14 August Deaths

Published : 14 Aug 2018, 11:23

Jagoroniya Desk

August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

582 – Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor (b. 535)
902 – Badr al-Mu'tadidi, commander-in-chief of the Abbasid Caliphate under al-Mu'tadid
1040 – Duncan I of Scotland (b. 1001)
1167 – Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop (b. 1120)
1204 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
1297 – Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg (b. c. 1220)
1319 – Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (b. c. 1280)
1388 – James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
1390 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
1433 – John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
1464 – Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
1573 – Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo (b. 1548)
1657 – Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
1691 – Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)
1727 – William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
1774 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
1784 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
1856 – Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
1860 – André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
1870 – David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
1874 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)
1890 – Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)
1905 – Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)
1909 – William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1829)
1926 – John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)
1928 – Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
1938 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)
1941 – Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1943 – Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
1943 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
1951 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
1954 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
1954 – Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
1955 – Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
1956 – Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
1958 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1958 – Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)
1963 – Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
1965 – Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
1966 – Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
1967 – Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)
1972 – Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)
1972 – Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)
1973 – Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)
1978 – Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)
1980 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)
1981 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1894)
1981 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
1982 – Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (b. 1904)
1984 – Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904)
1984 – J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
1985 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
1988 – Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
1988 – Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1945)
1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898)
1989 – Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)
1991 – Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1920)
1992 – John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
1994 – Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1994 – Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)
1996 – Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1999 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)
2000 – Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
2002 – Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2003 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2004 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2004 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
2006 – Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)
2006 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
2007 – Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
2007 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
2007 – Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)
2010 – Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter and author (b. 1929)
2010 – Herman Leonard, American soldier and photographer (b. 1923)
2011 – Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2012 – Maja Bošković-Stulli, Croatian historian and academic (b. 1922)
2012 – Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)
2012 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player and theoretician (b. 1923)
2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)
2012 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
2013 – Jack Garfinkel, American basketball player and coach (b. 1918)
2013 – Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928)
2013 – Paddy Power, Irish educator and politician, 22nd Irish Minister for Defence (b. 1928)
2014 – Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934)
2014 – George V. Hansen, American soldier and politician (b. 1930)
2015 – Agustín Cejas, Argentinian footballer (b. 1945)
2015 – Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (b. 1927)
2015 – Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932)
2016 – Philip "Fyuvsh" Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)

Source: wikipedia

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