Famous Deaths Happened In May - 14

0347  On this day in history pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies   

0649  On this day in history theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies   

0964  On May - 14 john XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies   

1470  On May - 14 death of charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)   

1565  On May - 14 nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies   

1574  Death of Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479) on May - 14.   

1608  On May - 14 death of charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)   

1610  On May - 14 death of henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56   

1643  Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), dies at 41 on this day in history.   

1649  On May - 14 death of friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)   

1669  On May - 14 death of georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)   

1688  Death of Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619) on this day in history.   

1726  On this day in history john B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies   

1742  On this day in history dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64   

1754  On May - 14 death of pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)   

1761  On May - 14 thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50   

1801  On May - 14 johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, dies at 66   

1818  On May - 14 death of matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)   

1820  On May - 14 paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43   

1832  On May - 14 death of john van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried   

1833  Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88 on May - 14.   

1847  Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41 on May - 14.   

1860  On May - 14 death of ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)   

1863  On this day in history emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46   

1864  On this day in history william N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies   

1870  Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69 on May - 14.   

1873  Death of Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797) on this day in history.   

1877  On May - 14 john Roberts, composer, dies at 54   

1878  On May - 14 death of ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)   

1887  Death of Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808) on this day in history.   

1889  Death of Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809) on May - 14.   

1893  On this day in history earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83   

1904  Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78 on this day in history.   

1906  Death of Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829) on this day in history.   

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1316  Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78)/emperor (1355-78) was born on this day in history.   

1316  Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378) was born on May - 14.   

1553  Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615) was born on this day in history.   

1652  On May - 14 birth of johann Philipp Fortsch, composer   

1666  On May - 14 birth of victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)   

1679  On this day in history birth of peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer   

1686  Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) [NS=5/24] was born on May - 14.   

1699  Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786) was born on May - 14.