August 14 :: Historical Deaths

Famous Deaths

• 582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor


• 1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne


• 1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)


• 1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)


• 1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)


• 1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)


• 1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)


• 1573 - Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)


• 1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)


• 1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)


• 1727 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)


• 1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)


• 1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)


• 1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)


• 1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)


• 1870 - David Farragut, American officer of the U.S. Navy (b. 1801)


• 1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)


• 1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)


• 1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet (b. 1890)


• 1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)


• 1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)


• 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1854)


• 1941 - Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (b. 1894)


• 1943 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)


• 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)


• 1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)


• 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)


• 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)


• 1958 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)


• 1964 - Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer (b. 1934)


• 1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)


• 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)


• 1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906)


• 1972 - Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885)


• 1978 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer (b. 1907)


• 1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)


• 1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)


• 1984 - Spud Davis, American baseball player (b. 1904)


• 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b. 1894)


• 1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)


• 1988 - Roy Buchanan, blues guitarist


• 1988 - Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (b. 1945)


• 1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)


• 1991 - Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (b. 1920)


• 1992 - John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904)


• 1992 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928)


• 1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (b. 1905)


• 1996 - Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)


• 1999 - Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)


• 2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)


• 2002 - Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)


• 2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)


• 2004 - Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1911)


• 2004 - Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (b. 1918)


• 2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)


• 2006 - Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)


• 2007 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)