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February 23

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February 23

February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 311 days remain until the end of the year (312 in leap years).

Lottery News On This Day

2024: UK couple battle over £1 million lottery prize. A United Kingdom couple are at war over a lottery payout worth £1 million (US$1.27 million) after allegedly buying the ticket "together" before splitting up weeks later.
2023: Maine winner of $1.35 billion Mega Millions lottery jackpot comes forward. The Maine Lottery announced this week the lone winning ticket-holder of the $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawn in January has come forward.
2023: Green Ball promotion returning to New Jersey Lottery, offers extra prizes. The Green Ball promotion is making its way back to the New Jersey Lottery, which offers a chance for players to win extra prizes in the Jersey Cash 5 game.
2022: No more overtime for $500,000 South Carolina Lottery winner. One thing that is certain for a South Carolina winner of a $500,000 lottery prize is that working overtime will no longer be a necessity.
2021: Wisconsin veteran claims two major lottery prizes in two weeks. After winning a Wisconsin Lottery Badger 5 jackpot and Powerball prize in just two weeks, one Wisconsin veteran is walking away $171,000 richer.
2020: Massachusetts woman wins her second $1M lottery prize. A Massachusetts woman who won a $1 million lottery prize 10 years ago has hit it rich again.
2019: 4 months later, mystery and rumors surround Mega Millions $1.5 billion jackpot. Four months after South Carolina's first Mega Millions jackpot win, the staggering $1.5 billion prize remains unclaimed.
2019: Furloughed Staten Island park ranger wins $29.5 million in New Jersey Lottery. A New York City park ranger from New Jersey who was furloughed during the partial federal government shutdown has claimed a $29.5 million lottery jackpot.
2017: One ticket sold in Indiana wins $435 million Powerball jackpot. One ticket sold in the Hoosier State won Wednesday's $435.3 million Powerball lottery jackpot, which had been accumulating for 18 consecutive draws without a winner.
2016: Store employees accused of stealing $140,000 in lottery tickets. Three Oshkosh, Wisconsin, women each face a felony theft charge after authorities say they collectively stole more than $140,000 in lottery tickets from their employer during the course of three years.
2016: Twin sisters split $6 million California Lottery prize. Twin sisters from California are now millionaires after winning $6 million in a scratch-off lotto ticket.
2016: Iowa House votes to allow touchscreen lottery machines. The Iowa House kicked off the seventh week of the 2016 session by approving a bill to make buying lottery tickets easier.
2016: How a group of MIT students gamed the Massachusetts Lottery. The story of how a group of MIT students, as well as rival groups, legally gamed the Massachusetts Lottery by taking advantage of a unique in-state lottery game.
2015: Georgia Lottery launches new Georgia-only lotto game. The Georgia Lottery tonight is kicking off the first drawing of its latest Georgia-only lotto game: Jumbo Bucks Lotto with Cash Match.
2015: CT lawmakers again seek lottery winnings from 1995 ticket. A long-running battle to claim the winnings of a 19-year-old lottery ticket has been revived in the legislature.
2012: Indiana man wins $5M on scratch-off. A Muncie, Indiana, man is the latest lucky Hoosier to win big money from the Hoosier Lottery.
2011: N.J. Gov. may veto online gambling bill. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie next week is expected to veto a bill that would have allowed state residents to become the first in the country to place legal bets from their living rooms over the Internet.
2010: Movie box office: Real betting is on the way. Soon, everyone will be able to bet on how well movies perform -- or under-perform -- at the boxoffice.
2006: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised to $212 million. A dramatic increase in sales of Mega Millions lottery tickets has prompted the twelve Mega Millions states to raise the jackpot mid-week to $212 million.
2005: Mega Millions lottery jackpot leaps to $96 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $96 million Wednesday.
2005: California's lottery retailer of the month is small family-owned store. A relatively small Vallejo, California family business in a diminutive strip mall beat out more than 18,000 stores of all sizes to be named California's State Lottery Retailer of the Month for March.
2005: Oklahoma Lottery Commission Holds First Meeting Today. Oklahoma's Education Lottery Commission holds its first meeting this afternoon at the state Capitol.
2004: NJ Resident Dreams Up Scratch Game. A retired Edison, New Jersey police captain literally dreamed up Six Shooters, a New Jersey Lottery scratch game.
2004: Indiana lottery player wins $1 million. An Evansville, Indiana man who won $1,026,000 on a special edition of the "Hoosier Millionaire" show plans to use winnings to pay off his home mortgage.
2004: Miami ticket takes $6 million Florida Lotto jackpot. One ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers to win a jackpot of $6 million, lottery officials said Sunday.
2004: Virginia Lottery Rains on Lady Luck's Parade. The Virginia Lottery is considering legal action against North Dakota because the North Dakota Lottery chose a mascot similar to Virginia's Lady Luck.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$525 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2024
2.$375.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2024
3.$304 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2019
4.$269 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2018
5.€210 Million US$255.21 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2021
6.$245 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 26, 2019
7.$236 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2016
8.€174 Million US$214 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2018
9.$212 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2006
10.$204 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2018
11.$195 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 25, 2014
12.€161.39 Million
US$180.7 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2022
13.$177 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2007
14.$155 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2011
15.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 25, 2009
16.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2009
17.€111.52 Million
US$135.53 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2021
18.€104.36 Million
US$128.3 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2018
19.$126 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2023
20.€109.8 Million
US$124.38 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2019
21.$120.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 25, 2023
22.$115 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2008
23.$114 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 23, 2016
24.$112 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2015
25.€101 Million
US$106.69 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Feb 24, 2023

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1993: SNEM23
Tuesday, Feb 23, 1993
31 years old
1987: CodiGeeks
Monday, Feb 23, 1987
37 years old
1986: Krazy86
Sunday, Feb 23, 1986
38 years old
1986: wannabluckyduck
Sunday, Feb 23, 1986
38 years old
1985: winalotto
Saturday, Feb 23, 1985
39 years old
1984: LADYLUCK803
Thursday, Feb 23, 1984
40 years old
1981: Ready223
Monday, Feb 23, 1981
43 years old
1978: keema784
Thursday, Feb 23, 1978
46 years old
1973: jchimpo
Friday, Feb 23, 1973
51 years old
1972: GiseBG
Wednesday, Feb 23, 1972
52 years old
1969: kokohin1
Sunday, Feb 23, 1969
55 years old
1969: TMONEY
Sunday, Feb 23, 1969
55 years old
1966: Dublindawn
Wednesday, Feb 23, 1966
58 years old
1955: malwaysthere
Wednesday, Feb 23, 1955
69 years old
1950: CASHMAN
Thursday, Feb 23, 1950
74 years old
1942: bigjim66
Monday, Feb 23, 1942
82 years old
: jimjwright
(year not provided)
: KenZ
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.
2020: Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.
2019: Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.
2017: The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.
2012: A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.
2010: Unknown criminals pour more than 2+1⁄2 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
2008: A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.
2007: A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
1999: Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999: An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.
1998: In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.
1991: In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1988: Saddam Hussein begins the Anfal genocide against Kurds and Assyrians in northern Iraq.
1987: Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1983: The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1981: In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1980: Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1971: Operation Lam Son 719: South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri was killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign.
1966: In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
1958: Five-time Argentine Formula One champion Juan Manuel Fangio is kidnapped by rebels involved in the Cuban Revolution, on the eve of the Cuban Grand Prix. He was released the following day after the race.
1954: The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
1947: International Organization for Standardization is founded.
1945: World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945: World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free all 2,147 captives of the Los Baños internment camp, in what General Colin Powell later would refer to as "the textbook airborne operation for all ages and all armies."
1945: World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
1945: World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945: World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
1945: American Airlines Flight 009 crashes near Rural Retreat, Virginia, killing 17.
1944: The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
1943: The Cavan Orphanage fire kills thirty-five girls and an elderly cook.
1943: Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
1942: World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1934: Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1927: U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1917: First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
1909: The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1905: Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
1903: Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
1900: Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1887: The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1886: Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
1885: Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
1883: Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1870: Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1861: President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1854: The official independence of the Orange Free State, South Africa is declared.
1847: Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista: In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1836: Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1820: Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed and the conspirators arrested.
1778: American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to help train the Continental Army.
1763: Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America.
1455: Traditionally the date of publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
705: Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.
628: Khosrow II, last Sasanian shah of Iran, is overthrown.
532: Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople - the Hagia Sophia.
303: Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.

Births On This Day

1997: Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player
1996: D'Angelo Russell, American basketball player
1995: Andrew Wiggins, Canadian basketball player
1994: Dakota Fanning, American actress
1993: Chris Grevsmuhl, Australian rugby league player
1992: Casemiro, Brazilian footballer
1992: Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
1990: Kevin Connauton, Canadian ice hockey player
1990: Marco Scandella, Canadian ice hockey player
1989: Evan Bates, American ice dancer
1989: Jérémy Pied, French footballer
1988: Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer
1987: Ab-Soul, American rapper
1987: Theophilus London, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter and producer
1987: Zak Kirkup, Member of the Parliament of Western Australia
1986: Emerson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
1986: Skylar Grey, American singer-songwriter
1986: Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
1986: Jerod Mayo, American football coach, former player
1986: Ola Svensson, Swedish singer-songwriter
1983: Mido, Egyptian footballer, manager and sportscaster
1983: Aziz Ansari, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
1983: Emily Blunt, English actress
1981: Gareth Barry, English footballer
1981: Josh Gad, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1978: John Manning, Australian rugby league player and actor
1978: Residente, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter
1978: Dan Snyder, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
1977: Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
1976: Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
1975: Michael Cornacchia, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1974: Herschelle Gibbs, South African cricketer
1974: Robbi Kempson, South African rugby player
1973: Jeff Nordgaard, American-Polish basketball player
1972: Alessandro Sturba, Italian footballer
1972: Rondell White, American baseball player
1971: Carin Koch, Swedish golfer
1971: Melinda Messenger, English model and television host
1971: Joe-Max Moore, American soccer player
1970: Niecy Nash, American actress and producer
1969: Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
1969: Martine Croxall, English journalist and television news presenter
1969: Daymond John, American fashion designer and businessman, founded FUBU
1967: Steve Stricker, American golfer
1967: Chris Vrenna, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
1965: Michael Dell, American businessman
1965: Helena Suková, Czech-Monacan tennis player
1964: John Norum, Norwegian guitarist and songwriter
1963: Bobby Bonilla, American baseball player
1963: Radosław Sikorski, Polish journalist and politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland
1962: Michael Wilton, American guitarist
1960: Naruhito, Emperor of Japan
1959: Clayton Anderson, American engineer and astronaut
1959: Nick de Bois, English politician
1959: Ian Liddell-Grainger, Scottish soldier and politician
1959: Linda Nolan, Irish singer and actress
1958: David Sylvian, English singer-songwriter
1958: Charles Sheedy - Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
1957: Charlie Brandt, American serial killer (d. 2004)
1956: Sandra Osborne, Scottish politician
1955: Howard Jones, English singer-songwriter
1955: Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1955: Francesca Simon, American-British author
1954: Rajini Thiranagama, Sri Lankan physician and academic (d. 1989)
1954: Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian captain and politician, 3rd President of Ukraine
1953: Kenny Bee, Hong Kong singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1953: Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1952: Brad Whitford, American guitarist and songwriter
1951: Eddie Dibbs, American tennis player
1951: Debbie Friedman, American singer-songwriter of Jewish melodies (d. 2011)
1951: Ed "Too Tall" Jones, American football player and boxer
1951: Patricia Richardson, American actress
1950: Rebecca Goldstein, American philosopher and author
1950: John Greaves, British bass guitarist and composer
1949: César Aira, Argentinian author and translator
1949: Marc Garneau, Canadian engineer, astronaut, and politician
1948: Bill Alexander, English director and producer
1948: Trevor Cherry, English footballer (d. 2020)
1948: Steve Priest, English singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2020)
1947: Pia Kjærsgaard, Danish politician, Speaker of the Danish Parliament
1947: Anton Mosimann, Swiss chef and author
1946: Rusty Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2021)
1945: Allan Boesak, South African cleric and politician
1944: Bernard Cornwell, English author and educator
1944: Florian Fricke, German keyboard player and composer (d. 2001)
1944: Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2014)
1943: Fred Biletnikoff, American football player and coach
1943: Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (d. 2018)
1941: Ron Hunt, American baseball player
1940: Peter Fonda, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
1940: Jackie Smith, American football player
1938: Sylvia Chase, American broadcast journalist (d. 2019)
1938: Paul Morrissey, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1938: Diane Varsi, American actress (d. 1992)
1937: Tom Osborne, American football player, coach, and politician
1932: Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (d. 2008)
1931: Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (d. 2004)
1930: Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic (d. 2015)
1929: Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (d. 2008)
1929: Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (d. 1980)
1928: Hans Herrmann, German racing driver
1928: Vasily Lazarev, Russian colonel, physician, and astronaut (d. 1990)
1927: Régine Crespin, French soprano and actress (d. 2007)
1927: Jessica Huntley, Guyanese activist and publisher (d. 2013)
1925: Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
1924: Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1923: Rafael Addiego Bruno, Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay (d. 2014)
1923: Harry Clarke, English international footballer (d. 2000)
1923: Ioannis Grivas, Greek judge and politician, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2016)
1923: Dante Lavelli, American football player (d. 2009)
1923: Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (d.1986)
1923: Mary Francis Shura, American author (d. 1991)
1920: Paul Gérin-Lajoie, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2018)
1919: Johnny Carey, Irish footballer and manager (d. 1995)
1915: Jon Hall, American actor and director (d. 1979)
1915: Paul Tibbets, American general and pilot (d. 2007)
1908: William McMahon, Australian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1988)
1904: Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1904: William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (d. 1993)
1899: Erich Kästner, German author and poet (d. 1974)
1899: Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1894: Harold Horder, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1978)
1892: Kathleen Harrison, English actress (d. 1995)
1892: Agnes Smedley, American journalist and writer (d. 1950)
1889: Musidora, French actress and director (d. 1957)
1889: Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (d. 1975)
1889: Victor Fleming, American director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 1949)
1889: John Gilbert Winant, American captain, pilot, and politician, 60th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1947)
1883: Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (d. 1969)
1883: Guy C. Wiggins, American painter (d. 1962)
1878: Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and theorist (d. 1935)
1874: Konstantin Päts, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Estonia (d. 1956)
1873: Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (d. 1929)
1868: W. E. B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, and activist (d. 1963)
1868: Anna Hofman-Uddgren, Swedish actress, singer, and director (d. 1947)
1850: César Ritz, Swiss businessman, founded The Ritz Hotel, London and Hôtel Ritz Paris (d. 1918)
1842: Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher and author (d. 1906)
1831: Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (d. 1915)
1805: Johan Jakob Nervander, Finnish poet, physicist and meteorologist (d. 1848)
1792: José Joaquín de Herrera, Mexican politician and general (d. 1854)
1744: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker and businessman (d. 1812)
1723: Richard Price, Welsh-English minister and philosopher (d. 1791)
1685: George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (d. 1759)
1680: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
1646: Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shōgun (d. 1709)
1633: Samuel Pepys, English diarist and politician (d. 1703)
1606: George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, officer in the Dutch Army (d. 1674)
1592: Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch painter (d. 1663)
1583: Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer (d. 1656)
1539: Henry XI of Legnica, thrice Duke of Legnica (d. 1588)
1539: Salima Sultan Begum, Empress of the Mughal Empire (d. 1612)
1529: Onofrio Panvinio, Italian historian (d. 1568)
1443: Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (d. 1490)
1417: Pope Paul II (d. 1471)
1417: Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1479)
1133: Al-Zafir, Fatimid caliph (d. 1154)

Deaths On This Day

2023: Tony Earl, American politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1936)
2023: John Motson, English football commentator (b. 1945)
2021: Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1930)
2019: Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
2016: Peter Lustig, German television host and author (b. 1937)
2016: Jacqueline Mattson, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2015: James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (b. 1918)
2015: Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1942)
2015: W. E. "Bill" Dykes, American soldier and politician (b. 1925)
2014: Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English Holocaust survivor, pianist and educator (b. 1903)
2014: Roger Hilsman, American soldier, academic, and politician (b. 1919)
2013: Eugene Bookhammer, American soldier and politician, 18th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (b. 1918)
2013: Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor (b. 1922)
2013: Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (b. 1920)
2013: Lotika Sarkar, Indian lawyer and academic (b. 1945)
2012: William Raggio, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
2012: David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924)
2012: Kazimierz Żygulski, Polish sociologist and activist (b. 1919)
2011: Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious leader, founded Sahaja Yoga (b. 1923)
2010: Orlando Zapata, Cuban plumber and activist (b. 1967)
2008: Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian economist and politician, 2nd President of Slovenia (b. 1950)
2008: Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver and journalist (b. 1917)
2007: Hanna Barysiewicz, the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of Records. (b.1888)
2007: John Ritchie, English footballer (b. 1941)
2006: Muhammad Shamsul Huq, Bangladeshi academic and former Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1912)
2006: Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2004: Vijay Anand, Indian director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1934)
2004: Sikander Bakht, Indian politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1918)
2003: Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (b. 1955)
2003: Robert K. Merton, American sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
2000: Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
2000: Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager (b. 1915)
1999: The Renegade, American wrestler (b. 1965)
1998: Philip Abbott, American actor and director (b. 1924)
1997: Tony Williams, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1945)
1995: James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (b. 1916)
1990: José Napoleón Duarte, Salvadoran engineer and politician, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
1983: Herbert Howells, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
1979: W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian businessman and politician, 25th Premier of British Columbia (b. 1900)
1976: L. S. Lowry, English painter (b. 1887)
1974: Harry Ruby, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1895)
1973: Dickinson W. Richards, American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1969: Madhubala, Indian actress and producer (b. 1933)
1969: Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 2nd King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
1965: Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)
1955: Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
1948: John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
1946: Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
1944: Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
1934: Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
1931: Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
1930: Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
1918: Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
1908: Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
1900: Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
1897: Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (b. 1828)
1879: Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (b. 1803)
1871: Amanda Cajander, Finnish medical reformer (b. 1827)
1859: Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1812)
1855: Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
1848: John Quincy Adams, American politician, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1844: Martim Francisco Ribeiro de Andrada, Brazilian politician, twice Minister of Finance, brother of José Bonifácio (b. 1775)
1821: John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
1792: Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (b. 1723)
1781: George Taylor, Founding Father of the United States (b. 1716)
1766: Stanisław Leszczyński, Polish king (b. 1677)
1704: Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (b. 1653)
1620: Nicholas Fuller, English politician (b. 1543)
1603: Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
1603: Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540)
1554: Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire (b. 1515)
1526: Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies (b. c. 1479)
1473: Arnold, Duke of Gelderland (b. 1410)
1464: Emperor Yingzong of Ming (b. 1427)
1447: Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
1447: Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
1270: Isabel of France (b. 1225)
1100: Emperor Zhezong of Song (b. 1076)
1011: Willigis, German archbishop (b. 940)
943: Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)
943: David I, prince of Tao-Klarjeti (Georgia)
908: Li Keyong, Shatuo military governor during the Tang dynasty in China (b. 856)
715: Al-Walid I, Umayyad caliph (b. 668)

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