Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?
Here is a list who died on date 14 December today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for December 14
Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on December 14
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| 618 | Xue Rengao, emperor of Qin |
| 648 | John III of the Sedre, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch |
| 704 | Aldfrith, king of Northumbria (or 705) |
| 872 | Pope Adrian II (b. 792) |
| 1077 | Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress and regent (b. c. 1025) |
| 1293 | Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt |
| 1311 | Margaret of Brabant, German queen consort (b. 1276) |
| 1332 | Rinchinbal Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1326) |
| 1359 | Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332) |
| 1417 | John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader |
| 1460 | Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar and translator (b. 1370) |
| 1480 | Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429) |
| 1503 | Sten Sture the Elder, regent of Sweden (b. 1440) |
| 1510 | Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473) |
| 1542 | James V of Scotland (b. 1512) |
| 1591 | John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542) |
| 1595 | Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535) |
| 1624 | Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1536) |
| 1651 | Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar (b. 1582) |
| 1715 | Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (b. 1636) |
| 1735 | Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian (b. 1674) |
| 1741 | Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (b. 1661) |
| 1785 | Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1727) |
| 1788 | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (b. 1714) |
| 1799 | George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732) |
| 1831 | Martin Baum, American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (b. 1765) |
| 1838 | Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (b. 1806) |
| 1842 | Ben Crack-O, king of several tribes around Cape Palmas |
| 1860 | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784) |
| 1861 | Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (b. 1819) |
| 1865 | Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794) |
| 1873 | Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807) |
| 1878 | Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843) |
| 1912 | Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887) |
| 1917 | Phil Waller, Welsh rugby player (b. 1889) |
| 1920 | George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895) |
| 1927 | Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842) |
| 1929 | Henry B. Jackson, British admiral (b. 1855) |
| 1935 | Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (b. 1902) |
| 1937 | Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (b. 1869) |
| 1940 | Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872) |
| 1943 | John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852) |
| 1944 | Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908) |
| 1947 | Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) |
| 1953 | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (b. 1896) |
| 1956 | Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870) |
| 1963 | Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (b. 1924) |
| 1964 | William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906) |
| 1970 | Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876) |
| 1971 | Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926) |
| 1974 | Walter Lippmann, American journalist and author (b. 1889) |
| 1975 | Arthur Treacher, English-American entertainer (b. 1894) |
| 1978 | Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b. 1886) |
| 1980 | Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929) |
| 1984 | Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) |
| 1985 | Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896) |
| 1989 | Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919) |
| 1990 | Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921) |
| 1991 | Robert Eddison, Japanese-English actor (b. 1908) |
| 1993 | Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968) |
| 1994 | Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910) |
| 1995 | G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (b. 1922) |
| 1996 | Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (b. 1928) |
| 1997 | Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (b. 1918) |
| 1998 | Norman Fell, American actor and comedian (b. 1924) |
| 2001 | W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 1944) |
| 2003 | Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925) |
| 2004 | Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934) |
| 2006 | Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (b. 1938) |
| 2010 | Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor of Springfield (b. 1957) |
| 2011 | Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (b. 1913) |
| 2012 | John Graham, English general (b. 1923) |
| 2013 | Janet Dailey, American author (b. 1944) |
| 2014 | Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (b. 1927) |
| 2015 | Terry Backer, American soldier and politician (b. 1954) |
| 2016 | Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1921) |
| 2017 | Yu Kwang-chung, Chinese writer (b. 1928) |
| 2019 | Chuy Bravo, Mexican-American comedian and actor (b. 1956) |
| 2020 | Gérard Houllier, French Football manager (b. 1947) |
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