August 14 - Deaths

Deaths

• 582 – Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor (b. 535)
• 1040 – Duncan I of Scotland (b. 1001)
• 1167 – Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop (b. 1120)
• 1204 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese 2nd shogun of Kamakura Dynasty (b. 1182)
• 1390 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
• 1430 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
• 1433 – 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 Tyrconnell, Irish soldier (b. 1630)
• 1704 – Roland Laporte, French religious leader (b. 1675)
• 1727 – William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
• 1774 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
• 1784 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter (b. 1718)
• 1856 – Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
• 1860 – André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
• 1870 – David Farragut, American navy officer (b. 1801)
• 1874 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)
• 1891 – Sarah Childress Polk, American wife of James K. Polk, 12th First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
• 1905 – Simeon Solomon, English painter (b. 1840)
• 1909 – William Stanley, American inventor and engineer (b. 1829)
• 1926 – John H. Moffitt, American politician (b. 1843)
• 1928 – Klabund, German writer and poet (b. 1890)
• 1938 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (b. 1876)
• 1941 – Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
• 1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1943 – Lore Berger, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
• 1943 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player (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, publisher, and librarian (b. 1861)
• 1956 – Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
• 1958 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1958 – Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (b. 1873)
• 1964 – Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (The Rock and Roll Trio) (b. 1934)
• 1965 – Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)
• 1966 – Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)
• 1967 – Bob Anderson, English race car driver (b. 1931)
• 1972 – Oscar Levant, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1972 – Jules Romains, French author (b. 1885)
• 1978 – Nicolas Bentley, English writer (b. 1907)
• 1980 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
• 1981 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
• 1981 – Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Patrick Magee, Irish actor (b. 1922)
• 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, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Snakestretchers) (b. 1939)
• 1988 – Robert Calvert, South African singer-songwriter and poet (Hawkwind) (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, Argentine race car driver (b. 1920)
• 1992 – John Sirica, American judge (b. 1904)
• 1992 – Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (b. 1928)
• 1994 – Elias Canetti, English-Austrian novelist (b. 1905)
• 1996 – Tom Mees, American sportscaster (b. 1949)
• 1996 – Solomos Solomou, Greek refugee (b. 1970)
• 1999 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
• 2000 – Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Earl Anthony, American bowler (b. 1938)
• 2002 – Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
• 2003 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Czesław Miłosz, Polishn writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English politician (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Adriaan de Groot, Dutch chess player and psychologist (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2007 – Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)
• 2007 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Percy Irausquin, Aruban-Dutch fashion designer (b. 1969)
• 2010 – Rallis Kopsidis, Greek writer (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Tahar Ouettar, Algerian novelist (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and director (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Zhou Kehua, Chinese criminal and murder (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, American designer (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Charles Maynard, Bahamian politician (b. 1970)
• 2012 – Ron Palillo, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Rosemary Rice, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)