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 after May 14 until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 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)
- 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)
- 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
- 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)
- 1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
- 1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (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)
- 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (d. 1959)
- 1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
- 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 – 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
- 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)
- 1940 – Troy Shondell, American singer
- 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
- 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, 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
- 1957 – Leon White, American professional wrestler
- 1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
- 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
- 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
- 1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
- 1962 – C.C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
- 1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
- 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American film director and producer
- 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, English actress
- 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
- 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer
- 1980 – Zdenek Grygera, Czech footballer
- 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby player
- 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
- 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
[change] Deaths
- 1470 – King Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
- 1574 – Guru Amar Das, Sikh guru (b. 1479)
- 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)
- 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
- 1912 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
- 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish writer and playwright (b. 1849)
- 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
- 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer (b. 1854)
- 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz musician (b. 1897)
- 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)
- 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
[change] Events
- 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.
- 1643 – Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf, Germany.
