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July 16

On This Day in History

July 16

July 16 is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 168 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: $900 MILLION: Powerball jackpot rises, but sales miss in last draw makes for small increase. Powerball lottery players might be wondering this morning why the jackpot only increased by $25 million after nobody won last night's $875 million grand prize.
2022: Mega Millions lottery jackpot highest in 18 months. After 26 drawings without a jackpot winner, the multi-state Mega Millions lottery game now boasts a swelling jackpot of $530 million that could instantly put the winner among the wealthiest people on the planet.
2021: Veteran who suffered brain injury wants to make world a better place with $65 million lottery win. A veteran from the Canadian military who won a huge $65 million (US$51.6 million) Lotto Max jackpot was inspired by his past experiences to make the world better place with his newfound wealth.
2015: Defense quickly wraps up in Hot Lotto trial. The defense rested its case Thursday afternoon about an hour after starting to call witnesses in the trial of a man accused of rigging a Hot Lotto computerized lottery drawing.
2015: Prosecution rests in Hot Lotto trial. The defense began calling witnesses Thursday morning in the trial against a former lottery vendor employee accused of rigging a Hot Lotto drawing to win a $14.3 million ticket.
2014: Jury rules that estranged brothers must split $1M lottery prize. After a two-day trial in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, court, a jury decided two Mechanicsburg-area brothers, Charles Thomas Meehan and Ira Sharp, would split a $1 million lottery ticket straight down the middle.
2014: Half brothers fight over million dollar lottery ticket. Two estranged half brothers faced off on Tuesday in a Pennsylvania court in a fight over a winning million-dollar lottery ticket.
2012: W.Va. Lottery has $81M surplus. The West Virginia Lottery ended the just-completed budget year with an $81 million surplus, giving state revenues a surprising boost, but agency officials say the future remains challenging at best in the face of increasing competition from border states.
2007: Tennessee Lottery threatens to go computerized. Tennessee Lottery issued a statement on their web site that threatens to bring unpopular computerized drawings to the state.
2005: North Dakota has its first lottery jackpot winner. North Dakota lottery officials said Thursday that Wednesday's winning Wild Card 2 jackpot ticket was sold at the Amoco station in Michigan, in eastern North Dakota. The prize is $420,000.
2005: Texas Lottery paid for goods it never received. The embattled Texas Lottery Commission is investigating why the agency paid a Nevada company more than $300,000 for goods it hasn't received.
2004: Tennessee Lottery revenues better than expected. The Tennessee Education Lottery announced today it has topped its initial goal by roughly 40 percent. Officials said it produced more than $123 million for education programs in the state after five months and 12 days.
2004: Megabucks winner couldn’t believe her luck. The winner of a $2.9 million Tri-State Megabucks jackpot said when she found out the numbers on her ticket matched those for the July 7 drawing she couldn't believe she had really won.
2004: NJ lottery director nominated for Commerce role. New Jersey Lottery Commission executive director Virginia Bauer will be nominated today to run the troubled Commerce and Economic Growth Commission, according to six McGreevey administration and business sources.
2004: Georgia sheriff has triple lottery wins. Fayette County Sheriff Randall Johnson is lucky on the draw - but not in the sense of an Old West lawman.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$922 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2023
2.$640 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2023
3.$555 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 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.€230 Million US$235.24 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
8.$232 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2017
9.€188.92 Million US$212.01 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
10.$187 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 19, 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.$145 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2005
14.$140 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2015
15.$137 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
16.€120 Million
US$122.74 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jul 19, 2022
17.€108.89 Million
US$120.16 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2016
18.$117 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2021
19.€96 Million
US$116.92 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 22, 2005
20.$116 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2013
21.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2018
22.€97 Million
US$108.85 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 16, 2019
23.$105 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 18, 2008
24.€85 Million
US$104.39 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2012
25.$101 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Jul 17, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1998: Shyamsanka
Thursday, Jul 16, 1998
25 years old
1993: lovesdina62
Friday, Jul 16, 1993
30 years old
1984: aphex24
Monday, Jul 16, 1984
39 years old
1974: independent01
Tuesday, Jul 16, 1974
49 years old
1974: ozella
Tuesday, Jul 16, 1974
49 years old
1973: blittle1973
Monday, Jul 16, 1973
50 years old
1973: godsfavorite
Monday, Jul 16, 1973
50 years old
1968: laleepop
Tuesday, Jul 16, 1968
55 years old
1968: hlamb
Tuesday, Jul 16, 1968
55 years old
1968: trying2win
Tuesday, Jul 16, 1968
55 years old
1964: pylut-1989
Thursday, Jul 16, 1964
59 years old
1963: sugar plum
Tuesday, Jul 16, 1963
60 years old
1961: kathre
Sunday, Jul 16, 1961
62 years old
1961: vstrebs7
Sunday, Jul 16, 1961
62 years old
1960: w4625
Saturday, Jul 16, 1960
63 years old
1960: serge
Saturday, Jul 16, 1960
63 years old
1960: sergej
Saturday, Jul 16, 1960
63 years old
1958: PadawanLotto
Wednesday, Jul 16, 1958
65 years old
1958: UCI1
Wednesday, Jul 16, 1958
65 years old
1957: Numbernutt
Tuesday, Jul 16, 1957
66 years old
1954: TeaRowz
Friday, Jul 16, 1954
69 years old
1950: AMEDEO BORSETTI
Sunday, Jul 16, 1950
73 years old
1949: taxguy
Saturday, Jul 16, 1949
74 years old
: ames139
(year not provided)
: Nurdug
(year not provided)
: ejk777
(year not provided)
: matriach
(year not provided)
: ronessia
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: A 100-year-old building in Mumbai, India, collapses, killing at least 10 people and leaving many others trapped.
2015: Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military installations in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
2013: As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India.
2013: Syrian civil war: The Battle of Ras al-Ayn resumes between the People's Protection Units (YPG) and Islamist forces, beginning the Rojava-Islamist conflict.
2009: Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention.
2007: An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
2005: An Antonov An-24 crashes near Baney in Bioko Norte, Equatorial Guinea, killing 60 people.
2004: Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
1994: The comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is destroyed in a head-on collision with Jupiter.
1990: The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.
1990: The Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR declares state sovereignty over the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.
1983: Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1979: Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
1969: Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1965: The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
1965: South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
1957: KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people.
1956: Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; due to changing economics, all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.
1951: King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
1951: J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
1950: Chaplain-Medic massacre: American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
1948: Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1948: The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
1945: Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1945: World War II: The heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with parts for the atomic bomb "Little Boy" bound for Tinian Island.
1942: Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
1941: Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record.
1935: The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1931: Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
1927: Augusto César Sandino leads a raid on U.S. Marines and Nicaraguan Guardia Nacional that had been sent to apprehend him in the village of Ocotal, but is repulsed by one of the first dive-bombing attacks in history.
1915: Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
1915: At Treasure Island on the Delaware River in the United States, the First Order of the Arrow ceremony takes place and the Order of the Arrow is founded to honor American Boy Scouts who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law.
1910: John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
1909: Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
1862: American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
1861: American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
1858: The last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France.
1849: Antonio María Claret y Clará founds the Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as the Claretians in Vic, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
1809: The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
1790: The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.
1779: American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
1769: Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California.
1683: Manchu Qing dynasty naval forces under traitorous commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1661: The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.
1536: Jacques Cartier, navigator and explorer, returns home to St. Malo after claiming Stadacona (Quebec), Hochelaga (Montereal) and the River of Canada (St. Lawrence River) region for France.
1377: King Richard II of England is crowned.
1251: Celebrated by the Carmelite Order-but doubted by modern historians-as the day when Saint Simon Stock had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1232: The Spanish town of Arjona declares independence and names its native Muhammad ibn Yusuf as ruler. This marks the Muhammad's first rise to prominence; he would later establish the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, the last independent Muslim state in Spain.
1228: The canonization of Saint Francis of Assisi
1212: Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: After Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.
1054: Three Roman legates break relations between Western and Eastern Christian Churches through the act of placing a Papal bull (of doubtful validity) of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Historians frequently describe the event as the formal start of the East-West Schism.
997: Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
622: The Hijrah of Muhammad begins, marking the beginning of the Islamic calendar.

Births On This Day

1996: Luke Hemmings, Australian singer and musician
1996: Daniel Pearson, English actor and presenter
1991: Dylan Grimes, Australian Rules footballer
1991: Nate Schmidt, American ice hockey player
1991: Andros Townsend, English footballer
1990: Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player
1990: Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter
1990: Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
1989: Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
1988: Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
1987: Mousa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
1987: AnnaLynne McCord, American actress and producer
1987: Knowshon Moreno, American football player
1986: Misako Uno, Japanese actress, singer, and fashion designer
1985: Mārtiņš Kravčenko, Latvian basketball player
1984: Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
1984: Attila Szabó, Hungarian decathlete
1983: Katrina Kaif, British Indian actress and model
1983: Duncan Keith, Canadian ice hockey player
1982: André Greipel, German cyclist
1982: Carli Lloyd, American soccer player
1982: Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
1981: Giuseppe Di Masi, Italian footballer
1981: Robert Kranjec, Slovenian ski jumper
1981: Zach Randolph, American basketball player
1981: Vicente Rodríguez, Spanish footballer
1980: Adam Scott, Australian golfer
1979: Chris Mihm, American basketball player
1979: Kim Rhode, American sport shooter
1979: Nathan Rogers, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979: Konstantin Skrylnikov, Russian footballer
1977: Bryan Budd, Northern Ireland-born English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2006)
1976: Tomasz Kuchar, Polish racing driver
1976: Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguayan footballer
1976: Anna Smashnova, Belarusian-Israeli tennis player
1974: Maret Maripuu, Estonian politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
1974: Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby player
1973: Shaun Pollock, South African cricketer
1973: Graham Robertson, American director and producer
1973: Tim Ryan, American politician
1972: Ben Cahoon, American-Canadian football player and coach
1972: François Drolet, Canadian speed skater
1971: Corey Feldman, American actor
1971: Ed Kowalczyk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970: Raimonds Miglinieks, Latvian basketball player and coach
1970: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter
1969: Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netball player and sportscaster
1968: Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player and manager
1968: Barry Sanders, American football player
1968: Larry Sanger, American philosopher and businessman, co-founded Wikipedia and Citizendium
1968: Michael Searle, Australian rugby league player and businessman
1968: Robert Sherman, American songwriter and businessman
1968: Olga Souza, Brazilian singer and dancer
1967: Will Ferrell, American actor, comedian, and producer
1966: Jyrki Lumme, Finnish ice hockey player
1965: Michel Desjoyeaux, French sailor
1965: Claude Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player
1964: Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
1964: Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist
1963: Phoebe Cates, American actress
1963: Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1963: Mikael Pernfors, Swedish tennis player
1962: Grigory Leps, Russian singer-songwriter
1960: Terry Pendleton, American baseball player and coach
1959: Gary Anderson, South African-American football player
1959: James MacMillan, Scottish composer and conductor
1959: Jürgen Ligi, Estonian economist and politician, 25th Estonian Minister of Defence
1958: Mick Cornett, American politician
1958: Michael Flatley, American-Irish dancer and choreographer
1957: Faye Grant, American actress
1957: Alexandra Marinina, Ukrainian-Russian colonel and author
1956: Tony Kushner, American playwright and screenwriter
1955: Susan Wheeler, American poet and academic
1955: Saw Swee Leong, Malaysian badminton player
1953: Douglas J. Feith, American lawyer and politician, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
1952: Stewart Copeland, American drummer and songwriter
1952: Marc Esposito, French director and screenwriter
1952: Ken McEwan, South African cricketer
1951: Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian journalist
1951: Che Rosli, Malaysian politician
1950: Pierre Paradis, Canadian lawyer and politician
1950: Dennis Priestley, English darts player
1950: Frances Spalding, English historian and academic
1950: Tom Terrell, American journalist and photographer (d. 2007)
1948: Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1948: Lars Lagerbäck, Swedish footballer and manager
1948: Kevin McKenzie, South African cricketer
1948: Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist and conductor
1947: Don Burke, Australian television host and producer
1947: Alexis Herman, American businesswoman and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Labor
1947: Assata Shakur, American-Cuban criminal and activist
1946: Louise Fréchette, Canadian civil servant and diplomat, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
1944: Angharad Rees, English-Welsh actress and jewellery designer (d. 2012)
1943: Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban-American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1990)
1943: Vernon Bogdanor, English political scientist and academic
1943: Jimmy Johnson, American football player and coach
1942: Margaret Court, Australian tennis player and minister
1941: Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1941: Dag Solstad, Norwegian author and playwright
1941: Hans Wiegel, Dutch journalist and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1941: Sir George Young, 6th Baronet, English banker and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1939: William Bell, American singer-songwriter
1939: Ali Khamenei, Iranian cleric and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of Iran
1939: Lido Vieri, Italian football manager and football player
1939: Ruth Perry, president of Liberia (d. 2017)
1939: Shringar Nagaraj, Indian actor and producer (d. 2013)
1939: Corin Redgrave, English actor and activist (d. 2010)
1939: Mariele Ventre, Italian singer and conductor (d. 1995)
1938: Cynthia Enloe, American author and academic
1938: Tony Jackson, English singer and bass player (d. 2003)
1937: Richard Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Nevada
1937: John Daly, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1936: Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese politician, 91st Prime Minister of Japan
1936: Buddy Merrill, American guitarist (d. 2021)
1936: Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (d. 2012)
1936: Venkataraman Subramanya, Indian-Australian cricketer
1935: Carl Epting Mundy Jr., American general (d. 2014)
1935: Lynn Wyatt, American socialite and philanthropist
1934: Denise LaSalle, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2018)
1934: Tomás Eloy Martínez, Argentine journalist (d. 2010)
1934: Katherine D. Ortega, 38th Treasurer of the United States
1934: Donald M. Payne, American educator and politician (d. 2012)
1933: Julian A. Brodsky, American businessman
1932: John Chilton, English trumpet player and composer (d. 2016)
1932: Max McGee, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2007)
1932: Dick Thornburgh, American lawyer and politician, 76th United States Attorney General (d. 2020)
1931: Fergus Gordon Kerr, Scottish Roman Catholic priest of the English Dominican Province
1931: Norm Sherry, American baseball player, manager, and coach (d. 2021)
1930: Guy Béart, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1930: Michael Bilirakis, American lawyer and politician
1930: Bert Rechichar, American football defensive back and kicker (d. 2019)
1929: Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (d. 1984)
1929: Sheri S. Tepper, American author and poet (d. 2016)
1929: Gaby Tanguy, French swimmer (d. 1981)
1928: Anita Brookner, English novelist and art historian (d. 2016)
1928: Bella Davidovich, Soviet-American pianist
1928: Robert Sheckley, American author and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1928: Jim Rathmann, American race car driver (d. 2011)
1928: Dave Treen, American lawyer and politician, 51st Governor of Louisiana (d. 2009)
1928: Andrzej Zawada, Polish mountaineer and author (d. 2000)
1927: Pierre F. Côté, Canadian lawyer and civil servant (d. 2013)
1927: Shirley Hughes, English author and illustrator (d. 2022)
1927: Derek Hawksworth, English footballer (d. 2021)
1926: Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1926: Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
1925: Frank Jobe, American sergeant and surgeon (d. 2014)
1925: Rosita Quintana, Argentine actress (d. 2021)
1925: Cal Tjader, American jazz musician (d. 1982)
1924: James L. Greenfield, American journalist and politician
1924: Bess Myerson, American model, actress, game show panelist, and politician, Miss America 1945 (d. 2014)
1924: Rupert Deese, Northern Mariana Islander ceramic artist (d. 2010)
1923: Chris Argyris, American psychologist, theorist, and academic (d. 2013)
1923: Bola Sete, Brazilian guitarist (d. 1987)
1920: Anatole Broyard, American critic and editor (d. 1990)
1919: Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian SS officer (d. 1999)
1919: Choi Kyu-hah, South Korean politician, 4th President of South Korea (d. 2006)
1918: Denis Edward Arnold, English soldier (d. 2015)
1918: Paul Farnes, British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot (d. 2020)
1918: Samuel Victor Perry, English biochemist and rugby player (d. 2009)
1915: Barnard Hughes, American actor (d. 2006)
1915: Elaine Barrie, American actress (d. 2003)
1912: Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1912: Amy Patterson, Argentine composer, singer, poet, and teacher (d. 2019)
1911: Ginger Rogers, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1995)
1911: Sonny Tufts, American actor (d. 1970)
1910: Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (d. 1968)
1910: Gordon Prange, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1980)
1907: Frances Horwich, American educator and television host (d. 2001)
1907: Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman, founded Orville Redenbacher's (d. 1995)
1907: Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
1906: Vincent Sherman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1904: Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1903: Fritz Bauer, German lawyer and judge (d. 1968)
1903: Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1971)
1903: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German mathematician and engineer (d. 1974)
1902: Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist and physician (d. 1977)
1902: Mary Philbin, American actress (d. 1993)
1898: Lady Eve Balfour, British farmer, educator, and founding figure in the organic movement (d. 1990)
1896: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (d. 1969)
1896: Trygve Lie, Norwegian trade union leader and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1968)
1895: Wilfrid Hamel, Canadian businessman and politician, 35th Mayor of Quebec City (d. 1968)
1889: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, American author (d. 1953)
1888: Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
1888: Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1887: Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1951)
1884: Anna Vyrubova, Russian author (d. 1964)
1883: Charles Sheeler, American photographer and painter (d. 1965)
1882: Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (d. 1937)
1880: Kathleen Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1966)
1872: Roald Amundsen, Norwegian pilot and explorer (d. 1928)
1872: Frank Cooper, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Queensland (d. 1949)
1871: John Maxwell, American golfer (d. 1906)
1870: Lambert McKenna, Irish priest, lexicographer, and scholar (d. 1956)
1863: Anderson Dawson, Australian politician, 14th Premier of Queensland (d. 1910)
1862: Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (d. 1931)
1858: Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1931)
1841: Nikolai von Glehn, Estonian-German architect and activist (d. 1923)
1821: Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader and author, founded Christian Science (d. 1910)
1796: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and etcher (d. 1875)
1749: Cyrus Griffin, American lawyer, judge, and politician, 16th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1810)
1731: Samuel Huntington, American jurist and politician, 18th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1796)
1723: Joshua Reynolds, English painter and academic (d. 1792)
1722: Joseph Wilton, English sculptor and academic (d. 1803)
1714: Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer and author (d. 1800)
1661: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Canadian captain, explorer, and politician (d. 1706)
1611: Cecilia Renata of Austria (d. 1644)
1529: Petrus Peckius the Elder, Dutch jurist, writer on international maritime law (d. 1589)
1517: Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, English duchess (d. 1559)
1486: Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
1194: Clare of Assisi, Italian nun and saint (d. 1253)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Biz Markie, American rapper (b. 1964)
2020: Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball player (b. 1935)
2019: John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1920)
2017: George Romero, American filmmaker (b. 1940)
2015: Denis Avey, English soldier, engineer, and author (b. 1919)
2015: Evelyn Ebsworth, English chemist and academic (b. 1933)
2015: Alcides Ghiggia, Uruguayan footballer and manager (b. 1926)
2015: Jack Goody, English anthropologist, author, and academic (b. 1919)
2014: Karl Albrecht, German businessman, co-founded Aldi (b. 1920)
2014: Mary Ellen Otremba, American educator and politician (b. 1950)
2014: Johnny Winter, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944)
2014: Heinz Zemanek, Austrian computer scientist and academic (b. 1920)
2013: Talia Castellano, American internet celebrity (b. 1999)
2013: Alex Colville, Canadian painter and academic (b. 1920)
2013: Marv Rotblatt, American baseball player (b. 1927)
2012: William Asher, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2012: Stephen Covey, American businessman and author (b. 1932)
2012: Gilbert Esau, American businessman and politician (b. 1919)
2012: Ed Lincoln, Brazilian bassist, pianist, and composer (b. 1932)
2012: Masaharu Matsushita, Japanese businessman (b. 1913)
2012: Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1919)
2011: Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
2008: Jo Stafford, American singer (b. 1917)
2008: Lindsay Thompson, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Victoria (b. 1923)
2007: Caterina Bueno, Italian singer and historian (b. 1943)
2006: Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2005: Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005: Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgian singer-songwriter and radio host (b. 1920)
2004: George Busbee, American lawyer and politician, 77th Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2004: Charles Sweeney, American general and pilot (b. 1919)
2003: Celia Cruz, Cuban-American singer and actress (b. 1925)
2003: Carol Shields, American-Canadian novelist and short story writer (b. 1935)
2002: John Cocke, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1925)
2001: Morris, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
1999: John F. Kennedy Jr., American lawyer and publisher (b. 1960)
1999: Alan Macnaughton, Canadian lawyer and politician, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1903)
1998: John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1996: Adolf von Thadden, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1921)
1995: May Sarton, American playwright and novelist (b. 1912)
1995: Stephen Spender, English author and poet (b. 1909)
1994: Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1992: Buck Buchanan, American football player and coach (b. 1940)
1991: Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (b. 1906)
1991: Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (b. 1915)
1991: Frank Rizzo, American police officer and politician, 93rd Mayor of Philadelphia (b. 1920)
1990: Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)
1990: Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
1989: Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908)
1985: Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
1985: Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1901)
1982: Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
1981: Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
1969: James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (b. 1930)
1965: Boris Artzybasheff, Ukrainian-American illustrator (b. 1899)
1964: Rauf Orbay, Turkish colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
1960: Albert Kesselring, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1960: John P. Marquand, American author (b. 1893)
1954: Herms Niel, German soldier, trombonist, and composer (b. 1888)
1953: Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian (b. 1870)
1949: Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1866)
1943: Saul Raphael Landau, Polish Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist (b. 1870)
1939: Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer (b. 1866)
1935: Zheng Zhengqiu, Chinese filmmaker (b. 1889)
1917: Philipp Scharwenka, German composer and educator (b. 1847)
1915: Ellen G. White, American theologian and author (b. 1827)
1896: Edmond de Goncourt, French critic and publisher, founded Académie Goncourt (b. 1822)
1886: Ned Buntline, American journalist and author (b. 1823)
1885: Rosalía de Castro, Spanish poet (b. 1837)
1882: Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States 1861-1865 (b. 1818)
1879: Edward Deas Thomson, Scottish-Australian politician, 3rd Chief Secretary of New South Wales (b. 1800)
1868: Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (b. 1840)
1849: Sarah Allen, African-American missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (b. 1764)
1831: Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, French-Russian general (b. 1763)
1796: George Howard, English field marshal and politician (b. 1718)
1770: Francis Cotes, English painter and academic (b. 1726)
1747: Giuseppe Crespi, Italian painter (b. 1665)
1729: Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist (b. 1683)
1691: François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French politician, French Secretary of State for War (b. 1641)
1686: John Pearson, English bishop and scholar (b. 1612)
1664: Andreas Gryphius, German poet and playwright (b. 1616)
1647: Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
1576: Isabella de' Medici, Italian noble (b. 1542)
1557: Anne of Cleves, Queen consort of England (b. 1515)
1546: Anne Askew, English author and poet (b. 1520)
1509: João da Nova, Portuguese explorer (b. 1460)
1344: An-Nasir Ahmad, Sultan of Egypt (b. 1316)
1342: Charles I of Hungary (b. 1288)
1324: Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1216: Pope Innocent III (b. 1160)
1212: William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
866: Irmgard, Frankish abbess
851: Sisenandus, Cordoban deacon and martyr (b. c. 825)
784: Fulrad, Frankish diplomat and saint (b. 710)

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