Anniversaries 14 October

Birth

James II of England2

King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1633–1701

William Penn53

English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker… 1644–1718

Girolamo Gigli4

Italian dramaturge 1660–1722

Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician)2

Irish writer and activist 1814–1845

William Harcourt4

British politician 1827–1904

Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner3

British orientalist 1840–1899

Ravachol8

French anarchist 1859–1892

John Cunningham McLennan1

Canadian physicist 1867–1935

Vilhelm Ekelund9

Swedish poet 1880–1949

Éamon de Valera12

3rd President of Ireland 1882–1975

Katherine Mansfield43

New Zealand author 1888–1923

Dwight D. Eisenhower173

American general and politician, 34th president of the Unit… 1890–1969

Leslie Weatherhead81

English theologian 1893–1976

Lillian Gish11

American actress 1893–1993

E.E. Cummings208

American poet 1894–1962

W. Edwards Deming33

American professor, author, and consultant 1900–1993

Hannah Arendt85

Jewish-American political theorist 1906–1975

Hassan Banna3

Egyptian politician 1906–1949

John Wooden64

American basketball coach 1910–2010

Ivo Kozarčanin3

Croatian writer 1911–1941

C. Everett Koop2

American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator 1916–2013

Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett4

British politician 1923–2014

Roger Moore2

British actor 1927–2017

Thomas Luckmann4

American-Austrian sociologist 1927–2016

Mobutu Sésé Seko25

President of Zaïre 1930–1997

Bernie S. Siegel1

American writer 1932

Wolf Vostell3

German painter and sculptor 1932–1998

John Dean4

American lawyer, politician 1938

Farah Pahlavi15

Empress of Iran 1938

George Ritzer18

American sociologist 1940

Jerry Glanville3

American former football player and sports coach 1941

Dyanne Thorne3

American actress 1943–2020

Alan Blinder9

economist 1945

Eli Bebout1

American politician and businessman 1946

Craig Venter5

American biochemist 1946

Thomas Ignatius MacWan1

1952

Mohamad Sabu1

Defence Minister of Malaysia 1954

Robin D. Laws1

Canadian writer and game designer 1964

Steve Coogan1

English actor and comedian 1965

Stephen A. Smith3

sports journalist 1967

Jyrki Katainen2

Finnish politician 1971

George Floyd3

African American man who was a victim of police violence in… 1973–2020

Jessica Drake1

American pornographic actress 1974

Usher4

American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor 1978

Ocean Vuong1

Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist 1988

Ocean Vuong1

Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist 1988

Death

Harold II of England1

Anglo-Saxon King of England 1022–1066

Mellin de Saint-Gelais4

French poet 1495–1558

Samuel Daniel10

Poet and historian 1562–1619

Josh Billings91

American humorist 1818–1885

Джош Биллингс (Генри Уиллер Шоу)2

1818–1885

John Marshall Harlan7

United States Union Army officer and Supreme Court Associat… 1833–1911

Douglas Mawson2

Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic 1882–1958

Edith Evans5

British actress 1888–1976

Erwin Rommel24

German field marshal of World War II 1891–1944

Kyūichi Tokuda3

Japanese politician 1894–1953

Errol Flynn3

Australian actor 1909–1959

Ellis Peters3

British writer 1913–1995

John R. P. French9

American psychologist 1913–1995

Randall Jarrell215

poet, critic, novelist, essayist 1914–1965

Emil Gilels2

Soviet pianist 1916–1985

Cleveland Amory1

American writer 1917–1998

Martin Ryle4

English radio astronomer 1918–1984

Leonard Bernstein17

American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and p… 1918–1990

Dattopant Thengadi3

Indian politician 1920–2004

Richard Wilbur24

American poet 1921–2017

Julius Nyerere4

Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and P… 1922–1999

Paul Taylor1

american philosopher, born 1923 1923–2015

James Barr6

British bible scholar 1924–2006

Benoît Mandelbrot56

Polish-born, French and American mathematician 1924–2010

Arlen Specter7

American politician; former United States Senator from Penn… 1930–2012

Harold Bloom13

American literary critic and scholar 1930–2019

Ed Gorman1

American writer 1941–2016

Robbie Coltrane1

Scottish actor 1950–2022