May 14
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May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of the year.
Births [change]
- 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
- 1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
- 1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
- 1574 - Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer, musician and poet (d. 1621)
- 1630 - Katakura Kagenaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1681)
- 1666 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
- 1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
- 1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
- 1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
- 1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
- 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
- 1737 - George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman and diplomat (d. 1806)
- 1759 - Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1805)
- 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
- 1771 - Thomas Wedgwood, British photography pioneer (d. 1805)
- 1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
- 1814 – Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
- 1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
- 1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
- 1850 - Alva Adams, Governor of Colorado (d. 1922)
- 1852 - Alton B. Parker, American politician (d. 1926)
- 1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
- 1868 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (d. 1935)
- 1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961)
- 1878 – James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
- 1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
- 1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
- 1885 – Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
- 1885 - Nikolai Krylenko, Russian revolutionary and politician (d. 1938)
- 1893 - Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
- 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
- 1897 - Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
- 1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
- 1899 - Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
- 1900 - Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
- 1900 - Walter Rehberg, Swiss pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
- 1900 - Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
- 1904 - Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator, son of Albert Einstein (d. 1973)
- 1905 - Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet-Ukrainian politician (d. 1997)
- 1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
- 1906 – Hastings Banda, 1st President of Malawi (d. 1996)
- 1907 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
- 1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat, member of the European Commission (d. 2005)
- 1916 – Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
- 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
- 1922 - Sinan Hasani, President of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
- 1925 – Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano
- 1926 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
- 1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
- 1928 - Frederick H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist, inventor and engineer
- 1929 – Henry McGee, British actor (d. 2006)
- 1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
- 1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
- 1934 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
- 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1936 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
- 1940 – Troy Shondell, American singer
- 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
- 1943 - Derek Leckenberg, English guitarist (d. 1994)
- 1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, 5th President of Iceland
- 1944 – George Lucas, American film director
- 1945 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (d. 2010)
- 1945 – Yochanan Vollach, former Israeli football player and current president of the Maccabi Haifa association
- 1946 – Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
- 1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
- 1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket player and coach (d. 2007)
- 1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
- 1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
- 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-American musician (Talking Heads)
- 1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
- 1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
- 1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
- 1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
- 1955 – Dennis Martinez, Nicaraguan baseball player
- 1956 - Hazel Blears, British politician
- 1957 – Leon White, American professional wrestler
- 1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
- 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
- 1960 - Simonetta Sommaruga, Swiss Federal Councillor
- 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
- 1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
- 1962 – C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
- 1964 - James M. Kelly, American astronaut
- 1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
- 1966 - Mike Inez, American musician and songwriter
- 1966 - Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter, musician and producer
- 1966 - Raphael Saadiq, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1968 - Greg Davies, British actor and comedian
- 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- 1969 - Danny Wood, American singer, songwriter and musician
- 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American film director and producer
- 1973 - Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
- 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, English actress
- 1977 - Sophie Anderton, English model
- 1977 - Roy Halladay, American baseball player
- 1977 - Pusha T, American rapper
- 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1979 - Dan Auerbach, American singer-songwriter
- 1980 - Julia Sebestyen, Hungarian figure skater
- 1980 – Zdenek Grygera, Czech footballer
- 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby player
- 1982 - Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
- 1983 - Amber Tamblyn, American actress
- 1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
- 1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
- 1984 – Olly Murs, English singer
- 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
- 1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
- 1987 - Francois Steyn, South African rugby player
- 1990 - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
- 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
Deaths [change]
- 964 - Pope John XII (b. 927)
- 1470 – King Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
- 1574 – Guru Amar Das, Sikh guru (b. 1479)
- 1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
- 1610 – King Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- 1643 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
- 1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
- 1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
- 1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
- 1878 - Okubo Tashimichi, Japanese statesman and samurai (b. 1830)
- 1879 - Henry Sewell, 1st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1807)
- 1881 - Mary Seacole, Jamaican nurse (b. 1805)
- 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
- 1897 - Richard Coke, Governor of Texas (b. 1829)
- 1912 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
- 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer and playwright (b. 1849)
- 1919 - Henry J. Heinz, German-American businessman (b. 1844)
- 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
- 1931 - Viktor Dyk, Czech poet (b. 1877)
- 1931 - David Belasco, American producer, director and playwright (b. 1853)
- 1935 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868)
- 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (b. 1854)
- 1945 - Heber J. Grant, American Mormon leader (b. 1856)
- 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
- 1959 - Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)
- 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
- 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1880)
- 1976 - Keith Relf, English singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1983 – Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
- 1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
- 1991 – Jiang Qing, First Lady of the People's Republic of China (b. 1914)
- 1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese military leader (b. 1899)
- 1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (b. 1916)
- 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and entertainer (b. 1915)
- 2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
- 2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
- 2004 - Jesus Gil y Gil, Spanish businessman (b. 1933)
- 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
- 2007 - Ulo Jogi, Estonian historian and patriot (b. 1921)
Events [change]
- 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
- 1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France ("Charles l'Affable").
- 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
- 1607 – The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia is founded.
- 1608 - The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen, Bavaria.
- 1610 - King Henry IV of France is murdered, leaving the throne to his son, King Louis XIII of France, who dies exactly 33 years later, on the same date.
- 1643 – Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. Louis XIV's reign would become the longest in European history, lasting until 1715.
- 1747 – A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
- 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States.
- 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
- 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
- 1811 – Paraguay gains independence from Spain.
- 1858 – As one of three explorers, John McDouall Stuart starts a journey that crosses Australia.
- 1861 – The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Battle oh Jackson.
- 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
- 1889 – The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
- 1900 – The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris.
- 1901 - In Adalen, Sweden, five people are killed as soldiers fire on a trade union demonstration.
- 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
- 1914 – The Hellenic Holocaust starts, according to an official document from Talaat Bey (Minister of the Interior) to the prefect of Smyrna.
- 1927 – Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
- 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
- 1930 - The Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico become a National Park.
- 1935 – The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
- 1939 – Lina Medina, becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
- 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
- 1940 – World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany.
- 1948 – Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
- 1948 – The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn, northern England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
- 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union sign a mutual defence treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
- 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
- 1963 - Kuwait joins the UN.
- 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
- 1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
- 1989 - Carlos Menem is elected President of Argentina.
- 1995 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
- 1998 – After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television sitcom Seinfeld is aired on NBC.
- 2004 – The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
- 2004 – Piers Morgan is fired as editor of the Daily Mirror, when photographs that had been published in the newspaper of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers were proved to be fake.
- 2004 – Insurgents or terrorists in Iraq detonate a 155 mm shell containing several liters of binary precursors for sarin. The shell was designed to mix the chemicals as it spun during flight and the explosion failed to mix them properly. Although it only resulted in a small release of sarin, two U.S. soldiers are treated for exposure after displaying the early symptoms.
- 2005 – Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
- 2005 – Nintendo opens up its first retail store, Nintendo World, in Rockefeller Center in New York City. They celebrated the grand opening with a block party in Rockefeller Plaza.
- 2011 – Ell and Nikki of Azerbaijan win the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Duesseldorf, Germany.
