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| December 14th, 2006 (December 14 2006) | Death | Anton Balasingham, chief political strategist of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (born in 1938) | |
| December 14th, 2006 (December 14 2006) | Death | Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records (born in 1923) | |
| December 14th, 2006 (December 14 2006) | Death | Mike Evans, American actor (born in 1949) | Evans Quotes |
| December 14th, 2005 (December 14 2005) | Death | Trevanian, American author (born in 1931) | |
| December 14th, 2004 (December 14 2004) | Event | The Millau viaduct, the highest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened. | |
| December 14th, 2004 (December 14 2004) | Death | Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (born in 1934) | |
| December 14th, 2004 (December 14 2004) | Death | Fernando Poe, Jr., Filipino actor and presidential candidate (born in 1939) | |
| December 14th, 2003 (December 14 2003) | Event | President of Pakistan Pervez Musharaf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. | |
| December 14th, 2003 (December 14 2003) | Event | President George W. Bush announces the capture of Saddam Hussein. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| December 14th, 2003 (December 14 2003) | Death | Jeanne Crain, American actress (born in 1925) | |
| December 14th, 2003 (December 14 2003) | Death | Blas Ople, foreign minister of the Philippines (born in 1927) | |
| December 14th, 2001 (December 14 2001) | Death | W. G. Sebald, German writer (born in 1944) | |
| December 14th, 1998 (December 14 1998) | Death | Norman Fell, American actor (born in 1924) | |
| December 14th, 1998 (December 14 1998) | Death | Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (born in 1928) | |
| December 14th, 1998 (December 14 1998) | Death | Annette Strauss, American philanthropist (born in 1924) | |
| December 14th, 1997 (December 14 1997) | Death | Stubby Kaye, American actor (born in 1918) | |
| December 14th, 1997 (December 14 1997) | Death | Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who) (born in 1946) | |
| December 14th, 1996 (December 14 1996) | Death | Gaston Miron, French Canadian poet and editor (born in 1928) | |
| December 14th, 1995 (December 14 1995) | Event | Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by leaders of various governments. | |
| December 14th, 1995 (December 14 1995) | Birth | Princess Olimpia Preslavska of Bulgaria | |
| December 14th, 1994 (December 14 1994) | Death | Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (born in 1910) | |
| December 14th, 1993 (December 14 1993) | Death | Jeff Alm, American football player (born in 1968) | |
| December 14th, 1993 (December 14 1993) | Death | Myrna Loy, American actress (born in 1905) | |
| December 14th, 1992 (December 14 1992) | Birth | Tori Kelly, American singer | |
| December 14th, 1990 (December 14 1990) | Death | Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss writer (born in 1921) | |
| December 14th, 1989 (December 14 1989) | Birth | Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer | |
| December 14th, 1989 (December 14 1989) | Death | Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (born in 1919) | |
| December 14th, 1989 (December 14 1989) | Death | Andrei D. Sakharov, Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born in 1921) | Andrei Sakharov Quotes |
| December 14th, 1988 (December 14 1988) | Birth | Nicolas Batum, French basketball player | |
| December 14th, 1988 (December 14 1988) | Birth | Vanessa Hudgens, American singer and actress | |
| December 14th, 1985 (December 14 1985) | Birth | Jakub Blaszczykowski, Polish footballer | |
| December 14th, 1985 (December 14 1985) | Birth | Paul Rabil, professional lacrosse player | |
| December 14th, 1985 (December 14 1985) | Birth | Julio Pimentel, Dominican baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1985 (December 14 1985) | Birth | Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer | |
| December 14th, 1985 (December 14 1985) | Birth | Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress | |
| December 14th, 1985 (December 14 1985) | Death | Catherine Doherty, social justice activist (born in 1896) | |
| December 14th, 1985 (December 14 1985) | Death | Roger Maris, American baseball player (born in 1934) | |
| December 14th, 1984 (December 14 1984) | Birth | Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer | |
| December 14th, 1984 (December 14 1984) | Birth | Edward Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer | |
| December 14th, 1984 (December 14 1984) | Death | Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer and Nobel laureate (born in 1898) | |
| December 14th, 1982 (December 14 1982) | Birth | Josh Fields, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1982 (December 14 1982) | Birth | Steve Sidwell, English footballer | |
| December 14th, 1982 (December 14 1982) | Birth | Anthony Way, English singer and actor | |
| December 14th, 1981 (December 14 1981) | Event | Arab-Israeli conflict: Israel s Knesset passes The Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the area of the Golan Heights. | |
| December 14th, 1981 (December 14 1981) | Birth | Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress | |
| December 14th, 1981 (December 14 1981) | Birth | Emilie Heymans, Canadian diver | |
| December 14th, 1981 (December 14 1981) | Birth | Johnny Jeter, American professional wrestler | |
| December 14th, 1981 (December 14 1981) | Birth | Shaun Marcum, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1981 (December 14 1981) | Birth | Liam Lawrence, English footballer | |
| December 14th, 1980 (December 14 1980) | Birth | Frankie J, American singer | |
| December 14th, 1980 (December 14 1980) | Birth | Tata Young, Thai-American singer | |
| December 14th, 1980 (December 14 1980) | Birth | Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer | |
| December 14th, 1979 (December 14 1979) | Birth | Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model | |
| December 14th, 1979 (December 14 1979) | Birth | Michael Owen, English footballer | |
| December 14th, 1978 (December 14 1978) | Birth | Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 14th, 1978 (December 14 1978) | Birth | Radu Sarbu, Moldovan singer (O-Zone) | |
| December 14th, 1978 (December 14 1978) | Birth | Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player | |
| December 14th, 1978 (December 14 1978) | Death | Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (born in 1886) | |
| December 14th, 1977 (December 14 1977) | Birth | KaDee Strickland, American actress | |
| December 14th, 1976 (December 14 1976) | Birth | Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter | |
| December 14th, 1976 (December 14 1976) | Birth | Andre Couto, Portuguese racing driver | |
| December 14th, 1976 (December 14 1976) | Birth | Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer | |
| December 14th, 1975 (December 14 1975) | Birth | Justin Furstenfeld, American rock singer | |
| December 14th, 1975 (December 14 1975) | Death | Arthur Treacher, English actor (born in 1894) | |
| December 14th, 1974 (December 14 1974) | Birth | Billy Koch, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1974 (December 14 1974) | Death | Walter Lippman, American writer, journalist, and political commentator (born in 1889) | |
| December 14th, 1973 (December 14 1973) | Birth | Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-born Canadian soccer player | |
| December 14th, 1973 (December 14 1973) | Birth | Tia Texada, American actress and singer | |
| December 14th, 1973 (December 14 1973) | Birth | Thuy Trang, American actress (died in 2001) | |
| December 14th, 1972 (December 14 1972) | Event | Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This was the last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century. | |
| December 14th, 1972 (December 14 1972) | Birth | Eric Anderson, American musical theatre actor | |
| December 14th, 1972 (December 14 1972) | Birth | Marcus Jensen, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1971 (December 14 1971) | Birth | Natascha McElhone, English actress | |
| December 14th, 1971 (December 14 1971) | Death | Dick Tiger, Nigerian-born boxer (born in 1929) | |
| December 14th, 1970 (December 14 1970) | Birth | Nadine Garner, Australian actress | |
| December 14th, 1970 (December 14 1970) | Birth | Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer | |
| December 14th, 1970 (December 14 1970) | Birth | Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter | |
| December 14th, 1970 (December 14 1970) | Death | Franz Schlegelberger, German Nazi politician (born in 1876) | |
| December 14th, 1969 (December 14 1969) | Birth | Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1967 (December 14 1967) | Birth | Ewa Bialolecka, Polish writer | |
| December 14th, 1966 (December 14 1966) | Birth | Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian racecar driver | |
| December 14th, 1966 (December 14 1966) | Birth | Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 14th, 1966 (December 14 1966) | Birth | Tim Skold, Swedish/American musician | |
| December 14th, 1965 (December 14 1965) | Birth | Craig Biggio, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1965 (December 14 1965) | Birth | Ken Hill, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1964 (December 14 1964) | Event | American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United StatesThe United States Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Congress can use its Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination. | |
| December 14th, 1964 (December 14 1964) | Death | William Bendix, American actor (born in 1906) | |
| December 14th, 1963 (December 14 1963) | Birth | Greg Abbott, English former football player | |
| December 14th, 1963 (December 14 1963) | Birth | Cynthia Gibb, American actress | |
| December 14th, 1963 (December 14 1963) | Death | Dinah Washington, American singer (born in 1924) | |
| December 14th, 1962 (December 14 1962) | Event | NASA s Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. | |
| December 14th, 1962 (December 14 1962) | Birth | Ginger Lynn (Ginger Lynn Allen), American adult film actress | |
| December 14th, 1960 (December 14 1960) | Birth | Bob Paris, American bodybuilder and gay rights advocate | |
| December 14th, 1960 (December 14 1960) | Birth | Chris Waddle, English footballer | |
| December 14th, 1959 (December 14 1959) | Birth | Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer | |
| December 14th, 1958 (December 14 1958) | Event | The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first expedition to reach The Pole of Relative Inaccessibility in the Antarctic. | |
| December 14th, 1958 (December 14 1958) | Birth | Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Waterboys) | |
| December 14th, 1958 (December 14 1958) | Birth | Spider Stacy, English musician (The Pogues) | |
| December 14th, 1957 (December 14 1957) | Birth | Gary Ferris, American author | |
| December 14th, 1956 (December 14 1956) | Birth | Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein skier | |
| December 14th, 1956 (December 14 1956) | Death | Juho Kusti Paasikivi, president of Finland (born in 1870) | |
| December 14th, 1955 (December 14 1955) | Event | Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations. | |
| December 14th, 1954 (December 14 1954) | Birth | James Horan, American actor | |
| December 14th, 1954 (December 14 1954) | Birth | Alan Kulwicki, American NASCAR driver (died in 1993) | |
| December 14th, 1954 (December 14 1954) | Birth | Steven MacLean, Canadian astronaut | |
| December 14th, 1953 (December 14 1953) | Birth | Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player | |
| December 14th, 1953 (December 14 1953) | Birth | Rene Eespere, Soviet-born Estonian composer | |
| December 14th, 1953 (December 14 1953) | Birth | Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician | |
| December 14th, 1953 (December 14 1953) | Birth | Mikael Odenberg, Swedish politician | |
| December 14th, 1952 (December 14 1952) | Birth | Germain Houde, French Canadian actor | |
| December 14th, 1951 (December 14 1951) | Birth | Jan Timman, Dutch chess grandmaster | |
| December 14th, 1949 (December 14 1949) | Birth | Bill Buckner, American baseball player | |
| December 14th, 1949 (December 14 1949) | Birth | Cliff Williams, English bassist (AC/DC) | |
| December 14th, 1948 (December 14 1948) | Birth | Lester Bangs, American music journalist (died in 1982) | Lester Bangs Quotes |
| December 14th, 1948 (December 14 1948) | Birth | Dee Wallace-Stone, American actress | |
| December 14th, 1947 (December 14 1947) | Event | The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is founded in Daytona Beach, Florida. | |
| December 14th, 1947 (December 14 1947) | Birth | Christopher Parkening, American guitarist | |
| December 14th, 1947 (December 14 1947) | Birth | Linda Sutton, English artist | |
| December 14th, 1947 (December 14 1947) | Death | Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1867) | |
| December 14th, 1947 (December 14 1947) | Death | Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (born in 1864) | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Event | The UN General Assembly votes to establish its headquarters in New York City. | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Birth | Jane Birkin, English-born French actress and singer | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Birth | Patty Duke, American actress | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Birth | Ruth Fuchs, East German athlete | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Birth | Michael Ovitz, American film producer | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Birth | Stan Smith, American tennis player | |
| December 14th, 1946 (December 14 1946) | Birth | Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer (Tony Orlando and Dawn) | |
| December 14th, 1943 (December 14 1943) | Birth | R. Emmett Tyrrell, American magazine publisher | |
| December 14th, 1942 (December 14 1942) | Birth | Zoe Laskari, Greek actress | |
| December 14th, 1941 (December 14 1941) | Event | German military commander of Kharkiv, Ukraine issues an order, under which the Jewish population was to move to the city periphery within 2 days, into the barracks of the works of a machine factory. In the next days 15,000 Jews are shot at Drobitsky Yar. | |
| December 14th, 1941 (December 14 1941) | Event | World War II: Japan signs treaty of alliance with Thailand. | |
| December 14th, 1941 (December 14 1941) | Birth | Karan Armstrong, American soprano | |
| December 14th, 1941 (December 14 1941) | Birth | Ellen Willis, American journalist (died in 2006) | Ellen Willis Quotes |
| December 14th, 1940 (December 14 1940) | Birth | Lex Gold, Scottish football administrator | |
| December 14th, 1939 (December 14 1939) | Event | Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations. | |
| December 14th, 1939 (December 14 1939) | Birth | Ernie Davis, American football player (died in 1963) | |
| December 14th, 1938 (December 14 1938) | Birth | Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian | |
| December 14th, 1935 (December 14 1935) | Birth | Lewis Arquette, American film actor, writer and producer (died in 2001) | |
| December 14th, 1935 (December 14 1935) | Birth | Lee Remick, American actress (died in 1991) | |
| December 14th, 1935 (December 14 1935) | Death | Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (born in 1902) | |
| December 14th, 1932 (December 14 1932) | Birth | Abbe Lane, American singer and actress | |
| December 14th, 1932 (December 14 1932) | Birth | Charlie Rich, American musician (died in 1995) | |
| December 14th, 1931 (December 14 1931) | Birth | Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (died in 2002) | Philo Quotes |
| December 14th, 1927 (December 14 1927) | Birth | Richard Cassilly, American tenor (d.1998) | |
| December 14th, 1927 (December 14 1927) | Death | Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (born in 1842) | |
| December 14th, 1925 (December 14 1925) | Birth | Sam Jones, American baseball player (died in 1971) | |
| December 14th, 1924 (December 14 1924) | Birth | Raj Kapoor, Indian actor (died in 1988) | |
| December 14th, 1923 (December 14 1923) | Birth | Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (died in 2006) | |
| December 14th, 1922 (December 14 1922) | Birth | Nikolay Basov, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 2001) | |
| December 14th, 1922 (December 14 1922) | Birth | Don Hewitt, American creator of 60 Minutes | |
| December 14th, 1920 (December 14 1920) | Birth | Clark Terry, American trumpeter | |
| December 14th, 1920 (December 14 1920) | Death | George Gipp, American football player (born in 1895) | |
| December 14th, 1918 (December 14 1918) | Event | Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Vaino I, renounces the Finnish throne. | Karl Hess Quotes |
| December 14th, 1918 (December 14 1918) | Birth | James T. Aubrey, American television executive (died in 1994) | |
| December 14th, 1918 (December 14 1918) | Birth | B.K.S. Iyengar, Indian yoga advocate | |
| December 14th, 1917 (December 14 1917) | Birth | C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish communist leader | |
| December 14th, 1917 (December 14 1917) | Birth | June Taylor, American choreographer (died in 2004) | |
| December 14th, 1917 (December 14 1917) | Birth | Elyse Knox, American Actress | |
| December 14th, 1916 (December 14 1916) | Birth | Shirley Jackson, American writer (died in 1965) | Shirley Jackson Quotes |
| December 14th, 1914 (December 14 1914) | Event | Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressist Party (Partido Democrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires. | |
| December 14th, 1914 (December 14 1914) | Birth | Karl Carstens, President of Germany (died in 1992) | |
| December 14th, 1914 (December 14 1914) | Birth | Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (died in 1943) | |
| December 14th, 1914 (December 14 1914) | Birth | Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (died in 2003) | |
| December 14th, 1913 (December 14 1913) | Birth | Dan Dailey, American actor (died in 1978) | |
| December 14th, 1912 (December 14 1912) | Death | Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British Army lieutenant (born in 1887) | |
| December 14th, 1911 (December 14 1911) | Event | Roald Amundsen s team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole. | |
| December 14th, 1911 (December 14 1911) | Birth | Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (died in 1965) | |
| December 14th, 1911 (December 14 1911) | Birth | Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (died in 1998) | |
| December 14th, 1909 (December 14 1909) | Birth | Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (died in 1975) | |
| December 14th, 1908 (December 14 1908) | Birth | Morey Amsterdam, American comedian and actor (died in 1996) | |
| December 14th, 1908 (December 14 1908) | Birth | Claude Davey, Welsh rugby union footballer | |
| December 14th, 1908 (December 14 1908) | Birth | Maria Szepes, Hungarian authoress (died in 2007) | |
| December 14th, 1907 (December 14 1907) | Event | The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather s Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. | |
| December 14th, 1903 (December 14 1903) | Event | The Wright Brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. | |
| December 14th, 1902 (December 14 1902) | Event | The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii. | |
| December 14th, 1902 (December 14 1902) | Birth | Frances Bavier, American actress (died in 1989) | |
| December 14th, 1902 (December 14 1902) | Death | Julia Grant, wife of President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant (born in 1826) | Ulysses S. Grant Quotes |
| December 14th, 1900 (December 14 1900) | Event | Quantum Mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. | |
| December 14th, 1897 (December 14 1897) | Birth | Margaret Chase Smith, American politician (died in 1995) | Margaret Chase Smith Quotes |
| December 14th, 1897 (December 14 1897) | Birth | Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian politician (died in 1977) | |
| December 14th, 1896 (December 14 1896) | Event | The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company. | |
| December 14th, 1896 (December 14 1896) | Birth | Jimmy Doolittle, American General (died in 1993) | |
| December 14th, 1895 (December 14 1895) | Birth | Paul Eluard, French poet (died in 1952) | Paul Eluard Quotes |
| December 14th, 1895 (December 14 1895) | Birth | King George VI of the United Kingdom (died in 1952) | |
| December 14th, 1884 (December 14 1884) | Birth | Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (died in 1950) | |
| December 14th, 1881 (December 14 1881) | Birth | Katherine MacDonald, American actress and film producer (died in 1956) | |
| December 14th, 1873 (December 14 1873) | Death | Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (born in 1807) | |
| December 14th, 1870 (December 14 1870) | Birth | Karl Renner, President of Austria (died in 1950) | |
| December 14th, 1866 (December 14 1866) | Birth | Roger Fry, English artist and art critic (died in 1934) | |
| December 14th, 1865 (December 14 1865) | Death | Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist (born in 1794) | |
| December 14th, 1861 (December 14 1861) | Death | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, consort of Queen Victoria (born in 1819) | |
| December 14th, 1860 (December 14 1860) | Death | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1784) | |
| December 14th, 1838 (December 14 1838) | Death | Jean-Olivier Chenier, French Canadian physician and Patriote (born in 1806) | |
| December 14th, 1836 (December 14 1836) | Event | The Toledo War unofficially ends. | |
| December 14th, 1825 (December 14 1825) | Event | Advocates of Liberalism in Russia rise up against Tsar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist Revolt in St. Petersburg. | |
| December 14th, 1824 (December 14 1824) | Birth | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (died in 1898) | |
| December 14th, 1819 (December 14 1819) | Event | Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. | |
| December 14th, 1799 (December 14 1799) | Death | George Washington, first President of the United States (born in 1732) | George Washington Quotes |
| December 14th, 1791 (December 14 1791) | Birth | Charles Wolfe, Irish Poet (died in 1823) | Charles Wolfe Quotes |
| December 14th, 1788 (December 14 1788) | Death | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (born in 1714) | |
| December 14th, 1788 (December 14 1788) | Death | King Charles III of Spain (born in 1716) | |
| December 14th, 1787 (December 14 1787) | Birth | Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary and Bohemia (died in 1816) | |
| December 14th, 1784 (December 14 1784) | Birth | Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Princess of Asturias (died in 1806) | |
| December 14th, 1782 (December 14 1782) | Event | The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight. | |
| December 14th, 1775 (December 14 1775) | Birth | Philander Chase, American founder of Kenyon College (died in 1852) | |
| December 14th, 1775 (December 14 1775) | Birth | Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (died in 1860) | |
| December 14th, 1751 (December 14 1751) | Event | The Theresian Military Academy is founded as the first Military Academy in the world. | |
| December 14th, 1741 (December 14 1741) | Death | Charles Rollin, French historian (born in 1661) | |
| December 14th, 1735 (December 14 1735) | Death | Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (born in 1674) | |
| December 14th, 1720 (December 14 1720) | Birth | Justus Moser, German statesman (died in 1794) | |
| December 14th, 1715 (December 14 1715) | Death | Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (born in 1636) | |
| December 14th, 1713 (December 14 1713) | Death | Thomas Rymer, English historian (born in 1641) | |
| December 14th, 1678 (December 14 1678) | Birth | Daniel Neal, English historian (died in 1743) | |
| December 14th, 1651 (December 14 1651) | Death | Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (born in 1582) | |
| December 14th, 1640 (December 14 1640) | Birth | (baptism date)Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist (died in 1689) | Aphra Behn Quotes |
| December 14th, 1631 (December 14 1631) | Birth | Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher (died in 1679) | Anne Conway Quotes |
| December 14th, 1625 (December 14 1625) | Birth | Barthelemy d Herbelot de Molainville, French orientalist (died in 1695) | |
| December 14th, 1624 (December 14 1624) | Death | Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (born in 1536) | |
| December 14th, 1591 (December 14 1591) | Death | Saint John of the Cross, Spanish friar and poet (born in 1542) | John of the Cross Quotes |
| December 14th, 1553 (December 14 1553) | Death | Hanibal Lucic, Croatian writer (born in 1485) | |
| December 14th, 1546 (December 14 1546) | Birth | Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (died in 1601) | |
| December 14th, 1542 (December 14 1542) | Event | Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen Mary I of Scotland. | |
| December 14th, 1542 (December 14 1542) | Death | King James V of Scotland (born in 1512) | |
| December 14th, 1510 (December 14 1510) | Death | Friedrich of Saxony (born in 1473) | |
| December 14th, 1503 (December 14 1503) | Birth | Nostradamus, French astrologer (died in 1566) | Nostradamus Quotes |
| December 14th, 1476 (December 14 1476) | Death | Vlad III the Impaler (born in 1431) | |
| December 14th, 1460 (December 14 1460) | Death | Guarino da Verona(born in 1370) | |
| December 14th, 1287 (December 14 1287) | Event | St. Lucia s flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people. | |
| December 14th, 1009 (December 14 1009) | Birth | Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (died in 1045) | |
