On this day: 14 November
Events, births and deaths on 14 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Events · 2016 North Canterbury earthquake
- Deaths · Gwen Ifill
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1917 · Births · Park Chung-hee
- 1922 · Births · Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- 1935 · Births · Hussein I of Jordan
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 976 · Deaths · Emperor Taizu of Song
- 1060 · Deaths · Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou
Events · 19
- 1938Lions Gate Bridge — suspension bridge in Vancouver, Canada
- 1957Apalachin Meeting — 1957 historic summit of the American Mafia
- 1965Battle of Ia Drang — 1965 battle of the Vietnam War
- 1970Southern Airways Flight 932 — aviation accident
- 1973Athens Polytechnic uprising — massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974
- 1973wedding of Princess Anne and Mark Philips — November 1973 wedding of British royal Princess Anne and Mark Phillips
- 1975Declaration of Principles on Western Sahara by Spain, Morocco and Mauritania — 1975 treaty between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania to end Spanish presence in the Sahara
- 1977Airport Security Unit — unit of the Hong Kong Police Force
- 1990Seoul Broadcasting System — South Korean television and radio network
- 1990German–Polish Border Treaty — 1990 state treaty that governs the borders between Germany and Poland
- 1990Alitalia Flight 404 — aviation accident killing 46 people in 1990 near Zurich
- 1991Battle of the Dalmatian channels — confrontation between Yugoslav Navy ships and coastal artillery, and a detachment of Croatian naval commandos on 14–16 November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence
- 1992Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 — airplane crash on approach to Nha Trang Airport on 14 November 1992
- 20012001 Kunlun earthquake — earthquake in China
- 20082008 G20 Washington summit — annual G20 conference
- 20102010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix — 839th Formula 1 Championship Grand Prix
- 20122012 Gaza War — November 2012 eight-day Israel Defense Forces operation in the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip
- 20162016 North Canterbury earthquake — earthquake
- 2019Saugus High School shooting — a November 14, 2019, school shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California
Births · 60
- 1567(Julian date)Maurice of Nassau — Dutch Republic stadtholder and Prince of Orange (1567-1625)
- 1650William III of England — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1689 to 1702 (1650-1702)
- 1719Leopold Mozart — German composer (1719–1787)
- 1765Robert Fulton — American engineer and inventor (1765–1815)
- 1771Xavier Bichat — French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802)
- 1778Johann Nepomuk Hummel — Austrian composer and pianist (1778–1837)
- 1779Adam Oehlenschläger — Danish poet and playwright (1779–1850)
- 1797Charles Lyell — British geologist (1797–1875)
- 1805Fanny Mendelssohn — German pianist and composer (1805–1847)
- 1812Maria Cristina of Savoy, Queen of the Two Sicilies — Queen Consort of the Two Sicilies (1812-1836) and Blessed
- 1838August Šenoa — Croatian novelist (1838-1881)
- 1840Claude Monet — French painter (1840–1926)
- 1861Frederick Jackson Turner — American historian (1861-1932)
- 1863Leo Baekeland — Belgium American inventor (1863-1944)
- 1889Jawaharlal Nehru — Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964
- 1889Taha Hussein — Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)
- 1891Frederick Banting — Canadian medical scientist and doctor (1891-1941)
- 1900Aaron Copland — American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)
- 1904Dick Powell — American actor (1904-1963)
- 1906Louise Brooks — American actress (1906–1985)
- 1907Astrid Lindgren — Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays (1907–2002)
- 1907William Steig — American cartoonist, children's illustrator and writer (1907–2003)
- 1908Joseph McCarthy — American politician (1908–1957)
- 1917Park Chung-hee — 3rd President of the Republic of Korea
- 1921Brian Keith — American actor (1921–1997)
Deaths · 60
- 250 BCE(Julian date)King Xiaowen of Qin — ruler of the state of Qin
- 565(Julian date)Justinian I — Eastern Roman Emperor who ruled from 527 to 565 (482-565)
- 669(Julian date)Fujiwara no Kamatari — Japanese noble (614-669)
- 976(Julian date)Emperor Taizu of Song — founding emperor of the Song Dynasty (reigned 960-976)
- 1060(Julian date)Geoffrey II, Count of Anjou — Count of Anjou
- 1226Frederick of Isenberg — German count
- 1263(Julian date)Alexander Nevsky — political and military figure of Kievan Rus' (1246–1263)
- 1359(Julian date)Gregory Palamas — 14th century Byzantine Greek cleric and theologian
- 1391(Julian date)Nikola Tavelić — saint of the Catholic Church
- 1442Yolanda de Aragon — Infanta de Aragon, titular queen consort of Naples, French noble (1384-1442)
- 1522(Julian date)Anne of France — Regent of France (1461-1522)
- 1556(Julian date)Giovanni della Casa — Roman Catholic archbishop (1503–1556)
- 1633William Ames — English Protestant divine, philosopher, and controversialist
- 1687Nell Gwyn — Royal mistress (1650-1687)
- 1716Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
- 1734Louise de Keroual, Duchess of Portsmouth — English and French noble (1649-1734)
- 1746Georg Wilhelm Steller — Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
- 1817Policarpa Salavarrieta — heroine of the Colombian Independence Movement (1795–1817)
- 1825Jean Paul — German Romantic writer (1763-1825)
- 1829Louis Nicolas Vauquelin — French professor of chemistry (1763-1829)
- 1831Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel — German philosopher and theologian (1770–1831)
- 1831Ignaz Pleyel — Austrian-born French composer and piano builder (1757–1831)
- 1832Charles Carroll of Carrollton — American planter and signatory of the Declaration of Independence (1737-1832)
- 1844Flora Tristan — French writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
- 1844John Abercrombie — Scottish physician (1780–1844)
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