Events
Pre-1600
*
43 BC – Legions loyal to the
Roman Senate, commanded by
Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of
Mark Antony in the
Battle of Forum Gallorum
The Battle of Forum Gallorum was fought on 14 April 43 BC between the forces of Mark Antony, and legions loyal to the Roman Senate under the overall command of consul Gaius Pansa, aided by his fellow consul Aulus Hirtius. The untested Caesar O ...
.
*
69 –
Vitellius, commanding
Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor
Otho in the
First Battle of Bedriacum
The Battle of Bedriacum refers to two battles fought during the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69) near the village of Bedriacum (now Calvatone), about from the town of Cremona in northern Italy. The fighting in fact took place between Bedriacum ...
to take power over
Rome.
*
966
Year 966 ( CMLXVI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* 23 June - Byzantine-Arab War: A prisoner exchange occurs at the border betwee ...
– Following his marriage to the Christian
Doubravka of Bohemia, the
pagan ruler of the
Polans,
Mieszko I,
converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the
founding of the Polish state.
*
972 –
Otto II
Otto II (955 – 7 December 983), called the Red (''der Rote''), was Holy Roman Emperor from 973 until his death in 983. A member of the Ottonian dynasty, Otto II was the youngest and sole surviving son of Otto the Great and Adelaide of Italy ...
, Co-
Emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire, marries Byzantine princess
Theophanu. She is crowned empress by Pope
John XIII in Rome the same day.
*
1395
Year 1395 ( MCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1395th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 395th year of the 2nd millennium, the 95th yea ...
–
Tokhtamysh–Timur war
The Tokhtamysh–Timur war was fought from 1386 to 1395 between Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde, and the warlord and conqueror Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire, in the areas of the Caucasus mountains, Turkistan and Eastern Europe. T ...
: At the
Battle of the Terek River
The Battle of the Terek River was the last major battle of Tokhtamysh–Timur war. It took place on April 14, 1395, at the Terek River, North Caucasus. The result was a victory for Timur.
Battle
Tokhtamysh's cavalry attacked the right flank and ...
,
Timur defeats the army of the
Golden Horde, beginning the khanate's permanent military decline.
*
1471
Year 1471 ( MCDLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January – Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar reach t ...
– In England, the
Yorkists under
Edward IV defeat the
Lancastrians under the
Earl of Warwick at the
Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward resumes the throne.
*
1561 – A
celestial phenomenon is reported over
Nuremberg, described as an aerial battle.
1601–1900
*
1639 –
Thirty Years' War: Forces of the
Holy Roman Empire and
Electorate of Saxony are defeated by the Swedes at the
Battle of Chemnitz, ending the military effectiveness of the Saxon army for the rest of the war and allowing the Swedes to advance into
Bohemia.
*
1775 – The
, the first
abolition
Abolition refers to the act of putting an end to something by law, and may refer to:
*Abolitionism, abolition of slavery
* Abolition of the death penalty, also called capital punishment
*Abolition of monarchy
*Abolition of nuclear weapons
*Abolit ...
society in North America, is organized in
Philadelphia by
Benjamin Franklin and
Benjamin Rush.
*
1816 –
Bussa
Bussa's rebellion (14–16 April 1816) was the largest slave revolt in Barbadian history. The rebellion takes its name from the African-born slave, Bussa, who led the rebellion. The rebellion, which was eventually defeated by the colonial mil ...
, a slave in British-ruled
Barbados,
leads a slave rebellion, for which he is remembered as the country's first national hero.
*
1849 – Hungary
declares itself independent of
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
with
Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
*
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
**U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln is
shot in
Ford's Theatre by
John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.
**
William H. Seward, the
U.S. Secretary of State, and his family are
attacked at home by
Lewis Powell.
*
1881 – The
Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in
El Paso, Texas.
*
1890 – The
Pan-American Union is founded by the First
International Conference of American States
The Conferences of American States, commonly referred to as the Pan-American Conferences, were meetings of the Pan-American Union, an international organization for cooperation on trade. James G. Blaine, a United States politician, Secretary ...
in Washington, D.C.
*
1894 – The first ever commercial
motion picture house opens in New York City, United States. It uses ten
Kinetoscopes, devices for peep-show viewing of films.
*
1900 – The world's fair
Exposition Universelle opens in Paris.
1901–present
*
1906 – The first meeting of the
Azusa Street Revival, which will launch
Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
*
1908 –
Hauser Dam
Hauser Dam (also known as Hauser Lake Dam) is a hydroelectric straight gravity dam on the Missouri River about northeast of Helena, Montana, in the United States. The original dam, built between 1905 and 1907, failed in 1908 and caused severe fl ...
, a
steel dam
A steel dam is a type of dam (a structure to impound or retard the flow of water) that is made of steel, rather than the more common masonry, earthworks, concrete or timber construction materials.
Relatively few examples were ever built. Of the t ...
on the
Missouri River in
Montana, fails, sending a surge of water high downstream.
*
1909 – Muslims in the
Ottoman Empire begin
a massacre of
Armenians in
Adana.
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
– The British passenger liner hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
*
1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhano ...
– The
Bremen, a German
Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches
Greenly Island, Canada
Greenly Island ( French, ''Île Greenly'') is an island in Blanc-Sablon, Quebec, Canada, near the border of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at the southwestern end of Strait of Belle Isle. The rocky surface of Greenly Isl ...
, completing the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
*
1929 – The
inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the
Principality of Monaco.
William Grover-Williams wins driving a
Bugatti Type 35.
*
1931 – The
Spanish Cortes deposes King
Alfonso XIII and proclaims the
Second Spanish Republic.
*
1935 – The
Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the
Dust Bowl, sweeps across
the Oklahoma and
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
panhandles and neighboring areas.
*
1940 –
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
:
Royal Marines land in
Namsos, Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later.
*
1941 – World War II: German and Italian forces
attack Tobruk, Libya.
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
–
Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in
Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued at 20 million pounds.
*
1945 –
Razing of Friesoythe
The razing of Friesoythe was the destruction of the town of Friesoythe in Lower Saxony on 14 April 1945, during the Western Allies' invasion of Germany towards the end of World War II. The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division attacked the ...
: The
4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroys the German town of
Friesoythe on the orders of
Major General
Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of ...
Christopher Vokes
Major General Christopher Vokes (13 April 1904 – 27 March 1985) was a senior Canadian Army officer who fought in World War II. He commanded the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade during the Allied invasion of Sicily. Promoted to major-general, he ...
.
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
– The
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
satellite
Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a
female dog named
Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
*
1967 –
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Gnassingbé Eyadéma (; born Étienne Gnassingbé, 26 December 1935 – 5 February 2005) was the president of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005, after which he was immediately succeeded by his son, Faure Gnassingbé.
Eyadéma participated i ...
overthrows
Nicolas Grunitzky
Nicolas Grunitzky (; 5 April 1913 – 27 September 1969) was the second president of Togo and its third head of state. He was President from 1963 to 1967. Grunitzky was Prime Minister of Togo from 1956 to 1958 under the French Colonial ''loi ...
and installs himself as the new
President of Togo
This is a list of presidents of Togo since the formation of the post of president in 1960, to the present day.
A total of four people have served as president (not counting one acting president and two interim military officeholders). Additiona ...
, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
*
1978 –
Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of
Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the
Georgian language.
*
1979 – The
Progressive Alliance of Liberia The Progressive Alliance of Liberia (PAL) was an opposition political movement formed in 1975 in Liberia led by group of Liberians from the United States and local students. The Political Education Team of the organization was organized, prepared, ...
stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting in over 70 deaths and over 500 injuries.
*
1981 –
STS-1: The first operational
Space Shuttle, ''
Columbia
Columbia may refer to:
* Columbia (personification), the historical female national personification of the United States, and a poetic name for America
Places North America Natural features
* Columbia Plateau, a geologic and geographic region i ...
'' completes its first test flight.
*
1986 – The heaviest
hailstones ever recorded, each weighing , fall on the
Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
*
1988
**The strikes a
mine in the
Persian Gulf during
Operation Earnest Will
Operation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 – 26 September 1988) was the American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War. It was the largest nav ...
.
** In a
United Nations ceremony in
Geneva,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
, the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
signs
an agreement pledging to
withdraw its troops from
Afghanistan.
*
1991 – The
Republic of Georgia introduces the post of
President following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
– In a
friendly fire incident during
Operation Provide Comfort in northern
Iraq, two
U.S. Air Force aircraft mistakenly
shoot-down two
U.S. Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
*
1997 –
Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of Taiwanese artiste
Pai Bing-bing is kidnapped on her way to school, preceding her murder.
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
**
NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic
Albanian refugees.
Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
** A
severe hailstorm strikes
Sydney, Australia causing
A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
*
2002 –
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
*
2003
**The
Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the
human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
**U.S. troops in
Baghdad capture
Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner in
1985.
*
2005 – The
Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by
Multnomah County.
*
2006 –
Twin blasts triggered by crude bombs during
Asr prayer in the
Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi injure 13 people.
*
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a
magnitude 6.9 earthquake in the
Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
*
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...
**
Twin bomb blasts in
Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injure 141 others.
** 276 schoolgirls are
abducted by
Boko Haram in
Chibok, Nigeria.
*
2016 – In Japan, the
foreshock of the
Kumamoto earthquakes, which will strike two days later, is felt.
*
2022 –
Russian invasion of Ukraine: The
flagship of Russia's
Black Sea Fleet, the
Moskva, sinks in
disputed circumstances.
Births
Pre-1600
*
1126
Year 1126 ( MCXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Summer – Emperor John II Komnenos re-confirms the treaty of 1082. This ends ...
–
Averroes, Andalusian Arab physician and philosopher (d. 1198)
*
1204 –
Henry I Henry I may refer to:
876–1366
* Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany (876–936)
* Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (died 955)
* Henry I of Austria, Margrave of Austria (died 1018)
* Henry I of France (1008–1060)
* Henry I the Long, Margrave of the N ...
, king of
Castile (d. 1217)
*
1331 –
Jeanne-Marie de Maille
Jeanne-Marie de Maille (14 April 1331 − 28 March 1414) was a French Roman Catholic and a member from the Third Order of Saint Francis. Maille was born to nobles and married a nobleman herself though remained childless since she decided to rem ...
, French Roman Catholic saint (d. 1414)
*
1527 –
Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
*
1572 –
Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1632)
*
1578
__NOTOC__
Year 1578 ( MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 31 – Battle of Gembloux: Spanish forces under Don John o ...
–
Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1601–1900
*
1629 –
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1695)
*
1669 –
Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (d. 1741)
*
1678 –
Abraham Darby I, English iron master (d. 1717)
*
1709 –
Charles Collé, French playwright and songwriter (d. 1783)
*
1714 –
Adam Gib
Adam Gib (15 April 1714 – 14 June 1788) was a Scottish religious leader, head of the Antiburgher section of the Scottish Secession Church. He reportedly wrote his first covenant with God in the blood of his own veins. Gib was born in the pa ...
, Scottish minister and author (d. 1788)
*
1738 –
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
*
1769
Events
January–March
* February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.Denis De Lucca, ''Jesuits and Fortifications: The Contribution of the Jesuits to Military Architecture ...
–
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert
Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (, 14 April 1769 – 15 August 1799) was a French general who served during the French Revolutionary Wars. Napoleon Bonaparte recognized his talents and gave him increased responsibilities. Joubert was killed while ...
, French general (d. 1799)
*
1773 –
Jean-Baptiste de Villèle
Jean-Baptiste is a male French name, originating with Saint John the Baptist, and sometimes shortened to Baptiste. The name may refer to any of the following:
Persons
* Charles XIV John of Sweden, born Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, was King ...
, French politician,
Prime Minister of France (d. 1854)
*
1788 –
David G. Burnet, American politician, 2nd
Vice-President of Texas (d. 1870)
*
1800 –
John Appold
John George Appold, FRS (14 April 1800, in Shoreditch, London – 31 August 1865, in Gloucestershire) was a British fur dyer and engineer.
Biography
Appold was the son of a fur-skin dyer, established in Finsssbury. Succeeding to his father's busi ...
, English engineer (d. 1865)
*
1812 –
George Grey, Portuguese-New Zealand soldier, explorer, and politician, 11th
Prime Minister of New Zealand
The prime minister of New Zealand ( mi, Te pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, took office on 26 October 2017.
The prime minister (inf ...
(d. 1898)
*
1814 –
Dimitri Kipiani
Prince Dimitri Ivanes dze Kipiani ( ka, დიმიტრი ყიფიანი alternatively spelled as Qipiani) (April 14, 1814 – October 24, 1887) was a Georgian statesman, publicist, writer and translator. A leader of Georgia's liberal ...
, Georgian publicist and author (d. 1887)
*
1819 –
Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, American educator, author, editor, and publisher (d. 1901)
*
1827 –
Augustus Pitt Rivers
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 18274 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display ...
, English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (d. 1900)
*
1852 –
Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton
Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton (14 April 1852 – 21 October 1941) was an Australian naturalist and teacher born in Ireland. A former president of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, he was known for his studies of desert plants and pollinatio ...
, Australian biologist (d. 1941)
*
1854 –
Martin Lipp, Estonian pastor and poet (d. 1923)
*
1857
Events January–March
* January 1 – The biggest Estonian newspaper, ''Postimees'', is established by Johann Voldemar Jannsen.
* January 7 – The partly French-owned London General Omnibus Company begins operating.
* Jan ...
–
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)
*
1865
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street, in New York City.
* January 13 – American Civil War : Second Battle of Fort Fisher ...
–
Alfred Hoare Powell, English architect, and designer and painter of pottery (d. 1960)
*
1866 –
Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.Herrmann, Dorothy. ''Helen Keller: A Life'', Alfred ...
, American educator (d. 1936)
*
1868 –
Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading Germany, German architect, graphic and Industrial design, industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG turbine factory, AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a ...
, German architect, designed the
AEG turbine factory (d. 1940)
*
1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the Br ...
–
Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter and educator (d. 1905)
* 1870 –
Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1929)
*
1872 –
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (d. 1953)
*
1876 –
Cecil Chubb
Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb, 1st Baronet (14 April 1876 – 22 September 1934), was the last private owner of Stonehenge prehistoric monument, Wiltshire, which he donated to the British government in 1918.
Early life and education
Chubb was ...
, English barrister and one time owner of
Stonehenge (d. 1934)
*
1881 –
Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (d. 1948)
*
1882 –
Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1936)
*
1886 –
Ernst Robert Curtius
Ernst Robert Curtius (; 14 April 1886 – 19 April 1956) was a German literary scholar, philologist, and Romance language literary critic, best known for his 1948 study ''Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter'', translated in Eng ...
, German philologist and scholar (d. 1956)
* 1886 –
Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet and translator (d. 1928)
*
1889 –
Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold Joseph Toynbee (; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's Colleg ...
, English historian and academic (d. 1975)
*
1891 –
B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist, jurist, and politician, 1st
Indian Minister of Law and Justice (d. 1956)
* 1891 –
Otto Lasanen
Otto Abraham Lasanen (14 April 1891 – 25 July 1958) was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He won a bronze medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics and placed fourth at the 1914 unofficial European Championships. In 1917 he won a Russi ...
, Finnish wrestler (d. 1958)
*
1892 –
Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1962)
* 1892 –
V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist and philologist (d. 1957)
* 1892 –
Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
*
1900 –
Shivrampant Damle, Indian educationist (d. 1977)
1901–present
*
1902 –
Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
*
1903 –
Henry Corbin, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
* 1903 –
Ruth Svedberg
Ruth Augusta Svedberg (14 April 1903 – 27 December 2002) was a Swedish track and field athlete. She competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the 100 m, 4 × 100 m relay and discus throw events and won a bronze medal in the discus, failing to r ...
, Swedish discus thrower and triathlete (d. 2002)
*
1904 –
John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2000)
*
1905 –
Elizabeth Huckaby
Elizabeth Paisley Huckaby (14 April 1905 in Hamburg, Arkansas – 18 March 1999 in Little Rock, Arkansas) was an educator.
As the Vice-Principal for Girls of Little Rock Central High School, Huckaby was given the responsibility for protecting t ...
, American author and educator (d. 1999)
* 1905 –
Georg Lammers
Georg Lammers (14 April 1905 – 17 March 1987) was a German sprinter who competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay, together with Richard Corts, Hubert Houben and Helmut Körnig, and a bronze in the in ...
, German sprinter (d. 1987)
* 1905 –
Jean Pierre-Bloch Jean Pierre-Bloch (born Jean-Pierre Bloch; 14 April 1905 – 17 March 1999) was a French Resistant of the Second World War as an activist, being a former president of the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism.
Biography Socia ...
, French author and activist (d. 1999)
*
1906 –
Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian king (d. 1975)
*
1907 –
François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th
President of Haiti (d. 1971)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
Robert Doisneau, French photographer and journalist (d. 1994)
* 1912 –
Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (d. 1978)
*
1913 –
Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
*
1916 –
Don Willesee, Australian telegraphist and politician, 29th
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 2003)
*
1917 –
Valerie Hobson
Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson (14 April 1917 – 13 November 1998) was a British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s. Her second husband was John Profumo, a British government minister who became the subject of the Pro ...
, English actress (d. 1998)
* 1917 –
Marvin Miller
Marvin Julian Miller (April 14, 1917 – November 27, 2012) was an American baseball executive who served as the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966 to 1982. Under Miller's direction, the players ...
, American baseball executive (d. 2012)
*
1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
–
Mary Healy, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
*
1919 –
Shamshad Begum, Pakistani-Indian singer (d. 2013)
* 1919 –
K. Saraswathi Amma
K. Saraswathi Amma (14 April 1919 – 26 December 1975) was a Malayalam feminist writer whose short stories have been anthologised in translation in several American texts. According to critic Jancy James, "In the entire history of women's writ ...
, Indian author and playwright (d. 1975)
*
1920
Events January
* January 1
** Polish–Soviet War in 1920: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20.
** Kauniainen, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own ma ...
–
Ivor Forbes Guest, English lawyer, historian, and author (d. 2018)
*
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in Brazil.
** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' bre ...
–
Thomas Schelling, American economist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 2016)
*
1922
Events
January
* January 7 – Dáil Éireann (Irish Republic), Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
* January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éirean ...
–
Audrey Long, American actress (d. 2014)
*
1923 –
Roberto De Vicenzo
Roberto De Vicenzo (14 April 1923 – 1 June 2017) was a professional golfer from Argentina. He won a record 229 professional tournaments worldwide during his career, including seven on the PGA Tour and most famously the 1967 Open Championship. ...
, Argentinian golfer (d. 2017)
*
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hold ...
–
Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1994)
* 1924 –
Joseph Ruskin
Joseph Ruskin (born Joseph Richard Schlafman; April 14, 1924 – December 28, 2013) was an American character actor.
Also appeared in several underworld character roles on the tv series The Untouchables (1959-1963)
Early life
Ruskin was born ...
, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
* 1924 –
Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher, and academic (d. 2019)
*
1925 –
Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia
The prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia was the head of government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Like the country itself, it was never internationally recognized.
The only prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia was Abel Muzorewa.
History of the office ...
(d. 2010)
* 1925 –
Rod Steiger, American soldier and actor (d. 2002)
*
1926 –
Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (d. 2013)
* 1926 –
Frank Daniel, Czech director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
* 1926 –
Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
* 1926 –
Liz Renay, American actress and author (d. 2007)
*
1927 –
Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 2007)
* 1927 –
Dany Robin, French actress and singer (d. 1995)
*
1929 –
Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
* 1929 –
Inez Andrews, African-American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
*
1930 –
Martin Adolf Bormann, German priest and theologian (d. 2013)
* 1930 –
Arnold Burns
Arnold Irwin Burns (April 14, 1930 – October 1, 2013) was an American lawyer. He served as the United States Deputy Attorney General from 1986 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese. In March 1988, Burns, ...
, American lawyer and politician, 21st
United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2013)
* 1930 –
René Desmaison, French mountaineer (d. 2007)
* 1930 –
Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman (April 14, 1930 – January 16, 2018) was an American actor and author.
Early life
Bradford Dillman was born on April 14, 1930, in San Francisco, the son of Dean Dillman, a stockbroker, and Josephine (née Moore). Bradford's pa ...
, American actor and author (d. 2018)
*
1931 –
Geoffrey Dalton
Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Thomas James Oliver Dalton (14 April 1931 – 26 September 2020) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.
Naval career
Educated at Reigate Grammar School and the Royal Naval Coll ...
, English admiral (d. 2020)
* 1931 –
Paul Masnick
Paul Andrew Masnick (born April 14, 1931) is a Canadian retired ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League between 1950 and 1958.
Playing career
Masnick started his National Hockey League career with the Montreal Canadiens i ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hir ...
–
Bill Bennett
William Richards Bennett, (April 14, 1932 – December 3, 2015) was the 27th premier of British Columbia from 1975 to 1986. He was a son of Annie Elizabeth May (Richards) and former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett. He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed ...
, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th
Premier of British Columbia
Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier.
A premier will normally be a head of gov ...
(d. 2015)
* 1932 –
Atef Ebeid
Atef Muhammad Ebeid ( ar, عاطف محمد عبيد, ) (14 April 1932 – 12 September 2014) was an Egyptian politician who served in various capacities in the governments of Egypt. He was Prime Minister of Egypt from 1999 to 2004.
Early life a ...
, Egyptian academic and politician, 47th
Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
* 1932 –
Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2022)
* 1932 –
Cameron Parker, Scottish businessman and politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire
The Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire is the representative of the British Crown covering a lieutenancy area of the county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
The Lord Lieutenant deals with many of the ceremonial functions as ...
*
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wis ...
–
Paddy Hopkirk
Patrick Barron Hopkirk (14 April 1933 – 21 July 2022) was a rally driver from Northern Ireland.
Hopkirk was appointed MBE in the 2016 New Year Honours list. In early 2016, Hopkirk became the IAM RoadSmart Mature Drivers Ambassador.
Early ...
, Northern Irish racing driver (d. 2022)
* 1933 –
Boris Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky (russian: Аркадий Натанович Стругацкий; 28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris Natanovich Strugatsky ( ru , Борис Натанович Стругацкий; 14 A ...
, Russian author (d. 2012)
* 1933 –
Yuri Oganessian, Armenian-Russian nuclear physicist
*
1934 –
Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist
*
1935 –
Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton, English table tennis player, swimmer, and politician
* 1935 –
John Oliver, English bishop
* 1935 –
Erich von Däniken, Swiss
pseudohistorian and author
*
1936 –
Arlene Martel, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
* 1936 –
Bobby Nichols, American golfer
* 1936 –
Frank Serpico, American-Italian soldier, police officer and lecturer
*
1937 –
Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the
Scailex Corporation (d. 2013)
* 1937 –
Sepp Mayerl
Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp (14 April 1937 − 28 July 2012) was an Austrian mountaineer.
Mayerl was born on 14 April 1937 as the youngest of seven children into a farmer's family in the Tyrolean village of Göriach near Dölsach. ...
, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2012)
*
1938 –
Mahmud Esad Coşan, Turkish author and academic (d. 2001)
*
1940 –
Julie Christie, English actress and activist
* 1940 –
David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes
David Michael Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, (born 14 April 1940) is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Wakefield between 1985 and 1990 and the Bishop of London between 1990 and 1995. From 1995 to 2005, he was the Archbishop of York ...
, English archbishop and academic
* 1940 –
Richard Thompson, English physician and academic
*
1941 –
Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager
*
1942 –
Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (d. 2003)
* 1942 –
Valentin Lebedev, Russian engineer and astronaut
* 1942 –
Björn Rosengren
Björn Folke Rosengren (born 14 April 1942) is a Swedish politician and advisor to the Stenbeck family.
Rosengren was born in Täby. He was active in the labour union and as a Social Democratic politician. He served as chairman of the Swedish ...
, Swedish politician,
Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Innovation
*
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in ...
–
John Sergeant, English journalist
*
1945 –
Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoan economist and politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Samoa
* 1945 –
Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist and songwriter
* 1945 –
Roger Frappier, Canadian producer, director and screenwriter
*
1946 –
Mireille Guiliano
Mireille Guiliano (born April 14, 1946, in Moyeuvre-Grande, France) is a French-American author and former corporate executive at LVMH.
Education
Mireille Guiliano was born in 1946 in Moyeuvre-Grande, France. She completed a year of her educat ...
, French-American author
* 1946 –
Michael Sarris
Michael Sarris ( el, Μιχάλης Σαρρής; born 14 April 1946) is a Greek Cypriot economist and politician. He earned his B.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE). He later continued his studies in t ...
, Cypriot economist and politician,
Cypriot Minister of Finance
* 1946 –
Knut Kristiansen
Knut Johan Bratland Kristiansen (born 14 April 1946) is a Norwegian composer and jazz musician (piano), known from Bergen jazz life primarily for his many interpretations of the music of Thelonious Monk as orchestra leader his own bands with va ...
, Norwegian pianist and orchestra leader
*
1947 –
Dominique Baudis
Dominique Baudis (; 14 April 1947 – 10 April 2014) was the French Defender of Rights (ombudsman). Formerly a journalist, politician and mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of Liberal Democracy and later of the leading centre-right Union ...
, French journalist and politician (d. 2014)
* 1947 –
Bob Massie, Australian cricketer
*
1948 –
Berry Berenson, American model, actress, and photographer (d. 2001)
* 1948 –
Anastasios Papaligouras
Anastasios Papaligouras ( el, Αναστάσιος Παπαληγούρας; born 14 April 1948) is a Greek lawyer and New Democracy politician and was Minister for Mercantile Marine and Island Policy.
Born in Athens, Papaligouras studied law at ...
, Greek lawyer and politician,
Greek Minister of Justice
The Ministry of Justice ( el, Υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης) is the government department entrusted with the supervision of the legal and judicial system of Greece. The incumbent minister is Konstantinos Tsiaras of New Democracy.
...
*
1949 –
Dave Gibbons, English author and illustrator
* 1949 –
DeAnne Julius, American-British economist and academic
* 1949 –
Chris Langham, English actor and screenwriter
* 1949 –
Chas Mortimer
Charles 'Chas' Mortimer (born 14 April 1949) is an English former professional motorcycle short-circuit road racer and race-school instructor. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world championships from 1969 to 1979. He rema ...
, English motorcycle racer
* 1949 –
John Shea, American actor and director
*
1950 –
Francis Collins, American physician and geneticist
* 1950 –
Péter Esterházy, Hungarian author (d. 2016)
*
1951 –
Milija Aleksic
Milija Anthony Aleksic (14 April 1951 – 17 October 2012) was an English football goalkeeper who made 138 league appearances in the Football League.
Released by Port Vale in 1969, he played for Eastwood before lifting the FA Trophy with Sta ...
, English footballer (d. 2012)
* 1951 –
José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician
* 1951 –
Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist, conductor, and educator
* 1951 –
Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean
Elizabeth Conway Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (born 14 April 1951) is a British politician and trade unionist. A member of the Labour Party, she was Minister of State for the Middle East from 2001 to 2005. She is former General Sec ...
, English politician
*
1952 –
Kenny Aaronson, American bass player
* 1952 –
Mickey O'Sullivan
Mickey "Ned" O'Sullivan (born 14 April 1952) is an Irish former Gaelic football manager, selector and former player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned ten seasons from 1971 to 1980.
Born in ...
, Irish footballer and manager
* 1952 –
David Urquhart, Scottish bishop
*
1954 –
Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese director, screenwriter, and illustrator
*
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are kille ...
–
Boris Šprem, Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th
President of Croatian Parliament (d. 2012)
*
1957 –
Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
* 1957 –
Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor
*
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
–
Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor
*
1959 –
Steve Byrnes, American sportscaster and producer (d. 2015)
* 1959 –
Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Canadian actress
*
1960 –
Brad Garrett, American actor and comedian
* 1960 –
Myoma Myint Kywe, Burmese historian and journalist
* 1960 –
Osamu Sato
is a Japanese digital artist, photographer, and composer. His first work was the ambient music album "Objectless", which released in 1983. His first work in the video game industry was '' Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong Nou'', which first ...
, Japanese graphic artist, programmer, and composer
* 1960 –
Tina Rosenberg, American journalist and author
* 1960 –
Pat Symcox, South African cricketer
*
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
–
Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor and director
*
1962 –
Guillaume Leblanc, Canadian athlete
*
1964 –
Brian Adams, American wrestler (d. 2007)
* 1964 –
Jeff Andretti, American race car driver
* 1964 –
Jim Grabb, American tennis player
* 1964 –
Jeff Hopkins, Welsh international footballer and manager
* 1964 –
Gina McKee, English actress
*
1965 –
Tom Dey, American director and producer
* 1965 –
Alexandre Jardin
Alexandre Jardin (born 14 April 1965) is a French writer, film director and winner of the Prix Femina, 1988, for ''Le Zèbre''.
Filmography
* 1992 : ''Le Zèbre
Le Zèbre was a French make of car built between 1909 and 1931 in Puteaux, Seine.
...
, French author
* 1965 –
Craig McDermott, Australian cricketer and coach
*
1966 –
André Boisclair
André Boisclair (; born April 14, 1966) is a former Canadian politician and convicted sex offender in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and sovereigntist party in Quebec.
Between January 1996 and Ma ...
, Canadian lawyer and politician
* 1966 –
Jan Boklöv, Swedish ski jumper
* 1966 –
David Justice, American baseball player and sportscaster
* 1966 –
Greg Maddux, American baseball player, coach, and manager
*
1967 –
Nicola Berti, Italian international footballer
* 1967 –
Barrett Martin
Barrett Martin (born April 14, 1967) is an American record producer, percussionist, writer, and ethnomusicologist from Washington. As a producer he has won one Latin Grammy and has been nominated in two other categories. As an ethnomusicologist ...
, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
* 1967 –
Julia Zemiro, French-Australian actress, comedian, singer and writer
*
1968 –
Anthony Michael Hall
Michael Anthony Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Smith in '' The Dead Zone'' from 2002 to 2007. He also rose to fame starring in films with ...
, American actor
*
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
–
Brad Ausmus
Bradley David Ausmus (; born April 14, 1969) is an American former professional baseball manager and catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). In his 18-year MLB playing career, Ausmus played for the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston A ...
, American baseball player and manager
* 1969 –
Martyn LeNoble, Dutch-American bass player
* 1969 –
Vebjørn Selbekk
Vebjørn Selbekk (born 14 April 1969) is a Norwegian newspaper editor and author. Selbekk became widely known in Norway and abroad after he in 2006 reprinted a facsimile of the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons as editor of the Christian new ...
, Norwegian journalist
*
1970 –
Shizuka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress
*
1971 –
Miguel Calero
Miguel Ángel Calero Rodríguez (14 April 1971 – 4 December 2012) was a Colombian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played 50 times for the Colombia national team between 1995 and 2007.
While playing in Colombia, Calero ...
, Colombian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
* 1971 –
Carlos Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
* 1971 –
Gregg Zaun, American baseball player and sportscaster
*
1972 –
Paul Devlin, English-Scottish footballer and manager
* 1972 –
Roberto Mejía, Dominican baseball player
* 1972 –
Dean Potter, American rock climber and
BASE jumper (d. 2015)
*
1973 –
Roberto Ayala
Roberto Fabián Ayala (; born 14 April 1973), nicknamed ''El Ratón'' ("The Mouse"), is an Argentine former footballer who played as a centre back for the Argentina national football team, as well as Valencia and Real Zaragoza in Spain, Milan a ...
, Argentinian footballer
* 1973 –
Adrien Brody, American actor
* 1973 –
Hidetaka Suehiro, Japanese video game director and writer
* 1973 –
David Miller, American tenor
*
1974 –
Da Brat, American rapper
*
1975 –
Lita, American wrestler
* 1975 –
Luciano Almeida
Luciano Silva Almeida (born April 14, 1975 in Santana do Livramento) is a Brazilian left back. He currently plays for Caxias.
Honours
; Internacional
* Rio Grande do Sul State League: 1997
;Goiás
* Goiás State League: 2002, 2006
* Brazil ...
, Brazilian footballer
* 1975 –
Avner Dorman, Israeli-American composer and academic
* 1975 –
Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer
*
1976 –
Christian Älvestam, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1976 –
Georgina Chapman, English model, actress, and fashion designer, co-founded
Marchesa
* 1976 –
Anna DeForge
Anna Louise DeForge (born April 14, 1976) is an American-Montenegrin professional female basketball player who most recently played for the Detroit Shock in the WNBA. She is the first player from the University of Nebraska to ever play in the WN ...
, American basketball player
* 1976 –
Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
* 1976 –
Nadine Faustin-Parker
Nadine Faustin-Parker (born 14 April 1976) is a Haitian hurdler born in Brussels, Belgium. She has represented Haiti at three Summer Olympics; (in 2000, 2004 and 2008).
She competed for the United States up to and including the 1999 indoor s ...
, Haitian hurdler
* 1976 –
Jason Wiemer
Jason Earl Wiemer (born April 14, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played for 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
Wiemer was drafted 12th overall in the 1991 WHL Bantam Draft by the Port ...
, Canadian ice hockey player
*
1977 –
Nate Fox, American basketball player (d. 2014)
* 1977 –
Martin Kaalma, Estonian footballer
* 1977 –
Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress and producer
* 1977 –
Rob McElhenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
*
1978 –
Roland Lessing, Estonian biathlete
*
1979 –
Rebecca DiPietro, American wrestler and model
* 1979 –
Marios Elia, Cypriot footballer
* 1979 –
Ross Filipo
Ross Ami Filipo (born 14 April 1979) is a retired New Zealand rugby union footballer. Filipo's career included long stints with Wellington in the Mitre 10 Cup, Crusaders in Super Rugby, and Bayonne in the Top 14 competition, and appearances for t ...
, New Zealand rugby player
* 1979 –
Noé Pamarot
Noé Elias Pamarot (born 14 April 1979) is a French former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Before moving to Spain, Pamarot played for Portsmouth in the Premier League. He is a right-footed defender who is also known for ...
, French footballer
* 1979 –
Kerem Tunçeri
Mehmet Kerem Tunçeri (born 14 April 1979) is a Turkish former professional basketball player who played at the point guard and shooting guard positions.He is 194 cm (6 ft 4 in) in height and 86 kg (190 lbs.) in weight.
Nati ...
, Turkish basketball player
*
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In ...
–
Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1980 –
Jeremy Smith Jeremy Smith may refer to:
*Jeremy Theron Smith a man charged with aggravated assault for wounding three women in Koreatown Dallas on 17 May 2022
* Jeremy Smith (Royal Navy officer) (fl. 1660s), British sailor
* Jeremy C. Smith (born 1959), British ...
, New Zealand rugby league player
*
1981 –
Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
* 1981 –
Amy Leach, English director and producer
*
1982 –
Uğur Boral
Uğur Boral (born 14 April 1982) is a Turkish retired footballer who last played for Beşiktaş in the Süper Lig.
Boral was a gifted play-maker and surprised goalkeepers with his deceptive shot. He is naturally left-footed and can played as a ...
, Turkish footballer
* 1982 –
Larissa França, Brazilian volleyball player
*
1983 –
Simona La Mantia
Simona La Mantia (born 14 April 1983 in Palermo) is an Italian triple jumper. Her best result at international senior level was a gold medal at the 2011 European Indoor Championships.
Biography
La Mantia's parents were both athletes: her mother ...
, Italian triple jumper
* 1983 –
James McFadden
James Henry McFadden (born 14 April 1983) is a Scottish football coach and former professional player who played as a forward.
McFadden started his playing career with Motherwell, where he came to prominence in the 2002–03 season by scorin ...
, Scottish footballer
* 1983 –
William Obeng
William Yaw Obeng (born April 14, 1983) is a former American football offensive lineman of the Arena Football League. He was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at San Jose State.
Obeng ...
, Ghanaian-American football player
* 1983 –
Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
*
1984 –
Blake Costanzo, American football player
* 1984 –
Charles Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
* 1984 –
Harumafuji Kōhei, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 70th
Yokozuna
* 1984 –
Tyler Thigpen
Tyler Beckham Thigpen (born April 14, 1984) is a former American football quarterback. Thigpen was drafted out of Coastal Carolina University in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft (217th overall) by the Minnesota Vikings.
He was the firs ...
, American football player
*
1986 –
Matt Derbyshire
Matthew Anthony Derbyshire (born 14 April 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club NorthEast United.
He played for Blackburn Rovers for five years, and had loan spells with Plymouth Argyl ...
, English footballer
*
1987 –
Michael Baze, American jockey (d. 2011)
* 1987 –
Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
* 1987 –
Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan runner
*
1988 –
Eric Gryba, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1988 –
Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete
* 1988 –
Brad Sinopoli
Bradley Sinopoli (born April 14, 1988) is a former Canadian football wide receiver who played for nine years in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was originally a quarterback with the Calgary Stampeders before being converted to wide receive ...
, Canadian football player
*
1995 –
Baker Mayfield, American football player
* 1995 –
Georgie Friedrichs, Australian rugby sevens player
*
1996 –
Abigail Breslin, American actress
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Chase Young, American football player
Deaths
Pre-1600
*
911
911 or 9/11 may refer to:
Dates
* AD 911
* 911 BC
* September 11
** 9/11, the September 11 attacks of 2001
** 11 de Septiembre, Chilean coup d'état in 1973 that outed the democratically elected Salvador Allende
* November 9
Numbers
* 911 ...
–
Pope Sergius III, pope of the Roman Catholic Church
*
1070
Year 1070 ( MLXX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1070th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 70th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year ...
–
Gerard, Duke of Lorraine
Gerard ( – 14 April 1070), also known as Gerard the Wonderful, was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was the count of Metz and Châtenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upper Lorr ...
(b. c. 1030)
*
1099 –
Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht
Conrad was bishop of Utrecht between 1076 and 1099.
Before becoming bishop he was chamberlain of Archbishop Anno II of Cologne and, for a time, tutor of Prince Henry, the future Emperor Henry IV. When the excommunicated Bishop William of Utre ...
(b. before 1040)
*
1132
Year 1132 ( MCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Levant
* Summer – Imad al-Din Zengi, Seljuk governor (''atabeg'') of Aleppo and Mosul, marches ...
–
Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
*
1279 –
Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland (b. 1224)
*
1322 –
Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere (18 August 127514 April 1322) was an English soldier, diplomat, member of parliament, landowner and nobleman. He was the son and heir of Sir Gunselm de Badlesmere (died ca. 1301) and Joan FitzBe ...
, English soldier and politician,
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1275)
*
1345 –
Richard de Bury, English bishop and politician,
Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (b. 1287)
*
1424 –
Lucia Visconti
Lucia Visconti ( 1380 – 14 April 1424) was a Milanese aristocrat who was the Countess of Kent by marriage from 1407 to 1424. She was one of fifteen legitimate children of Bernabò Visconti, who, along with his brother Galeazzo, was Lord of ...
, English countess (b. 1372)
*
1433 –
Lidwina
Lidwina (Lydwine, Lydwid, Lidwid, Liduina of Schiedam) (1380-1433) was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is the patron saint of the town of Schiedam and of chronic pain.
Lidwina is also thought to be one of t ...
, Dutch saint (b. 1380)
*
1471
Year 1471 ( MCDLXXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January – Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar reach t ...
–
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English commander and politician (b. 1428)
* 1471 –
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (c. 1431 – 14 April 1471) was a major magnate of fifteenth-century England. He was a younger son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and the younger brother of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwi ...
(b. 1431)
*
1480 –
Thomas de Spens
Thomas Spens ''de Spens(c. 1415–15 April 1480), Scottish statesman and prelate, received his education at Edinburgh, was the second son of John de Spens, custodian of Prince James of Scotland, and of Lady Isabel Wemyss.
Biography
By h ...
, Scottish statesman and prelate (b. c. 1415)
*
1488 –
Girolamo Riario, Lord of Imola and Forli (b. 1443)
*
1574 –
Louis of Nassau (b. 1538)
*
1578
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Year 1578 ( MDLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January 31 – Battle of Gembloux: Spanish forces under Don John o ...
–
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell ( – 14 April 1578), better known simply as Lord Bothwell, was a prominent Scottish nobleman. He was known for his marriage to Mary, Queen of Scots, as her third and final husband ...
, English husband of
Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1534)
*
1587
Events
January–June
* February 1 – Queen Elizabeth I of England signs the death warrant of her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, after Mary has been implicated in a plot to murder Elizabeth. Seven days later, on the orders of ...
–
Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (b. 1548)
*
1599
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Events
January–June
* January 8 – The Jesuit educational plan, known as the ''Ratio Studiorum'', is issued.
* March 12 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, is appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by Queen Elizabeth I o ...
–
Henry Wallop, English politician (b. 1540)
1601–1900
*
1609 –
Gasparo da Salò
Gasparo da Salò (20 May 154214 April 1609) is the name given to Gasparo Bertolotti, one of the earliest violin makers and an expert double bass player. Around 80 of his instruments are known to have survived to the present day: violins (smal ...
, Italian violin maker (b. 1540)
*
1662 –
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele (28 June 158214 April 1662) was an English nobleman and politician, known also for his involvement in several companies for setting up overseas colonies.
Early life
He was born at the family home of B ...
, English politician (b. 1582)
*
1682 –
Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (b. 1620)
*
1721 –
Michel Chamillart
Michel Chamillart or Chamillard (2 January 1652 – 14 April 1721) was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV of France.
Chamillart was born in Paris of a family recently raised to the nobility. Following the usual career of a states ...
, French politician,
Controller-General of Finances The Controller-General or Comptroller-General of Finances (french: Contrôleur général des finances) was the name of the minister in charge of finances in France from 1661 to 1791. It replaced the former position of Superintendent of Finances ('' ...
(b. 1652)
*
1740
Events
January–March
* January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship ''Rooswijk'' are drowned, when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its second ...
–
Lady Catherine Jones
Lady Catherine Jones (1672 – 14 April 1740) was an English philanthropist, interested in women's rights and education, and chose to be buried with her long-time friend, Mary Kendall (8 November 1677 – 4 March 1710), inside Westminster Abbey ...
, English philanthropist (b.1672)
*
1759 –
George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (b. 1685)
*
1785 –
William Whitehead, English poet and playwright (b. 1715)
*
1792 –
Maximilian Hell, Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and priest (b. 1720)
*
1843
Events January–March
* January
** Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel ''Martin Chuzzlewit'' begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.
** Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart ...
–
Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
*
1864 –
Charles Lot Church, American-Canadian politician (b. 1777)
*
1886 –
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (September 16, 1812April 14, 1886) was a Dutch novelist.
Life and career
Geertruida Toussaint was born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, on 16 September 1812. Her father, a pharmacist of Huguenot descent, gave h ...
, Dutch novelist (b. 1812)
*
1888 –
Emil Czyrniański
Emilian (also Emil) Czyrniański (Lemko ''Емілиян Чырняньскій'') (1824–1888) was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is ...
, Polish chemist (b. 1824)
1901–present
*
1910 –
Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1856)
*
1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
–
Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1880)
* 1911 –
Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 4th
Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
*
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
–
Henri Brisson, French politician, 50th
Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)
*
1914 –
Hubert Bland, English activist, co-founded the
Fabian Society (b. 1855)
*
1916 –
Gina Krog
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup "Gina" Krog (20 June 1847 – 14 April 1916) was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.
She played a central role in the Norwegian l ...
, Norwegian suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1847)
*
1917 –
L. L. Zamenhof, Polish physician and linguist, created
Esperanto (b. 1859)
*
1919 –
Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1837)
*
1925 –
John Singer Sargent, American painter (b. 1856)
*
1930 –
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1893)
*
1931 –
Richard Armstedt
Richard Armstedt
Richard Armstedt (10 November 1851 – 14 April 1931) was a German philologist, educator, and historian.
Armstedt, a native of Osterburg, Prussian Saxony, received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Tübin ...
, German philologist, historian, and educator (b. 1851)
*
1935 –
Emmy Noether, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1882)
*
1938 –
Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (b. 1893)
*
1943 –
Yakov Dzhugashvili
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili, ', russian:
Яков Иосифович Джугашвили, ' ( – 14 April 1943) was the eldest child of Joseph Stalin, the son of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. Hi ...
, Georgian-Russian lieutenant (b. 1907)
*
1950 –
Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1879)
*
1951 –
Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1881)
*
1962 –
M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and scholar (b. 1860)
*
1963 –
Rahul Sankrityayan
Rahul Sankrityayan (born Kedarnath Pandey; 9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963) was an Indian writer and a polyglot who wrote in Hindi. He played a pivotal role in giving travelogue a 'literary form'. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars ...
, Indian monk and historian (b. 1893)
*
1964 –
Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1876)
* 1964 –
Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
*
1968 –
Al Benton
John Alton Benton (March 18, 1911 – April 14, 1968) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, and Boston Red Sox. The right-hander ...
, American baseball player (b. 1911)
*
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
–
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro (2 March 1900 – 14 April 1969) was a Spanish film actress whose career stretched from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Biography
Muñoz was married to actor Rafael Bardem and the couple had two children: Juan Antonio and ...
, Spanish actress (b. 1900)
*
1975 –
Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
* 1975 –
Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
*
1976 –
José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
*
1978 –
Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
* 1978 –
F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
*
1983 –
Pete Farndon, English bassist (
The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
* 1983 –
Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
*
1986 –
Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and philosopher (b. 1908)
*
1990
File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...
–
Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
* 1990 –
Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd
Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927)
*
1992 –
Irene Greenwood
Irene Greenwood (9 December 1898 — 14 April 1992) was an Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist.
Early life and education
Greenwood was born in Albany, Western Australia on 9 December 1898. She was the oldest child of H ...
, Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (b. 1898)
*
1994
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
–
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
*
1995 –
Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (b. 1909)
*
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...
–
Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1911)
* 1999 –
Anthony Newley, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
* 1999 –
Bill Wendell, American television announcer (b. 1924)
*
2000 –
Phil Katz
Phillip Walter Katz (November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the Zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS. A ...
, American computer programmer, co-created the
zip file format (b. 1962)
* 2000 –
August R. Lindt
August Rudolf Lindt (5 August 1905 – 14 April 2000), also known as Auguste R. Lindt, was a Swiss lawyer and diplomat. He served as Chairman of UNICEF from 1953 to 1954 and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1956 to 1960.
Care ...
, Swiss lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
* 2000 –
Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
*
2001 –
Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
* 2001 –
Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
*
2003 –
Jyrki Otila, Finnish politician (b. 1941)
*
2004 –
Micheline Charest
Micheline Charest (16 March 1953 – 14 April 2004) was a British-born Canadian television producer and founder and former co-chairman of CINAR (later Cookie Jar Entertainment). In 1997, Charest was ranked 19th in ''The Hollywood Reporters lis ...
, English-Canadian television producer, co-founded the
Cookie Jar Group (b. 1953)
*
2006 –
Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
*
2007 –
June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1924)
* 2007 –
Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (b. 1930)
* 2007 –
René Rémond
René Rémond (; 30 September 1918 – 14 April 2007) was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and ...
, French historian and economist (b. 1918)
*
2008
File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
–
Tommy Holmes
Thomas Francis Holmes (March 29, 1917 – April 14, 2008) was an American right and center fielder and manager in Major League Baseball who played nearly his entire career for the Boston Braves. He hit over .300 lifetime (.302) and every year ...
, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
* 2008 –
Ollie Johnston, American animator and voice actor (b. 1912)
*
2009 –
Maurice Druon, French author (b. 1918)
*
2010 –
Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (b. 1932)
* 2010 –
Alice Miller, Polish-French psychologist and author (b. 1923)
* 2010 –
Peter Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1962)
*
2011 –
Jean Gratton, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1924)
*
2012 –
Émile Bouchard
Joseph Émile Alcide Bouchard, CM, CQ (4 September 1919 – 14 April 2012) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall ...
, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1919)
* 2012 –
Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (b. 1924)
* 2012 –
Piermario Morosini
Piermario Morosini (5 July 1986 – 14 April 2012) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 14 April 2012, during a match between Pescara and Livorno, Morosini suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch.
Early life ...
, Italian footballer (b. 1986)
*
2013 –
Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the
Scailex Corporation (b. 1937)
* 2013 –
Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (b. 1927)
* 2013 –
R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded
RPG Group
The Rama Prasad Goenka Group, commonly known as RPG Group, is an Indian industrial and services conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The roots of the RPG Group can be traced back to the enterprise of Ramdutt Goenka in 1820. RPG ...
(b. 1930)
* 2013 –
George Jackson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
* 2013 –
Armando Villanueva
Armando Villanueva del Campo (25 November 1915 – 14 April 2013) was a Peruvian politician who was the leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Born in Lima, his parents were Pedro Villanueva Urquijo, a gynecologist in ...
, Peruvian politician, 121st
Prime Minister of Peru
The president of the Council of Ministers of Peru ( es, link=no, presidente del Consejo de Ministros del Perú), informally called Premier (form of address) or Prime Minister, is the head of the cabinet as the most senior member of the Council ...
(b. 1915)
* 2013 –
Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1943)
* 2013 –
Claudia Maupin and Oliver "Chip" Northup, residents of Davis, California who were tortured, murdered, and mutilated in their home by a 15-year-old, Daniel William Marsh
*
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wa ...
–
Nina Cassian
Nina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru; 27 November 1924, in Galați – 14 April 2014, in New York City) was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic. ...
, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1924)
* 2014 –
Crad Kilodney
Crad Kilodney (1948 – April 14, 2014) was the pen name of Lou Trifon, an American-born Canadian writer who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He was best known for selling his self-published books (often with outrageous titles such as ''Bloodsucking M ...
, American-Canadian author (b. 1948)
* 2014 –
Wally Olins, English businessman and academic (b. 1930)
* 2014 –
Mick Staton
David Michael Staton, better known as Mick Staton (February 11, 1940 – April 14, 2014) was an American banker and politician. He was a Republican congressman from West Virginia, serving one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from ...
, American soldier and politician (b. 1940)
*
2015 –
Klaus Bednarz
Klaus Bednarz (6 June 1942 – 14 April 2015) was a German journalist and writer.
Life
Bednarz was born in Falkensee, Province of Brandenburg. He studied Slavic studies, theatre and Eastern European history at universities in Hamburg, Vienna ...
, German journalist and author (b. 1942)
* 2015 –
Mark Reeds, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1960)
* 2015 –
Percy Sledge, American singer (b. 1940)
* 2015 –
Roberto Tucci
Roberto Tucci, SJ (19 April 1921 – 14 April 2015) was a Jesuit cardinal and theologian. He was created cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 21 February 2001.
Life
Cardinal Tucci was born in Naples, Italy in 1921 and entered the Society of Jes ...
, Italian cardinal and theologian (b. 1921)
*
2019 –
Bibi Andersson
Berit Elisabet Andersson (11 November 1935 – 14 April 2019), known professionally as Bibi Andersson (), was a Swedish actress who was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
Early life and career
Anders ...
, Swedish actress (b.1935)
*
2020 –
Carol D'Onofrio
Carol D'Onofrio (February 24, 1936 – April 14, 2020) was an American public health researcher who was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Her career focused on improving the health of underse ...
, American public health researcher (b. 1936)
*
2021 –
Bernie Madoff, American mastermind of the world's largest
Ponzi scheme (b. 1938)
*
2022 –
Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (b. 1957)
* 2022 –
Ilkka Kanerva
Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva (28 January 1948 – 14 April 2022) was a Finnish politician and a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Lokalahti, now a part of Uusikaupunki in Southwest Finland. He was the Minister for Foreign Affair ...
, Finnish politician (b. 1948)
* 2022 –
Orlando Julius, Nigerian saxophonist, singer (b. 1943)
Holidays and observances
*
Ambedkar Jayanti
Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti is an annual festival observed on 14 April to commemorate the memory of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian politician and civil rights activist. It marks Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's birthday who was born on 14 April 1891. Si ...
(India)
*
Bengali New Year (Bangladesh)
*
Black Day (South Korea)
*Christian
feast day:
**
Anthony, John, and Eustathius
**
Bénézet
Bénézet (Benedict, Benezet, Benet, Benoît; c. 1163 – 1184) was a saint of the Catholic Church.
Biography
Christian tradition states that he was a shepherd boy who saw a vision during an solar eclipse, eclipse in 1177 which led him to build ...
**
Henry Beard Delany
Henry Beard Delany (February 5, 1858 – April 14, 1928) was an American clergyman and the first African-American person elected Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Early life
Henry Delany was born into slavery in St. M ...
(
U.S. Episcopal Church)
**
Domnina of Terni
Saint Domnina is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church. According to tradition, she was martyred at Terni (known as ''Interamna Nahars'' in antiquity) along with ten consecrated virgins in the mid-3rd century, at the same time that Saint V ...
**
Lidwina
Lidwina (Lydwine, Lydwid, Lidwid, Liduina of Schiedam) (1380-1433) was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is the patron saint of the town of Schiedam and of chronic pain.
Lidwina is also thought to be one of t ...
**
Peter González
Peter González (1190 – 15 April 1246), sometimes referred to as Pedro González Telmo, Saint Telmo, or Saint Elmo, was a Castilian Dominican friar and priest, born in 1190 in Frómista, Palencia, Kingdom of Castile and Leon.
Life
Gonz ...
**
Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus
**
April 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
April 13 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 15
All fixed commemorations below are observed on ''April 27'' by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.
For April 14th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saint ...
*
Commemoration of Anfal Genocide Against the Kurds (
Iraqi Kurdistan)
*Day of
Mologa (
Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia)
*
Day of the Georgian language (Georgia)
*
Dhivehi Language Day (Maldives)
*
N'Ko Alphabet Day (
Mande speakers)
*
Pan American Day (several countries in the
Americas)
*
Takayama Spring Festival begins (
Takayama,
Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
*
Youth Day (Angola)
References
Sources
*
External links
BBC: On This Day*
Historical Events on April 14
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