May 14

May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 231 days remain until the end of the year.

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Events

Pre-1600

  • 1027 Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.[1]
  • 1097 The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.[2]
  • 1264 Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England.[3]
  • 1509 Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice.[4]

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1900 Opening of World Amateur championship at the Paris Exposition Universelle, also known as Olympic Games. [15]
  • 1913 Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
  • 1915 The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal.[16]
  • 1918 Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
  • 1931 Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.[17]
  • 1935 The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.
  • 1939 Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
  • 1940 World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.[18]
  • 1943 World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
  • 1948 Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  • 1951 Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
  • 1953 Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike.[19]
  • 1955 Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
  • 1961 Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.[20]
  • 1970 Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction.
  • 1973 Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.[21]
  • 1977 A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.[22]
  • 1980 Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
  • 1988 Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
  • 2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.[23]
  • 2004 Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.[24]
  • 2008 Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between Zenit supporters and Rangers supporters and the Greater Manchester Police, 39 policemen injured, one police-dog injured and 39 arrested.
  • 2010 Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135.[25]
  • 2012 Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people.[26]
  • 2022 Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.[27]

Births

Pre-1600

1601–1900

  • 1630 Katakura Kagenaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1681)
  • 1652 Johann Philipp Förtsch, German composer (d. 1732)
  • 1657 Sambhaji, Indian emperor (d. 1689)
  • 1666 Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
  • 1679 Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1764)
  • 1699 Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian general (d. 1786)
  • 1701 William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782)
  • 1710 Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden (d. 1771)
  • 1725 Ludovico Manin, the last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
  • 1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
  • 1737 George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Irish-English politician and diplomat, Governor of Grenada (d. 1806)
  • 1752 Timothy Dwight IV, American minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1817)
  • 1752 Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist and author (d. 1828)
  • 1761 Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1816)
  • 1771 Robert Owen, Welsh businessman and social reformer (d. 1858)
  • 1771 Thomas Wedgwood, English photographer (d. 1805)
  • 1781 Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian and academic (d. 1873)
  • 1794 Fanny Imlay, daughter of British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (d. 1816)
  • 1814 Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock & Company (d. 1876)
  • 1817 Alexander Kaufmann, German poet and educator (d. 1893)
  • 1820 James Martin, Irish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1886)
  • 1830 Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (d. 1905)
  • 1832 Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903)
  • 1851 Anna Laurens Dawes, American author and suffragist (d. 1938)[29]
  • 1852 Henri Julien, Canadian illustrator (d. 1908)
  • 1863 John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (d. 1932)
  • 1867 Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Bavaria (d. 1919)
  • 1868 Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (d. 1935)
  • 1869 Arthur Rostron, English captain (d. 1940)
  • 1872 Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
  • 1878 J. L. Wilkinson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1964)
  • 1879 Fred Englehardt, American jumper (d. 1942)
  • 1880 Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
  • 1881 Lionel Hill, Australian politician, 30th Premier of South Australia (d. 1963)
  • 1881 George Murray Hulbert, American judge and politician (d. 1950)
  • 1885 Otto Klemperer, German composer and conductor (d. 1973)
  • 1887 Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and politician, 10th Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)
  • 1888 Archie Alexander, American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958)
  • 1893 Louis Verneuil, French actor and playwright (d. 1952)
  • 1897 Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1959)
  • 1897 Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948)
  • 1899 Charlotte Auerbach, German-Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist (d. 1994)[30]
  • 1899 Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist and academic (d. 1993)
  • 1899 Earle Combs, American baseball player and coach (d. 1976)
  • 1900 Hal Borland, American journalist and author (d. 1978)
  • 1900 Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1957)
  • 1900 Cai Chang, Chinese first leader of All-China Women's Federation (d. 1990)
  • 1900 Leo Smit, Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1943)
  • 1900 Edgar Wind, German-English historian, author, and academic (d. 1971)

1901–present

  • 1901 Robert Ritter, German psychologist and physician (d. 1951)
  • 1903 Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
  • 1904 Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator (d. 1973)
  • 1904 Marcel Junod, Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (d. 1961)
  • 1905 Jean Daniélou, French cardinal and theologian (d. 1974)
  • 1905 Herbert Morrison, American soldier and journalist (d. 1989)
  • 1905 Antonio Berni, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (d. 1981)
  • 1907 Ayub Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
  • 1907 Hans von der Groeben, German journalist and diplomat (d. 2005)
  • 1908 Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author (d. 2000)
  • 1909 Godfrey Rampling, English sprinter and colonel (d. 2009)
  • 1910 Ken Viljoen, South African cricketer (d. 1974)
  • 1910 Ne Win, Prime Minister and President of Burma (d. 2002)
  • 1914 Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani journalist, poet, and politician (d. 1983)
  • 1914 William Tutte, British codebreaker and mathematician (d. 2002) [31]
  • 1916 Robert F. Christy, Canadian-American physicist and astronomer (d. 2012)
  • 1916 Lance Dossor, English-Australian pianist and educator (d. 2005)
  • 1916 Marco Zanuso, Italian architect and designer (d. 2001)
  • 1917 Lou Harrison, American composer and critic (d. 2003)
  • 1917 Norman Luboff, American composer and conductor (d. 1987)
  • 1919 Solange Chaput-Rolland, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
  • 1919 John Hope, American soldier and meteorologist (d. 2002)
  • 1921 Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
  • 1922 Franjo Tuđman, Yugoslav historian; later 1st President of Croatia (d. 1999)
  • 1923 Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2019)
  • 1923 Mrinal Sen, Bangladeshi-Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • 1925 Sophie Kurys, American baseball player (d. 2013)
  • 1925 Patrice Munsel, American soprano and actress (d. 2016)
  • 1925 Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (d. 1997)
  • 1925 Al Porcino, American trumpet player (d. 2013)
  • 1925 Ninian Sanderson, Scottish race car driver (d. 1985)
  • 1926 Eric Morecambe, English comedian and actor (d. 1984)
  • 1927 Herbert W. Franke, Austrian scientist and author
  • 1928 Dub Jones, American R&B bass singer (d. 2000)
  • 1928 Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch engineer, author, and academic (d. 2015)
  • 1928 Brian Macdonald, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
  • 1929 Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author (d. 2013)
  • 1929 Henry McGee, English actor and singer (d. 2006)
  • 1929 Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
  • 1930 William James, Australian general and physician (d. 2015)
  • 1931 Alvin Lucier, American composer and academic (d. 2021)
  • 1932 Robert Bechtle, American lithographer and painter (d. 2020)
  • 1933 Siân Phillips, Welsh actress and singer
  • 1935 Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)[32]
  • 1935 Rudi Šeligo, Slovenian playwright and politician (d. 2004)
  • 1935 Harvey Wollman, American politician, 26th Governor of South Dakota (d. 2022)[33]
  • 1936 Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1973)
  • 1936 Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1987)
  • 1938 Robert Boyd, English pediatrician and academic
  • 1939 Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (d. 2016)
  • 1939 Troy Shondell, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
  • 1940 Chay Blyth, Scottish sailor and rower
  • 1940 H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982)
  • 1940 George Mathewson, Scottish banker and businessman
  • 1941 Ada den Haan, Dutch swimmer
  • 1942 Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
  • 1942 Byron Dorgan, American lawyer and politician
  • 1942 Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, English businessman and politician (d. 2014)
  • 1942 Tony Pérez, Cuban-American baseball player and manager
  • 1942 Malise Ruthven, Irish author and academic
  • 1943 Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014)[34]
  • 1943 L. Denis Desautels, Canadian accountant and civil servant
  • 1943 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 5th President of Iceland
  • 1943 Derek Leckenby, English pop-rock guitarist (d. 1994)
  • 1943 Richard Peto, English statistician and epidemiologist
  • 1944 Gene Cornish, Canadian-American guitarist
  • 1944 George Lucas, American director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm
  • 1944 David Kelly, Welsh scientist (d. 2003)
  • 1945 Francesca Annis, English actress
  • 1945 George Nicholls, English rugby player
  • 1945 Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer
  • 1946 Sarah Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, English economist and journalist
  • 1947 Al Ciner, American pop-rock guitarist
  • 1947 Ana Martín, Mexican actress, singer, producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963)[35]
  • 1948 Timothy Stevenson, English lawyer and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire
  • 1948 Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer and coach (d. 2007)
  • 1949 Sverre Årnes, Norwegian author, screenwriter, and director
  • 1949 Walter Day, American game designer and businessman, founded Twin Galaxies
  • 1949 Johan Schans, Dutch swimmer
  • 1949 Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
  • 1951 Jay Beckenstein, American saxophonist
  • 1952 David Byrne, Scottish singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
  • 1952 Michael Fallon, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Defence
  • 1952 Orna Grumberg, Israeli computer scientist and academic
  • 1952 Raul Mälk, Estonian politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • 1952 Wim Mertens, Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.
  • 1952 Donald R. McMonagle, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
  • 1952 Robert Zemeckis, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1953 Tom Cochrane, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1953 Hywel Williams, Welsh politician
  • 1955 Marie Chouinard, Canadian dancer and choreographer
  • 1955 Alasdair Fraser, Scottish fiddler
  • 1955 Peter Kirsten, South African cricketer and rugby player
  • 1955 Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player and coach
  • 1955 Jens Sparschuh, German author and playwright
  • 1956 Hazel Blears, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
  • 1956 Steve Hogarth, English singer-songwriter and keyboardist
  • 1958 Christine Brennan, American journalist and author
  • 1958 Chris Evans, English-Australian politician, 26th Australian Minister for Employment
  • 1958 Rudy Pérez, Cuban-born American composer and music producer [36]
  • 1958 Wilma Rusman, Dutch runner
  • 1959 Carlisle Best, Barbadian cricketer
  • 1959 Patrick Bruel, French actor, singer, and poker player
  • 1959 Markus Büchel, Liechtensteiner politician, 9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (d. 2013)
  • 1959 Robert Greene, American author and translator
  • 1959 John Holt, American football player (d. 2013)
  • 1959 Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1959 Heather Wheeler, English politician
  • 1960 Anne Clark, English singer-songwriter and poet
  • 1960 Alec Dankworth, English bassist and composer
  • 1960 Frank Nobilo, New Zealand golfer
  • 1960 Ronan Tynan, Irish tenor
  • 1961 David Quantick, English journalist and critic
  • 1961 Tommy Rogers, American wrestler (d. 2015)
  • 1961 Tim Roth, English actor and director
  • 1961 Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1962 Ian Astbury, English-Canadian singer-songwriter
  • 1962 C.C. DeVille, American guitarist, songwriter, and actor
  • 1962 Danny Huston, Italian-American actor and director
  • 1963 Pat Borders, American baseball player and coach
  • 1963 David Yelland, English journalist and author
  • 1964 James M. Kelly, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
  • 1964 Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster and producer
  • 1964 Alan McIndoe, Australian rugby league player
  • 1964 Eric Peterson, American guitarist and songwriter
  • 1965 Eoin Colfer, Irish author
  • 1966 Marianne Denicourt, French actress, director, and screenwriter
  • 1966 Mike Inez, American rock bass player and songwriter
  • 1966 Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter, dancer and model
  • 1966 Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1967 Natasha Kaiser-Brown, American sprinter and coach
  • 1967 Tony Siragusa, American football player and journalist (d. 2022)
  • 1968 Mary DePiero, Canadian diver[37]
  • 1969 Stéphane Adam, French footballer
  • 1969 Cate Blanchett, Australian actress[38]
  • 1969 Sabine Schmitz, German race car driver and sportscaster (d. 2021)
  • 1969 Henry Smith, English politician
  • 1969 Danny Wood, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and choreographer
  • 1971 Deanne Bray, American actress
  • 1971 Sofia Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1971 Martin Reim, Estonian footballer and manager
  • 1972 Kirstjen Nielsen, American attorney, 6th United States Secretary of Homeland Security[39]
  • 1973 Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
  • 1973 Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
  • 1973 Fraser Nelson, Scottish journalist
  • 1973 Hakan Ünsal, Turkish footballer and sportscaster
  • 1973 Julian White, English rugby player
  • 1974 Anu Välba, Estonian journalist
  • 1975 Nicki Sørensen, Danish cyclist
  • 1976 Hunter Burgan, American bass player
  • 1976 Brian Lawrence, American baseball player and coach
  • 1976 Martine McCutcheon, English actress and singer
  • 1977 Sophie Anderton, English model and actress
  • 1977 Roy Halladay, American baseball player (d. 2017)
  • 1977 Ada Nicodemou, Cypriot-Australian actress
  • 1978 Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
  • 1978 Eddie House, American basketball player
  • 1978 André Macanga, Angolan footballer and manager
  • 1978 Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
  • 1979 Dan Auerbach, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1979 Edwige Lawson-Wade, French basketball player
  • 1979 Clinton Morrison, English-Irish footballer
  • 1979 Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
  • 1980 Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
  • 1980 Pavel Londak, Estonian footballer
  • 1980 Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
  • 1980 Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
  • 1980 Hugo Southwell, English-Scottish rugby player
  • 1980 Joe van Niekerk, South African rugby player
  • 1981 Pranav Mistry, Indian computer scientist, invented SixthSense
  • 1983 Anahí, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  • 1983 Keeley Donovan, English journalist
  • 1983 Frank Gore, American football player
  • 1983 Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
  • 1983 Tatenda Taibu, Zimbabwean cricketer
  • 1983 Amber Tamblyn, American actress, author, model, director
  • 1984 Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian footballer
  • 1984 Luke Gregerson, American baseball player
  • 1984 Olly Murs, English singer-songwriter
  • 1984 Michael Rensing, German footballer
  • 1984 Indrek Siska, Estonian footballer
  • 1984 Mark Zuckerberg, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Facebook
  • 1985 Dustin Lynch, American singer-songwriter
  • 1985 Sam Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player
  • 1985 Simona Peycheva, Bulgarian gymnast
  • 1985 Zack Ryder, American wrestler
  • 1986 Andrea Bovo, Italian footballer
  • 1986 Clay Matthews III, American football player
  • 1986 Marco Motta, Italian footballer
  • 1987 Jeong Min-hyeong, South Korean footballer (d. 2012)
  • 1987 Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
  • 1987 François Steyn, South African rugby player
  • 1988 Jayne Appel, American basketball player
  • 1989 Rob Gronkowski, American football player
  • 1989 Alina Talay, Belorussian hurdler
  • 1993 Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
  • 1993 Kristina Mladenovic, French tennis player
  • 1993 Bence Rakaczki, Hungarian footballer (d. 2014)
  • 1994 Marcos Aoás Corrêa, Brazilian footballer
  • 1994 Pernille Blume, Danish swimmer[40]
  • 1994 Bronte Campbell, Australian swimmer[41]
  • 1994 Dennis Praet, Belgian footballer
  • 1995 Bernardo Fernandes da Silva Junior, Brazilian footballer
  • 1995 Rose Lavelle, American soccer player[42]
  • 1995 Jonah Placid, Australian rugby player
  • 1996 Blake Brockington, American trans man and activist (d. 2015)
  • 1996 Pokimane, Canadian online streamer[43]
  • 1996 Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ
  • 1996 TheOdd1sOut, American YouTuber and animator
  • 2001 Jack Hughes, American hockey player[44]

Deaths

Pre-1600

  • 649 Pope Theodore I
  • 934 Zhu Hongzhao, Chinese general and governor
  • 964 Pope John XII (b. 927)
  • 1080 William Walcher, Bishop of Durham
  • 1219 William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English soldier and politician (b. 1147)
  • 1576 Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia (b. 1514)

1601–1900

  • 1603 Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1543)
  • 1608 Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
  • 1610 Henry IV of France (b. 1553)[45]
  • 1643 Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
  • 1649 Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss theologian and academic (b. 1600)
  • 1667 Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1601)
  • 1688 Antoine Furetière, French scholar, lexicographer, and author (b. 1619)
  • 1754 Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692)
  • 1761 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)
  • 1847 Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (b. 1805)[46]
  • 1860 Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801)
  • 1873 Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (b. 1797)
  • 1878 Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830)
  • 1881 Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (b. 1805)[47]
  • 1889 Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1809)
  • 1893 Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)

1901–present

  • 1906 Carl Schurz, German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1829)
  • 1912 Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
  • 1912 August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (b. 1849)
  • 1918 James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1841)
  • 1919 Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
  • 1923 N. G. Chandavarkar, Indian jurist and politician (b. 1855)
  • 1923 Charles de Freycinet, French engineer and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
  • 1931 David Belasco, American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1853)
  • 1934 Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager (b. 1872)
  • 1935 Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868)
  • 1936 Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (b. 1861)
  • 1940 Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist (b. 1869)[48]
  • 1940 Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (b. 1902)
  • 1943 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
  • 1945 Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
  • 1945 Wolfgang Lüth, Latvian-German captain (b. 1913)
  • 1945 Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist (b. 1852)[49]
  • 1953 Yasuo Kuniyoshi, American painter and photographer (b. 1893)
  • 1954 Heinz Guderian, Prussian-German general (b. 1888)
  • 1956 Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)
  • 1957 Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (b. 1884)[50]
  • 1959 Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1897)
  • 1959 Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)
  • 1960 Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano and actress (b. 1887)
  • 1962 Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1880)
  • 1968 Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
  • 1969 Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (b. 1893)
  • 1969 Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
  • 1970 Billie Burke, American actress and singer (b. 1884)
  • 1972 Ike Moriz, German-South African singer-songwriter, producer and actor [51]
  • 1973 Jean Gebser, German linguist, philosopher, and poet (b. 1905)
  • 1976 Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1943)
  • 1979 Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (b. 1890)
  • 1980 Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
  • 1982 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
  • 1983 Roger J. Traynor, American academic and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (b. 1900)
  • 1983 Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
  • 1984 Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (b. 1910)
  • 1984 Walter Rauff, German SS officer (b. 1906)
  • 1987 Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)
  • 1987 Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian poet and playwright (b. 1914)
  • 1988 Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (b. 1886)
  • 1991 Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (b. 1910)[52]
  • 1992 Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (b. 1899)
  • 1993 William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1908)
  • 1994 Cihat Arman, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1915)
  • 1994 W. Graham Claytor Jr., American businessman, lieutenant, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1914)
  • 1995 Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
  • 1997 Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (b. 1934)
  • 1997 Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (b. 1925)
  • 1998 Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and environmentalist (b. 1890)
  • 1998 Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
  • 2000 Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
  • 2001 Paul Bénichou, French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian (b. 1908)
  • 2001 Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (b. 1919)
  • 2003 Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
  • 2003 Wendy Hiller, English actress (b. 1912)
  • 2003 Robert Stack, American actor and producer (b. 1919)
  • 2004 Anna Lee, English-American actress (b. 1913)
  • 2005 Jimmy Martin, American musician (b. 1927)
  • 2006 Lew Anderson, American actor and saxophonist (b. 1922)
  • 2006 Stanley Kunitz, American poet and translator (b. 1905)
  • 2006 Eva Norvind, Mexican actress, director, and producer (b. 1944)
  • 2007 Mary Scheier, American sculptor and educator (b. 1908)
  • 2007 Ülo Jõgi, Estonian historian and author (b. 1921)
  • 2010 Frank J. Dodd, American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate (b. 1938)
  • 2010 Norman Hand, American football player (b. 1972)
  • 2010 Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)
  • 2012 Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
  • 2012 Mario Trejo, Argentinian poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1926)
  • 2013 Wayne Brown, American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (b. 1936)
  • 2013 Arsen Chilingaryan, Armenian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
  • 2013 Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian author and activist (b. 1939)
  • 2013 Ray Guy, Canadian journalist (b. 1939)
  • 2014 Jeffrey Kruger, English-American businessman (b. 1931)
  • 2014 Emanuel Raymond Lewis, American librarian and author (b. 1928)
  • 2014 Morvin Simon, New Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (b. 1944)
  • 2015 B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1925)
  • 2015 Micheál O'Brien, Irish footballer and hurler (b. 1923)
  • 2015 Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937)
  • 2015 Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (b. 1953)
  • 2016 Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1962)
  • 2017 Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)
  • 2018 Tom Wolfe, American author (b. 1931)
  • 2019 Tim Conway, American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1933)[53]
  • 2019 Grumpy Cat, American cat and internet meme celebrity (b. 2012)[54]

Holidays and observances

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