14th December
December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 17 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer and mathematician (d. 1566)
- 1546 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer (d. 1601)
- 1640 (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, playwright, novelist (d. 1689)
- 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (d. 1898)
- 1866 - Roger Fry, artist, art critic (d. 1934)
- 1870 - Karl Renner, politician and President of Austria 1945-1950 (d. 1950)
- 1896 - King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
- 1896 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II General (d. 1993)
- 1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995)
- 1902 - Frances Bavier, actress (d. 1989)
- 1908 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian, actor (d. 1996)
- 1909 - Edward Tatum, geneticist (d. 1975)
- 1911 - Spike Jones, comedian, musician (d. 1965)
- 1913 - Dan Dailey, actor (d. 1978)
- 1914 - Karl Carstens, politician and President of Germany 1979-1984 (d. 1992)
- 1918 - B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga exponent
- 1919 - Shirley Jackson, writer (d. 1965)
- 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
- 1932 - Charlie Rich, country music performer (d. 1995)
- 1935 - Lee Remick, actress (d. 1991)
- 1938 - Leonardo Boff, theologian
- 1939 - Ernie Davis, American football star (d. 1963)
- 1946 - Patty Duke, actress
- 1946 - Jane Birkin, actress
- 1946 - Michael Ovitz, film producer
- 1948 - Marianne Fritz, writer
- 1962 - Ginger Lynn Allen, pornographic film actress
- 1965 - Craig Biggio, baseball player
- 1974 - Billy Koch, baseball relief pitcher
- 1979 - Michael Owen, football star
Deaths
- 1542 - James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
- 1788 - Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
- 1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)
- 1861 - Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)
- 1873 - Louis Agassiz, zoologist, geologist (b. 1807)
- 1963 - Dinah Washington, singer (b. 1924)
- 1964 - William Bendix, actor
- 1985 - Roger Maris, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1934)
- 1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, physicist, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
- 1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Myrna Loy, actress (b. 1905)
- 1998 - Norman Fell, actor
- 1998 - Annette Strauss, philanthropist, former mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)
Holidays and observances
December 13 - December 15 - November 14 - January 14 -- listing of all days