14 October Deaths

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).

Deaths

530 – Antipope Dioscorus
841 – Shi Yuanzhong, Chinese governor
869 – Pang Xun, Chinese rebel leader
1066 – Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022)
1066 – Leofwine Godwinson, English son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1035)
1066 – Gyrth Godwinson, brother of King Harold II
1077 – Andronicus Ducas, Byzantine courtier (b. 1022)
1092 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018)
1184 – Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph (b. 1135)
1213 – Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex
1217 – Isabella, Countess of Gloucester, wife of King John of England (b. c. 1173)
1256 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
1318 – Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (b. 1275)
1416 – Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1536 – Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503)
1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1488)
1565 – Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521)
1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch singer and composer (b. 1507)
1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyo (b. 1540)
1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (b. 1562)
1631 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Queen and regent of Denmark (b. 1557)
1637 – Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
1669 – Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (b. 1623)
1703 – Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (b. 1634)
1711 – Tewoflos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708)
1758 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)
1911 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
1923 – Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
1929 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
1930 – Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837)
1942 – Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
1943 – Sobibór uprising:
Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (b. 1910)
Siegfried Graetschus, German sergeant (b. 1916)
Johann Niemann, German lieutenant (b. 1913)
1944 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
1953 – Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
1953 – Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)
1959 – Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (b. 1907)
1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1909)
1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880)
1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
1965 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
1965 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914)
1967 – Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902)
1969 – Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
1969 – August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
1973 – Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897)
1973 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (b. 1929)
1976 – Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1903)
1982 – Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889)
1983 – Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
1985 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902)
1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
1997 – Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
1998 – Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917)
1998 – Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916)
1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
2000 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
2000 – Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964)
2002 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (b. 1911)
2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913)
2006 – Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
2006 – Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926)
2006 – Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (b. 1937)
2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915)
2008 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2009 – Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2009 – Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935)
2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (b. 1924)
2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1948)
2011 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (b. 1949)
2012 – John Clive, English actor and author (b. 1933)
2012 – Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (b. 1920)
2012 – James R. Grover Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1919)
2012 – Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (b. 1922)
2012 – Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (b. 1923)
2012 – Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
2013 – Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1965)
2013 – Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (b. 1936)
2013 – Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (b. 1930)
2013 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (b. 1954)
2013 – Frank Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946)
2013 – Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940)
2014 – A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (b. 1923)
2014 – Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (b. 1933)
2014 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959)
2015 – Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947)
2015 – Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (b. 1933)
2015 – Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (b. 1918)
2015 – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (b. 1930)
2016 – Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1964)

Source: wikipedia