October 14

October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 78 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 1066 – The Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings.^[1]
• 1322 – Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at the Battle of Old Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.^[2]
• 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England.^[3]

1601–1900

• 1656 – The General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends.^[4]
• 1758 – Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.^[5]
• 1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
• 1774 – American Revolution: The First Continental Congress denounces the British Parliament's Intolerable Acts and demands British concessions.^[6]
• 1791 – The revolutionary group the United Irishmen is formed in Belfast, Ireland leading to the Irish Rebellion of 1798.^[7]
• 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: A French corps defeats an Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm.
• 1806 – War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
• 1808 – The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France.
• 1843 – Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
• 1884 – George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
• 1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
• 1898 – The steam ship SS Mohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

1901–present

• 1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.
• 1910 – English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
• John Flammang Schrank
  . With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
• 1913 – Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.
• 1915 – World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
• 1920 – Finland and Soviet Russia sign the Treaty of Tartu, exchanging some territories.
• Irish republican prisoners protesting the continuation of their internment without trial.^[8]
• K. J. Ståhlberg, and his wife, Ester Ståhlberg, are kidnapped from their home by members of the far-right Lapua Movement.^[9][10]
• World Disarmament Conference
  .
• 1939 – World War II: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbour at Scapa Flow, Scotland.
• Balham underground station disaster
  kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
• 1943 – World War II: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp covertly assassinate most of the on-duty SS officers and then stage a mass breakout.
• 1943 – World War II: The
  Second Raid on Schweinfurt
  .
• 1943 – World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
• 1947 – Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
• 1949 – The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
• 1952 – Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
• Neo-Buddhism
  ).
• 1957 – The 23rd Canadian Parliament becomes the only one to be personally opened by the Queen of Canada.
• 1957 – At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
• 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
• 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
• 1964 – The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
• 1966 – The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
• 1968 – Apollo program: The first live television broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
• 1968 – The 6.5 M_w 
  Mercalli intensity
  of IX (Violent), causing $2.2 million in damage and leaving 20–28 people injured.
• 1968 – Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
• 1973 – In the Thammasat student uprising, over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
• RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.^[11]
• 1979 – The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
• 1980 – The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.^[12][13]
• 1981 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
• War on Drugs
  .
• 1991 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1994 – Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
• 1998 – Eric Rudolph is charged with six bombings, including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.^[14]
• 2004 – MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.
• 2004 – Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 crashes in Jefferson City, Missouri. The two pilots (the aircraft's only occupants) are killed.^[15]
• 2012 – Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere.
• 2014 – A snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people.
• 2014 – The Serbia vs. Albania UEFA qualifying match is canceled after 42 minutes due to several incidents on and off the pitch. Albania is eventually awarded a win.
• 2015 – A suicide bomb attack in Pakistan kills at least seven people and injures 13 others.
• 2017 – A massive truck bombing in Somalia kills 358 people and injures more than 400 others.
• 2021 – About 10,000 American employees of John Deere go on strike.^[16]

Births

Pre-1600

• 1257 – Przemysł II of Poland (d. 1296)^[17]
• 1404 – Marie of Anjou (d. 1463)
• 1425 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499)
• 1465 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (d. 1547)^[18]
• 1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyō (d. 1568)
• 1542 – Philip IV, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1602)
• 1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611)
• 1569 – Giambattista Marino, Italian poet (d. 1625)

1601–1900

• Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
  (d. 1689)
• 1630 – Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714)^[19]
• 1633 – James II of England (d. 1701)
• Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony
  (d. 1712)
• 1643 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (d. 1712)^[20]
• 1644 – William Penn, English businessman who founded Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
• 1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician and academic (d. 1768)
• Prime Minister of Great Britain (d. 1770)^[21]
• 1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English admiral and politician (d. 1813)
• 1733 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
• Ferdinand VII of Spain
  (d. 1833)
• 1791 – Friedrich Parrot, Baltic German naturalist (d. 1841)^[22]
• Phenakistoscope
  (d. 1883)
• 1806 – Preston King, American lawyer and politician (d. 1865)
• 1824 – Adolphe Monticelli, French painter (d. 1886)^[23]
• 1840 – Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868)
• 1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player and manager (d. 1927)
• 1844 – John See, English-Australian politician, 14th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1907)
• 1845 – Laura Askew Haygood, American educator and missionary (d. 1900)^[24]
• 1848 – Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker and philanthropist (d. 1924)
• 1853 – John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (d. 1924)
• 1861 – Julia A. Ames, American journalist, editor, and reformer (d. 1891)^[25]
• 1867 – Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (d. 1902)
• 1869 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939)
• 1871 – Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and teacher (d. 1942)^[26]
• 1872 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1910)
• 1882 – Éamon de Valera, American-Irish rebel and politician, 3rd President of Ireland (d. 1975)
• 1882 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (d. 1959)
• 1888 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1923)^[27]
• 1888 – Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (d. 1947)
• 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
• Under Secretary of State
  (d. 1961)
• 1893 – Lois Lenski, American author and illustrator (d. 1974)^[28]
• 1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1894 – E. E. Cummings, American poet and playwright (d. 1962)
• 1894 – Victoria Drummond, British marine engineer (d. 1978)
• 1897 – Alicja Dorabialska, Polish chemist (d. 1975)
• 1898 – Thomas William Holmes, Canadian sergeant and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1950)
• 1900 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (d. 1993)

1901–present

• 1902 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (d. 1963)
• 1902 – Arthur Justice, Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (d. 1977)^[29]
• French Minister of Foreign Affairs
  (d. 1995)
• 1904 – Mikhail Pervukhin, Soviet politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
• 1906 – Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and theorist (d. 1975)^[30]
• 1907 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Mochitsura Hashimoto, Japanese commander (d. 2000)
• 1909 – Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)^[31]
• 1909 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver (d. 1938)
• 1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010) ^[32]
• 1911 – Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)^[33]
• 1914 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal (d. 2016)
• United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)^[33]
• 1918 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (d. 2015)
• 1918 – Doug Ring, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2003)
• 1921 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Joel Barnett, English accountant and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury (d. 2014)
• 1926 – Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985)
• 1927 – Roger Moore, English actor and producer (d. 2017)^[33]
• 1928 – Joyce Bryant, American actress and singer (d. 2022)^[34]
• 1928 – Frank E. Resnik, American chemist and businessman (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer and wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist (d. 2020)
• 1930 –
  President of Zaire
  (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Alan Williams, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and actor (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist and academic (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Hans Kraay Sr., Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2017)
• 1936 – Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (d. 2014)
• 1938 – John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel^[33]
• 1938 – Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, English curator and academic
• 1938 – Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Shula Marks, South African historian and academic
• 1938 – Melba Montgomery, American country music singer
• 1938 – Farah Pahlavi, Empress of Iran
• 1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation^[33]
• 1939 – Rocky Thompson, American golfer and politician
• 1940 – Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
• 1940 – Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor^[35]
• 1940 – J. C. Snead, American golfer
• 1940 – Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach
• 1941 – Eddie Keher, Irish sportsman
• 1941 – Laurie Lawrence, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1941 – Art Shamsky, American baseball player and manager
• 1941 – Roger Taylor, English tennis player
• 1942 – Bob Hiller, English rugby player
• 1942 – Evelio Javier, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1986)
• 1942 – Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright
• 1942 – Suzzanna, Indonesian actress (d. 2008)
• 1943 – Mohammad Khatami, Iranian scholar and politician, 5th President of Iran^[36]
• 1944 – Udo Kier, German-American actor and director
• 1945 – Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player
• 1945 – Daan Jippes, Dutch author and illustrator
• 1945 – Lesley Joseph, English actress
• President of the Central African Republic
• 1946 – Joey de Leon, Filipino comedian, actor and television host
• 1946 – Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist^[35]
• 1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2022)
• 1946 – Al Oliver, American baseball player
• 1946 – Craig Venter, American biologist, geneticist, and academic
• 1947 – Norman Harris, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987)
• 1947 – Charlie Joiner, American football player
• 1947 – Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian-American wrestler (d. 2018)
• 1948 – Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer
• 1948 – Norman Ornstein, American political scientist and scholar
• 1949 – Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
• 1949 – Katha Pollitt, American poet and author
• 1949 – Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player and referee
• 1950 – Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
• 1952 – Harry Anderson, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2018) ^[37]
• 1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Russian gymnast and coach (d. 2011)
• 1952 – Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (d. 1995)
• 1953 – Greg Evigan, American actor^[35]
• 1953 – Kazumi Watanabe, Japanese guitarist and composer
• 1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Moroccan-Israeli technician and academic
• 1955 – Iwona Blazwick, English curator and critic
• 1955 – Arleen Sorkin, American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2023)^[35]
• 1956 – Chris Bangle, American automotive designer^[38]
• 1956 – Ümit Besen, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Beth Daniel, American golfer^[33]
• 1956 – Jennell Jaquays, American game designer
• 1957 – Michel Després, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1957 – Gen Nakatani, Japanese lawyer and politician, 13th Japanese Minister of Defense
• 1958 – Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer^[35]
• 1959 – Alexei Kasatonov, Russian ice hockey player^[39]
• 1959 – A. J. Pero, American drummer (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Steve Cram, English runner and coach
• 1960 – Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer and coach
• 1961 – Isaac Mizrahi, American fashion designer
• 1962 – Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
• 1962 – Trevor Goddard, English-American actor (d. 2003)
• 1962 – Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1962 – Shahar Perkiss, Israeli tennis player^[40]
• 1963 – Lori Petty, American actress^[35]
• 1964 – Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
• 1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter^[35]
• 1965 – Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower and politician^[41]
• 1965 – Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian flute player and composer
• 1965 – Karyn White, American singer-songwriter^[35]
• 1967 – Pat Kelly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1967 – Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1967 – Werner Daehn, German actor
• 1967 – Jason Plato, British racing driver^[42]
• 1967 – Stephen A. Smith, American sports television personality^[43][44]
• 1968 – Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist and songwriter
• 1968 – Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1968 –
  Matthew Le Tissier
  , English footballer and journalist
• 1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1969 – P. J. Brown, American basketball player
• 1969 – Viktor Onopko, Russian footballer and manager
• 1969 – David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1970 – Martin Barbarič, Czech footballer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1970 – Jim Jackson, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1970 – Meelis Lindmaa, Estonian footballer
• 1970 – Hiromi Nagasaku, Japanese actress and singer
• 1970 – Jon Seda, American actor^[35]
• 1970 –
  Vasko Vassilev
  , Bulgarian violinist
• 1970 – Pär Zetterberg, Swedish footballer
• Jorge Costa
  , Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1971 – Robert Jaworski Jr., Filipino basketball player and politician
• 1972 – Erika deLone, American tennis player
• 1972 – Julian O'Neill, Australian rugby league player
• 1973 – Thom Brooks, American-British political philosopher and legal scholar
• 1973 – George Floyd, American police brutality victim (d. 2020)^[45]
• 1973 – Lasha Zhvania, Georgian businessman and politician
• 1974 – Jessica Drake, American porn actress and director
• 1974 – Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter^[35]
• 1974 – Tümer Metin, Turkish footballer
• 1974 – Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner
• 1974 – Samuel, Brazilian footballer
• 1975 – Michael Duberry, English footballer
• 1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
• 1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer and songwriter^[35]
• 1975 – Carlos Spencer, New Zealand rugby player
• 1976 – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1976 – Daniel Tjärnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player^[46]
• 1977 – Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer
• 1977 – Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer
• 1977 – Kelly Schumacher, American-Canadian basketball and volleyball player
• Justin Lee Brannan
  , American guitarist and songwriter, and politician
• 1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
• 1978 – Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player
• 1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
• 1978 –
  Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor^[35]
• 1979 – Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress^[35]
• 1979 – Liina-Grete Lilender, Estonian figure skater and coach
• 1980 – Paúl Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 –
  Amjad Khan
  , Danish-English cricketer
• 1980 – Scott Kooistra, American football player
• 1980 – Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
• 1980 – Terrence McGee, American football player
• 1980 – Ben Whishaw, English actor^[47]
• 1981 – Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer
• 1982 – Ryan Hall, American runner
• 1982 – Carlos Mármol, Dominican baseball player^[48]
• 1982 – Matt Roth, American football player
• 1983 – Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
• 1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player^[49]
• 1984 – LaRon Landry, American football player
• 1984 – Alex Scott, English footballer
• 1985 – Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
• 1985 – Alanna Nihell, Irish boxer^[50]
• 1985 – Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament
• 1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer
• 1986 – Wesley Matthews, American basketball player^[51]
• 1986 – Skyler Shaye, American actress^[35]
• 1987 – Jay Pharoah, American actor and comedian^[35]
• 1988 – Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
• 1988 – Max Thieriot, American actor^[35]
• 1989 – Arca, Venezuelan musician^[52]
• 1990 – Jordan Clark, English cricketer
• Ahmed Musa
  , Nigerian footballer
• 1993 – Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer
• 1994 – Joe Burgess, English rugby league player
• 1994 – Jaelen Feeney, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 – Jared Goff, American football player
• 1998 – Ariela Barer, American actress^[33]
• 1999 – Quinn Hughes, American ice hockey player^[53]
• 2001 – Rowan Blanchard, American actress^[54]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 530 – Antipope Dioscorus
• 841 – Shi Yuanzhong, Chinese governor
• 869 – Pang Xun, Chinese rebel leader
• 962 – Gerloc, Frankish noblewoman
• 996 – Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (b. 955)
• 1066 – Battle of Hastings:
  • Harold Godwinson, English king (b. 1022)
  • Leofwine Godwinson, English nobleman and brother of Harold
  • Gyrth Godwinson, English nobleman and brother of Harold
• 1077 – Andronicus Ducas, Byzantine courtier (b. 1022)
• 1092 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and politician (b. 1018)
• 1184 – Yusuf I, Almohad caliph (b. 1135)
• 1213 – Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, English sheriff and Chief Justiciar
• 1217 – Isabella, English noblewoman and wife of John of England (b. c. 1173)
• 1240 – Razia Sultana, Only female sultan of Delhi (b. c. 1205)^[55]
• 1256 – Kujō Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)
• 1318 – Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (b. 1275)
• 1366 – Ibn Nubata, Arab poet (b. 1287)^[56]
• 1416 – Henry the Mild, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• 1536 – Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish poet (b. 1503)
• 1552 – Oswald Myconius, Swiss theologian and reformer (b. 1488)
• 1565 – Thomas Chaloner, English poet and politician (b. 1521)
• 1568 – Jacques Arcadelt, Dutch singer and composer (b. 1507)

1601–1900

• 1610 – Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1540)
• 1618 – Gervase Clifton, 1st Baron Clifton, English nobleman (b.c. 1570)
• 1619 – Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian (b. 1562)
• 1631 – Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen of Denmark and Norway (b. 1557)
• 1637 – Gabriello 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, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1708)
• 1758 – James Francis Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)
• 1831 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer and educator (b. 1761)

1901–present

• 1911 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
• 1923 – Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1929 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
• Dutch Minister of the Interior
  (b. 1837)
• 1942 – Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
• Sobibór uprising
  :
  • SS
    officer (b. 1910)
  • Siegfried Graetschus, German sergeant (b. 1916)
  • Johann Niemann, German lieutenant (b. 1913)
• 1944 – Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war
  competitor (b. 1877)
• 1953 – Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
• 1958 – Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)
• 1958 – Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian-Soviet poet and translator (b. 1903)^[57]
• 1959 – Jack Davey, New Zealand-Australian singer and radio host (b. 1907)
• 1959 – Errol Flynn, Australian-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Paul Ramadier, French politician, 129th Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
• 1961 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist (b. 1876)
• 1965 – William Hogenson, American sprinter (b. 1884)
• 1965 – Randall Jarrell, American poet and author (b. 1914)
• 1966 – George Carstairs, Australian rugby league player (b. 1900)^[58]
• 1966 – Arthur Folwell, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and administrator (b. 1904)^[59]
• 1967 – Marcel Aymé, French author and playwright (b. 1902)
• Yokozuna
  (b. 1914)
• 1969 – August Sang, Estonian poet and translator (b. 1914)
• 1973 – Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster (b. 1897)
• 1973 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian general and engineer (b. 1929)
• 1976 – Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)
• 1977 – Bing Crosby, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1903)
• 1982 – Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 – Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1985 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
• 1986 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1986 – Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902)
• 1990 – Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916)
• 1999 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania (b. 1922)
• 2000 – Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Tony Roper, American race car driver (b. 1964)
• 2002 – Norbert Schultze, German composer and conductor (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Patrick Dalzel-Job, English linguist, commander, and navigator (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
• 2006 – Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Robert Furman, American engineer and intelligence officer (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Kazys Petkevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Collin Wilcox, American actress (b. 1935)
• 2009 – Lou Albano, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Simon MacCorkindale, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1952)
• 2010 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Reg Alcock, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1948)
• 2011 – Ashawna Hailey, American computer scientist and philanthropist (b. 1949)
• 2012 – John Clive, English actor and author (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Max Fatchen, Australian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 2012 – James R. Grover Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Larry Sloan, American publisher, co-founded Price Stern Sloan (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Arlen Specter, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Dody Weston Thompson, American photographer (b. 1923)
• 2012 – Gart Westerhout, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Wally Bell, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1965)
• 2013 – Max Cahner, German-Catalan historian and politician (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Kōichi Iijima, Japanese author and poet (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Frank Moore, American painter and poet (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Käty van der Mije-Nicolau, Romanian-Dutch chess player (b. 1940)
• 2014 – A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (b. 1923)^[60]
• 2014 – Leonard Liggio, American author and academic (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Nurlan Balgimbayev, Kazakh politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Kazakhstan (b. 1947)
• 2015 – Mathieu Kérékou, Beninese soldier and politician, President of Benin (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Margaret Keyes, American historian and academic (b. 1918)
• 2015 – Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Indian admiral (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Helen Kelly, New Zealand trade union leader (b. 1964)
• 2019 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (b. 1930)^[61]
• 2019 – Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and model (b. 1994)^[62]
• 2021 – Lee Wan-koo, South Korean politician, 39th Prime Minister of South Korea^[63]
• 2022 – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor, comedian and writer (b. 1950)^[64]

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Angadrisma
  • Fortunatus of Todi
  • Episcopal Church (USA)
    )
  • Pope Callixtus I
  • October 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Intercession of the Theotokos
• Day of the Cathedral of the Living Pillar (Georgian Orthodox Church)
• Mother's Day (Belarus)^[65]
• National Education Day (Poland)
  , formerly Teachers' Day
• Nyerere Day (Tanzania
  )
• Second Revolution Day (Yemen
  )
• International
  )

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to October 14.

• "On This Day". BBC.
• The New York Times: On This Day
• "Historical Events on October 14". OnThisDay.com.