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July 15

On This Day in History

July 15

July 15 is the 196th day of the year (197th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 169 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Mississippi Lottery Match 5 will move to daily drawings. Later this year, the Mississippi Lottery's Match 5 draw game will move to a daily draw schedule, joining other daily draw games in the evenings.
2022: Trial begins for "Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland; claims he is as much of a victim as lottery winners. Trial is officially underway for the New York-based attorney who is charged by federal prosecutors with stealing millions of dollars from the dozens of significant lottery jackpot winners he advised.
2021: Florida man finds winning $1 million Powerball ticket while cleaning his house. One lucky Florida man is giving lottery players across the country a huge reason to clean up their home when he found a winning Powerball ticket worth $1 million for a drawing that occurred months ago.
2020: Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Director Bishop Woosley resigns. As of August 3, 2020, Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Director Bishop Woosley will be moving on from the Lottery to "pursue other opportunities."
2020: Some lotteries see spike in sales growth amid pandemic. While some state lotteries are left trying to figure out how to make up for sales deficits in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, other states are experiencing surges in lottery sales inversely driven by the overall economic slump.
2019: The women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year. Winning online sweepstakes is supposedly an act of pure luck — but some contestants claim to have it down to a science.
2019: Maine man wins 2nd large lottery prize in as many years. A Maine man won $500,000 on a ticket he purchased at a Portland convenience store in June, less than 2 years after he won a $100,000 lottery prize.
2019: Lucky CT man wins $100,000 lottery prize for second time. A Connecticut man just won a $100,000 lottery, barely a year after winning the same jackpot.
2015: Lottery security chief: Rigging computerized game "sadly" possible. The top threat to any lottery's integrity is its own information technology employees, a former lottery security chief told jurors in the trial for his coworker accused of rigging a Hot Lotto drawing to win a $14.3 million ticket.
2015: NC residents can now play lottery at the pump. North Carolina residents can now play jackpot lottery games while pumping their gas.
2014: Judge rules boss must give waiter half of $1.7M lottery jackpot for predicting win. In a legal ruling no one could have predicted, a judge in England has ordered a lottery winner to split his jackpot with the waiter who predicted the win.
2014: Alabama man loses $80,000 in foreign lottery scam. An Alabama man fell victim to one of the most successful scams in the country that is destroying the lives of thousands of people.
2013: Wyoming lottery to reap estimated $20 million in first year of ticket sales. The Wyoming Lottery Board estimates it will get $20 million from ticket sales in the first year of the state's legal games of chance, which are now targeted to start February 2014.
2013: California Lottery director resigns. After less than two years on the job, the head of the California State Lottery has resigned his post.
2011: Britain's record lottery winners go public. A Scottish couple out of work due to ill health are Europe's biggest ever lottery winners, scooping £161.5 million (€184 million, or US$260.5 million) in the EuroMillions multi-country lottery game.
2009: Arkansas Lottery director hires core management staff. Ernie Passailaigue, who started his job two weeks ago as executive director of the Arkansas Lottery Commission, has been steadily hiring employees to fill core management positions, while defending the high salaries he is giving the new staff.
2008: Kansas Lottery officials mull GTECH systems failure. A casino data systems failure from GTECH, the Providence-RI-based firm that manages the Kansas Lottery's activities, is one more problem among many the state lottery has had to deal with lately.
2008: Connecticut Lottery sets sales record. The Connecticut Lottery Corp. says it set a record during the last fiscal year with $998.5 million in sales.
2008: Wardens probed over Kenyan prisoners' lottery scam. Kenya's prison officers are at the center of an investigation over their involvement in a SMS (Short Message Service) syndicate that defrauded the public through nonexistent lotteries.
2008: Maryland lottery sales exceed $1.6 billion. The Maryland Lottery said it has achieved its 11th straight year of record sales, topping $1.673 billion and surpassing state estimates for the fiscal year.
2008: Georgia Lottery had record sales. The Georgia Lottery announced Tuesday that sales for fiscal 2008, which ended June 30, were just under $3.52 billion, a record in the 15-year history of the games.
2008: Arkansas Lt. Gov. pushes lottery proposal. Four times members of Lt. Gov. Bill Halter's staff have traveled to various corners of Arkansas to speak about the lottery proposal.
2005: Reporter investigates Internet lottery scam. On receipt of an e-mail from an Internet scam outfit, the Editor of Expatica Netherlands wasted no time in ringing up to collect the promised $1 million jackpot prize.
2005: Kentucky couple almost threw out the lottery jackpot. A Kuntucky couple literally threw away their jackpot-winning Lotto South lottery ticket, and rescued it just in time.
2004: California lottery struggles with tepid sales. Though California and its schools are begging for cash, one of the state's supposed gold mines produces roughly half of what it should for education, analysts say.
2004: Powerball jackpot increases to $21 million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $21 million, with a cash option of $10.9 million.
2004: Maryland woman collects $175,000 Mega win. Sharon Bishop, 33, of Hagerstown, Maryland, says she's no expert on winning, but after Wednesday she has a little experience.
2004: Georgia lottery sales up. Revenue from the Georgia Lottery increased more than $100 million in the year ending June 30 - the ninth sales record since the games began in 1993.
2004: Iowa Lottery ’04 sales top $200 million. The Iowa Lottery reported Wednesday that its sales surpassed the $200 million mark for the just completed fiscal year 2004, a 16 percent increase in revenues and the culmination of a three-year rise in profits for the state.
2004: One ticket wins $37 million UK Lotto jackpot. Champagne corks were popping Wednesday night as one lucky winner celebrated scooping a whopping $37 million (£20 million) cash UK Lotto jackpot prize.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$829.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2023
2.$640 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2023
3.$480 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2022
4.$375 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2018
5.$335.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2016
6.€238.98 Million US$240.99 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2022
7.$232 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2017
8.€230 Million US$231.45 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2022
9.€188.92 Million US$212.01 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
10.$172 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2017
11.$165 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2002
12.$149.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2021
13.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2015
14.$137 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
15.$122 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2005
16.€108.89 Million
US$120.16 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2016
17.$117 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2021
18.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2013
19.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2018
20.€97 Million
US$108.85 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
21.€107.39 Million
US$108.06 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2022
22.€85 Million
US$104.39 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2012
23.$101 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2020
24.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2012
25.€81 Million
US$97.9 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 15, 2005

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1996: Michel metoo
Monday, Jul 15, 1996
27 years old
1986: KENDALL561
Tuesday, Jul 15, 1986
37 years old
1985: FlaJackpot
Monday, Jul 15, 1985
38 years old
1979: billtn32
Sunday, Jul 15, 1979
44 years old
1979: Cris69$
Sunday, Jul 15, 1979
44 years old
1972: xxxDanielxxx
Saturday, Jul 15, 1972
51 years old
1971: dsb1129
Thursday, Jul 15, 1971
52 years old
1971: ParacelsusUK
Thursday, Jul 15, 1971
52 years old
1969: Sfish7
Tuesday, Jul 15, 1969
54 years old
1966: nutt
Friday, Jul 15, 1966
57 years old
1965: LILYODIBEAR
Thursday, Jul 15, 1965
58 years old
1965: lilyodibear172
Thursday, Jul 15, 1965
58 years old
1963: KenLynn
Monday, Jul 15, 1963
60 years old
1962: keych
Sunday, Jul 15, 1962
61 years old
1959: rgsc1234
Wednesday, Jul 15, 1959
64 years old
1951: Perfect858
Sunday, Jul 15, 1951
72 years old
1951: X2W8P9
Sunday, Jul 15, 1951
72 years old
1949: Edwardfec
Friday, Jul 15, 1949
74 years old
: SEXYTAI715
(year not provided)
: AceIsWild5
(year not provided)
: allscan
(year not provided)
: babygirls
(year not provided)
: glenny
(year not provided)
: Nikkye
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: Three people are killed by a distracted driver in the 2021 Bowburn crash.
2018: France win their second World Cup title, defeating Croatia 4-2.
2016: Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
2014: A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
2012: South Korean rapper Psy releases his hit single Gangnam Style.
2009: Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Jannatabad, Qazvin, Iran, killing 168.
2006: Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
2003: AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2002: "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002: The Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan sentences British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death, and three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to life.
1998: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil MP S. Shanmuganathan is killed by a claymore mine.
1996: A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1983: An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
1983: Nintendo released the Famicom in Japan.
1979: U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
1975: Space Race: Apollo-Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
1974: In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
1971: The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
1966: Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
1959: The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1954: The Boeing 367-80, the prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series, takes its first flight.
1946: The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1941: The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
1927: Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by Austrian police in Vienna.
1922: The Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
1920: Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
1918: World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1916: In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
1910: In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
1888: The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
1870: Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
1870: Canadian Confederation: Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
1862: American Civil War: The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union Navy ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped reverse Rebel's fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.
1838: Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage.
1834: The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1823: A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
1815: Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
1806: Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
1799: The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1789: French Revolution: Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, is named by acclamation Colonel General of the new National Guard of Paris.
1741: Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1738: Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
1640: The first university of Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku, is inaugurated in Turku.
1482: Muhammad XII is crowned the twenty-second and last Nasrid king of Granada.
1410: Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald: The allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
1381: John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
1240: Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1207: King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton.
1149: The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem.
1099: First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.
756: An Lushan Rebellion: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor's family killed.
70: First Jewish-Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. (17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar).
484 BC: Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome

Births On This Day

2008: Iain Armitage, American child actor
1998: Noah Gragson, American racing driver
1997: Jil Teichmann, Swiss tennis player
1996: Vivianne Miedema, Dutch football player
1993: Håvard Nielsen, Norwegian footballer
1993: Harrison Rhodes, American racing driver
1992: Tobias Harris, American basketball player
1992: Wayde van Niekerk, South African sprinter
1991: Danilo, Brazilian footballer
1991: Derrick Favors, American basketball player
1991: Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer
1991: Nuria Párrizas Díaz, Spanish tennis player
1990: Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
1990: Damian Lillard, American basketball player
1990: Tyler Young, American racing driver
1989: Steven Jahn, German footballer
1989: Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
1989: Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
1987: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, American actor
1986: Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player
1984: Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
1984: Veronika Velez-Zuzulová, Slovak skier
1983: Salvatore Iovino, American racing driver
1983: Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
1983: Will Rudge, English cricketer
1983: Heath Slater, American wrestler
1982: Julien Canal, French racing driver
1982: Alan Pérez, Spanish cyclist
1982: Neemia Tialata, New Zealand rugby player
1982: Aída Yéspica, Venezuelan model and actress
1981: Alou Diarra, French footballer
1981: Petros Klampanis, Greek bassist and composer
1981: Marius Stankevičius, Lithuanian footballer
1980: Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
1980: Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player
1980: Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (d. 2017)
1979: Laura Benanti, American actress and singer
1979: Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1979: Edda Garðarsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
1979: Renata Kučerová, Czech tennis player
1978: Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
1977: D. J. Kennington, Canadian racing driver
1977: André Nel, South African cricketer
1977: Lana Parrilla, American actress
1977: John St. Clair, American football player
1977: Ray Toro, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976: Steve Cunningham, American boxer
1976: Marco Di Vaio, Italian footballer
1976: Diane Kruger, German actress and model
1976: Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian and voice actor
1975: Cherry, American wrestler and manager
1975: Danny Law, English cricketer
1975: Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
1973: Brian Austin Green, American actor
1972: Scott Foley, American actor
1970: Tarkan Gözübüyük, Turkish bass player and producer
1969: Ain Tammus, Estonian footballer and coach
1968: Eddie Griffin, American comedian, actor, and producer
1967: Adam Savage, American actor and special effects designer
1967: Elbert West, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1966: Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter and drummer
1966: Irène Jacob, French-Swiss actress
1965: Alistair Carmichael, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
1965: Gero Miesenböck, Austrian neuroscientist and educator
1965: David Miliband, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1963: Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
1963: Steve Thomas, English-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1962: Nikos Filippou, Greek basketball player and manager
1962: Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
1961: Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
1961: Jean-Christophe Grangé, French journalist and screenwriter
1961: Forest Whitaker, American actor
1959: Vincent Lindon, French actor, director, and screenwriter
1958: Gary Heale, English footballer and coach
1958: Mac Thornberry, American lawyer and politician
1956: Ashoke Sen, Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
1956: Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1980)
1956: Nicholas Harberd, British botanist, educator, and academician
1956: Barry Melrose, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
1956: Steve Mortimer, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator
1956: Joe Satriani, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1956: Wayne Taylor, South African racing driver
1954: John Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
1954: Giorgos Kaminis, American-Greek lawyer and politician, 78th Mayor of Athens
1954: Mario Kempes, Argentinian footballer and manager
1953: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian priest and politician, 49th President of Haiti
1953: Sultanah Haminah, Malaysian royal consort
1953: Mohamad Shahrum Osman, Malaysian politician
1953: Alicia Bridges, American singer-songwriter
1952: John Cleland, British racing driver
1952: Celia Imrie, English actress
1952: Terry O'Quinn, American actor
1952: David Pack, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1952: Marky Ramone, American drummer and songwriter
1952: Johnny Thunders, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1991)
1951: Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1951: Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of Minnesota
1950: Colin Barnett, Australian economist and politician, 29th Premier of Western Australia
1950: Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist and publisher
1949: Carl Bildt, Swedish politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Sweden
1949: Trevor Horn, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
1949: Richard Russo, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
1948: Twinkle, English singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1948: Dimosthenis Kourtovik, Greek anthropologist and critic
1948: Artimus Pyle, American rock drummer and songwriter
1947: Lydia Davis, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist
1947: Pridiyathorn Devakula, Thai economist and politician, Thai Minister of Finance
1947: Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2019)
1946: Linda Ronstadt, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1946: Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
1945: David Arthur Granger, Guyanese politician, 9th President of Guyana
1945: Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945: Jürgen Möllemann, German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (d. 2003)
1944: Millie Jackson, American singer-songwriter
1944: Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019)
1943: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
1942: Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (d. 2005)
1940: Chris Cord, American racing driver
1940: Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer (d. 2015)
1940: Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and convicted murderer (d. 1990)
1940: Robert Winston, English surgeon, academic, and politician
1939: Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
1938: Bill Alsup, American racing driver (d. 2016)
1938: Ernie Barnes, American football player, actor, and painter (d. 2009)
1938: Carmen Callil, Australian publisher, founded Virago Press
1938: Barry Goldwater, Jr., American lawyer and politician
1937: Prabhash Joshi, Indian journalist (d. 2009)
1936: George Voinovich, American lawyer and politician, 65th Governor of Ohio (d. 2016)
1935: Donn Clendenon, American baseball player and lawyer (d. 2005)
1935: Alex Karras, American football player, wrestler, and actor (d. 2012)
1935: Ken Kercheval, American actor and director (d. 2019)
1934: Harrison Birtwistle, English composer and academic (d. 2022)
1934: Eva Krížiková, Czech actress (d. 2020)
1934: Risto Jarva, Finnish director and producer (d. 1977)
1933: Guido Crepax, Italian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
1933: M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Indian author and screenwriter
1932: Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
1931: Clive Cussler, American archaeologist and author (d. 2020)
1931: Joanna Merlin, American actress and casting director
1931: Jacques-Yvan Morin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec
1930: Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (d. 2004)
1930: Richard Garneau, Canadian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
1930: Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
1930: Einosuke Akiya, Japanese Buddhist leader
1929: Charles Anthony, American tenor and actor (d. 2012)
1929: Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (d. 2001)
1929: Ian Stewart, Scottish racing driver (d. 2017)
1928: Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (d. 2012)
1928: Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian (d. 1967)
1927: Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010)
1927: Carmen Zapata, American actress (d. 2014)
1927: Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier (d. 2021)
1926: Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan-French journalist and author (d. 2007)
1926: Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (d. 2003)
1926: Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
1926: Sir John Graham, 4th Baronet, English diplomat (d. 2019)
1925: Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009)
1925: Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park (d. 2014)
1925: D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (d. 2019)
1925: Evan Hultman, American politician
1925: Antony Carbone, American actor (d. 2020)
1925: Pandel Savic, American football player (d. 2018)
1924: Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (d. 2014)
1924: Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress and philanthropist
1923: Francisco de Andrade, Portuguese sailor
1922: Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1922: Jean-Pierre Richard, French writer (d. 2019)
1921: Henri Colpi, Swiss-French director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1919: Fritz Langanke, German lieutenant (d. 2012)
1919: Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish British novelist and philosopher (d. 1999)
1918: Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
1918: Brenda Milner, English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
1917: Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (d. 2015)
1917: Joan Roberts, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
1917: Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan journalist and politician (d. 1979)
1916: Sumner Gerard, American politician and diplomat (d. 2005)
1915: Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (d. 2010)
1915: Kashmir Singh Katoch, Indian army officer (d. 2007)
1914: Birabongse Bhanudej, Thai racing driver and sailor, member of the Thai royal family (d. 1985)
1914: Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani economist, scholar, and activist (d. 1999)
1914: Howard Vernon, Swiss-French actor (d. 1996)
1913: Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1963)
1913: Hammond Innes, English journalist and author (d. 1998)
1913: Abraham Sutzkever, Russian poet and author (d. 2010)
1911: Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton, English geographer and politician, Secretary of State for Air (d. 1994)
1909: Jean Hamburger, French physician and surgeon (d. 1992)
1906: R. S. Mugali, Indian poet and academic (d. 1993)
1906: Rudolf Uhlenhaut, English-German engineer (d. 1989)
1905: Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1905: Anita Farra, Italian actress (d. 2008)
1904: Rudolf Arnheim, German-American psychologist and author (d. 2007)
1903: Walter D. Edmonds, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
1903: K. Kamaraj, Indian journalist and politician (d. 1975)
1902: Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (d. 1983)
1899: Seán Lemass, Irish soldier and politician, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 1971)
1894: Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (d. 1989)
1893: Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (d. 1969)
1893: Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (d. 1970)
1892: Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (d. 1940)
1887: Wharton Esherick, American sculptor (d. 1970)
1883: Denny Barry Irish Hunger Striker (d. 1923)
1880: Enrique Mosca, Argentinian lawyer and politician (d. 1950)
1871: Doppo Kunikida, Japanese journalist, author, and poet (d. 1908)
1867: Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (d. 1936)
1865: Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Anglo-Irish businessman and publisher, founded the Amalgamated Press (d. 1922)
1865: Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (d. 1945)
1864: Marie Tempest, English actress and singer (d. 1942)
1858: Emmeline Pankhurst, English political activist and suffragist (d. 1928)
1852: Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (d. 1920)
1850: Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (d. 1917)
1848: Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
1827: W. W. Thayer American lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Oregon (d. 1899)
1817: Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (d. 1898)
1812: James Hope-Scott, English lawyer and academic (d. 1873)
1808: Henry Edward Manning, English cardinal (d. 1892)
1800: Sidney Breese, American jurist and politician (d. 1878)
1799: Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (d. 1882)
1796: Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867)
1793: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps, American educator, author, editor (d. 1884)
1779: Clement Clarke Moore, American author, poet, and educator (d. 1863)
1704: August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German bishop and theologian (d. 1792)
1638: Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1693)
1631: Jens Juel, Danish politician and diplomat, Governor-general of Norway (d. 1700)
1631: Richard Cumberland, English philosopher (d. 1718)
1613: Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer (d. 1682)
1611: Jai Singh I, maharaja of Jaipur (d. 1667)
1606: Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (d. 1669)
1600: Jan Cossiers, Flemish painter (d. 1671)
1573: Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House (d. 1652)
1478: Barbara Jagiellon, duchess consort of Saxony and Margravine consort of Meissen (d. 1534)
1471: Eskender, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1494)
1455: Queen Yun, Korean queen (d. 1482)
1442: Boček IV of Poděbrady, Bohemian nobleman (d. 1496)
1359: Antonio Correr, Italian cardinal (d. 1445)
1353: Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1273: Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and saint (d. 1352)
980: Ichijō, Japanese emperor (d. 1011)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Peter R. de Vries, Dutch investigative journalist and crime reporter (b. 1956)
2017: Martin Landau, American film and television actor (b. 1928)
2015: Masahiko Aoki, Japanese-American economist and academic (b. 1938)
2015: Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1916)
2015: Aubrey Morris, British actor (b. 1926)
2015: Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (b. 1933)
2014: Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
2014: James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author (b. 1918)
2014: Saúl Lara, Spanish footballer (b. 1982)
2014: Edward Perl, American neuroscientist and academic (b. 1926)
2014: Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
2013: Ninos Aho, Syrian-American poet and activist (b. 1945)
2013: Henry Braden, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
2013: Tom Greenwell, American lawyer and judge (b. 1956)
2013: Earl Gros, American football player (b. 1940)
2013: Noël Lee, Chinese-American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
2013: Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (b. 1986)
2013: John T. Riedl, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1962)
2012: Boris Cebotari, Moldovan footballer (b. 1975)
2012: Tsilla Chelton, Israeli-French actress (b. 1919)
2012: Grant Feasel, American football player (b. 1960)
2012: David Fraser, English general (b. 1920)
2012: Celeste Holm, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
2012: Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2011: Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner and politician (b. 1928)
2011: Googie Withers, British-Australian actress (b. 1917)
2010: James E. Akins, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (b. 1926)
2008: György Kolonics, Hungarian canoe racer (b. 1972)
2006: Robert H. Brooks, American businessman, founder of Hooters and Naturally Fresh, Inc. (b. 1937)
2006: Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, Iranian archaeologist and academic (b. 1942)
2003: Roberto Bolaño, Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist (b. 1953)
2003: Elisabeth Welch, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
2001: C. Balasingham, Sri Lankan lawyer and civil servant (b. 1917)
2000: Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer and educator (b. 1925)
1998: S. Shanmuganathan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1960)
1997: Justinas Lagunavičius, Lithuanian basketball player (b. 1924)
1997: Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, founded Versace (b. 1946)
1992: Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1992: Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
1991: Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (b. 1933)
1990: Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (b. 1920)
1990: Margaret Lockwood, English actress (b. 1916)
1990: Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet and diplomat, 4th Syrian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1910)
1989: Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1988: Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (b. 1906)
1986: Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (b. 1923)
1982: Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1926)
1981: Frédéric Dorion, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1898)
1979: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 29th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1977: Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (b. 1933)
1976: Paul Gallico, American journalist and author (b. 1897)
1974: Christine Chubbuck, American journalist (b. 1944)
1969: Grace Hutchins, American labor reformer and researcher (b. 1885)
1966: Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1903)
1965: Francis Cherry, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1908)
1961: John Edward Brownlee, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Alberta (b. 1884)
1961: Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
1960: Set Persson, Swedish politician (b. 1897)
1960: Lawrence Tibbett, American singer and actor (b. 1896)
1959: Ernest Bloch, Swiss-American composer and academic (b. 1880)
1959: Vance Palmer, Australian author and critic (b. 1885)
1957: James M. Cox, American publisher and politician, 46th Governor of Ohio (b. 1870)
1957: Vasily Maklakov, a Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1869)
1953: Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian archbishop, founded the Order of the Imitation of Christ (b. 1882)
1948: John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)
1947: Walter Donaldson, American soldier and songwriter (b. 1893)
1946: Razor Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)
1944: Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (b. 1885)
1942: Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
1940: Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
1940: Robert Wadlow, American giant, 8"11' 271 cm (b. 1918)
1933: Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865)
1933: Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
1932: Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)
1932: Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)
1931: Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
1930: Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
1930: Leonora Barry, Irish-born American social activist (b. 1849)
1929: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
1919: Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1904: Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
1898: Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-American archbishop (d. 1825)
1890: Gottfried Keller, Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1819)
1885: Rosalía de Castro, Spanish author and poet (b. 1837)
1883: General Tom Thumb, American circus performer (b. 1838)
1858: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter (b. 1806)
1857: Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1791)
1851: Anne-Marie Javouhey, French nun, founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (b. 1779)
1851: Juan Felipe Ibarra, Argentinian general and politician (b. 1787)
1844: Claude Charles Fauriel, French philologist and historian (b. 1772)
1839: Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet and politician (b. 1802)
1828: Jean-Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1789: Jacques Duphly, French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1715)
1767: Michael Bruce, Scottish poet and composer (b. 1746)
1765: Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
1750: Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (b. 1686)
1685: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, Dutch-English general and politician, Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull (b. 1649)
1655: Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1614: Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French soldier, historian, and author (b. 1540)
1609: Annibale Carracci, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1560)
1571: Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)
1544: René of Châlon (b. 1519)
1542: Lisa del Giocondo, subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa (b. 1479)
1445: Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scotland
1410: Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (b. 1360)
1406: William, Duke of Austria
1397: Catherine of Henneberg, German ruler (b. c. 1334)
1388: Agnes of Durazzo, titular Latin empress consort of Constantinople (b. 1313)
1381: John Ball, English Lollard priest
1299: King Eric II of Norway (b. c. 1268)
1291: Rudolf I of Germany (b. 1218)
1274: Bonaventure, Italian bishop and saint (b. 1221)
1015: Vladimir the Great, Grand prince of Kievan Rus' (b. c. 958)
998: Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī, Persian mathematician and astronomer (b. 940)
756: Yang Guifei, consort of Xuan Zong (b. 719)

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