2002 Harold Russell, Oscar winner, The Best Years of Our Lives, dies at 88
2001 "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84
1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84
1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina
1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1996 Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP
1996 NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1995 Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
1992 New York Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1991 New York Lotto pays $33.3 million to one winner, with the numbers 18-21-32-33-35-38
1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
1991 New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winner (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
1990 Oakland A's Bob Welch becomes 1st 25 game winner in 10 years
1990 Johnny Beagley, winner of two 1942 World Series games, dies
1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to two winner (#s are 6-14-24-32-34-51)
1990 New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44)
1989 Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1988 New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
1987 Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
1986 Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner, singns with Kansas City Royals
1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1985 Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1985 New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
1984 Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses and dies
1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate
1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-U.S. winner)
1983 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
1973 Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner
1973 Tom Seaver becomes 1st non-20-game winner to win Cy Young award
1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race
1972 Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1971 Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City
1971 Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer, 1989 winner SA Champ
1970 Charlie Ward, NBA guard for the New York Knicks/Heisman Trophy winner 1993
1970 Harold Vanderbilt, America Cup winner (1930, 34, 37), dies at 85
1970 AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking
1968 Marine James Anderson, Jr. is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1966 Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner
1966 Larisa Neiland, born in Lvov, Ukraine, tennis star, 1996 Essen winner
1964 Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner
1964 Miguel Indurain, Spanish bicyclist, Tour de France winner 1991-95
1964 Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash
1963 Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
1963 Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st and only Heisman Trophy winner
1961 Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72
1959 Armin Kogler, born in Austria, skier, 2-time winner of jumping World Cup
1958 Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist, 1978 Casagrande winner
1958 Alberto Salazar, marathoner, New York City Marathon Winner
1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
1957 James Connolly, 1st Oly winner (1896) since Barasdates (369 CE), dies
1956 U.S.S.R. single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks
1955 John Campbell, harness racer, 3-time winner of Hambletonian
1954 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
1953 Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)
1948 Garrick Ohlsson, born in Bronxville, New York, pianist, International Busoni winner 1969
1945 Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist, 5 time winner of Tour de France
1945 Jacques Ickx, Belgium, Le Mans auto race, 6-time winner
1944 Tom Seaver, pitcher, New York Met, 300 game winner, Cy Young '69 '73 '75
1942 Barbra Streisand, born in Brooklyn, New York, singer/actress/award winner, People
1939 Peter Revson, auto racer, 1971 Indianapolis pole winner
1938 Gaylord Perry, baseball player, 1972 AL Cy Young winner
1937 Bobby Allison, auto racer, 3 time winner of Daytona 500
1937 St. Louis Cardinals Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP
1936 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger
1935 Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish
1934 Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants
1934 Jacques Anquetil, France, Tour de France bicycle racer, 5-time winner
1930 Doug Harvey, hockey star, 3 time James Norris winner
1929 New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
1928 Joyce Brothers, New York City, pop psychiatrist, $64,000 question winner
1927 Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)
1927 Waite Hoyt became only 20 game winner of 1927 Yankees
1923 Jay Herbert, golfer, 1960 PGA winner
1917 Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465
1916 Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 U.S. tennis titles
1914 J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner, 1935
1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
1913 David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1910 Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
1904 Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie, Vezina winner
1904 Yanks 2 games out play 1st place Red Sox on final day doubleheader 41 game winner Chesbro loses 1st game and chance at pennant
1904 Gordon Richards, British jockey, winner of 4,870 races
1902 Septimus Winner, composer, dies at 75
1900 Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher, 300 game winner
1895 America's 1st auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1882 New York City's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours
1877 U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election
1852 Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of Amer Acad of Poets Award 1937
1839 Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer, Epitaph of a small winner
1839 Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901
1827 Septimus Winner, composer
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