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July 10

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July 10

July 10 is the 191st day of the year (192nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 174 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Mega Millions and Powerball offer $1.13 billion in combined lottery jackpots. Lottery players have two massive multi-state jackpots to try to win this week, adding up to a whopping $1.13 billion in total.
2021: Loto-Québec IT technician accused of stealing thousands from customer accounts. After a year-long investigation, a former employee at Loto-Québec was accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from customer accounts that were supposedly inactive.
2019: N.H. Lottery asks Concord to give Keno another shot. Nearly two years after Keno received a sound defeat in Concord, the New Hampshire Lottery Commission is hoping the Capital City will give the game another try.
2019: Wisconsin Republicans to hold hearing on lottery privacy bill. Wisconsin Republicans are planning to take public comments on a bill that would keep lottery winners' names secret.
2017: 19-year-old wins lottery twice in one week. A California teen is celebrating two big lottery wins in just a week.
2017: Illinois lost $4 million by halting Powerball, Mega Millions sales. Illinois Lottery officials say the state lost about $4 million by halting sales of Powerball and Mega Millions tickets due to the state budget stalemate.
2016: $311 MILLION: Here comes Powerball. No sooner was Friday's $540 million Mega Millions jackpot won than Powerball became perfectly positioned to take the spotlight with a big rollover Saturday night.
2015: Time running out for $7 million NY lottery winner to claim prize. The buyer of a top prize-winning lottery ticket worth $7 million has just two weeks left to claim their windfall — or lose it forever.
2015: Scratch-off games propel Ohio Lottery to record sales. Like other state lotteries have recently reported, the Ohio Lottery has managed to increase its sales to record levels in the past year, despite a sharp downturn in multi-state lottery sales, through an emphasis on scratch-off ticket sales.
2015: Rural Kansas couple wins $9.85 million Hot Lotto jackpot. When Stephen Harrod checked his Hot Lotto ticket in the early morning on July 2nd to find out the prize amount, the convenience store clerk couldn't believe her eyes.
2014: Virginia woman wins Cash 5 for second time. A Virginia woman celebrated Independence Day this year by winning the Cash 5 top prize for the second time.
2014: N.C. school construction lottery money doesn't really build schools. Where does the North Carolina Education Lottery money go? You know, you buy a ticket, you put money into the education lottery, and you think all that money goes to North Carolina schools. But that is not quite how it works.
2013: Tenn. lottery chief offers advice to fledgling Wyoming Lottery. The Wyoming Lottery Board received some much-needed advice -- and a stern warning -- from someone who has helped shepherd other states through the the complicated process of launching state-sponsored games of chance.
2010: First N.C. Mega Millions lottery winner claims jackpot. The sole winner of a May 28 Mega Millions drawing for $12 million, the first jackpot-winning Mega Millions lottery ticket sold in North Carolina, has finally come forward.
2008: Man throws away winning lottery ticket, but still collects. Degli Martinez, 55, of Queens, New York, claimed the biggest single Lotto jackpot in state history on Wednesday, a $65 million prize that took over a year and a police probe before he was allowed to have it.
2006: US House on the brink of taking away online gambling rights. Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables won't like what Congress is doing. On Tuesday, the House plans to vote on a bill that would ban credit cards for paying online bets and could padlock gambling Web sites.
2006: N.C. Lottery to introduce $10 scratch game. North Carolina will soon join the majority of state lotteries with the kind of pricey scratch-off game that has helped boost game revenue nationwide.
2006: Keno sales surge across Massacusetts. Across Massachusetts, recent format changes have fueled a surge in Keno sales.
2006: N.M. Lottery official resigns after leaving DWI accident scene. The vice chairman of the New Mexico Lottery Authority board of directors has turned in a letter of resignation to Gov. Bill Richardson, days after he was arrested in a bizarre drunk-driving crash.
2004: Mega Millions lottery jackpot jumps to $20 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $20 million Saturday.
2004: Missouri Lottery expands games to twice a day. The Missouri Lottery's daily games will expand from one to two drawings a day later this month, officials said Friday.
2004: Postal workers sue for share of Mega Millions lottery prize. Post office colleagues of a man who won $175,000 in the Mega Millions lottery drawing say they were cheated out of a share of the prize.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$680.8 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2023
2.$500 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2023
3.$440 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2022
4.$311 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 13, 2016
5.$306 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2018
6.€185 Million US$258.45 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2011
7.€236.43 Million US$237.23 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2022
8.€230 Million US$230.78 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2022
9.€185.72 Million US$209.16 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2019
10.$202 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2017
11.$180 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2019
12.$155 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2017
13.$138 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2002
14.$125.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2021
15.$121 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2019
16.€106.86 Million
US$118.39 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2016
17.$106 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2015
18.$104 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 13, 2021
19.€90 Million
US$101.4 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2019
20.$100 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2005
21.€81 Million
US$97.9 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2005
22.€92.52 Million
US$92.84 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 12, 2022
23.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2018
24.$83 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 10, 2020
25.€60 Million
US$81.63 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 11, 2014

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1994: Locsisareal1
Sunday, Jul 10, 1994
29 years old
1985: yunier850710k
Wednesday, Jul 10, 1985
38 years old
1983: Rojo555
Sunday, Jul 10, 1983
40 years old
1982: ShoNuff32
Saturday, Jul 10, 1982
41 years old
1981: Jimhowlett
Friday, Jul 10, 1981
42 years old
1981: loseorwin
Friday, Jul 10, 1981
42 years old
1980: NoCompLotto!
Thursday, Jul 10, 1980
43 years old
1979: SUNSHINE033
Tuesday, Jul 10, 1979
44 years old
1976: mrn123
Saturday, Jul 10, 1976
47 years old
1973: Swtwaterfall73
Tuesday, Jul 10, 1973
50 years old
1972: Brecebaby$1
Monday, Jul 10, 1972
51 years old
1972: EfendiFinancial
Monday, Jul 10, 1972
51 years old
1962: VETTE60 *
Tuesday, Jul 10, 1962
61 years old
1959: Totem's Angel
Friday, Jul 10, 1959
64 years old
1959: Totems Angel
Friday, Jul 10, 1959
64 years old
1952: tiber
Thursday, Jul 10, 1952
71 years old
1949: Pick3Dude
Sunday, Jul 10, 1949
74 years old
1946: bnorcutt
Wednesday, Jul 10, 1946
77 years old
: Jack-C
(year not provided)
: LuckyChance
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
2017: Iraqi Civil War: Mosul is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by the government of Iraq.
2016: Portugal defeats France in the UEFA Euro 2016 Final to win their first European title.
2012: The Episcopal Church USA allows same-sex marriage.
2011: Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
2008: Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
2007: Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
2006: A Pakistan International Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes near Multan International Airport, killing all 45 people on board.
2002: At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2000: EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
2000: Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
1999: In women's association football, the United States defeated China in a penalty shoot-out at the Rose Bowl near Los Angeles to win the final match of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The final was watched by 90,185 spectators, which set a new world record for attendance at a women's sporting event.
1998: Catholic Church sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.
1997: In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
1997: Miguel Ángel Blanco, a member of Partido Popular (Spain), is kidnapped (and later murdered) in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests.
1992: In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
1991: The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
1991: Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
1991: A Beechcraft Model 99 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.
1985: The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
1985: An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
1978: President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
1976: Four mercenaries (one American and three British) are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial.
1973: The Bahamas gain full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1966: The Chicago Freedom Movement, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1951: Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
1947: Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1943: World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
1942: World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
1941: Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
1940: World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
1940: World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
1938: Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
1927: Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
1925: Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1924: Paavo Nurmi won the 1,500 and 5,000 m races with just an hour between them at the Paris Olympics.
1921: Belfast's Bloody Sunday occurs with 20 killings, at least 100 wounded and 200 homes destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1920: Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
1890: Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1883: War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvian army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
1882: War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
1877: The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
1850: U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming president upon Zachary Taylor's death.
1832: U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
1806: The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
1789: Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
1778: American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1645: English Civil War: The Battle of Langport takes place.
1584: William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
1553: Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1519: Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
1512: The Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre commences with the capture of Goizueta.
1499: The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.
1460: Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
1212: The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1086: King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
988: The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin.
645: Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a coup d'état at the imperial palace.
138: Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

Births On This Day

2002: Reece Walsh, Australian rugby league player
2001: Isabela Merced, American actress
1999: April Ivy, Portuguese composer and singer
1991: Daishōmaru Shōgo, Japanese sumo wrestler
1990: Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
1990: Trent Richardson, American footballer
1990: Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
1988: Antonio Brown, American football player
1988: Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer
1988: Sarah Walker, New Zealand BMX rider
1985: Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer
1985: B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
1985: Mario Gómez, German footballer
1984: Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer
1983: Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer
1983: Matthew Egan, Australian footballer
1983: Gabi, Spanish footballer
1983: Kim Hee-chul, Korean entertainer and singer
1983: Joelson José Inácio, Brazilian footballer
1983: Doug Kramer, Filipino basketball player
1983: Anthony Watmough, Australian rugby league player
1982: Alex Arrowsmith, American guitarist and producer
1982: Juliya Chernetsky, Ukrainian-American television host
1982: Sebastian Mila, Polish footballer
1982: Jeffrey Walker, Australian actor and director
1981: Aleksandar Tunchev, Bulgarian footballer
1980: Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1980: Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1980: Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer-songwriter
1980: James Rolfe, American actor, director, and producer
1980: Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
1979: Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
1979: Gong Yoo, Korean actor
1977: Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
1976: Edmílson, Brazilian footballer
1976: Elijah Blue Allman, American singer and guitarist
1976: Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
1976: Adrian Grenier, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976: Brendon Lade, Australian footballer and coach
1976: Lars Ricken, German footballer
1975: Andrew Firestone, American businessman
1975: Brendan Gaughan, American race car driver
1975: Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1975: Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
1975: Richard Westbrook, English race car driver
1974: Imelda May, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1972: Peter Serafinowicz, English actor
1972: Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress and producer
1972: Tilo Wolff, German-Swiss singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1971: Adam Foote, Canadian ice hockey player
1971: Gregory Goodridge, Barbadian footballer and coach
1970: Gary LeVox, American singer-songwriter
1970: Jason Orange, English singer-songwriter and dancer
1970: John Simm, English actor
1969: Marty Cordova, American baseball player
1969: Gale Harold, American actor
1967: Tom Meents, American professional monster truck driver
1967: Rebekah Del Rio, American singer-songwriter
1967: Gillian Tett, English journalist and author
1967: Ikki Sawamura, Japanese model, actor and television presenter
1967: John Yoo, South Korean-American lawyer, author, and educator
1966: Clive Efford, English politician
1966: Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006)
1966: Christian Stangl, Austrian skier and mountaineer
1966: Anna Bråkenhielm, Swedish business executive
1965: Scott McCarron, American golfer
1965: Ken Mellons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1964: Martin Laurendeau, Canadian tennis player and coach
1964: Urban Meyer, American football player and coach
1964: Wilfried Peeters, Belgian cyclist
1963: Ian Lougher, Welsh motorcycle racer
1961: Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and film actor
1961: Marc Riley, English guitarist (The Fall), radio DJ
1960: Ariel Castro, Puerto Rican-American convicted kidnapper and rapist (d. 2013)
1959: Ellen Kuras, American director and cinematographer
1959: Sandy West, American singer-songwriter and drummer (d. 2006)
1958: Béla Fleck, American banjo player and songwriter
1958: Fiona Shaw, Irish actress and director
1957: Derry Grehan, Canadian rock guitarist and songwriter
1956: Tom McClintock, American lawyer and politician
1956: K. Rajagopal, Malaysian football manager
1955: Nic Dakin, English educator and politician
1955: Geoff Gerard, Australian rugby league player
1954: Tommy Bowden, American football player and coach
1954: Andre Dawson, American baseball player
1954: Neil Tennant, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1953: Rik Emmett, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1953: Zoogz Rift, American musician and wrestler (d. 2011)
1952: Kim Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952: Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician
1951: Cheryl Wheeler, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951: Rajnath Singh, Indian Politician and Union Home Minister of India
1950: Tony Baldry, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, British Minister of State for Agriculture
1950: Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior
1949: Anna Czerwińska, Polish mountaineer and author
1949: Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1949: Greg Kihn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948: Ronnie Cutrone, American painter (d. 2013)
1948: Chico Resch, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1948: Natalya Sedykh, Russian figure skater, ballet dancer, actor
1948: John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2004)
1947: Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1946: Jean-Pierre Jarier, French race car driver
1946: Chin Han, Taiwanese actor
1945: Ron Glass, American actor (d. 2016)
1945: Hal McRae, American baseball player and manager
1945: John Motson, English sportscaster (d. 2023)
1945: Jean-Marie Poiré, French director, producer, and screenwriter
1945: Virginia Wade, English tennis player and sportscaster
1944: Mick Grant, English motorcycle racer
1944: Norman Hammond, English archaeologist and academic
1943: Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993)
1943: Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, Zambian politician
1943: Jerry Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942: Ronnie James Dio, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
1942: Pyotr Klimuk, Belarusian general, pilot, and astronaut
1942: Sixto Rodriguez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942: Lopo do Nascimento, Angolan politician; 1st Prime Minister of Angola
1941: Jake Eberts, Canadian film producer (d. 2012)
1941: David G. Hartwell, American anthologist, author, and critic (d. 2016)
1941: Robert Pine, American actor and director
1941: Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2020)
1940: Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, Indian-English economist and politician
1940: Helen Donath, American soprano and actress
1940: Brian Priestley, English pianist and composer
1940: Keith Stackpole, Australian cricketer
1939: Phil Kelly, Irish-English footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1939: Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, Turkish political scientist, journalist and educator (d. 1999)
1939: Mavis Staples, American singer
1938: Paul Andreu, French architect (d. 2018)
1938: Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1972)
1937: Edwards Barham, American farmer and politician (d. 2014)
1937: Gun Svensson, Swedish politician
1936: Herbert Boyer, American businessman, co-founded Genentech
1936: Tunne Kelam, Estonian journalist and politician
1935: Margaret McEntee, American Catholic religious sister and educator
1935: Wilson Tuckey, Australian politician
1935: Wilson Whineray, New Zealand rugby player and businessman (d. 2012)
1934: Marshall Brodien, American actor (d. 2019)
1934: Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
1933: Jumpin' Gene Simmons, American rockabilly singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1933: C.K. Yang, Taiwanese decathlete and pole vaulter (d. 2007)
1932: Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver (d. 2019)
1932: Neile Adams, Filipino-American actress, singer and dancer
1932: Manfred Preußger, German athlete
1931: Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1931: Jerry Herman, American composer and songwriter (d. 2019)
1931: Julian May, American author (d. 2017)
1931: Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1930: Bruce Boa, Canadian actor (d. 2004)
1930: Janette Sherman, American physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (d. 2019)
1930: Josephine Veasey, English soprano and actress (d. 2022)
1929: Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician (d. 2023)
1929: George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1929: Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (d. 2004)
1929: José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan politician; 21st Vice President of Venezuela (d. 2020)
1928: Don Bolles, American investigative reporter (d. 1976)
1928: Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1928: Alejandro de Tomaso, Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded De Tomaso (d. 2003)
1928: Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2010)
1928: John Glenn, American baseball player
1927: Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2018)
1927: David Dinkins, American soldier and politician, 106th Mayor of New York City (d. 2020)
1927: William Smithers, American actor
1926: Carleton Carpenter, American actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist (d. 2022)
1926: Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993)
1925: Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia
1925: Ernest Bertrand Boland, American Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2023)
1924: Johnny Bach, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016)
1924: Bobo Brazil, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1923: Amalia Mendoza, Mexican singer and actress (d. 2001)
1923: John Bradley, American soldier (d. 1994)
1923: Suzanne Cloutier, Canadian actress and producer (d. 2003)
1923: G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (d. 1987)
1922: Jean Kerr, American author and playwright (d. 2003)
1922: Herb McKenley, Jamaican sprinter (d. 2007)
1922: Jake LaMotta, American boxer and actor (d. 2017)
1921: Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the Smiley (d. 2001)
1921: Jeff Donnell, American actress (d. 1988)
1921: John K. Singlaub, U.S. Army Major General (d. 2022)
1921: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)
1920: David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)
1920: Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1920: Cyril Grant, English footballer (d. 2002)
1919: Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (d. 2009)
1919: Ian Wallace, English actor and singer (d. 2009)
1918: James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (d. 2015)
1918: Chuck Stevens, American baseball player (d. 2018)
1918: Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Occidental College (d. 2018)
1918: Fred Wacker, American race driver and engineer (d. 1998)
1917: Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (d. 2000)
1917: Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (d. 1998)
1916: Judith Jasmin, Canadian journalist (d. 1972)
1914: Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (d. 1992)
1914: Rempo Urip, Indonesian film director (d. 2001)
1913: Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1985)
1911: Terry-Thomas, English comedian and character actor (d. 1990)
1911: Cootie Williams, American trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1985)
1909: Donald Sinclair, English lieutenant and businessman (d. 1981)
1907: Blind Boy Fuller, American singer and guitarist (d. 1941)
1905: Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (d. 2002)
1905: Thomas Gomez, American actor (d. 1971)
1905: Wolfram Sievers, German physician (d. 1948)
1904: Lili Damita, French-American actress (d. 1994)
1903: Werner Best, German SS officer and jurist (d. 1989)
1903: John Wyndham, English author (d. 1969)
1902: Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1902: Nicolás Guillén, Cuban poet, journalist, and activist (d. 1989)
1900: Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (d. 1993)
1900: Sampson Sievers, Russian monk and mystic (d. 1979)
1899: John Gilbert, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1936)
1899: Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)
1898: Renée Björling, Swedish actress (d. 1975)
1897: Legs Diamond, American gangster (d. 1931)
1897: Karl Plagge, German general and engineer (d. 1957)
1896: Thérèse Casgrain, Canadian politician (d. 1981)
1895: Carl Orff, German composer and educator (d. 1982)
1894: Jimmy McHugh, American composer (d. 1969)
1891: Edith Quimby, American medical researcher and physicist (d. 1982)
1888: Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer (d. 1978)
1888: Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist (d. 1960)
1883: Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (d. 1948)
1883: Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician (d. 1952)
1882: Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (d. 1975)
1878: Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (d. 1943)
1877: Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (d. 1935)
1875: Mary McLeod Bethune, American educator and activist (d. 1955)
1875: Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Hungarian politician (d. 1973)
1874: Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (d. 1971)
1871: Marcel Proust, French novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1922)
1867: Prince Maximilian of Baden (d. 1929)
1864: Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence (d. 1926)
1856: Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engineer (d. 1943)
1839: Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)
1835: Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1880)
1832: Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897)
1830: Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (d. 1903)
1823: Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1908)
1809: Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (d. 1889)
1804: Emma Smith, American religious leader (d. 1879)
1802: Robert Chambers, Scottish geologist and publisher, co-founded Chambers Harrap (d. 1871)
1802: Alfred Ronalds, British fly fishing author, artisan and Australian pioneer (d. 1860)
1792: George M. Dallas, American lawyer and politician, 11th Vice President of the United States (d. 1864)
1752: St. George Tucker, United States federal judge (d. 1827)
1724: Eva Ekeblad, Swedish noble and agronomist (d. 1786)
1723: William Blackstone, English lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1780)
1682: Roger Cotes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1716)
1666: John Ernest Grabe, German theologian and academic (d. 1711)
1638: David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
1625: Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)
1614: Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish-English politician (d. 1686)
1592: Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (d. 1660)
1533: Antonio Possevino, Italian diplomat (d. 1611)
1517: Odet de Coligny, French cardinal (d. 1571)
1515: Francisco de Toledo, Viceroy of Peru (d. 1582)
1509: John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (d. 1564)
1501: Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (d. 1572)
1451: James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1419: Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Maurice Boucher, Canadian outlaw biker (b. 1953)
2020: Lara van Ruijven, Dutch short track speed skater (b. 1992)
2020: Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1935)
2018: Henry Morgenthau III, American author and television producer (b. 1917)
2016: Katharina Focke, German politician (b. 1922)
2015: Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1944)
2015: Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor (b. 1932)
2015: Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor (b. 1926)
2014: Robert C. Broomfield, American lawyer and judge (b. 1933)
2014: Juozas Kazickas, Lithuanian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1918)
2014: Paul G. Risser, American ecologist and academic (b. 1939)
2014: Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (b. 1912)
2014: Gloria Schweigerdt, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2013: Philip Caldwell, American businessman (b. 1920)
2013: Józef Gara, Polish poet and linguist (b. 1929)
2013: Concha García Campoy, Spanish journalist (b. 1958)
2013: Caroline Duby Glassman, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1922)
2013: Ku Ok-hee, South Korean golfer (b. 1956)
2013: Gokulananda Mahapatra, Indian author and academic (b. 1922)
2012: Dolphy, Filipino actor, singer, and producer (b. 1928)
2012: Peter Kyros, American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
2012: Berthe Meijer, German-Dutch journalist and author (b. 1938)
2012: Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (b. 1919)
2012: Viktor Suslin, Russian-German composer (b. 1942)
2011: Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and educator (b. 1921)
2011: Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1924)
2008: Hiroaki Aoki, Japanese-American wrestler and businessman, founded Benihana (b. 1938)
2008: Mike Souchak, American golfer (b. 1927)
2007: Doug Marlette, American cartoonist and author (b. 1949)
2006: Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist rebel leader (b. 1965)
2005: A. J. Quinnell, English author (b. 1940)
2004: Pati Behrs, Russian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1922)
2003: Winston Graham, English author (b. 1908)
2003: Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross, German-English lawyer and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1902)
2002: Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)
2002: Evangelos Florakis, Greek general (b. 1943)
2002: Laurence Janifer, American author (b. 1933)
2000: Vakkom Majeed, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1909)
1996: Eno Raud, Estonian author (b. 1928)
1995: Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1908)
1993: Ruth Krauss, American author and poet (b. 1901)
1993: Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
1989: Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
1987: John Hammond, American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)
1986: Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
1985: Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
1980: Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1979: Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
1978: John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)
1972: Lovie Austin, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1887)
1971: Laurent Dauthuille, French boxer (b. 1924)
1970: Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
1963: Teddy Wakelam, English rugby player and sportscaster (b. 1893)
1962: Yehuda Leib Maimon, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1875)
1960: Sæbjørn Buttedahl, Norwegian actor and sculptor (b. 1876)
1956: Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1954: Calogero Vizzini, Italian mob boss (b. 1877)
1952: Rued Langgaard, Danish organist and composer (b. 1893)
1950: Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer (b. 1882)
1941: Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1890)
1941: Huntley Wright, English actor (b. 1868)
1938: Arthur Barclay, 15th president of Liberia (b. 1854)
1929: Ève Lavallière, French actress (b. 1866)
1920: John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)
1915: Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Dutch painter (b. 1831)
1908: Phoebe Knapp, American organist and composer (b. 1839)
1884: Paul Morphy, American chess player (b. 1837)
1881: Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect and academic (b. 1812)
1863: Clement Clarke Moore, American author and educator (b. 1779)
1851: Louis Daguerre, French photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype (b. 1787)
1806: George Stubbs, English painter and academic (b. 1724)
1794: Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French general (b. 1754)
1776: Richard Peters, English lawyer and minister (b. 1704)
1686: John Fell, English bishop and academic (b. 1625)
1683: François Eudes de Mézeray, French historian and author (b. 1610)
1680: Louis Moréri, French priest and scholar (b. 1643)
1653: Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)
1621: Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, French commander (b. 1571)
1603: Joan Terès i Borrull, Spanish archbishop and academic (b. 1538)
1594: Paolo Bellasio, Italian organist and composer (b. 1554)
1590: Charles II, archduke of Austria (b. 1540)
1584: William I, Dutch nobleman (b. 1533)
1576: Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo, Italian noble (b. 1553)
1559: Henry II, king of France (b. 1519)
1510: Catherine Cornaro, queen of Cyprus (b. 1454)
1480: René of Anjou, French nobleman (b. 1400)
1473: James II, king of Cyprus
1461: Thomas, king of Bosnia (b. 1411)
1460: Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1402)
1460: John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, English nobleman (b. c. 1413)
1290: Ladislaus IV, king of Hungary (b. 1262)
1103: Eric I, king of Denmark (b. 1060)
1086: Canute IV, king of Denmark (b. 1043)
994: Leopold I, margrave of Austria
983: Benedict VII, pope of the Catholic Church
831: Zubaidah bint Ja`far, Abbasid Princess
772: Amalberga of Temse, Frankish noblewoman
649: Tai Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 598)
645: Soga no Iruka, Japanese politician
138: Hadrian, Roman emperor (b. 76)

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