April 14

2024 Calendar

April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 261 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1132 - Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
1574 - Louis of Nassau (b. 1538)
1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots
1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
1758 – Clara, famous rhinoceros
1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
1792 - Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (b. 1720)
1816 - Bussa, African-born Barbadian slave and national hero of Barbados
1843 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
1895 - James Dwight Dana, American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist (b. 1813)

1901 – 2000

1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1912 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
1914 – Hubert Bland, co-founder of Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
1925 – John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
1935 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1907)
1950 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru (b. 1879)
1951 - Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1962 - Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar and statesman (b. 1860)
1964 - Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
1964 – Rachel Carson, American writer (b. 1907)
1965 - Richard Hickock, American murderer (b. 1931)
1965 - Perry Edward Smith, American murderer (b. 1928)
1968 – Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (b. 1911)
1975 – Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)
1983 - Pete Farndon, English musician (b. 1952)
1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
1989 – Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders)
1995 – Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (b. 1909)
1999 – Anthony Newley, actor, singer (b. 1931)
1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
1999 – Bill Wendell, American broadcaster (b. 1931)
2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
2000 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)

From 2001

2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
2001 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2007 – Ladislav Adamec, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1926)
2009 – Maurice Druon, French writer, dramatist and politician (b. 1918)
2010 - Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (b. 1932)
2010 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
2011 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2011 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919)
2012 – Emile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
2012 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (b. 1986)
2012 - Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (b. 1924)
2013 - Colin Davis, British conductor (b. 1927)
2013 - Armando Villanueva, Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
2014 - Brian Harradine, Australian politician (b. 1935)
2014 - Armando Peraza, Cuban-American Latin jazz percussionist (b. 1924)
2014 - Mick Staton, American politician (b. 1940)
2014 - Albert Manent, Spanish writer (b. 1930)
2014 - Manuel Ortega, Spanish painter (b. 1921)
2015 - Ameril Umbra Kato, Filipino warlord (b. 1946)
2015 - Percy Sledge, American singer (b. 1941)
2015 - Norman H. Bangerter, American politician, 13th Governor of Utah (b. 1933)
2015 - Homaro Cantu, American chef (b. 1976)
2015 - Klaus Bednarz, German journalist and writer (b. 1942)
2015 - Meir Rosenne, Israeli lawyer and diplomat (b. 1931)
2015 - Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal (b. 1921)
2016 - Nguyen Anh 9, Vietnamese songwriter and pianist (b. 1940)
2016 - Ahmed Brahim, Tunisian politician (b. 1946)
2016 - Malick Sidibé, Malian photographer (b. 1935)
2016 - Liang Sili, Chinese missile control scientist and academic (b. 1924)
2016 - David J. C. MacKay, British authwriteror, physicist and professor (b. 1967)
2017 - Henry Hillman, American venture capitalist and philanthropist (b. 1918)
2017 - Robert Taylor, American computer scientist and internet pioneer (b. 1932)
2018 - Isabella Biagini, Italian actress (b. 1943)
2018 - Hal Greer, American basketball player (b. 1936)
2018 - Jean-Claude Malgoire, French conductor (b. 1940)
2018 - Jon Michelet, Norwegian writer (b. 1944)
2018 - Gerald Nachman, American critic and writer (b. 1938)
2018 - Robert Holmes, American football player (b. 1945)
2019 - Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (b. 1935)
2019 - Giuseppe Ciarrapico, Italian politician (b. 1934)
2019 - Colin Collindridge, English footballer (b. 1929)
2019 - Abdallah Lamrani, Moroccan footballer (b. 1946)
2019 - Gene Wolfe, American writer (b. 1931)

Births

1901 – 1950

1902 - Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and referee (d. 1974)
1903 - Henry Corbin, French philosopher and educator (d. 1978)
1904 – John Gielgud, British actor (d. 2000)
1905 - Jean Pierre-Bloch, French activist, politician and writer (d. 1999)
1905 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
1907 – François Duvalier (Papa Doc), President of Haiti (d. 1971)
1912 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d. 1994)
1918 - Mary Healy, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1919 - Shamshan Begum, Indian singer (d. 2013)
1920 - Ivor Guest, English ballet historian and lawyer
1920 - Schubert Gambetta, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1991)
1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist (d. 2016)
1922 - Audrey Long, American actress (d. 2014)
1923 - Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentine golfer (d. 2017)
1924 - Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, British philosopher (d. 2019)
1925 – Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (d. 2010)
1925 - Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (d. 1974)
1925 - Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002)
1926 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2008)
1926 - Gloria Jean, American actress
1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist (d. 2007)
1929 – Chadli Bendjedid, former President of Algeria (d. 2012)
1929 - Gerry Anderson, British writer, director and producer (d. 2012)
1931 - Dimitar Dobrev, Bulgarian wrestler (d. 2019)
1932 – Atef Ebeid, former Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
1932 – Loretta Lynn, American country musician and singer
1933 - Boris Strugatsky, Russian writer (d. 2012)
1933 - Paddy Hopkirk, Northern Irish racing driver
1934 - Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist
1935 - Susan Cunliffe-Lister, British paralympian and disabled rights campaigner
1935 – Erich von Daniken, Swiss writer
1936 - Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (d. 2017)
1936 - Bobby Nichols, American golfer
1936 - Arlene Martel, American actress (d. 2014)
1936 - Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
1937 - Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2012)
1940 – Julie Christie, British actress
1941 - Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager
1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Valeriy Brumel, Soviet-Russian Olympic athlete (d. 2003)
1943 – Nikolay Petrov, Russian pianist (d. 2011)
1944 – John Sergeant, English journalist
1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (Deep Purple)
1945 - Uwe Beyer, German hammer thrower
1945 - Roger Frappier, Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan Prime Minister
1947 - Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1948 - Berry Berenson, American photographer, actress and model (d. 2001)
1949 – Chris Langham, British actor
1949 – John Shea, American actor
1949 - Eric Cunningham, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
1950 - Francis Collins, American physician and geneticist

1951 – 1975

1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, British cellist
1954 - Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese artist, screenwriter and director
1954 - Bruce Sterling, American science fiction writer
1955 - Aleksey Lebed, Russian military officer and politician (d. 2019)
1956 - Barbara Bonney, American soprano
1957 - Richard Jeni, American comedian and actor (d. 2007)
1957 - Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, composer and conductor
1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director
1959 - Steve Byrnes, American sports announcer (d. 2015)
1960 – Brad Garrett, American actor
1961 – Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor
1964 – Gina McKee, English actress
1966 - Lloyd Owen, English actor
1967 - Nicola Berti, Italian footballer
1967 - Francis Tsai, American comic book, movie and video game concept artist (d. 2015)
1967 - Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1967 - Julie Zemio, French-Australian actress and singer
1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
1971 - Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (d. 2012)
1972 - Dean Potter, American rock climber and BASE jumper (d. 2015)
1973 - David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo)
1973 – Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
1973 – Adrien Brody, American actor
1975 - Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1975 - Amy Birnbaum, American voice actress

From 1976

1976 - Georgina Chapman, English model, actress and fashion designer
1976 - Francoise Mbango Etone, Cameroonian athlete
1976 - Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
1977 – Cristiano Zanetti, Italian footballer
1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
1980 - Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 - Steven Holcomb, American bobsledder (d. 2017)
1981 - Amy Leach, English director
1982 - Ugur Boral, Turkish footballer
1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
1984 - Harumafuji Kohei, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1986 – Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
1986 – Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
1987 – Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
1987 - Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan long-distance runner
1989 - Aleksei Alekseyev, Russian footballer
1989 - Dafina Zeqiri, Albanian-Kosovan-Swedish singer and dancer
1993 - Vivien Cardone, American actress
1993 - Graham Phillips, American actor and singer
1994 - Skyler Samuels, American actress
1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
1999 - Anita Simoncini, Sammarinese singer

Deaths

Observances

New Year Festivals in many South and Southeast Asian cultures
Georgian language Day
Youth Day (Angola)
Ambedkar Jayanti (India), celebrating the birthday of social activist B. R. Ambedkar
Pan-American Day
Black Day (South Korea)
Dhivehi language Day (Maldives)