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March 24

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March 24

March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 282 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2022: Iowa Lottery says gas prices, inflation impacting sales. Iowa Lottery sales so far this fiscal year are nearly even through February when compared to the record set last year, but soaring inflation and gas prices are starting to have an effect.
2021: Mississippi Lottery to launch new Match 5 game in April. Mississippi lottery players hoping for another local draw-style game won't have to wait much longer — last Monday, the Mississippi Lottery announced that it will be releasing its newest draw game in April called Match 5.
2019: $750 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot surges to 4th-largest ever. This week lottery players across the United States will be pulling out all the stops to try and win Powerball, featuring one of the largest lottery jackpots in history, worth an estimated $750 million.
2017: Woman who just won $2 million in Michigan Lottery wins again for $60K. A Michigan woman has scored her second significant lottery win in less than three months.
2016: UK Lotto players furious over 5-number payout. Imagine beating the odds of 1 in 144,415 only to find out that your prize payout was just £15 (US$21). That's what thousands of UK Lotto players experienced Wednesday night.
2014: Lottery winners share their good fortune. The story of an Iowa couple who hit the $202 million Powerball jackpot 18 months ago, the second-biggest lottery win ever in Iowa.
2014: $96.5 million Powerball lottery ticket sold in Missouri. A $96.5 million jackpot-winning Powerball lottery ticket was sold in Missouri for the Saturday drawing of the multi-state game.
2013: Powerball ticket worth $338 million sold in N.J.. Someone in New Jersey this morning could be holding a tiny piece of paper worth a massive amount of money: $338.3 million.
2012: $356 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot nears record. After rolling over for the 17th consecutive time last night, the Mega Millions jackpot has been raised to a jaw-dropping $356 million for the Tuesday, March 27, drawing.
2011: $312 MILLION: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised again. Mega Millions lottery players across the United States are pulling out the stops and lottery tickets are being snapped up at a furious pace nation-wide for the Friday evening drawing, which has been raised mid-week to $312 million.
2011: Chicago man claims $9M lottery jackpot in the nick of time. A Chicago, Illinois, man recently came close to losing $9 million that he didn't know he had.
2009: Washington Lottery may add Powerball to lineup. Washington lottery players may soon be able to buy tickets for the Powerball multi-state game at their local grocery, deli or convenience store.
2009: Arkansas Senate, House pass lottery bills, send to governor. The Arkansas House and Senate on Monday passed each other's identical versions of legislation to set up Arkansas' lottery to fund college scholarships.
2007: Ontario Lottery chief fired. The head of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation was dismissed from the scandal-plagued organization on Friday, according to CBC News.
2005: Another scam victim regrets his mistakes. Dale E. Gilbert owes his local bank nearly $1,000 after he was conned into responding to one of the many lottery scams that falsely claim that the victim is a big winner.
2005: N.D. lottery's first year deemed 'exceptional'. Critics may still bristle at the thought of waiting in line behind a lottery player buying tickets, but nearly a year after North Dakota unveiled its state lottery, the North Dakota Lottery has exceeded its supporters' expectations.
2005: Nevada lottery effort unlikely to succeed. An Assembly-backed resolution to let Nevada voters legalize a state lottery could be killed as early as today in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
2005: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $53 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $53 million Wednesday.
2005: N.C. Speaker pushing for lottery vote within 2 weeks. North Carolina House Speaker Jim Black said he wants lawmakers to vote on a state lottery in the next two weeks, and he virtually guaranteed Wednesday that the proposal would reach his chamber's floor.
2004: Mega Millions lottery jackpot increases to $53 million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $53 million Wednesday.
2004: 2 charged in theft from Powerball lottery winner. Two men were charged Tuesday with stealing $100,000 from the winner of the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.13 Billion: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2024
2.$813 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 25, 2024
3.$768.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2019
4.$458 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2018
5.$363 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2012
6.$319 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 25, 2011
7.$302 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 24, 2023
8.$221 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 24, 2021
9.€176.5 Million US$194.09 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 24, 2022
10.€133 Million
US$187.81 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 25, 2011
11.$187 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2022
12.$151 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 24, 2017
13.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 25, 2020
14.€126.6 Million
US$149.25 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 25, 2021
15.€118.55 Million
US$146.51 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 24, 2018
16.€111 Million
US$142.77 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2013
17.€125.53 Million
US$141.67 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2019
18.$137 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2021
19.€115 Million
US$135.55 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2021
20.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2011
21.$117 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 25, 2006
22.$112.7 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 25, 2023
23.$101 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Mar 26, 2016
23.$101 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Mar 24, 2020
25.€88 Million
US$97.02 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Mar 27, 2020

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1984: Mooremoney
Saturday, Mar 24, 1984
40 years old
1984: tommyyow
Saturday, Mar 24, 1984
40 years old
1983: Pebbz83
Thursday, Mar 24, 1983
41 years old
1983: X18161
Thursday, Mar 24, 1983
41 years old
1980: BKLYN SHARK
Monday, Mar 24, 1980
44 years old
1973: alotteryplayer
Saturday, Mar 24, 1973
51 years old
1972: naftary
Friday, Mar 24, 1972
52 years old
1969: honey1
Monday, Mar 24, 1969
55 years old
1967: daverj2000
Friday, Mar 24, 1967
57 years old
1960: alwayspistov
Thursday, Mar 24, 1960
64 years old
1960: PlatinumSheik57
Thursday, Mar 24, 1960
64 years old
1955: dpowell44
Thursday, Mar 24, 1955
69 years old
1944: CalifDude
Friday, Mar 24, 1944
80 years old
: moneypot
(year not provided)
: sheilaj
(year not provided)
: tigerwu
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2019: Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation.
2018: Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.
2018: Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
2015: Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
2008: Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2003: The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
1999: Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
1999: A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people.
1998: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998: A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
1998: Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
1993: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California.
1990: Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.
1989: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m) of crude oil after running aground.
1986: The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1982: Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.
1980: El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1977: Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
1976: In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
1972: Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.
1961: The Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
1949: Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader, in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.
1946: A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
1944: German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
1944: World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
1939: The 1939 Liechtenstein putsch takes place; approximately 40 members of the VBDL starting from Nendeln march towards Vaduz with the intention of overthrowing the government and provoking Liechtenstein's annexation into Germany.
1934: The Tydings-McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1927: Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city.
1921: The 1921 Women's Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.
1900: Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1900: Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 million is the largest to date.
1882: Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1878: The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1870: a Chilean prospecting party led by José Díaz Gana discovers the silver ores of Caracoles in the Bolivian portion of Atacama Desert, leading to the last of the Chilean silver rushes and a diplomatic dispute over its taxation between Chile and Bolivia.
1869: The last of Tītokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
1860: Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
1854: President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.
1832: In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
1829: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
1794: In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
1765: Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
1721: Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
1720: Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February.
1663: The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
1603: James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
1401: Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1387: English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
1199: King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.

Births On This Day

2001: Clara Burel, French tennis player
1999: Katie Swan, English tennis player
1998: Damar Hamlin, American football player
1997: Mina, Japanese singer and dancer
1996: Myles Turner, American basketball player
1995: Enzo Zidane, French-Spanish footballer
1991: Nick Browne, English cricketer
1991: Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player
1990: Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
1990: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
1990: Starlin Castro, American baseball player
1990: Lacey Evans, American wrestler
1990: Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer
1989: Zyzz, Russian-Australian bodybuilder and internet personality(d. 2011)
1988: Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
1988: Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1988: Finn Jones, English actor
1988: Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
1988: Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer
1988: Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player
1987: Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987: Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer
1987: Billy Jones, English footballer
1987: Ramires, Brazilian footballer
1985: Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer
1985: CJ Perry, American wrestler, manager, and actress
1984: Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-Cameroonian footballer
1984: Park Bom, South Korean singer
1984: Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1984: Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
1984: Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner
1984: Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player
1983: Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
1983: T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1983: Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
1983: Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
1982: Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
1982: Jake Hager, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
1982: Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982: Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
1982: Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1981: Mike Adams, American football player
1981: Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1981: Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player
1981: Mark Looms, Dutch footballer
1981: Gary Paffett, English racing driver
1981: Philip Winchester, American actor
1980: Ramzi Abid, Canadian ice hockey player
1980: Andrew Hutchinson, American ice hockey player
1980: Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1979: Lake Bell, American actress, director, and screenwriter
1979: Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979: Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler
1979: Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1978: Amir Arison, American actor
1978: Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach
1978: Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager
1978: José Valverde, Dominican baseball player
1977: Olivia Burnette, American actress
1977: Jessica Chastain, American actress
1977: Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player
1976: Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976: Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach
1976: Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976: Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur
1975: Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monégasque tennis player
1974: Alyson Hannigan, American actress
1974: Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper
1974: Tado, Filipino comedian and activist (d. 2014)
1973: Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
1973: Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1973: Steve Corica, Australian footballer and coach
1973: Jure Ivanušič, Slovenian actor, concert pianist and chansonnier
1973: Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
1973: Glen Jakovich, Australian footballer
1973: Jim Parsons, American actor
1972: Christophe Dugarry, French footballer
1972: Steve Karsay, American baseball player and coach
1971: Tig Notaro, American comedian and actor
1971: Megyn Price, American actress
1970: Lauren Bowles, American actress
1970: Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
1970: Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist
1970: Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1970: Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
1970: Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player
1969: Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier
1969: Ilir Meta, Albanian politician, incumbent President of Albania
1968: Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player
1967: Diann Roffe, American skier
1966: Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach
1966: Rico Hizon, Filipino broadcast journalist
1965: Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965: The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor
1964: Patterson Hood, American singer-songwriter
1963: Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1963: Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach
1963: Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder
1962: Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1962: Star Jones, American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host
1962: Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower
1961: Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 2020)
1961: Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
1960: Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
1960: Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
1960: Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model
1960: Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress
1960: Scott Pruett, American race car driver
1960: Annabella Sciorra, American actress
1959: Emmit King, American sprinter
1959: Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player
1959: Derek Statham, English footballer
1958: Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
1957: Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier
1956: Steve Ballmer, American businessman
1956: Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter
1955: Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1955: Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1954: Robert Carradine, American actor
1954: Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (d. 1992)
1954: Donna Pescow, American actress and director
1953: Anita L. Allen, American lawyer, philosopher, and academic
1953: Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian (d. 2022)
1952: Greg McCrary, American football player (d. 2013)
1951: Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1951: Pat Bradley, American golfer
1951: Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
1951: Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player
1951: Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach
1950: Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (d. 2011)
1949: Tabitha King, American author and poet
1949: Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
1949: Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (d. 2017)
1949: Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
1949: Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
1949: Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
1948: Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (d. 2013)
1948: Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
1948: Lee Oskar, Danish musician
1947: Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach
1947: Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of Washington
1947: Mick Jones, English footballer and coach
1947: Alan Sugar, English businessman
1946: Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)
1946: Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (d. 2018)
1945: Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic
1945: Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1945: Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter
1944: R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor (d. 2018)
1944: Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia
1942: Jesús Alou, Dominican baseball player (d. 2023)
1941: Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (d. 2015)
1940: Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
1938: Holger Czukay, German musician (d. 2017)
1938: David Irving, English historian and author
1938: Larry Wilson, American football player (d. 2020)
1937: Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (d. 1970)
1936: Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1936: Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player (d. 2020)
1935: Mary Berry, English writer, chef, author, and television presenter
1935: Carol Kaye, American bass guitarist
1933: Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (d. 2011)
1933: Lee Mendelson, American television producer (d. 2019)
1931: Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 2003)
1930: David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
1930: Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (d. 1980)
1929: Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (d. 2012)
1928: Byron Janis, American pianist and composer
1927: John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014)
1927: Martin Walser, German author and playwright (d. 2023)
1926: Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)
1926: Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1926: William Porter, American hurdler (d. 2000)
1924: Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
1923: Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
1923: Michael Legat, English author and publisher (d. 2011)
1922: Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2005)
1921: Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987)
1921: Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
1920: Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1920: Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006)
1919: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore (d. 2021)
1919: Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (d. 2005)
1917: Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
1917: John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
1916: Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (d. 2006)
1916: Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (d. 2010)
1915: Eugène Martin, French racing driver (d. 2006)
1912: Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (d. 2010)
1911: Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)
1910: Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1975)
1909: Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)
1909: Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian pastor and evangelist (d. 2001)
1907: Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (d. 1960)
1905: Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (d. 2007)
1903: Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1903: Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990)
1902: Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (d. 1971)
1901: Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971)
1897: Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (d. 1957)
1893: Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (d. 1960)
1893: George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (d. 1973)
1892: Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (d. 1977)
1891: Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951)
1890: Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1954)
1889: Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (d. 1969)
1888: Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (d. 1922)
1887: Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933)
1886: Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1886: Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (d. 1945)
1885: Charles Daniels, American swimmer (d. 1973)
1885: Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1978)
1884: Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
1884: Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (d. 1968)
1884: Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (d. 1972)
1883: Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1945)
1882: Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (d. 1951)
1882: George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1943)
1879: Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1953)
1875: William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (d. 1953)
1874: Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)
1874: Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (d. 1926)
1871: Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (d. 1913)
1869: Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (d. 1955)
1862: Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (d. 1951)
1855: Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
1855: Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (d. 1920)
1854: Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1930)
1850: Silas Hocking, English minister and author (d. 1935)
1848: Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1906)
1835: Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)
1834: William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author (d. 1896)
1834: John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902)
1830: Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (d. 1889)
1829: George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829: Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1828: Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1902)
1826: Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (d. 1898)
1823: Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (d. 1887)
1820: Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891)
1820: Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (d. 1915)
1816: Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Mexican politician and Roman Catholic archbishop, regent during the Second Mexican Empire (d. 1891)
1809: Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837)
1809: Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (d. 1882)
1808: Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (d. 1836)
1803: Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (d. 1882)
1796: Zulma Carraud, French author (d. 1889)
1796: John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1878)
1782: Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (d. 1836)
1775: Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)
1762: Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1830)
1755: Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
1725: Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725: Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1693: John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776)
1657: Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (d. 1725)
1628: Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685)
1607: Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
1577: Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (d. 1620)
1494: Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)
1441: Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (d. 1486)
1103: Yue Fei, Chinese military general (d. 1142)

Deaths On This Day

2023: Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (b. 1929)
2023: Pradeep Sarkar, Indian writer and director (b. 1955)
2022: Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (b. 1912)
2021: Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (b. 1941)
2020: Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927)
2020: Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (b. 1933)
2019: Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (b. 1949)
2018: Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924)
2018: Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (b. 1966)
2016: Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)
2016: Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
2015: Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928)
2015: notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash: Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (b. 1960)
2015: notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash: Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981)
2014: Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962)
2014: John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922)
2014: David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954)
2013: Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926)
2013: Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938)
2013: Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)
2013: Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972)
2013: Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974)
2013: Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (b. 1912)
2012: Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)
2012: Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
2010: Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
2010: Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
2009: George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
2009: Hans Klenk, German racing driver (b. 1919)
2009: Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
2008: Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008: Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)
2008: Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008: Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2007: Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913)
2006: Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)
2003: Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)
2002: César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
2002: Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)
2001: Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)
1999: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
1999: Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
1995: Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900)
1993: Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)
1993: John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)
1991: John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)
1990: Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)
1988: Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922)
1984: Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
1980: Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)
1978: Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916)
1976: Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)
1973: Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)
1971: Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)
1971: Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
1968: Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)
1962: Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
1962: Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
1956: E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (b. 1873)
1953: Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
1951: Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
1950: James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
1948: Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
1946: Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
1946: Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
1944: Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)
1940: Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)
1938: Yondonwangchug, Mongolian politician (b. 1870)
1932: Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)
1926: Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)
1916: Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
1915: Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
1915: Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
1909: John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
1905: Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
1888: Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1887: Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
1881: Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
1869: Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
1866: Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (b. 1782)
1838: Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)
1824: Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)
1776: John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)
1773: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)
1684: Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)
1684: Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband
1653: Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587)
1603: Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
1575: Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488)
1563: Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)
1499: Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470)
1455: Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
1443: James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371)
1399: Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320)
1396: Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (b. 1340)
1381: Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
1296: Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
1284: Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
832: Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury
809: Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763)

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