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On This Day in History: November 11

November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 50 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2020: Lottery Post's guide to 2020 holiday raffles. For many lottery players, the upcoming holiday season represents the return of raffle games, many of which offer their best odds of winning $1 million or more.
2019: Veterans Day turns jubilant for 70-year-old Army vet after he wins lottery in NC. A 70-year-old Army veteran found himself counting cash on Veterans Day, after he won more than a quarter of a million dollars in the North Carolina Education Lottery.
2019: 90-year-old ND woman lost $400K to Jamaican lottery scam — but she was paid back just $287. A 90-year-old North Dakota woman who was robbed of her life savings by a Jamaican lottery scam says she has been paid back only $287 of the $400,000 she's owed.
2018: New York Lottery awards $26.6 million in prize checks to 3 big winners. Three lucky New Yorkers came forward to receive their winnings Wednesday as they became the state's newest lottery millionaires.
2015: Democrats hold up lottery payouts after Illinois Gov. compromises. After Illinois' Republican Governor Bruce Rauner froze the funds that pay out Illinois Lottery earnings last month, the governor made a compromise this week to get the funds flowing again, but it's now Democrats who are holding up the payouts.
2015: NY attorney general says that DraftKings and FanDuel constitute illegal gambling. The New York State attorney general on Tuesday ordered the two biggest daily fantasy sports companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop accepting bets from New York residents, saying their games constituted illegal gambling under state law.
2015: Calif. Lottery looking for $63 million winner. The California Lottery is looking for the winner of a SuperLotto Plus ticket valued at $63 million, which was sold in August at a 7-Eleven store in Chatsworth.
2014: New Jersey Lottery sells the first Monopoly Millionaires' Club jackpot winner. The Monopoly Millionaires' Club jackpot of $21 million was won in Friday night's drawing of the multi-state game by one ticket sold in New Jersey.
2012: $185 MILLION: Huge Powerball lottery jackpot set for Wednesday. There was no jackpot winner in the Saturday night drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery game, causing the grand prize to increase to an estimated $185 million for Wednesday's drawing.
2010: Historic lottery award ceremony Friday in Michigan. For the first time in Michigan Lottery history, two mega jackpot winners will collect their winnings at the same time Friday at Michigan Lottery headquarters in Lansing.
2009: Longtime Director of N.H. Lottery to retire. The longtime head of the New Hampshire state lottery is retiring after more than three decades with the agency.
2009: Woman buys cup of tea, wins $1 million jackpot. When Brandi Futch ordered a cup of sweet tea at a McDonald's restaurant in Goodlettsville, she had no idea just how sweet it would be.
2009: Poland proposes online gambling ban. Following weeks of political scandal, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is determined to ban online gambling in the EU-member state.
2009: New Jersey, California tickets will share $77M Mega Millions lottery jackpot. Two tickets matched all six numbers in the Nov. 10 Mega Millions drawing worth $77 million. One was purchased in New Jersey, and the other in California.
2008: Canada selling booby-prize lottery tickets. The Canadian lottery that regulates sales of scratch-off tickets in three provinces and three territories sells tickets whose grand prizes are already won.
2008: One winner of $9M Megabucks lottery jackpot. One lucky person quit worrying about the plunging markets, layoffs and other economic woes Saturday night after winning the Wisconsin Megabucks lottery.
2005: $262M jackpot sparked buying frenzy. If people seemed overwhelmed by lottery fever this week, it's for good reason. The estimated $262 million jackpot in the Mega Millions game reached the fourth-largest total in Georgia's history.
2005: Tennessee lottery player wins $125,692 Lotto 5 jackpot. A player who purchased a Lotto 5 ticket in Charleston in Bradley County will win the $125,692 jackpot from Wednesday night's drawing for that game.
2005: New Zealand lottery shop shortchanges winner. A New Zealand lottery winner who double-checked his jackpot found he had been shortchanged thousands of dollars by a storeowner.
2005: Editorial: The state lottery, starring.... The startup of the new North Carolina state lottery has of late turned into a soap opera with more twists than "All My Children."
2005: Michigan Store Sells its Second $1 Million Lottery Ticket. Someone in Muskegon County, Michigan, is $1 million richer today, thanks to the second jackpot-winning lottery ticket sold at a Muskegon Township corner store.
2005: Oklahama Lottery's Pick 3 game takes off. After four weeks of scratch-offs, the Oklahoma Lottery has diversified on schedule when the Pick 3 game started yesterday.
2005: Arizona Lottery tracks down real winner after ticket stolen. Arizona Lottery officials have tracked down the owner of a winning $1.4 million lottery ticket authorities said was fleeced by a convenience-store clerk.
2004: Wisconsin Lottery switches to computers to select winning numbers. The Wisconsin Lottery is now one of more than a dozen U.S. lotteries to use random number generating computers to select the winning numbers for its nightly on-line games, Michael J. Edmonds, Acting Lottery Director said last week.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Jumps to $63 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $63 million, with a cash option of $34.3 million.
2004: $32 Million: Florida Lotto Keeps Rolling. No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers, increasing the jackpot for Saturday's drawing to an estimated $32 million, lottery officials said Thursday.
2004: Idaho gambling sting nets 50 machines. Idaho State Police investigators said they seized about 50 illegal gambling machines in a raid of 13 bars across the state, most of them in the Boise region.
2003: Special projects shrink lottery proceeds. Almost $1.8 billion worth of Georgia lottery proceeds that could have gone for HOPE scholarships has instead been spent on a long list of other projects, including museums, security fences and metal detectors, and renovations of historic buildings.
2003: Campaigning for an Oklahoma lottery to begin soon. A referendum on an Oklahoma lottery plan is still a year away, but Governor Henry says he's planning on campaigning for the lottery proposal.
2003: Legislators mulling changes to lottery law. Plans to amend Tennessee's lottery law are already in the works, less than six months after the Legislature authorized the games.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$262 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2005
2.$258 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2016
3.€180 Million US$230.71 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 17, 2006
4.€168 Million US$213.36 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 13, 2012
5.$200 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 13, 2015
6.$185 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 14, 2012
7.$173.4 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 13, 2021
8.$165 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 13, 2020
9.$163 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2019
10.$158 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2020
11.€129 Million
US$138.79 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 13, 2015
12.$132 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2013
13.€107.88 Million
US$123.59 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2021
14.€104 Million
US$119.03 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2021
15.€104 Million
US$114.57 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2019
16.$110 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 13, 2013
17.$107 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 14, 2018
18.$106 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2004
18.$106 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 13, 2018
20.€90 Million
US$102.5 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 16, 2018
21.€90 Million
US$99.38 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 15, 2019
22.$96 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2009
23.$95 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 14, 2007
24.€66 Million
US$90.43 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2011
25.$90 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2017

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1990: johnjohnson
Sunday, Nov 11, 1990
31 years old
1981: Super-man
Wednesday, Nov 11, 1981
40 years old
1979: cashuz
Sunday, Nov 11, 1979
42 years old
1978: DazzlingDollar
Saturday, Nov 11, 1978
43 years old
1978: WealthyNRG1111
Saturday, Nov 11, 1978
43 years old
1977: Blesseo777
Friday, Nov 11, 1977
44 years old
1974: J-MAC
Monday, Nov 11, 1974
47 years old
1969: nickita
Tuesday, Nov 11, 1969
52 years old
1967: missthang67
Saturday, Nov 11, 1967
54 years old
1959: pecos50
Wednesday, Nov 11, 1959
62 years old
1957: spirit2010
Monday, Nov 11, 1957
64 years old
1956: renegadecanuck
Sunday, Nov 11, 1956
65 years old
1954: JLDA
Thursday, Nov 11, 1954
67 years old

Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: Typhoon Vamco makes landfall in Luzon and several offshore islands. The storm caused the worst floods in the region since Typhoon Ketsana in 2009 and killed 67 people.
2014: Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
2012: A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
2011: A helicopter crash just outside Mexico City kills 7, including Francisco Blake Mora the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico.
2006: Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
2004: New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
2004: The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
2002: A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people.
2001: Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
2000: Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
1999: The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
1993: A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1992: The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
1981: Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
1977: A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.
1975: Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
1975: Independence of Angola.
1972: Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
1968: Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
1967: Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
1966: NASA launches Gemini 12.
1965: Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
1962: Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1961: Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
1960: A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
1942: World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.
1940: World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history.
1940: World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.
1934: The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
1930: Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1926: The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
1923: Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
1921: The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1919: The Industrial Workers of the World attack an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Washington, ultimately resulting in the deaths of five people.
1919: Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
1918: World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
1918: Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1918: Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
1911: Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
1889: The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States..
1887: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
1880: Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
1869: The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
1865: Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
1839: The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1831: In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
1813: War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
1805: Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein: Eight thousand French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
1778: Cherry Valley massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
1750: Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
1750: The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
1724: Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
1675: Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1673: Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
1634: Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
1620: The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
1572: Tycho Brahe observes the supernova SN 1572.
1500: Treaty of Granada: Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
1215: The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
1100: Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned in the same day.
1028: Constantine VIII died, ending his uninterrupted reign as emperor or co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire of 66 years.
308: At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritusDiocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to end the civil wars of the Tetrarchy.

Births On This Day

1995: Josh Aloiai, New Zealand rugby league player
1994: Ellie Simmonds, English swimmer
1994: Sanju Samson, Indian cricketer
1993: Jamaal Lascelles, English footballer
1992: Sofía Luini, Argentine tennis player
1990: James Segeyaro, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
1990: Tom Dumoulin, Dutch road bicycle racer
1990: Georginio Wijnaldum, Dutch footballer
1989: Nick Blackman, English-Israeli footballer
1989: Adam Rippon, American figure skater
1989: Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer
1989: Lewis Williamson, Scottish race car driver
1988: David Depetris, Argentinian-Slovak footballer
1988: Mikako Komatsu, Japanese voice actress and singer
1988: Kyle Naughton, English footballer
1987: Vinny Guadagnino, American actor
1987: Chanelle Hayes, English model and singer
1986: François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player
1986: Jon Batiste, American singer and pianist
1986: Mark Sanchez, American football player
1986: Victor Cruz, American football player
1985: Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban footballer
1985: Austin Collie, American football player
1985: Tiidrek Nurme, Estonian runner
1985: Jessica Sierra, American singer
1985: Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
1984: Stephen Hunt, English footballer
1984: Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer
1983: Arouna Koné, Ivorian footballer
1983: Philipp Lahm, German footballer
1983: Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese voice actor and singer
1982: Gonzalo Canale, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1982: Jeremy Williams, English model, actor, and poet
1980: Willie Parker, American football player and coach
1980: Edmoore Takaendesa, Zimbabwean-German rugby player
1978: Lou Vincent, New Zealand cricketer
1977: Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (d. 2002)
1977: Jill Vedder, American philanthropist, activist and fashion model
1977: Maniche, Portuguese footballer and manager
1977: Marsha Mehran, Iranian-American author (d. 2014)
1976: Jason Grilli, American baseball player
1976: Jesse F. Keeler, Canadian bass player
1975: Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby player
1974: Jon B., American singer-songwriter and producer
1974: Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer
1974: Static Major, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
1974: Wajahatullah Wasti, Pakistani cricketer
1973: Jason White, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972: Adam Beach, Canadian actor
1971: David DeLuise, American actor and director
1971: Tomas Pačėsas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1968: David L. Cook, American singer-songwriter and comedian
1968: Diego Fuser, Italian footballer and manager
1967: Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
1967: David Doak, Northern Irish video game designer
1967: Frank John Hughes, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1966: Benedicta Boccoli, Italian model and actress
1966: Vince Colosimo, Australian actor
1966: Alison Doody, Irish model and actress
1965: Max Mutchnick, American screenwriter and producer
1965: Kim Stockwood, Canadian singer-songwriter
1964: Margarete Bagshaw, American painter and potter (d. 2015)
1964: Calista Flockhart, American actress
1964: Philip McKeon, American actor (d. 2019)
1963: Billy Gunn, American wrestler and actor
1962: Mario Fenech, Maltese-Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1962: Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek footballer (d. 1997)
1962: Demi Moore, American actress, director, and producer
1962: James Morrison, Australian trumpet player and composer
1961: Yuri Milner, Russian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist
1960: Colin Harvey, English author and critic (d. 2011)
1960: Chuck Hernandez, American baseball player and coach
1960: Paquito Ochoa, Jr., Filipino lawyer and politician, 37th Executive Secretary of the Philippines
1960: Cristina Odone, Kenyan-Italian journalist and author
1960: Peter Parros, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1960: Stanley Tucci, American actor and director
1959: Lee Haney, American bodybuilder
1959: Richard Rowe, English jockey and trainer
1959: Christian Schwarzenegger, Swiss criminologist and academic
1959: Carl Williams, American boxer (d. 2013)
1958: Luz Casal, Spanish singer-songwriter and actress
1958: Kazimieras Černis, Lithuanian astronomer and astrophysicist
1958: Carlos Lacámara, Cuban-American actor and playwright
1958: Kathy Lette, Australian-English author
1956: Ian Craig Marsh, English guitarist
1956: Talat Aziz, Ghazal singer
1955: Dave Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955: Jigme Singye Wangchuk, King of Bhutan
1955: Teri York, Canadian diver
1954: Steve Brain, English rugby player
1954: Mary Gaitskill, American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
1954: Roger Slifer, American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2015)
1953: Marshall Crenshaw, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953: Andy Partridge, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer
1951: Kim Peek, American megasavant (d. 2009)
1951: Marc Summers, American television host and producer
1951: Fuzzy Zoeller, American golfer
1950: Mircea Dinescu, Romanian journalist and poet
1950: Jim Peterik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949: Ismail Petra of Kelantan, former Sultan of Kelantan (d. 2019)
1949: Kathy Postlewait, American golfer
1948: Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (d. 1986)
1948: Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
1948: Robert John "Mutt" Lange, British-South African record producer and songwriter
1946: Al Holbert, American race car driver (d. 1988)
1945: Chris Dreja, English guitarist and songwriter
1945: Vince Martell, American singer and guitarist
1945: Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
1943: Doug Frost, Australian swim coach
1942: Jonathan Fenby, English journalist and businessman
1942: Roy Fredericks, Guyanese-American cricketer and politician (d. 2000)
1942: K. Connie Kang, Korean American journalist and author (d. 2019)
1942: Diane Wolkstein, American author and radio host (d. 2013)
1940: Barbara Boxer, American journalist and politician
1940: Dennis Coffey, American guitarist
1939: Denise Alexander, American actress
1937: Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver (d. 2001)
1937: Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
1937: Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar
1936: Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
1935: Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
1933: Martino Finotto, Italian race car driver (d. 2014)
1933: Peter B. Lewis, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1932: Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (d. 2012)
1930: Hugh Everett III, American physicist and mathematician (d. 1982)
1930: Vernon Handley, English conductor (d. 2008)
1930: Mildred Dresselhaus, American physicist and academic (d. 2017)
1929: LaVern Baker, American singer (d. 1997)
1929: Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author and poet
1929: Martin Jacomb, English lawyer, businessman, and academic
1928: Ernestine Anderson, American singer (d. 2016)
1928: Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (d. 2012)
1927: Mose Allison, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016)
1927: Martin Špegelj, Croatian general and politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (d. 2014)
1926: Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1926: Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian race car driver (d. 2016)
1925: John Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1925: June Whitfield, English actress (d. 2018)
1925: Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1922: Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 2007)
1921: Terrel Bell, American sergeant, academic, and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Education (d. 1996)
1920: Roy Jenkins, Welsh-English captain, academic, and politician, President of the European Commission (d. 2003)
1920: Walter Krupinski, German captain and pilot (d. 2000)
1919: Kalle Päätalo, Finnish soldier and author (d. 2000)
1918: Stubby Kaye, American entertainer (d. 1997)
1916: Robert Carr, English engineer and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 2012)
1915: William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (d. 2005)
1915: Anna Schwartz, American economist and author (d. 2012)
1914: James Gilbert Baker, American astronomer, optician, and academic (d. 2005)
1914: Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigerian academic and jurist, 2nd Chief Justice of Nigeria (d. 1991)
1914: Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1914: Henry Wade, American soldier and lawyer (d. 2001)
1914: Daisy Bates, American activist who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957 (d. 1999)
1912: Thomas C. Mann, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to El Salvador (d. 1999)
1911: Roberto Matta, Chilean-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 2002)
1909: Robert Ryan, American actor (d. 1973)
1909: Piero Scotti, Italian race car driver (d. 1976)
1907: Orestis Laskos, Greek director, screenwriter, and poet (d. 1992)
1906: Brother Theodore, German-American monologuist and comedian (d. 2001)
1904: Alger Hiss, American lawyer and convicted spy (d. 1996)
1904: J. H. C. Whitehead, Indian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1960)
1901: Sam Spiegel, American film producer (d. 1985)
1901: F. Van Wyck Mason, American historian and author (d. 1978)
1900: Maria Babanova, Russian stage and film actress (d. 1983)
1899: Pat O'Brien, American actor (d. 1983)
1898: René Clair, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1896: Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, composer, and activist (d. 1977)
1896: Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, Mexican-American historian (d. 1958)
1895: Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic (d. 1990)
1894: Beverly Bayne, American actress (d. 1982)
1891: Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player and manager (d. 1954)
1891: Grunya Sukhareva, Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer (d. 1981)
1888: Abul Kalam Azad, Indian activist, scholar, and politician, Indian Minister of Education (d. 1958)
1888: J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (d.1982)
1887: Roland Young, English-American actor (d. 1953)
1885: George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945)
1883: Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor and academic (d. 1969)
1882: Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (d. 1973)
1872: David I. Walsh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1947)
1869: Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (d. 1947)
1868: Édouard Vuillard, French painter and academic (d. 1940)
1867: Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1901)
1866: Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (d. 1956)
1864: Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1921)
1863: Paul Signac, French painter and educator (d. 1935)
1860: Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Australian politician, 12th Premier of Queensland (d. 1898)
1857: Janet Erskine Stuart, English nun and educator (d. 1914)
1855: Stevan Sremac, Serbian author and activist (d. 1906)
1852: Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austrian-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)
1836: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and author (d. 1907)
1821: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, and philosopher (d. 1881)
1791: Josef Munzinger, Swiss lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1855)
1768: Sikandar Jah, (d. 1829) 3rd Nizam of Hyderabad State
1748: Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
1743: Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish botanist, entomologist, and psychologist (d. 1828)
1696: Andrea Zani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1757)
1668: Johann Albert Fabricius, German author and scholar (d. 1736)
1633: George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1695)
1599: Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (d. 1655)
1599: Ottavio Piccolomini, Austrian-Italian field marshal (d. 1656)
1579: Frans Snyders, Flemish painter (d. 1657)
1569: Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and chemist (d. 1611)
1512: Marcin Kromer, Prince-Bishop of Warmia (d. 1589)
1493: Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist (d. 1541)
1491: Martin Bucer, German Protestant reformer (d. 1551)
1449: Catherine of Poděbrady, Hungarian queen (d. 1464)
1441: Charlotte of Savoy, French queen (d. 1483)
1430: Jošt of Rožmberk, Bishop of Breslau (d. 1467)
1220: Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (d. 1271)
1155: Alfonso VIII of Castile (d. 1214)
1154: Sancho I of Portugal (d. 1212)
1050: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)

Deaths On This Day

2017: Chiquito de la Calzada, Spanish singer, actor and comedian (b. 1932)
2016: Victor Bailey, American singer and bass player (b. 1960)
2016: Robert Vaughn, American actor (b. 1932)
2015: Rita Gross, American theologian and author (b. 1943)
2015: Nathaniel Marston, American actor and producer (b. 1975)
2014: John Doar, American lawyer and activist (b. 1921)
2014: Big Bank Hank, American rapper (b. 1956)
2014: Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (b. 1920)
2014: Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (b. 1932)
2014: Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
2013: John Barnhill, American basketball player and coach (b. 1938)
2013: Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (b. 1917)
2013: Bob Beckham, American singer-songwriter (b. 1927)
2013: John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (b. 1929)
2013: Atilla Karaosmanoğlu, Turkish economist and politician, 33rd Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1931)
2012: Lam Adesina, Nigerian educator and politician, Governor of Oyo State (b. 1939)
2012: Joe Egan, English rugby player and coach (b. 1919)
2012: Rex Hunt, English lieutenant, pilot, and diplomat, Governor of the Falkland Islands (b. 1926)
2012: Victor Mees, Belgian footballer (b. 1927)
2012: Harry Wayland Randall, American photographer (b. 1915)
2011: Francisco Blake Mora, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1966)
2010: Marie Osborne Yeats, American actress and costume designer (b. 1911)
2008: Herb Score, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1933)
2008: Mustafa Şekip Birgöl, Turkish colonel (b. 1903)
2007: Delbert Mann, American director and producer (b. 1920)
2006: Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (b. 1974)
2005: Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American director and producer (b. 1930)
2005: Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, English photographer (b. 1939)
2005: Peter Drucker, Austrian-American author, theorist, and educator (b. 1909)
2004: Dayton Allen, American comedian and voice actor (b. 1919)
2004: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
2004: Richard Dembo, French director and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2003: Miquel Martí i Pol, Catalan poet (b. 1929)
2002: Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (b. 1920)
2001: Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor (b. 1920)
2000: Sandra Schmitt, German skier (b. 1981)
1999: Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
1999: Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1923)
1998: Frank Brimsek, American ice hockey player and soldier (b. 1913)
1998: Paddy Clancy, Irish singer and actor (b. 1922)
1997: Rod Milburn, American hurdler and coach (b. 1950)
1997: William Alland, American film producer and writer (b. 1916)
1994: John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1908)
1994: Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, historian, and publicist (b. 1922)
1993: Erskine Hawkins, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1914)
1993: John Stanley, American author and illustrator (b. 1914)
1990: Attilio Demaría, Argentinian footballer (b. 1909)
1990: Sadi Irmak, Turkish physician and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1904)
1990: Alexis Minotis, Greek actor and director (b. 1898)
1990: Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1909)
1988: Charles Groves Wright Anderson, South African-Australian colonel and politician (b. 1897)
1988: William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (b. 1900)
1985: Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish ice hockey player (b. 1959)
1985: Arthur Rothstein, American photographer and educator (b. 1915)
1984: Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899)
1980: Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland (b. 1901)
1979: Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (b. 1894)
1977: Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1950)
1976: Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898)
1974: Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist, composer, and academic (b. 1894)
1973: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1973: Richard von Frankenberg, German race car driver and journalist (b. 1922)
1972: Berry Oakley, American bass player (b. 1948)
1968: Jeanne Demessieux, French pianist and composer (b. 1921)
1965: Luis Arturo González López Guatemalan supreme court judge and briefly acting president (b. 1900)
1962: Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1878)
1961: Behiç Erkin, Turkish colonel and politician, Turkish Minister of Environment and Urban Planning (b. 1876)
1953: Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)
1950: Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875)
1949: Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Minister (b. 1878)
1945: Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
1944: Munir Ertegun, Turkish diplomat (b. 1883)
1940: Muhittin Akyüz, Turkish general and diplomat (b. 1870)
1939: Bob Marshall, American author and activist (b. 1901)
1931: Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (b. 1840)
1921: Léon Moreaux, French target shooter (b. 1852)
1919: Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1832)
1918: George Lawrence Price, Canadian soldier (b. 1892)
1917: Liliuokalani of Hawaii (b. 1838)
1887: Haymarket affair defendants:
1887: George Engel, German-American businessman and activist (b. 1836)
1887: Adolph Fischer, German-American printer and activist (b. 1858)
1887: Albert Parsons, American journalist and activist (b. 1848)
1887: August Spies, American journalist and activist (b. 1855)
1884: Alfred Brehm, German zoologist, author, and illustrator (b. 1827)
1880: Ned Kelly, Australian criminal (b. 1855)
1880: Lucretia Mott, American activist (b. 1793)
1862: James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (b. 1793)
1861: Pedro V of Portugal (b. 1837)
1855: Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1813)
1831: Nat Turner, American slave and rebel leader (b. 1800)
1812: Platon Levshin, Russian metropolitan (b. 1737)
1724: Joseph Blake, English criminal (b. 1700)
1638: Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1562)
1623: Philippe de Mornay, French theorist and author (b. 1549)
1583: Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, Irish rebel
1561: Hans Tausen, Danish reformer (b. 1494)
1331: Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia (b. c. 1285)
1285: King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1189: King William II of Sicily ("the Good") (b. 1153)
1130: Teresa of León, Countess of Portugal, Portuguese regent (b. 1080)
1089: Saint Peter Igneus, Italian Benedictine monk
1078: Udo of Nellenburg, Archbishop of Trier (during the siege of Tübingen)
1028: Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor (b. 960)
875: Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia
865: Petronas, Byzantine general
865: Antony the Younger, Byzantine monk and saint (b. 785)
683: Yazid I, Muslim caliph (b. 647)
405: Arsacius of Tarsus, Tarsian archbishop (b. 324)

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