History Deaths on May 14

Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)

#Miguel_Alemán_Valdés

Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948)

#Powers_Boothe

Billie Burke, American actress and singer (b. 1884)

#Billie_Burke

Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)

#Hugh_Beaumont

David Belasco, American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1853)

#David_Belasco

W. Graham Claytor Jr., American businessman, lieutenant, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1914)

#W._Graham_Claytor_Jr.

Walter Rauff, German SS officer (b. 1906)

#Walter_Rauff

Emanuel Raymond Lewis, American librarian and author (b. 1928)

#Emanuel_Raymond_Lewis

Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (b. 1884)

#Marie_Vassilieff

Keiz? Obuchi, Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)

#Keiz?_Obuchi

Heinz Guderian, Polish-German general (b. 1888)

#Heinz_Guderian

B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1925)

#B.B._King

?kubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830)

#?kubo_Toshimichi

Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918)

#Rita_Hayworth

Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)

#Charles_VIII_of_Sweden

Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager (b. 1872)

#Lou_Criger

Morvin Simon, New Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (b. 1944)

#Morvin_Simon

Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1962)

#Darwyn_Cooke

Wendy Hiller, English actress (b. 1912)

#Wendy_Hiller

Stanley Kunitz, American poet and translator (b. 1905)

#Stanley_Kunitz

Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress (b. 1893)

#Enid_Bennett

Antoine Furetière, French scholar, lexicographer, and author (b. 1619)

#Antoine_Furetière

Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)

#Christian_B._Anfinsen

Jean Gebser, German linguist, philosopher, and poet (b. 1905)

#Jean_Gebser

Roger J. Traynor, American academic and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (b. 1900)

#Roger_J._Traynor

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist (b. 1869)

#Emma_Goldman

Mario Trejo, Argentinian poet, playwright, and journalist (b. 1926)

#Mario_Trejo

Tom Wolfe, American author (b. 1931)

#Tom_Wolfe

Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)

#Heber_J._Grant

Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (b. 1861)

#Edmund_Allenby,_1st_Viscount_Allenby

Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)

#Ernst_Kummer

Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)

#Hugh_Griffith

Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)

#Dave_DeBusschere

Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692)

#Pierre-Claude_Nivelle_de_La_Chaussée

Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (b. 1797)

#Gideon_Brecher

Anna Lee, English-American actress (b. 1913)

#Anna_Lee

Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss theologian and academic (b. 1600)

#Friedrich_Spanheim

Charles de Freycinet, French engineer and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)

#Charles_de_Freycinet

August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (b. 1849)

#August_Strindberg

Henry J. Heinz, American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)

#Henry_J._Heinz

Tim Conway, American actor, writer (b. 1933)

#Tim_Conway

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English soldier and politician (b. 1147)

#William_Marshal,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke

Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948-1958) (b. 1886)

#Willem_Drees

Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801)

#Ludwig_Bechstein

N. G. Chandavarkar, Indian jurist and politician (b. 1855)

#N._G._Chandavarkar

Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862)

#Infanta_Maria_Antonia_of_Portugal

Henry IV of France (b. 1553)

#Henry_IV_of_France

Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (b. 1805)

#Mary_Seacole

Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1601)

#Georges_de_Scudéry

Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)

#Henri_La_Fontaine

Carl Schurz, German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1829)

#Carl_Schurz

Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)

#Frederick_VIII_of_Denmark

Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian author and activist (b. 1939)

#Asghar_Ali_Engineer

Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (b. 1899)

#Nie_Rongzhen

Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)

#Frank_Sinatra

Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)

#Husband_E._Kimmel

Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868)

#Magnus_Hirschfeld

Mary Scheier, American sculptor and educator (b. 1908)

#Mary_Scheier

Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (b. 1902)

#Menno_ter_Braak

Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1880)

#Florence_Auer

Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician and author (b. 1934)

#Harry_Blackstone_Jr.

Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)

#Frederick_Lane

Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (b. 1805)

#Fanny_Mendelssohn

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, American painter and photographer (b. 1893)

#Yasuo_Kuniyoshi

Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)

#Charles_III,_Duke_of_Lorraine

Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (b. 1897)

#Sidney_Bechet

Robert Stack, American actor and producer (b. 1919)

#Robert_Stack

Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia (b. 1514)

#Tahmasp_I

Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano and actress (b. 1887)

#Lucrezia_Bori

Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (b. 1890)

#Jean_Rhys

Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian poet and playwright (b. 1914)

#Vitomil_Zupan

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and environmentalist (b. 1890)

#Marjory_Stoneman_Douglas

Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (b. 1953)

Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937)

Micheál O'Brien, Irish footballer and hurler (b. 1923)

Jeffrey Kruger, English-American businessman (b. 1931)

Ray Guy, Canadian journalist (b. 1939)

Arsen Chilingaryan, Armenian footballer and manager (b. 1962)

Wayne Brown, American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (b. 1936)

Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian author and screenwriter (b. 1931)

Goh Keng Swee, Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)

Norman Hand, American football player (b. 1972)

Frank J. Dodd, American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate (b. 1938)

Ülo Jõgi, Estonian historian and author (b. 1921)

Eva Norvind, Mexican actress, director, and producer (b. 1944)

Lew Anderson, American actor and saxophonist (b. 1922)

Jimmy Martin, American musician (b. 1927)

Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (b. 1919)

Paul Bénichou, French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian (b. 1908)

Boris Parsadanian, Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (b. 1925)

Cihat Arman, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1915)

William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1908)

Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (b. 1910)

Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (b. 1943)

Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)

Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist (b. 1852)

Wolfgang Lüth, Latvian-German captain (b. 1913)

James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1841)

Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1809)

Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)

Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)

Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1543)

William Walcher, Bishop of Durham

Pope John XII (b. 927)

Zhu Hongzhao, Chinese general and governor

Pope Theodore I