Famous Deaths on 14 May

Famous Deaths on 14 May

1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 - Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
1643 - Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
1962 - Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
1970 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1980 - Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
1983 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
1985 - Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
1992 - Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
2004 - Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
2007 - Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
964 - Pope John XII