On this day: 14 October
Events, births and deaths on 14 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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1 year ago2025
- Deaths · D’Angelo
10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Willy Alberti
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1066 · Events · Battle of Hastings
- 1066 · Deaths · Harold Godwinson
- 1092 · Deaths · Nizam al-Mulk
Events · 29
- 1066(Julian date)Battle of Hastings — battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
- 1322(Julian date)Battle of Old Byland — battle during the Wars of Scottish Independence (1322)
- 1758Battle of Hochkirch — 1758 battle of the Third Silesian War
- 1773Commission of National Education — Central education authority of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- 1805Battle of Elchingen — 1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
- 1806Battle of Jena–Auerstedt — 1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
- 1809Treaty of Schönbrunn — peace treaty
- 1863Battle of Bristoe Station — 1863 battle of the American Civil War
- 1913Senghenydd Colliery Disaster — Mining explosion in 1913
- 1920Treaty of Tartu — peace treaty between Finland and Russia
- 1930Ståhlberg kidnapping — kidnapping of the President of Finland, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
- 1943Second Philippine Republic — puppet state established in 1943 during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines
- 1943Second Raid on Schweinfurt — October 1943 air battle of World War II
- 1952Battle of Triangle Hill — battle in 1952
- 19571957 Valencia flood — 1957 natural disaster in Valencia, Spain
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis — October 1962 confrontation between the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States
- 19731973 Thai popular uprising — potest movement that overthrew Thanom Kittikachorn
- 19751975 Żabbar Avro Vulcan crash — crash of a British jet bomber in eastern Malta
- 2003Steve Bartman incident — controversial play in a 2003 baseball game
- 2004Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 — aviation accident
- 2004MK Airlines Flight 1602 — crash of a freight airliner in Canada in 2004
- 2004
- 2012Red Bull Stratos — space diving project
- 20142014 Serbia v Albania — UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying football match
- 20142014 Mount Dhaulagiri avalanches — avalanches in Nepal
- 2015Taunsa Sharif bombing — 2015 Islamist terror attack in Taunsa Sharif, Punjab, Pakistan
- 2017October 2017 Mogadishu bombings — deadliest terrorist attack in the history of Somalia and Africa
- 20212021 Kaohsiung tower fire — 14 October 2021 fire in Yancheng District, Kaohsiong City, Taiwan
- 20232023 Australian referendum — Australian federal referendum held in 2023
Births · 60
- 1257(Julian date)Przemysł II — King of Poland, Duke of Greater Poland (1257-1296)
- 1404(Julian date)Marie of Anjou — queen consort of France
- 1425(Julian date)Alesso Baldovinetti — Italian painter (1425-1499)
- 1569(Julian date)Giambattista Marino — Italian poet (1569-1625)
- 1630Sophia of Hanover — Princess of the Palatinate, Electress of Hanover, heir presumptive and ancestor of British monarchs following the Act of Settlement 1701
- 1633(Julian date)James II of England — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688 (1633–1701)
- 1643Bahadur Shah I — the seventh Mughal Emperor from 1707 to 1712
- 1644(Julian date)William Penn — English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)
- 1712George Grenville — Prime Minister of Great Britain (1712-1770)
- 1784Ferdinand VII of Spain — King of Spain (1784–1833) (r. 1808; 1813–1833)
- 1791Friedrich Parrot — Baltic German explorer (1791-1841)
- 1801Joseph Plateau — Belgian physicist (1801–1883)
- 1867Masaoka Shiki — Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan (1867-1902)
- 1871Alexander von Zemlinsky — Austrian Jewish composer, conductor, teacher and art collector (1871-1942)
- 1872Reginald Doherty — English tennis player (1872–1910)
- 1882Éamon de Valera — Irish statesman (1882–1975)
- 1888Katherine Mansfield — New Zealand author (1888–1923)
- 1890Dwight D. Eisenhower — president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)
- 1893Lillian Gish — American actor, actress, motion picture producers and director, screenwriter
- 1894E. E. Cummings — American author (1894–1962)
- 1900W. Edwards Deming — American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)
- 1906Hannah Arendt — German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)
- 1906Hassan al-Banna — Egyptian Islamist leader and politician (1906—1949)
- 1910John Wooden — American basketball coach (1910–2010)
- 1911Le Duc Tho — Vietnamese diplomat (1911–1990)
Deaths · 60
- 530(Julian date)Dioscorus — deacon of the Alexandrian and the Roman church, antipope in 530
- 1066(Julian date)Harold Godwinson — Anglo-Saxon King of England in 1066
- 1066(Julian date)Gyrth Godwinson — 11th-century English earl
- 1066(Julian date)Leofwine Godwinson — younger brother of Harold II of England
- 1077(Julian date)Andronikos Doukas — Byzantine official general (died 1077)
- 1092Nizam al-Mulk — Persian Seljuk scholar, politician, vizier and court official (1018–1092)
- 1217(Julian date)Isabel, Countess of Gloucester — English noblewoman who was married to King John
- 1256(Julian date)Kujō Yoritsugu — 5th shogun of the Kamakura shogunate
- 1318Edward Bruce — medieval Scottish nobleman and soldier
- 1416(Julian date)Henry the Mild, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg — Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Prince of Wolfenbüttel (1400-1409)
- 1536(Julian date)Garcilaso de la Vega — Spanish poet (1503-1536)
- 1568(Julian date)Jacques Arcadelt — Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance
- 1619Samuel Daniel — Poet and historian
- 1638Gabriello Chiabrera — Italian poet (1552-1638)
- 1669Antonio Cesti — Italian composer, singer and organist (1623-1669)
- 1703Thomas Kingo — Danish bishop, poet, hymn-writer (1634–1703)
- 1758James Francis Edward Keith — German general
- 1831Jean-Louis Pons — French astronomer
- 1911John Marshall Harlan — US Supreme Court justice from 1877 to 1911 (1833-1911)
- 1943Johann Niemann — German SS officer (1913–1943)
- 1944Erwin Rommel — German field marshal (1891-1944)
- 1953Kyuichi Tokuda — Japanese politician, Communist, lawyer
- 1958Douglas Mawson — Australian geologist and explorer of the Antarctic (1882-1958)
- 1958Nikolay Zabolotsky — Russian poet, children's writer and translator (1903-1958)
- 1959Errol Flynn — Australian actor (1909–1959)
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