History Deaths on August 14

Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (b. 1940)

#Kotozakura_Masakatsu

Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop (b. 1120)

#Rainald_of_Dassel

Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1873)

#Konstantin_von_Neurath

Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)

#Giovanni_Paolo_Lascaris

Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier (b. 1911)

#Vello_Kaaristo

Agustín Cejas, Argentinian footballer (b. 1945)

#Agustín_Cejas

Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)

#Klabund

Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)

#Carl_Carl

Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)

#Sergey_Kapitsa

Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910)

#Dudley_Nourse

Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)

#Hugh_Trumble

Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor (b. 535)

#Tiberius_II_Constantine

Czes?aw Mi?osz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

#Czes?aw_Mi?osz

Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer (b. 1932)

#Bob_Johnston

David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)

#David_Farragut

Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1904)

#Spud_Davis

Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal (b. c. 1280)

#Waldemar,_Margrave_of_Brandenburg-Stendal

Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)

#Jonathan_Clarkson_Gibbs

Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)

#Maximilian_Kolbe

Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)

#Herbert_Putnam

Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1934)

#Johnny_Burnette

Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1920)

#Alberto_Crespo

Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese sh?gun (b. 1182)

#Minamoto_no_Yoriie

Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player (b. 1914)

#Adriaan_de_Groot

Sait? Tatsuoki, Japanese daimy? (b. 1548)

#Sait?_Tatsuoki

Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)

#Joe_Kelley

John I of Portugal (b. 1357)

#John_I_of_Portugal

Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)

#Phyllis_Thaxter

John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)

#John_Sirica

Roy Buchanan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)

#Roy_Buchanan

Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager (b. 1945)

#Fritz_Korbach

Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)

#Hugo_Eckener

Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer (b. 1912)

#Sergiu_Celibidache

Jules Romains, French author and poet (b. 1885)

#Jules_Romains

Philip "Fyuvsh" Finkel, American actor (b. 1922)

#Fyvush_Finkel

Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)

#Paul_Sabatier_(chemist)

William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1829)

#William_Stanley_(inventor)

Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (b. 1939)

#Pinchas_Goldstein

Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss novelist, playwright, memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

#Elias_Canetti

John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1843)

#John_H._Moffitt

Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)

#Vilasrao_Deshmukh

Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari (b. 1898)

#Enzo_Ferrari

George V. Hansen, American soldier and politician (b. 1930)

#George_V._Hansen

Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)

#Johann_Jakob_Reiske

Jack Germond, American journalist and author (b. 1928)

#Jack_Germond

Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1906)

#Clifford_Odets

Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)

#Bertolt_Brecht

Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)

#Richard_Talbot,_1st_Earl_of_Tyrconnell

William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)

#William_Croft

William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)

#William_Randolph_Hearst

Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)

#Nathaniel_Hone_the_Elder

Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus (b. 1852)

#Michael_J._McGivney

Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (b. 1881)

#Tip_Snooke

James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (b. c. 1358)

#James_Douglas,_2nd_Earl_of_Douglas

Svetozar Gligori?, Serbian chess player and theoretician (b. 1923)

#Svetozar_Gligori?

Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter (b. 1840)

#Simeon_Solomon

Fred Gipson, American journalist and author (b. 1908)

#Fred_Gipson

Pope Pius II (b. 1405)

#Pope_Pius_II

Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)

#Constant_Prévost

Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

#Frédéric_Joliot-Curie

Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)

#Helmut_Rahn

André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)

#André_Marie_Constant_Duméril

Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)

#Gale_Sondergaard

Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)

#Pee_Wee_Reese

Jack Garfinkel, American basketball player and coach (b. 1918)

#Jack_Garfinkel

Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer (b. 1906)

#Oscar_Levant

Jill Janus, American singer (b. 1975)

#Jill_Janus

Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (b. 1904)

#Mahasi_Sayadaw

Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1913)

#Tikhon_Khrennikov

Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (b. 1927)

Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine (b. 1934)

Paddy Power, Irish educator and politician, 22nd Irish Minister for Defence (b. 1928)

Maja Boškovi?-Stulli, Croatian historian and academic (b. 1922)

Herman Leonard, American soldier and photographer (b. 1923)

Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter and author (b. 1929)

Bruno Kirby, American actor (b. 1949)

Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)

Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (b. 1923)

Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)

Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author (b. 1912)

Ricky Berry, American basketball player (b. 1964)

Robert Calvert, South African-English singer-songwriter and playwright (b. 1945)

J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)

Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director (b. 1894)

Dorothy Stratten, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1960)

Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (b. 1907)

Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver (b. 1931)

Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)

Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)

John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)

Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg (b. c. 1220)

Duncan I of Scotland (b. 1001)

Badr al-Mu'tadidi, commander-in-chief of the Abbasid Caliphate under al-Mu'tadid