December 14 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1460 – Guarino da Verona (b. 1370)
• 1476 – Vlad III the Impaler (b. 1431)
• 1510 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
• 1542 – King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
• 1553 – Hanibal Lucić, Croatian writer (b. 1485)
• 1591 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
• 1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)
• 1651 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
• 1713 – Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)
• 1715 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
• 1735 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
• 1741 – Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
• 1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
• 1788 – King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
• 1799 – George Washington, First President of the United States (b. 1732)
• 1831 – Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (b. 1765)
• 1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, French Canadian physician (b. 1806)
• 1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, British statesman (b. 1784)
• 1861 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
• 1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)
• 1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
• 1878 – Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (b. 1843)
• 1902 – Julia Dent-Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)
• 1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (b. 1887)
• 1920 – George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)
• 1927 – Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)
• 1937 – Fabian de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869)
• 1940 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian political leader (b. 1872)
• 1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and breakfast food manufacturer (b. 1852)
• 1947 – Stanley Baldwin, British statesman (b. 1867)
• 1947 – Edward Higgins, American evangelical (b. 1864)
• 1953 – Marjorie Rawlings, American author (b. 1896)
• 1954 – Emil Rausch, German freestyle swimmer (b. 1883)
• 1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish politician (b. 1870)
• 1957 – Fred Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1872)
• 1963 – Otto Fickeisen, German rower (b. 1879)
• 1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1964 – William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
• 1966 – Shailendra, Indian lyricist (b. 1923)
• 1970 – Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)
• 1971 – Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (b. 1929)
• 1974 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and political commentator (b. 1889)
• 1975 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat (b. 1886)
• 1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (b. 1898)
• 1985 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian social activist (b. 1896)
• 1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 1989 – Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
• 1989 – Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1921)
• 1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
• 1993 – Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
• 1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Orval Faubus, American politician (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Gaston Miron, French-Canadian poet and editor (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Stubby Kaye, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (b. 1946)
• 1998 – Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)
• 1998 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (b. 1924)
• 2001 – W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
• 2003 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
• 2003 – Blas Ople, Filipino diplomat (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Frank Sheeran, American labor union official (b. 1920)
• 2004 – Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and politician (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan political strategist (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-born American music executive (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
• 2009 – Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Timothy Davlin, American politician (b. 1957)
• 2010 – Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
• 2011 – Joe Simon, American comic book artist (b. 1913)