Famous Deaths on 14 Aug

Famous Deaths on 14 Aug

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)
1926 - John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
1928 - Alfred Henschke, ps. Klabund, German writer, poet (b. 1890)
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 - Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b.1873)
1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
1964 - Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer (b. 1934)
1967 - Bob Anderson, British racing driver (b. 1931)
1972 - Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885)
1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906)
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 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
1988 - Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (b. 1945)
1988 - Roy Buchanan, blues guitarist
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)
582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor