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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 14th of October 0222 | EVENT | Pope Callixtus I is killed by a mob in Rome's Trastevere after a 5-year reign in which he has stabilized the Saturday fast three times per year, with no food, oil, or wine to be consumed on those days. Callixtus is succeeded by cardinal Urban I. |
| 14th of October 1066 | EVENT | Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings : In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England. |
| 14th of October 1322 | EVENT | Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. |
| 14th of October 1582 | EVENT | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. |
| 14th of October 1586 | EVENT | Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England. |
| 14th of October 1656 | EVENT | Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive. |
| 14th of October 1758 | EVENT | Seven Years' War: Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk. |
| 14th of October 1773 | EVENT | The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland. |
| 14th of October 1773 | EVENT | Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland. |
| 14th of October 1805 | EVENT | Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria. |
| 14th of October 1806 | EVENT | Battle of Jena-Auerstadt France defeats Prussia. |
| 14th of October 1808 | EVENT | The Republic of Ragusa is annexed by France. |
| 14th of October 1812 | EVENT | Work on London's Regent's Canal starts. |
| 14th of October 1840 | EVENT | The Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British Army and then is sent into exile on the islands of Malta. |
| 14th of October 1843 | EVENT | The British arrest the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy to commit crimes. |
| 14th of October 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station : Confederate troops under the command of General Robert E. Lee fail to drive the American Union Army completely out of the Commonwealth of Virginia. |
| 14th of October 1867 | EVENT | The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan |
| 14th of October 1882 | EVENT | University of the Punjab is founded in a part of India that later became West Pakistan. |
| 14th of October 1884 | EVENT | The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. |
| 14th of October 1888 | EVENT | Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. |
| 14th of October 1908 | EVENT | The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2-0, clinching the World Series. It would be their last one to date. |
| 14th of October 1910 | EVENT | The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.. |
| 14th of October 1912 | EVENT | While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr. Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech. |
| 14th of October 1913 | EVENT | Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners. |
| 14th of October 1920 | EVENT | Part of Petsamo Province is ceded by the Soviet Union to Finland. |
| 14th of October 1925 | EVENT | An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.) |
| 14th of October 1926 | EVENT | The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published. |
| 14th of October 1933 | EVENT | Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations. |
| 14th of October 1938 | EVENT | The first flight of the Curtiss Aircraft Company's P-40 Warhawk fighter plane. |
| 14th of October 1939 | EVENT | The German Kriegsmarine submarine (U-boat) U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak within her harbor at Scapa Flow, Scotland. |
| 14th of October 1940 | EVENT | Balham subway station disaster, in London, England, occurs during the Nazi Luftwaffe air raids on Great Britain. |
| 14th of October 1943 | EVENT | The American Eighth Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers in aerial combat during the second mass-daylight air raid on the Schweinfurt ball-bearing factories in western Nazi Germany. |
| 14th of October 1943 | EVENT | Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp's 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war. |
| 14th of October 1944 | EVENT | Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II. This clears the way for the Greek government-in-exile to return to its historic capital city, with George Papandreou, Sr., as the head-of-government. |
| 14th of October 1947 | EVENT | Captain Chuck Yeager of the U.S. Air Force flies a Bell X-1 rocket-powered experimental aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound - over the high desert of Southern California - and becomes the first pilot and the first airplane to do so in level flight. |
| 14th of October 1949 | EVENT | Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government. |
| 14th of October 1949 | EVENT | Chinese Civil War: Chinese Communist forces occupy the city of Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong, China. |
| 14th of October 1952 | EVENT | Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952. |
| 14th of October 1956 | EVENT | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see Neo-Buddhism). |
| 14th of October 1957 | EVENT | Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada. |
| 14th of October 1958 | EVENT | The American Atomic Energy Commission, with supporting military units, carries out an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site, just north of Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 14th of October 1958 | EVENT | The District of Columbia's Bar Association votes to accept African-Americans as member attorneys. |
| 14th of October 1962 | EVENT | The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba. |
| 14th of October 1964 | EVENT | Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and thereby, along with his allies - such as Alexei Kosygin - the leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), ousting the former monolithic leader Nikita Khrushchev, and sending him into retirement as a nonperson in the USSR. |
| 14th of October 1966 | EVENT | The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system. |
| 14th of October 1967 | EVENT | The Vietnam War: The folk singer Joan Baez is arrested concerning a physical blockade of the U.S. Army's induction center in Oakland, California. |
| 14th of October 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. |
| 14th of October 1968 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there. |
| 14th of October 1968 | EVENT | The first live telecast from a manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the U.S.A. |
| 14th of October 1968 | EVENT | An earthquake rated at 6.8 on the Richter Scale destroys the Australian town of Meckering, Western Australia, and it also ruptures all nearby main highways and railroads. |
| 14th of October 1968 | EVENT | Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds. |
| 14th of October 1969 | EVENT | The United Kingdom introduces the British fifty-pence coin, which replaces, over the following years, the British ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalization of the British currency in 1971, and the abolition of the shilling as a unit of currency anywhere in the world. |
| 14th of October 1973 | EVENT | In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government; 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. |
| 14th of October 1979 | EVENT | The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people. |
| 14th of October 1981 | EVENT | Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. Federal Government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. |
| 14th of October 1981 | EVENT | Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat. |
| 14th of October 1982 | EVENT | U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. |
| 14th of October 1994 | EVENT | The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian Self Government. |
| 14th of October 1998 | EVENT | Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with six bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 14th of October 2006 | EVENT | College football brawl between University of Miami and Florida International University leads to suspensions of 31 players of both teams. |
| 14th of October 1257 | BIRTHDAY | King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296) |
| 14th of October 1404 | BIRTHDAY | Marie of Anjou, queen of France (d. 1463) |
| 14th of October 1493 | BIRTHDAY | Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568) |
| 14th of October 1499 | BIRTHDAY | Claude of France, wife of Francis I of France (d. 1524) |
| 14th of October 1630 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714) |
| 14th of October 1633 | BIRTHDAY | James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701) |
| 14th of October 1643 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Bahadur Shah I of India (d. 1712) |
| 14th of October 1644 | BIRTHDAY | William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718) |
| 14th of October 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768) |
| 14th of October 1712 | BIRTHDAY | George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770) |
| 14th of October 1726 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813) |
| 14th of October 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798) |
| 14th of October 1784 | BIRTHDAY | King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833) |
| 14th of October 1790 | BIRTHDAY | Thursday October Christian (d. 1831) |
| 14th of October 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883) |
| 14th of October 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865) |
| 14th of October 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic (d. 1868) |
| 14th of October 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927) |
| 14th of October 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883) |
| 14th of October 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944) |
| 14th of October 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Duveen, British art dealer (d. 1939) |
| 14th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937) |
| 14th of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Rimet, French football administrator (d. 1954) |
| 14th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959) |
| 14th of October 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975) |
| 14th of October 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923) |
| 14th of October 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969) |
| 14th of October 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961) |
| 14th of October 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993) |
| 14th of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962) |
| 14th of October 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963) |
| 14th of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995) |
| 14th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975) |
| 14th of October 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian religious figure (d. 1949) |
| 14th of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992) |
| 14th of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003) |
| 14th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (d. 1938) |
| 14th of October 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996) |
| 14th of October 1910 | BIRTHDAY | John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010) |
| 14th of October 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Le ?uc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990) |
| 14th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004) |
| 14th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006) |
| 14th of October 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 14th of October 1916 | BIRTHDAY | C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon General |
| 14th of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991) |
| 14th of October 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982) |
| 14th of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Moore, English actor |
| 14th of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995) |
| 14th of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007) |
| 14th of October 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997) |
| 14th of October 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986) |
| 14th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005) |
| 14th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005) |
| 14th of October 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dyanne Thorne, American actress |
| 14th of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | La Monte Young, American composer |
| 14th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John W. Dean III, American Watergate figure |
| 14th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Empress Farah Diba of Iran |
| 14th of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008) |
| 14th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer |
| 14th of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Rocky Thompson, American golfer |
| 14th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Richard, English singer |
| 14th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Perrie Mans, South African snooker player |
| 14th of October 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Timothy, British actor |
| 14th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Art Shamsky, American baseball player |
| 14th of October 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Glanville, American football coach |
| 14th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Evelio Javier, Filipino politician and civil servant (d. 1986) |
| 14th of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Nadas, Hungarian writer |
| 14th of October 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Udo Kier, German actor |
| 14th of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake) |
| 14th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Venter, American biologist |
| 14th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | James Robert Kennedy, American football coach |
| 14th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues) |
| 14th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Al Oliver, American baseball player |
| 14th of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth) |
| 14th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist |
| 14th of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Harris, American musician (The Trammps) |
| 14th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | David Ruprecht, American game show host |
| 14th of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Engin Ar?k, Turkish nuclear physicist (d. 2007) |
| 14th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Katy Manning, English-born Australian actress |
| 14th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 14th of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Katha Pollitt, American writer |
| 14th of October 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Travolta, American actor |
| 14th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast |
| 14th of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Anderson, American actor |
| 14th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer |
| 14th of October 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Evigan, American actor |
| 14th of October 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist |
| 14th of October 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Despres, Quebec politician |
| 14th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Dolby, English musician |
| 14th of October 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Aino-Maija Luukkonen, Finnish politician |
| 14th of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | A.J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister) |
| 14th of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Cram, English athlete |
| 14th of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer |
| 14th of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player |
| 14th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lori Petty, American actress |
| 14th of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer |
| 14th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager |
| 14th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Olu Oguibe, American artist |
| 14th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | David Kaye, Canadian actor |
| 14th of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Rome, American sports talk show host |
| 14th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Juri Jaanson, Estonian rower |
| 14th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Constantine Koukias, Australian composer |
| 14th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Coogan, English actor |
| 14th of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Karyn White, American singer |
| 14th of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player |
| 14th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Plato, English Racing driver |
| 14th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Kelly, American baseball player |
| 14th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 14th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Savanna Samson, American porn star |
| 14th of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist |
| 14th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer |
| 14th of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Goudie, American musician |
| 14th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Christophe Agou, French photographer |
| 14th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999) |
| 14th of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | P. J. Brown, American basketball player |
| 14th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Jackson, American basketball player |
| 14th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor |
| 14th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Daniela Pestova, Czech supermodel |
| 14th of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Par Zetterberg, Swedish football player |
| 14th of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer |
| 14th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician |
| 14th of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Pinheiro, Portuguese Folk Singer |
| 14th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks) |
| 14th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Rothlin, Swiss marathoner |
| 14th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel, Brazilian footballer |
| 14th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Drake, American porn star |
| 14th of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Utsler, American musician |
| 14th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Landis, American cyclist |
| 14th of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints) |
| 14th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Natasa Kejzar, Slovenian swimmer |
| 14th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player |
| 14th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion |
| 14th of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan Cricketer |
| 14th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bianca Beauchamp, adult model |
| 14th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player |
| 14th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor |
| 14th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter |
| 14th of October 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Garcia, American voice actor |
| 14th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Brannan, American musician, writer |
| 14th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Church, American baseball player |
| 14th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer |
| 14th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006) |
| 14th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Usher, American singer and actor |
| 14th of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Javon Walker, American football player |
| 14th of October 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Stacy Keibler, American actress and professional wrestler |
| 14th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 14th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer |
| 14th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Terrence McGee, American football player |
| 14th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Kooistra, American football player |
| 14th of October 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Whishaw, English actor |
| 14th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer |
| 14th of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Boof Bonser, American baseball player |
| 14th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Hall, American marathoner |
| 14th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Cosmin Curiman, Romanian football player |
| 14th of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Roth, American football player |
| 14th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Lane, American porn star |
| 14th of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player |
| 14th of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | LaRon Landry, American football player |
| 14th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Clark, American actor |
| 14th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Sarnes Negrao, Brazilian racing driver |
| 14th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Digao, Brazilian footballer |
| 14th of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sherlyn, Mexican actress |
| 14th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Skyler Shaye, American actress |
| 14th of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Craddock, English footballer |
| 14th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Will Atkinson, English footballer |
| 14th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress |
| 14th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Max Thieriot, American actor |
| 14th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Pia Toscano, American Singer |
| 14th of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Titone, Italian footballer |
| 14th of October 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress |
| 14th of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra Krosney, American actress |
| 14th of October 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Shona McGarty, English actress |
| 14th of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Savannah Outen, American singer |
| 14th of October 1066 | DEATH | Harold Godwinson, King of England (Born 1022) |
| 14th of October 1092 | DEATH | Nizam al-Mulk, Seljuk vizier (Born 1018) |
| 14th of October 1256 | DEATH | Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (Born 1239) |
| 14th of October 1318 | DEATH | Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland (Born 1280) |
| 14th of October 1552 | DEATH | Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (Born 1488) |
| 14th of October 1565 | DEATH | Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (Born 1521) |
| 14th of October 1568 | DEATH | Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer |
| 14th of October 1610 | DEATH | Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (Born 1540) |
| 14th of October 1619 | DEATH | Samuel Daniel, English poet (Born 1562) |
| 14th of October 1637 | DEATH | Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (Born 1552) |
| 14th of October 1660 | DEATH | Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (Born 1606) |
| 14th of October 1669 | DEATH | Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (Born 1623) |
| 14th of October 1703 | DEATH | Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (Born 1634) |
| 14th of October 1711 | DEATH | Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia |
| 14th of October 1758 | DEATH | Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (Born 1696) |
| 14th of October 1792 | DEATH | Sophie Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (Born 1714) |
| 14th of October 1831 | DEATH | Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (Born 1761) |
| 14th of October 1911 | DEATH | John Marshall Harlan, American Supreme Court Justice (Born 1833) |
| 14th of October 1929 | DEATH | Henri Berger, German composer and royal bandmaster (Born 1844) |
| 14th of October 1944 | DEATH | Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (Born 1891) |
| 14th of October 1958 | DEATH | Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (Born 1882) |
| 14th of October 1959 | DEATH | Errol Flynn, Australian actor (Born 1909) |
| 14th of October 1960 | DEATH | Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (Born 1880) |
| 14th of October 1961 | DEATH | Paul Ramadier, French politician (Born 1888) |
| 14th of October 1961 | DEATH | Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (Born 1876) |
| 14th of October 1965 | DEATH | Randall Jarrell, American poet and essayist (Born 1914) |
| 14th of October 1967 | DEATH | Marcel Ayme, French novelist and playwright (Born 1902) |
| 14th of October 1969 | DEATH | Haguroyama Masaji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 36th Yokozuna (Born 1914) |
| 14th of October 1973 | DEATH | Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier (Born 1929) |
| 14th of October 1973 | DEATH | Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (Born 1897) |
| 14th of October 1976 | DEATH | Dame Edith Evans, English actress (Born 1888) |
| 14th of October 1977 | DEATH | Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (Born 1903) |
| 14th of October 1983 | DEATH | Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist (Born 1887) |
| 14th of October 1984 | DEATH | Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (Born 1918) |
| 14th of October 1985 | DEATH | Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (Born 1916) |
| 14th of October 1986 | DEATH | Keenan Wynn, American actor (Born 1916) |
| 14th of October 1989 | DEATH | Michael Carmine, American actor (Born1959) |
| 14th of October 1990 | DEATH | Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (Born 1918) |
| 14th of October 1997 | DEATH | Harold Robbins, American novelist (Born 1915) |
| 14th of October 1998 | DEATH | Frankie Yankovic, American musician (Born 1916) |
| 14th of October 1998 | DEATH | Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (Born 1917) |
| 14th of October 1999 | DEATH | Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (Born 1922) |
| 14th of October 2000 | DEATH | Art Coulter, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1909) |
| 14th of October 2001 | DEATH | Zhang Xueliang, Chinese warlord, instigator of the Xi'an incident (Born 1901) |
| 14th of October 2002 | DEATH | Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (Born 1911) |
| 14th of October 2003 | DEATH | Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (Born 1913) |
| 14th of October 2004 | DEATH | Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (Born 1949) |
| 14th of October 2005 | DEATH | Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (Born 1981) |
| 14th of October 2006 | DEATH | Jared Anderson, American bassist (Born 1975) |
| 14th of October 2006 | DEATH | Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (Born 1919) |
| 14th of October 2006 | DEATH | Freddy Fender, American musician (Born 1937) |
| 14th of October 2006 | DEATH | Nancy Lynn, American aviator (Born 1956) |
| 14th of October 2006 | DEATH | Gerry Studds, American politician (Born 1937) |
| 14th of October 2007 | DEATH | Big Moe, American rapper (Born 1974) |
| 14th of October 2007 | DEATH | Raymond Pellegrin, French actor (Born 1925) |
| 14th of October 2007 | DEATH | Judy Crichton, American television documentary producer (Born 1929) |
| 14th of October 2008 | DEATH | Richard Cooey, American convicted murderer and rapist (Born 1967) |
| 14th of October 2008 | DEATH | Robert Furman, American civil engineer and WWII intelligence officer (Born 1915) |
| 14th of October 2009 | DEATH | Captain Lou Albano, American professional wrestler and manager (Born 1933) |
| 14th of October 2009 | DEATH | Martyn Sanderson, New Zealand actor (Born 1938) |
| 14th of October 2009 | DEATH | Collin Wilcox, American actress (Born 1935) |
| 14th of October 2010 | DEATH | Simon MacCorkindale, British actor (Born 1952) |
| 14th of October 2010 | DEATH | Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born American mathematician (Born 1924) |