox metropolitan and saint (d. 1646)
1550: Man Singh I, Mughal noble (d. 1614)
1542: Thomas Allen, English mathematician and astrologer (d. 1632)
1538: Luigi d'Este, Catholic cardinal (d. 1586)
1505: Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (d. 1550)
1468: William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers, English baron (d. 1524)
1401: Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
968: Minamoto no Yorinobu, Japanese samurai (d. 1048)

Deaths On This Day

2019: Andrew Clennel Palmer, British engineer (b. 1938)
2017: Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937)
2014: Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934)
2014: Sitor Situmorang, Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923)
2014: Billie Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932)
2013: Edgar Bronfman, Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
2013: John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (b. 1922)
2010: Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
2009: Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2009: Christos Lambrakis, Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)
2006: Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
2004: Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925)
1998: Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (b. 1904)
1992: Stella Adler, American actress and educator (b. 1901)
1992: Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924)
1992: Nathan Milstein, Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903)
1988: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
1983: Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (b. 1919)
1982: Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri, Pakistani poet and composer (b. 1900)
1974: Richard Long, American actor and director (b. 1927)
1968: Vittorio Pozzo, Italian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1886)
1965: Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (b. 1891)
1964: Carl Van Vechten, American author and photographer (b. 1880)
1963: Jack Hobbs, English cricketer and journalist (b. 1882)
1959: Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, engraver, and painter (b. 1883)
1958: H.B. Warner, English actor (b. 1875)
1958: Lion Feuchtwanger, German-American author and playwright (b. 1884)
1957: Eric Coates, English viola player and composer (b. 1886)
1953: Kaarlo Koskelo, Finnish-American wrestler and businessman (b. 1888)
1952: Kenneth Edwards, American golfer (b. 1886)
1948: Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. 1878)
1945: George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)
1940: F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
1937: Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
1937: Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
1937: Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1935: Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
1935: Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
1933: Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
1929: I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
1920: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, leader of the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
1889: Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
1873: Francis Garnier, French admiral and explorer (b. 1839)
1869: Friedrich Ernst Scheller, German jurist and politician (b. 1791)
1824: James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
1807: John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725)
1701: Sir Hugh Paterson, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659)
1610: Catherine Vasa, Swedish princess (b. 1539)
1608: William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541)
1597: Peter Canisius, Dutch priest and saint (b. 1521)
1581: Jean de la Cassière, 51st Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1502)
1549: Marguerite de Navarre, queen of Henry II of Navarre (b. 1492)
1536: John Seymour, English courtier (b. 1474)
1504: Berthold von Henneberg, German archbishop (b. 1442)
1375: Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian author and poet (b. 1313)
1362: Constantine III, king of Armenia (b. 1313)
1338: Thomas Hemenhale, bishop of Worcester
1308: Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1244)
1215: Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid, Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq of Tayyibi Isma'ilism (b. c. 1128)
1001: Hugh of Tuscany, Italian margrave (b. 950)
975: Al-Mu'izz, Fatimid caliph (b. 932)
956: Sun Sheng, Chinese chancellor
882: Hincmar, French archbishop and historian (b. 806)
AD 72: Thomas the Apostle, Roman martyr and saint (b. 1 AD)

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