October 14
October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 222 - Pope Callixtus I
- 1066 – Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022)
- 1092 - Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018)
- 1217 – Isabel, Countess of Gloucester (b. 1173)
- 1318 - Edward Bruce, Irish king (b. 1280)
- 1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1488)
- 1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521)
- 1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (b. 1540)
- 1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (b. 1562)
- 1637 - Gabriella Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
- 1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian organist and composer (b. 1623)
- 1703 - Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop and poet (b. 1634)
- 1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)
- 1758 - James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
- 1758 - Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (b. 1709)
- 1792 – Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (b. 1714)
- 1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)
- 1880 - Victorio, Mexican tribal chief (b. 1825)
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
- 1904 - Christian Pineau, French politician (d. 1995)
- 1905 - Benny Yorston, Scottish footballer (d. 1977)
- 1906 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)
- 1906 – Imam Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious figure (d. 1949)
- 1908 - Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003)
- 1909 - Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
- 1909 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver (d. 1938)
- 1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
- 1911 – Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese politician (d. 1990)
- 1914 – Raymond Davis, Jr., American physicist (d. 2006)
- 1915 - Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian archbishop (d. 2016)
- 1916 - C. Everett Koop, American politician and spokesperson (d. 2013)
- 1918 - Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player (d. 2015)
- 1923 - Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, English politician (d. 2014)
- 1924 - Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
- 1927 – Roger Moore, English actor (d. 2017)
- 1929 - Norbert Gastell, Argentine-German actor (d. 2015)
- 1930 - Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist
- 1930 - Alan Williams, Welsh politician (d. 2014)
- 1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
- 1931 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian sitarist and composer (d. 1986)
- 1932 - Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
- 1932 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
- 1936 - Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer (d. 2017)
- 1936 - Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and writer (d. 2014)
- 1938 - Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran
- 1939 - Litokwa Tomeing, former President of the Marshall Islands
- 1939 - Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
- 1940 – Cliff Richard, English singer
- 1940 - Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director and screenwriter
- 1941 - Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach
- 1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player
- 1945 - Lesley Joseph, English actress
- 1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician
- 1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist
- 1946 - François Bozizé, former President of the Central African Republic
- 1949 - Katy Manning, English-Australian actress
- 1949 - Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
- 1950 - Joey Travolta, American actor, director and producer
1951 – 2000
- 1952 - Korean War: UN and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds in the Iron Triangle, resulting in the deadliest battle of 1952.
- 1953 – The Qibya massacre was carried out by Israeli troops in a West Bank village.
- 1955 - Jim Henson creates Kermit the Frog.
- 1955 - Vienna's Burgtheater theatre re-opens, after World War II.
- 1957 - Elizabeth II opens an annual session of Canada's parliament.
- 1958 – The Anshai Emath Reform Jewish Temple in Peoria, Illinois was damaged by a crude bomb.
- 1958 – The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1958 – The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
- 1960 – U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggests the idea for the Peace Corps.
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
- 1964 – Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.
- 1964 – American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1966 – The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro).
- 1967 – Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. Charged with mutiny, their long prison sentences are later reduced to two years.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours.
- 1969 - Olof Palme becomes Prime Minister of Sweden.
- 1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50 pence coin.
- 1970 – The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1971 – Two people are killed in a Memphis, Tennessee race riot.
- 1971 – The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.
- 1973 - In the Thammasat Student Uprising over 100,000 people in Thailand protest against the Thanom Kittikachorn military government. 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
- 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," drawing 200,000 people.
- 1981 – Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.
- 1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
- 1982 - Ronald Reagan declares War on Drugs.
- 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed in a military coup d'état.
- 1985 – U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese says in U.S. News & World Report, "If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect."
- 1987 – 18-month-old Jessica McClure ("Baby Jessica") falls down an abandoned well in Midland, Texas (her nationally televised rescue takes 58 hours).
- 1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1994 – Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat win the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1998 – Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1999 – The South Carolina Supreme Court rules that the video poker machines in the state must be unplugged by June 30, 2000.
From 2001
- 2001 – David Lewis, American philosopher (b. 1941)
- 2002 - Norbert Schultze, German composer (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Moktar Ould Daddah, first President of Mauritania (b. 1924)
- 2004 - Juan Francisco Fresno, Chilean archbishop and cardinal (b. 1872)
- 2007 – Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
- 2007 - Big Moe, American rapper (b. 1974)
- 2007 - Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Lou Albano, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924)
- 2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor (b. 1952)
- 2010 – Hermann Scheer, German politician (b. 1944)
- 2012 - Arlen Specter, American politician (b. 1930)
- 2013 - Bruno Metsu, French footballer and coach (b. 1954)
- 2014 - Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist (b. 1975)
- 2014 - Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959)
- 2015 - Nurlan Balgimbayev, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1948)
- 2015 - Mathieu Kérékou, President of Benin (b. 1933)
- 2015 - Jordi Miralles, Spanish politician (b. 1962)
- 2015 - Robert M. White, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Jean Alexander, English actress (b. 1926)
- 2017 - Wolfgang Bötsch, German politician (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Richard Wilbur, American poet (b. 1921)
- 2018 - Robert Bushby, American aircraft designer (b. 1927)
- 2018 - Per Theodor Haugen, Norwegian actor (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Mel Ramos, American artist (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Valeriy Shmarov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1945)
- 2019 - Harold Bloom, American writer and literary critic (b. 1930)
- 2019 - Bohdan Butenko, Polish cartoonist (b. 1931)
- 2019 - Emmett Chappelle, American scientist (b. 1925)
- 2019 - Louis Frey Jr., American politician (b. 1934)
- 2019 - Anke Fuchs, German politician (b. 1937)
- 2019 - Rosemary Harris, English writer (b. 1923)
- 2019 - Baby Saroja, Indian actress (b. 1931)
- 2019 - Jeffrey Spalding, Canadian painter (b. 1951)
- 2019 - Sulli, South Korean singer, actress and model (b. 1994)
Births
1951 – 1975
- 1952 - Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter
- 1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast (d. 2011)
- 1953 – Aldo Maldera, Italian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1953 - Shelley Ackermann, American astrologer, actress and singer
- 1953 - Greg Evigan, American actor
- 1954 - Carole Malone, English journalist
- 1954 - Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
- 1955 - Arleen Sorkin, American actress, screenwriter, presenter and comedian
- 1956 - Beth Daniel, American golfer
- 1958 – Thomas Dolby, English musician
- 1960 – Steve Cram, English athlete
- 1962 - Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
- 1962 - Chris Thomas King, American blues musician and actor
- 1963 - Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer
- 1963 - Lori Petty, American actress, director and screenwriter
- 1963 - Alessandro Safina, Italian tenor
- 1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor and comedian
- 1965 - Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (d. 2014)
- 1967 - Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach and manager
- 1967 - Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
- 1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
- 1971 - Jyrki Katainen, former Prime Minister of Finland
- 1974 – Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)
- 1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
- 1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer
From 1976
- 1977 - Bianca Beauchamp, American model
- 1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
- 1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
- 1978 – Usher, American actor, singer and rapper
- 1979 - Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress
- 1979 - Rodrigo Tello, Chilean footballer
- 1980 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
- 1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
- 1983 – Betty Heidler, German athlete
- 1984 – Kevin Thomson, Scottish footballer
- 1984 - Karen Bardsley, American-English footballer
- 1984 - Alex Scott, English footballer
- 1986 - Tom Craddock, English footballer
- 1986 - Skyler Shaye, American actress
- 1987 - Jay Pharaoh, American comedian and actor
- 1988 - Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
- 1988 - Mario Titone, Italian footballer
- 1988 - Max Thieriot, American actor
- 1988 - Yusef Ali, Qatari footballer
- 1989 - Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
- 1991 - Shona McGarty, English actress
- 1991 - Andrea Duro, Spanish actress
- 1992 - Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
- 1992 - Savannah Outen, American singer-songwriter
- 1992 - Khagendra Thapa Magar, Nepalese world's smallest man
- 1999 - Daniel Roche, English actor
- 2001 - Rowan Blanchard, American actress
Deaths
1901 – 2000
- 1911 - John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
- 1923 - Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss writer, poet and playwright (b. 1848)
- 1929 - Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
- 1944 – Erwin Rommel, German military figure (b. 1891)
- 1950 - Antonio Maria da Silva, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1872)
- 1953 - Emile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug-of-war competitor (b. 1877)
- 1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1881)
- 1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)
- 1961 - Paul Ramadier, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
- 1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
- 1965 - William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
- 1969 - Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1914)
- 1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)
- 1984 – Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (b. 1918)
- 1986 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
- 1989 - Michael Carmine, American actor and singer (b. 1959)
- 1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American composer (b. 1918)
- 1992 - Willie Waddell, Scottish footballer (b. 1921)
- 1997 – Harold Robbins, American writer (b. 1916)
- 1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American polka musician (b. 1915)
- 1999 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)