What happened on April 14 ?

1132 - Prince Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076)

1279 - Duke Boleslaus of Greater Poland

1322 - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)

1345 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)

1471 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)

1574 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538)

1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland

1599 - Henry Wallop, English statesman

1612 - Sasaki Kojiro, Japanese samurai (killed by Musashi Miyamoto)

1662 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)

1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621)

1716 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral

1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)

1759 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)

1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)

1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)

1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)

1912 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)

1914 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)

1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)

1925 - John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)

1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)

1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)

1964 - Rachel Carson, American writer and environmentalist (b. 1907)

1968 - Al Benton, baseball player (b. 1911)

1975 - Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)

1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)

1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)

1999 - Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)

1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)

2000 - Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)

2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)