​14 March Deaths

Published : 15 Mar 2019, 11:01

Jagoroniya Desk

March 14 is the 73rd day of the year (74th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

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, Frankish queen and saint (b. 895)
1397 – Henry VIII the Sparrow, Duke of Żagań–Głogów (b.c. 1357)
1457 – The Jingtai Emperor, ruler of Ming China (b. 1428)
1471 – Thomas Malory, English author and politician (b. 1405)
1555 – John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (b. 1485)
1571 – John Sigismund Zápolya, Hungarian king (b. 1540)
1632 – Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shōgun (b. 1579)
1647 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
1648 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (b. 1584)
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)
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)
1953 – Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician (b. 1896)
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)
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)
1989 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (b. 1892)
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)
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 – 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 – 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)
2018 – Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (b. 1937)
2018 – Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (b. 1979)
2018 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (b. 1942)
2018 – Emily Nasrallah, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. (b. 1931)
2018 – Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (b. 1945)
2019 – Charlie Whiting, Former F1 Race Director (b. 1952)
2019 – Birch Bayh, American politician, U.S. Senator (1963–1981) (b. 1928)

Source: wikipedia

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