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| October 14th, 2007 (October 14 2007) | Death | Big Moe, American rapper (born in 1974) | |
| October 14th, 2006 (October 14 2006) | Death | Jared Anderson, American bassist (born in 1975) | |
| October 14th, 2006 (October 14 2006) | Death | Freddy Fender, American musician (born in 1937) | |
| October 14th, 2006 (October 14 2006) | Death | Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (born in 1919) | |
| October 14th, 2006 (October 14 2006) | Death | Nancy Lynn, American aviator (born in 1956) | |
| October 14th, 2006 (October 14 2006) | Death | Gerry Studds, American politician (born in 1937) | |
| October 14th, 2005 (October 14 2005) | Death | Jody Dobrowski, English murder victim (born in 1981) | |
| October 14th, 2004 (October 14 2004) | Death | Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek singer, actor and entertainer (born in 1949) | |
| October 14th, 2003 (October 14 2003) | Death | Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (born in 1913) | |
| October 14th, 2002 (October 14 2002) | Death | Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (born in 1911) | |
| October 14th, 1999 (October 14 1999) | Death | Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (born in 1922) | |
| October 14th, 1998 (October 14 1998) | Event | Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia. | |
| October 14th, 1998 (October 14 1998) | Death | Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (born in 1917) | |
| October 14th, 1998 (October 14 1998) | Death | Frankie Yankovic, American musician (born in 1916) | |
| October 14th, 1997 (October 14 1997) | Death | Harold Robbins, American novelist (born in 1915) | |
| October 14th, 1994 (October 14 1994) | Event | Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize. | Yitzhak Rabin Quotes |
| October 14th, 1990 (October 14 1990) | Death | Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (born in 1918) | |
| October 14th, 1989 (October 14 1989) | Death | Michael Carmine, American actor (b.1959) | |
| October 14th, 1988 (October 14 1988) | Birth | MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress | |
| October 14th, 1988 (October 14 1988) | Birth | Max Thieriot, American actor | |
| October 14th, 1986 (October 14 1986) | Birth | Tom Craddock, English footballer | |
| October 14th, 1986 (October 14 1986) | Birth | Skyler Shaye, American actress | |
| October 14th, 1986 (October 14 1986) | Death | Keenan Wynn, American actor (born in 1916) | |
| October 14th, 1985 (October 14 1985) | Birth | Digao, Brazilian footballer | |
| October 14th, 1985 (October 14 1985) | Birth | Daniel Clark, Canadian actor | |
| October 14th, 1985 (October 14 1985) | Birth | Sherlyn Gonzalez, Mexican actress | |
| October 14th, 1985 (October 14 1985) | Birth | Alexandre Sarnes Negrao, Brazilian racing driver | |
| October 14th, 1985 (October 14 1985) | Death | Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (born in 1916) | |
| October 14th, 1984 (October 14 1984) | Birth | LaRon Landry, American football player | |
| October 14th, 1984 (October 14 1984) | Death | Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (born in 1918) | Martin Ryle Quotes |
| October 14th, 1983 (October 14 1983) | Birth | Vanessa Lane, American porn star | |
| October 14th, 1983 (October 14 1983) | Birth | Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player | |
| October 14th, 1983 (October 14 1983) | Death | Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist | |
| October 14th, 1982 (October 14 1982) | Event | U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. | Ronald Reagan Quotes |
| October 14th, 1981 (October 14 1981) | Event | Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner. | |
| October 14th, 1981 (October 14 1981) | Event | Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated. | |
| October 14th, 1981 (October 14 1981) | Birth | Boof Bonser, American baseball player | |
| October 14th, 1980 (October 14 1980) | Birth | Terrence McGee, American football player | |
| October 14th, 1980 (October 14 1980) | Birth | Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer | |
| October 14th, 1980 (October 14 1980) | Birth | Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer | |
| October 14th, 1979 (October 14 1979) | Event | The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people. | |
| October 14th, 1979 (October 14 1979) | Birth | Stacy Keibler, American actress / ex-professional wrestler | |
| October 14th, 1978 (October 14 1978) | Birth | Justin Brannan, American musician, writer | |
| October 14th, 1978 (October 14 1978) | Birth | Ryan Church, American baseball player | |
| October 14th, 1978 (October 14 1978) | Birth | Paul Hunter, English snooker player (died in 2006) | |
| October 14th, 1978 (October 14 1978) | Birth | Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer | |
| October 14th, 1978 (October 14 1978) | Birth | Usher, American singer and actor | |
| October 14th, 1978 (October 14 1978) | Birth | Javon Walker, American football player | |
| October 14th, 1977 (October 14 1977) | Birth | Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player | |
| October 14th, 1977 (October 14 1977) | Birth | Bianca Beauchamp, adult model | |
| October 14th, 1977 (October 14 1977) | Birth | Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor | |
| October 14th, 1977 (October 14 1977) | Birth | Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter | |
| October 14th, 1977 (October 14 1977) | Death | Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (born in 1903) | |
| October 14th, 1976 (October 14 1976) | Birth | Natasa Kejzar, Slovenian swimmer | |
| October 14th, 1976 (October 14 1976) | Birth | Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player | |
| October 14th, 1976 (October 14 1976) | Birth | Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion | |
| October 14th, 1976 (October 14 1976) | Death | Dame Edith Evans, English actress (born in 1888) | Edith Evans Quotes |
| October 14th, 1975 (October 14 1975) | Birth | Floyd Landis, American cyclist | |
| October 14th, 1975 (October 14 1975) | Birth | Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints) | |
| October 14th, 1974 (October 14 1974) | Birth | Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks) | |
| October 14th, 1974 (October 14 1974) | Birth | Jessica Drake, American porn star | |
| October 14th, 1974 (October 14 1974) | Birth | Joseph Utsler, American musician | |
| October 14th, 1973 (October 14 1973) | Event | Thailand s University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured. | |
| October 14th, 1973 (October 14 1973) | Death | Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (born in 1897) | |
| October 14th, 1971 (October 14 1971) | Birth | Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer | |
| October 14th, 1970 (October 14 1970) | Birth | Jim Jackson, American basketball player | |
| October 14th, 1970 (October 14 1970) | Birth | Daniela Pestova, Czech supermodel | |
| October 14th, 1970 (October 14 1970) | Birth | Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor | |
| October 14th, 1970 (October 14 1970) | Birth | Par Zetterberg, Swedish football player | |
| October 14th, 1969 (October 14 1969) | Event | The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971. | |
| October 14th, 1969 (October 14 1969) | Birth | David Strickland, American actor (died in 1999) | |
| October 14th, 1969 (October 14 1969) | Birth | P. J. Brown, American basketball player | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: 27 soldiers are arrested at the Presidio in San Francisco for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | Jim Hines of the USA becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Event | The rebuilt Euston station in London is opened. | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Birth | Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer | |
| October 14th, 1968 (October 14 1968) | Birth | Johnny Goudie, American musician | |
| October 14th, 1967 (October 14 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California. | Joan Baez Quotes |
| October 14th, 1967 (October 14 1967) | Birth | Pat Kelly, American baseball player | |
| October 14th, 1967 (October 14 1967) | Birth | Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| October 14th, 1967 (October 14 1967) | Birth | Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist | |
| October 14th, 1967 (October 14 1967) | Death | Marcel Ayme, French novelist and playwright (born in 1902) | |
| October 14th, 1966 (October 14 1966) | Event | The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro. | |
| October 14th, 1966 (October 14 1966) | Birth | Savanna Samson, American porn star | |
| October 14th, 1965 (October 14 1965) | Birth | Juri Jaanson, Estonian rower | |
| October 14th, 1965 (October 14 1965) | Birth | Constantine Koukias, Australian composer | |
| October 14th, 1965 (October 14 1965) | Birth | Steve Coogan, English actor | |
| October 14th, 1965 (October 14 1965) | Birth | Karyn White, American singer | |
| October 14th, 1964 (October 14 1964) | Event | Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev. | Nikita Khrushchev Quotes |
| October 14th, 1964 (October 14 1964) | Event | American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| October 14th, 1964 (October 14 1964) | Birth | Olu Oguibe, American artist | |
| October 14th, 1964 (October 14 1964) | Birth | Joe Girardi, American baseball player | |
| October 14th, 1964 (October 14 1964) | Birth | Jim Rome, American sport talk show host | |
| October 14th, 1963 (October 14 1963) | Birth | Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer | |
| October 14th, 1963 (October 14 1963) | Birth | Lori Petty, American actress | |
| October 14th, 1962 (October 14 1962) | Event | Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. | |
| October 14th, 1962 (October 14 1962) | Birth | Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player | |
| October 14th, 1961 (October 14 1961) | Birth | Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer | |
| October 14th, 1961 (October 14 1961) | Death | Paul Ramadier, French politician (born in 1888) | |
| October 14th, 1961 (October 14 1961) | Death | Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (born in 1876) | |
| October 14th, 1960 (October 14 1960) | Birth | Steve Cram, English athlete | |
| October 14th, 1960 (October 14 1960) | Death | Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (born in 1880) | |
| October 14th, 1959 (October 14 1959) | Death | Errol Flynn, Australian actor (born in 1909) | |
| October 14th, 1958 (October 14 1958) | Event | The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site. | |
| October 14th, 1958 (October 14 1958) | Event | The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members. | |
| October 14th, 1958 (October 14 1958) | Birth | Thomas Dolby, English musician | |
| October 14th, 1958 (October 14 1958) | Death | Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (born in 1882) | |
| October 14th, 1957 (October 14 1957) | Event | Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian monarch to open the Parliament of Canada with the Speech from the Throne. | |
| October 14th, 1957 (October 14 1957) | Birth | Michel Despres, Quebec politician | |
| October 14th, 1954 (October 14 1954) | Birth | Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist | |
| October 14th, 1953 (October 14 1953) | Birth | Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer | |
| October 14th, 1952 (October 14 1952) | Birth | Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast | |
| October 14th, 1949 (October 14 1949) | Event | Eleven leaders of the U.S. Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. | |
| October 14th, 1949 (October 14 1949) | Event | Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou). | |
| October 14th, 1949 (October 14 1949) | Birth | Katy Manning, English/Australian actress | |
| October 14th, 1949 (October 14 1949) | Birth | Katha Pollitt, American writer | |
| October 14th, 1948 (October 14 1948) | Birth | Harry Anderson, American actor | |
| October 14th, 1948 (October 14 1948) | Birth | David Ruprecht, American game show host | |
| October 14th, 1948 (October 14 1948) | Birth | Engin Ar?k, Turkish nuclear physicist (died in 2007) | |
| October 14th, 1947 (October 14 1947) | Event | Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight. | Chuck D Quotes |
| October 14th, 1947 (October 14 1947) | Birth | Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist | |
| October 14th, 1946 (October 14 1946) | Birth | Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues) | |
| October 14th, 1946 (October 14 1946) | Birth | James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, American football coach | Robert Kennedy Quotes |
| October 14th, 1946 (October 14 1946) | Birth | Craig Venter, American biologist | |
| October 14th, 1946 (October 14 1946) | Birth | Al Oliver, American baseball player | |
| October 14th, 1946 (October 14 1946) | Birth | Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth) | |
| October 14th, 1945 (October 14 1945) | Birth | Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake) | |
| October 14th, 1944 (October 14 1944) | Event | Allied troops land in Corfu. | |
| October 14th, 1944 (October 14 1944) | Birth | Udo Kier, German actor | |
| October 14th, 1944 (October 14 1944) | Death | Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (born in 1891) | Erwin Rommel Quotes |
| October 14th, 1943 (October 14 1943) | Event | Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp s 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war. | |
| October 14th, 1943 (October 14 1943) | Event | U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt. | |
| October 14th, 1942 (October 14 1942) | Event | A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137. | |
| October 14th, 1942 (October 14 1942) | Birth | Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (died in 1986) | |
| October 14th, 1941 (October 14 1941) | Birth | Art Shamsky, American baseball player | |
| October 14th, 1940 (October 14 1940) | Event | Balham tube disaster during the Blitz. | |
| October 14th, 1940 (October 14 1940) | Birth | Perrie Mans, South African snooker player | |
| October 14th, 1940 (October 14 1940) | Birth | Cliff Richard, English singer | |
| October 14th, 1940 (October 14 1940) | Birth | Christopher Timothy, British actor | |
| October 14th, 1939 (October 14 1939) | Event | German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak. | |
| October 14th, 1939 (October 14 1939) | Birth | Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer | |
| October 14th, 1939 (October 14 1939) | Birth | Rocky Thompson, American golfer | |
| October 14th, 1938 (October 14 1938) | Birth | John W. Dean III, Watergate figure | John Dean Quotes |
| October 14th, 1938 (October 14 1938) | Birth | Empress Farah Diba of Iran | |
| October 14th, 1938 (October 14 1938) | Birth | Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach | |
| October 14th, 1935 (October 14 1935) | Birth | La Monte Young, American composer | |
| October 14th, 1933 (October 14 1933) | Event | Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations. | |
| October 14th, 1932 (October 14 1932) | Birth | Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (died in 2005) | |
| October 14th, 1932 (October 14 1932) | Birth | Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (died in 2005) | |
| October 14th, 1931 (October 14 1931) | Birth | Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (died in 1986) | |
| October 14th, 1930 (October 14 1930) | Birth | Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (died in 1997) | |
| October 14th, 1929 (October 14 1929) | Birth | Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (died in 2007) | |
| October 14th, 1928 (October 14 1928) | Birth | Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (died in 1995) | |
| October 14th, 1927 (October 14 1927) | Birth | Roger Moore, English actor | |
| October 14th, 1926 (October 14 1926) | Event | The children s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published. | |
| October 14th, 1926 (October 14 1926) | Birth | Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (died in 1982) | |
| October 14th, 1925 (October 14 1925) | Event | Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee) | |
| October 14th, 1920 (October 14 1920) | Event | Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland. | |
| October 14th, 1918 (October 14 1918) | Birth | Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (died in 1991) | |
| October 14th, 1916 (October 14 1916) | Event | Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person. | Paul Robeson Quotes |
| October 14th, 1916 (October 14 1916) | Event | The Perm State University was founded in Russia. | |
| October 14th, 1916 (October 14 1916) | Birth | C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General | C. Everett Koop Quotes |
| October 14th, 1914 (October 14 1914) | Birth | Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 2006) | |
| October 14th, 1914 (October 14 1914) | Birth | Dick Durrance, American skier (died in 2004) | |
| October 14th, 1914 (October 14 1914) | Birth | Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (died in 2004) | |
| October 14th, 1913 (October 14 1913) | Event | Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom s worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives. | |
| October 14th, 1912 (October 14 1912) | Event | While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech. | Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| October 14th, 1911 (October 14 1911) | Birth | Le ??c Th?, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died in 1990) | |
| October 14th, 1911 (October 14 1911) | Death | John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (born in 1833) | John Marshall Quotes |
| October 14th, 1910 (October 14 1910) | Event | English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House. | |
| October 14th, 1910 (October 14 1910) | Birth | John Wooden, American basketball player and coach | |
| October 14th, 1909 (October 14 1909) | Birth | Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (died in 1938) | |
| October 14th, 1909 (October 14 1909) | Birth | Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (died in 1996) | |
| October 14th, 1908 (October 14 1908) | Birth | Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (died in 2003) | |
| October 14th, 1908 (October 14 1908) | Birth | Allan Jones, American actor and singer (died in 1992) | |
| October 14th, 1906 (October 14 1906) | Birth | Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (died in 1975) | |
| October 14th, 1906 (October 14 1906) | Birth | Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (died in 1949) | |
| October 14th, 1904 (October 14 1904) | Birth | Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (died in 1995) | |
| October 14th, 1902 (October 14 1902) | Birth | Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (died in 1963) | |
| October 14th, 1900 (October 14 1900) | Birth | Agustin Lara, Mexican composer (died in 1970) | |
| October 14th, 1894 (October 14 1894) | Birth | E. E. Cummings, American poet (died in 1962) | E. E. Cummings Quotes |
| October 14th, 1893 (October 14 1893) | Birth | Lillian Gish, American actress (died in 1993) | |
| October 14th, 1892 (October 14 1892) | Birth | Sumner Welles, American diplomat (died in 1961) | |
| October 14th, 1890 (October 14 1890) | Birth | Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (died in 1969) | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| October 14th, 1888 (October 14 1888) | Event | Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. | |
| October 14th, 1888 (October 14 1888) | Birth | Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (died in 1923) | Katherine Mansfield Quotes |
| October 14th, 1887 (October 14 1887) | Birth | Bernard Montgomery, British General. (died in 1976) | |
| October 14th, 1884 (October 14 1884) | Event | George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film. | |
| October 14th, 1882 (October 14 1882) | Event | University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan. | |
| October 14th, 1882 (October 14 1882) | Birth | Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (died in 1975) | |
| October 14th, 1882 (October 14 1882) | Birth | Charlie Parker, English cricketer (died in 1959) | |
| October 14th, 1873 (October 14 1873) | Birth | Ray Ewry, American athlete (died in 1937) | |
| October 14th, 1873 (October 14 1873) | Birth | Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (died in 1954) | |
| October 14th, 1869 (October 14 1869) | Birth | Joseph Duveen, British art dealer (died in 1939) | |
| October 14th, 1867 (October 14 1867) | Event | The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan. | |
| October 14th, 1863 (October 14 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe StationConfederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia. | |
| October 14th, 1861 (October 14 1861) | Birth | Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (died in 1944) | |
| October 14th, 1843 (October 14 1843) | Event | The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O Connell for conspiracy. | |
| October 14th, 1842 (October 14 1842) | Birth | Joe Start, American baseball player (died in 1927) | |
| October 14th, 1840 (October 14 1840) | Event | Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta. | |
| October 14th, 1834 (October 14 1834) | Event | In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings. | |
| October 14th, 1831 (October 14 1831) | Death | Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (born in 1761) | |
| October 14th, 1812 (October 14 1812) | Event | Work on London s Regent s Canal starts. | |
| October 14th, 1806 (October 14 1806) | Event | Battle of Jena-Auerstadt France defeats Prussia | |
| October 14th, 1806 (October 14 1806) | Birth | Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (died in 1865) | |
| October 14th, 1805 (October 14 1805) | Event | Battle of Elchingen, France defeats Austria | |
| October 14th, 1801 (October 14 1801) | Birth | Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (died in 1883) | |
| October 14th, 1790 (October 14 1790) | Birth | Thursday October Christian (died in 1831) | |
| October 14th, 1789 (October 14 1789) | Event | George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day. | George Washington Quotes |
| October 14th, 1784 (October 14 1784) | Birth | King Ferdinand VII of Spain (died in 1833) | |
| October 14th, 1773 (October 14 1773) | Event | The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland. | |
| October 14th, 1773 (October 14 1773) | Event | American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom s East India Company tea ships cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland. | |
| October 14th, 1758 (October 14 1758) | Event | Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk | |
| October 14th, 1758 (October 14 1758) | Death | Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (born in 1696) | |
| October 14th, 1733 (October 14 1733) | Birth | Francois Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (died in 1798) | |
| October 14th, 1726 (October 14 1726) | Birth | Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (died in 1813) | |
| October 14th, 1712 (October 14 1712) | Birth | George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died in 1770) | |
| October 14th, 1711 (October 14 1711) | Death | Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (born in 1708) | |
| October 14th, 1703 (October 14 1703) | Death | Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (born in 1634) | |
| October 14th, 1687 (October 14 1687) | Birth | Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (died in 1768) | |
| October 14th, 1669 (October 14 1669) | Death | Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (born in 1623) | |
| October 14th, 1660 (October 14 1660) | Death | Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (born in 1606) | |
| October 14th, 1656 (October 14 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 ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive. | |
| October 14th, 1644 (October 14 1644) | Birth | William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (died in 1718) | William Penn Quotes |
| October 14th, 1643 (October 14 1643) | Birth | Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (died in 1712) | |
| October 14th, 1637 (October 14 1637) | Death | Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (born in 1552) | |
| October 14th, 1633 (October 14 1633) | Birth | James II of England and VII of Scotland (died in 1701) | |
| October 14th, 1630 (October 14 1630) | Birth | Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (died in 1714) | |
| October 14th, 1619 (October 14 1619) | Death | Samuel Daniel, English poet (born in 1562) | Samuel Daniel Quotes |
| October 14th, 1610 (October 14 1610) | Death | Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (born in 1540) | |
| October 14th, 1586 (October 14 1586) | Event | Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England. | Elizabeth I of England Quotes |
| October 14th, 1582 (October 14 1582) | Event | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. | |
| October 14th, 1568 (October 14 1568) | Death | Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer | |
| October 14th, 1565 (October 14 1565) | Death | Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (born in 1521) | |
| October 14th, 1552 (October 14 1552) | Death | Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (born in 1488) | |
| October 14th, 1499 (October 14 1499) | Birth | Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (died in 1524) | |
| October 14th, 1493 (October 14 1493) | Birth | Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (died in 1568) | |
| October 14th, 1404 (October 14 1404) | Birth | Marie of Anjou, queen of France (died in 1463) | |
| October 14th, 1322 (October 14 1322) | Event | Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland s independence. | |
| October 14th, 1318 (October 14 1318) | Death | Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland | |
| October 14th, 1257 (October 14 1257) | Birth | King Przemysl II of Poland (died in 1296) | |
| October 14th, 1256 (October 14 1256) | Death | Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (born in 1239) | |
| October 14th, 1092 (October 14 1092) | Death | Nizam al-Mulk, Persian vizier (born in 1018) | |
| October 14th, 1066 (October 14 1066) | Event | Norman Conquest: Battle of HastingsIn England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England. | William King Quotes |
| October 14th, 1066 (October 14 1066) | Death | Harold Godwinson, King of England | |
