14 December Deaths

Published : 14 Dec 2017, 11:09

Jagoroniya Desk

December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Deaths

618 – Xue Rengao, emperor of Qin
704 – Aldfrith, king of Northumbria (or 705)
872 – Pope Adrian II (b. 792)
1077 – Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress and regent (b. c. 1025)
1293 – Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
1311 – Margaret of Brabant, German queen consort (b. 1276)
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1326)
1359 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332)
1417 – John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader
1460 – Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar and translator (b. 1370)
1480 – Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
1503 – Sten Sture the Elder, regent of Sweden (b. 1440)
1510 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
1542 – James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
1591 – John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542)
1595 – Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)
1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1536)
1651 – Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar (b. 1582)
1715 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (b. 1636)
1735 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian (b. 1674)
1741 – Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (b. 1661)
1785 – Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1727)
1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (b. 1714)
1788 – Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
1799 – George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
1831 – Martin Baum, American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (b. 1765)
1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (b. 1806)
1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1861 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)
1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
1917 – Phil Waller, Welsh rugby player (b. 1889)
1920 – George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
1927 – Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842)
1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (b. 1902)
1937 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (b. 1869)
1940 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852)
1947 – Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1947 – Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1953 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (b. 1896)
1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
1964 – William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
1970 – Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876)
1971 – Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926)
1971 – Munier Choudhury, Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
1971 – Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi journalist and author (b. 1927)
1974 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and author (b. 1889)
1975 – Arthur Treacher, English-American entertainer (b. 1894)
1978 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b. 1886)
1980 – Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1985 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896)
1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (b. 1934)
1989 – Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921)
1991 – Robert Eddison, Japanese-English actor (b. 1908)
1993 – Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
1994 – Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1995 – G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (b. 1922)
1996 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (b. 1928)
1997 – Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)
1997 – Emily Cheney Neville, American author (b. 1919)
1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1946)
1998 – Norman Fell, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)
1998 – A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American lawyer, judge, and activist (b. 1928)
1998 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1924)
2001 – W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 1944)
2003 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
2003 – Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2003 – Frank Sheeran, American union leader and mobster (b. 1920)
2004 – Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 – Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1939)
2006 – Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (b. 1938)
2006 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 – Mike Evans, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1949)
2009 – Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
2010 – Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor of Springfield (b. 1957)
2010 – Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
2010 – Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
2011 – Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (b. 1913)
2011 – Billie Jo Spears, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2012 – John Graham, English general (b. 1923)
2012 – Edward Jones, American police officer and politician (b. 1950)
2012 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (b. 1985)
2013 – Janet Dailey, American author (b. 1944)
2013 – C. N. Karunakaran, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1940)
2013 – Dennis Lindley, English statistician and academic (b. 1923)
2013 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932)
2013 – George Rodrigue, American painter (b. 1944)
2014 – Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – Irene Dalis, American soprano and pianist (b. 1925)
2014 – Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1947)
2014 – Bess Myerson, American model, activist, game show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945 (b. 1924)
2014 – Fred Thurston, American football player (b. 1933)
2015 – Terry Backer, American soldier and politician (b. 1954)
2015 – Glen Sonmor, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
2015 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1963)
2015 – Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (b. 1927)
2016 – Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1921)
2016 – Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (b. 1927)

Source: wikipedia

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