September 13
On This Day in History: September 13 September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 109 days remain until the end of the year.
Lottery News On This Day 2021 £27 million EuroMillions lottery winner found dead at home . A lottery winner of a £27 million (US$37.4 million) EuroMillions jackpot was found dead in her bungalow on Thursday.2019 What happens when Michigan lottery retailers try to game the system . Though officials say the vast majority of the 10,500 Michigan lottery retailers deal honestly with both the agency and their customers, a few are always looking for a new way to game the system. It's the job of the lottery agency's eight-person security unit, which handles about 1,500 cases a year, to investigate those offenders, and, if necessary, shut them down.2018 NJ Lottery Pick 6 jackpot highest in 4 years . New Jersey Lottery Acting Executive Director James Carey is urging New Jersey Lottery players to get their Pick 6 game tickets as early as possible in advance of the Thursday, September 13 drawing for the $16.7 million jackpot.2018 Sales halted for Iowa Lottery scratch game . Sales are being stopped for one of the Iowa Lottery's $5 instant-scratch games.2013 Lottery winner to send sales clerk on vacation . The grateful winner of a Mega Millions lottery prize has promised to give $10,000 to the clerk who sold him a winning ticket so her family can take trip to their home of South Korea.2011 Unidentified Maryland couple claims $108.8M Powerball jackpot . An Abingdon, Maryland, couple has stepped forward to claim the first Powerball jackpot sold in Maryland, a state lottery spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.2011 Opinion: Powerball winners will lose big if they go public . Should a big lottery winner go public or not? To grip a check the size of a Charlie Sheen poster for the cameras? Or to hide your good fortune from an admiring and envious world?2011 UK Lottery 'Millionaire Map' obtained . In the category of 'better late than never', UK National Lottery operator Camelot has forwarded a copy of the Millionaire Map to Lottery Post for review.2007 Tenn. Lottery: Curse of the computerized drawings? . Ever since the Tennessee Lottery switched to computerized drawings, they have suffered one mishap after another.2004 Powerball Jackpot Soars to $72 Million . Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Saturday's Powerball drawing the jackpot grew to an estimated $72 million, with a cash option of $39.2 million.2004 Great-great-grandmother wins $5.6m lottery jackpot . A 94-year-old great-great-grandmother from Everett, Massachusetts is thinking about fixing her leaky roof and maybe taking a cruise to someplace warm and sunny now that she's won $5.6 million in the state lottery, her great-granddaughter, Cynthia Smith, said yesterday.2004 Factory Worker to Quit after Lottery Win . A manual worker at a lubricants factory was planning early retirement today after scooping more than £1.1 million in the UK National Lottery.🔽 Show All Top 25 Lottery Jackpots On This Day 1. $419.1 Million Draw Date
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🔽 Show All Worldwide Events On This Day 2018 The Merrimack Valley gas explosions : One person is killed, 25 are injured, and 40 homes are destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions. 2013 Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat , Afghanistan , with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.2008 Delhi , India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts , resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.2008 Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States , causing heavy damage to Galveston Island , Houston , and surrounding areas.2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly . 2007 The McLaren F1 team were found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, and were fined $100 million and were excluded from the constructors' championship standings. 2001 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks . 1997 A German Air Force Tupolev Tu-154 and a United States Air Force Lockheed C-141 Starlifter collide in mid-air near Namibia , killing 33. 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy. 1989 Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu . 1988 Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure ).1987 Goiânia accident : A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia , Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning .1985 Super Mario Bros. NES , which starts the Super Mario 1982 Spantax Flight 995 crashes at Málaga Airport during a rejected takeoff , killing 50 of the 394 people on board.1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa). 1977 General Motors introduces Diesel engine , with Oldsmobile Diesel engine , in the Delta 88 , Oldsmobile 98 , and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser models amongst others.1971 State police and National Guardsmen storm New York's Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt , which claimed 43 lives. 1971 Chairman Mao Zedong 's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia , killing all aboard. 1968 Cold War : Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact .1964 South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức fail in a coup attempt against General Nguyễn Khánh .1964 Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne .1962 An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith , the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university. 1956 The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage . 1956 The dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. 1953 Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .1948 Deputy Prime Minister of India Vallabhbhai Patel orders the Army to move into Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union . 1948 Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator , and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate.1944 World War II: Start of the Battle of Meligalas between the Greek Resistance forces of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS) and the collaborationist security battalions. 1942 World War II : Second day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines successfully defeated attacks by the Japanese with heavy losses for the Japanese forces.1933 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.1923 Following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship. 1922 The final act of the Greco-Turkish War , the Great Fire of Smyrna , commences. 1914 World War I : The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.1906 The Santos-Dumont 14-bis makes a short hop, the first flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe. 1900 Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa , during the Philippine-American War . 1899 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.1899 Mackinder , Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m - 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya .1898 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film .1882 Anglo-Egyptian War : The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.1862 American Civil War : Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee 's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland . It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam .1848 Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 1+ 1 ⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions. 1847 Mexican-American War : Six teenage military cadets known as Niños Héroes die defending Chapultepec Castle in the Battle of Chapultepec . American troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City in the Mexican-American War.1843 The Greek Army rebels (OS date : September 3) against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece , demanding the granting of a constitution. 1814 In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore . During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem . 1812 War of 1812 : A supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows .1808 Finnish War : In the Battle of Jutas , Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians , making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.1791 King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution . 1788 The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital. 1782 American Revolutionary War : Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar .1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham : the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War , known in the United States as the French and Indian War .1743 Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms . 1645 Wars of the Three Kingdoms : Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh .1609 Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him - the Hudson River .1584 San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.1541 After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism . 1504 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand issue a Royal Warrant for the construction of a Royal Chapel (Capilla Real ) to be built.1501 Italian Renaissance : Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David 1437 Battle of Tangier : a Portuguese expeditionary force initiates a failed attempt to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier .1229 Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia .533 Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Ad Decimum , near Carthage , North Africa.379 Yax Nuun Ahiin I is crowned as 15th Ajaw of Tikal 509 BC The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September. 585 BC Lucius Tarquinius Priscus , king of Rome , celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines , and the surrender of Collatia .🔽 Show All Births On This Day 1996 Playboi Carti , American rapper1995 Robbie Kay , English actor1995 Jerry Tollbring , Swedish handball player1995 João Carlos Almeida Leandro , Portuguese footballer1995 Shubham Khajuria , Indian cricketer1994 Leonor Andrade , Portuguese singer1994 Cameron Munster , Australian rugby league player1993 Niall Horan , Irish singer1993 Alice Merton , German-Canadian-English singer and songwriter1991 Ksenia Afanasyeva , Russian gymnast1990 Aoi Nakabeppu , Japanese model and actress1990 Luciano Narsingh , Dutch footballer1989 Elysée Irié Bi Séhi , Ivorian footballer1989 Kenny Edwards , New Zealand rugby league player1989 Jon Mannah , Australian rugby league player (d. 2013)1989 Thomas Müller , German footballer1989 William Owusu , Ghanaian footballer1988 Luis Rentería , Panamanian footballer (d. 2014)1988 Keith Treacy , Irish footballer1987 Edenilson Bergonsi , Brazilian footballer1987 Jonathan de Guzmán , Canadian-Dutch footballer1987 Luke Fitzgerald , Irish rugby player1987 Tsvetana Pironkova , Bulgarian tennis player1986 Steve Colpaert , Belgian footballer1986 Derek Hardman , American football player1986 Kamui Kobayashi , Japanese race car driver1986 Sean Williams , American basketball player1985 David Jordan , English singer-songwriter1985 Tom Learoyd-Lahrs , Australian rugby league player1984 Nabil Abou-Harb , American director, producer, and screenwriter1984 Baron Corbin , American wrestler1983 James Bourne , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1983 Molly Crabapple , American illustrator and journalist1983 Ryan Del Monte , Canadian ice hockey player1983 Eduard Ratnikov , Estonian footballer1982 Lloyd Dyer , English footballer1982 Nenê , Brazilian basketball player1982 Rickie Weeks , American baseball player1982 Colin Marston , American guitarist, bassist, and producer/engineer1982 Miha Zupan , Slovenian basketball player1981 Koldo Fernández , Spanish cyclist1981 Angelina Love , Canadian-American wrestler1980 Andreas Biermann , German footballer (d. 2014)1980 Han Chae-young , South Korean actress1980 Daisuke Matsuzaka , Japanese baseball player1980 Evangelos Nastos , Greek footballer1980 Viren Rasquinha , Indian field hockey player1979 Geike Arnaert , Belgian singer1979 Tony Henry , English footballer1978 Swizz Beatz , American rapper and producer1978 Peter Sunde , Swedish businessman1978 Masato Shibata , Japanese wrestler1977 Fiona Apple , American singer-songwriter, producer, and pianist1977 Ivan De Battista , Maltese actor, singer, director, and producer1977 Daisuke Tsuda , Japanese singer-songwriter and drummer1976 Ro Khanna , American politician1976 Craig McMillan , New Zealand cricketer, coach, and sportscaster1976 Elvis Mihailenko , Latvian boxer, trainer, and sportscaster1976 José Théodore , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster1976 Puma Swede , Swedish pornographic actress1975 Akihiro Asai , Japanese race car driver1975 Joe Don Rooney , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1975 Idan Tal , Israeli footballer1974 Travis Knight , American basketball player1974 Éric Lapointe , Canadian football player1974 Craig Rivet , Canadian ice hockey player1973 Christine Arron , French runner1973 Fabio Cannavaro , Italian footballer and manager1973 Carlo Nash , English footballer and photographer1971 Ben Alexander , Australian rugby league player (d. 1992)1971 Goran Ivanišević , Croatian tennis player and coach1971 Stella McCartney , English fashion designer1971 Manabu Namiki , Japanese pianist and composer1970 Lee Abramson , American bass player and composer (d. 2016)1970 Martín Herrera , Argentinian footballer1970 Louise Lombard , English actress1969 Daniel Fonseca , Uruguayan footballer1969 Tyler Perry , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1969 Shane Warne , Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster1968 Brad Johnson , American football player1968 Bernie Williams , Puerto Rican-American baseball player and guitarist1967 Michael Johnson , American former sprinter and journalist1967 Tim "Ripper" Owens , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1967 Stephen Perkins , American drummer and songwriter1966 Maria Furtwängler , German physician and actress1966 Brendan Hall , Australian rugby league player1965 Annie Duke , American poker player and author1965 Jeff Ross , American comedian, director, and author1965 Zak Starkey , English drummer1964 Tavis Smiley , American talk show host, journalist, and author1963 Yuri Alexandrov , Russian boxer (d. 2013)1963 Antony Galione , Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford 1963 Theodoros Roussopoulos , Greek journalist and politician1963 Robin Smith , South African-English cricketer1962 Neal Lancaster , American golfer1962 Tõnu Õnnepalu , Estonian author1961 Dave Mustaine , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1961 KK Null , Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist1961 Peter Roskam , American lawyer and politician1960 Kevin Carter , South African photojournalist (d. 1994)1959 Tatyana Mitkova , Russian journalist1958 Bobby Davro , English comedian and actor1958 Paweł Przytocki , Polish conductor and academic1958 Kōji Tamaki , Japanese singer-songwriter and actor1957 Vinny Appice , American rock drummer1957 Judy Blumberg , American ice dancer and sportscaster1957 Mal Donaghy , Irish footballer and manager1957 Brad Hooker , English-American philosopher and academic1957 Eleanor King , English lawyer and judge1957 John G. Trueschler , American lawyer and politician1957 Mark Wiebe , American golfer1957 Keith Black , American neurosurgeon and academic1956 Alain Ducasse , French-Monégasque chef1956 Anne Geddes , Australian-New Zealand photographer and fashion designer1956 Martin Hurson , Irish Republican , hunger striker (d. 1981)1956 Joni Sledge , American singer and songwriter (d. 2017)1955 Colin Moynihan, 4th Baron Moynihan , English rower and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics 1955 Joe Morris , American guitarist and composer1954 Steve Kilbey , English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass player1952 Réjean Giroux , Canadian ice hockey player1952 Randy Jones , American pop and disco singer1952 Don Was , American bass player and producer1951 Anne Devlin , Irish author, playwright, and screenwriter1951 Salva Kiir Mayardit , South Sudanese politician, 1st President of South Sudan 1951 Jean Smart , American actress1950 Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz , Polish lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Poland 1950 Pat Holland , English footballer and manager1950 Jeff Lowe , American mountaineer (d. 2018)1949 John W. Henry , American businessman1948 Nell Carter , American actress and singer (d. 2003)1948 Dimitri Nanopoulos , Greek physicist and academic1948 Sitiveni Rabuka , Fijian general and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Fiji 1946 Frank Marshall , American director and producer1946 Henri Kuprashvili , Georgian swimmer1945 Noël Godin , Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter1945 Andres Küng , Swedish journalist and politician (d. 2002)1944 Carol Barnes , English journalist (d. 2008)1944 Jacqueline Bisset , English actress and producer1944 Peter Cetera , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer1944 Midget Farrelly , Australian surfer (d. 2016)1943 Mildred D. Taylor , American author1942 Michel Côté , Canadian businessman and politician1941 Tadao Ando , Japanese architect and academic, designed Piccadilly Gardens 1941 David Clayton-Thomas , English-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist1941 Ahmet Necdet Sezer , Turkish judge and politician, 10th President of the Republic of Turkey 1940 Óscar Arias , Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica , Nobel Prize laureate1940 Kerry Stokes , Australian businessman1939 Arleen Auger , American soprano and educator (d. 1993)1939 Richard Kiel , American actor and voice artist (d. 2014)1939 Guntis Ulmanis , Latvian economist and politician, 5th President of Latvia 1939 Joel-Peter Witkin , American photographer1938 John Smith , Scottish lawyer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1994)1937 Don Bluth , American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios 1936 Stefano Delle Chiaie , Italian activist, founded National Vanguard (d. 2019)1934 Tony Pickard , English tennis player and coach1933 Eileen Fulton , American actress1933 Donald Mackay , Australian businessman and activist (d. 1977)1933 Lewie Steinberg , American bass player (d. 2016)1932 Fernando González Pacheco , Spanish-Colombian journalist and actor (d. 2014)1932 Radoslav Brzobohatý , Czech actor (d. 2012)1932 Bengt Hallberg , Swedish pianist and composer (d. 2013)1931 Barbara Bain , American actress1931 Robert Bédard , Canadian tennis player and sportscaster1931 Marjorie Jackson-Nelson , Australian sprinter and politician, 33rd Governor of South Australia 1931 Rein Maran , Estonian cinematographer1931 Lauretta Ngcobo , South African novelist and essayist (d. 2015)1930 Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron , English publisher and philanthropist (d. 2015)1928 Robert Indiana , American painter and sculptor (d. 2018)1928 Tzannis Tzannetakis , Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2010)1927 Laura Cardoso , Brazilian actress1926 Andrew Brimmer , American economist and academic (d. 2012)1926 Emile Francis , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager1926 J. Frank Raley Jr. , American soldier and politician (d. 2012)1925 Mel Tormé , American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)1924 Harold Blair , Australian tenor and educator (d. 1976)1924 Scott Brady , American actor (d. 1985)1924 Maurice Jarre , French composer and conductor (d. 2009)1923 Édouard Boubat , French photographer and journalist (d. 1999)1922 Charles Brown , American singer and pianist (d. 1999)1922 Caroline Duby Glassman , American lawyer and jurist (d. 2013)1920 Else Holmelund Minarik , Danish-American journalist and author (d. 2012)1919 Mary Midgley , English philosopher and author (d. 2018)1919 George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld , Austrian-English journalist, publisher, and philanthropist (d. 2016)1918 Ray Charles , American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 2015)1918 Dick Haymes , Argentinian actor and singer (d. 1980)1917 Carol Kendall , American historian and author (d. 2012)1917 Robert Ward , American soldier, composer, and educator (d. 2013)1916 Roald Dahl , British novelist, poet, and screenwriter (d. 1990)1914 Leonard Feather , English-American pianist, composer, producer, and journalist (d. 1994)1912 Maurice K. Goddard , American colonel and politician (d. 1995)1912 Reta Shaw , American actress (d. 1982)1911 Bill Monroe , American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (d. 1996)1909 Ray Bowden , English footballer (d. 1998)1909 Frits Thors , Dutch journalist and radio host (d. 2014)1908 Chu Berry , American saxophonist (d. 1941)1908 Karolos Koun , Greek director and playwright (d. 1987)1908 Sicco Mansholt , Dutch farmer and politician, 4th President of the European Commission (d. 1995)1908 Mae Questel , American actress and vocal artist (d. 1998)1904 Alberta Williams King , American civil rights organizer, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1974)1904 Gladys George , American actress (d. 1954)1903 Claudette Colbert , French-American actress (d. 1996)1899 Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , Romanian politician (d. 1938)1898 Roger Désormière , French conductor and composer (d. 1963)1898 C. Sittampalam , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1964)1895 Morris Kirksey , American rugby player and sprinter (d. 1981)1894 J. B. Priestley , English novelist and playwright (d. 1984)1894 Julian Tuwim , Polish poet, playwright, and director (d. 1953)1893 Larry Shields , American clarinet player (d. 1953)1891 Max Pruss , German captain and pilot (d. 1960)1890 Antony Noghès , French-Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix (d. 1978)1887 Leopold Ružička , Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)1886 Amelie Beese , German pilot and sculptor (d. 1925)1886 Robert Robinson , English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)1885 Wilhelm Blaschke , Austrian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1962)1883 LeRoy Samse , American pole vaulter (d. 1956)1883 Petros Voulgaris , Greek admiral and politician, 136th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1957)1882 Ramón Grau , Cuban physician and politician, 6th President of Cuba (d. 1969)1880 Jesse L. Lasky , American film producer, co-founded Famous Players-Lasky (d. 1958)1877 Wilhelm Filchner , German-Swiss explorer (d. 1957)1877 Stanley Lord , English captain (d. 1962)1876 Sherwood Anderson , American novelist and short story writer (d. 1941)1874 Henry F. Ashurst , American lawyer and politician (d. 1962)1874 Arnold Schoenberg , Austrian composer and painter (d. 1951)1873 Constantin Carathéodory , German mathematician and author (d. 1950)1872 Kijūrō Shidehara , Japanese politician and diplomat, 44th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)1865 William Birdwood , Indian-English field marshal (d. 1951)1860 John J. Pershing , American general and lawyer (d. 1948)1857 Michał Drzymała , Polish rebel and activist (d. 1937)1857 Milton S. Hershey , American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)1851 Walter Reed , American physician and biologist (d. 1902)1842 John H. Bankhead , American soldier and politician (d. 1920)1830 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , Austrian author (d. 1916)1819 Clara Schumann , German pianist and composer (d. 1896)1818 Lucy Goode Brooks , Former American slave and a founder of Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans (d. 1900)1813 John Sedgwick , American general and educator (d. 1864)1802 Arnold Ruge , German philosopher and author (d. 1880)1755 Oliver Evans , American inventor, engineer and businessman (d. 1819)1604 Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet , English commander and politician (d. 1661)1594 Francesco Manelli , Italian theorbo player and composer (d. 1667)1521 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , English academic and politician, Lord High Treasurer (d. 1598)1502 John Leland , English poet and historian (d. 1552)1475 Cesare Borgia , Italian cardinal (d. 1507)1373 Minkhaung I , King of Ava (d. 1421)1087 John II Komnenos , Byzantine emperor (d. 1143)678 K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb III , Mayan ruler (d. 730)AD 64 Julia Flavia , Roman daughter of Titus (d. AD 91)🔽 Show All Deaths On This Day 2019 Eddie Money , American musician (b. 1949)2017 Pete Domenici , American politician, senator of New Mexico (b. 1932)2016 Jonathan Riley-Smith , British historian (b. 1938)2015 Vivinho , Brazilian footballer (b. 1961)2015 Erma Bergmann , American baseball player (b. 1924)2015 Brian Close , English cricketer and coach (b. 1931)2015 Moses Malone , American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1955)2014 Benjamin Adekunle , Nigerian general (b. 1936)2014 Helen Filarski , American baseball player (b. 1924)2014 Milan Galić , Serbian footballer (b. 1938)2014 Frank Torre , American baseball player and manager (b. 1931)2013 Olusegun Agagu , Nigerian politician, 15th Governor of Ondo State (b. 1948)2013 Robert J. Behnke , American biologist and academic (b. 1929)2013 Rick Casares , American football player (b. 1931)2013 Luiz Gushiken , Brazilian trade union leader and politician (b. 1950)2012 William Duckworth , American composer and author (b. 1943)2012 Peter Lougheed , Canadian football player, lawyer, and politician, 10th Premier of Alberta (b. 1928)2012 Edgar Metcalfe , English-Australian actor and director (b. 1933)2012 Ranganath Misra , Indian lawyer and jurist, 21st Chief Justice of India (b. 1926)2011 Walter Bonatti , Italian mountaineer and journalist (b. 1930)2009 Paul Burke , American actor (b. 1926)2007 Whakahuihui Vercoe , New Zealand archbishop (b. 1928)2006 Ann Richards , American educator and politician, 45th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)2005 Toni Fritsch , Austrian footballer (b. 1945)2005 Julio César Turbay Ayala , Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (b. 1916)2004 Luis E. Miramontes , Mexican chemist, co-invented the birth-control pill (b. 1925)2003 Frank O'Bannon , American publisher, lawyer, and politician, 47th Governor of Indiana (b. 1930)2002 George Stanley , Canadian soldier, historian, and author, designed the Flag of Canada (b. 1907)2001 Johnny Craig , American sailor and illustrator (b. 1926)2001 Jaroslav Drobný , Czech-English ice hockey player and tennis player (b. 1921)2001 Dorothy McGuire , American actress (b. 1916)2000 Betty Jeffrey , Australian nurse and author (b. 1908)1999 Benjamin Bloom , American psychologist and academic (b. 1913)1998 Necdet Calp , Turkish civil servant and politician (b. 1922)1998 Harry Lumley , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1926)1998 Frank Renouf , New Zealand businessman (b. 1918)1998 George Wallace , American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (b. 1919)1997 Georges Guétary , Egyptian-French actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1915)1997 Georgios Mitsibonas , Greek footballer (b. 1962)1996 Tupac Shakur , American rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1971)1993 Carl Voss , American ice hockey player and referee (b. 1907)1991 Robert Irving , English soldier and conductor (b. 1913)1991 Metin Oktay , Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1936)1991 Joe Pasternak , Hungarian-American production manager and producer (b. 1901)1987 Mervyn LeRoy , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1900)1985 Dane Rudhyar , French-American astrologer, composer, and author (b. 1895)1982 Reed Crandall , American illustrator (b. 1917)1977 Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (b. 1882)1976 Armand Mondou , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)1976 Albert Tessier , Canadian priest, historian, and director (b. 1895)1975 Mudicondan Venkatarama Iyer , Indian singer and musicologist (b. 1897)1973 Betty Field , American actress (b. 1913)1973 Sajjad Zaheer , Indian poet and philosopher (b. 1905)1971 Lin Biao , Chinese general and politician, 2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)1967 Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden , Yemeni-Saudi Arabian businessman, founded Saudi Binladin Group (b. 1903)1967 Robert George , English air marshal and politician, 24th Governor of South Australia (b. 1896)1967 Leonard Lord , English businessman (b. 1896)1960 Leó Weiner , Hungarian composer and educator (b. 1885)1953 Mary Brewster Hazelton , American painter (b. 1868)1949 August Krogh , Danish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)1946 Amon Göth , Austrian captain (b. 1908)1946 Eugene Lanceray , Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (b. 1875)1946 William Watt , Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (b. 1871)1944 W. Heath Robinson , English cartoonist (b. 1872)1941 Elias Disney , Canadian-American farmer and businessman (b. 1859)1937 David Robertson , Scottish rugby player and golfer (b. 1869)1931 Lili Elbe , Danish model and painter (b. 1882)1929 Jatindra Nath Das , Indian activist (b. 1904)1928 Italo Svevo , Italian author and playwright (b. 1861)1918 Frederic Crowninshield , American artist and author (b. 1845)1915 Andrew L. Harris , American general and politician, 44th Governor of Ohio (b. 1835)1913 Aurel Vlaicu , Romanian pilot and engineer (b. 1882)1912 Joseph Furphy , Australian author and poet (b. 1843)1912 Nogi Maresuke , Japanese general (b. 1849)1910 Rajanikanta Sen , Bangladeshi poet and composer (b. 1865)1905 René Goblet , French lawyer and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)1894 Emmanuel Chabrier , French pianist and composer (b. 1841)1885 Friedrich Kiel , German composer and educator (b. 1821)1881 Ambrose Burnside , American general and politician, 30th Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1824)1872 Ludwig Feuerbach , German anthropologist and philosopher (b. 1804)1871 İbrahim Şinasi , Turkish journalist, author, and translator (b. 1826)1847 Nicolas Oudinot , French general (b. 1767)1813 Hezqeyas , Ethiopian emperor1808 Saverio Bettinelli , Italian poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1718)1806 Charles James Fox , English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1749)1800 Claude Martin , French-English general and explorer (b. 1735)1766 Benjamin Heath , English scholar and author (b. 1704)1759 James Wolfe , English general (b. 1727)1632 Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (b. 1586)1612 Karin Månsdotter , Queen of Sweden (b. 1550)1598 Philip II of Spain (b. 1526)1592 Michel de Montaigne , French philosopher and author (b. 1533)1557 John Cheke , English scholar and politician, Secretary of State for England (b. 1514)1506 Andrea Mantegna , Italian painter and engraver (b. 1431)1488 Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1434)1409 Isabella of Valois , queen consort of England (b. 1387)1313 Notburga , Austrian saint (b. 1265)908 Cormac mac Cuilennáin , king of Munster (Ireland )864 Pietro Tradonico , doge of Venice 531 Kavad I , Sasanian King of Kings of Iran (b. 473)413 Marcellinus of Carthage , martyr and saint 81 Titus , Roman emperor (b. 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