Anniversaries 14 May

Birth

Thomas Gainsborough28

English portrait and landscape painter 1727–1788

George Macartney6

British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat 1737–1806

Timothy Dwight IV3

American historian 1752–1817

Albrecht Thaer34

German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory… 1752–1828

John Leland (Baptist)7

American Baptist minister 1754–1841

Robert Owen29

Welsh social reformer 1771–1858

B.C. Forbes1

American journalist 1880–1954

Ed Ricketts1

American marine biologist 1897–1948

Hal Borland3

American journalist and writer 1900–1978

Nicholas Kurti1

Hungarian physicist 1908–1998

Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis26

Greek architect 1914–1975

Franjo Tuđman2

Croatian politician, soldier and president 1922–1999

María Irene Fornés4

American writer 1930–2018

Kenji Sahara1

Japanese actor 1932

Monty Roberts1

Horse trainer 1935

Richard John Neuhaus1

Canadian-American Christian writer 1936–2009

Waheeda Rehman21

Indian actress 1938

Rolf Gindorf1

German sexologist 1939–2016

Stephen Joseph Reichert1

American priest 1943

George Lucas37

American film producer 1944

Russell Berman17

American academic 1950

Jackie Speier3

American politician 1950

Jill Stein3

American politician and physician 1950

Viktor Tyulkin1

Russian politician 1951

David Byrne17

Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world mu… 1952

Jibril Rajoub1

Palestinian sharamit 1953

Steve Hogarth1

English singer-songwriter and musician 1956

Hazel Blears1

British politician 1956

Robert Greene111

American author 1959

Eoin Colfer185

Irish author of children's books 1965

Cate Blanchett17

Australian actress 1969

Sofia Coppola1

screenwriter and director from the United States 1971

Ike Moriz1

German-South African singer, composer and actor 1972

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet7

French politician 1973

Visvaldas Kulbokas1

Lithuanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church 1974

Frank Gore5

American football running back 1983

Mark Zuckerberg24

American internet entrepreneur 1984

Death

Muhammad al-Mahdi15

12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam 869–941

Henry IV of France2

first French monarch of the House of Bourbon 1553–1610

Lucy Mack Smith11

American religious leader 1775–1856

Matthew Lewis (writer)11

English novelist and dramatist 1775–1818

Théodore Guérin30

Catholic saint and nun from France 1798–1856

Momin Khan Momin1

Indian writer 1801–1852

Lysander Spooner30

Anarchist, Entrepreneur, Abolitionist 1808–1887

Carl Schurz10

Union Army general, politician 1829–1906

Henry J. Heinz5

American businessman 1844–1919

August Strindberg10

Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter 1849–1912

Heber J. Grant5

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1856–1945

H. Rider Haggard25

English writer of adventure novels 1856–1925

Emma Goldman109

anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and sp… 1868–1940

Robert Hunter (author)98

American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

Frances Perkins3

American politician 1882–1965

Heinz Guderian15

German general 1888–1954

Jean Rhys38

novelist from Dominica 1890–1979

Leonard E. Read23

American academic 1898–1983

Stanley Kunitz3

poet 1905–2006

J. Posadas5

Argentine Trotskyist (1912-1981) 1912–1981

Karl Shapiro15

Poet, essayist 1913–2000

Jiang Qing6

Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong 1914–1991

Frank Sinatra19

American singer and film actor 1915–1998

Jean Fritz2

American children's writer 1915–2017

Rita Hayworth10

American actress, dancer and director 1918–1987

Tom Wolfe12

American author and journalist 1930–2018

E. C. George Sudarshan2

Indian physicist 1931–2018

Doyle Brunson2

American poker player 1933–2023

Asghar Ali Engineer3

Indian activist 1939–2013

Franz Wright2

American poet 1953–2015