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November 9

On This Day in History

November 9

November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 52 days remain until the end of the year.

Lottery News On This Day

2023: Maryland husband calls wife cheap for lottery strategy, but she wins $229,774 using her method. A husband called his wife "cheap" for the way she chooses to play the lottery, but her $229,774 Racetrax prize is anything but.
2022: Delaware woman wins $300,000 on her way home from claiming $100,000 lottery prize. A woman from Delaware could not believe she won yet another top prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket immediately after she had just finished claiming one at Lottery headquarters.
2022: New Jersey Lottery to offer fixed Pick 3 and Pick 4 prize amounts. The New Jersey Lottery announced that they will start offering fixed prize amounts for Pick 3 and Pick 4, which will guarantee more winnings for multiple winning tickets.
2020: Two tickets win Michigan Lottery's record $32.3 million Lotto 47 jackpot. On Saturday night, Nov. 7, the Michigan Lottery held the drawing for its largest-ever Lotto 47 jackpot, which ended up producing two winning tickets for the record-breaking $32.3 million top prize.
2015: Winners suing Illinois Lottery try to rope in other states. Multi-state lottery groups pushed back on Monday against a move by lottery winners in Illinois to drag dozens of states into a lawsuit against the Illinois Lottery's suspension of payments.
2015: Massachusetts Lottery considers its own online fantasy sports game. The Massachusetts Lottery is considering developing a daily fantasy sports game as the online competitions have exploded in popularity — and faced increased scrutiny about their legality.
2013: Pa. Lottery director to depart. The executive director of the Pennsylvania Lottery is leaving for a private-sector position with a subcontractor of the company the state contracts for lottery services.
2012: Life after winning the lottery. Life is good for an Indiana couple who won a Powerball jackpot in 1999.
2011: Iowa man claims $7.5M Hot Lotto jackpot. Waterloo, Iowa, retiree Wally Markham said he wasn't able to keep it secret for long in Smitty's bar on Sunday that he was the jackpot winner in Saturday's Hot Lotto drawing.
2011: Ct. Lottery still looking for $254.2M Powerball winner. The search is still on for the $254.2 million Powerball jackpot winning ticket for the November 2, 2011 drawing — the largest prize ever won in Connecticut Lottery history.
2010: UPDATE: $128.6M Powerball lottery ticket sold in porn shop. When it was announced at Lottery Post Sunday that the winning Powerball ticket was sold at the Uptown Book Store, few people outside of Highland Park, Michigan, knew that location was actually a porn shop, specializing in adult books, pornographic movies and sex toys.
2009: Missouri Lottery director resigns amid rift with state commission. The director of the Missouri Lottery said Monday that he was resigning in response to the Lottery Commission's interest in changing the agency's direction.
2006: Single winner takes $7 million Illinois Lotto jackpot. A single winner has taken the $7 million jackpot from the latest drawing of the Illinois State Lottery's Lotto game.
2006: Tax Court Reaffirms Lottery Payments are 'Ordinary Income'. The Tax Court reaffirmed that proceeds from the sale of a right to future annual lottery payments constitutes ordinary income, not capital gain, after reviewing two test cases involving winners of the Florida State Lottery.
2006: Four winners in Canada Lotto 6/49 draw. There are four winning tickets in Canada for last night's Lotto 6/49 draw, worth $39.6 million.
2006: Ontario lottery players advised to be cautious. Ontario lottery players buying tickets for Wednesday night's $36 million Lotto 649 draw -- the fourth largest Canadian jackpot in the lottery's history -- have been advised to take precautions to avoid being cheated in the wake of reports that retailers may be lying about whether tickets are winners or not.
2005: Mega Millions lottery jackpot raised to $262 million. On the same day the winners of the $340 million Powerball jackpot came forward to claim their prize, the jackpot in the nation's other multi-state lottery game swelled to $262 million for Friday.
2005: Texas Lottery under the microscope in hearings. Texas Lottery officials were summoned Tuesday to testify before a legislative committee for the second time in five months, this time over allegations of mismanagement brought by a lottery systems analyst who was fired the same day the Houston Chronicle reported his concerns.
2005: Oklahoma lottery Pick 3 begins Thursday. The Oklahoma Lottery Commission on Tuesday gave formal approval to start the Pick 3 online lottery game on Thursday.

Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day

1.€304.49 Million US$307.93 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2022
2.$262 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2005
3.$236 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 9, 2016
4.$223 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2023
5.$222.5 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2023
6.€152 Million US$194.27 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2006
7.€152 Million US$193.39 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 9, 2012
8.$189 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2022
9.$180 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2015
10.$168 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2012
11.$163 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2019
12.$160.1 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2021
13.$158 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 11, 2020
14.$152 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2020
15.$132 Million: Multi-State
Mega Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2013
16.€106.8 Million
US$123.77 Million: Italy
SuperEnalotto
Draw Date
Nov 9, 2021
17.€111 Million
US$119.07 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2015
18.€104 Million
US$114.57 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 12, 2019
19.€89 Million
US$103.14 Million: Multi-Country
Euro Millions
Draw Date
Nov 9, 2021
20.€90 Million
US$102.05 Million: Multi-Country
EuroJackpot
Draw Date
Nov 9, 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.$92 Million: Multi-State
Powerball
Draw Date
Nov 10, 2018
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

1986: srotich
Sunday, Nov 9, 1986
37 years old
1986: Beautiful One
Sunday, Nov 9, 1986
37 years old
1986: sexye86
Sunday, Nov 9, 1986
37 years old
1986: Zaint86
Sunday, Nov 9, 1986
37 years old
1981: hotboy242
Monday, Nov 9, 1981
42 years old
1980: rowdy
Sunday, Nov 9, 1980
43 years old
1979: ANTONIO1109
Friday, Nov 9, 1979
44 years old
1979: Antluv79
Friday, Nov 9, 1979
44 years old
1976: drray
Tuesday, Nov 9, 1976
47 years old
1976: PinkLadyRocker
Tuesday, Nov 9, 1976
47 years old
1975: ThatJoeVArmint
Sunday, Nov 9, 1975
48 years old
1974: nettie love
Saturday, Nov 9, 1974
49 years old
1973: SHENEEDSIT
Friday, Nov 9, 1973
50 years old
1971: spaceyg1971
Tuesday, Nov 9, 1971
52 years old
1967: mo money
Thursday, Nov 9, 1967
56 years old
1966: carlyscorner
Wednesday, Nov 9, 1966
57 years old
1962: m_147
Friday, Nov 9, 1962
61 years old
1955: Hasanijoy
Wednesday, Nov 9, 1955
68 years old
: Erica luck
(year not provided)
: Mr-Dave
(year not provided)

Worldwide Events On This Day

2020: Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: An armistice agreement is signed by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia.
2014: A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.
2012: A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar, killing 27 people and injuring 80 others.
2012: At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo.
2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2005: Suicide bombers attack three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2004: Firefox 1.0 is released.
2000: Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
1999: TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
1998: A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
1998: Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
1994: The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
1993: Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat-Bosniak War.
1989: Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
1985: Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
1979: Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1970: Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6-3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1967: Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy.
1965: Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
1965: A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
1963: At a coal mine in Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458 and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
1960: Robert McNamara is named president of the Ford Motor Company, becoming the first non-Ford family member to serve in that post. He resigns a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.
1953: Cambodia gains independence from France.
1940: Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari by the Polish government-in-exile.
1938: Kristallnacht occurs, instigated by the Nazis using the killing of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan as justification.
1937: Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
1935: The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
1923: In Munich, police and government troops crush the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch.
1918: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1917: The Balfour Declaration is published in The Times newspaper.
1914: SMS Emden is sunk by HMAS Sydney in the Battle of Cocos.
1913: The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, reaches its greatest intensity after beginning two days earlier. The storm destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1907: The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1906: Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
1900: Russia completes its occupation of Manchuria with 100,000 troops.
1887: The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1881: Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
1872: The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
1867: The Tokugawa shogunate hands back power to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1862: American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
1851: Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1799: Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming First Consul of the successor Consulate Government.
1791: The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
1780: American Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Fishdam Ford a force of British and Loyalist troops fail in a surprise attack against the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter.
1729: Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1720: The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.
1688: Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter.
1620: Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1520: More than 50 people are sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.
1456: Ulrich II, Count of Celje, last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade.
1330: At the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert.
1313: Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf.
1277: The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.
694: At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.

Births On This Day

1996: Momo Hirai, Japanese dancer and singer
1995: Finn Cole, English actor
1994: Lyrica Okano, American actress
1993: Pete Dunne, English wrestler
1990: Nosa Igiebor, Nigerian footballer
1989: Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer
1988: Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer
1988: Lio Tipton, American actor and model
1986: Carl Gunnarsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1985: Bakary Soumaré, Malian footballer
1984: Delta Goodrem, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
1984: French Montana, Moroccan-American rapper
1984: Seven, South Korean singer, dancer, and actor
1983: Rob Elloway, German rugby player
1983: Ted Potter Jr., American golfer
1983: Michael Turner, English footballer
1982: Boaz Myhill, American-Welsh footballer
1982: Jana Pittman, Australian hurdler
1981: Eyedea, American rapper and producer (d. 2010)
1981: Jobi McAnuff, Jamaican footballer
1981: Kane Waselenchuk, Canadian racquetball player
1980: Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress
1980: Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
1979: Dave Bush, American baseball player
1979: Adam Dunn, American baseball player
1979: Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model (d. 2020)
1979: Martin Taylor, English footballer
1978: Even Ormestad, Norwegian bass player and producer
1978: Sisqó, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1977: Chris Morgan, English footballer and manager
1977: Omar Trujillo, Mexican footballer
1976: Tochiazuma Daisuke, Japanese sumo wrestler
1975: Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor
1975: Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer
1974: Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer
1974: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Italian actress
1973: Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
1973: Nick Lachey, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1973: Gabrielle Miller, Canadian actress and director
1973: Zisis Vryzas, Greek footballer and coach
1972: Eric Dane, American actor
1972: Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actress and singer
1972: Corin Tucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971: David Duval, American golfer and sportscaster
1971: Sabri Lamouchi, French footballer and manager
1970: Nelson Diebel, American swimmer and coach
1970: Domino, American DJ and producer
1970: Guido Görtzen, Dutch volleyball player
1970: Bill Guerin, American ice hockey player, coach, and executive
1970: Chris Jericho, American-Canadian wrestler
1970: Scarface, American rapper and producer
1970: Susan Tedeschi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1969: Sandra Denton, Jamaican-American rapper and actress
1969: Ramona Milano, Canadian actress
1969: Roxanne Shanté, American rapper
1969: Allison Wolfe, American singer-songwriter
1968: Nazzareno Carusi, Italian pianist and educator
1968: Colin Hay, English political scientist, author, and academic
1967: Ricky Otto, English footballer
1965: Daphne Guinness, English-Irish model and actress
1965: Andrei Lapushkin, Russian footballer
1965: Ryan Murphy, American television writer, producer, and director
1965: Bryn Terfel, Welsh opera singer
1964: Robert Duncan McNeill, American actor, director, and producer
1963: Anthony Bowie, American basketball player
1961: Jill Dando, English journalist (d. 1999)
1960: Andreas Brehme, German footballer and manager
1960: Sarah Franklin, American-English anthropologist and academic
1960: Demetra Plakas, American drummer
1959: Thomas Quasthoff, German opera singer
1955: Fernando Meirelles, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
1955: Bob Nault, Canadian lawyer and politician
1954: Aed Carabao, Thai singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953: Gaétan Hart, Canadian boxer
1952: Sherrod Brown, American academic and politician
1952: Gladys Requena, Venezuelan politician
1952: Jim Riggleman, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1951: Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor
1950: Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (d. 2013)
1948: Bille August, Danish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
1948: Joe Bouchard, American bass player and songwriter
1948: Jane Humphries, English economist, historian, and academic
1948: Michel Pagliaro, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948: Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazilian footballer and manager
1947: Robert David Hall, American actor, singer, and pianist
1946: Benny Mardones, American singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
1946: Marina Warner, English author and academic
1945: Moeletsi Mbeki, South African economist and academic
1945: Charlie Robinson, American actor (d. 2021)
1944: Chitresh Das, Indian dancer and choreographer (d. 2015)
1944: Phil May, English singer-songwriter (d. 2020)
1942: Victor Blank, English businessman and philanthropist
1942: Tom Weiskopf, American golfer and sportscaster
1941: David Constant, English cricketer and umpire
1941: Tom Fogerty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
1941: John Singleton, Australian businessman
1939: Paul Cameron, American psychologist and academic
1939: Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, English academic and politician
1938: Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author and critic
1937: Roger McGough, English author, poet, and playwright
1937: Donald Trelford, English journalist and academic
1937: Clyde Wells, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
1936: Bob Graham, American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Florida
1936: Mikhail Tal, Latvian-Russian chess player and author (d. 1992)
1936: Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1935: Bob Gibson, American baseball player and coach (d. 2020)
1935: David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale, English businessman and politician
1934: Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish economist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Sweden
1934: Ronald Harwood, South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
1934: Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (d. 1996)
1933: Ed Corney, American professional bodybuilder (d. 2019)
1933: Jim Perry, American game show host (d. 2015)
1932: Frank Selvy, American basketball player and coach
1931: Whitey Herzog, American baseball player and manager
1931: Valery Shumakov, Russian surgeon and transplantologist (d. 2008)
1931: George Witt, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1929: Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (d. 2005)
1929: Imre Kertész, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
1928: Anne Sexton, American poet and academic (d. 1974)
1926: Vicente Aranda, Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1926: Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1996)
1925: Alistair Horne, English-American journalist, historian, and author (d. 2017)
1924: Robert Frank, Swiss-American photographer and director (d. 2019)
1923: Alice Coachman, American high jumper (d. 2014)
1923: Elizabeth Hawley, American-Nepali journalist and historian (d. 2018)
1923: James Schuyler, American poet and author (d. 1991)
1922: Dorothy Dandridge, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1965)
1922: Raymond Devos, Belgian-French comedian and clown (d. 2006)
1922: Imre Lakatos, Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1974)
1921: Pierrette Alarie, Canadian soprano and actress (d. 2011)
1921: Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast and coach (d. 1984)
1920: Byron De La Beckwith, American assassin of Medgar Evers (d. 2001)
1920: Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (d. 2014)
1919: Eva Todor, Brazilian actress (d. 2017)
1918: Spiro Agnew, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (d. 1996)
1918: Florence Chadwick, American swimmer (d. 1995)
1918: Thomas Ferebee, American colonel (d. 2000)
1918: Choi Hong Hi, South Korean general and martial artist, co-founded taekwondo (d. 2002)
1916: Martha Settle Putney, American lieutenant, historian, and educator (d. 2008)
1915: André François, Romanian-French illustrator, painter, and sculptor (d. 2005)
1915: Sargent Shriver, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 21st United States Ambassador to France (d. 2011)
1914: Thomas Berry, American priest, historian, and theologian (d. 2009)
1914: Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress and inventor (d. 2000)
1913: Paulene Myers, American actress (d. 1996)
1906: Arthur Rudolph, German scientist and engineer (d. 1996)
1905: Erika Mann, German-Swiss actress and author (d. 1969)
1904: Viktor Brack, German SS officer (d. 1948)
1904: Heiti Talvik, Estonian poet (d. 1947)
1902: Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (d. 1968)
1900: Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic (d. 1961)
1897: Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1897: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978)
1894: Mae Marsh, American actress (d. 1968)
1894: Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II (d. 1966)
1891: Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (d. 1983)
1888: Jean Monnet, French economist and diplomat (d. 1979)
1886: Ed Wynn, American actor (d. 1966)
1885: Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1954)
1885: Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1922)
1885: Aureliano Pertile, Italian tenor and educator (d. 1952)
1885: Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1955)
1883: Edna May Oliver, American actress (d. 1942)
1880: Giles Gilbert Scott, English architect, designed the red telephone box (d. 1960)
1879: Jenő Bory, Hungarian architect and sculptor (d. 1959)
1879: Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian and politician (d. 1931)
1878: Ahn Changho, Korean activist and politician (d. 1938)
1877: Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic (d. 1959)
1877: Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and politician (d. 1938)
1874: Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (d. 1954)
1873: Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and surgeon (d. 1941)
1872: Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian author and poet (d. 1941)
1871: Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist (d. 1953)
1869: Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1934)
1862: Gigo Gabashvili, Georgian painter and educator (d. 1936)
1854: Maud Howe Elliott, American activist and author (d. 1948)
1853: Stanford White, American architect and partner, co-founded McKim, Mead & White (d. 1906)
1850: Louis Lewin, German pharmacologist and academic (d. 1929)
1841: Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1840: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Quebec (d. 1898)
1832: Émile Gaboriau, French author and journalist (d. 1873)
1829: Peter Lumsden, English general (d. 1918)
1825: A. P. Hill, American general (d. 1865)
1818: Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1883)
1810: Bernhard von Langenbeck, German general, surgeon, and academic (d. 1887)
1802: Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister, journalist, and activist (d. 1837)
1801: Gail Borden, American surveyor and publisher, invented condensed milk (d. 1874)
1799: Gustav, Prince of Vasa (d. 1877)
1773: Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd, Danish author (d. 1856)
1732: Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French businesswoman and author (d. 1776)
1731: Benjamin Banneker, American farmer, surveyor, and author (d. 1806)
1723: Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1787)
1721: Mark Akenside, English physician and poet (d. 1770)
1719: Domenico Lorenzo Ponziani, Italian priest, theoretician, and academic (d. 1796)
1697: Claudio Casciolini, Italian singer and composer (d. 1760)
1683: George II of Great Britain (d. 1760)
1664: Johann Speth, German organist and composer (d. 1719)
1664: Henry Wharton, English librarian and author (d. 1695)
1606: Hermann Conring, German philosopher and educator (d. 1681)
1580: Johannes Narssius, Dutch physician and poet (d. 1637)
1535: Nanda Bayin, king of Burma (d. 1600)
1522: Martin Chemnitz, German astrologer and theologian (d. 1586)
1467: Charles II, Duke of Guelders, count of Zutphen from 1492 (d. 1538)
1467: Philippa of Guelders, twin sister of Charles II, Dutch duchess consort (d. 1547)
1455: John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (d. 1516)
1414: Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1486)
1389: Isabella of Valois, French princess and queen of England (d. 1409)
1383: Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara (d. 1441)
955: Gyeongjong, Korean king (d. 981)

Deaths On This Day

2021: Max Cleland, American politician (b. 1942)
2017: Chuck Mosley, American singer songwriter (b. 1959)
2017: Shyla Stylez, Canadian pornographic actress (b. 1982)
2016: Greg Ballard, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955)
2015: Carol Doda, American actress and dancer (b. 1937)
2015: Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1930)
2015: Tommy Hanson, American baseball player (b. 1986)
2015: Byron Krieger, American fencer (b. 1920)
2015: Andy White, Scottish drummer (b. 1930)
2014: Rubén Alvarez, Argentinian golfer (b. 1961)
2014: Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, Qatari prince (b. 1966)
2014: R. A. Montgomery, American author and publisher (b. 1936)
2014: Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor and author (b. 1954)
2014: Orlando Thomas, American football player (b. 1972)
2014: Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1943)
2013: Savaş Ay, Turkish journalist (b. 1954)
2013: Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (b. 1947)
2013: Grethe Rytter Hasle, Norwegian biologist and academic (b. 1920)
2013: Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, American saxophonist (b. 1936)
2013: Steve Prescott, English rugby player (b. 1973)
2013: Emile Zuckerkandl, Austrian-American biologist and academic (b. 1922)
2012: Milan Čič, Slovak lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (b. 1932)
2012: Joseph D. Early, American soldier and politician (b. 1933)
2012: Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
2012: James L. Stone, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922)
2008: Hans Freeman, Australian bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer (b. 1929)
2008: Miriam Makeba, South African singer and activist (b. 1932)
2006: Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
2006: Ellen Willis, American journalist and activist (b. 1941)
2006: Markus Wolf, German intelligence officer (b. 1923)
2005: K. R. Narayanan, Indian journalist and politician, 10th President of India (b. 1921)
2004: Iris Chang, American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1968)
2004: Emlyn Hughes, English footballer and manager (b. 1947)
2004: Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1954)
2003: Art Carney, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)
2003: Gordon Onslow Ford, English-American painter (b. 1912)
2003: Binod Bihari Verma, Indian physician and author (b. 1937)
2002: William Schutz, American psychologist and academic (b. 1925)
2001: Niels Jannasch, Canadian historian and curator (b. 1924)
2001: Giovanni Leone, Italian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Italy (b. 1908)
2000: Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (b. 1927)
2000: Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (b. 1918)
1999: Mabel King, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
1997: Carl Gustav Hempel, German philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle (b. 1905)
1997: Helenio Herrera, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
1996: Joe Ghiz, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 27th Premier of Prince Edward Island (b. 1945)
1993: Ross Andru, American illustrator (b. 1925)
1992: Charles Fraser-Smith, English missionary and author (b. 1904)
1992: William Hillcourt, Danish-American scout leader and author (b. 1900)
1992: T. Sivasithamparam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1926)
1991: Yves Montand, Italian-French actor (b. 1921)
1989: Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1925)
1988: David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (b. 1924)
1988: John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
1988: Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
1985: Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
1977: Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1898)
1976: Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1890)
1972: Victor Adamson; American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1890)
1971: Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1883)
1970: Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (b. 1890)
1968: Jan Johansson, Swedish pianist (b. 1931)
1962: Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (b. 1858)
1958: Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American educational reformer, social activist and author (b. 1879)
1957: Peter O'Connor, Irish long jumper (b. 1872)
1956: Aino Kallas, Finnish-Estonian author (b. 1878)
1953: Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859)
1953: Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king (b. 1880)
1953: Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914)
1952: Philip Murray, Scottish-American labor leader (b. 1886)
1952: Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist, academic, and politician, 1st President of Israel (b. 1874)
1951: Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
1944: Frank Marshall, American chess player and theoretician (b. 1877)
1942: Charles Courtney Curran, American painter (b. 1861)
1942: Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
1940: Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (b. 1876)
1940: Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
1938: Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (b. 1889)
1937: Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
1932: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
1924: Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
1919: Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 26th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1848)
1918: Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1880)
1918: Peter Lumsden, English general (b. 1829)
1917: Harry Trott, Australian cricketer (b. 1866)
1911: Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (b. 1853)
1906: Dorothea Beale, English suffragist, educational reformer and author (b. 1831)
1880: Edwin Drake, American businessman (b. 1819)
1854: Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, wife/widow of Alexander Hamilton and co-founder of the first private orphanage in New York (b. 1757)
1848: Robert Blum, German poet and politician (b. 1810)
1801: Carl Stamitz, German-Czech violinist and composer (b. 1745)
1778: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian sculptor and illustrator (b. 1720)
1770: John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (b. 1693)
1766: Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer and diplomat (b. 1692)
1677: Aert van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
1641: Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1610)
1623: William Camden, English historian and topographer (b. 1551)
1596: George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (b. 1556)
1492: Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
1456: Ulrich II, Count of Celje (b. 1406)
1321: Walter Langton, bishop of Lichfield and treasurer of England (b. 1243)
1312: Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1261)
1286: Roger Northwode, English statesman (b. 1230)
1261: Sanchia of Provence, queen consort of Germany
1208: Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon (b. 1154)
1187: Emperor Gaozong of Song (b. 1107)
1034: Oldřich, Duke of Bohemia (b. c. 975)
959: Constantine VII, Byzantine emperor (b. 905)

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