Deaths on 14 August
2000s
Mike Castle
2025
American politician (1939–2025)
Gena Rowlands
2024
American actress (1930–2024)
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
2023
Bangladeshi politician (1940–2023)
Michael Aung-Thwin
2021
Burmese American historian and professor (1946–2021)
Julian Bream
2020
English classical guitarist and lutenist (1933–2020)
Angela Buxton
2020
British tennis player (1934–2020)
Jim Thompson (Illinois politician)
2020
Governor of Illinois from 1977 to 1991
Polly Farmer
2019
Australian rules footballer and coach (1935–2019)
Jill Janus
2018
American heavy metal singer (1975–2018)
Fyvush Finkel
2016
American actor
Bob Johnston
2015
American record producer and musician (1932–2015)
Leonard Fein
2014
American activist, writer and teacher
George V. Hansen
2014
American politician
Jack Germond
2013
American journalist, author, and pundit
Vilasrao Deshmukh
2012
Indian politician (1945–2012)
Svetozar Gligorić
2012
Serbian chess grandmaster (1923–2012)
Phyllis Thaxter
2012
American actress (1919–2012)
Herman Leonard
2010
American photographer
Tikhon Khrennikov
2007
Soviet-Russian composer (1913–2007)
Bruno Kirby
2006
American actor (1949–2006)
Czesław Miłosz
2004
Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate (1911–2004)
Trevor Skeet
2004
New Zealand-born British politician
Helmut Rahn
2003
German footballer (1929–2003)
Larry Rivers
2002
American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor (1923–2002)
1900s
Pee Wee Reese
1999
American baseball player (1918–1999)
Sergiu Celibidache
1996
Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher (1912–1996)
Elias Canetti
1994
German-language author (1905 – 1994)
Alice Childress
1994
American novelist, playwright, and actress (1916–1994)
John Sirica
1992
American federal judge (1904–1992)
Alberto Crespo
1991
Argentine racing driver (1920–1991)
Roy Buchanan
1988
American blues musician (1939–1988)
Robert Calvert
1988
English poet, writer, musician (1945–1988)
Enzo Ferrari
1988
Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur (1898–1988)
Gale Sondergaard
1985
American actress (1899–1985)
Spud Davis
1984
American baseball player and manager (1904–1984)
J. B. Priestley
1984
English writer (1894–1984)
Mahasi Sayadaw
1982
Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk (1904–1982)
Karl Böhm
1981
Austrian conductor (1894–1981)
Dudley Nourse
1981
South African Test cricketer (1910–1981)
Dorothy Stratten
1980
Canadian Playmate and actress (1960–1980)
Nicolas Bentley
1978
British author and illustrator (1907–1978)
Fred Gipson
1973
American author (1908–1973)
Oscar Levant
1972
American musician and comedian (1906–1972)
Jules Romains
1972
French poet and writer (1885–1972)
Bob Anderson (racing driver)
1967
British motorcycle racer and racing driver (1931–1967)
Vello Kaaristo
1965
Estonian cross-country skier (1911–1965)
Johnny Burnette
1964
American musician (1934–1964)
Clifford Odets
1963
American writer and actor (1906–1963)
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
1958
French chemist and physicist (1900–1958)
Bertolt Brecht
1956
German playwright and poet (1898–1956)
Konstantin von Neurath
1956
German diplomat and war criminal (1873–1956)
Herbert Putnam
1955
American librarian and 8th Librarian of Congress
Hugo Eckener
1954
Manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company
William Randolph Hearst
1951
American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
Eliška Misáková
1948
Czech gymnast
Joe Kelley
1943
American baseball player (1871–1943)
Maximilian Kolbe
1941
Polish Franciscan friar and saint (1894–1941)
Paul Sabatier (chemist)
1941
French chemist (1854–1941)
Hugh Trumble
1938
Australian cricketer (1867���1938)
Klabund
1928
Pen name of Alfred Henschke, German writer
Rebecca Cole
1922
American physician (1846–1922)
William Stanley (inventor)
1909
English inventor (1829–1909)
Simeon Solomon
1905
British artist (1840–1905)
1800s
Sarah Childress Polk
1891
First Lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849
Michael J. McGivney
1890
Founder of the Knights of Columbus (1852–1890)
David Farragut
1870
United States Navy admiral (1801–1870)
André Marie Constant Duméril
1860
French zoologist (1774–1860)
Carl Carl
1854
Polish actor and theatre director
Margaret Taylor
1852
First Lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850
Before 1800
Nathaniel Hone the Elder
1784
Irish painter (1718–1784)
Johann Jakob Reiske
1774
German scholar and physician (1716–1774)
William Croft
1727
English composer and organist (1678–1727)
Madre María Rosa
1716
18th-century nun
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
1691
Viceroy of Ireland for James II of England
Saitō Tatsuoki
1573
Daimyo and warrior during the Sengoku period
Pope Pius II
1464
Head of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464
John I of Portugal
1433
King of Portugal from 1385 to 1433
Minamoto no Yoriie
1204
Japanese Samurai, Daimyo and Military ruler of Japan from 1202 to 1203
Rainald of Dassel
1167
Archbishop of Cologne and Archchancellor of Italy from 1159 to 1167
Duncan I of Scotland
1040
King of Alba from 1034 to 1040
Tiberius II Constantine
582
Roman emperor from 574 to 582