14 March Deaths

Published : 14 Mar 2017, 12:24

Jagoroniya Desk

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 292 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
Deaths

313 – Emperor Huai of Jin (b. 284)
557 – Leobinus, bishop of Chartres
757 – Li Lin, prince of the Tang dynasty
840 – Einhard, Frankish scholar
968 – Matilda of Ringelheim (b. 895)
1397 – Henry VIII the Sparrow, Duke of Żagań–Głogów (b.c. 1357)
1457 – Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
1471 – Thomas Malory, English author and politician (b. 1405)
1571 – John Sigismund Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1540)
1647 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
1648 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (b. 1584)
1682 – Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1628)
1696 – Jean Domat, French lawyer and jurist (b. 1625)
1748 – George Wade, Irish field marshal and politician (b. 1673)
1757 – John Byng, English admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1704)
1765 – Ayagawa Gorōji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 2nd Yokozuna (b. 1703)
1791 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and critic (b. 1725)
1803 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (b. 1724)
1805 – Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Polish-Lithuanian general (b. 1753)
1811 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
1823 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (b. 1739)
1823 – John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral and politician (b. 1735)
1860 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (b. 1802)
1877 – Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (b. 1793)
1883 – Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (b. 1818)
1884 – Quintino Sella, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finances (b. 1827)
1921 – Larry McLean, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1881)
1932 – George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
1942 – René Bull, Irish lieutenant and illustrator (b. 1872)
1946 – Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal (b. 1878)
1949 – John Callan O'Laughlin, American journalist and politician, 17th United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1873)
1957 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (b. 1938)
1965 – Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
1968 – Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
1969 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
1973 – Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
1973 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
1976 – Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (b. 1895)
1977 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (b. 1917)
1979 – Frank McEncroe, Australian businessman (b. 1908)
1980 – Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1902)
1980 – Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (b. 1928)
1983 – Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (b. 1927)
1984 – Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (b. 1915)
1991 – Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer (b. 1950)
1991 – Margery Sharp, English author (b. 1905)
1992 – Jean Poiret, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
1995 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1995 – Ed Roberts, pioneering leader of the disability rights movement (b. 1939)
1997 – Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1907)
1999 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
1999 – John Broome, American author (b. 1913)
2002 – Cherry Wilder, New Zealand author and poet (b. 1930)
2003 – Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (b. 1945)
2003 – Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (b. 1928)
2006 – Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929)
2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (b. 1912)
2008 – Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (b. 1920)
2010 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
2012 – Eddie King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)
2012 – Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2012 – Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and politician, 4th President of Malta (b. 1913)
2013 – Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)
2013 – Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1936)
2013 – Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1925)
2014 – Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
2014 – Gary Burger, American singer and guitarist (b. 1942)
2014 – Hans Fogh, Danish-Canadian sailor (b. 1938)
2014 – Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (b. 1934)
2014 – Sam Lacey, American basketball player (b. 1948)
2016 – John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (b. 1928)
2016 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
2016 – Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

Source: Wikipedia

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