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Stratten was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and Playmate of the Year in 1980, and appeared in three comedy films and in several episodes of television shows broadcast on American networks.
Notable Deaths on August 14
1980 — Dorothy Stratten
Canadian-American model and actress (born 1960)
August 14 has 81 recorded notable deaths across history, from 582 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
81 source records
582 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on August 14
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- 1791 Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution. Source
- 1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. Source
- 1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. Source
- 1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. Source
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Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
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Clifford Odets returned to New York for five and a half years, during which time he produced three more Broadway plays, only one of which was a success.
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Roy Buchanan never achieved stardom, but is considered a highly influential guitar player.
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Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher.
More major people who died on August 14
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1956
Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and director (born 1898)
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
1963
Clifford Odets
American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906)
Clifford Odets was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
1988
Roy Buchanan
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1939)
Leroy "Roy" Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues rock musician.
1996
Sergiu Celibidache
Romanian conductor and composer (born 1912)
Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher.
1852
Margaret Taylor
First Lady of the United States (born 1788)
Margaret Mackall Taylor was the first lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850 as the wife of President Zachary Taylor.
582
Tiberius II Constantine
Byzantine emperor
Tiberius II Constantine was Eastern Roman emperor from 578 to 582.
2025
Mike Castle
American politician, 69th Governor of Delaware (born 1939)
Michael Newbold Castle was an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district from 1993 to 2011.
1973
Fred Gipson
American journalist and author (born 1908)
Frederick Benjamin Gipson was an American writer and screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 1956 novel Old Yeller, which became a popular 1957 Walt Disney film.
1954
Hugo Eckener
German pilot and airship designer (born 1868)
Hugo Eckener was the manager of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the…
1938
Hugh Trumble
Australian cricketer and accountant (born 1876)
Hugh Trumble was an Australian cricketer who played 32 Test matches as a bowling all-rounder between 1890 and 1904. He captained the Australian team in two Tests, winning both.
1994
Alice Childress
American actress, playwright, and author (born 1912)
Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress described her work as…
1433
John I of Portugal (born 1357)
John I, also called John of Aviz, was King of Portugal from 1385 until his death in 1433.
1716
Madre María Rosa
Capuchin nun from Spain, to Peru (born 1660)
Maria Rosa was a Capuchin nun from Madrid, Spain. She left Spain in 1712 with four other founding nuns to Lima, Peru to establish a new Capuchin convent.
1941
Maximilian Kolbe
Polish martyr and saint (born 1894)
Maximilian Maria Kolbe, OFM Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr.
2023
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
Bangladeshi Islamic lecturer, politician (born 1940)
Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was a Bangladeshi Islamic leader, politician and scholar who served as a Member of Parliament representing the Pirojpur-1 constituency from 1996 to 2006.
1967
Bob Anderson
English motorcycle racer and race car driver (born 1931)
Robert Hugh Fearon Anderson was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racing driver. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1960 and in Formula One from 1963 to the 1967 seasons.
1951
William Randolph Hearst
American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (born 1863)
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation.
1958
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.
2016
Fyvush Finkel
American actor (born 1922)
Philip "Fyvush" Finkel was an American actor and director known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences, for which he earned an Emmy Award for…