On This Day in History

January 7

January 7 is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 358 days remain until the end of the year (359 in leap years).

Lottery News On This Day

2024
$1 million winning Powerball lottery ticket bought in Texas will expire in a week. Sadly, more than one $1 million winning Powerball lottery ticket from the same drawing is expiring, including one bought in Texas.
2023
$1.1 BILLION: Massive Mega Millions drawing set for Tuesday. For the fourth time in the past two years a lottery jackpot has crossed into billion-dollar territory.
2022
Cash Pop lottery game starting in South Carolina this month. Cash Pop is coming to yet another state after the South Carolina Lottery announced that it will be adding the game to its lineup this month.
2020
Mississippi men tried cashing in lottery ticket after gluing on the winning numbers, officials say. Two men in Mississippi wanted to claim a $100,000 lottery prizes so bad, they glued the winning numbers onto a losing ticket, authorities said.
2019
Texas Lottery generated more than $100 million in one week from scratch-off ticket sales. The Texas Lottery has, for the first time in its history, sold more than $100 million in scratch ticket sales in just one week. From Dec. 23, 2018 to Dec. 29, 2018, scratch ticket sales totaled $100,776,586, shattering the old record of $99,679,358 achieved in March of 2018.
2018
One lottery ticket from New Hampshire wins $559.7 million Powerball jackpot. One Powerball ticket holder in New Hampshire is the winner of the $559.7 million jackpot prize, the 8th-largest in US lottery history.
2016
$700 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot raised just hours after initial estimate. Less than 12 hours after the initial estimate for Saturday's Powerball jackpot was set early this morning, the already record-breaking grand prize has now increased to an estimated $700 million.
2016
$675 MILLION: POWERBALL SETS ALL-TIME LOTTERY JACKPOT RECORD. It's been four years since the last lottery jackpot record was broken, but Wednesday night it finally happened again.
2015
Player sues Oregon Lottery, charging video poker game rigged. The Oregon State Lottery's rigged video poker games have cost players $134 million, a man claims in a class action lawsuit.
2015
Michigan Lottery pays out $7.4 million in Daily 4 drawing of 1-0-0-1. On Tuesday evening, the Michigan Lottery drew the numbers 1-0-0-1 in the Daily 4 drawing, resulting in more than $7.4 million in prizes.
2015
Spain's El Niño lottery spreads $663M in winnings. A lottery on Tuesday spread €560 million (US$663 million) among jubilant ticket holders throughout Spain, which is struggling to emerge from a financial crisis that has left it saddled with high unemployment.
2013
Lottery winner's death was blamed on natural causes — until a relative raised questions. A month after winning one million dollars, a Chicago man died, and now Chicago police and county prosecutors are investigating his death as a homicide.
2012
Pa. couple claims $128 million Powerball jackpot. An excited Pennsylvania couple arrived at Maryland Lottery Headquarters Friday, accompanied by legal counsel, to claim their $128.8 million Powerball prize.
2010
N.Y. couple wins $162M lottery jackpot - but owes $1M. A Long Island couple will step forward Thursday to claim a $162 million jackpot, but Suffolk County already has their hands in winners' pockets.
2008
Relative gives lottery ticket gift worth $1 million. A Pittsburgh pharmacist has learned the $20 Pennsylvania lottery ticket he gave to relatives for Christmas has paid off big -- $1 million.
2004
Record lottery winner accused of making death threats. The winner of the largest single lottery jackpot in U.S. history has been accused of threatening to kill the manager of a bar.
2004
Trading clerk surrenders to face charges of stealing lottery ticket. The trading clerk at the center of a $175,000 Mega Millions lottery ticket dispute in Chicago surrendered to police Tuesday on felony theft charges.
2004
Police Officer Wins $1.65 Million Playing Hot Lotto. A Des Moines police officer is starting the new year with a bigger paycheck after claiming a Hot Lotto jackpot worth more than $1.6 million.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.1 Billion
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 10, 2023
2.$949.8 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2016
3.$520 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2021
4.$489.6 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2021
5.€343.9 Million
US$366.29 Million
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2023
6.$320.6 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2023
7.$278 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2022
8.$258 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2020
9.$221 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2015
10.€127 Million
US$173 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2014
11.$165 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2016
11.$165 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2024
13.€136.36 Million
US$154.92 Million
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2022
14.$146 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2015
15.€120 Million
US$131.22 Million
Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2024
16.$131 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 10, 2007
17.$126 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 10, 2017
18.€103 Million
US$124.76 Million
Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jan 13, 2006
19.$122 Million
Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2007
20.€88.18 Million
US$108.21 Million
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2021
21.$105 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2009
22.€86.99 Million
US$99.63 Million
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2019
23.€81.62 Million
US$97.77 Million
Draw Date
Jan 8, 2018
24.£66.07 Million
US$95.92 Million
United Kingdom
Lotto
Draw Date
Jan 9, 2016
25.$94 Million
Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jan 7, 2017

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991
Monday, Jan 7, 1991
33 years old
1990
Sunday, Jan 7, 1990
34 years old
1990
Sunday, Jan 7, 1990
34 years old
1986
Tuesday, Jan 7, 1986
38 years old
1986
Tuesday, Jan 7, 1986
38 years old
1981
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1981
43 years old
1980
Monday, Jan 7, 1980
44 years old
1979
Sunday, Jan 7, 1979
45 years old
1978
Saturday, Jan 7, 1978
46 years old
1977
Friday, Jan 7, 1977
47 years old
1976
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1976
48 years old
1970
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1970
54 years old
1969
Tuesday, Jan 7, 1969
55 years old
1965
Thursday, Jan 7, 1965
59 years old
1962
Sunday, Jan 7, 1962
62 years old
1942
Wednesday, Jan 7, 1942
82 years old
(year not provided)
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2023
The longest U.S. House of Representatives speaker election since the December 1859 - February 1860 U.S. speaker election concludes and Kevin McCarthy is elected 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
2020
The 6.4Mw 2019-20 Puerto Rico earthquakes kill four and injure nine in southern Puerto Rico.
2015
Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, shooting twelve people execution style, and wounding eleven others.
2015
A car bomb explodes outside a police college in the Yemeni capital Sana'a with at least 38 people reported dead and more than 63 injured.
2012
A hot air balloon crashes near Carterton, New Zealand, killing all 11 people on board.
1999
The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
1994
A British Aerospace Jetstream 41 operating as United Express Flight 6291 crashes in Gahanna, Ohio, killing five of the eight people on board.
1993
The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as president.
1993
Bosnian War: The Bosnian Army executes a surprise attack at the village of Kravica in Srebrenica.
1991
Roger Lafontant, former leader of the Tonton Macoute in Haiti under François Duvalier, attempts a coup d'état, which ends in his arrest.
1985
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1984
Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
1980
U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1979
Third Indochina War: Cambodian-Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
1973
In his second shooting spree of the week, Mark Essex fatally shoots seven people and wounds five others at Howard Johnson's Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, before being shot to death by police officers.
1972
Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
1968
Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1959
The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1955
Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
1954
Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1950
In the Sverdlovsk air disaster, all 19 of those on board are killed, including almost the entire national ice hockey team (VVS Moscow) of the Soviet Air Force - 11 players, as well as a team doctor and a masseur.
1948
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1940
Winter War: Battle of Raate Road: The Finnish 9th Division finally defeat the numerically superior Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1935
Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1931
Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
1928
A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
1927
The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.
1922
Dáil Éireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by a 64-57 vote.
1920
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1919
Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
1904
The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
1894
Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
1867
The Kingstree jail fire kills 22 freedmen in Reconstruction-era South Carolina.
1835
HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1782
The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1738
A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
1708
Battle of Zlatoust (1707): Battle between Bashkir and Tatar rebels and the government troops of the Tsardom of Russia. It is one of the events of the Bashkir rebellion of 1704-1711.
1708
Bashkir rebels besieged Yelabuga
1610
Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following night.
1608
Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia.
1558
French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession of England.
1325
Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
49 BC
The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army, prompting the tribunes who support him to flee to where Caesar is waiting in Ravenna.

Births On This Day

2004
Sofia Wylie, American actress, singer, and dancer
1997
Ozzie Albies, Curaçaoan baseball player
1997
Lamar Jackson, American football player
1996
Alex Nedeljkovic, American ice hockey player
1995
Jordan Bell, American basketball player
1995
Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstani tennis player
1994
Jarnell Stokes, American basketball player
1994
Lee Sun-bin, South Korean actress and singer
1994
MacKenzie Weegar, Canadian ice hockey player
1992
Erik Gudbranson, Canadian ice hockey player
1992
Tohu Harris, New Zealand rugby league player
1991
Tucker Barnhart, American baseball player
1991
Eden Hazard, Belgian footballer
1991
Caster Semenya, South African sprinter
1991
Michael Walters, Australian footballer
1990
Liam Aiken, American actor
1990
Gentleman Jack Gallagher, English mixed martial artist and wrestler
1990
Camryn Grimes, American actress
1990
Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian ski jumper
1988
Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
1988
Robert Sheehan, Irish actor
1987
Davide Astori, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
1987
Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer
1987
Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
1985
Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
1985
Wayne Routledge, English footballer
1984
Jon Lester, American baseball player
1983
Brett Dalton, American actor
1983
Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
1983
Cappie Pondexter, American basketball player
1983
Robert Ri'chard, American actor
1982
Lauren Cohan, American-English actress
1982
Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
1982
Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
1981
Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey player
1981
Marquis Daniels, American basketball player
1981
Travis Friend, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980
Reece Simmonds, Australian rugby league player
1979
Reggie Austin, American actor
1979
Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist
1978
Dean Cosker, English cricketer and umpire
1977
Dustin Diamond, American actor and comedian (d. 2021)
1977
Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright
1977
Brent Sopel, Canadian ice hockey player
1976
Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer
1976
Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball player
1976
Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
1974
Alenka Bikar, Slovenian sprinter and politician
1972
Donald Brashear, American-Canadian ice hockey player and mixed martial artist
1971
Kevin Rahm, American actor
1971
Jeremy Renner, American actor
1970
Andy Burnham, English politician
1970
Doug E. Doug, American actor
1969
Rex Lee, American actor
1969
Marco Simone, Italian footballer and manager
1967
Nick Clegg, English academic and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1967
Irrfan Khan, Indian actor (d. 2020)
1967
Ricky Stuart, Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
1965
Five for Fighting, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1965
Alessandro Lambruschini, Italian runner
1964
Nicolas Cage, American actor
1963
Rand Paul, American politician and physician
1962
Aleksandr Dugin, Russian political analyst and strategist known for his fascist views
1962
Ron Rivera, American football player and coach
1962
Hallie Todd, American actress
1961
John Thune, American lawyer and politician
1960
David Marciano, American actor
1960
Loretta Sanchez, American politician
1959
Angela Smith, Baroness Smith of Basildon, English accountant and politician
1959
Kathy Valentine, American bass player and songwriter
1957
Katie Couric, American television journalist, anchor, and author
1956
David Caruso, American actor
1955
Mamata Shankar, Indian-Bengali actress
1954
Alan Butcher, English cricketer and coach
1953
Robert Longo, American painter and sculptor
1952
Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, and martial artist
1950
Juan Gabriel, Mexican singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
1950
Erin Gray, American actress and model
1948
Kenny Loggins, American singer-songwriter
1947
Tony Elliott, English publisher, founded Time Out (d. 2020)
1946
Michele Elliott, author, psychologist and founder of child protection charity Kidscape
1946
Jann Wenner, American publisher, co-founded Rolling Stone
1945
Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (d. 1990)
1945
Raila Odinga, Kenyan engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Kenya
1944
Mike McGear, British performing artist and rock photographer
1944
Kotaro Suzumura, Japanese economist and academic (d. 2020)
1943
Sadako Sasaki, Japanese survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, known for one thousand origami cranes (d. 1955)
1942
Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German weightlifter and coach (d. 2011)
1941
Iona Brown, English violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
1941
John E. Walker, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1938
Bob Boland, Australian rugby league player and coach
1935
Kenny Davern, American clarinet player and saxophonist (d. 2006)
1935
Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2014)
1935
Li Shengjiao, Chinese diplomat and international jurist (d. 2017)
1934
Jean Corbeil, Canadian lawyer and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 2002)
1934
Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 5th President of Cyprus (d. 2008)
1933
Elliott Kastner, American-English film producer (d. 2010)
1931
Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
1929
Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (d. 2012)
1929
Terry Moore, American actress
1928
William Peter Blatty, American author and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1926
Kim Jong-pil, South Korean lieutenant and politician, 11th Prime Minister of South Korea (d. 2018)
1925
Gerald Durrell, Indian-English zookeeper, conservationist and author, founded Durrell Wildlife Park (d. 1995)
1923
Hugh Kenner, Canadian scholar and critic (d. 2003)
1923
Vaklush Tolev, Bulgarian theologian, educator, public figure and lecturer (d. 2013)
1922
Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
1922
Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (d. 2000)
1921
Esmeralda Arboleda Cadavid, Colombian politician (d. 1997)
1921
Chester Kallman, American poet and translator (d. 1975)
1920
Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
1916
W. L. Jeyasingham, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (d. 1989)
1916
Babe Pratt, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988)
1913
Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1993)
1912
Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (d. 1988)
1910
Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
1908
Red Allen, American trumpet player (d. 1967)
1903
Hooley Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1963)
1900
John Brownlee, Australian actor and singer (d. 1969)
1899
Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer (d. 1963)
1898
Al Bowlly, Mozambican-English singer-songwriter (disputed; d. 1941)
1895
Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (d. 1974)
1891
Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (d. 1960)
1890
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, American soldier, pulp magazine writer, and pioneer of the American comic book
1889
Vera de Bosset, Russian-American ballerina (d. 1982)
1877
William Clarence Matthews, American baseball player, coach, and lawyer (d. 1928)
1876
William Hurlstone, English pianist and composer (d. 1906)
1875
Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945)
1873
Charles Péguy, French poet and journalist (d. 1914)
1873
Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (d. 1976)
1871
Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
1863
Anna Murray Vail, American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden (d. 1955)
1858
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Belarusian lexicographer and journalist (d. 1922)
1852
Quianu Robinson, New Mexican Congressman and political ally of Conrad Hilton (d. 1919)
1844
Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (d. 1879)
1837
Thomas Henry Ismay, English businessman, founded the White Star Line Shipping Company (d. 1899)
1834
Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (d. 1874)
1832
James Munro, Scottish-Australian publisher and politician, 15th Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
1831
Heinrich von Stephan, German postman, founded the Universal Postal Union (d. 1897)
1830
Albert Bierstadt, American painter (d. 1902)
1827
Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer, created Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)
1815
Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather, American writer (d.1882)
1814
Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (d.1837)
1800
Millard Fillmore, American politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874)
1797
Mariano Paredes, Mexican general and 16th president (1845-1846) (d. 1849)
1768
Joseph Bonaparte, Italian king (d. 1844)
1746
George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Scottish admiral and politician (d. 1823)
1718
Israel Putnam, American general (d. 1790)
1713
Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Italian opera director and manager (d. 1785)
1706
Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751)
1685
Jonas Alströmer, Swedish agronomist and businessman (d. 1761)
1647
William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
1634
Adam Krieger, German organist and composer (d. 1666)
1502
Pope Gregory XIII (d. 1585)
1414
Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (d. 1451)
1355
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (d. 1397)
889
Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (d. 943)

Deaths On This Day

2021
Michael Apted, English filmmaker (b. 1941)
2021
Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1927)
2021
Henri Schwery, Swiss cardinal (b. 1932)
2020
Neil Peart, Canadian drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1952)
2020
Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974)
2020
Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist (b. 1967)
2018
Jim Anderton, Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1938)
2018
France Gall, French singer (b. 1947)
2017
Mário Soares, Portuguese politician; 16th President of Portugal (b. 1924)
2016
Bill Foster, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929)
2016
John Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1947)
2016
Kitty Kallen, American singer (b. 1921)
2016
Judith Kaye, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1938)
2016
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Home Affairs (b. 1936)
2015
Mompati Merafhe, Botswana general and politician, Vice-President of Botswana (b. 1936)
2015
Rod Taylor, Australian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1930)
2015
Georges Wolinski, Tunisian-French cartoonist (b. 1934)
2014
Run Run Shaw, Chinese-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist, founded Shaw Brothers Studio and TVB (b. 1907)
2012
Tony Blankley, British-born American child actor, journalist and pundit (b. 1948)
2008
Alwyn Schlebusch, South African academic and politician, Vice State President of South Africa (b. 1917)
2007
Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver and businessman (b. 1957)
2007
Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic journalist, author, and academic (b. 1929)
2006
Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (b. 1912)
2005
Pierre Daninos, French author (b. 1913)
2004
Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (b. 1926)
2002
Avery Schreiber, American comedian and actor (b. 1935)
2001
James Carr, American singer (b. 1942)
2000
Gary Albright, American wrestler (b. 1963)
1998
Owen Bradley, American record producer (b. 1915)
1998
Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1996
Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1930)
1995
Murray Rothbard, American economist, historian, and theorist (b. 1926)
1992
Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)
1990
Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1908)
1989
Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
1988
Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (b.1919)
1988
Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
1986
Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (b. 1917)
1984
Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1981
Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer(b. 1908)
1981
Eric Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (b. 1926)
1972
John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)
1968
J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
1967
David Goodis, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
1967
Carl Schuricht, German-Swiss conductor (b. 1880)
1964
Reg Parnell, English racing driver and manager (b. 1911)
1963
Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian farmer and politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (b. 1876)
1960
Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player and coach (b. 1878)
1951
René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author (b. 1886)
1943
Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1856)
1941
Charles Finger, English journalist and author (b. 1869)
1936
Guy d'Hardelot, French pianist and composer (b. 1858)
1932
André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (b. 1877)
1931
Edward Channing, American historian and author (b. 1856)
1927
Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Greek politician, 99th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1851)
1920
Edmund Barton, Australian judge and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1849)
1919
Henry Ware Eliot, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Washington University in St. Louis (b. 1843)
1912
Sophia Jex-Blake, English physician and feminist (b. 1840)
1893
Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835)
1892
Tewfik Pasha, Egyptian ruler (b. 1852)
1888
Golam Ali Chowdhury, Bengali landlord and philanthropist (b. 1824)
1864
Caleb Blood Smith, American journalist and politician, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior (b. 1808)
1858
Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Ottoman politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1800)
1830
John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian public servant and politician (b. 1770)
1830
Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (b. 1769)
1812
Joseph Dennie, American journalist and author (b. 1768)
1770
Carl Gustaf Tessin, Swedish politician and diplomat (b. 1695)
1767
Thomas Clap, American minister and academic (b. 1703)
1758
Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1686)
1715
François Fénelon, French archbishop, theologian, and poet (b. 1651)
1700
Raffaello Fabretti, Italian scholar and author (b. 1618)
1694
Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire (b. 1618)
1658
Theophilus Eaton, American farmer and politician, 1st Governor of the New Haven Colony (b. 1590)
1655
Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)
1625
Ruggiero Giovannelli, Italian composer and author (b. 1560)
1619
Nicholas Hilliard, English painter and goldsmith (b. 1547)
1566
Louis de Blois, Flemish monk and author (b. 1506)
1536
Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485)
1529
Peter Vischer the Elder, German sculptor (b. 1455)
1451
Amadeus VIII of Savoy a.k.a. Antipope Felix V (b. 1383)
1400
John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English Earl (b. 1350)
1355
Inês de Castro, Castilian noblewoman (b. 1325)
1325
Denis of Portugal (b. 1261)
1285
Charles I of Naples (b. 1226)
1131
Canute Lavard, Danish prince and saint (b. 1096)
856
Aldric, bishop of Le Mans
838
Babak Khorramdin, Iranian leader of the Khurramite uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate
312
Lucian of Antioch, Christian martyr, saint, and theologian (b. 240)