April 14
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April 14 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining after April 14 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1578 – King Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
- 1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist (d. 1695)
- 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
- 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
- 1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)
- 1866 – Anne Sullivan, American teacher of Helen Keller (d. 1936)
- 1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940)
- 1882 – Moritz Schlick, German philosopher (d. 1936)
- 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian (d. 1975)
- 1889 – Efim Bogolyubov, Ukrainian chess player (d. 1952)
- 1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian social activist (d. 1956)
- 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
- 1904 – John Gielgud, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1907 – Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc), President of Haiti (d. 1971)
- 1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist
- 1925 – Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Chadli Bendedjid, former President of Algeria
- 1932 – Loretta Lynn, American country musician and singer
- 1935 – Erich von Daniken, Swiss writer
- 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress
- 1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut
- 1944 – John Sergeant, English journalist
- 1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (Deep Purple)
- 1945 – Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan Prime Minister
- 1949 – John Shea, American actor
- 1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, British cellist
- 1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor and director
- 1960 – Brad Garrett, American actor
- 1961 – Robert Carlyle, British actor
- 1964 – Gina McKee, British actress
- 1973 – Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer
- 1973 – Adrien Brody, American actor
- 1977 – Cristiano Zanetti, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
- 1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
- 1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
- 1986 – Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
- 1986 – Anne Watanabe, Japanese model
- 1987 – Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
- 1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress
[change] Deaths
- 1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
- 1758 – Clara, famous rhinosceros
- 1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
- 1843 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
- 1912 – Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
- 1914 – Hubert Bland, co-founder of Fabian Society (b. 1855)
- 1917 – Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
- 1925 – John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)
- 1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
- 1935 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
- 1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, son of Joseph Stalin (b. 1907)
- 1950 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru (b. 1879)
- 1964 – Rachel Carson, American writer (b. 1907)
- 1968 – Al Benton, Major League Baseball player (b. 1911)
- 1975 – Fredric March, actor (b. 1897)
- 1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
- 1989 – Pete Farndon, British musician (The Pretenders)
- 1995 – Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (b. 1909)
- 1999 – Anthony Newley, actor, singer (b. 1931)
- 1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Bill Wendell, American broadcaster (b. 1931)
- 2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
- 2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
- 2007 – Ladislav Adamec, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Maurice Druon, French writer, dramatist and politician (b. 1918)
- 2010 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962)
- 2011 – Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)
- 2011 – William Lipscomb, American chemist (b. 1919)
[change] Events
- 1471 – Yorkists under Edward IV defeat Lancastrians under Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet. The Earl of Warwick is killed and Edward IV becomes King.
- 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
- 1849 – Hungary declares independence, with Lajos Kossuth as regent.
- 1862 – Australian bushranger Ben Hall takes part in his first robbery.
- 1865 – US President Abraham Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln dies the next day, of his injuries.
- 1865 – United States Secretary of State William H. Seward is attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
- 1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia
- 1912 – The RMS Titanic hits an iceberg, and sinks on April 15th in the early morning.
- 1927 – The first Volvo makes its debut in Gothenburg in Sweden.
- 1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII, and proclaim the 2nd Republic.
- 1935 – In the Dust Bowl, the Black Sunday storm strikes parts of the Central United States. Worst affected is Oklahoma, where settlers are forced to leave, as crops are destroyed.
- 1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit around the Earth, after 162 days.
- 1967 – Gnassingbe Eyadema installs himself as President of Togo, a post he holds until his death in February 2005.
- 1975 – In a referendum, voters in Sikkim vote in favour of Union with India.
- 1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
- 1986 – 1 kilogram hailstones fall in the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92 people. They are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
- 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office, three days after being ousted and arrested by the military in a US-backed coup.
- 2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed, with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
- 2010 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Yushu district in China's Qinghai province, killing almost 2,700 people.
- 2010 – The eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland begins to shut down air travel in Europe.
