December 14
December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 17 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 872 - Pope Adrian II (b. 792)
- 1460 - Guarino de Verona, Italian scholar (b. 1370)
- 1476 – Vlad III the Impaler, ruler of Transylvania (b. 1430)
- 1510 - Frederick of Saxony (b. 1473)
- 1542 – James V, King of Scotland (b. 1512)
- 1591 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)
- 1651 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)
- 1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)
- 1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)
- 1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)
- 1788 – Charles III, King of Spain (b. 1716)
- 1799 – George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
- 1806 – John Breckinridge, American politician (b. 1760)
- 1860 - George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
- 1861 – Albert, Prince Consort (b. 1819)
- 1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)
- 1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss geologist (b. 1807)
- 1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
1901 – 2000
- 1902 - Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (b. 1826)
- 1912 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
- 1918 – Sidonio Pais, President of Portugal (b. 1872)
- 1927 - Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1940 - Anton Korosec, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
- 1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and breakfast food manufacturer (b. 1852)
- 1947 – Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- 1947 – Edward Higgins, General, contributor to the Salvation Army (b. 1864)
- 1953 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author (b. 1897)
- 1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, President of Finland (b. 1873)
- 1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)
- 1963 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (b. 1901)
- 1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German politician (b. 1876)
- 1974 - Walter Lippmann, American journalist (b. 1889)
- 1978 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat (b. 1886)
- 1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer (b. 1898)
- 1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (b. 1934)
- 1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet-Russian scientist and activist (b. 1921)
- 1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
- 1994 – Orval Faubus, American politician, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
- 1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (b. 1946)
- 1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
From 2001
- 2001 – W. G. Sebald, German writer (b. 1944)
- 2006 – Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-American music executive (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Boris Chertok, Soviet-Russian rocket scientist and engineer (b. 1912)
- 2011 - George Whitman, American bookstore owner (b. 1913)
- 2012 - Kenneth Kendall, British television journalist (b. 1924)
- 2012 - Adam Lanza, American gunman (b. 1992)
- 2013 - George Rodrigue, American artist (b. 1944)
- 2013 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-British actor (b. 1932)
- 2013 - France Roche, French actress and screenwriter (b. 1921)
- 2014 - Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, Congolese politician (b. 1947)
- 2014 - Theo Colborn, American environmentalist and academic (b. 1927)
- 2014 - Bess Myerson, American model (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1963)
- 2015 - Armando Cossutta, Italian politician (b. 1926)
- 2015 - Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman (b. 1927)
- 2016 - Bernard Fox, Welsh-American actor (b. 1927)
- 2016 - Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1921)
- 2016 - Halfdan T. Mahler, former Director-General of the World Health Organization (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Jean-Paul Pier, Luxembourgian mathematician (b. 1933)
- 2017 - Bob Givens, American animator (b. 1918)
- 2017 - Karl-Erik Nilsson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1922)
- 2017 - R. C. Sproul, American theologian and author (b. 1939)
- 2017 - Neeraj Vora, Indian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1963)
- 2017 - Marilyn Ware, American diplomat and businesswoman (b. 1943)
- 2017 - Lones Wigger, American sports shooter (b. 1937)
- 2017 - Yu Guangzhong, Taiwanese poet (b. 1928)
- 2018 - Matti Kassila, Finnish film director (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Remedios Loza, Bolivian politician (b. 1949)
- 2018 - Joe Osborn, American bass guitarist (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Edmond Simeoni, French politician (b. 1934)
- 2018 - Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian economist and politician; b. 1945
- Twenty-nineteen - Yury Belyayev, Russian footballer; b. '34
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 – King Paul of Greece (d. 1964)
- 1902 - Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1902 – Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1988)
- 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996)
- 1908 - Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (d. 2001)
- 1909 – Edward Tatum, American geneticist (d. 1975)
- 1911 – Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
- 1911 - Hans von Ohain, German-American engineer (d. 1998)
- 1914 – Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992)
- 1914 - Nam Phuong, Empress of Vietnam (d. 1963)
- 1914 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
- 1915 - Rashid Behbudov, Georgian-Russian singer and actor (d. 1969)
- 1916 - Shirley Jackson, American author (d. 1965)
- 1917 - Tove Ditlevsen, Danish poet and author (d. 1976)
- 1918 - James Thomas Aubrey, Jr., American television and movie executive (d. 1994)
- 1918 - B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author (d. 2014)
- 1920 – Clark Terry, American jazz musician and composer (d. 2015)
- 1922 – Nikolay Basov, Soviet-Russian physicist (d. 2001)
- 1922 - Don Hewitt, American television producer (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988)
- 1932 – Charlie Rich, American singer (d. 1995)
- 1932 - Abbe Lane, American singer and actress
- 1933 - Hisataka Okamoto, Japanese footballer
- 1934 - Shyam Benegal, Indian director and screenwriter
- 1935 – Lewis Arquette, American actor, writer and producer (d. 2001)
- 1935 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1936 - Robert A. Parker, American astronaut
- 1937 - Anna Lindblom, Swedish actress and singer
- 1938 – Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
- 1939 - Stephen Cook, American computer programmer
- 1941 - Karan Armstrong, American soprano and actress
- 1942 - Chris Harris, English actor (d. 2014)
- 1942 - Dick Wagner, American guitarist, songwriter and author (d. 2014)
- 1943 - Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author and publisher
- 1943 - Britt Allcroft, English filmmaker
- 1946 – Sanjay Gandhi, Indian politician (d. 1980)
- 1946 – Stan Smith, American tennis player
- 1946 - Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016)
- 1946 - Ruth Fuchs, German javelin thrower and politician
- 1946 - Peter Lorimer, Scottish footballer
- 1947 – Dilma Rousseff, former President of Brazil
- 1948 - Kim Beazley, Australian politician and diplomat
- 1949 – Cliff Williams, British musician (AC/DC)
- 1950 - Christiane Krause, German athlete
1951 – 1975
- 1953 - Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician
- 1953 - Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player, actor and businessman
- 1954 - James Horan, American actor
- 1954 - Steve MacLean, Canadian astronaut
- 1956 - Linda Fabiani, Scottish politician
- 1958 – Mike Scott, Scottish musician and singer-songwriter (The Waterboys)
- 1958 – Spider Stacy, British musician (The Pogues)
- 1959 - Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
- 1960 – Chris Waddle, English footballer
- 1960 - Don Franklin, American actor
- 1960 - James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 1961 - Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (d. 2014)
- 1962 - Bela B, German musician
- 1964 - Rebecca Gibney, New Zealand-born Australian actress
- 1965 - Ted Raimi, American actor
- 1966 – Helle Thorning-Schmidt, former Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1966 - Anthony Mason, American basketball player (d. 2015)
- 1967 - Hanne Haugland, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1969 - Greg Hemphill, Scottish actor, comedian and writer
- 1969 - Archie Kao, American actor and producer
- 1969 – Natascha McElhone, English actress
- 1970 - Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter, pianist and producer
- 1972 – Miranda Hart, English comedienne
- 1975 – Andrés Scotti, Uruguayan footballer
From 1976
- 1976 – Petter Hansson, Swedish footballer
- 1977 – Jamie Peacock, English Rugby League player
- 1978 – Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
- 1979 – Michael Owen, English footballer
- 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
- 1979 - Sophie Monk, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1980 – Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
- 1980 - Samuel Aiken, American football player
- 1981 – Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer
- 1982 – Steve Sidwell, English footballer
- 1983 - Leanne Mitchell, English singer-songwriter
- 1984 - Chadli Amri, Algerian footballer
- 1984 - Chris Brunt, Irish footballer
- 1984 - Jackson Rathbone, American actor and musician
- 1985 - Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress and singer
- 1985 – Jakub Blaszczykowski, Polish footballer
- 1985 – Chris Czekaj, Welsh rugby player
- 1986 - Jang Jae-Ho, South Korean professional gamer
- 1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress
- 1988 - Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
- 1988 - Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player
- 1989 - Onew, South Korean singer
- 1989 - Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 - Samantha Paszek, American gymnast
- 1992 - Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer
- 1992 - Tori Kelly, American singer-songwriter
- 1993 - Thanawat Thirapongpaibon, Thai snooker player
- 1994 - Jason Lowndes, Australian racing cyclist (d. 2017)
- 1999 - Karley Scott Collins, American actress
Deaths
Observances
- Alabama Day
- Day of the Martyred Intellectuals (Bangladesh)
- Monkey Day