14 January Deaths

Published : 14 Jan 2019, 10:32

Sahos Desk

January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

769 – Cui Huan, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
927 – Wang Yanhan, king of Min (Ten Kingdoms)
937 – Zhang Yanlang, Chinese official
973 – Ekkehard I, Frankish monk and poet
1092 – Vratislaus II of Bohemia
1163 – Ladislaus II of Hungary (b. 1131)
1236 – Saint Sava, Serbian archbishop and saint (b. 1175)
1301 – Andrew III of Hungary (b. 1265)
1331 – Odoric of Pordenone, Italian priest and explorer (b. 1286)
1465 – Thomas Beckington, English statesman and prelate
1476 – John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1444)
1555 – Jacques Dubois, French anatomist (b. 1478)
1640 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1578)
1648 – Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch historian, poet, and theologian (b. 1584)
1676 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1602)
1679 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
1701 – Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyō (b. 1628)
1742 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (b. 1656)
1753 – George Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (b. 1685)
1766 – Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
1776 – Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1713)
1786 – Michael Arne, English organist and composer (b. 1741)
1786 – Meshech Weare, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)
1823 – Athanasios Kanakaris, Greek politician (b. 1760)
1825 – George Dance the Younger, English architect and surveyor (b. 1741)
1833 – Seraphim of Sarov, Russian monk and saint (b. 1759)
1867 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French painter and illustrator (b. 1780)
1874 – Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and academic, invented the Reis telephone (b. 1834)
1883 – Napoléon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
1888 – Stephen Heller, Hungarian pianist and composer (b. 1813)
1889 – Ema Pukšec, Croatian soprano (b. 1834)
1892 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (b. 1864)
1892 – Alexander J. Davis, American architect (b. 1803)
1898 – Lewis Carroll, English novelist, poet, and mathematician (b. 1832)
1901 – Mandell Creighton, English bishop and historian (b. 1843)
1901 – Charles Hermite, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1822)
1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (b. 1840)
1907 – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet, Scottish soldier and politician, 6th Governor of New Zealand (b. 1832)
1908 – Holger Drachmann, Danish poet and playwright (b. 1846)
1915 – Richard Meux Benson, English priest and saint, founded the Society of St. John the Evangelist (b. 1824)
1919 – Platon, Estonian bishop and saint (b. 1869)
1920 – John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Automobile Company (b. 1864)
1926 – August Sedláček, Czech historian and author (b. 1843)
1934 – Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
1937 – Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, author, and playwright (b. 1889)
1942 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and author (b. 1883)
1943 – Laura E. Richards, American author and poet (b. 1850)
1944 – Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish author and politician (b. 1869)
1949 – Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1892)
1951 – Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek author, journalist, and playwright (b. 1867)
1952 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1878)
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
1959 – Eivind Berggrav, Norwegian bishop and translator (b. 1884)
1961 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
1962 – M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer, scholar, and politician (b. 1860)
1965 – Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)
1966 – Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian-Russian engineer and academic (b. 1906)
1968 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet and author (b. 1885)
1970 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
1970 – Asım Gündüz, Turkish general (b. 1880)
1972 – Horst Assmy, German footballer (b. 1933)
1972 – Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)
1976 – Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922)
1977 – Anthony Eden, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
1977 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (b. 1916)
1977 – Anaïs Nin, French-American essayist and memoirist (b. 1903)
1978 – Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer, and journalist (b. 1899)
1978 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1906)
1978 – Robert Heger, German conductor and composer (b. 1886)
1978 – Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)
1980 – Robert Ardrey, American-South African author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1981 – John O'Grady, Australian author and poet (b. 1907)
1981 – G. Lloyd Spencer, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1893)
1984 – Ray Kroc, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1902)
1986 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)
1987 – Turgut Demirağ, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1987 – Douglas Sirk, German-Swiss director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1988 – Georgy Malenkov, Russian engineer and politician, 5th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1902)
1991 – Gordon Bryant, Australian educator and politician (b. 1914)
1995 – Alexander Gibson, Scottish conductor (b. 1926)
1996 – Onno Tunç, Turkish composer (b. 1948)
1997 – Dollard Ménard, Canadian general (b. 1913)
1999 – Bryn Jones, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician (b. 1961)
2000 – Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)
2004 – Uta Hagen, German-American actress (b. 1919)
2004 – Ron O'Neal, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1937)
2005 – Charlotte MacLeod, Canadian-American author (b. 1922)
2005 – Conroy Maddox, English painter and educator (b. 1912)
2005 – Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005 – Jesús Rafael Soto, Venezuelan sculptor and painter (b. 1923)
2006 – Henri Colpi, French director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 – Vassilis Photopoulos, Greek painter, director, and set designer (b. 1934)
2008 – Judah Folkman, American physician, biologist, and academic (b. 1933)
2009 – Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (b. 1937)
2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (b. 1920)
2010 – Antonio Fontán, Spanish journalist and academic (b. 1923)
2011 – Georgia Carroll, American singer, model and actress (b. 1919)
2012 – Txillardegi, Spanish linguist and politician (b. 1929)
2012 – Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (b. 1935)
2012 – Arfa Karim, Pakistani student and computer prodigy, youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in 2004 (b. 1995)
2012 – Giampiero Moretti, Italian entrepreneur and race car driver (b. 1940)
2012 – Rosy Varte, Armenian-French actress (b. 1923)
2013 – Conrad Bain, Canadian-American actor (b. 1923)
2014 – Jon Bing, Norwegian author, scholar, and academic (b. 1944)
2014 – Juan Gelman, Argentinian poet and author (b. 1930)
2014 – Milutin Dostanić, Serbian mathematician and academic (b. 1958)
2014 – Flavio Testi, Italian composer and musicologist (b. 1923)
2015 – Bob Boyd, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
2015 – Zhang Wannian, Chinese general (b. 1928)
2016 – Alan Rickman, English actor (b. 1946)
2017 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese sociologist, (b. 1906)
2018 - Spanky Manikan, Filipino veteran actor (b. 1942)
2018 – Cyrille Regis, French Guianan-English footballer (b. 1958)

Source: wikipedia

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