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Who died on December 14
120 figures who shaped history died on December 14.
- 120deaths
- 54events
Best known
Best known
Aldfrith of Northumbria
7th and 8th-century King of Northumbria
Agnes of Poitou
Holy Roman Empress from 1046 to 1056
Al-Ashraf Khalil
Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1290–1293)
Margaret of Brabant
Queen of Germany from 1308 to 1311
Rinchinbal Khan
Emperor of Yuan dynasty in 1332
John Oldcastle
English Lollard leader (died 1417)
Aldfrith of Northumbria — 7th and 8th-century King of Northumbria, who died on December 14 704.
Agnes of Poitou — Holy Roman Empress from 1046 to 1056, who died on December 14 1077.
Al-Ashraf Khalil — Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1290–1293), who died on December 14 1293.
Margaret of Brabant — Queen of Germany from 1308 to 1311, who died on December 14 1311.
Rinchinbal Khan — Emperor of Yuan dynasty in 1332, who died on December 14 1332.
John Oldcastle — English Lollard leader (died 1417), who died on December 14 1417.
All entries
- 618XXue Rengao7th-century Chinese general and briefly the final Emperor of Qin
- 648JJohn III of the Sedre43rd Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
- 872PPope Adrian IIHead of the Catholic Church from 867 to 872
- 1359
Cangrande II della ScalaLord of Verona from 1351 to 1359 - 1460
Guarino da VeronaItalian classical scholar and Renaissance humanist - 1480
Niccolò PerottiItalian humanist - 1503
Sten Sture the ElderRegent of Sweden (r. 1470–1497; 1501–1503) - 1510
Frederick of Saxony (Teutonic Knight)Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights - 1542
James VKing of Scotland from 1513 to 1542 - 1591
John of the CrossSpanish Catholic priest and Christian mystic - 1595
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of HuntingdonEnglish noble - 1624
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of NottinghamEnglish politician and naval commander - 1651
Pierre Dupuy (scholar)French scholar - 1715
Thomas TenisonArchbishop of Canterbury - 1735
Thomas Tanner (bishop)English bishop - 1741
Charles RollinFrench historian and educator
- 1785
Giovanni Battista CiprianiItalian painter and engraver in England - 1788
Carl Philipp Emanuel BachGerman composer - 1788
Charles III of SpainKing of Spain from 1759 to 1788 - 1799
George WashingtonFounding Father, U.S. president from 1789 to 1797 - 1831
Martin BaumAmerican politician - 1838
Jean-Olivier ChénierCanadian physician (born 1806) - 1842BBen Crack-OLiberian tribal king
- 1860
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of AberdeenPrime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 to 1855 - 1861
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and GothaConsort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 - 1865
Johan Georg ForchhammerDanish geologist - 1873
Louis AgassizSwiss-American naturalist - 1878
Princess Alice of the United KingdomBritish princess - 1912
Belgrave Edward Sutton NinnisBritish soldier and explorer - 1915EEva GouelSecond girlfriend of Pablo Picasso
- 1917
Phil Waller (rugby union)British Lions & Wales international rugby union player - 1920
George GippAmerican football player - 1927
Julian SochockiPolish-Russian mathematician - 1929
Henry Jackson (Royal Navy officer)Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet - 1935
Stanley G. WeinbaumAmerican writer - 1937
Fabián de la RosaFilipino painter - 1940
Anton KorošecYugoslav politician - 1943
John Harvey KelloggAmerican physician - 1944
Lupe VélezMexican actress - 1947
Stanley BaldwinBritish statesman - 1947
Edward HigginsGeneral of The Salvation Army - 1953
Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsAmerican novelist - 1956
Juho Kusti PaasikiviPresident of Finland from 1946 to 1956 - 1963
Dinah WashingtonAmerican singer, songwriter, pianist - 1964
William BendixAmerican actor
- 1970
Franz SchlegelbergerGerman politician
- 1971MMufazzal Haider ChaudhuryBangladeshi writer
- 1971
Munier ChoudhuryBangladeshi playwriter - 1971
Shahidullah KaiserBangladeshi novelist and writer - 1974
Walter LippmannAmerican journalist - 1975
Arthur TreacherEnglish actor
- 1978
Salvador de MadariagaSpanish diplomat, writer and historian - 1980
Elston HowardAmerican baseball player and coach - 1984
Vicente AleixandreSpanish poet - 1985
Catherine DohertyReligious order founder; Servant of God - 1985
Roger MarisAmerican baseball player - 1988JJean SchrammeBelgian mercenary
- 1989
Jock MahoneyAmerican actor - 1989
Andrei SakharovSoviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist - 1990
Friedrich DürrenmattSwiss author and dramatist - 1990PPaula Nenette PepinFrench composer, pianist and lyricist
- 1991RRobert EddisonEnglish actor
- 1993
Jeff AlmAmerican football player - 1993
Myrna LoyAmerican actress - 1994
Orval FaubusGovernor of Arkansas 1955–1967 - 1995GG. C. EdmondsonAmerican novelist
- 1996
Gaston MironCanadian writer - 1997SStubby KayeAmerican actor, comedian, vaudevillian, and singer
- 1997
Emily Cheney NevilleAmerican writer - 1997
Kurt WinterCanadian musician - 1998
Norman FellAmerican actor - 1998
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.American judge - 1998
Annette StraussAmerican politician from Texas - 2001
W. G. SebaldGerman writer and academic - 2003
Jeanne CrainAmerican actress - 2003
Blas OplePresident of the Senate of the Philippines from 1999 to 2000 - 2003
Frank SheeranAmerican mobster and labor union official - 2004
Rod KanehlAmerican baseball player - 2004
Fernando Poe Jr.Filipino actor, film director, and politician - 2006
Anton BalasinghamSri Lankan journalist - 2006
Ahmet ErtegunTurkish-American businessman - 2006
Mike Evans (actor)American actor - 2009AAlan A'CourtEnglish footballer
- 2010
Timothy DavlinAmerican mayor - 2010
Neva PattersonAmerican actress
- 2010
Dale Roberts (footballer, born 1986)English footballer - 2011
Joe SimonAmerican comic book creator - 2011
Billie Jo SpearsAmerican country music singer - 2012JJohn Graham (British Army officer, born 1923)British Army officer
- 2012
Edward Jones (North Carolina politician)American politician from North Carolina - 2012
Victoria Leigh SotoAmerican teacher and murder victim - 2013
Janet DaileyAmerican writer - 2013
C. N. KarunakaranIndian painter and illustrator
- 2013
Dennis LindleyBritish statistician - 2013
Peter O'TooleEnglish and Irish actor - 2013
George RodrigueAmerican painter - 2014
Theo ColbornAmerican biologist - 2014IIrene DalisAmerican opera singer
- 2014
Louis Alphonse KoyagialoCongolese politician - 2014
Bess MyersonAmerican actress and politician - 2014
Fuzzy ThurstonAmerican football player - 2015
Terry BackerAmerican politician - 2015
Glen SonmorCanadian ice hockey player, coach - 2015
Vadym TyshchenkoSoviet-Ukrainian footballer and coach - 2015
Lillian Vernon (businesswoman)American businesswoman and philanthropist - 2016
Paulo Evaristo ArnsBrazilian cardinal - 2016
Bernard Fox (actor)Welsh actor
- 2017
Yu Kwang-chungTaiwanese poet - 2019
Chuy BravoMexican-American entertainer and actor - 2020
Gérard HoullierFrench footballer and manager - 2022JJean FrancoBritish-born American academic and literary critic
- 2023TTomáš JanovicSlovak writer
- 2024
Isak AndicTurkish-Spanish billionaire businessman - 2025
Rob ReinerAmerican filmmaker and actor
Frequently asked questions
Who died on December 14?
120 people with a Wikipedia article died on December 14, including Aldfrith of Northumbria, Agnes of Poitou, Al-Ashraf Khalil. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What happened on December 14?
54 documented historical events happened on December 14, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: In the Sweet Dew incident, Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspired to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot was foiled. On the same day, in another year: English domestic servant Anne Greene survived being hanged for infanticide. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
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