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March 14

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March 14

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 292 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2024: Illinois stay-at-home mom wakes up to a crying baby and $1.4 million Lucky Day Lotto jackpot. An Illinois woman woke up to the sound of her crying baby in the middle of the night but found it rather difficult to fall back asleep once she also found out she won a $1.4 million Lucky Day Lotto jackpot.
2023: VIDEO: March Weekly Roundup in lottery news. Today, Lottery Post published the latest installment of the new Weekly Roundup series featuring some of the most prominent lottery stories in the month of March.
2022: Rising gas prices may impact lottery sales. With gas prices on the rise, players may be cutting back on their lottery spending in the near future.
2019: $495 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot climbs, awaits its first winner of 2019. Two and a half months into 2019, we still don't have a Powerball jackpot winner.
2018: IGT executive hired as NC Lottery chief. A top leader at a gambling operations vendor was hired Tuesday to become the North Carolina Education Lottery's next executive director.
2014: Husband plays late wife's 5 special numbers and wins lottery. A Chatsworth, Georgia, man claimed a lottery jackpot from the Georgia Lottery after playing his late wife's special numbers.
2013: Wyoming officially becomes 44th state with a lottery. Gov. Matt Mead cleared the way for Wyoming to begin the process of bringing a lottery to the state by signing House Bill 77 into law Wednesday.
2013: $216 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot rolls again. There was no jackpot winner in the Wednesday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $216 million for Saturday's drawing.
2012: $200 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot soars. Lottery players across the United States are buying their Mega Millions tickets in preparation for Friday's massive $200 million drawing.
2012: NJ man sued over $38.5M lottery ticket. A trail is underway in the case of a New Jersey construction worker who is being sued by his former co-workers after cashing in a $38.5 million lottery ticket.
2012: Jury awards jailed illegal alien $750,000 lottery ticket. A jailed illegal immigrant in Georgia is the rightful owner of a $750,000 lottery ticket, a jury decided Thursday.
2012: Toddler picks out winning NY lottery ticket. A 2-year-old Brooklyn girl made her mom an instant millionaire when she touched the winning ticket.
2011: 2 men survive deadly casino bus crash, then board another. Two gamblers who miraculously survived a catastrophic brush with death aboard a Chinatown casino bus climbed back aboard the same company's bus only hours later for another trip to the gaming tables.
2009: Powerball, Mega Millions explore agreement. Lottery behemoths Powerball and Mega Millions are discussing a possible arrangement to sell tickets for both games in the 42 states where they now operate alone.
2007: Newspaper photo reveals lottery winner's personal information. Lottery Post presents an exclusive story detailing how Maine's Morning Sentinel newspaper revealed a lottery winner's address and social security number in a published photo.
2006: Kansas Lottery adds 'Hot Lotto' game. Sales for the multi-state "Hot Lotto" numbers game began Sunday for Wednesday's first biweekly drawing that will include the Sunflower State.
2005: Internet lottery sales one step closer in Georgia. Georgia took its first step towards allowing lottery players to purchase tickets over the Internet, as the Georgia House approved a measure Thursday for setting up online accounts.
2005: N.C. residents divided over lottery question. As the speaker of the North Carolina House pledged this weekend to hold a vote on a bill that would create a state lottery, local Charlotte residents were divided on the issue.
2005: Tennessee Lottery Sales Pass $1 Billion. The Tennessee Lottery announced today that gross ticket sales have surpassed $1 billion after one year and seven weeks of ticket sales.
2005: Cardinal demands U.K. lottery boycott. Cardinal Keith O'Brien, leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics, called for a boycott of the UK National Lottery after it was revealed that the National Lottery gave £3.3 million (US$6.3 million) to Brook Advisory Centers and the FPA (Family Planning Association) - both of which support abortions as a means of family planning.
2005: Lottery winner ties the knot once again. Robert Swofford Jr., winner of a $60 million Florida Lotto jackpot, re-married his first wife, after his second wife dumped him when he won the big prize.
2005: N.C. Gov. may get 2nd try with lottery. When North Carolina Governor Mike Easley leaves office, assessments of his tenure undoubtedly will touch on whether he brought North Carolina into the lottery fold.
2005: Texas Lottery Approves Mega Millions Changes. Friday, the Texas Lottery Commission voted to propose rule amendments to the Mega Millions multi-state lottery game, which aim to make the game bigger than ever.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$815 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2024
2.$623.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2024
3.$495 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2019
4.$417.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2018
5.$353 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2014
6.$345 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2018
7.$276.3 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2008
8.$229 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2023
9.$216 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2013
10.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2012
11.€171.57 Million
US$188.25 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2022
12.$185.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 17, 2021
13.€129 Million
US$179.25 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2014
14.$172 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2011
15.$165 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2007
16.€105 Million
US$148.73 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 18, 2011
17.€122.15 Million
US$145.52 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 16, 2021
18.€130 Million
US$141.56 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2024
19.€113.51 Million
US$140 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2018
20.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2015
21.€119.37 Million
US$134.99 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2019
22.$124.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2022
23.$123 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 15, 2017
24.$120 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2020
25.$119 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 14, 2017

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: Payydayy314
Wednesday, Mar 14, 1990
34 years old
1987: mildred578
Saturday, Mar 14, 1987
37 years old
1985: Romanabr123
Thursday, Mar 14, 1985
39 years old
1984: ladyluckone
Wednesday, Mar 14, 1984
40 years old
1980: Marandaalisha
Friday, Mar 14, 1980
44 years old
1978: PhillyPhill
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1978
46 years old
1975: hitthe$
Friday, Mar 14, 1975
49 years old
1971: hey dude
Sunday, Mar 14, 1971
53 years old
1969: Mets
Friday, Mar 14, 1969
55 years old
1967: ymar
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1967
57 years old
1966: dbell66
Monday, Mar 14, 1966
58 years old
1963: pam88
Thursday, Mar 14, 1963
61 years old
1961: Goddess0314
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1961
63 years old
1961: Jansen*
Tuesday, Mar 14, 1961
63 years old
1960: TomF1403
Monday, Mar 14, 1960
64 years old
: LottoIntuitive
(year not provided)
: tiparker119
(year not provided)
: kpmoney
(year not provided)
: wonder747
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.
2019: Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths.
2017: A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance.
2008: A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet.
2007: The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
2006: The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure.
2006: Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat.
1995: Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
1988: In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
1982: The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
1980: LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1979: Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people.
1978: The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
1972: Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people.
1967: The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1964: Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1961: A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons.
1951: Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time.
1945: The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany.
1943: The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed.
1942: Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead.
1939: Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1931: Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
1926: The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás.
1923: Charlie Daly and three other members of the Irish Republican Army are executed by Irish Free State forces.
1921: Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists known as the Forgotten Ten, are hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison.
1920: In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
1903: Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
1901: Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy.
1900: The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
1885: The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
1864: Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium player in a mansion in Paris.
1794: Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1780: American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
1757: Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
1674: The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers.
1663: According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion.
1647: Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1590: Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion.
1074: Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.

Births On This Day

2008: Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress
2000: Paige Rini, Canadian water skier
1999: Marvin Bagley III, American professional basketball player
1999: Piri, English singer
1997: Simone Biles, American gymnast
1996: Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer
1994: Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ
1993: Philipp Ziereis, German footballer
1991: Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler
1991: László Szűcs, Hungarian footballer
1991: Steven Zellner, German footballer
1990: Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
1990: Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer
1990: Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress
1990: Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer
1989: Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver
1988: Stephen Curry, American basketball player
1988: Rico Freimuth, German decathlete
1986: Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986: Jessica Gallagher, Australian skier and cyclist
1986: Andy Taylor, English footballer
1983: Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
1982: Carlos Marinelli, Argentinian footballer
1982: François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
1981: Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
1981: George Wilson, American football player
1980: Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach
1980: Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player
1979: Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager
1979: Chris Klein, American actor
1979: Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer
1978: Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
1977: Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach
1977: Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)
1977: Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby player
1976: Phil Vickery, English rugby player and sportscaster
1975: Steve Harper, English footballer and referee
1975: Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter
1974: Santino Marella, Canadian professional wrestler
1974: Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
1973: Rohit Shetty, Indian film director and producer
1972: Irom Chanu Sharmila, Indian poet and activist
1970: Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Larry Johnson, American basketball player and actor
1968: Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress
1966: Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter
1966: Elise Neal, American actress and producer
1965: Kevin Brown, American baseball player and coach
1965: Aamir Khan, Indian film actor, producer, and director
1965: Billy Sherwood, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1965: Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1964: Chris Johns, Australian rugby league player and administrator
1963: Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer and coach
1961: Garry Jack, Australian rugby league player and coach
1961: Mike Lazaridis, Greek-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited
1960: Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and academic
1960: Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1959: Laila Robins, American actress
1959: Tamara Tunie, American actress
1958: Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1957: Tad Williams, American author
1956: Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court of India
1956: Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach
1955: Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1954: Brian Smith, Australian rugby league player and coach
1953: Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1951: Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's
1950: Rick Dees, American actor and radio host
1948: Tom Coburn, American physician and politician (d. 2020)
1948: Billy Crystal, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1948: Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor
1947: Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (d. 1993)
1947: William J. Jefferson, American lawyer and politician
1947: Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1946: William Lerach, American securities and class action attorney
1946: Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager (d. 2020)
1945: Jasper Carrott, English comedian, actor, and game show host
1945: Michael Martin Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945: Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist
1944: Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor
1944: Václav Nedomanský, Czech ice hockey player and manager
1944: Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager
1944: Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (d. 2012)
1943: Anita Morris, American actress and singer (d. 1994)
1942: Rita Tushingham, English actress
1941: Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1939: Raymond J. Barry, American actor
1939: Bertrand Blier, French director and screenwriter
1939: Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter
1938: Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter
1938: Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (d. 2016)
1938: John Gleeson, Australian cricketer (d. 2016)
1938: Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (d. 2008)
1937: Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (d. 2013)
1936: Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
1934: Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2017)
1934: Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army
1933: Michael Caine, English actor
1933: Quincy Jones, American producer
1932: Mark Murphy, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)
1932: Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia
1929: Bob Goalby, American golfer (d. 2022)
1928: Frank Borman, American astronaut (d. 2023)
1928: Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (d. 1980)
1926: François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator (d. 2018)
1925: William Clay Ford Sr., American businessman (d. 2014)
1925: Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (d. 2013)
1923: Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
1922: Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1921: S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (d. 2014)
1921: Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (d. 2013)
1920: Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)
1920: Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (d. 2014)
1919: Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1918: Zoia Horn, American librarian (d. 2014)
1917: Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 2013)
1916: Horton Foote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1915: Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2005)
1914: Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981)
1914: Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (d. 1999)
1914: Lee Petty, American race car driver and businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (d. 2000)
1913: Dominik Tatarka, Slovak writer (d.1989)
1912: Cliff Bastin, English footballer (d. 1991)
1912: Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2001)
1912: W. Graham Claytor Jr. American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1994)
1912: W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 2010)
1911: Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (d. 2005)
1908: Ed Heinemann, American designer of military aircraft (d. 1991)
1908: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (d. 1961)
1908: Philip Conrad Vincent, English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (d. 1979)
1906: Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (d. 1972)
1905: Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1983)
1904: Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (d. 2010)
1903: Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (d. 1974)
1901: Sid Atkinson, South African hurdler and long jumper (d. 1977)
1899: K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (d. 1992)
1898: Reginald Marsh, French-American painter and illustrator (d. 1954)
1887: Sylvia Beach, American-French bookseller and publisher, who founded Shakespeare and Company (d. 1962)
1886: Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
1885: Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (d. 1918)
1882: Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1969)
1879: Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1874: Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (d. 1951)
1869: Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (d. 1951)
1868: Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and activist (d. 1933)
1864: Casey Jones, American engineer (d. 1900)
1862: Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (d. 1951)
1854: Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1915)
1854: John Lane, English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (d. 1925)
1854: Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (d. 1920)
1854: Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925)
1853: Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
1847: Castro Alves, Brazilian poet and playwright (d. 1871)
1844: Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)
1844: Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (d. 1881)
1837: Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)
1836: Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (d. 1865)
1835: Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (d. 1910)
1833: Frederic Shields, English painter and illustrator (d. 1911)
1833: Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist and educator (d. 1910)
1823: Théodore de Banville, French poet and critic (d. 1891)
1822: Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (d. 1889)
1820: Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (d. 1878)
1813: Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1892)
1804: Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1849)
1801: Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (d. 1822)
1800: James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (d. 1874)
1790: Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
1772: José Núñez de Cáceres, Dominican politician and writer. He was the leader of the Independence movement of the Dominican Republic against Spain in 1821 (d. 1846)
1737: Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, Aromanian physician and noble (d. 1828)
1638: Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Scott Hall, Professional wrestler (b. 1958)
2019: Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (b. 1962)
2019: Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (b. 1952)
2019: Haig Young, Canadian politician (b. 1928)
2018: Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (b. 1937)
2018: Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (b. 1979)
2018: Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (b. 1942)
2018: Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (b. 1945)
2016: John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928)
2016: Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
2016: Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2014: Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
2014: Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (b. 1934)
2013: Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)
2013: Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1936)
2013: Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1925)
2012: Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2012: Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and politician, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
2010: Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
2008: Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (b. 1920)
2007: Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (b. 1912)
2006: Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929)
2003: Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (b. 1945)
2003: Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (b. 1928)
1999: Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
1999: John Broome, American author (b. 1913)
1997: Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1907)
1995: William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1991: Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer (b. 1950)
1989: Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (b. 1892)
1984: Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
1980: Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1902)
1980: Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (b. 1928)
1977: Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1917)
1976: Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)
1975: Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
1973: Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
1973: Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
1969: Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
1968: Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
1965: Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
1957: Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)
1953: Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 14th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1896)
1941: C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, English historian (b. 1887)
1932: George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
1932: Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian (b. 1861)
1930: A. A. Kannisto, Finnish politician (b. 1876)
1923: Charlie Daly, Executed Irish republican (b. 1896)
1921: Bernard Ryan executed Irish republican (b. 1901)
1884: Quintino Sella, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finances (b. 1827)
1883: Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818)
1877: Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1793)
1860: Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (b. 1802)
1823: Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1739)
1811: Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1735)
1803: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724)
1791: Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and critic (b. 1725)
1757: John Byng, British admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1704)
1748: George Wade, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1673)
1698: Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
1696: Jean Domat, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1625)
1648: Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (b. 1584)
1647: Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
1555: John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (b. 1485)
968: Matilda of Ringelheim, Saxon queen (b. c. 896)
840: Einhard, Frankish scholar

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