Famous Deaths Happened In May - 14
Tuesday, 08 July 2025
0347 Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies on this day in history.
0649 Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies on May - 14.
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 Death of Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543) on May - 14.
1610 Death of Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered at 56 on this day in history.
1643 On May - 14 louis XIII, king of France (1610-43), dies at 41
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 On this day in history death of antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1726 On this day in history john B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies
1742 Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop, dies at 64 on May - 14.
1754 On this day in history death of pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
1761 Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50 on this day in history.
1801 Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, dies at 66 on this day in history.
1818 Death of Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775) on this day in history.
1820 On May - 14 paul Friedrich Struck, composer, dies at 43
1832 On this day in history death of john van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried
1833 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88 on this day in history.
1847 On this day in history fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, composer, dies at 41
1860 Death of Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801) on May - 14.
1863 Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer, dies at 46 on May - 14.
1864 William N Green Jr, Union brig-general, dies on this day in history.
1870 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.
1873 Death of Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797) on this day in history.
1877 On this day in history 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 On this day in history death of lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1889 Death of Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809) on May - 14.
1893 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 on this day in history.
1904 On May - 14 richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor, dies at 78
1906 On May - 14 death of carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
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