May 14 - Deaths

Deaths

• 964 – Pope John XII
• 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)
• 1978 – Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
• 1980 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
• 1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
• 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)
• 1988 – Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1886)
• 1991 – Jiang Qing, wife 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 – Seinfeld, American television sitcom (b. 1989)
• 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
• 1998 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
• 2000 – Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
• 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)