On this day: 14 July
Events, births and deaths on 14 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Fauja Singh
- Deaths · John F. MacArthur
- Deaths · B. Saroja Devi
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 Nice attack
- Deaths · Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel
100 years ago1926
- Births · Harry Dean Stanton
- Births · Wallace Jones
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 926 · Births · Murakami
- 937 · Deaths · Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
- 982 · Events · Battle of Stilo
Events · 19
- 982(Julian date)Battle of Stilo — 982 battle
- 1769Portolà expedition — exploration of the present-day state of California, United States, 1769–1770
- 1789French Revolution — A period of political and societal change in France from 1789 to 1799
- 1789Storming of the Bastille — 1789 part of the French Revolution
- 1790Fête de la Fédération — 1790 national holiday festival in France
- 1808Battle of Lapua — 1808 battle of the Finnish War
- 1853Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations — The first major U.S. world's fair
- 1865first ascent of the Matterhorn — 1865 mountaineering expedition in the Pennine Alps
- 1889Second International — organisation of socialist and labour parties (1889–1916)
- 1916Battle of Delville Wood — 1916 battle
- 1943George Washington Carver National Monument — national monument in the United States
- 1950Battle of Taejon — 1950 battle of the Korean War
- 19511951 British Grand Prix — Formula One motor race held in 1951
- 1958Iraqi 14 July revolution — Iraqi military coup in 1958
- 1960Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 1-11 — 1960 aviation accident
- 1969Hundred Hour War — brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969
- 1987Montreal Flood of 1987 — floods in Montreal, Canada in 1987
- 20162016 Nice attack — islamist terrorist attack in France on 14 July 2016
- 2019Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash — aviation accident in Umeå, Sweden
Births · 60
- 926(Julian date)Murakami — Emperor of Japan
- 1454(Julian date)Agnolo Poliziano — Italian classical scholar and poet (1454-1494)
- 1602Cardinal Mazarin — French cardinal and statesman
- 1610Ferdinando II de' Medici — Grand Duke of Tuscany
- 1634Pasquier Quesnel — French theologian
- 1743Gavrila Derzhavin — Russian poet (1743-1816)
- 1793George Green — British mathematical physicist (*1793 – †1841)
- 1801Johannes Peter Müller — German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858)
- 1816Arthur de Gobineau — French diplomat and writer known for racial theories (1816–1882)
- 1862Gustav Klimt — Austrian symbolist painter (1862–1918)
- 1862Florence Bascom — American geologist (1862–1945)
- 1868Gertrude Bell — British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
- 1874Abbas II — Khedive of Egypt (1874-1944) (r. 1892-1914)
- 1885Sisavang Vong — King of Laos (1885-1959)
- 1889Ante Pavelić — Croatian fascist general and military dictator (1889–1959)
- 1896Buenaventura Durruti — Spanish anarchist (1896-1936)
- 1897Plaek Phibunsongkhram — Prime Minister of Thailand, 1938–44 and 1948–57 (1897–1964)
- 1903Irving Stone — American writer (1903–1989)
- 1907Chico Landi — racecar driver
- 1910William Hanna — American animator (1910–2001)
- 1912Woody Guthrie — American singer-songwriter (1912–1967)
- 1912Northrop Frye — Canadian literary critic and literary theorist (1912–1991)
- 1913Gerald Ford — president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913–2006)
- 1918Ingmar Bergman — Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)
- 1918Jay Wright Forrester — American operations researcher (1918–2016)
Deaths · 55
- 809(Julian date)Ōtomo no Otomaro — Japanese shogun
- 937(Julian date)Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria — German duke
- 1223(Julian date)Philip II of France — King of France, and the first to be called by that title (1165–1223)
- 1262(Julian date)Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester — English nobleman (1222-1262)
- 1486(Julian date)Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland — queen consort of Scotland (1456-1486)
- 1614Camillus de Lellis — Italian priest, nurse and saint
- 1723Claude Fleury — French historian
- 1742Richard Bentley — English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)
- 1780Charles Batteux — French philosopher
- 1789Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay — Commander of the Bastille
- 1789Jacques de Flesselles — French politician (1730-1789)
- 1790Ernst Gideon von Laudon — Austrian general (1717–1790)
- 1800Lorenzo Mascheroni — Italian mathematician and poet (1750–1800)
- 1809Nicodemus the Hagiorite — Greek Orthodox ascetic
- 1816Francisco de Miranda — Venezuelan military leader (1750–1816)
- 1817Germaine de Staël — Genevan-French author (1766-1817)
- 1827Augustin-Jean Fresnel — French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)
- 1834Edmond-Charles Genêt — French diplomat
- 1850August Neander — German theologian and church historian (1789-1850)
- 1881Billy the Kid — American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)
- 1904Paul Kruger — South African politician and President of the South African Republic (1825–1904)
- 1907William Henry Perkin — British chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye (1838–1907)
- 1910Marius Petipa — French-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1818–1910)
- 1917Octave Lapize — French racing cyclist (1887–1917)
- 1918Quentin Roosevelt — son of Theodore Roosevelt (1897–1918)
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