What happened on August 14 ?

582 - Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine Emperor

1167 - Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne

1204 - Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)

1390 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)

1430 - Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)

1433 - King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)

1464 - Pope Pius II (b. 1405)

1573 - Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)

1691 - Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)

1704 - Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)

1727 - William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)

1774 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (b. 1716)

1784 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)

1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)

1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)

1874 - Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (b. 1821)

1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)

1938 - Hugh Trumble, Australian Test Cricketer (b. 1876)

1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)

1941 - Maximilian Kolbe, Saint, martyr of Auschwitz (b. 1894)

1943 - Joe Kelley, baseball player (b. 1871)

1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)

1955 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)

1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)

1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)

1972 - Oscar Levant, American actor, composer, and musician (b. 1906)

1980 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)

1981 - Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)

1984 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)

1985 - Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)

1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)

2000 - Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)

2002 - Dave Williams (musician), American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)

2003 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)

2004 - Czes?aw Mi?osz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

2005 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)