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November 2

On This Day in History

November 2

November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 59 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Lottery Post's guide to 2023 holiday raffles across the USA. For the holiday season of 2023, Lottery Post has compiled a list of states offering raffle drawings, which are popular as they tend to offer better odds of winning large prizes, and make for good gifts.
2022: Airline launches its own lottery to encourage travelers to take the middle seat. An airline is hoping to encourage passengers to grab the less-than-desirable middle seat when booking a flight by holding a lottery that offers a six-figure cash prize.
2020: Colorado man forfeits lottery winnings after missing claim deadline by three days. With days melding together in the midst the ongoing pandemic, it's easy to lose track of time. Sadly, that's exactly what happened to a Colorado player who lost all of his lottery winnings when he missed the deadline to turn the winning ticket in by just three days.
2018: One ticket wins $15M Lotto Texas jackpot. Someone who purchased a lottery ticket in Wichita Falls, Texas, won a $15.25 million jackpot Wednesday.
2016: Minnesota man comes up with 2nd big lottery win. A Minnesota man has claimed his second major lottery prize in less than 17 months, hitting a Gopher 5 jackpot last week worth nearly $875,000.
2013: Kentucky Lottery starts Keno on Monday. Keno is coming to Kentucky, beginning Monday, Nov. 4, at 5 a.m.
2012: Woman forgot $23M lottery ticket in car and claimed it just before deadline. A California woman who didn't know she had a jackpot-winning $23 million lottery ticket in her car has come forward to claim her fortune.
2010: Florida woman accused of running personal lottery. A mother who solicited her neighbors for cash with the promise of a $500 prize was arrested Saturday and charged with leading an illegal lottery, authorities said.
2006: N.J. considering privatizing lottery. State officials are studying whether selling the New Jersey Lottery to a private company can reap big money for cash-strapped state coffers, Treasurer Bradley Abelow said yesterday.
2004: Powerball Jackpot Reaches $35 Million. Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $35 million, with a cash option of $19.5 million.
2004: Mega Millions Jackpot Reaches $66 Million. The jackpot in the multi-state Mega Millions lottery grew to $66 million Saturday.
2004: NJ Lottery adds second Internet game. New Jersey, the first state to unveil an Internet lottery game earlier this year, is forging ahead with a second online offering in an effort to lure younger players.
2004: No South Carolina lottery sales today. There will be no lottery sales today, according to a press release from the South Carolina Lottery.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.$1.25 Billion: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 2, 2022
2.$321 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2014
3.€299.54 Million US$292.44 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2022
4.$254.2 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 2, 2011
5.$198 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 2, 2016
6.$192 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2005
7.$181 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2023
8.$178 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2014
9.$168.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2023
10.€131 Million
US$167.18 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2006
11.€160 Million
US$158.21 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2022
12.€119 Million
US$153.03 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 2, 2012
13.$150 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 2, 2019
14.€100 Million
US$148.61 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 6, 2009
15.$144.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2015
16.$144 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2015
17.$137 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2020
18.$132.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2021
19.$129 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2020
20.$127 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 5, 2019
21.$124 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2012
22.€103.32 Million
US$119.73 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 2, 2021
23.$119 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2022
24.€120 Million
US$118.66 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 4, 2022
25.$104 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 3, 2010

Lottery Post Member Birthdays On This Day

1991: New York
Saturday, Nov 2, 1991
32 years old
1989: Cakeee
Thursday, Nov 2, 1989
34 years old
1983: Staci33
Wednesday, Nov 2, 1983
40 years old
1980: Ad401
Sunday, Nov 2, 1980
43 years old
1975: girllygirl
Sunday, Nov 2, 1975
48 years old
1972: bkleslie721
Thursday, Nov 2, 1972
51 years old
1971: SWASH1250
Tuesday, Nov 2, 1971
52 years old
1968: hopefull434
Saturday, Nov 2, 1968
55 years old
1968: Mniamek
Saturday, Nov 2, 1968
55 years old
1967: Zippy
Thursday, Nov 2, 1967
56 years old
1967: Tommy3
Thursday, Nov 2, 1967
56 years old
1963: joker831
Saturday, Nov 2, 1963
60 years old
1963: tommykong
Saturday, Nov 2, 1963
60 years old
1961: nancybuck
Thursday, Nov 2, 1961
62 years old
1945: Lottoways
Friday, Nov 2, 1945
78 years old
1938: higby
Wednesday, Nov 2, 1938
85 years old
: KB55
(year not provided)
: cynhern88
(year not provided)
: maria bain
(year not provided)
: pankeyman
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2022: A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.
2016: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.
2008: Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.
2000: Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
1999: Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.
1997: Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
1990: British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
1988: The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1988: LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.
1986: Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
1984: Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1983: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1982: Channel 4 starts broadcasting.
1967: Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1966: The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1965: Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1964: King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
1963: South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
1960: Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1959: Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959: The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
1956: Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
1956: Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
1951: Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.
1949: The Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1947: In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.
1940: World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia-Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1920: In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.
1917: The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917: The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
1914: World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.
1912: Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
1899: The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1889: North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1882: The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.
1868: Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1795: The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1675: Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
1410: The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War.
619: A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.

Births On This Day

1997: Davis Keillor-Dunn, English footballer
1995: Hanna Öberg, Swedish biathlete
1994: Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer
1992: Naomi Ackie, British actress
1991: Jimmy Garoppolo, American football player
1990: Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer
1989: Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player
1989: Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player
1988: Lisa Bowman, Irish netball player
1988: Julia Görges, German tennis player
1987: Danny Cipriani, English rugby player
1986: Andy Rautins, Canadian basketball player
1983: Ebonette Deigaeruk, Nauruan weightlifter
1983: Darren Young, American wrestler
1982: Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player
1982: Charles Itandje, French footballer
1981: Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress
1981: Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer
1981: Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer
1981: Miryo, South Korean rapper
1981: Roddy White, American football player
1980: Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
1980: Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player
1979: Simone Puleo, Italian footballer
1978: Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1977: Rodney Buford, American basketball player
1977: Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
1977: Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster
1976: Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper
1976: Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player
1975: Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver
1975: Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1974: Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
1974: Nelly, American rapper
1974: Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017)
1974: Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1973: Ben Graham, Australian footballer
1973: Marisol Nichols, American actress
1972: Marion Posch, Italian snowboarder
1972: Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach
1972: Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach
1972: Samantha Womack, British actress, singer and director
1969: Reginald Arvizu, American rock musician
1968: Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer (d. 2019)
1967: Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter
1967: Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin
1966: David Schwimmer, American actor
1965: Nick Boles, English businessman and politician
1965: Shah Rukh Khan, Indian film actor, producer and television host
1963: Bobby Dall, American bass player
1963: Brian Kemp, American politician, 83rd Governor of Georgia
1963: Borut Pahor, Slovenian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Slovenia
1962: Mireille Delunsch, French operatic soprano
1962: Derek Mountfield, English footballer and manager
1961: k.d. lang, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1961: Jeff Tedford, American football player and coach
1960: Rosalyn Fairbank, South African tennis player
1959: Peter Mullan, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
1958: Willie McGee, American baseball player and manager
1957: Carter Beauford, American drummer and composer
1956: Dale Brown, American author and pilot
1955: Thomas Grunenberg, German footballer and manager
1952: Maxine Nightingale, English R&B/soul singer
1951: Thomas Mallon, American novelist, essayist, and critic
1951: Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer
1949: Lois McMaster Bujold, American author
1947: Dave Pegg, English bass player and producer
1946: Alan Jones, Australian race car driver and sportscaster
1946: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (d. 2001)
1945: Giorgos Kolokithas, Greek basketball player (d. 2013)
1945: Larry Little, American football player
1945: J. D. Souther, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1944: Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1944: Keith Emerson, English pianist, keyboard player, and composer (d. 2016)
1943: Oldřich Pelčák, Czech cosmonaut and engineer
1942: Shere Hite, German sexologist, author, and educator (d. 2020)
1942: Stefanie Powers, American actress
1941: Arun Shourie, Indian journalist, economist, and politician, Indian Minister of Communications
1941: Dave Stockton, American golfer
1941: Bruce Welch, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1940: Jim Bakken, American football player
1940: Phil Minton, English singer and trumpet player
1939: Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones, English broadcaster and politician, Minister for Security
1939: Richard Serra, American sculptor and academic
1938: Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
1938: David Eden Lane, American white supremacist (d. 2007)
1938: Queen Sofía of Spain
1937: Earl Carroll, American singer (d. 2012)
1936: Rose Bird, American lawyer and judge, 25th Chief Justice of California (d. 1999)
1935: Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Indian author
1934: Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
1933: Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 2016)
1931: Phil Woods, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 2015)
1929: Amar Bose, American engineer and businessman, founded the Bose Corporation (d. 2013)
1929: Robert Gover, American journalist and author (d. 2015)
1929: Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, Pakistani judge and politician, 9th President of Pakistan (d. 2022)
1929: Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1928: Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (d. 2011)
1928: Paul Johnson, English journalist, historian, and author (d. 2023)
1927: Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator (d. 2018)
1927: John Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover, English businessman and politician (d. 2022)
1926: Myer Skoog, American basketball player (d. 2019)
1926: Charlie Walker, American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and DJ (d. 2008)
1924: David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1988)
1924: Rudy Van Gelder, American record producer and engineer (d. 2016)
1923: Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (d. 1980)
1921: Shepard Menken, American actor (d. 1999)
1921: Bill Mosienko, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1994)
1920: Bill Mazer, Ukrainian-American journalist and sportscaster (d. 2013)
1919: Warren Stevens, American actor (d. 2012)
1918: Alexander Vraciu, American commander and pilot of Romanian descent (d. 2015)
1917: Ann Rutherford, American actress (d. 2012)
1915: Sidney Luft, American film producer (d. 2005)
1914: Johnny Vander Meer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1997)
1914: Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
1913: Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
1911: Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1911: Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, philosopher, and theorist (d. 1995)
1910: Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian lawyer and politician, Egyptian Minister of Interior (d. 1999)
1908: Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
1908: Bunny Berigan, American trumpet player (d. 1942)
1906: Daniil Andreyev, Russian poet and mystic (d. 1959)
1906: Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1976)
1905: Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (d. 1990)
1905: Georges Schehadé, Lebanese poet and playwright (d. 1989)
1903: Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1987)
1901: James Dunn, American actor (d. 1967)
1894: Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976)
1893: Battista Farina, Italian businessman, founded the Pininfarina Company (d. 1966)
1892: Alice Brady, American actress (d. 1939)
1890: Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 30th Yokozuna (d. 1933)
1890: Moa Martinson, Swedish author (d. 1964)
1886: Dhirendranath Datta, Pakistani lawyer and politician (d. 1971)
1885: Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972)
1883: Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve, Canadian cardinal (d. 1947)
1879: Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player and violinist (d. 1965)
1878: Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (d. 1930)
1877: Joseph De Piro, Maltese priest and missionary (d. 1933)
1877: Aga Khan III, Indian 48th Shia Imam (d. 1957)
1877: Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (d. 1915)
1865: Warren G. Harding, American journalist and politician, 29th President of the United States (d. 1923)
1855: Henrik Schück, Swedish historian, author, and academic (d. 1947)
1847: Georges Sorel, French philosopher and author (d. 1922)
1844: Mehmed V, Ottoman sultan (d. 1918)
1844: John J. Loud, American inventor (d. 1916)
1837: Émile Bayard, French illustrator and painter (d. 1891)
1821: George Bowen, Irish-English diplomat, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1899)
1815: George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864)
1808: Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, French author and critic (d. 1889)
1799: John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
1795: James K. Polk, American lawyer and politician, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1777: Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski, Polish actor and translator (d. 1822)
1755: Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
1734: Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820)
1709: Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1699: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter and educator (d. 1779)
1696: Conrad Weiser, American soldier, monk, and judge (d. 1760)
1649: Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond (d. 1660)
1636: Edward Colston, English merchant and politician (d. 1721)
1549: Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
1475: Anne of York, seventh child of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (d. 1511)
1470: Edward V of England (d. 1483)
1428: Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine (d. 1483)
1418: Gaspare Nadi, Italian builder and writer (d. 1504)
971: Mahmud of Ghazni (d. 1030)

Deaths On This Day

2022: Atilio Stampone, Argentine pianist and composer (b. 1926)
2021: Neal Smith, American politician (b. 1920)
2019: Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican television personality, astrologer, actor, and dancer (b. 1932)
2018: Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1927)
2017: Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (b. 1944)
2015: Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish painter, historian, and academic (b. 1924)
2015: Mike Davies, Welsh-American tennis player and businessman (b. 1936)
2015: Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (b. 1933)
2015: Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
2014: Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (b. 1929)
2014: Michael Coleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1956)
2014: Veljko Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (b. 1925)
2014: Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (b. 1925)
2014: Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian and author (b. 1925)
2013: Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
2013: Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (b. 1956)
2013: Clifford Nass, American author and academic (b. 1958)
2013: Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (b. 1919)
2012: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1930)
2012: Robert Morton Duncan, American soldier and judge (b. 1927)
2012: Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2012: Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1926)
2012: Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (b. 1916)
2012: Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (b. 1957)
2011: Boots Plata, Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1943)
2010: Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
2009: Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (b. 1915)
2008: Madelyn Dunham, American banker and business executive (b. 1922)
2007: Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (b. 1978)
2007: Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1906)
2007: The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (b. 1923)
2005: Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1919)
2004: Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the 1st president and founder of the UAE (b. 1918)
2004: Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (b. 1957)
2003: Frank McCloskey, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1939)
2002: Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935)
2000: Robert Cormier, American journalist and author (b. 1925)
1998: Vincent Winter, Scottish actor and production manager (b. 1957)
1996: Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
1996: John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (b. 1902)
1994: Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (b. 1917)
1992: Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (b. 1930)
1992: Hal Roach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1892)
1991: Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
1991: Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1936)
1990: Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)
1982: Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)
1981: Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
1972: Grigoriy Plaskov, Soviet artillery lieutenant (b. 1898)
1971: Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
1970: Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
1970: Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (b. 1903)
1966: Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1966: Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1892)
1963: 1963 South Vietnamese coup Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician, 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1901)
1963: 1963 South Vietnamese coup Ngô Đình Nhu, South Vietnamese politician and tactical strategist (b. 1910)
1961: Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
1961: Harriet Bosse, Swedish-Norwegian actress (b. 1878)
1961: James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist (b. 1894)
1960: Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
1959: Michael Considine, Irish-Australian trade union leader and politician (b. 1885)
1958: Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
1952: Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Greek-Turkish general (b. 1862)
1950: George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
1949: Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1872)
1945: Hélène de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (b. 1868)
1944: Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
1935: Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
1930: Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, target shooter, and gymnast (b. 1874)
1911: Kyrle Bellew, English actor (b. 1850)
1905: Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist and physiologist (b. 1817)
1898: George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (b. 1826)
1893: Daniel Payne, American educator and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (b. 1811)
1887: Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1811)
1887: Jenny Lind, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1820)
1883: William Morgan, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of South Australia (b. 1828)
1863: Theodore Judah, American engineer (b. 1826)
1852: Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1610: Richard Bancroft, English archbishop and academic (b. 1544)
1521: Margaret of Lorraine, Duchess of Alençon and nun (b. 1463)
1483: Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1454)
1319: John Sandale, Bishop of Winchester
1261: Bettisia Gozzadini (b. 1209)
1148: Saint Malachy (b. 1094)
1083: Matilda of Flanders (b. 1031)

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