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Calendar overview 2014

January
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
1			1	2	3	4th	5
2	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12
3	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
4th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th
5	27	28	29	30th	31

February
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
5						1	2
6th	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
7th	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
8th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
9	24	25th	26th	27	28

March
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
9						1	2
10	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
11	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
12	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
13	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th
14th	31

April
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
14th		1	2	3	4th	5	6th
15th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
16	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
17th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27
18th	28	29	30th

May
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
18th				1	2	3	4th
19th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
20th	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
21st	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th
22nd	26th	27	28	29	30th	31

June
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
22nd							1
23	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
24	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
25th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
26th	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29
27	30th

July
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
27		1	2	3	4th	5	6th
28	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
29	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
30th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27
31	28	29	30th	31

August
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
31					1	2	3
32	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
33	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
34	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
35	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	31

September
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
36	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
37	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th
38	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
39	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28
40	29	30th

October
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
40			1	2	3	4th	5
41	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12
42	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
43	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th
44	27	28	29	30th	31

November
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
44						1	2
45	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
46	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
47	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
48	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th

December
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
49	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
50	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th
51	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
52	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28
1	29	30th	31

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2014
A coalition of states spanning all continents tries to reduce the influence of the Islamic State Organization .
Germany wins the 2014 World Cup .
The 2014 Winter Olympics will take place in Sochi, Russia .
The Edathy affair triggers a government crisis in Germany and leads, among other things, to the resignation of Federal Agriculture Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich .
The Euromaidan protests and the subsequent Crimean crisis lead to diplomatic, political and economic turmoil between Russia on the one hand and Ukraine, the European Union , the United States and other western states on the other.
A Malaysia Airlines plane on its way from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing in China disappears without a trace on March 8, triggering a multinational search.
In the course of the crisis in Ukraine , demonstrations and occupations of buildings by pro-Russian separatists and supporters of federalization in oblasts in the east and south of the country lead to armed battles with troops of the Kiev central government.
In West Africa , the spread of Ebola fever and takes epidemic proportions on.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and the 17-year-old Pakistani student Malala Yousafzai . Yousafzai is by far the youngest person to have received a Nobel Prize.

2014 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2767
Armenian calendar	1462-1463
Ethiopian calendar	2006-2007
Badi calendar	170-171
Bengali calendar	1420-1421
Berber calendar	2964
Buddhist calendar	2558
Burmese calendar	1376
Byzantine calendar	7522-7523
Chinese calendar
- era	4710-4711 or 4650-4651
- 60 year cycle	Water snake ( 癸巳 , 30) - wood horse ( 甲午 , 31)
French revolutionary calendar	000222CCXXII -000223 CCXXIII 222-223
Hebrew calendar	5774-5775
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2070-2071
- Shaka Samvat	1936-1937
Iranian calendar	1392-1393
Islamic calendar	1435-1436
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Heisei 26
- Kōki	2674
Coptic calendar	1730-1731
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4347
- Juche era	103
Minguo calendar	103
Modern Olympics	000030XXX
Seleucid calendar	2325-2326
Thai solar calendar	2557

The year 2014 was international from the Ukraine crisis , the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East , exacerbated by the transnational occurrence of violent organization Islamic State , as well as the Ebola fever epidemic struck in West Africa. At the time, 2014 set a heat record in several Western and Central European countries, including Germany and Austria, and was generally the warmest year in Europe since weather records began. In Germany , the Edathy affair and the car toll planned for 2016 were an important topic, but also Germany's victory at the World Cup in Brazil .

Events

Politics and world events

January 1: Latvia becomes the 18th country to join the euro area .
January 1st: Greece takes over the EU presidency for six months until June 30th.
January 1st: Didier Burkhalter becomes Swiss President .
January 31 to February 2: 50th Munich Security Conference
February 2nd: Early parliamentary elections in Thailand
18./19. February: 17th European Police Congress in Berlin
From February 7th: Edathy affair
February 22: The Ukrainian parliament deposed President Viktor Yanukovych as a result of the Euromaidan protests .

March 11: The Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea declares its independence from Ukraine .

March 15: Presidential election in Slovakia

March 16: Local elections in Bavaria

March 20: The German Bundestag sets up the NSA committee of inquiry on behalf of all parliamentary groups .

May 1st: Start of the driving license register (FAER) to replace the central traffic register (VZR)

May 11: Presidential election in Lithuania (runoff on May 25, 2014)

May 22: Military coup in Thailand

22-25 May: European elections

May 25: Local elections in Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia

May 25th: Presidential election in Ukraine

May 25th: Parliamentary election in Belgium

26./27. May: presidential election in Egypt

June 8: Parliamentary elections in Kosovo

June 10: Baltic Sea Council (CBSS) summit in Finland

June 10: The Islamist organization ISIS conquers the northern Iraqi city of Mosul as part of a major offensive , which among other things results in the destruction of some historical sites.

June 14: The G77 + China summit in ( Bolivia ) gives the South-South cooperation and emancipation from the Western world important impulses.

July 1: Italy takes over the EU Council Presidency for six months.

From July 8: Israel undertakes a military offensive, including a ground offensive, in the Gaza Strip from mid-July . As of August 25, 2014, more than 2,100 Palestinians were killed and more than ten thousand injured, most of them civilians, in heavy bombings and shelling.

July 24: Reuven Rivlin succeeds Shimon Peres as the tenth President of Israel .

August 3: The Islamic State perpetrates genocide against the Yazidis in Sinjar , Iraq .

August 10: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is elected 12th Turkish President in the first round of the presidential election in Turkey ; he will take office on August 28, 2014.

August 15: The Islamic State committed a massacre of the Yazidi in Kocho . IS is killing the men from the village and kidnapping the women and children.

August 26: Klaus Wowereit , the long-time Governing Mayor of Berlin , announced his resignation on December 11, 2014.

August 31: State election in Saxony

4th to 5th September: NATO summit in Newport , UK

September 14: Parliamentary election in Sweden

September 14: State elections in Brandenburg and state elections in Thuringia

September 18: Referendum on Scottish independence

September 21: State election in Vorarlberg

October 15: The number of refugees in Europe reaches its highest level since 1949.

November 4: Mid-term election in the United States

November 9th: Non-binding referendum on the political future of Catalonia

15.-16. November: Summit of the Group of the Twenty Most Developed and Emerging Countries (G-20) in Brisbane , Australia

From November 24th: In connection with the death of Michael Brown and other deaths due to police violence, there are ongoing demonstrations in Ferguson (Missouri) and in numerous other locations in the USA.

December 1: Donald Tusk becomes the new President of the European Council, succeeding Herman Van Rompuy .

December 5th: With the election of Bodo Ramelow as Prime Minister of the State of Thuringia , a politician of the party Die Linke achieved this position for the first time .

December 8th: A demonstration in Dresden by the citizens' movement PEGIDA, which has been active since October 2014, with around 10,000 participants, triggers a social discussion about this group and its supporters.

December 13: The 20th UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, ends after being extended with vague, non-binding declarations of intent.

December 17: Cuba and the United States announce the normalization of their relations, including the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two states.

December 19: In response to a terrorist attack in Peshawar that killed 148 people, Pakistan lifted a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorist offenses and started executions of convicted terrorists; Subsequently, the government also decides to set up special military tribunals for suspected terrorists.

December 31, 2014: Official end of the combat mission and (partial) withdrawal of the “ International Security Support Force ” from Afghanistan ; 13,500 soldiers from several countries will remain in Afghanistan.

Sports

January 1st : Michael van Gerwen wins the PDC World Darts Championship

12-26 January: 11th European Men's Handball Championship in Denmark

January 24th: Start of the second half of the season in the Bundesliga

February 2: Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford , New Jersey

7-23 February: Winter Olympics in Sochi

February 25th to March 2nd: International Badminton Championships of Germany (German Open)

7-16 March: 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi

May 4th: The Wings for Life World Run takes place for the first time

May 14: Final of the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League at the Juventus Stadium in Turin

May 17th: Men's DFB Cup final in Berlin and the women's DFB Cup final in Cologne

May 22nd: 2013/14 UEFA Women's Champions League final at the Estádio do Restelo in Lisbon

May 24: Final of the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon

May 30th to June 1st: European Rowing Championships in Belgrade

June 12th to July 13th: 20th World Cup in Brazil ; Germany wins .

5th - 27th July: Tour de France

July 18: The German soccer player Philipp Lahm declares his resignation as a national player .

19. – 31. July: 30th European Under-19 Football Championship in Hungary ; Germany wins .

August 11: The German soccer player Miroslav Klose declares his resignation as a national player .

12-17 August: European Athletics Championships in Zurich

13.-24. August: European Swimming Championships 2014 in Berlin

August 15: The German soccer player Per Mertesacker declares his resignation as a national player .

August 22: The 52nd season of the Bundesliga begins.

24.-31. August: World Rowing Championships on the Bosbaan in Amsterdam

August 30th to September 21st: Men's volleyball world championship in Poland

October 11th: The New York Lions from Braunschweig win the German Bowl XXXV

5th - 25th November: Magnus Carlsen successfully defends the title against Viswanathan Anand at the 2014 World Chess Championship .

November 23rd: Lewis Hamilton becomes world champion in Formula 1 for the second time .

Culture and society

January 31: Chinese New Year , 馬 Year of the Wood Horse (甲午jiǎwǔ 31)
6-16 February: 64th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale)
March 2nd: Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood , Los Angeles , USA
May 6th, 8th and 10th: 59th Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen , Denmark
6-8 June: 22nd Düsseldorf Jazz Rally in Düsseldorf
6-15 June: 54th Hessentag in Bensheim
7th-9th June: Rock am Ring on the Nürburgring near Adenau
20.-22. June: 11th Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Day in Neustrelitz
20.-22. June: Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel
26.-29. June: 11th Fusion Festival in Lärz , MV
27.-29. June: North Rhine-Westphalia Day in Bielefeld
3rd-6th July: 24th TFF Rudolstadt in Rudolstadt
5th-6th July: 14th Brandenburg Day in Spremberg
July 18 to September 28: 8th international exhibition for contemporary arts Dresden (Ostrale 014)
18.-20. July: 31st Rhineland-Palatinate Day in Neuwied
18.-20. July: 18th Saxony-Anhalt Day in Wernigerode
18.-20. July: 10. Tomorrowland in Boom , Belgium
23-27 July: Breminale - open air cultural festival in Bremen
25-27 July: The festival (open-air music festival) in Karlsruhe
July 31 to August 2: 25th Wacken Open Air in Wacken
1st - 3rd August: 38th Bardentreffen (open-air music festival) in Nuremberg
22.-31. August: 292nd Rudolstadt bird shooting in Rudolstadt
5th-7th September: 23rd Day of the Saxons in Grossenhain
September 20th: 10th Bundesvision Song Contest in Göttingen
September 21 to October 5: Oktoberfest in Munich
8-12 October: Frankfurt Book Fair ; Host country: Finland
November 3: In New York City that is One World Trade Center opened.
December 13: With the 215th edition, the 33-year history of Wetten dass ..? , Europe's largest television show.

religion

April 20: Easter

April 27: Canonization of Popes John XXIII. and John Paul II in Rome

May 14: Vesakh

May 28th to June 1st: 99th German Catholic Day in Regensburg

May 29th: Ascension Day

6-8 June: International Church Day of the New Apostolic Church in Munich

June 8th: Pentecost

June 28th to July 28th: Ramadan

October 4th: Yom Kippur

October 4th: Islamic Festival of Sacrifice

October 23: Diwali

December 17th: Hanukkah

December 22nd: In a Christmas address, Pope Francis criticized the grievances in the Curia in an unusually sharp manner .

economy

January 10: The Catholic publishing group Weltbild applies for insolvency proceedings to be opened.
17.-26. January: International Green Week Berlin
22-25 January: World Economic Forum in Davos ( Switzerland )
January: The US company Chrysler is fully taken over by the Italian company Fiat SpA .
February 19: The US company Facebook buys the US company WhatsApp .
10-14 March: CeBIT ; Information technology fair in Hanover
7-11 April: Hanover Fair
20th - 25th May: ILA Berlin Air Show
May 31–8. June: Auto Mobil International (AMI) in Leipzig
August: The US company Burger King takes over the Canadian company Tim Hortons .
14.-17. August: Gamescom in Cologne
5th – 10th September: International radio exhibition in Berlin
September 23: New 10 euro banknotes launched in the euro area
September 25 to October 2: 65th IAA Commercial Vehicles in Hanover
October 3: After the approval of the EU Commission for the merger of the US company Chiquita Brands International and the Irish company Fyffes , the world's largest banana trader is created.
October 6: The media group Bertelsmann announces the complete takeover of the printing and publishing house Gruner + Jahr .
November 4: The European Central Bank takes over the uniform banking supervision of the big banks in the Eurozone .
December 5: The last vehicle is assembled at the Opel plant in Bochum before the plant is closed.
December 6th: At an extraordinary general meeting, the ADAC decides to separate its economic activities from the association's tasks; u. a. the establishment of a stock corporation and a foundation is planned for this purpose.
December 22nd: The first long-haul, wide-body Airbus A350 is delivered to Qatar Airways .
December: The EU announces the introduction of beneficial owner registers of companies and the UK announces in April 2015 that taxes will be levied on diverted profits . Before that, the Luxembourg leaks sparked a discussion about tax avoidance by global corporations.

science and technology

From January onwards, only the electronic health card (eGK) is officially the only valid patient insurance certificate in Germany . However, as part of an unlimited transitional arrangement, the old health insurance cards can still be scanned.

On August 13, the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive the highest honor for mathematicians, the Fields Medal .

Space travel

Landing of Philae on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (artist's impression)

May: The Rosetta probe approaches its target comet 67P for the first time .
August: The Rosetta probe maps target comet 67P at close range for the first time.
November 12: The Philae lander, launched by the Rosetta probe on comet 67P , is the first spacecraft to land on a comet.
December: Launch of Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle under the flight EFT-1 of the NASA

Disasters

From the middle of the year the Ebola virus spread in West Africa and assumed epidemic proportions . On August 8, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is declared an international health emergency by the WHO ; assuming a high number of unreported cases, the death toll had reached 7905 by December 28, 2014.

Natural disasters

January: Cold spell in North America
January: Extreme rainfall in Bolivia
January and February: California drought
January and February: severe weather in southern Europe
February: Floods in England (from December 2013)
February: Storm surge on the European Atlantic coast
0April 1: Earthquake off Iquique , Chile
0May 2: Landslides caused by two mudslides in the Afghan province of Badachschan may kill more than 2,100 people.
11-19 May: The Yvette in the Balkans claims several human lives and causes severe damage in south-east and east-central Europe.
0June 9: In an unusually strong storm at Whitsun , several people are killed in Germany and there is high property damage , especially in North Rhine-Westphalia .
0August 3: More than 400 people are killed in an earthquake in southern China's Yunnan Province .
November: If it rains continuously in Ticino , 4 people are killed in several landslides. Several are injured. The Magadino plain was partly under water for several days.

Serious accidents

0March 8: A Malaysia Airlines plane with 239 people on board disappears without a trace in the Indian Ocean . In mid-2015, wreckage from the machine was washed up on the beach on Reunion Island .

April 16: The Sewol ferry capsizes and sinks off the southwest coast of South Korea . 174 of the 476 people on board could be saved.

May 13: More than 300 miners die in a mining accident in Soma , western Turkey . A residential building collapsed in North Korea , and hundreds of people are believed to have been killed.

July 17: A Malaysia Airlines plane with 298 people on board crashes over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border.

September 10th: A refugee boat is deliberately rammed by people smugglers en route from Damiette in Egypt to Malta . Around 500 people are killed.

September 14: A refugee boat sinks off the Libyan coast. 164 people drown.

December 28: An Indonesia AirAsia plane with 162 people on board had an accident over the Karimata Strait off the coast of Borneo ; there are no survivors.

Nobel Prizes

The 2014 Nobel Prize winners were announced from October 6th to 13th, 2014. The awards took place on December 10th, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death , in Stockholm and Oslo .

Physiology or medicine : John O'Keefe , May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser “for the discovery of cells that form a positioning system in the brain”.
Physics : Isamu Akasaki , Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient, blue-light emitting diodes that made bright and energy-saving white light sources possible".
Chemistry : Eric Betzig , Stefan Hell and William Moerner "for the development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy ".
Literature : Patrick Modiano "for the art of memory with which he evoked the most intangible human destinies and the lifeworld of the occupation".
Peace : Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai “for their fight against the oppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics : Jean Tirole “for his analysis of the power and regulation of markets”.

Memorial days

(for annually recurring days: see → List of commemorative and action days )

See also: Literature Memorial Days

January 6th : 100th birthday of the German art collector Heinz Berggruen

January 28 : 1,200. Anniversary of the death of Emperor Charlemagne

January 29 : 200th anniversary of the death of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte

29./30. January: 125th anniversary of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf ( Austro-Hungarian heir to the throne) and his lover Mary Vetsera in Mayerling Castle

January 30th : 100th birthday of the German composer Franz Josef Breuer

February 4th : 100th birthday of the German writer Alfred Andersch

February 14 : 1000th anniversary of Henry II's coronation as emperor in Rome

March 6th : 300th anniversary of the signing of the Rastatt Peace

March 12 : 100th anniversary of the death of American inventor George Westinghouse

April 2nd : 100th birthday of British actor Alec Guinness

April 7th : 400th anniversary of the death of the painter El Greco

April 15 : 250th anniversary of Madame de Pompadour's death

April 20 : 700th anniversary of the death of Pope Clement V.

April 21 : 150th birthday of the German economist and sociologist Max Weber

May 2 : 150th anniversary of the death of the German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer

May 7th : 60th anniversary of the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ

May 20th : 250th birthday of the graphic artist and sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow

May 24th : 100th birthday of German actress Lilli Palmer

June 8th : 300th anniversary of the death of Sophie von der Pfalz

June 21 : 100th anniversary of the death of the Austrian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Bertha von Suttner

June 28 : 100th anniversary of the Sarajevo attack

July 2nd : 300th birthday of the German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck

July 27 : 800th anniversary of the Battle of Bouvines

July 28 : 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I.

July 31 : 100th birthday of the French actor Louis de Funès

August 1st : 70th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising

August 12th : 300th anniversary of the death of Queen Anne Stuart . The House of Stuart ends on the British royal throne. The personal union between Great Britain and Hanover begins.

August 19 : 2000th anniversary of the death of the Roman emperor Augustus

August 20 : 100th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius X.

August 24 : 200th anniversary of the Battle of Bladensburg and the British capture of Washington

August 27 : 100th birthday of the German actress Heidi Kabel

August 31 : 150th anniversary of the death of the German politician Ferdinand Lassalle

September 1 : 75th anniversary of the start of World War II

September 7th : 300th anniversary of the signing of the Peace of Baden

September 9th : 1800th birthday of the Roman emperor Aurelian

September 18 : 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Congress of Vienna (until June 9, 1815)

September 26 : 100th anniversary of the death of the German painter August Macke

November 5th : 600th anniversary of the beginning of the Council of Constance

November 5th : 100th anniversary of the death of the German biologist August Weismann

November 6 : 200th birthday of the instrument maker Adolphe Sax

November 9th : 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

November 24th : 150th birthday of the French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

November 28 : 100th anniversary of the death of the German chemist and physicist Johann Wilhelm Hittorf

December 14 : 100th birthday of the German politician Karl Carstens

December 24th : 200th anniversary of the Peace of Ghent

December 26th : 10th anniversary of the severe tsunami in the Indian Ocean

December 31 : 500th birthday of the anatomist Andreas Vesalius

300th anniversary of the introduction of the Fahrenheit scale by Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit from Gdansk

astronomy

Artist's impression of the comet passing through Mars

Annular solar eclipse on April 29th ; visible in eastern Antarctica.
Partial solar eclipse on October 23 ; visible in North America.
The Comet C / 2013 A1 (Siding Spring) missing on October 19, just a collision with Mars .

Weather / climate

From a global perspective, 2014 was the hottest year in some countries (e.g. Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, Sweden) since NOAA weather records began in 1880. The average temperature over land and seas was 14.6 degrees Celsius ( 0.69 degrees Celsius higher than the mean temperature of the 20th century, 13.9 degrees Celsius). This was announced by the NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , a US agency). Nine of the ten warmest years globally since 1880 are therefore in the 21st century. There is no sign of a trend reversal in global warming . In Germany, the mean temperature was in double digits for the first time (10.3 degrees Celsius).

Annual dedications

Initiatives

Science Year 2014 - The Digital Society
International Year of Family Farming ( UN )
International Year of Crystallography ( UN )
International Year of Small Island Developing Countries ( UN )
The green woodpecker ( Picus viridis ) is bird of the year ( Naturschutzbund Deutschland NABU)
The swan flower ( Butomus umbellatus ) is flower of the year ( Loki Schmidt Foundation )

The sessile oak ( Quercus petraea ) is tree of the year ( Dr. Silvius Wodarz Foundation )
The milkweed hawk ( Hyles euphorbiae ) is butterfly of the year ( Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland BUND)
The leafless avid beard ( Epipogium aphyllum ) is Orchid of the Year ( Arbeitskreis Heimische Orchideen AHO)
The sturgeon (Acipenseridae) is fish of the year ( Deutscher Angelfischerverband DAFV)

Year of crystallography

Green Woodpecker
( Picus viridis )

Swan flower
( Butomus umbellatus )
Grape oak
( Quercus petraea )
Leafless adversity
( Epigonium aphyllum )
Spurge Hawk
( Hyles euphorbiae )
European sturgeon
( Acipenser sturio )

Born

February 20th : Leonore of Sweden , Swedish princess
December 10 : Gabriella of Monaco and Hereditary Prince Jacques of Monaco

Died

For the detailed list of the deceased see Nekrolog 2014 .

January

0January 2 : Thomas Kurzhals , German composer and musician (* 1953 )
0January 3 : Phil Everly , American singer and musician (* 1939 )
0January 5 : Eusébio , Portuguese football player (* 1942 )
0January 5th : Nelson Ned , Brazilian singer-songwriter (* 1947 )
0January 6 : Karlheinz Küting , German business economist and university professor (* 1944 )
0January 9 : Amiri Baraka , American poet and writer (* 1934 )
0January 9 : Winfried Hassemer , German constitutional judge (* 1940 )
0January 9 : Marc Yor , French mathematician (* 1949 )
January 10th : Sam Berns , progeria sufferer (* 1996 )
January 11th : Fritz Molden , Austrian publisher (* 1924 )
January 11 : Ariel Sharon , Israeli general and politician (* 1928 )
January 11th : Hans Schroeder , German doll maker and player (* 1928 )
January 13 : Joachim Nowotny , German writer (* 1933 )
January 20 : Claudio Abbado , Italian conductor (* 1933 )
January 22nd : Fred Bertelmann , German pop singer and actor (* 1925 )
January 22nd : Patrick Brooking , British officer (* 1937 )
January 25 : Kurt Krenn , Austrian bishop (* 1936 )
January 26 : José Emilio Pacheco , Mexican writer (* 1939 )
January 27 : Pete Seeger , American folk musician (* 1919 )

February

0February 1 : Luis Aragonés , Spanish football player and coach (* 1938 )
0February 1 : Prospero Nale Arellano , Philippine bishop-prelate (* 1937 )
0February 1 : Maximilian Schell , Austrian actor and director (* 1930 )
0February 2 : Gerd Albrecht , German conductor (* 1935 )
0February 2 : Philip Seymour Hoffman , American actor (* 1967 )
0February 4th : Mario Benusiglio , Italian racing driver (* 1950 )
0February 4 : Hubert Luthe , German bishop (* 1927 )
0February 5 : Robert Alan Dahl , American political scientist (* 1915 )
February 10 : Stuart Hall , British sociologist (* 1932 )
February 10 : Shirley Temple , American actress (* 1928 )
February 11 : Alice Babs , Swedish singer and actress (* 1924 )
February 12 : Josef Röhrig , German football player (* 1925 )
February 13 : Georg Huntemann , German Protestant theologian and university lecturer (* 1929 )
February 14th : Tom Finney , English soccer player (* 1922 )
February 17th : Peter Florin , German politician (* 1921 )
February 18 : Simón Díaz , Venezuelan composer and singer, comedian, actor and television presenter (* 1928 )
February 18 : Hermann Rieger , German physiotherapist (* 1941 )
February 23 : Alice Herz-Sommer , Israeli pianist and Holocaust survivor (* 1903 )
February 24 : Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling , German graphic artist and painter (* 1924 )
February 24 : Harold Ramis , American actor and film director (* 1944 )
February 24 : Günter Reisch , German film director and screenwriter (* 1927 )
February 25 : Paco de Lucía , Spanish guitarist (* 1947 )
February 28 : Inge Schulz , German actress, radio play and voice actor (* 1923 )

March

0March 1 : Alain Resnais , French film director (* 1922 )
0March 4 : Fritz Marquardt , German theater director and actor (* 1928 )
0March 6 : Jim Jeffords , American racing car driver (* 1926 )
0March 8 : Gerard Mortier , Belgian artistic director and festival director (* 1943 )
0March 8 : Justus Pfaue , German writer and screenwriter (* 1942 )
March 10 : Ivan Gams , Yugoslav and Slovenian geographer and university lecturer (* 1923 )
March 11 : Ken Russell , American football player (born 1935 )
March 13 : Reubin O'Donovan Askew , American politician (* 1928 )
March 13 : Ahmad Tejan Kabbah , Sierra Leonean President (* 1932 )
March 14th : Tony Benn , British politician (* 1925 )
March 14 : Werner Rackwitz , German opera director and cultural politician (* 1929 )
March 17th : Mareike Carrière , German actress (* 1954 )
March 19 : Hilderaldo Bellini , Brazilian soccer player (* 1930 )
March 21 : Moritz-Casimir zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg , German forestry graduate and entrepreneur (* 1923 )
March 21 : James Rebhorn , American actor (* 1948 )
March 22nd : Friedl Hofbauer , Austrian poet and author of young adult books (* 1924 )
March 23 : Adolfo Suárez , Spanish politician (* 1932 )
March 26 : Karl Otmar von Aretin , German historian (* 1923 )
March 27 : James R. Schlesinger , American politician (* 1929 )
March 30th : Karl Walter Diess , Austrian actor (* 1928 )
March 31 : Frankie Knuckles , American DJ and musician (* 1955 )

April

0April 1 : Jacques Le Goff , French historian (* 1924 )
0April 2 : Urs Widmer , Swiss writer (* 1938 )
0April 4 : İsmet Atlı , Turkish wrestler (* 1931 )
0April 4 : Anja Niedringhaus , German photojournalist and war correspondent (* 1965 )
0April 6 : Mickey Rooney , American actor (* 1920 )
0April 8 : Karlheinz Deschner , German writer, religion and church critic (* 1924 )
April 10 : Sue Townsend , British writer (* 1946 )
April 14 : Ekkehard Böhmer , German television director (* 1929 )
April 16 : Peter Schiff , German actor and voice actor (* 1923 )
April 16 : Ernst Florian Winter , Austrian-American historian and political scientist (* 1923 )
April 17 : Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian writer (* 1927 )
April 17th : Karl Meiler , German tennis player (* 1949 )
April 20 : Rubin Carter , American boxer and civil rights activist (* 1937 )
April 22 : Wieland Schmied , Austrian art historian and writer (* 1929 )
April 23 : Michael Glawogger , Austrian filmmaker (* 1959 )
April 24 : Hans Hollein , Austrian architect (* 1934 )
April 24 : Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish writer (* 1921 )
April 25 : Tito Vilanova , Spanish football player and coach (* 1968 )
April 25 : Stefanie Zweig , German writer (* 1932 )
April 27 : Friedel Münch , German motorcycle designer and manufacturer (* 1927 )
April 27 : Winand Victor , German painter (* 1918 )
April 29 : Bob Hoskins , British actor (born 1942 )

May

0May 1 : Heinz Schenk , German showmaster and actor (* 1924 )
0May 1st : Georg Stollenwerk , German soccer player and coach (* 1930 )
0May 3 : Gary Becker , American economist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1930 )
0May 6 : Cornelius Gurlitt , German art collector (* 1932 )
May 12 : HR Giger , Swiss visual artist (* 1940 )
May 13 : David Malet Armstrong , Australian philosopher (* 1926 )
May 15 : Jean-Luc Dehaene , Belgian politician (* 1940 )
May 16 : Rolf Boysen , German actor (* 1920 )
May 17 : Gerald M. Edelman , American physician and Nobel Prize winner (* 1929 )
May 18 : Dobrica Ćosić , Yugoslav-Serbian writer and statesman (* 1921 )
May 18 : Hans-Peter Dürr , German physicist and essayist (* 1929 )
May 18 : Gordon Willis , American cameraman (* 1931 )
May 19 : Jack Brabham , Australian racing driver (* 1926 )
May 19 : Lothar Domröse , German officer (* 1920 )
May 21 : Digne Meller Marcovicz , German photographer and photojournalist (* 1934 )
May 24th : Klaus Herm , German actor (* 1925 )
May 25 : Wojciech Jaruzelski , Polish military and politician (* 1923 )
May 27 : Helma Sanders-Brahms , German film director (* 1940 )
May 28 : Maya Angelou , American writer and civil rights activist (* 1928 )
May 29 : Karlheinz Böhm , Austrian actor and founder of the foundation (* 1928 )
May 31 : Martha Hyer , American film actress (* 1924 )

June

0June 1 : Karlheinz Hackl , Austrian actor and theater director (* 1949 )
0June 4th : Joseph Befe Ateba , Cameroonian bishop (* 1962 )
0June 5 : Rolf Hachmann , German prehistorian (* 1917 )
0June 7 : Ruprecht Düll , German botanist (* 1931 )
0June 8 : Gloryette Clark , American film editor and screenwriter (* 1934 )
0June 9 : Reinhard Höppner , German politician and Prime Minister (* 1948 )
0June 9 : Rik Mayall , British actor and comedian (born 1958 )
0June 9 : Gerd Zacher , German composer and organist (* 1929 )
June 11 : Ruby Dee , American actress (born 1922 )
June 11 : Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Spanish conductor (* 1933 )
June 12 : Frank Schirrmacher , German journalist and essayist (* 1959 )
June 13 : Gyula Grosics , Hungarian football player (* 1926 )
June 14 : Robert Lebeck , German photographer and photojournalist (* 1929 )
June 15 : Casey Kasem , American radio presenter (* 1932 )
June 15 : Daniel Keyes , American writer (* 1927 )
June 18 : Horace Silver , American jazz musician and composer (* 1928 )
June 20 : María Luisa Landín , Mexican singer (* 1921 )
June 21 : Ghislaine Demonceau , French violinist (* 1921 )
June 21 : Johannes Strassmann , German poker player (* 1985 )
June 23 : Kurt Emil Hugo Arentz , German sculptor (* 1934 )
June 24 : Eli Wallach , American actor (* 1915 )
June 25 : Harry Arlt , German football player (* 1926 )
June 25 : Ana María Matute , Spanish writer (* 1925 )
June 27 : George Gilbert Ashwell , American biochemist (* 1916 )
June 27 : Bobby Womack , American singer and songwriter (born 1944 )
June 30 : Christian Führer , German Protestant pastor (* 1943 )
June 30th : Paul Mazursky , American film director and actor (* 1930 )

July

0July 1 : Leszek Werner , Polish organist and music teacher (* 1937 )
0July 5 : Hans-Ulrich Wehler , German historian (* 1931 )
0July 7th : Horst Bollmann , German actor (* 1925 )
0July 7th : Alfredo Di Stéfano , Argentinian-Spanish soccer player and coach (* 1926 )
0July 7th : Eduard Shevardnadze , Soviet-Georgian politician (* 1928 )
0July 8 : Renato Capriles , Venezuelan musician and orchestra leader (* 1931 )
July 10 : On Kawara , Japanese conceptual artist (* 1933 )
July 11th : Charlie Haden , American jazz musician (* 1937 )
July 11th : Horst Köbbert , German singer and presenter (* 1928 )
July 11th : Tommy Ramone , American musician (born 1949 )
July 13 : Nadine Gordimer , South African writer and Nobel Prize winner (* 1923 )
July 13 : Lorin Maazel , American conductor and composer (* 1930 )
July 13 : Gert Voss , German actor (* 1941 )
July 16 : Karl Albrecht , German entrepreneur (* 1920 )
July 16 : Manfred Wekwerth , German theater director and director (* 1929 )
July 16 : Johnny Winter , American blues musician (* 1944 )
July 17 : Otto Piene , German visual artist (* 1928 )
July 17 : Elaine Stritch , American actress (born 1925 )
July 18 : Dietmar Schönherr , Austrian actor and presenter (* 1926 )
July 19 : Iring Fetscher , German political scientist and author (* 1922 )
July 19 : James Garner , American actor (born 1928 )
July 20 : Victor George Atiyeh , American politician (* 1923 )
July 20 : Manfred Sexauer , German moderator (* 1930 )
July 28 : Stanisław Manturzewski , Polish actor, screenwriter and director (* 1928 )
July 30th : Harun Farocki , German filmmaker (* 1944 )
July 30th : Manfred Roeder , German right-wing extremist (* 1929 )

August

0August 1 : Ernst Maria Lang , German architect and caricaturist (* 1916 )
0August 1 : Gert von Paczensky , German journalist and writer (* 1925 )
0August 2 : Barbara Prammer , Austrian politician and President of the National Council (* 1954 )
0August 5 : Elfriede Brüning , German writer (* 1910 )
0August 6 : Ralph Bryans , British motorcycle racer (* 1941 )
August 10 : Günter Junghans , German actor (* 1941 )
August 11 : Vladimir Beara , Yugoslav football player and coach (* 1928 )
August 11 : Simon Leys , Belgian writer (* 1935 )
August 11 : Robin Williams , American actor and comedian (* 1951 )
August 12 : Lauren Bacall , American actress (born 1924 )
August 13 : Kurt Tschenscher , German football referee (* 1928 )