History Deaths on December 14

Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)

#Stanley_Baldwin

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)

#George_Hamilton-Gordon,_4th_Earl_of_Aberdeen

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921)

#Friedrich_Dürrenmatt

Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927)

#Blas_Ople

Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)

#Andrei_Sakharov

Arthur Treacher, English-American entertainer (b. 1894)

#Arthur_Treacher

Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (b. 1927)

#Theo_Colborn

Emily Cheney Neville, American author (b. 1919)

#Emily_Cheney_Neville

Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (b. 1636)

#Thomas_Tenison

James V of Scotland (b. 1512)

#James_V_of_Scotland

George Gipp, American football player (b. 1895)

#George_Gipp

John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852)

#John_Harvey_Kellogg

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1727)

#Giovanni_Battista_Cipriani

Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876)

#Franz_Schlegelberger

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (b. 1896)

#Marjorie_Kinnan_Rawlings

Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (b. 1913)

#Joe_Simon

Edward Jones, American police officer and politician (b. 1950)

#Edward_Jones_(North_Carolina_politician)

Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)

#Louis_Agassiz

Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (b. 1928)

#Gaston_Miron

Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)

#Myrna_Loy

John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader

#John_Oldcastle

Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)

#Johan_Georg_Forchhammer

Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)

#Lupe_Vélez

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (b. 1714)

#Carl_Philipp_Emanuel_Bach

Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)

#Jock_Mahoney

C. N. Karunakaran, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1940)

#C._N._Karunakaran

Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt

#Al-Ashraf_Khalil

Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b. 1886)

#Salvador_de_Madariaga

Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (b. 1927)

#Bernard_Fox_(actor)

Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)

#Charles_III_of_Spain

Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)

#Orval_Faubus

Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (b. 1934)

#Roger_Maris

Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)

#Albert,_Prince_Consort

Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)

#Jeff_Alm

Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (b. 1806)

#Jean-Olivier_Chénier

Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1921)

#Paulo_Evaristo_Arns

Yu Kwang-chung, Chinese writer (b. 1928)

#Yu_Kwang-chung

Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932)

#Peter_O'Toole

John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542)

#John_of_the_Cross

William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)

#William_Bendix

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1536)

#Charles_Howard,_1st_Earl_of_Nottingham

Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar (b. 1582)

#Pierre_Dupuy_(scholar)

Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (b. 1661)

#Charles_Rollin

Bess Myerson, American model, activist, game show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945 (b. 1924)

#Bess_Myerson

Margaret of Brabant, German queen consort (b. 1276)

#Margaret_of_Brabant

Walter Lippmann, American journalist and author (b. 1889)

#Walter_Lippmann

Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)

#Frederick_of_Saxony_(Teutonic_Knight)

Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress and regent (b. c. 1025)

#Agnes_of_Poitou

Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)

#Dale_Roberts_(footballer,_born_1986)

Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian (b. 1674)

#Thomas_Tanner_(bishop)

Rinchinbal Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1326)

#Rinchinbal_Khan

George Rodrigue, American painter (b. 1944)

#George_Rodrigue

George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)

#George_Washington

Phil Waller, Welsh rugby player (b. 1889)

#Phil_Waller

Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)

#Dinah_Washington

Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)

#Anton_Korošec

Mike Evans, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1949)

#Mike_Evans_(actor)

Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)

#Juho_Kusti_Paasikivi

Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)

#Jeanne_Crain

Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (b. 1927)

#Lillian_Vernon_(businesswoman)

Norman Fell, American actor and comedian (b. 1924)

#Norman_Fell

Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1963)

#Vadym_Tyshchenko

Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332)

#Cangrande_II_della_Scala

Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (b. 1918)

#Stubby_Kaye

Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1939)

#Fernando_Poe_Jr.

Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (b. 1869)

#Fabián_de_la_Rosa

Sten Sture the Elder, regent of Sweden (b. 1440)

#Sten_Sture_the_Elder

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)

#Henry_Hastings,_3rd_Earl_of_Huntingdon

Aldfrith, king of Northumbria (or 705)

#Aldfrith_of_Northumbria

Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)

#Neva_Patterson

A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., American lawyer, judge, and activist (b. 1928)

#A._Leon_Higginbotham_Jr.

Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

#Vicente_Aleixandre

Martin Baum, American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (b. 1765)

#Martin_Baum

Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b. 1934)

#Rod_Kanehl

Terry Backer, American soldier and politician (b. 1954)

#Terry_Backer

Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)

#Edward_Higgins

Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor of Springfield (b. 1957)

#Timothy_Davlin

Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (b. 1902)

#Stanley_G._Weinbaum

Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)

#Elston_Howard

Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar and translator (b. 1370)

#Guarino_da_Verona

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)

#Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom

Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)

#Belgrave_Edward_Sutton_Ninnis

Glen Sonmor, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)

Fred Thurston, American football player (b. 1933)

Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1947)

Irene Dalis, American soprano and pianist (b. 1925)

Dennis Lindley, English statistician and academic (b. 1923)

Janet Dailey, American author (b. 1944)

Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (b. 1985)

John Graham, English general (b. 1923)

Billie Jo Spears, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)

Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)

Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (b. 1923)

Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (b. 1938)

Frank Sheeran, American union leader and mobster (b. 1920)

W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 1944)

Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1924)

Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1946)

G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (b. 1922)

Robert Eddison, Japanese-English actor (b. 1908)

Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896)

Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi journalist and author (b. 1927)

Munier Choudhury, Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)

Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926)

Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842)

Ben Crack-O, king of several tribes around Cape Palmas

Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)

Pope Adrian II (b. 792)

Xue Rengao, emperor of Qin