May 14

May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 231 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
• 1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable).
• 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians.
• 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
• 1608 – The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
• 1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
• 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
• 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.
• 1787 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides.
• 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
• 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
• 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor
• 1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
• 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.
• 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
• 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the  Leonidas.
• 1889 – The children's charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London.
• 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
• 1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
• 1929 – Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau.
• 1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
• 1935 – The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
• 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
• 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
• 1940 – World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany.
• 1940 – The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight.
• 1943 – A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland.
• 1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
• 1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
• 1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
• 1963 – Kuwait joins the United Nations.
• 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
  

  

  Launch of the Saturn INT-21, carrying the Skylab space station.
• 1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
• 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
• 2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.

Births

• 1316 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378)
• 1553 – Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
• 1574 – Francesco Rasi, Italian composer, singer (tenor), chitarrone player, and poet (d. 1621)
• 1630 – Katakura Kagenaga (2nd) (d. 1681)
• 1652 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, German baroque composer, statesman and doctor (d. 1732)
• 1666 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
• 1679 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
• 1699 – Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
• 1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
• 1710 – King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771)
• 1725 – Ludovico Manin, last Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1802)
• 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788)
• 1737 – George Mcartney, Irish-born British statesman (d. 1806)
• 1752 – Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
• 1752 – Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
• 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
• 1781 – Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
• 1814 – Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
• 1817 – Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
• 1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
• 1832 – Charles Peace, unusual English criminal
• 1867 – Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919)
• 1869 – Arthur Rostron, Captain of the Titanic (d. 1940)
• 1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1961)
• 1878 – James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
• 1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
• 1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
• 1881 – Ed Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973)
• 1890 – Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
• 1893 – Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
• 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
• 1897 – Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
• 1899 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
• 1899 – Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
• 1900 – Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
• 1900 – Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
• 1900 – Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
• 1903 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-born American professor, son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić (d. 1973)
• 1904 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
• 1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
• 1905 – Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (d. 1989)
• 1907 – Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
• 1907 – Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
• 1907 – Johnny Moss, American professional poker player (d. 1995)
• 1908 – Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse, World War II Japanese prisoner (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
• 1916 – Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
• 1916 – Marco Zanuso, Italian architect (d. 2001)
• 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
• 1919 – Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
• 1919 – John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984)
• 1921 – Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
• 1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
• 1923 – Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
• 1925 – Sophie Kurys, American baseball player
• 1925 – Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano
• 1925 – Oona O'Neill, widow of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991)
• 1925 – Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
• 1926 – Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984)
• 1927 – Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
• 1928 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
• 1928 – Brian Macdonald, Canadian dancer
• 1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
• 1929 – Henry McGee, British actor, straight man to Benny Hill (d. 2006)
• 1929 – Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
• 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
• 1932 – Robert Bechtle, American painter
• 1933 – Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
• 1933 – Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
• 1934 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
• 1935 – Rudi Šeligo, Slovenian writer and politician (d. 2004)
• 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
• 1936 – Charlie Gracie, American singer
• 1936 – Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
• 1940 – Troy Shondell, American singer
• 1940 – 'H'. Jones, British Soldier, VC recipient (d. 1982)
• 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (d. 2003)
• 1942 – Byron Dorgan, American politician
• 1942 – Prentis Hancock, British actor
• 1942 – Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player
• 1942 – Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
• 1943 – Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream)
• 1943 – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
• 1943 – Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
• 1943 – Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure
• 1944 – George Lucas, American film director
• 1945 – Francesca Annis, British actress
• 1945 – George Nicholls, British rugby league footballer
• 1945 – Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
• 1947 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)
• 1949 – Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
• 1949 – Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies
• 1950 – Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
• 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
• 1952 – Scott Irwin, American wrestler (d. 1987)
• 1952 – Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut
• 1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
• 1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider)
• 1953 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (d. 2008)
• 1953 – Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
• 1954 – Jens Sparschuh, German writer
• 1955 – Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
• 1955 – Peter Kirsten, South African cricketer
• 1957 – Big Van Vader (born Leon White), American professional wrestler
• 1958 – Christine Brennan, American sports columnist
• 1958 – Jan Ravens, English impressionist
• 1959 – Patrick Bruel, French singer
• 1959 – Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)
• 1959 – Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
• 1960 – "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American wrestler (d. 2009)
• 1960 – Ronan Tynan, Irish singer
• 1961 – Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
• 1961 – David Quantick, writer
• 1961 – Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
• 1961 – Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
• 1962 – Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)
• 1962 – C. C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
• 1962 – Danny Huston, American actor
• 1963 – Pat Borders, American baseball player
• 1964 – James M. Kelly, American astronaut
• 1964 – Eric Peterson, American musician (Testament)
• 1964 – Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
• 1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
• 1966 – Marianne Denicourt, French actress
• 1966 – Mike Inez, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Black Label Society)
• 1966 – Fabrice Morvan, French music artist (Milli Vanilli)
• 1966 – Raphael Saadiq, American vocalist and bassist (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
• 1967 – Tony Siragusa, American football player
• 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
• 1969 – Danny Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
• 1969 – Sabine Schmitz, German race driver and television personality
• 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
• 1971 – Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress and model
• 1972 – Gabriel Mann, American actor
• 1972 – Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
• 1973 – Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
• 1973 – Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
• 1973 – Voshon Lenard, American basketball player
• 1973 – Julian White, English rugby player
• 1973 – Shanice, American singer
• 1974 – Jennifer Allan, American model
• 1974 – Krister Axel, American poet and songwriter
• 1975 – Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
• 1976 – Hunter Burgan, American bassist (AFI)
• 1976 – Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
• 1976 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress
• 1977 – Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
• 1977 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player
• 1977 – Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
• 1977 – Pusha T, American Rapper
• 1978 – Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Eddie House, American basketball player
• 1978 – André Macanga, Angolan footballer
• 1978 – Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
• 1979 – Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
• 1979 – Edwige Lawson-Wade, French Basketball player
• 1979 – Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 – Zdeněk Grygera, Czech footballer
• 1980 – Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
• 1980 – Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
• 1980 – Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union player
• 1982 – BeardyMan, English beatboxer
• 1982 – Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 – Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
• 1983 – Keeley Donovan, English news and weather presenter
• 1983 – Frank Gore, American football player
• 1983 – Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
• 1983 – Amber Tamblyn, American actress
• 1983 – Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
• 1984 – Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
• 1984 – Michael Rensing, German footballer
• 1984 – Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
• 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
• 1984 – Olly Murs, English singer
• 1984 – Luke Gregerson, American baseball player
• 1985 – Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
• 1985 – Simona Peycheva, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
• 1985 – Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler
• 1986 – Alyosha, Ukrainian singer
• 1986 – Marco Motta, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Andrea Bovo, Italian footballer
• 1986 – Sarbel, Greek-born singer
• 1986 – Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
• 1987 – Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 – François Steyn, South African rugby union player
• 1988 – Jayne Appel, American basketball player
• 1990 – Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
• 1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 964 – Pope John XII
• 1219 – Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Anglo-Norman knight and regent during the early reign of Henry III (b. 1187)
• 1470 – Charles VIII of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (b. 1409)
• 1574 – Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
• 1608 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
• 1610 – King Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
• 1643 – King Louis XIII of France (b. 1601)
• 1649 – Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss theologian (b. 1600)
• 1669 – Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
• 1688 – Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
• 1754 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
• 1761 – Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (b. 1710)
• 1818 – Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
• 1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
• 1860 – Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
• 1873 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
• 1878 – Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the "three great nobles" who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
• 1887 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
• 1889 – Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
• 1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (b. 1810)
• 1906 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
• 1912 – King Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1843)
• 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist and essayist (b. 1849)
• 1918 – James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
• 1919 – Henry J. Heinz, German-American businessman, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
• 1923 – Charles de Freycinet, Prime Minister of France (b. 1828)
• 1925 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
• 1931 – David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
• 1931 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
• 1934 – Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
• 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
• 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1945 – Heber J. Grant, seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
• 1954 – Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
• 1956 – Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)
• 1957 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
• 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1897)
• 1959 – Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, mother of Empress Zita of Austria (b. 1862)
• 1962 – Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 – Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist and poet (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
• 1980 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1982 – Lady of Ro, Greek patriot (b. 1890)
• 1983 – Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
• 1983 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico (b. 1900)
• 1984 – Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Barbara Yung Mei-ling, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
• 1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1987 – Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
• 1989 – Mary Lalopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1926)
• 1991 – Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Zedong (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Lyle Alzado, American football player (b. 1949)
• 1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
• 1993 – Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (b. 1953)
• 1993 – William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Harry Blackstone, Jr., American stage magician (b. 1934)
• 1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
• 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
• 2001 – Gil Langley, Australian cricketer, footballer and politician (b. 1919)
• 2003 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2004 – Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
• 2006 – Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Engelmund of Velsen
  • Matthias the Apostle (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Michael Garicoïts
  • Mo Chutu of Lismore (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Victor and Corona
  • May 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which the first day of Sanja Matsuri can fall, while May 20 is the latest; celebrated on the third weekend of May. (Sensō-ji, Tokyo)
• Hastings Banda's Birthday (Malawi)
• National Unification Day (Liberia)
• The first day of Izumo-taisha Shrine Grand Festival. (Izumo-taisha)

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