On this day: 14 June
Events, births and deaths on 14 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Melissa Hortman
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Ann Morgan Guilbert
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Mary Cassatt
- Births · Don Newcombe
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 23
- 1645Battle of Naseby — 1645 battle of the First English Civil War
- 1646Battle of Orbetello — part of the Thirty Years' War and the Franco-Spanish War (1635)
- 1658Battle of the Dunes — 1658 battle in the Franco-Spanish War
- 1775Continental Army — Army of the United States from 1775 to 1784
- 1777flag of the United States — national flag of the United States of America
- 1800Battle of Marengo — 1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1807Battle of Friedland — 1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1830Invasion of Algiers in 1830 — 1830 French military campaign
- 1846California Republic — unrecognized breakaway state
- 1919Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown — British pilots
- 1940Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania — 1940 demand of the Soviet Union
- 1940Paris in World War II — city of Paris, France during World War II
- 19501950 Air France multiple Douglas DC-4 accidents — Pair of aircraft accidents in Bahrain
- 1972Japan Airlines Flight 471 — aviation accident
- 1982Argentine surrender in the Falklands War — surrender of Argentine forces in the Falklands War
- 1985Schengen Agreement — treaty which led to the creation of Europe's Schengen Area, in which internal border checks have largely been abolished
- 1992Disappearance of Helena Andersson — 1992 missing person case in Sweden
- 20142014 Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown — aviation incident
- 2017Grenfell Tower fire — 2017 fire in West London
- 2017Congressional baseball shooting — mass shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, on 14 June 2017
- 20182018 FIFA World Cup — 21st FIFA World Cup, held in Russia
- 20232023 Messenia migrant boat disaster — shipwreck of a ship carrying migrants off Pylos, Greece
- 20262026 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision — air collision in the Rio de Janeiro city
Births · 60
- 1444Nilakantha Somayaji — Indian mathematician
- 1529Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria — Austrian archduke (1529-1595)
- 1726Thomas Pennant — Welsh naturalist (1726-1798)
- 1730Antonio Sacchini — Italian composer (1730–1786)
- 1736Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — French physicist (1736-1806)
- 1763Johann Simon Mayr — German composer (1763–1845)
- 1798František Palacký — Czech philosopher, historian, publicist and writer (1798-1876)
- 1811Harriet Beecher Stowe — American abolitionist and author (1811–1896)
- 1838Yamagata Aritomo — Japanese military leader and statesman (1838–1922)
- 1864Alois Alzheimer — German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
- 1868Karl Landsteiner — Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1870Sophia of Prussia — Queen consort of Greece (1870–1932)
- 1894Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg — Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 to 1919
- 1894José Carlos Mariátegui — Peruvian writer and academic (1894–1930)
- 1903Alonzo Church — American mathematician and logician (1903–1995)
- 1904Margaret Bourke-White — American photographer (1904-1971)
- 1907René Char — French poet (1907–1988)
- 1909Burl Ives — American musician (1909–1995)
- 1910Rudolf Kempe — German conductor (1910–1976)
- 1916Dorothy McGuire — American actress (1916-2001)
- 1917Atle Selberg — Norwegian mathematician (1917–2007)
- 1917Lise Nørgaard — Danish writer and journalist (1917–2023)
- 1919Gene Barry — American stage, screen, and television actor (1919–2009)
- 1919Sam Wanamaker — American actor (1919–1993)
- 1923Judith Kerr — British writer and illustrator (1923–2019)
Deaths · 60
- 847(Julian date)Methodios I of Constantinople — Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1161(Julian date)Emperor Qinzong of Song — emperor of the Song Dynasty
- 1349(Julian date)Günther IX, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt — German count, German king (1304-1349)
- 1497Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia — son of Pope Alexander VI
- 1544(Julian date)Antoine, Duke of Lorraine — Duke of Lorraine
- 1583Shibata Katsuie — Japanese nobleman and warrior
- 1594Orlande de Lassus — Franco-Flemish composer (1532–1594)
- 1674Marin le Roy de Gomberville — French writer
- 1746Colin MacLaurin — Scottish mathematician (1698–1746)
- 1800Jean Baptiste Kléber — French general, and architect (1753-1800)
- 1800Louis Desaix — French general (1768–1800)
- 1801Benedict Arnold — army officer who betrayed America to the British during the Revolutionary War (1740–1801)
- 1825Pierre Charles L’Enfant — French-born American architect (1754–1825)
- 1829Matsudaira Sadanobu — Japanese daimyō of the mid-Edo period (1759-1829)
- 1837Giacomo Leopardi — Italian noble, poet, philosopher, and writer (1798-1837)
- 1864Leonidas Polk — Confederate General (1806-1864)
- 1877Mary Carpenter — English educationist and social reformer (1807–1877)
- 1883Edward FitzGerald — English poet and translator (1809–1883)
- 1907William Le Baron Jenney — American architect (1832-1907)
- 1908Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby — British politician and Governor General of Canada (1841–1908)
- 1914Adlai Stevenson I — American politician (1835–1914); Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
- 1920Max Weber — German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
- 1926Mary Cassatt — American painter and printmaker (1844—1926)
- 1927Jerome K. Jerome — English humorist (1859-1927)
- 1928Emmeline Pankhurst — English suffragist
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