What happened on January 14 ?

1163 - Ladislaus II of Hungary.

1331 - Odoric, Italian explorer

1640 - Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)

1676 - Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (b. 1602)

1701 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)

1742 - Edmond Halley, English scientist (b. 1656)

1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)

1786 - Meshech Weare, Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1713)

1788 - François Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasetilly, comte de Grasse, French admiral (b. 1722)

1825 - George Dance the Younger, English architect (b. 1741)

1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)

1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)

1901 - Charles Hermite, French mathematician

1905 - Ernst Abbe, German physicist (b. 1840)

1942 - Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian writer (b. 1883)

1949 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (b. 1882)

1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)

1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, American actress and singer (b. 1903)

1966 - Bill Carr, American athlete (b. 1909)

1966 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)

1966 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1906)

1970 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (b. 1906)

1972 - King Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1899)

1977 - Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)

1977 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)

1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)

1978 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899)

1978 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1906)

1978 - Blossom Rock, American actress (b. 1895)

1980 - Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908)

1984 - Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1902)

1986 - Daniel Balavoine, French singer (b. 1952)

1986 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)

1988 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)

1990 - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Legendary Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b.1899)

1999 - Bryn Jones, British musician (b. 1961)

2001 - Burkhard Heim, German physicist (b. 1925)

2004 - Uta Hagen, American actress (b. 1919)

2004 - Ron O'Neal, American actor (b. 1937)

2004 - Valfar, Norwegian musician (Windir)

2005 - Charlotte MacLeod, American writer (b. 1922)

2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)

2005 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)

2005 - Jesús-Rafael Soto, Venezuelan kinetic artist (b. 1923)

2006 - Jim Gary, American artist (b. 1939)

2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)

2006 - Mark Philo, English footballer (b. 1984)