What happened on September 14 ?

258 - Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage

585 - Emperor Bidatsu of Japan (b. 538)

775 - Constantine V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 718)

786 - Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph

891 - Pope Stephen V

1146 - Zengi, ruler of Syria (b. 1087)

1164 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (b. 1119)

1214 - Albert Avogadro, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem (b. 1149)

1321 - Dante Alighieri, Italian author (b. 1265)

1404 - Duke Albert IV of Austria (b. 1377)

1435 - John, Duke of Bedford, regent of England (b. 1389)

1523 - Pope Adrian VI (b. 1459)

1538 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German nobleman (b. 1483)

1605 - Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Krakow (b. 1550)

1638 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)

1646 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (b. 1591)

1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer (b. 1625)

1743 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)

1749 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (b. 1675)

1759 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (b. 1712)

1807 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b. 1724)

1836 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (b. 1756)

1851 - James Fenimore Cooper, American author (b. 1789)

1852 - Augustus Pugin, English architect (b. 1812)

1852 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1769)

1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808)

1886 - Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, American land speculator (b. 1802)

1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)

1901 - William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1843)

1910 - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist, founder of the martial arts school Jing Wu Men in Shanghai

1927 - Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877)

1936 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)

1937 - Tomá? Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)

1942 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (b. 1855)

1965 - J.W. Hearne English cricketer (b. 1891)

1966 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (b. 1899)

1974 - Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)

1982 - Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon (b. 1947)

1982 - John Gardner, American novelist (motorcycle accident) (b. 1933)

1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco, American actress (automobile accident) (b. 1929)

1982 - Christian Ferras, French violinist (b. 1933)

1984 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (b. 1906)

1989 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)

1996 - Juliet Prowse, British actress and dancer (b. 1937)

2000 - Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)

2003 - Yetunde Price, sister of American tennis players Venus and Serena Williams (murdered) (b. 1972)

2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)

2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)