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Rob Reiner was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and received the Chaplin Gala Tribute at the Film at Lincoln Center in 2014.
Notable Deaths on December 14
2025 — Rob Reiner
American filmmaker and actor (born 1947)
December 14 has 120 recorded notable deaths across history, from 618 to 2025. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
120 source records
618 – 2025
Today in history
Major events on December 14
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- 1918 The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote. In Ireland the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin wins a landslide victory with nearly 47% of the popular vote. Source
- 1985 Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Source
- 1958 The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility. Source
- 1964 American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination. Source
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During his childhood, Scotland was governed by regents, firstly by his mother until she remarried, and then by his first cousin once removed, John Stewart, Duke of Albany.
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Raised in a devoutly Catholic Irish-American family in Darby, Pennsylvania, a working-class town near Philadelphia, he grew up poor during the Great Depression and enlisted in the US Army after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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Although cornflakes were not new, they had never before been presented as a breakfast food [...
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Victoria Leigh Soto was an American teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
More major people who died on December 14
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1542
James V
King of Scotland (born 1512)
James V was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542. He was crowned on 21 September 1513 at the age of seventeen months.
2003
Frank Sheeran
American union leader and mobster (born 1920)
Francis Joseph Sheeran, also known as "The Irishman", was an American labor union official and enforcer for Jimmy Hoffa and Russell Bufalino.
1943
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (born 1852)
John Harvey Kellogg was an American businessman, inventor, physician, and advocate of the health reforms advocated by the Battle Creek Progressive Friends movement and the eugenics policies espoused by many in the…
2012
Victoria Leigh Soto
American educator (born 1985)
Victoria Leigh Soto was an American teacher who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. After the gunman, Adam Lanza, entered the school, she hid her students in her classroom.
2020
Gérard Houllier
French Football manager (born 1947)
Gérard Paul Francis Houllier was a French professional football manager and player.
1964
William Bendix
American actor (born 1906)
William Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, known for his portrayals of rough, blue-collar characters.
1860
George Hamilton-Gordon
4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign…
1975
Arthur Treacher
English-American entertainer (born 1894)
Arthur Veary Treacher, Jr. was an English film and stage actor active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and known for playing English types, especially butler and manservant roles, such as the P. G.
1929
Henry B. Jackson
British admiral (born 1855)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, was a British Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Anglo-Zulu War he established an early reputation as a pioneer of ship-to-ship wireless technology.
2015
Glen Sonmor
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1929)
Glen Robert Sonmor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, scout and coach.
1998
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
American lawyer, judge, and activist (born 1928)
Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. was an American civil rights advocate, historian, presidential adviser, and federal court judge.
1595
Henry Hastings
3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to Elizabeth I.
2003
Blas Ople
Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1927)
Blas Fajardo Ople was a Filipino journalist and politician who held several high-ranking positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Philippine government, including as Senate President from 1999 to 2000,…
1624
Charles Howard
1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral of England (born 1536)
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham, KG, known as Lord Howard of Effingham, was an English statesman and Lord High Admiral under Elizabeth I and James I.
1838
Jean-Olivier Chénier
Canadian physician (born 1806)
Jean-Olivier Chénier was a medical doctor in Lower Canada. Born in Lachine. During the Lower Canada Rebellion, he commanded the Patriote forces in the Battle of Saint-Eustache.
2003
Jeanne Crain
American actress (born 1925)
Jeanne Elizabeth Crain was an American actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for the title role in Pinky (1949).
2004
Fernando Poe Jr.
Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1939)
Ronald Allan Kelley Poe, known professionally as Fernando Poe Jr., was a Filipino actor, director and screenwriter.
2015
Lillian Vernon
German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (born 1927)
Lillian Vernon was an American businesswoman and philanthropist.
1963
Dinah Washington
American singer and pianist (born 1924)
Dinah Washington was an American singer and pianist, one of the most popular Black female recording artists of the 1950s.