Died on
Who died on February 14
111 figures who shaped history died on February 14.
- 111deaths
- 68events
Best known
Best known
Saint Valentine
3rd-century Roman Christian saint
Cyril and Methodius
9th-century Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries
Bruno of Querfurt
10th/11th-century monk, bishop, missionary and martyr
Fujiwara no Korechika
Japanese noble
Soběslav I of Bohemia
Duke of Bohemia from 1125 to 1140
Sviatoslav Olgovich
Prince of Chernigov
Saint Valentine — 3rd-century Roman Christian saint, who died on February 14 269.
Cyril and Methodius — 9th-century Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries, who died on February 14 869.
Bruno of Querfurt — 10th/11th-century monk, bishop, missionary and martyr, who died on February 14 1009.
Fujiwara no Korechika — Japanese noble, who died on February 14 1010.
Soběslav I of Bohemia — Duke of Bohemia from 1125 to 1140, who died on February 14 1140.
Sviatoslav Olgovich — Prince of Chernigov, who died on February 14 1164.
All entries
- 945LLian Chongyu
- 945ZZhu WenjinRuler of Min from 944 to 945
- 1140LLeo I, Prince of ArmeniaLord of Armenian Cilicia from c. 1130 to 1137
- 1229RRǫgnvaldr Guðrøðarson12th and 13th-century king in the British Isles
- 1318
Margaret of France, Queen of EnglandQueen of England from 1299 to 1307 - 1400
Richard II of EnglandKing of England from 1377 to 1399 - 1440
Dietrich, Count of OldenburgGerman noble and Count of Oldenburg (died 1440)
- 1489NNicolaus von Tüngen
- 1528
Edzard I, Count of East FrisiaCount of East Frisia - 1549
Il SodomaItalian Renaissance painter - 1676
Abraham BosseFrench artist - 1714
Maria Luisa Gabriella of SavoyQueen of Spain from 1701 to 1714 - 1737
Charles Talbot, 1st Baron TalbotLawyer, politician and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain - 1744
John HadleyEnglish mathematician - 1755IIsidro de EspinosaSpanish missionary
- 1779
James CookBritish explorer and naval officer - 1780
William BlackstoneEnglish jurist, judge, and politician - 1782SSingu MinKing of Burma
- 1808
John DickinsonFounding Father of the United States - 1831
Vicente GuerreroPresident of Mexico in 1829 - 1831
Henry MaudslayEnglish inventor and machine tool innovator - 1870
St. John Richardson LiddellConfederate general - 1881
Fernando WoodAmerican politician - 1884
Lydia Hamilton SmithAmerican businesswoman and housekeeper (died 1884) - 1885
Jules VallèsFrench journalist and author - 1891
William Tecumseh ShermanUnited States Army general - 1894
Eugène Charles CatalanFranco-Belgian mathematician - 1910
Giovanni PassannanteItalian anarchist who attempted to assassinate king Umberto I - 1922
Heikki RitavuoriFinnish political leader - 1923
Charles Henry Turner (zoologist)American entomologist - 1924
Amalie Andersen (actress)Norwegian actress - 1929
Thomas Burke (sprinter)American sprinter - 1930
Thomas MackenziePrime minister of New Zealand in 1912 - 1933
Carl CorrensGerman botanist and geneticist - 1937
Erkki MelartinFinnish composer - 1942
Adnan SaidiMalayan soldier - 1943
Dora GersonGerman actress - 1943
David HilbertGerman mathematician - 1943
Aleksander MeysztowiczPolish politician - 1948
Mordecai BrownAmerican baseball player and manager - 1949
Yusuf Salman YusufIraqi communist activist - 1950
Karl Guthe JanskyAmerican physicist and radio engineer - 1952
Maurice De WaeleBelgian cyclist
- 1956HHarold Edward DahlAmerican pilot
- 1958
Abdur Rab NishtarPakistani independence activist and politician - 1959
Baby DoddsAmerican jazz drummer - 1967
Sig RumanGerman-American actor - 1969
Vito GenoveseItalian-American mobster - 1970
Bert StrudwickEnglish cricketer - 1974
Stewie DempsterNew Zealand cricketer - 1975
Julian HuxleyEnglish biologist and philosopher - 1975
P. G. WodehouseEnglish writer - 1976GGertrud DorkaGerman archaeologist and prehistorian
- 1976GGeorge Bacon (CIA officer)American soldier
- 1976
Charlie ChristodoulouBritish mercenary killed in Angola - 1979
Adolph DubsUnited States Ambassador to Afghanistan - 1983
Lina Radke - 1986
Edmund RubbraBritish composer - 1987
Dmitry KabalevskyRussian composer - 1988
Frederick LoeweAmerican composer - 1989
James Bond (ornithologist)American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy - 1989
Vincent CraneEnglish keyboardist - 1994
Andrei ChikatiloSoviet serial killer - 1994
Christopher LaschAmerican historian - 1995
Michael V. GazzoFilm and television actor - 1995
U Nu1st Prime Minister of Burma - 1996
Bob PaisleyEnglish footballer and manager - 1998
Peter Koch (wood scientist)American wood scientist - 1999
John EhrlichmanAmerican lawyer, Watergate co-conspirator, and writer - 1999
Buddy KnoxAmerican singer-songwriter
- 2002
Nándor HidegkutiHungarian footballer and manager - 2002
Mick TuckerBritish drummer - 2003
Johnny LongdenAmerican horse trainer and jockey - 2004
Marco PantaniItalian cyclist - 2005
Rafic HaririPrime Minister of Lebanon (1992–1998; 2000–2004) - 2006
Lynden David HallEnglish singer and songwriter - 2007
Ryan LarkinCanadian animator, artist, and sculptor - 2007GGareth MorrisBritish flautist
- 2008
Perry LopezAmerican actor - 2009BBernard Ashley (businessman)English businessperson and engineer
- 2009
Louie BellsonAmerican jazz drummer - 2010
Doug FiegerAmerican singer-songwriter - 2010
Dick FrancisEnglish jockey and crime writer - 2010
Linnart MällEstonian historian, orientalist and politician - 2011
George ShearingBritish jazz pianist
- 2012MMike BernardoSouth African kickboxer
- 2012
Tonmi LillmanMusical artist - 2012
Dory PrevinAmerican singer-songwriter - 2012PPéter RusoránHungarian water polo player
- 2013
Glenn BoyerAmerican writer - 2013
Ronald DworkinAmerican legal philosopher - 2014
Tom FinneyEnglish international footballer - 2014CChris Pearson (politician)Canadian politician
- 2014
Mike StepovichAmerican politician
- 2015
Louis JourdanFrench actor - 2015
Philip Levine (poet)American poet - 2015FFranjo MihalićYugoslav long-distance runner
- 2016
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron AveburyEnglish politician - 2016
Steven StuckyAmerican composer - 2018
Ruud LubbersPrime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994 - 2018
Morgan TsvangiraiPrime Minister of Zimbabwe, 2000 to 2013 - 2019AAndrea LevyEnglish author
- 2021
Carlos MenemPresident of Argentina from 1989 to 1999 - 2021WWilliam MeningerTrappist monk and spiritual teacher
- 2026
Tom NoonanAmerican actor and director
Frequently asked questions
Who died on February 14?
111 people with a Wikipedia article died on February 14, including Saint Valentine, Cyril and Methodius, Bruno of Querfurt. 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 February 14?
68 documented historical events happened on February 14, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Arauco War: The Mapuche carried out a series of coordinated attacks against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile, beginning a ten-year period of warfare. On the same day, in another year: Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii. 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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