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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 14th of May 1264 | EVENT | Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England. |
| 14th of May 1483 | EVENT | Coronation of Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable). |
| 14th of May 1509 | EVENT | Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Venetians. |
| 14th of May 1607 | EVENT | Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. |
| 14th of May 1608 | EVENT | The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen. |
| 14th of May 1610 | EVENT | Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne. |
| 14th of May 1643 | EVENT | Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. |
| 14th of May 1747 | EVENT | War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre. |
| 14th of May 1796 | EVENT | Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination. |
| 14th of May 1804 | EVENT | The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River. |
| 14th of May 1811 | EVENT | Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor |
| 14th of May 1836 | EVENT | The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas. |
| 14th of May 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place. |
| 14th of May 1868 | EVENT | Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko. |
| 14th of May 1870 | EVENT | The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club. |
| 14th of May 1879 | EVENT | The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas. |
| 14th of May 1889 | EVENT | The children's charity National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is launched in London. |
| 14th of May 1913 | EVENT | New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. |
| 14th of May 1925 | EVENT | Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published. |
| 14th of May 1929 | EVENT | Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton; he is the only player in history to have reached that plateau. |
| 14th of May 1931 | EVENT | Adalen shootings: five people are killed in Adalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration. |
| 14th of May 1935 | EVENT | The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement. |
| 14th of May 1939 | EVENT | Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five. |
| 14th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe. |
| 14th of May 1940 | EVENT | The Yermolayev Yer-2, a long-range Soviet medium bomber, has its first flight. |
| 14th of May 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the Netherlands surrendering to Germany. |
| 14th of May 1943 | EVENT | A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. |
| 14th of May 1948 | EVENT | Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. |
| 14th of May 1951 | EVENT | Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers. |
| 14th of May 1955 | EVENT | Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. |
| 14th of May 1961 | EVENT | American civil rights movement: The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob. |
| 14th of May 1963 | EVENT | Kuwait joins the United Nations. |
| 14th of May 1970 | EVENT | The Red Army Faction is established in Germany. Launch of the Saturn INT-21, carrying the Skylab space station. |
| 14th of May 1973 | EVENT | Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. |
| 14th of May 1988 | EVENT | Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27. |
| 14th of May 2004 | EVENT | The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. |
| 14th of May 2005 | EVENT | The former USS America, a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise. |
| 14th of May 1316 | BIRTHDAY | Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378) |
| 14th of May 1553 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615) |
| 14th of May 1630 | BIRTHDAY | Katakura Kagenaga (2nd) (d. 1681) |
| 14th of May 1666 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732) |
| 14th of May 1679 | BIRTHDAY | Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764) |
| 14th of May 1699 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786) |
| 14th of May 1701 | BIRTHDAY | William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782) |
| 14th of May 1710 | BIRTHDAY | King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (d. 1771) |
| 14th of May 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Ludovico Manin, last Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1802) |
| 14th of May 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (d. 1788) |
| 14th of May 1737 | BIRTHDAY | George Mcartney, Irish-born British statesman (d. 1806) |
| 14th of May 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817) |
| 14th of May 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828) |
| 14th of May 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858) |
| 14th of May 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873) |
| 14th of May 1814 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876) |
| 14th of May 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893) |
| 14th of May 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903) |
| 14th of May 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Eisner, German politician (d. 1919) |
| 14th of May 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Elia Dalla Costa, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1961) |
| 14th of May 1878 | BIRTHDAY | James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964) |
| 14th of May 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971) |
| 14th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950) |
| 14th of May 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Walsh, American baseball player (d. 1959) |
| 14th of May 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (d. 1973) |
| 14th of May 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974) |
| 14th of May 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952) |
| 14th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959) |
| 14th of May 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948) |
| 14th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
| 14th of May 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993) |
| 14th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943) |
| 14th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978) |
| 14th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971) |
| 14th of May 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957) |
| 14th of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951) |
| 14th of May 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997) |
| 14th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-born American professor, son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric (d. 1973) |
| 14th of May 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961) |
| 14th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (d. 1989) |
| 14th of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Danielou, French cardinal (d. 1974) |
| 14th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005) |
| 14th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974) |
| 14th of May 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Moss, American professional poker player (d. 1995) |
| 14th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005) |
| 14th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970) |
| 14th of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Zanuso, Italian architect (d. 2001) |
| 14th of May 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003) |
| 14th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001) |
| 14th of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002) |
| 14th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Deacon, American actor (d. 1984) |
| 14th of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007) |
| 14th of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Franjo Tu?man, Croatian politician (d. 1999) |
| 14th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Mrinal Sen, Indian film director |
| 14th of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician |
| 14th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Kurys, American baseball player |
| 14th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano |
| 14th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Oona O'Neill, widow of Charlie Chaplin (d. 1991) |
| 14th of May 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player |
| 14th of May 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Morecambe, British comedian (d. 1984) |
| 14th of May 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer |
| 14th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000) |
| 14th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Macdonald, Canadian dancer |
| 14th of May 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor |
| 14th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) |
| 14th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Henry McGee, British actor, straight man to Benny Hill (d. 2006) |
| 14th of May 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer |
| 14th of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Lucier, American composer |
| 14th of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bechtle, American painter |
| 14th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector |
| 14th of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Chevalier, German voice actor |
| 14th of May 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sian Phillips, Welsh actress |
| 14th of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Seligo, Slovenian writer and politician (d. 2004) |
| 14th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Gracie, American singer |
| 14th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress |
| 14th of May 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973) |
| 14th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Troy Shondell, American singer |
| 14th of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | 'H'. Jones, British Soldier, VC recipient (d. 1982) |
| 14th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Valeriy Brumel, Soviet high jumper (d. 2003) |
| 14th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Prentis Hancock, British actor |
| 14th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Perez, Cuban baseball player |
| 14th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rudiger Vogler, German actor |
| 14th of May 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Byron Dorgan, American politician |
| 14th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream) |
| 14th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland |
| 14th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Leckenby, British musician (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994) |
| 14th of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure |
| 14th of May 1944 | BIRTHDAY | George Lucas, American film director |
| 14th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | George Nicholls, British rugby league footballer |
| 14th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa |
| 14th of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Francesca Annis, British actress |
| 14th of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tamara Dobson, American actress (d. 2006) |
| 14th of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007) |
| 14th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies |
| 14th of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist |
| 14th of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer |
| 14th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads) |
| 14th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Irwin, American wrestler (d. 1987) |
| 14th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Zemeckis, American film director |
| 14th of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut |
| 14th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician (Red Rider) |
| 14th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (d. 2008) |
| 14th of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia |
| 14th of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Sparschuh, German writer |
| 14th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Martinez, Nicaraguan baseball player |
| 14th of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Kirsten, South African cricketer |
| 14th of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Big Van Vader (born Leon White), American professional wrestler |
| 14th of May 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Brennan, American sports columnist |
| 14th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Bruel, French singer |
| 14th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion) |
| 14th of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 14th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | "Dr. Death" Steve Williams, American wrestler (d. 2009) |
| 14th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Clark, English singer |
| 14th of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ronan Tynan, Irish singer |
| 14th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrike Folkerts, German actress |
| 14th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | David Quantick, writer |
| 14th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Roth, English actor |
| 14th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 14th of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach |
| 14th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult) |
| 14th of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | C. C. DeVille, American musician (Poison) |
| 14th of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Borders, American baseball player |
| 14th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | James M. Kelly, American astronaut |
| 14th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Peterson, American musician (Testament) |
| 14th of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster |
| 14th of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Eoin Colfer, Irish writer |
| 14th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Inez, American bassist (Alice in Chains, Black Label Society) |
| 14th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marianne Denicourt, French actress |
| 14th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Raphael Saadiq, American vocalist and bassist (Tony! Toni! Tone!) |
| 14th of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Fabrice Morvan, French music artist (Milli Vanilli) |
| 14th of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Siragusa, American football player |
| 14th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Cate Blanchett, Australian actress |
| 14th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block) |
| 14th of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sabine Schmitz, German race driver and television personality |
| 14th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sofia Coppola, American director |
| 14th of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress and model |
| 14th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Mann, American actor |
| 14th of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician |
| 14th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer |
| 14th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director |
| 14th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Voshon Lenard, American basketball player |
| 14th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Julian White, English rugby player |
| 14th of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Shanice, American singer |
| 14th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Allan, American model |
| 14th of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Krister Axel, American poet and songwriter |
| 14th of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Nicki S?rensen, Danish road bicycle racer |
| 14th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Hunter Burgan, American bassist (AFI) |
| 14th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Lawrence, American baseball player |
| 14th of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Martine McCutcheon, British actress |
| 14th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality |
| 14th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress |
| 14th of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Halladay, American baseball player |
| 14th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Harvey, Australian footballer |
| 14th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Macanga, Angolan footballer |
| 14th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie House, American basketball player |
| 14th of May 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer |
| 14th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer |
| 14th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 14th of May 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Edwige Lawson-Wade, French Basketball player |
| 14th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Zdenek Grygera, Czech footballer |
| 14th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete |
| 14th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Sebestyen, Hungarian figure skater |
| 14th of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union player |
| 14th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer |
| 14th of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | BeardyMan, English beatboxer |
| 14th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Keeley Donovan, English news and weather presenter |
| 14th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Anahi, Mexican actress and singer (RBD) |
| 14th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Gore, American football player |
| 14th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Uros Slokar, Slovenian basketball player |
| 14th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Tamblyn, American actress |
| 14th of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses) |
| 14th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rensing, German footballer |
| 14th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer |
| 14th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer |
| 14th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Olly Murs, English singer |
| 14th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook |
| 14th of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Gregerson, American baseball player |
| 14th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sally Martin, New Zealand actress |
| 14th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler |
| 14th of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Simona Peycheva, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast |
| 14th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alyosha, Ukranian singer |
| 14th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sarbel, Greek-born singer |
| 14th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Bovo, Italian footballer |
| 14th of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Camila Sodi, Mexican actress |
| 14th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer |
| 14th of May 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Steyn, South African rugby union player |
| 14th of May 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jayne Appel, American basketball player |
| 14th of May 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer |
| 14th of May 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer |
| 14th of May 0964 | DEATH | Pope John XII |
| 14th of May 1470 | DEATH | Charles VIII of Sweden, king of Sweden and Norway (Born 1409) |
| 14th of May 1574 | DEATH | Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (Born 1479) |
| 14th of May 1608 | DEATH | Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1543) |
| 14th of May 1610 | DEATH | King Henry IV of France (Born 1553) |
| 14th of May 1643 | DEATH | King Louis XIII of France (Born 1601) |
| 14th of May 1649 | DEATH | Friedrich Spanheim, Swiss theologian (Born 1600) |
| 14th of May 1669 | DEATH | Georges de Scudery, French writer (Born 1601) |
| 14th of May 1688 | DEATH | Antoine Furetiere, French writer (Born 1619) |
| 14th of May 1754 | DEATH | Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussee, French writer (Born 1692) |
| 14th of May 1761 | DEATH | Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (Born 1710) |
| 14th of May 1818 | DEATH | Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (Born 1775) |
| 14th of May 1847 | DEATH | Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (Born 1805) |
| 14th of May 1860 | DEATH | Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (Born 1801) |
| 14th of May 1873 | DEATH | Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (Born 1797) |
| 14th of May 1878 | DEATH | Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the "three great nobles" who led the Meiji Restoration (Born 1830) |
| 14th of May 1887 | DEATH | Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (Born 1808) |
| 14th of May 1889 | DEATH | Volney E. Howard, American politician (Born 1809) |
| 14th of May 1893 | DEATH | Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (Born 1810) |
| 14th of May 1906 | DEATH | Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (Born 1829) |
| 14th of May 1912 | DEATH | King Frederick VIII of Denmark (Born 1843) |
| 14th of May 1912 | DEATH | August Strindberg, Swedish playwright, novelist and essayist (Born 1849) |
| 14th of May 1918 | DEATH | James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (Born 1841) |
| 14th of May 1919 | DEATH | Henry J. Heinz, German-American businessman, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (Born 1844) |
| 14th of May 1923 | DEATH | Charles de Freycinet, Prime Minister of France (Born 1828) |
| 14th of May 1925 | DEATH | H. Rider Haggard, English author (Born 1856) |
| 14th of May 1931 | DEATH | David Belasco, American theatrical producer (Born 1853) |
| 14th of May 1931 | DEATH | Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (Born 1887) |
| 14th of May 1934 | DEATH | Lou Criger, American baseball player (Born 1872) |
| 14th of May 1936 | DEATH | Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (Born 1861) |
| 14th of May 1940 | DEATH | Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (Born 1869) |
| 14th of May 1943 | DEATH | Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Born 1854) |
| 14th of May 1945 | DEATH | Heber J. Grant, seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1856) |
| 14th of May 1954 | DEATH | Heinz Guderian, German General (Born 1888) |
| 14th of May 1956 | DEATH | Joan Malleson, English physician (Born 1889) |
| 14th of May 1957 | DEATH | Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (Born 1884) |
| 14th of May 1959 | DEATH | Sidney Bechet, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (Born 1897) |
| 14th of May 1959 | DEATH | Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, mother of Empress Zita of Austria (Born 1862) |
| 14th of May 1962 | DEATH | Florence Auer, American actress (Born 1880) |
| 14th of May 1968 | DEATH | Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (Born 1882) |
| 14th of May 1969 | DEATH | Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (Born 1888) |
| 14th of May 1970 | DEATH | Billie Burke, American actress (Born 1884) |
| 14th of May 1973 | DEATH | Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist and poet (Born 1905) |
| 14th of May 1976 | DEATH | Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds) (Born 1943) |
| 14th of May 1980 | DEATH | Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (Born 1912) |
| 14th of May 1982 | DEATH | Hugh Beaumont, American actor (Born 1909) |
| 14th of May 1982 | DEATH | Lady of Ro, Greek patriot (Born 1890) |
| 14th of May 1983 | DEATH | Roger J. Traynor, American judge (Born 1900) |
| 14th of May 1983 | DEATH | Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (Born 1900) |
| 14th of May 1984 | DEATH | Walter Rauff, German colonel (Born 1906) |
| 14th of May 1985 | DEATH | Barbara Yung Mei-ling, Hong Kong actress (Born 1959) |
| 14th of May 1987 | DEATH | Rita Hayworth, American actress (Born 1918) |
| 14th of May 1987 | DEATH | Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian writer (Born 1914) |
| 14th of May 1988 | DEATH | Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Born 1886) |
| 14th of May 1989 | DEATH | Mary Lalopoulou, Greek actress (Born 1926) |
| 14th of May 1991 | DEATH | Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Zedong (Born 1914) |
| 14th of May 1992 | DEATH | Lyle Alzado, American football player (Born 1949) |
| 14th of May 1992 | DEATH | Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (Born 1899) |
| 14th of May 1993 | DEATH | Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal (Born 1953) |
| 14th of May 1993 | DEATH | William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (Born 1908) |
| 14th of May 1995 | DEATH | Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1916) |
| 14th of May 1997 | DEATH | Harry Blackstone, Jr., American stage magician (Born 1934) |
| 14th of May 1998 | DEATH | Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (Born 1915) |
| 14th of May 1998 | DEATH | Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (Born 1890) |
| 14th of May 2000 | DEATH | Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (Born 1937) |
| 14th of May 2003 | DEATH | Wendy Hiller, British actress (Born 1912) |
| 14th of May 2003 | DEATH | Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (Born 1940) |
| 14th of May 2003 | DEATH | Robert Stack, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 14th of May 2004 | DEATH | Anna Lee, British actress (Born 1913) |
| 14th of May 2006 | DEATH | Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (Born 1944) |
| 14th of May 2006 | DEATH | Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (Born 1922) |
| 14th of May 2006 | DEATH | Stanley Kunitz, American poet (Born 1905) |
| 14th of May 2007 | DEATH | Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (Born 1908) |
| 14th of May 2007 | DEATH | Ulo Jogi, Estonian freedom fighter (Born 1921) |
| 14th of May 2010 | DEATH | Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (Born 1918) |
| 14th of May 2011 | DEATH | Derek Boogaard, Canadian professional hockey player (Born 1982) |