November 19
On This Day in History: November 19 November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 42 days remain until the end of the year.
Lottery News On This Day 2019 I won the lottery at 22, here's what happened next . Learn what life is like years after a 22-year-old scratched off a lottery ticket that won £1M (US$1.3 million).2018 Homeless man dives into dumpster to retrieve lottery ticket worth $4.82M . A homeless Michigan man who realized he won the state's Lotto 47 game dived into a dumpster to retrieve the winning ticket.2015 $42 million NY Lottery winner wants to remain blue-collar worker for life . A Cayuga County, New York, man who won $42.5 million playing the Lotto said the winning numbers represented his parents' birth dates.2013 Texas Lottery reports record-breaking 2013 . The Texas Lottery Commission today reported record results for fiscal year 2013, its best year for sales and revenue in the Lottery's 21-year history.2013 Despite publishing surveillance photos, Calif. Lottery fails to find winner . Despite months of trying to track him down, a mystery Lotto player in Los Angeles didn't claim his prize worth nearly half a million dollars by the deadline Monday evening.2012 New Fla. Lottery raffle to make a millionaire every week . Florida Lottery officials are betting that a new seven-week raffle series will attract players excited by weekly millionaires and great gifts with their new game, called 25th Anniversary Millionaire. The first drawing is Monday.2010 New Jersey lottery turns 40 with record $2.6B in revenue . The New Jersey Lottery, which turns 40 in December, continues to be an economic force in a state desperate for cash.2010 PA Millionaire Raffle lottery tickets on sale today . Tickets for the Pennsylvania Lottery's 11th Millionaire Raffle, which offers 6,000 cash prizes totaling more than $5 million, go on sale today, Nov. 19.2006 N.J. Lottery to offer limited raffle-style New Year's drawing . The New Jersey Lottery is offering a special New Year's drawing in which a limited amount of tickets will be sold for four $1 million prizes.2006 Ohio lottery numbers same as game score . Ohio State's 42-39 victory over Michigan also was lucky for players of the Ohio Lottery.2005 Texas Lottery to change Lotto game back to 6/54 format . Texas lottery commissioners moved one step closer Friday to returning the Lotto Texas game to its original format by signing off on a plan to bounce the so-called bonus ball from the format that decides how the multimillion-dollar jackpots are won.2004 $83 Million Powerball Jackpot Waiting to Be Won . Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $83 million, with a cash option of $45.6 million.2004 Florida Lotto Soars to $50 Million . No ticket matched all six Florida Lotto numbers drawn Wednesday night, lottery officials said Thursday, pushing the jackpot to $50 million, the largest in more than a year.2004 Colorado Lottery cuts $1 million from budget . The Colorado Lottery cut nearly $1 million from its $22.8 million 2005-06 budget request in an era when many agencies are looking for additional funding from the already tight state budget.2004 Texas Lottery cuts 33 jobs . In a shake-up billed as a reorganization, the Texas Lottery Commission eliminated 33 jobs Thursday, saying it will save $296,000 annually in salaries.2004 Officials Say Oklahoma Lottery Could Take Year To Start . Oklahoma voters earlier this month ended Gov. Brad Henry's yearslong battle to get a statewide lottery, but the task of making the lottery a reality has just begun.2004 Canadian and U.S. officials shut down lottery scams . Canadian and U.S. investigators said Thursday that they had shut down four lottery scams that preyed on elderly consumers.2003 Colorado Lottery Director Takes Early Retirement . The director of the Colorado Lottery has retired, saying he chose to take advantage of a state personnel program, which allows early retirement with reduced benefits.2003 Mega Millions jackpot increases to $16 million . The jackpot in the multistate Mega Millions lottery drawing grew to $16 million after no tickets matched all six numbers in the Tuesday drawing.2003 Powerball revenue surges in Indiana . A record number of Indiana jackpots has sent Powerball revenues skyrocketing, with the state selling nearly twice as many tickets in the past four months as it did during the same period a year ago.2003 Passing through, worker hits lottery for $100,000 at mall . man from Hershey, Pennsylvania found some extra holiday cash at a lottery dealer at the Schuylkill Mall on Oct. 3 and collected his winnings Thursday.2003 Lottery fund may face changes . Two powerful Colorado legislators said they will push for changes in the state's management of the Conservation Trust Fund, a $43 million pot of lottery profits that is supposed to pay for parks and recreation.🔽 Show All Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day 1. $333.5 Million Draw Date
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🔽 Show All Worldwide Events On This Day 2013 A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others. 2010 The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914. 2006 Nintendo’s first video game console with motion control, the Wii , is released.2004 The Malice at the Palace : The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games. 2002 The Greek oil tanker Prestige Galicia , releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history. 1999 Shenzhou 1 : The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft .1998 Clinton-Lewinsky scandal : The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton .1998 Vincent van Gogh 's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard 1996 Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire . 1994 In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers. 1988 Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.1985 Cold War : In Geneva , U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.1985 Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco , in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States , stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.1985 Police in Baling , Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud. 1984 San Juanico disaster : A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.1979 Iran hostage crisis : Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran .1977 TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands , killing 131.1969 Apollo program : Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum humans to walk on the Moon .1969 Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.1967 The establishment of TVB , the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. 1959 The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel . 1955 National Review 1954 Télé Monte Carlo , Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III .1952 Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece . 1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe . 1946 Afghanistan , Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations .1944 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. 1944 World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden . 1943 Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv ), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. 1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad : Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad , turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. 1942 Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda , prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.1941 World War II : Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran . The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.1916 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures .1912 First Balkan War : The Serbian Army captures Bitola , ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia .1911 The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele , the latter killing the entire crew except the captain. 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War : Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia .1881 A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa , Ukraine. 1863 American Civil War : U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania .1847 The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad , is opened. 1816 Warsaw University is established.1802 The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (Present day Belize ) 1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty , which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War . 1493 Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico ).1095 At the Council of Clermont , Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade to the Holy Land . 636 The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq . 461 Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire . The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer .🔽 Show All Births On This Day 1999 Evgenia Medvedeva , Russian figure skater1997 Sarah Allan , Australian footballer1997 Paolino Bertaccini , Belgian footballer1997 Zach Collins , American basketball player1997 Yaroslav Kotlyarov , Ukrainian footballer1997 Andrei Lazukin , Russian figure skater1997 Logan Martin , French footballer1997 McCaughey septuplets , the first surviving set of septuplets1997 Rachel Parsons , American ice dancer1997 Dušan Rajović , Serbian cyclist1997 Taras Sakiv , Ukrainian footballer1997 Mattia Sanzone , Italian footballer1997 Nashra Sandhu , Pakastani cricketer1997 Laura Szabó , Hungarian handballer1995 Tara Sutaria , Indian actress and singer1995 Vanessa Axente , Hungarian model1994 Ibrahima Mbaye , Senegalese footballer1993 Kerim Frei , Austrian footballer1993 Cleo Massey , Australian actress and director1993 Suso , Spanish footballer1992 Cameron Bancroft , Australian cricketer1991 Marina Marković , Serbian basketball player1991 Fabien Antunes , French footballer1991 Genki Yamamoto , Japanese professional racing cyclist1990 Marquise Goodwin , American football player1990 John Moore , American ice hockey player1990 Benedikt Schmid , German footballer1989 John McCarthy , Australian footballer (d. 2012)1989 Roman Sergeevich Trofimov , Russian ski jumper1989 Tyga , American rapper1988 Timo Eichfuss , Estonian basketball player1988 Patrick Kane , American ice hockey player1987 Sílvia Soler Espinosa , Spanish tennis player1986 Sam Betty , English rugby player1986 Jeannie Ortega , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress1986 Michael Saunders , Canadian baseball player1986 Jessicah Schipper , Australian swimmer1986 Veronica Scott , American fashion designer, co-founded Fuchsia Clothing 1986 Milan Smiljanić , Serbian footballer1985 Chris Eagles , English footballer1985 Alex Mack , American football player1984 Dawid Kucharski , Polish footballer1984 Brittany Maynard , American activist (d. 2014)1984 Janus del Prado , Filipino actor1983 Chandra Crawford , Canadian skier1983 Adam Driver , American actor1983 Daria Werbowy , Polish-Canadian model1981 Marcus Banks , American basketball player1981 André Lotterer , German race car driver1981 Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe , Argentine rugby player1981 DJ Tukutz , South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter1981 Mark Wallace , Welsh-English cricketer1980 Courtney Anderson , American football player1980 Andrew Copson , English businessman1980 Otis Grigsby , American football player1980 Vladimir Radmanović , Serbian basketball player1979 Keith Buckley , American singer-songwriter1979 Mahé Drysdale , New Zealand rower1979 John-Ford Griffin , American baseball player1979 Ryan Howard , American baseball player1979 Larry Johnson , American football player1979 Leam Richardson , English footballer and manager1978 Dries Buytaert , Belgian computer programmer, founded Acquia 1978 Matt Dusk , Canadian singer1978 Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová , Czech discus thrower and shot putter1977 Kerri Strug , American gymnast and runner1976 Jack Dorsey , American businessman, co-founded Twitter 1976 Robin Dunne , Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter1976 Jun Shibata , Japanese singer-songwriter1976 Petr Sýkora , Czech ice hockey player1976 Stylianos Venetidis , Greek footballer and manager1975 Toby Bailey , American basketball player and agent1975 Sushmita Sen , Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994 1974 Arun Vijay , Indian actor and singer1973 Billy Currington , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1973 Savion Glover , American dancer and choreographer1973 Django Haskins , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1972 Sandrine Holt , English-American model and actress1971 Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur , African-American author and activist1971 Justin Chancellor , English bass player1971 Jeremy McGrath , American motorcycle racer1971 Naoko Mori , Japanese-English actress and singer1971 Alice Peacock , American singer-songwriter1971 Tony Rich , American R&B singer-songwriter and musician1969 Philippe Adams , Belgian race car driver1969 Erika Alexander , American actress and screenwriter1969 Ertuğrul Sağlam , Turkish footballer and coach1969 Richard Virenque , Moroccan-French cyclist and sportscaster1967 Randi Kaye , American journalist1966 Shmuley Boteach , American rabbi and author1966 Gail Devers , American sprinter and hurdler1966 Rocco DiSpirito , American chef and author1966 Kakhaber Kacharava , Georgian footballer and manager1966 Jason Scott Lee , American actor and martial artist1965 Laurent Blanc , French footballer and manager1965 Douglas Henshall , Scottish actor1965 Jason Pierce , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spiritualized and Spacemen 3 )1965 Paulo S. L. M. Barreto , Brazilian cryptographer and academic1965 Paul Weitz , American actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and playwright1964 Fred Diamond , American-English mathematician and academic1964 Vincent Herring , American saxophonist and flute player1964 Phil Hughes , Irish footballer and coach1964 Jung Jin-young , South Korean actor1964 Irina Laricheva , Russian target shooter1964 Eric Musselman , American basketball player and coach1964 Nicholas Patrick , English-American engineer and astronaut1964 Peter Rohde , Australian footballer and coach1964 Tony Ryall , New Zealand banker and politician, 38th New Zealand Minister of Health 1964 Ronnie Sinclair , Scottish footballer and coach1964 Alfredo Zaiat , Argentine economist and journalist1964 Shawn Holman , American baseball pitcher1963 Terry Farrell , American actress1963 Jon Potter , English-American field hockey player1963 Bill Dunlop , Canadian Professional, Olympic & Pan Am Games Boxer1962 Jodie Foster , American actress, director, and producer1962 Sean Parnell , American lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Alaska 1962 Dodie Boy Peñalosa , Filipino boxer and trainer1961 Jim L. Mora , American football player and coach1961 Meg Ryan , American actress and producer1960 Miss Elizabeth , American wrestler and manager (d. 2003)1960 Matt Sorum , American drummer, songwriter, and producer1959 Robert Barron , American bishop, author, and theologian1959 Jo Bonner , American politician1959 Allison Janney , American actress1958 Isabella Blow , English magazine editor (d. 2007)1958 Algirdas Butkevičius , Lithuanian sergeant and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lithuania 1958 Terrence C. Carson , American actor and singer1958 Annette Gordon-Reed , American historian, author, and academic1958 Charlie Kaufman , American director, producer, and screenwriter1958 Michael Wilbon , American sportscaster and journalist1957 Ofra Haza , Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2000)1957 Tom Virtue , American actor1956 Peter Carter , English diplomat, British Ambassador to Estonia (d. 2014)1956 Eileen Collins , American colonel, pilot, and astronaut1956 Ann Curry , Guamanian-American journalist1956 Glynnis O'Connor , American actress1955 Sam Hamm , American screenwriter and producer1954 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi , Egyptian field marshal and politician, 6th President of Egypt 1954 Réjean Lemelin , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1954 Kathleen Quinlan , American actress1953 Robert Beltran , American actor1953 Tom Villard , American actor (d. 1994)1952 Stephen Soldz , American psychoanalyst and activist1951 Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton , Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 1950 Peter Biyiasas , Greek-Canadian chess player1949 Raymond Blanc , French chef and author1949 Ahmad Rashād , American football player and sportscaster1947 Bob Boone , American baseball player and manager1947 Anfinn Kallsberg , Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands 1947 Lamar S. Smith , American lawyer and politician1945 Hans Monderman , Dutch engineer (d. 2008)1945 Bobby Tolan , American baseball player and manager1944 Agnes Baltsa , Greek soprano and actress1944 Dennis Hull , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster1943 Fred Lipsius , American saxophonist and educator1943 Aurelio Monteagudo , Cuban-American baseball player and manager (d. 1990)1942 Roland Clift , English engineer and academic1942 Larry Gilbert , American golfer (d. 1998)1942 Calvin Klein , American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc. 1942 Sharon Olds , American poet and academic1941 Dan Haggerty , American actor and producer (d. 2016)1941 Tommy Thompson , American captain and politician, 19th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services 1940 Gary Gruber , author and expert on test-prep1939 Emil Constantinescu , Romanian academic and politician, 3rd President of Romania 1939 Tom Harkin , American commander, lawyer, and politician1939 Jane Mansbridge , American political scientist and academic1939 Warren "Pete" Moore , American singer-songwriter and record producer (d. 2017)1939 Richard Zare , American chemist and academic1938 Len Killeen , South African rugby league player (d. 2011)1938 Frank Misson , Australian cricketer1938 Ted Turner , American businessman and philanthropist, founded Turner Broadcasting System 1937 Penelope Leach , English psychologist and author1936 Dick Cavett , American actor and talk show host1936 Ray Collins , American singer (d. 2012)1936 Yuan T. Lee , Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate1935 Rashad Khalifa , Egyptian-American biochemist and scholar (d. 1990)1935 Jack Welch , American engineer, businessman, and author1934 Kurt Hamrin , Swedish footballer and scout1934 Valentin Ivanov , Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)1934 David Lloyd-Jones , English conductor1933 Larry King , American journalist and talk show host1933 Jerry Sheindlin , American judge and author1932 Eleanor F. Helin , American astronomer (d. 2009)1930 Kurt Nielsen , Danish tennis player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2011)1929 Norman Cantor , Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004)1928 Dara Singh , Indian wrestler, actor, and politician (d. 2012)1926 Jeane Kirkpatrick , American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)1926 Pino Rauti , Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012)1926 Barry Reckord , Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (d. 2011)1925 Zygmunt Bauman , Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic (d. 2017)1924 William Russell , English actor1924 Knut Steen , Norwegian-Italian sculptor (d. 2011)1924 Margaret Turner-Warwick , English physician and academic (d. 2017)1923 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. , American author, critic, and academic (d. 2013)1922 Salil Chowdhury , Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)1922 Yuri Knorozov , Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (d. 1999)1922 Rajko Mitić , Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)1921 Roy Campanella , American baseball player and coach (d. 1993)1921 Peter Ruckman , American pastor and educator (d. 2016)1920 Gene Tierney , American actress and singer (d. 1991)1919 Gillo Pontecorvo , Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2006)1919 Alan Young , English-Canadian actor, singer, and director (d. 2016)1919 Lolita Lebrón , Puerto Rican nationalist (d. 2010)1917 Indira Gandhi , Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)1915 Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. , American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)1912 Bernard Joseph McLaughlin , American bishop (d. 2015)1912 George Emil Palade , Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)1912 Robert Simpson , American meteorologist and author (d. 2014)1910 Adrian Conan Doyle , English race car driver, author, and explorer (d. 1970)1909 Peter Drucker , Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (d. 2005)1907 Jack Schaefer , American author (d. 1991)1906 Franz Schädle , German SS officer (d. 1945)1905 Eleanor Audley , American actress (d. 1991)1905 Tommy Dorsey , American trombonist, composer and bandleader (The California Ramblers ) (d. 1956)1904 Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. , American murderer (d. 1971)1901 Nina Bari , Russian mathematician (d. 1961)1900 Bunny Ahearne , Irish-English ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)1900 Mikhail Lavrentyev , Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)1900 Anna Seghers , German author and politician (d. 1983)1899 Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei , Iranian religious leader and scholar (d. 1992)1899 Allen Tate , American poet and critic (d. 1979)1898 Klement Jug , Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)1898 Arthur R. von Hippel , German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)1897 Quentin Roosevelt , American lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)1895 Louise Dahl-Wolfe , American photographer (d. 1989)1895 Evert van Linge , Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)1894 Américo Tomás , Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)1893 René Voisin , French trumpet player (d. 1952)1892 Thomas Clay , English footballer and coach (d. 1949)1892 Huw T. Edwards , Welsh poet and politician (d. 1970)1889 Clifton Webb , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1966)1888 José Raúl Capablanca , Cuban-American chess player and theologian (d. 1942)1887 James B. Sumner , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)1883 Ned Sparks , Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1957)1879 Mait Metsanurk , Estonian author and playwright (d. 1957)1877 Giuseppe Volpi , Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)1876 Tatyana Afanasyeva , Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)1875 Mikhail Kalinin , Russian civil servant and politician, 1st Head of State of The Soviet Union (d. 1946)1873 Elizabeth McCombs , the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand (d. 1935)1862 Billy Sunday , American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935)1859 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov , Russian composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1935)1845 Agnes Giberne , Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939)1843 Richard Avenarius , German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1896)1843 C. X. Larrabee , American businessman (d. 1914)1834 Georg Hermann Quincke , German physicist and academic (d. 1924)1833 Wilhelm Dilthey , German psychologist, sociologist, and historian (d. 1911)1831 James A. Garfield , American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)1828 Rani Lakshmibai , Indian queen (d. 1858)1812 Karl Schwarz , German theologian and politician (d. 1885)1808 Janez Bleiweis , Slovenian journalist, physician, and politician (d. 1881)1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps , French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894)1802 Solomon Foot , American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)1770 Bertel Thorvaldsen , Danish sculptor and academic (d. 1844)1752 George Rogers Clark , American general (d. 1818)1722 Leopold Auenbrugger , Austrian physician (d. 1809)1722 Benjamin Chew , American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)1711 Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)1700 Jean-Antoine Nollet , French priest and physicist (d. 1770)1617 Eustache Le Sueur , French painter and educator (d. 1655)1600 Charles I of England (d. 1649)1600 Lieuwe van Aitzema , Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669)1597 Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (d. 1660)1563 Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester , English poet and politician (d. 1626)1503 Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1547)1464 Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)1417 Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (d. 1480)🔽 Show All Deaths On This Day 2017 Charles Manson , American cult leader and mass murderer (b. 1934)2017 Warren "Pete" Moore , American singer-songwriter and record producer (b. 1939)2017 Jana Novotná , Czech tennis player (b. 1968)2017 Della Reese , American singer and actress (b. 1931)2017 Mel Tillis , American singer and songwriter (b. 1932)2015 Armand , Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1946)2015 Allen E. Ertel , American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)2015 Ron Hynes , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950)2015 Korrie Layun Rampan , Indonesian author, poet, and critic (b. 1953)2015 Mal Whitfield , American runner and diplomat (b. 1924)2014 Roy Bhaskar , English philosopher and academic (b. 1944)2014 Jeremiah Coffey , Irish-Australian bishop (b. 1933)2014 Pete Harman , American businessman (b. 1919)2014 Richard A. Jensen , American theologian, author, and academic (b. 1934)2014 Gholam Hossein Mazloumi , Iranian footballer and manager (b. 1950)2014 Mike Nichols , German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)2013 Babe Birrer , American baseball player (b. 1928)2013 Dora Dougherty Strother , American pilot and academic (b. 1921)2013 Ray Gosling , English journalist, author, and activist (b. 1939)2013 Frederick Sanger , English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)2013 Charlotte Zolotow , American author and poet (b. 1915)2012 John Hefin , Welsh director and producer (b. 1941)2012 Shiro Miya , Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1943)2012 Warren Rudman , American lawyer and politician (b. 1930)2012 Boris Strugatskiy , Russian author (b. 1933)2011 Ömer Lütfi Akad , Turkish director and screenwriter (b. 1916)2011 John Neville , English actor (b. 1925)2011 Ruth Stone , American poet and author (b. 1915)2010 Pat Burns , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1952)2009 Johnny Delgado , Filipino actor (b. 1948)2007 Kevin DuBrow , American singer-songwriter (b. 1955)2007 Mike Gregory , English rugby player and coach (b. 1964)2005 Erik Balling , Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)2005 Steve Belichick , American football player, coach and scout (b. 1919)2004 George Canseco , Filipino journalist and composer (b. 1934)2004 Piet Esser , Dutch sculptor and academic (b. 1914)2004 Helmut Griem , German actor and director (b. 1932)2004 Trina Schart Hyman , American author and illustrator (b. 1939)2004 Terry Melcher , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)2004 John Vane , English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)2003 Ian Geoghegan , Australian race car driver (b. 1940)2001 Marcelle Ferron , Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)1999 Alexander Liberman , Russian-American artist and publisher (b. 1912)1998 Ted Fujita , Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)1998 Alan J. Pakula , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)1998 Bernard Thompson , English director and producer (b. 1926)1992 Bobby Russell , American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)1992 Diane Varsi , American actress (b. 1938)1991 Reggie Nalder , Austrian-American actor (b. 1907)1990 Sun Li-jen , Chinese general and politician (b. 1900)1989 Grant Adcox , American race car driver (b. 1950)1988 Christina Onassis , American-Greek businesswoman (b. 1950)1988 Peggy Parish , American author (b. 1927)1985 Stepin Fetchit , American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)1985 Juan Arvizu , Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)1983 Tom Evans , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)1976 Basil Spence , Indian-Scottish architect and academic, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)1975 Roger D. Branigin , American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)1975 Rudolf Kinau , Low German writer (b. 1887)1975 Francisco Franco , Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892)1975 Elizabeth Taylor (novelist) , English novelist, (b. 1912)1974 George Brunies , American trombonist (b. 1902)1974 Louise Fitzhugh , American author and illustrator (b. 1928)1970 Lewis Sargent , American actor (b. 1903)1967 Charles J. Watters , American priest and soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)1963 Carmen Boni , Italian-French actress (b. 1901)1963 Henry B. Richardson , American archer (b. 1889)1962 Grigol Robakidze , Georgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1882)1960 Phyllis Haver , American actress (b. 1899)1959 Joseph Charbonneau , Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)1956 Francis L. Sullivan , English-American actor (b. 1903)1955 Marquis James , American journalist and author (b. 1891)1954 Walter Bartley Wilson , English footballer and manager (b. 1870)1950 Aage Redal , Danish actor (b. 1891)1949 James Ensor , Belgian painter (b. 1860)1943 Miyagiyama Fukumatsu , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)1942 Bruno Schulz , Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)1938 Lev Shestov , Ukrainian-Russian philosopher and theologian (b. 1866)1931 Xu Zhimo , Chinese poet and translator (b. 1897)1928 Jeanne Bérangère , French actress (b. 1864)1924 Thomas H. Ince , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1882)1918 Joseph F. Smith , American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)1915 Joe Hill , Swedish-born American labor activist (b. 1879)1910 Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig , German chemist (b. 1835)1897 William Seymour Tyler , American historian and academic (b. 1810)1887 Emma Lazarus , American poet (b. 1849)1883 Carl Wilhelm Siemens , German-English engineer (b. 1823)1868 Ivane Andronikashvili , Georgian general (b. 1798)1850 Richard Mentor Johnson , American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)1828 Franz Schubert , Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1797)1822 Johann Georg Tralles , German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)1810 Jean-Georges Noverre , French dancer and choreographer (b. 1725)1804 Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , Italian composer (b. 1728)1798 Wolfe Tone , Irish general (b. 1763)1785 Bernard de Bury , French harpsichord player and composer (b. 1720)1773 James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster , Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)1772 William Nelson , American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)1723 Antoine Nompar de Caumont , French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)1703 Man in the Iron Mask , French prisoner1692 Thomas Shadwell , English poet and playwright (b. 1642)1679 Roger Conant , Massachusetts governor (b. 1592)1672 John Wilkins , English bishop and philosopher (b. 1614)1665 Nicolas Poussin , French-Italian painter (b. 1594)1649 Caspar Schoppe , German scholar and author (b. 1576)1630 Johann Schein , German singer and composer (b. 1586)1581 Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)1577 Matsunaga Hisahide , Japanese daimyō (b. 1510)1557 Bona Sforza , Italian wife of Sigismund I the Old (b. 1494)1481 Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)1350 Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu 1298 Mechtilde , Saxon saint (b. c. 1240)1288 Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1230)1092 Malik-Shah I , Seljuk Sultan1034 Theodoric II, Margrave of Lower Lusatia (b. c. 990)930 Yan Keqiu , Chinese chief strategist498 Pope Anastasius II 496 Pope Gelasius I 🔽 Show All 
