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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 14th of December 1287 | EVENT | St. Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. |
| 14th of December 1542 | EVENT | Princess Mary Stuart becomes Mary, Queen of Scots. |
| 14th of December 1751 | EVENT | The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world. |
| 14th of December 1782 | EVENT | The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. |
| 14th of December 1812 | EVENT | The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armee are expelled from Russia. |
| 14th of December 1819 | EVENT | Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. |
| 14th of December 1825 | EVENT | Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg. |
| 14th of December 1836 | EVENT | The Toledo War unofficially ends. |
| 14th of December 1896 | EVENT | The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. |
| 14th of December 1900 | EVENT | Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. |
| 14th of December 1902 | EVENT | The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| 14th of December 1903 | EVENT | The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
| 14th of December 1907 | EVENT | The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. |
| 14th of December 1909 | EVENT | New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory. |
| 14th of December 1911 | EVENT | Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. |
| 14th of December 1913 | EVENT | Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kongo-class, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II. |
| 14th of December 1914 | EVENT | Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Democrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires. |
| 14th of December 1918 | EVENT | Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Vaino I, renounces the Finnish throne. |
| 14th of December 1939 | EVENT | Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. |
| 14th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand. |
| 14th of December 1946 | EVENT | The United Nations General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City. |
| 14th of December 1947 | EVENT | The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
| 14th of December 1955 | EVENT | Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations. |
| 14th of December 1958 | EVENT | The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. |
| 14th of December 1961 | EVENT | The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations. |
| 14th of December 1962 | EVENT | NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. |
| 14th of December 1963 | EVENT | Baldwin Hills Reservoir wall bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles. |
| 14th of December 1964 | EVENT | American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States : The United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination. |
| 14th of December 1972 | EVENT | Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission. This is the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century. |
| 14th of December 1981 | EVENT | Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights. |
| 14th of December 1983 | EVENT | The 3rd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts. |
| 14th of December 1994 | EVENT | Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River. |
| 14th of December 1995 | EVENT | Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments. |
| 14th of December 1999 | EVENT | Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations. |
| 14th of December 2003 | EVENT | President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. |
| 14th of December 2004 | EVENT | The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened. |
| 14th of December 2004 | EVENT | Cuba and Venezuela found the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. |
| 14th of December 2006 | EVENT | American spy satellite USA-193 is launched. |
| 14th of December 2008 | EVENT | President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad. |
| 14th of December 1009 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (d. 1045) |
| 14th of December 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Nostradamus, French astrologer (d. 1566) |
| 14th of December 1546 | BIRTHDAY | Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (d. 1601) |
| 14th of December 1607 | BIRTHDAY | Janos Kemeny, Hungarian aristocrat, writer and prince of Transylvania (d. 1662) |
| 14th of December 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Barthelemy d'Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (d. 1695) |
| 14th of December 1631 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (d. 1679) |
| 14th of December 1640 | BIRTHDAY | (baptism date) : Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (d. 1689) |
| 14th of December 1678 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Neal, English historian (d. 1743) |
| 14th of December 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Justus Moser, German statesman (d. 1794) |
| 14th of December 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (d. 1852) |
| 14th of December 1775 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860) |
| 14th of December 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (d. 1806) |
| 14th of December 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1816) |
| 14th of December 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wolfe, Irish poet (d. 1823) |
| 14th of December 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (d. 1872) |
| 14th of December 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898) |
| 14th of December 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel De Leon, South American socialist (d. 1914) |
| 14th of December 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Errico Malatesta, Italian anarcho-communist (d. 1932) |
| 14th of December 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (d. 1934) |
| 14th of December 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Renner, President of Austria (d. 1950) |
| 14th of December 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (d. 1956) |
| 14th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Manolis Kalomiris, Greek classical composer (d. 1962) |
| 14th of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (d. 1950) |
| 14th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | King George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952) |
| 14th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Eluard, French poet (d. 1952) |
| 14th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Doolittle, American General (d. 1993) |
| 14th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (d. 1995) |
| 14th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (d. 1977) |
| 14th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Paul, king of Greece (d. 1964) |
| 14th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989) |
| 14th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Szepes, Hungarian authoress (d. 2007) |
| 14th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (d. 1996) |
| 14th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer (d. 2001) |
| 14th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975) |
| 14th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965) |
| 14th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998) |
| 14th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Dailey, American actor (d. 1978) |
| 14th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943) |
| 14th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003) |
| 14th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Carstens, President of Germany (d. 1992) |
| 14th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965) |
| 14th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Elyse Knox, American actress |
| 14th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | June Taylor, American choreographer (d. 2004) |
| 14th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader |
| 14th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate |
| 14th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | James T. Aubrey, American television executive (d. 1994) |
| 14th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Clark Terry, American trumpeter |
| 14th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Don Hewitt, American creator of 60 Minutes (d. 2009) |
| 14th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2001) |
| 14th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006) |
| 14th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (d. 1988) |
| 14th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Jones, American baseball player (d. 1971) |
| 14th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d. 1998) |
| 14th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (d. 2002) |
| 14th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995) |
| 14th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Abbe Lane, American singer and actress |
| 14th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (d. 2001) |
| 14th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 14th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Williams, American actor |
| 14th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian |
| 14th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963) |
| 14th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator |
| 14th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Karan Armstrong, American soprano |
| 14th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Willis, American journalist (d. 2006) |
| 14th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Zoe Laskari, Greek actress |
| 14th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | R. Emmett Tyrrell, American magazine publisher |
| 14th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Birkin, English-born French actress and singer |
| 14th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Duke, American actress |
| 14th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete |
| 14th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ovitz, American film producer |
| 14th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Smith, American tennis player |
| 14th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn) |
| 14th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian politician |
| 14th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Sutton, English artist |
| 14th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Parkening, American guitarist |
| 14th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Beazley, Australian politician |
| 14th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dee Wallace, American actress |
| 14th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Buckner, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Williams, English bassist (AC/DC) |
| 14th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster |
| 14th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Zaloom, American actor and puppeteer |
| 14th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Germain Houde, French Canadian actor |
| 14th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer |
| 14th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician |
| 14th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician |
| 14th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player |
| 14th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | James Horan, American actor |
| 14th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut |
| 14th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Kulwicki, American NASCAR driver (d. 1993) |
| 14th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier |
| 14th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys) |
| 14th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues) |
| 14th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Zocchetto, French politician |
| 14th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate |
| 14th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer |
| 14th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Don Franklin, American actor |
| 14th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Waddle, English footballer |
| 14th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress |
| 14th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Abbott, English former football player |
| 14th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Cynthia Gibb, American actress |
| 14th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Moloney, American television personality and interior designer |
| 14th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Yamasaki, Mixed martial arts referee |
| 14th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Ripley American actress |
| 14th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian baritone, pedagogue (professor) and TV host |
| 14th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Biggio, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Hill, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Raimi, an American actor |
| 14th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver |
| 14th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Mason, American basketball player |
| 14th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician |
| 14th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 14th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ewa Bia?o?ecka, Polish writer |
| 14th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Noelle Beck, American actress |
| 14th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Natascha McElhone, English actress |
| 14th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nadine Garner, Australian actress |
| 14th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer |
| 14th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter |
| 14th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Michaela Watkins, American comic actress (Saturday Night Live) |
| 14th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Gay, professional golfer; three-time winner on the PGA Tour |
| 14th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tia Texada, American actress and singer |
| 14th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Jensen, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Miranda Hart, British comedienne |
| 14th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor |
| 14th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Burke, Irish basketball player |
| 14th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Thuy Trang, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 14th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Byram, Irish television presenter |
| 14th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player |
| 14th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Koch, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer |
| 14th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | KaDee Strickland, American actress |
| 14th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tammy Blanchard, American actress |
| 14th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter |
| 14th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer |
| 14th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Couto, Portuguese racing driver |
| 14th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Chaule, French-born German rugby player |
| 14th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Brogan, Australian rules footballer |
| 14th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 14th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Radu Sarbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone) |
| 14th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player |
| 14th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Owen, English footballer |
| 14th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model |
| 14th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tata Young, Thai-American singer |
| 14th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer |
| 14th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress |
| 14th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver |
| 14th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler |
| 14th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Marcum, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer |
| 14th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Fields, American baseball player |
| 14th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Way, English singer and actor |
| 14th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Sidwell, English footballer |
| 14th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer |
| 14th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 14th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jakub B?aszczykowski, Polish footballer |
| 14th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player |
| 14th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rabil, Professional lacrosse player |
| 14th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer |
| 14th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress |
| 14th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Gaskarth, American singer (All Time Low) |
| 14th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress |
| 14th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player |
| 14th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Batum, French basketball player |
| 14th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer |
| 14th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Onew, South Korean singer (SHINee), musical actor and TV host |
| 14th of December 1460 | DEATH | Guarino da Verona (Born 1370) |
| 14th of December 1476 | DEATH | Vlad III the Impaler (Born 1431) |
| 14th of December 1510 | DEATH | Friedrich of Saxony (Born 1473) |
| 14th of December 1542 | DEATH | King James V of Scotland (Born 1512) |
| 14th of December 1553 | DEATH | Hanibal Lucic, Croatian writer (Born 1485) |
| 14th of December 1591 | DEATH | Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (Born 1542) |
| 14th of December 1624 | DEATH | Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (Born 1536) |
| 14th of December 1651 | DEATH | Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (Born 1582) |
| 14th of December 1713 | DEATH | Thomas Rymer, English historian (Born 1641) |
| 14th of December 1715 | DEATH | Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1636) |
| 14th of December 1735 | DEATH | Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (Born 1674) |
| 14th of December 1741 | DEATH | Charles Rollin, French historian (Born 1661) |
| 14th of December 1788 | DEATH | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (Born 1714) |
| 14th of December 1788 | DEATH | King Charles III of Spain (Born 1716) |
| 14th of December 1799 | DEATH | George Washington, First President of the United States (Born 1732) |
| 14th of December 1831 | DEATH | Martin Baum, American businessman and politician (Born 1765) |
| 14th of December 1838 | DEATH | Jean-Olivier Chenier, French Canadian physician (Born 1806) |
| 14th of December 1860 | DEATH | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, British statesman (Born 1784) |
| 14th of December 1861 | DEATH | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (Born 1819) |
| 14th of December 1865 | DEATH | Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (Born 1794) |
| 14th of December 1873 | DEATH | Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (Born 1807) |
| 14th of December 1878 | DEATH | Alice of the United Kingdom, Grand Duchess of Hesse (Born 1843) |
| 14th of December 1902 | DEATH | Julia Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant (Born 1826) |
| 14th of December 1912 | DEATH | Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (Born 1887) |
| 14th of December 1920 | DEATH | George Gipp, American football player (Born 1895) |
| 14th of December 1927 | DEATH | Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (Born 1842) |
| 14th of December 1935 | DEATH | Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (Born 1902) |
| 14th of December 1943 | DEATH | John Harvey Kellogg, American surgeon and breakfast food manufacturer (Born 1852) |
| 14th of December 1947 | DEATH | Edward Higgins, American evangelical (Born 1864) |
| 14th of December 1947 | DEATH | Stanley Baldwin, British statesman (Born 1867) |
| 14th of December 1956 | DEATH | Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish politician (Born 1870) |
| 14th of December 1957 | DEATH | Fred Chapman, American baseball player (Born 1872) |
| 14th of December 1963 | DEATH | Dinah Washington, American singer (Born 1924) |
| 14th of December 1964 | DEATH | William Bendix, American actor (Born 1906) |
| 14th of December 1966 | DEATH | Shailendra, Indian lyricist (Born 1923) |
| 14th of December 1970 | DEATH | Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (Born 1876) |
| 14th of December 1971 | DEATH | Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (Born 1929) |
| 14th of December 1974 | DEATH | Walter Lippman, American journalist and political commentator (Born 1889) |
| 14th of December 1975 | DEATH | Arthur Treacher, English actor (Born 1894) |
| 14th of December 1978 | DEATH | Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat (Born 1886) |
| 14th of December 1984 | DEATH | Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (Born 1898) |
| 14th of December 1985 | DEATH | Roger Maris, American baseball player (Born 1934) |
| 14th of December 1985 | DEATH | Catherine Doherty, Russian-born Canadian social activist (Born 1896) |
| 14th of December 1989 | DEATH | Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (Born 1919) |
| 14th of December 1989 | DEATH | Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1921) |
| 14th of December 1990 | DEATH | Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (Born 1921) |
| 14th of December 1993 | DEATH | Jeff Alm, American football player (Born 1968) |
| 14th of December 1993 | DEATH | Myrna Loy, American actress (Born 1905) |
| 14th of December 1994 | DEATH | Orval Faubus, American politician (Born 1910) |
| 14th of December 1996 | DEATH | Gaston Miron, French-Canadian poet and editor (Born 1928) |
| 14th of December 1997 | DEATH | Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (Born 1946) |
| 14th of December 1997 | DEATH | Stubby Kaye, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 14th of December 1998 | DEATH | Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (Born 1928) |
| 14th of December 1998 | DEATH | Norman Fell, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 14th of December 1998 | DEATH | Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (Born 1924) |
| 14th of December 2001 | DEATH | W. G. Sebald, German writer (Born 1944) |
| 14th of December 2003 | DEATH | Blas Ople, Filipino diplomat (Born 1927) |
| 14th of December 2003 | DEATH | Jeanne Crain, American actress (Born 1925) |
| 14th of December 2003 | DEATH | Frank Sheeran, American labor union official (Born 1920) |
| 14th of December 2004 | DEATH | Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (Born 1934) |
| 14th of December 2004 | DEATH | Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and politician (Born 1939) |
| 14th of December 2005 | DEATH | Trevanian, American author (Born 1931) |
| 14th of December 2006 | DEATH | Mike Evans, American actor (Born 1949) |
| 14th of December 2006 | DEATH | Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan political strategist (Born 1938) |
| 14th of December 2006 | DEATH | Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-born America music executive (Born 1923) |
| 14th of December 2009 | DEATH | Alan A'Court, English footballer (Born 1934) |
| 14th of December 2010 | DEATH | Timothy Davlin, American politician (Born 1957) |
| 14th of December 2010 | DEATH | Neva Patterson, American actress (Born 1920) |
| 14th of December 2010 | DEATH | Dale Roberts, English footballer (Born 1986) |