February 14
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- 1779 - James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
Births
- 1404 - Leone Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
- 1766 - Thomas Malthus, English economist (d. 1834)
- 1856 - Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (d. 1931)
- 1895 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (d. 1973)
- 1947 - Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
Deaths
- 1400 - King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
- 1779 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
- 1780 - William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
- 1808 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
- 1831 - Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
- 1831 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)
- 1870 - St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
- 1881 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
- 1885 - Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
- 1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
- 1894 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
- 1922 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
- 1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
- 1942 - Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
- 1943 - Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
- 1943 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
- 1945 - Mordecai Brown, baseball player (b. 1876)
- 1949 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
- 1952 - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
- 1958 - Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
- 1959 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
- 1967 - Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
- 1969 - Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)
- 1970 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).
- 1974 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
- 1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
- 1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
- 1979 - Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)
- 1980 - Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
- 1983 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
- 1987 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
- 1987 - Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
- 1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
- 1990 - Tony Holiday, German singer
- 1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
- 1995 - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
- 1995 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)
- 1999 - John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
- 1999 - Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
- 2002 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
- 2003 - Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
- 2003 - Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
- 2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
- 2005 - Najai Turpin, American boxer
- 2005 - Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)
- 2006 - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
- 2006 - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
- 2006 - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
- 2007 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
- 2007 - Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated film maker. (b. 1943)
notes
The Loft Frank Harris Tim Buckley Head-On Common Sense (pamphlet) Israel Zangwill Jan Decleir Emmett Williams Bern Porter Ischa Meijer Leone Battista Alberti Sibel Kekilli Valentine's Day Richard II of England Samuel Butler (poet) P. G. Wodehouse
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