What happened on December 14 ?

1460 - Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist and translator (b. 1370)

1510 - Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)

1542 - King James V of Scotland (b. 1512)

1591 - Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (b. 1542)

1624 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)

1651 - Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (b. 1582)

1713 - Thomas Rymer, English historian (b. 1641)

1715 - Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1636)

1735 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)

1741 - Charles Rollin, French historian (b. 1661)

1788 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (b. 1714)

1788 - King Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)

1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States (b. 1732)

1861 - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (b. 1819)

1865 - Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (b. 1794)

1873 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)

1902 - Julia Grant, wife of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (b. 1826)

1947 - Edward Higgins, the 3rd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)

1963 - Dinah Washington, American singer (b. 1924)

1964 - William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)

1970 - Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (b. 1876)

1984 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)

1985 - Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (b. 1896)

1985 - Roger Maris, baseball player (b. 1934)

1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, activist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)

1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)

1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)

1998 - Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)

1998 - Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b. 1924)

1998 - Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928)

2003 - Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)

2003 - Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (b. 1927)

2004 - Rod Kanehl, baseball player (b. 1934)

2004 - Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. 1939)

2005 - Dr. Rodney William Whitaker, of pen name Trevanian, American author (b. 1931)