What happened on October 14 ?

1066 - Harold Godwinson, King of England

1092 - Nizam al-Mulk, Persian vizier (b. 1018)

1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)

1318 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland

1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss protestant reformer (b. 1488)

1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)

1568 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer

1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)

1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)

1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)

1660 - Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)

1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)

1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)

1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)

1758 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)

1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)

1911 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)

1944 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (b. 1891)

1958 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)

1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)

1960 - Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)

1976 - Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)

1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)

1984 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)

1985 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)

1986 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)

1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)

1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)

1998 - Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)

1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)

2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)