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May 29

On This Day in History

May 29

May 29 is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 216 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Connecticut Lottery to relocate headquarters this summer. The Connecticut Lottery is packing up and moving the location of its headquarters this summer, consolidating its main operations into one building.
2019: Massachusetts legislators looking into fairness of lottery fund distribution. Massachusetts residents have been playing the lottery for nearly 50 years, enjoying both the risk and the benefits their towns and cities see. But some legislators are worried certain communities are getting more out of the game than others.
2019: Pennsylvania woman wins second lottery jackpot from same store. A Pennsylvania woman scored a $1 million jackpot from a scratch-off lottery ticket just two years after collecting a $100,000 prize.
2018: $1M Texas lottery ticket to expire Wednesday. The Texas Lottery is searching for a Mega Millions winner who has only one day left to claim a $1 million prize.
2018: Study: Neighbors of lottery winners are more likely to go bankrupt. As if you needed proof that trying to keep up with the Joneses isn't a good idea, here it is: Close neighbors of lottery winners in Canada tended to spend more on conspicuous goods, put more money into speculative investments such as stocks, borrow more money — and eventually declare bankruptcy.
2015: Disney chooses director for upcoming lottery movie. Annie director Will Gluck is teaming with Walt Disney Studios to direct an untitled lottery movie based on the actual events of a Spanish lottery jackpot win.
2015: Florida Supreme Court orders new trial in $1M lottery dispute. The Florida Supreme Court has ordered a new trial in the case of a man who claims his former live-in partner owes him half of a $1 million Florida raffle jackpot.
2015: Thief steals cheap sunglasses, but leaves behind $1M lottery ticket. Among a list of things you shouldn't leave in your car, a winning lottery ticket tops the charts.
2013: Washington Lottery looking for big winners. Two Washington residents have become millionaires and may not even know it, and if they haven't already lost their lottery tickets, they could be slow stepping forward to claim the winnings.
2013: N.Y. store clerk accused of stealing lottery tickets. A Glen Head, New York, convenience store clerk stole about $64,000 in scratch-off lottery tickets from the business over a three-month period, Nassau County police said Tuesday.
2012: Illinois Lottery to add Powerball online ticket sales. Powerball would be added to the mix of lottery games that Illinois offers online under legislation that squeaked through the House Monday.
2012: Nun donates $55,000 lottery win. When Sister Mary Concetta Torrillo of Webster Groves hit the Missouri Lottery's Show Me Cash jackpot on May 13, it meant a $55,000 gift for the Sisters of Loretto, a convent in Kentucky she served for 30 years.
2011: $200 MILLION: Powerball lottery jackpot heats up. There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $200 million for Wednesday's drawing.
2011: Atheist converts after mock prayer to win $1M lottery is answered. A self-confessed atheist has become a believer after mocking God by sarcastically praying for his mother to win the lottery -- and then she won the next day.
2007: N.C. Lottery foe confident that lottery will be ruled an illegal tax. Bob Orr went before three judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals to argue that the state lottery amounts to an improperly enacted tax.
2007: Kansas, Iowa lotteries create first multi-state scratch game. The nation's first multi-state lottery scratch-off game will make its debut this summer at the Kansas State Fair.
2007: N.C. Lottery chief gets raise, standing ovation. North Carolina Lottery director Tom Shaheen didn't just get a raise last week that keeps him at the top of the pay heap among non-university state employees. He got a sustained, standing ovation from his bosses, the nine-member lottery commission.
2007: Deadline looming for unclaimed $15M lottery jackpot. All the major prizes that have gone unclaimed in Alberta since the inception of Lotto 6/49 combined don't add up to the amount the latest unclaimed jackpot is worth, Western Canada Lottery Corporation officials said Monday.
2005: New Florida lottery law increases prizes. Florida lottery players soon will rake in more dough when they win games such as Lotto, Mega Money and Fantasy 5, thanks to a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. Jeb Bush.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$444 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 31, 2019
2.$336 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 29, 2020
3.$325 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 29, 2019
4.$302 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 31, 2017
5.$252.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 29, 2021
6.$235 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 31, 2016
7.$233 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 29, 2015
8.€213.24 Million US$228.74 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 31, 2022
9.$225.9 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 29, 2023
10.$220 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 29, 2010
11.$200 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 1, 2011
12.$187 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 30, 2023
13.€160.48 Million
US$178.68 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
May 30, 2019
14.$173 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 31, 2014
15.$171 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 30, 2015
16.$170 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
May 31, 2022
17.$157.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 30, 2022
18.€139 Million
US$155.18 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 30, 2017
19.$146 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 30, 2012
20.€99 Million
US$130.03 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 29, 2012
21.$125 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
May 30, 2020
22.€88 Million
US$107.5 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Jun 1, 2021
23.€78 Million
US$106.27 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
May 30, 2014
24.€90 Million
US$105.05 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Jun 1, 2018
25.$100 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Jun 1, 2016

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1993: AngelStar
Saturday, May 29, 1993
30 years old
1991: CelinaQuair91
Wednesday, May 29, 1991
32 years old
1986: agbeans247
Thursday, May 29, 1986
37 years old
1986: ChronoElite
Thursday, May 29, 1986
37 years old
1980: aribrijav123
Thursday, May 29, 1980
43 years old
1979: Mwill79
Tuesday, May 29, 1979
44 years old
1973: jenaro
Tuesday, May 29, 1973
50 years old
1972: Babyg2
Monday, May 29, 1972
51 years old
1971: tanya graham
Saturday, May 29, 1971
52 years old
1969: Jonusl
Thursday, May 29, 1969
54 years old
1968: Sijache
Wednesday, May 29, 1968
55 years old
1967: bluesusan4
Monday, May 29, 1967
56 years old
1967: bluesusan1
Monday, May 29, 1967
56 years old
1965: felicia529
Saturday, May 29, 1965
58 years old
1960: CConner
Sunday, May 29, 1960
63 years old
1958: kawhona4
Thursday, May 29, 1958
65 years old
1955: JuliaJ
Sunday, May 29, 1955
68 years old
1949: purplerain29
Sunday, May 29, 1949
74 years old
: Lottonovice
(year not provided)
: Dutchess1
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2021: A Cessna Citation I/SP crashes into Percy Priest Lake in Tennessee, killing all six people on board, including actor Joe Lara and his wife Gwen Shamblin Lara.
2015: One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opens.
2012: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
2008: A doublet earthquake, of combined magnitude 6.1, strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
2006: The roof of Porvoo Cathedral in the town of Porvoo was destroyed by arson.
2005: France rejects the Constitution of the European Union in a national referendum.
2004: The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2001: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
1999: Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
1999: Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
1993: The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war-torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
1990: The Congress of People's Deputies of Russia elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
1989: Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
1988: The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
1985: Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
1985: Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
1982: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
1982: Falklands War: the British Army defeats the Argentine Army at the Battle of Goose Green.
1973: Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
1964: The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1964: Having deposed them in a January coup South Vietnamese leader Nguyễn Khánh had rival Generals Tran Van Don and Le Van Kim convicted of "lax morality".
1953: Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
1950: The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1948: United Nations Truce Supervision Organization is founded.
1947: United Airlines Flight 521 crashes at LaGuardia Airport, killing 43.
1945: First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
1935: First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
1932: World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
1931: Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by a Royal Italian Army firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
1920: The Louth flood of 1920 was a severe flash flooding in the Lincolnshire market town of Louth, resulting in 23 fatalities in 20 minutes. It has been described as one of the most significant flood disasters in the United Kingdom during the 20th century.
1919: Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
1918: Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
1914: The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
1913: Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
1903: In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
1900: N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
1886: The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
1868: Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated.
1867: The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1864: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
1861: The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
1852: Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
1851: Sojourner Truth delivers her famous Ain't I a Woman? speech at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
1848: Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
1807: Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
1798: United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are executed as rebels by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
1790: Rhode Island becomes the last of North America's original Thirteen Colonies to ratify the Constitution and become one of the United States.
1780: American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
1733: The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City.
1660: English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1658: Battle of Samugarh: decisive battle in the struggle for the throne during the Mughal war of succession (1658-1659).
1453: Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1416: Battle of Gallipoli: The Venetians under Pietro Loredan defeat a much larger Ottoman fleet off Gallipoli.
1328: Philip VI is crowned King of France.
1233: Mongol-Jin War: The Mongols entered Kaifeng after a successful siege and began looting in the fallen capital of the Jin dynasty.
1176: Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
1167: Battle of Monte Porzio: A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel.
1108: Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
363: The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city.

Births On This Day

1999: Park Ji-hoon, South Korean actor and singer
1998: Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
1998: Austin Reaves, American basketball player
1993: Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
1993: Maika Monroe, American actress and kiteboarder
1993: Grete Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
1992: Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player
1991: Yaime Perez, Cuban discus thrower
1990: Joe Biagini, American baseball pitcher
1990: Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (d. 2017)
1989: Ezekiel Ansah, Ghanaian-American football player
1989: Diego Barisone, Argentinian footballer (d. 2015)
1989: Riley Keough, American model and actress
1988: Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian captain and pilot (d. 2015)
1988: Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
1988: Tobin Heath, American soccer player
1988: Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
1987: Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian long jumper
1987: Issac Luke, New Zealand rugby league player
1987: Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer (d. 2019)
1987: Noah Reid, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1987: Rui Sampaio, Portuguese footballer
1985: Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player
1984: Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
1984: Nia Jax, Australian-American professional wrestler
1984: Funmi Jimoh, American long jumper
1984: Andreas Schäffer, German footballer
1984: Ina Wroldsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
1982: Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete
1982: Matt Macri, American baseball player
1982: Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball player
1981: Andrey Arshavin, Russian footballer
1980: Ernesto Farías, Argentinian footballer
1979: Arne Friedrich, German footballer
1979: Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
1979: John Rheinecker, American baseball player (d. 2017)
1978: Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter
1978: Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
1978: Lorenzo Odone, Italian-American adrenoleukodystrophy patient who inspired the 1992 film, Lorenzo's Oil (d. 2008)
1978: Adam Rickitt, English singer
1977: Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
1977: Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
1977: António Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
1976: Caçapa, Brazilian footballer and manager
1976: Jerry Hairston Jr., American baseball player and sportscaster
1976: Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
1976: Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
1975: Jason Allison, Canadian ice hockey player
1975: Mel B, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1975: Sven Kubis, German footballer
1975: Sarah Millican, English comedian
1975: Anthony Wall, English golfer
1975: Daniel Tosh, American comedian, television host, actor, writer, and executive producer
1974: Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and retired actor
1974: Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player and coach
1974: Aaron McGruder, American author and cartoonist
1974: Jenny Willott, English politician
1973: Tomoko Kaneda, Japanese voice actress, singer, and radio personality
1973: Mark Lee, American guitarist and songwriter
1973: Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
1973: Myf Warhurst, Australian radio and television host
1972: Laverne Cox, American actress and LGBT advocate
1972: Bill Curley, American basketball player and coach
1972: Simon Jones, English singer and bass player
1971: Éric Lucas, Canadian boxer
1971: Bernd Mayländer, German race car driver
1971: Jo Beth Taylor, Australian television host and actress
1971: Rob Womack, English shot putter and discus thrower
1970: Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
1970: Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
1968: Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
1968: Tate George, American basketball player
1968: Jessica Morden, English politician
1968: Hida Viloria, American activist
1967: Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967: Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1967: Steven Levitt, American economist, author, and academic
1966: Natalie Nougayrède, French journalist
1964: Howard Mills III, American academic and politician
1964: Oswaldo Negri Jr., Brazilian race car driver
1963: Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter
1963: Zhu Jianhua, Chinese high jumper
1963: Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver
1963: Claude Loiselle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1962: Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach, and manager
1962: Eric Davis, American baseball player
1962: Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist
1962: Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress and singer
1961: Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist
1961: John Miceli, American drummer
1960: Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic
1960: Mike Freer, English politician
1959: Rupert Everett, English actor and novelist
1959: Mel Gaynor, English drummer
1959: Steve Hanley, Irish-English bass player and songwriter
1958: Annette Bening, American actress
1958: Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (d. 2011)
1958: Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach
1958: Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
1957: Steven Croft, English bishop and theologian
1957: Jeb Hensarling, American lawyer and politician
1957: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director
1956: Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
1956: La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
1955: Frank Baumgartl, German runner (d. 2010)
1955: John Hinckley Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
1955: David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author
1955: Gordon Rintoul, Scottish historian and curator
1955: Ken Schrader, American race car driver and sportscaster
1954: Robert Beaser, American composer and educator
1954: Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
1953: Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1950: Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
1949: Robert Axelrod, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2019)
1949: Brian Kidd, English footballer and manager
1949: Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948: Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
1948: Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
1947: Anthony Geary, American actor
1946: Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (d. 2000)
1945: Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2022)
1945: Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 2013)
1945: Julian Le Grand, English economist and author
1945: Martin Pipe, English jockey and trainer
1945: Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
1945: Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian scholar and author (d. 2018)
1944: Bob Benmosche, American businessman (d. 2015)
1944: Quentin Davies, English soldier and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
1943: Robert W. Edgar, American educator and politician (d. 2013)
1942: Pierre Bourque, Canadian businessman and politician, 40th Mayor of Montreal
1942: Kevin Conway, American actor and director (d. 2020)
1941: Doug Scott, English mountaineer and author (d. 2020)
1941: Bob Simon, American journalist (d. 2015)
1940: Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (d. 2013)
1940: Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
1939: Pete Smith, Australian radio and television announcer
1939: Al Unser, American race car driver (d. 2021)
1938: Christopher Bland, English businessman and politician (d. 2017)
1938: Fay Vincent, American lawyer and businessman
1937: Charles W. Pickering, American lawyer and judge
1937: Irmin Schmidt, German keyboard player and composer
1937: Alwin Schockemöhle, German show-jumper
1937: Harry Statham, American basketball player and coach
1935: André Brink, South African author and playwright (d. 2015)
1935: Sylvia Robinson, American singer and producer (d. 2011)
1934: Bill Vander Zalm, Dutch-Canadian businessman and politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
1933: Helmuth Rilling, German conductor and educator
1933: Tarquinio Provini, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2005)
1932: Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
1932: Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
1929: Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic
1929: Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1929: Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1928: Freddie Redd, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2021)
1927: Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
1926: Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress and television host (d. 2018)
1926: Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga (d. 2017)
1926: Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese academic and politician, 3rd President of Senegal
1924: Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (d. 1999)
1924: Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1924: Pepper Paire, American baseball player (d. 2013)
1923: Bernard Clavel, French author (d. 2010)
1923: John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon (d. 2015)
1923: Eugene Wright, American jazz bassist (d. 2020)
1922: Joe Weatherly, American race car driver (d. 1964)
1922: Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
1921: Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010)
1920: John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1920: Clifton James, American actor (d. 2017)
1919: Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic (d. 2018)
1917: John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
1917: Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, author, and academic (d. 2011)
1915: Karl Münchinger, German conductor and composer (d. 1990)
1914: Stacy Keach Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
1914: Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (d. 1986)
1913: Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
1910: Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician (d. 1978)
1908: Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1907: Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (d. 2002)
1906: T. H. White, Indian-English author (d. 1964)
1905: Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1994)
1904: Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician (d. 1996)
1903: Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2003)
1902: Harry Kadwell, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1999)
1899: Douglas Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Defence (d. 1987)
1897: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1957)
1894: Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer (d. 1989)
1894: Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1969)
1893: Max Brand, American journalist and author (d. 1944)
1892: Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author (d. 1938)
1880: Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (d. 1936)
1874: G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright (d. 1936)
1873: Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1918)
1871: Clark Voorhees, American painter (d. 1933)
1860: Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1909)
1823: John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895)
1797: Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter (d. 1836)
1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer and selenographer (d. 1874)
1780: Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855)
1736: Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
1730: Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer (d. 1803)
1722: James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (d. 1773)
1716: Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist (d. 1800)
1675: Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1715)
1630: Charles II of England (d. 1685)
1627: Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French princess (d. 1693)
1594: Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1632)
1568: Virginia de' Medici, Italian princess (d. 1615)
1555: George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English Earl, general and administrator (d. 1629)
1504: Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (d. 1573)
1443: Victor, Duke of Münsterberg, Reichsgraf, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (d. 1500)
1421: Charles, Prince of Viana (d. 1461)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Ronnie Hawkins, American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist.
2022: Sidhu Moosewala, Indian singer, rapper, actor and politician. (b. 1993)
2021: Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Christian activist, and author (b. 1931)
2021: Mark Eaton, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1957)
2021: B. J. Thomas, American singer (b. 1942)
2020: Maikanti Baru, Nigerian engineer, former chief of state oil firm. (b. 1959)
2017: Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (b. 1934)
2017: Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli Lieutenant General and minister (b. 1924)
2017: Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Greek politician and prime minister (b. 1918)
2015: Henry Carr, American football player and sprinter (b. 1942)
2015: Doris Hart, American tennis player (b. 1925)
2015: Betsy Palmer, American actress (b. 1926)
2014: Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
2014: Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (b. 1939)
2014: Peter Glaser, Czech-American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
2014: Miljenko Prohaska, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
2014: William M. Roth, American businessman (b. 1916)
2013: Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (b. 1940)
2013: Françoise Blanchard, French actress (b. 1954)
2013: Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (b. 1928)
2013: Mulgrew Miller, American pianist and composer (b. 1955)
2013: Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (b. 1923)
2013: Franca Rame, Italian actress and playwright (b. 1928)
2013: Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (b. 1949)
2013: Wali-ur-Rehman, Pakistani commander (b. 1970)
2012: Mark Minkov, Russian composer (b. 1944)
2012: Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
2012: Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
2011: Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
2011: Bill Clements, American soldier and politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
2011: Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian academic and politician, 14th President of Hungary (b. 1931)
2010: Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2008: Paula Gunn Allen, Native American writer (b. 1939)
2008: Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
2008: Harvey Korman, American actor and comedian (b. 1927)
2007: Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1938)
2007: Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
2006: Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (b. 1930)
2005: John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (b. 1937)
2005: Hamilton Naki, South African surgeon (b. 1926)
2005: George Rochberg, American soldier and composer (b. 1918)
2004: Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (b. 1912)
2004: Samuel Dash, American academic and politician (b. 1925)
2003: David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
1998: Barry Goldwater, American general, activist, and politician (b. 1909)
1997: Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1966)
1996: Tamara Toumanova, American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
1994: Erich Honecker, German lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
1994: Lady May Abel Smith, member of the British Royal Family (b. 1906)
1993: Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
1991: Margaret Barr (choreographer), Australian choreographer and teacher of dance-drama (b. 1904)
1989: George C. Homans, American sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
1988: Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1946)
1987: Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
1983: Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (b. 1899)
1982: Romy Schneider, German-French actress (b. 1938)
1979: Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founder of United Artists (b. 1892)
1979: John H. Wood Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
1977: Ba Maw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1893)
1973: George Harriman, English businessman (b. 1908)
1972: Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (b. 1902)
1972: Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic (b. 1878)
1970: John Gunther, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
1970: Eva Hesse, American artist (b. 1936)
1968: Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1896)
1966: Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)
1963: Netta Muskett, English author (b. 1887)
1958: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
1957: James Whale, English director (b. 1889)
1953: Morgan Russell, American painter and educator (b. 1886)
1951: Fanny Brice, American singer and comedian (b. 1891)
1951: Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier and composer (b. 1885)
1948: May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)
1946: Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
1942: John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
1941: Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
1939: Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
1935: Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
1921: Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
1920: Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
1919: Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
1917: Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
1914: Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
1914: Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
1911: W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
1910: Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
1903: Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
1896: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
1892: Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Baháʼí Faith (b. 1817)
1873: Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
1866: Winfield Scott, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1786)
1862: Franz Mirecki, Polish composer, music conductor, and music teacher (b. 1791)
1847: Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (b. 1766)
1829: Humphry Davy, English-Swiss chemist and academic (b. 1778)
1814: Joséphine de Beauharnais, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (b. 1763)
1796: Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (b. 1720)
1790: Israel Putnam, American general (b. 1718)
1691: Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
1660: Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1615)
1593: John Penry, Welsh martyr (b. 1559)
1546: David Beaton, Scottish cardinal and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1494)
1500: Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer and navigator (b. 1451)
1500: Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (b. 1423)
1453: Ulubatlı Hasan, Ottoman commander (b. 1428)
1453: Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
1425: Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
1405: Philippe de Mézières, French soldier and author (b. 1327)
1379: Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
1327: Jens Grand, Danish archbishop (b. c. 1260)
1320: Pope John VIII of Alexandria, Coptic pope
1311: James II of Majorca (b. 1243)
1259: Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
1040: Renauld I, Count of Nevers
931: Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona

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