Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 14
Births
[edit]- 1503 – Nostradamus, French apothecary and reputed seer (d. 1566) (pictured)
- 1546 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist (d. 1601)
- 1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish admiral (d. 1860)
- 1870 – Karl Renner, 4th President of Austria (d. 1950)
- 1883 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (d. 1969)
- 1939 – Ernie Davis, American football player and Heisman Trophy winner (d. 1963)
Deaths
[edit]- 1799 – George Washington, American general and 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
- 1940 – Anton Korošec, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
- 1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, co-creator of Corn flakes (b. 1852)
- 1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
- 1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
- 2003 – Blas Ople, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927)