October 14th
The October 14 is the 287th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 288th in leap years ), thus remain 78 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1066 : At the Battle of Hastings , the Normans who had advanced to England under William the Conqueror defeat the Anglo-Saxon army of Harald Godwinson (Harald II), who fell in battle. England is now under Norman rule.
- 1279 : The Archbishop of Cologne , Siegfried von Westerburg , concludes the Pingsheim Peace with the Count of Jülich, which regulates the spheres of influence of the two sovereigns.
- 1322 : In the battle of Byland , a Scottish army beats the rearguard of an English army. The English King Edward II barely escapes capture.
- 1413 : The Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , Heinrich von Plauen , is forced to resign at a general chapter of the order.
- 1451 : Under the leadership of Ulrich von Eyczing , the Mailberg League against King Friedrich IV, the later Emperor Friedrich III , is established at Mailberg Castle by a meeting of estates from Upper and Lower Austria . closed.
- 1468 : King Ludwig XI. of France and Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy agree in the Peace of Péronne on French property in the county of Flanders .
- 1529 : During the first Turkish siege of Vienna , the Ottomans under Suleyman the Magnificent manage to blow a breach (Sulaiman breach) in the Kärntnertor of the Vienna city wall , but the city's defenders are able to repel the assault. The following night the besiegers withdrew because of the early onset of winter.
- 1533 : In the battle of Jemgum , the troops of the Duchy of Geldern and Balthasar von Esens defeat those of the county of East Friesland during the Geldrian feud .
- 1758 : In the Battle of Hochkirch , Frederick the Great suffered a defeat against the Austrian army under Field Marshals Leopold Joseph Daun and Ernst Gideon von Laudon . The battle marks a turning point in the Seven Years' War in favor of the Austrians and puts Prussia on the defensive.
- 1773 : The world's first ministerial organization for education, Komisja Edukacji Narodowej , is set up in Poland under King Stanislaus II August , which Hugo Kołłątaj has a major influence.
- 1781 : The Americans and French make the decisive breakthrough during the siege of Yorktown during the American War of Independence by conquering two important fortifications. The evacuation of the British troops by General Charles Cornwallis fails, which is why he offers to surrender the next day.
- 1793 : During the French Revolution, the trial of the widow Capet begins in Paris for high treason .
- 1805 : The Third Coalition War begins with the Battle of Elchingen , which lasts until October 19 .
- 1806 : The double battle of Jena and Auerstedt during the Fourth Coalition War ends with the victory of the French troops under Napoleon against Prussia .
- 1809 : After the occupation of Vienna and the victory in the Battle of Wagram, Napoleon dictates the Treaty of Schönbrunn to the Austrian Empire to end the Fifth Coalition War . Austria loses its access to the Adriatic Sea and has to cede Salzburg to the Kingdom of Bavaria .
- 1813 : The previously allied with him the Kingdom of Bavaria declared France the war .
- 1899 : In the secret Treaty of Windsor recognize the UK and Portugal each other to their possessions in Africa. Great Britain is given the right to move troops freely in the Portuguese colonies in return for an obligation to help defend them.
- 1910 : The British aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman III - biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue ) in Washington, DC near the White House . The pilot is arrested, the press reports on the flight sensation.
- 1915 : Bulgaria occurs on the side of the Central Powers in the First World War one.
- 1920 : Soviet Russia and Finland sign the Dorpat Peace Treaty . The treaty ends hostilities between the two countries and defines the national territory of Finland largely within the boundaries of the Tsarist Grand Duchy , expanded to include the area of the ice-free northern sea port of Petsamo .
- 1933 : Joseph Goebbels declares the withdrawal of the German Reich from the League of Nations . At the same time, Germany is leaving the Geneva Disarmament Conference .
- 1939 : In the early hours of the morning, the U 47 submarine under Lieutenant Günther Prien sinks the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Scapa Flow naval port .
- 1943 : Nine SS members are killed in a successful uprising by the prisoners of the Sobibor extermination camp . Around 400 prisoners were able to flee. The other camp inmates were then murdered by the SS and the camp was finally closed.
- 1943 : On Black Thursday , the United States Army Air Forces suffer heavy losses in air raids on Schweinfurt .
- 1944 : The German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide as a co-conspirator on July 20th .
- 1953 : The Qibya massacre begins in the evening. In the village of Qibya, where an outpost of the Arab Legion is located, elite units of the Israeli army destroy 45 houses, a school and a mosque. 69 Arabs, including 42 villagers, are killed.
- 1960 : After the military coup, the Yassıada trials begin in Turkey against 592 former members of the government, members of the Turkish parliament and officials, including President Celâl Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes .
- 1962 : Beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis : On the orders of US President John F. Kennedy, U-2F planes from Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas fly over missile positions in Cuba in search of Soviet missiles.
- 1964 : Nikita Khrushchev is overthrown as head of government of the USSR and general secretary of the CPSU . He will be succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev .
- 1964 : Martin Luther King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1969 : Olof Palme becomes Swedish Prime Minister.
- 1973 : Popular uprising in Thailand : After student riots in which over 70 people are killed, the military government under Thanom Kittikachorn resigns . Sanya Dharmasakti will be the new Prime Minister .
- 1981 : In Egypt is Hosni Mubarak for president elected. He is the successor of Anwar as-Sadat who was assassinated .
- 1990 : In the new Lander of unified Germany For eleven days after effective date of countries Law introducing elections to the state parliaments instead. The CDU becomes the strongest party in the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia and the SPD in the Brandenburg state parliament .
- 2003 : Gyude Bryant becomes President of the Transitional Government in Liberia .
- 2004 : After the resignation of his father Norodom Sihanouk on October 7th, Norodom Sihamoni becomes the new King of Cambodia .
- 2006 : The conflict in East Sudan is ended by a peace agreement signed in Eritrea between the Sudanese conflicting parties.
- 2006 : With its resolution 1718 , the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on North Korea and its head of state Kim Jong-il because of the nuclear weapons tests on October 9th.
economy
- 1959 : The view -Erstausgabe appears. As a result, the first tabloid in Switzerland aroused a lot of criticism with regard to its focus on crime , sex and sports .
- 1960 : In Cuba - as a result of the Cuban Revolution - the Bacardi family is expropriated without compensation.
- 1966 : Metro Montreal , the second oldest subway system in Canada, opens with two lines in Montreal .
- 1974 : The first German branch of the Swedish furniture market IKEA opens in Eching near Munich .
- 1999 : The game console Dreamcast of Sega will be published in Europe. Due to the lack of commercial success, it is the company's last stationary game console for the time being.
- 2008 : In Iceland , the result of the collapse of its banking system of state bankruptcy threatens breaking stock index of the stock exchange in Reykjavik after several days of commercial break by 77% a.
science and technology
- 1655 : The Duisburg University is ceremoniously opened.
- 1774 : The Hohe Kameral-Schule zu Lautern , the oldest cameralistic college in Europe, opens in Kaiserslautern .
- 1829 : The Rainhill race , which began on October 6, ends with a victory for George and Robert Stephenson's steam locomotive The Rocket .
- 1872 : Japan's first railway line opens between Tokyo and Yokohama .
- 1882 : The University of the Punjab is established in Lahore .
- 1888 : Louis Le Prince records the world's first film, the Roundhay Garden Scene , with a film camera he developed .
- 1916 : The Perm State University is founded as an offshoot of the University of Saint Petersburg in the Ural region .
- 1947 : Chuck Yeager is proven to be the first person to break the sound barrier in a Bell X-1 at an altitude of around 15,000 m .
- 1948 : Lake Gruyère , the longest storage lake in Switzerland, is officially inaugurated.
- 1952 : The Cité radieuse opens in Marseille . The building is the first of five modern residential units designed by the architect Le Corbusier .
- 1993 : The Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research is opened in Leipzig .
- 1996 : Matthias Ettrich starts the K Desktop Environment project .
- 2012 : Felix Baumgartner jumps from a height of 39 kilometers as part of the Red Bull Stratos project and is the first person to break the sound barrier in free fall .
Culture
- 1670 : Molière's ballet comedy The Citizen as Nobleman is premiered in Chambord Castle .
- 1795 : The premiere of the heroic-comic opera Palmira, regina di Persia by Antonio Salieri takes place at the Vienna Kärntnertortheater , which is a great success and will soon be performed all over Europe.
- 1885 : Johannes Ranke founds the Prehistoric Collection in Munich , today's State Archaeological Collection .
- 1892 : The anthology The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appears in Great Britain with twelve previously published short stories by the author Arthur Conan Doyle . The book is illustrated by Sidney Paget .
- 1926 : The popular children's book Winnie-the-Pooh by Alan Alexander Milne makes its debut in London publisher Methuen & Co .
- 1926 : Faust - a German folk tale , a silent film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , is premiered.
- 1930 : The world premiere of the musical Girl Crazy by George Gershwin place at New York's Alvin Theater instead.
- 1948 : For the first time in Germany a program for the national minority of the Sorbs is broadcast on the radio .
- 1955 : The Vienna Burgtheater , rebuilt after the Second World War , is ceremoniously reopened with a state ceremony.
- 1955 : Jim Henson invents the character Kermit the Frog , the only one of his dolls to appear on both Sesame Street and the Muppet Show .
- 1961 : Muriel Spark's novel The Heyday of Miss Jean Brodie appears in book form in Great Britain. The US magazine The New Yorker previously devoted an entire issue to the novel.
- 1984 : The Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize , a literary prize for German-speaking authors, is awarded for the first time.
religion
- 530 : The death of Dioskur 22 days after his election ends the dispute with Boniface II about the bishopric of Rome.
- 1889 : The St. Gabriel Mission House, founded by Arnold Janssen , is opened south of Vienna .
- 1956 : B. R. Ambedkar , the acknowledged leader of Dalits , occurs along with about 388,000 "untouchables" in a ceremony to Buddhism about what subsequently further converts motivated for change of faith.
Disasters
- 1881 : 189 Scottish fishermen lose their lives in a hurricane on the east coast of Scotland in the Eyemouth disaster .
- 1913 : The worst mining disaster in Great Britain to date occurs in Wales . 439 miners died in the explosion at the Universal colliery in Senghenydd . It is likely that there will be a methane gas explosion , immediately followed by a coal dust explosion .
- 1942 : The Canadian passenger ferry Caribou is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 69 off Newfoundland without warning . 136 passengers and crew members die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1878 : The first football match under floodlights is played in Sheffield , England . Four arc lamps from Siemens provide the lighting on the Sheffield FC playing field .
- 1905 : The Spanish football club Sevilla FC is founded.
- 1905 : The international air sports association Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ) is founded in Paris.
- 1932 : The ice hockey club EHC Basel is founded.
- 1968 : The American Jim Hines achieved the electronically timed time of 9.95 seconds in the 100 meter run . The world athletics association IAAF recognizes time as a new world record. Hines is the first runner to break the 10-second threshold on this route.
- 2000 : The Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko wins his boxing match against Chris Byrd in the Kölnarena with a points victory and becomes world heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Organization ( WBO ).
- 2010 : The 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi , India, end with the closing ceremony. Australia is the most successful nation in these Commonwealth Games , which started on October 3rd.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1006 : Gottfried II , Count of Anjou and Count of Vendôme
- 1257 : Przemysł II , King of Poland
- 1410 : Jacques Juvénal des Ursins , French Archbishop of Reims
- 1425 : Alesso Baldovinetti , Italian painter
- 1465 : Konrad Peutinger , German politician
- 1499 : Katharina von der Pfalz , abbess of the Neuburg monastery
- 1516 : Maximilian Mörlin , Protestant theologian and reformer
- 1519 : Marie von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1522 : Lucas Maius , German Protestant theologian and playwright
- 1524 : Elisabeth of Denmark and Norway , Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1544 : Margarethe von Dietz , Hessian noblewoman
- 1563 : Bernhardine zur Lippe , Countess of Leiningen-Leiningen
- 1563 : Jodocus Hondius , Flemish cartographer and publisher of atlases and maps
- 1606 : Joan Maetsuycker , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1630 : Sophie von der Pfalz , Electress of Hanover
- 1633 : James II , King of England and, as James VII, King of Scotland
- 1639 : Simon van der Stel , the first governor of the Cape Colony
- 1640 : Henri Simonis , Walloon cloth manufacturer, founder of the Iwan Simonis billiard cloth factory
- 1641 : Dorothea Maria von Sachsen-Weimar , Duchess of Sachsen-Zeitz
- 1644 : William Penn , British Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania
- 1658 : Johann Christoph Männling , German poet and writer
- 1662 : Johann Christian Lünig , German lawyer, historian and publicist
- 1684 : Israel Traugott Garmann , Saxon theologian, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and pastor
- 1686 : Christian Gottlob Gerber , German Lutheran theologian and historian
- 1690 : Leopold Philipp Karl Joseph von Arenberg , Duke of Arenberg
- 1690 : Olivio Sozzi , Sicilian painter
- 1700 : Anastassija Trubezkaja , Russian princess and hereditary princess of Hesse-Homburg
18th century
- 1712 : George Grenville , British politician and statesman
- 1714 : Christoph Anton Graf Migazzi , Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and Cardinal
- 1718 : Vito D'Anna , Sicilian painter
- 1726 : Karl Aloys von Königsegg-Aulendorf , German nobleman, auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1730 : Jean-Joseph Rodolphe , Alsatian horn player, violinist, composer and music teacher
- 1732 : Johann Christoph Martini , German Protestant clergyman and church historian
- 1733 : Charles Joseph de Croix, Count Clerfait , Austrian field marshal
- 1742 : Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú , Spanish politician, military man, governor of Montevideo and viceroy of the Río de la Plata
- 1757 : Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester , British politician
- 1761 : Friedrich Münter , German Protestant theologian and bishop in the Danish service
- 1765 : Jodocus Heringa Eliza's zoon , Dutch Reformed theologian
- 1767 : Nicolas Théodore de Saussure , Swiss naturalist
- 1784 : Ferdinand VII , King of Spain
- 1784 : Karl Baldamus , German lawyer, publicist, poet, storyteller and poet
- 1789 : Agustín Durán , Spanish literary scholar
- 1790 : Wilhelm Ernst Weber , German educator and philologist
- 1797 : Ida Pfeiffer , Austrian travel writer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau , Belgian-Walloon physicist and photography pioneer
- 1806 : Alexander von Arentschildt , Hanoverian and Prussian lieutenant general
- 1807 : Adolph von Wrede , German researcher on Arabia
- 1812 : Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ , Danish politician
- 1816 : Auguste Placet , French violinist and conductor
- 1817 : Marcus Thrane , Norwegian socialist
- 1819 : Samuel Beach Axtell , American politician
- 1821 : Ernst Wilhelm Ackermann , German theologian and poet
- 1829 : Eduard Lasker , Prussian politician and lawyer
- 1832 : Johan Wolter Arnberg , Swedish economist and bank director
- 1832 : Heinrich Rattermann , German-American writer and magazine editor
- 1833 : Andrew J. Applegate , American politician
- 1840 : Heinrich Ebeling , German classical philologist and lexicographer
- 1840 : Paul Güßfeldt , German geographer, explorer and alpinist
- 1840 : Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch , German physicist
- 1845 : Otto Leichtenstern , German internist
- 1848 : Josue Jean Philippe Valeton the Younger , Dutch theologian and orientalist
1851-1900
- 1859 : Alfred Bock , German manufacturer and writer
- 1859 : Camille Chevillard , French composer and conductor
- 1859 : Ravachol , French anarchist
- 1861 : Alois Mrštík , Czech writer and dramaturge
- 1864 : Stefan Żeromski , Polish writer
- 1865 : Paul Julius Arndt , German classical archaeologist
- 1865 : Felix Buttersack , German military doctor and writer
- 1865 : Edith Rebecca Saunders , British geneticist
- 1871 : Alexander von Zemlinsky , Austrian composer and conductor
- 1872 : Reginald Doherty , English tennis player
- 1872 : Margarete Susman , German writer
- 1873 : Ray Ewry , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1873 : Fernand Gregh , French writer and literary critic
- 1873 : Jules Rimet , French football official
- 1874 : Thomas Ashby , British Classical Archaeologist
- 1877 : William Wright Arnold , American lawyer and politician
- 1879 : Miles Franklin , Australian writer
- 1882 : Eamon de Valera , Irish politician, prime minister and president
- 1887 : Carlo Grano , Vatican diplomat and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1888 : Paul Burkhard , Swiss sculptor and draftsman
- 1888 : Katherine Mansfield , New Zealand-British writer
- 1889 : Max Hoelz , German politician
- 1890 : Louis Delluc , French filmmaker, writer and critic
- 1890 : Dwight D. Eisenhower , American general and politician, president
- 1891 : Isidor Aschheim , German-Israeli painter and graphic artist
- 1892 : Andrei Iwanowitsch Jerjomenko , Marshal of the Soviet Union and military theorist
- 1892 : Piet Bouman , Dutch football player
- 1893 : Lillian Gish , American actress
- 1894 : Sail Ameriane , Algerian and French anarchist
- 1894 : EE Cummings , American writer
- 1894 : Heinrich Lübke , German politician, state and federal minister, federal president
- 1895 : Ferdinand Barlog , German caricaturist and comic artist
- 1896 : Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff , German politician, MdL, MdR, Police President of Berlin, General of the Police and the SA, confidant of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944
- 1897 : Gerónimo Arnedo Álvarez , Argentine politician
- 1898 : Maurice Martenot , French musician, inventor of the Ondes Martenot
- 1900 : William Edwards Deming , American statistician, pioneer in the field of quality management
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Harry Stuhldreher , American football player and coach
- 1906 : Hannah Arendt , German-American political scientist
- 1906 : Hassan al-Banna , Egyptian teacher and founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
- 1906 : Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , German politician
- 1906 : Rafael Rodríguez Colón , Dominican medic, politician and musician
- 1907 : Josephus Joannes Maria van der Ven , Dutch lawyer
- 1909 : Bernd Rosemeyer , German racing car driver
- 1909 : Kalervo Tuukanen , Finnish composer
- 1910 : Erich Ehrlinger , German SS-Oberführer, alleged war criminal
- 1910 : John Wooden , American basketball player and coach
- 1911 : Wilhelm Karl Arnold , German psychologist
- 1911 : Le Duc Tho , Vietnamese politician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1912 : Theodor Kitt , German bobsledder
- 1912 : Helmut Schelsky , German sociologist
- 1914 : József Ács , Yugoslav painter, art educator and art critic
- 1914 : Raymond Davis Jr. , American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1916 : Jack Arnold , American film director
- 1919 : Herbert Schwarzwälder , German historian and author
- 1921 : Josef Amadori , German soccer player
- 1922 : Jaroslav Koutecký , Czech chemist
- 1924 : Ramón Castro Ruz , Cuban revolutionary, brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro
1926-1950
- 1926 : Conrad Drzewiecki , Polish ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1926 : Gérald Gagnier , Canadian composer, trumpeter and conductor
- 1927 : Roger Moore , British actor
- 1927 : Thomas Luckmann , German sociologist
- 1928 : Edith Hancke , German actress
- 1928 : Kenneth Johnson , British long distance, cross and obstacle runner
- 1928 : Héctor Rial , Argentine football player
- 1929 : Karl Robatsch , Austrian chess grandmaster and botanist
- 1929 : Norbert Gastell , German actor and voice actor
- 1930 : Mobutu Sese Seko , Zairean President
- 1931 : Heinz Fütterer , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1931 : Jock Lawrence , British racing car driver
- 1931 : Rafael Puyana Michelsen , Colombian harpsichordist
- 1932 : Wolf Vostell , German painter, sculptor and happening artist
- 1933 : Wilfried Dietrich , German wrestler
- 1938 : Melba Montgomery , American country singer
- 1938 : Farah Diba , Iranian Empress
- 1939 : Ralph Lauren , American fashion designer
- 1940 : Cliff Richard , British pop singer
- 1941 : Anton Pelinka , Austrian professor of political science
- 1941 : Peter Ducke , German football player
- 1942 : Péter Nádas , Hungarian writer
- 1943 : Anthony Iannaccone , American composer and music educator
- 1943 : Bernd Patzke , German football player
- 1943 : Wolfgang Peiner , German economic manager
- 1943 : Nicole Van den Plas , Belgian artist
- 1944 : Udo Kier , German actor
- 1944 : Volker Kluge , German sports journalist and publicist
- 1944 : Christa Merten , German athlete
- 1945 : Karin Brandauer , Austrian filmmaker
- 1945 : Colin Hodgkinson , British bass player
- 1946 : Justin Hayward , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1946 : Dan McCafferty , British singer
- 1947 : Nikolai Volkoff , Croatian-Russian wrestler
- 1947 : Hartmut König , German politician and songwriter
- 1947 : Lukas Resetarits , Austrian cabaret artist
- 1947 : Rikky von Opel , Liechtenstein car racing driver
- 1948 : Engin Arık , Turkish physicist
- 1948 : Marcia Barrett , Jamaican singer ( Boney M. )
- 1950 : Kurt Jara , Austrian football player and coach
1951-1975
- 1951 : Udo Nagel , German politician, Police President of Hamburg, Senator for the Interior
- 1952 : Harry Anderson , American actor, screenwriter, and magician
- 1952 : Nikolai Andrianow , Soviet gymnast
- 1952 : Rick Aviles , American stand-up comedian and actor
- 1952 : Margriet Eshuys , Dutch pop singer
- 1952 : Kaija Saariaho , Finnish composer
- 1953 : Aldo Maldera , Italian football player
- 1953 : Goran Simić , Serbian opera singer (bass)
- 1953 : Willi Thomczyk , German actor, musician and theater maker
- 1955 : Jean-Paul Libert , Belgian racing driver
- 1956 : Chris Bangle , American automobile designer
- 1956 : Leila Ben Ali , influential First Lady of Tunisia (1992-2011)
- 1956 : Peter Lüscher , Swiss ski racer
- 1957 : Claudio Alsuyet , Argentine composer
- 1958 : Tayfun Bademsoy , German-Turkish actor
- 1958 : Thomas Dolby , British musician
- 1958 : Klaas Huizing , German theologian
- 1958 : Peter Kloeppel , German television presenter
- 1958 : Peter Lipp , German handball player
- 1960 : Hubertus Hess-Grunewald , German lawyer and football official
- 1960 : Steve Cram , British athlete
- 1961 : Perry Lynn Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 : Michael Althen , German film critic
- 1963 : Karin Janke , German athlete
- 1963 : Lori Petty , American actress
- 1963 : Jürgen Rißmann , German theater and film actor
- 1965 : Amélie Niermeyer , German theater director
- 1965 : Karyn White , American singer
- 1967 : Oliver Adler , German soccer player
- 1967 : Michael Lewis , Belizean road cyclist
- 1968 : Patrick Neelmeier , German journalist, radio presenter and editor
- 1968 : Jan Seifert , German football player
- 1968 : Matthew Le Tissier , English football player
- 1969 : Christophe Agou , French photographer
- 1969 : David Strickland , American actor
- 1969 : PJ Brown , American basketball player
- 1970 : Pär Zetterberg , Swedish football player
- 1971 : Jochen Hippel , German musician and composer
- 1971 : Marc Schölermann , German director
- 1972 : Birgit Heeb , former Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1972 : Bert Roesems , former Belgian cyclist
- 1973 : Steven Bradbury , Australian short track athlete
- 1973 : Erik Göthel , German handball player
- 1973 : Fabián O'Neill , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1974 : Christina Benecke , German volleyball player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Kennie Chua Asuncion , Filipino badminton player
- 1976 : Andreas Widhölzl , Austrian ski jumper
- 1977 : Jason Adasiewicz , American jazz vibraphonist and composer
- 1977 : Aaron Nigel Armstrong , sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- 1977 : Joseph Anthony "Joey" Didulica , Australian-Croatian soccer player
- 1977 : Violetta Oblinger-Peters , Austrian canoeist
- 1977 : Oleg Velyky , German handball player
- 1978 : Ronnie Bremer , Danish racing car driver
- 1978 : Allison Forsyth , Canadian ski racer
- 1978 : Paul Hunter , English snooker player
- 1978 : Usher Raymond , American singer and actor
- 1979 : Robert Gabel , German political scientist and politician

Stacy Keibler (* 1979)
- 1979 : Stacy Keibler , American wrestler
- 1980 : Paul Ambrossi , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1980 : Daniel Boschmann , German moderator
- 1980 : Jens Bürkle , German handball player
- 1980 : Niels Lodberg , Danish football player and coach
- 1980 : Andy Ost , German singer and songwriter
- 1980 : Susan Sideropoulos , German actress
- 1980 : Ben Whishaw , British actor
- 1981 : Tyoni Batsiua , Nauruan weightlifter
- 1982 : Florian Hossner , German handball player
- 1982 : Benh Zeitlin , American filmmaker
- 1983 : Renato Civelli , Argentinian football professional
- 1983 : Betty Heidler , German athlete, world champion in hammer throw
- 1984 : Kevin Thomson , Scottish soccer player
- 1984 : Karen Bardsley , English soccer player
- 1985 : Luke Sassano , American football player
- 1986 : Henrique Adriano Buss , Brazilian soccer player
- 1986 : Mike Frantz , German soccer player
- 1986 : Skyler Shaye , American actress
- 1988 : Yusef Ali , Qatari soccer player
- 1988 : William Henry Atkinson , English football player
- 1988 : Max Thieriot , American actor
- 1990 : Anthony Ujah , Nigerian soccer player
- 1997 : Hans-Laurin Beyerling , German child actor
- 1997 : Andrij Kljestow , Ukrainian billiards player
- 1998 : Nina Kaiser , German actress and singer
21st century
- 2001 : Rowan Blanchard , American actress
Died
Before the 16th century
- 530 : Dioskur , antipope
- 859 : Liupram , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1047 : Henry VII , Duke of Bavaria
- 1066 : Gyrth Godwinson , brother of Harald II of England
- 1066 : Harald II , last Anglo-Saxon king before the conquest of England by the Normans
- 1066 : Leofwine Godwinson , brother of Harald II of England
- 1066 : Taillefer , Norman bard
- 1077 : Andronikos Dukas , Byzantine general and court dignitary
- 1092 : Nizam al-Mulk , vizier of the Seljuks
- 1103 : Humbert the Strong , Count of Savoy
- 1127 : Heinrich II. Von Werl , Bishop of Paderborn
- 1152 : Rudolf I , Count of Valois and Vermandois, Seneschal of France
- 1172 : Ludwig II , Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1185 : Alan of Auxerre , Bishop of Auxerre
- 1216 : Konrad von Rodank , Bishop of Brixen
- 1217 : Isabel of Gloucester , Queen of England
- 1242 : Elger IV. Zu Hohenstein , first prior of the Dominican monastery in Eisenach and advisor and confidante of Heinrich Raspe
- 1256 : Kujō Yoritsugu , Japanese shogun
- 1279 : Walram V , Duke of Limburg
- 1292 : John of Flanders , Bishop of Liège and Metz
- 1318 : Edward Bruce , Irish high king, brother of Robert the Bruce
- 1347 : Peter I. von Rosenberg , governor of Bohemia
- 1355 : John de Lisle , English nobleman and military man
- 1416 : Heinrich I , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- 1424 : Otto IV von Hoya , Bishop of Münster
- 1437 : Simon von Utrecht , Hamburg ship captain from the Netherlands
16th to 18th century
- 1536 : Garcilaso de la Vega , Spanish soldier and poet
- 1552 : Oswald Myconius , Swiss reformer
- 1558 : Mellin de Saint-Gelais , French poet, court poet of Francis I.
- 1567 : Barbara von Heppenheim called vom Saal , German noblewoman and abbess of the Cistercian convent Rosenthal (Palatinate)
- 1576 : Konrad Heresbach , German humanist
- 1580 : Jos Murer , Swiss glass painter, cartographer and playwright
- 1623 : Jürgen Röttger , German stonemason and sculptor
- 1639 : Shōkadō Shōjō , Japanese painter
- 1658 : Francesco I d'Este , Duke of Reggio, Modena
- 1669 : Antonio Cesti , Italian conductor and composer
- 1673 : Diego Osorio de Escobar , Spanish Bishop of the Catholic Church and Viceroy of New Spain
- 1677 : Francis Glisson , British physician
- 1687 : Sarı Süleyman Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1688 : Joachim von Sandrart , painter, engraver and art historian
- 1689 : Adolf Johann I , Swedish Reichsmarschall, Duke of Stegeborg and Pfalz-Kleeburg
- 1699 : Claude Bourdelin , French chemist and pharmacist
- 1701 : Friedrich von Kospoth , electoral secret councilor and supervisor of the county of Mansfeld
- 1702 : Franz Anton , Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
- 1703 : Thomas Kingo , Danish bishop and psalmist
- 1709 : Lee Seo-woo , Korean philosopher, poet and politician
- 1719 : Arnold Houbraken , Dutch painter and art writer
- 1733 : Pietro Pariati , Italian poet and librettist
- 1747 : Amaro Pargo , Spanish corsairs of the Golden Age
- 1758 : James Keith , British Lord and General
- 1758 : Wilhelmine of Prussia , Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- 1767 : Ernst von Apfaltern , Austrian Jesuit and philosopher
- 1769 : Francesco Corradini , Italian composer
- 1771 : František Xaver Brixi , Czech composer, organist and conductor
- 1792 : Sophie Charlotte Ackermann , German actress #
- 1799 : Johann Wendler , German bookseller, publisher and donor
19th century
- 1803 : François Pierre Ami Argand , Swiss physicist, chemist, inventor and entrepreneur
- 1803 : Ercole III. d'Este , son of Duke Francesco III. d'Este
- 1803 : Jacques Gamelin , French painter, draftsman, engraver and etcher of early classicism
- 1815 : Christian Ludwig August von Arnswaldt , electoral-Braunschweig-Lüneburg politician
- 1817 : Fyodor Ushakow , Russian admiral
- 1831 : Jean-Louis Pons , French astronomer
- 1833 : Vincenz August Wagner , Austrian lawyer and university professor
- 1843 : Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld , German politician
- 1844 : Jan Baptiste de Jonghe , Flemish-Belgian painter
- 1856 : Johann Kaspar Mertz , Austrian composer and guitar virtuoso
- 1857 : Johan Christian Clausen Dahl , Norwegian painter
- 1862 : Friedrich Rudolf Hasse , German theologian
- 1865 : Cyprian Romberg , German cellist
- 1867 : WO von Horn , German writer
- 1870 : Karl Twesten , German politician and lawyer
- 1872 : Albrecht of Prussia , Prussian Prince and General
- 1876 : Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith , American politician
- 1877 : Antoine Elwart , French composer, music teacher and scholar
- 1879 : Ferdinand Kürnberger , Austrian writer
- 1891 : Julius Jolly , German politician, minister of state and head of government in Baden
- 1892 : Peter Nicolai Arbo , Norwegian painter
- 1896 : Italo Campanini , Italian opera singer (tenor)
20th century
1901-1950
- 1909 : Gottfred Matthison-Hansen , Danish composer
- 1910 : Rudolf Lindau , German writer and diplomat
- 1911 : John Marshall Harlan , American Supreme Court Justice
- 1911 : Hans Schmid , Swiss aviation pioneer
- 1913 : Norbert Hanrieder , Austrian dialect poet
- 1913 : Ferdinand Rüegg , Bishop of St. Gallen
- 1923 : George Elbridge Whiting , American composer and organist
- 1924 : Helen Smith Woodruff , American writer
- 1925 : Eugen Sandow , founder of modern bodybuilding
- 1927 : Eero Erkko , Finnish journalist and politician
- 1934 : Leonid Sobinow , Russian opera singer
- 1939 : Friedrich Simon Archenhold , astronomer and co-founder of the Archenhold observatory in Berlin-Treptow
- 1939 : Polaire , French chansonnière and actress
- 1941 : Arthur Holitscher , writer
- 1944 : Erwin Rommel , German field marshal, commander of the German Africa Corps
- 1945 : Karl Hayd , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1949 : Karl Adrian , Austrian homeland researcher
- 1950 : António Maria da Silva , Portuguese Prime Minister
1951-2000
- 1951 : Hermann Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian politician and KuK treasurer
- 1956 : Benno Georg Eduard Wilhelm Joachim von Arent , German architect
- 1957 : Natanael Berg , Swedish composer
- 1958 : Douglas Mawson , British-Australian Antarctic explorer
- 1959 : Errol Flynn , American actor
- 1959 : Heinz Meyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1959 : Karl Scharrer , Austrian agricultural chemist
- 1960 : Sigurd Hoel , Norwegian writer
- 1960 : Abram Fjodorowitsch Joffe , Soviet physicist
- 1961 : Paul Ramadier , French Prime Minister
- 1964 : Horst Platen , German composer, conductor and theater director, as well as broadcasting director of the NORAG subsidiary station Hanover
- 1967 : Marcel Aymé , French writer
- 1969 : Hans Mühlenfeld , German ambassador
- 1972 : Maria Elisabeth Ammann , German welfare worker
- 1976 : Edith Evans , British actress
- 1977 : Bing Crosby , American singer and actor
- 1978 : Cardinal Bolesław Filipiak , Polish clergyman, cardinal to the Curia
- 1979 : Arthur Mendel , American choir conductor, musicologist and teacher
- 1981 : Elsa Scholten , German actress
- 1982 : Gerhard Kreyssig , German politician
- 1984 : Richard Attlesey , American hurdler
- 1984 : Martin Ryle , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1985 : Harry Friedauer , German actor and operetta singer
- 1985 : Emil Gilels , Ukrainian pianist Barbara Kostrzewska , singer and music teacher
- 1986 : Barbara Kostrzewska , singer and music teacher
- 1986 : Bilal Xhaferr Xhaferri , Albanian writer and publicist
- 1987 : Emmy Loose , Austrian opera singer
- 1988 : René Vietto , French racing cyclist
- 1989 : Martin Broszat , German historian
- 1989 : Lucy Doraine , Hungarian silent film star
- 1989 : Hans Körnig , German graphic artist and painter
- 1990 : Leonard Bernstein , American composer and conductor
- 1990 : Armin Dassler , German entrepreneur and sports shoe manufacturer
- 1990 : Daniel Guilet , French-American violinist and music teacher of Russian origin
- 1991 : Gianni Dova , Italian painter
- 1991 : John Newmark , Canadian pianist
- 1995 : Edith Pargeter , British writer ( Ellis Peters )
- 1996 : Jean Grimaldi , Canadian actor, singer and author
- 1997 : Harold Robbins , American writer
- 1998 : Adolf Althoff , German artist, tamer and circus director
- 1999 : Julius Nyerere , Tanzanian politician
- 1999 : Manfred Wolter , German author and director
- 2000 : Rudolf Schenda , German-Swiss folklorist and narrative researcher
21st century
- 2002 : Keizō Hino , Japanese writer
- 2002 : Norbert Schultze , German composer ( Lili Marleen )
- 2002 : Seymour Rexite , Polish-American actor and singer of Yiddish theater, radio and television
- 2003 : Mokhtar Ould Daddah , Mauritanian politician
- 2003 : Heinz Quermann , German television entertainer in the GDR
- 2004 : Juan Francisco Fresno Larraín , Chilean clergyman, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, cardinal
- 2005 : Edmund Bacon , American architect and urban planner
- 2005 : Herbert Hufnagl , Austrian journalist and columnist
- 2006 : Pranas Vaičekonis , Lithuanian canon lawyer and priest, theologian and professor of canon law
- 2006 : Alfred Hans Zoller , German composer and jazz pianist, cantor and organist
- 2007 : Big Moe , American rapper
- 2008 : Barrington J. Bayley , British writer
- 2008 : Terry Fox , American action artist, painter and sculptor
- 2008 : Pat Moss , British rally driver
- 2009 : Orfila Bardesio , Uruguayan poet
- 2009 : Simone Frost , German actress
- 2009 : Bruce Wasserstein , American investment banker
- 2010 : Benno Artmann , German mathematician
- 2010 : Thomas Fuchsberger , German musician and author
- 2010 : Benoît Mandelbrot , French-American mathematician
- 2010 : Hermann Scheer , German politician, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize
- 2010 : Tadeusz Styczeń , Polish theologian
- 2011 : Laura Pollán , Cuban teacher and human rights activist ( women in white )
- 2012 : Michael Asher , American concept artist
- 2012 : Arlen Specter , American politician
- 2013 : Bruno Metsu , French football player and coach
- 2014 : Marcello Argilli , Italian lawyer, journalist, writer, children's book author and comic book author
- 2015 : Mathieu Kérékou , Beninese politician and President
- 2015 : Josef Wolfsegger , Austrian politician
- 2016 : Pierre Étaix , French clown, actor, illustrator, film director and author
- 2017 : Wolfgang Bötsch , German politician and Federal Minister
- 2017 : Richard Wilbur , American poet and translator
- 2018 : Eduardo Arroyo , Spanish visual artist
- 2018 : Milena Dravić , Yugoslav or Serbian actress
- 2018 : Wolfgang Krueger , German politician
- 2019 : Harold Bloom , American literary scholar
- 2019 : Mike Brockman , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 2019 : Anke Fuchs , German politician
- 2019 : Sulli , singer and actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Jacob the Notary , Persian Martyr (Protestant)
- St. Burkard of Würzburg , Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop (Roman Catholic)
- Name days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Web links
Commons : October 14th - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Stannard: Muriel Spark: the biography , London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009, ISBN 978-0-297-81592-1 . P. 253