Notable people who died on July 14 include: Eorcenberht, Otomo no Otomaro, Wei Fu, Arnulf I, Philip II.

Notable Deaths on July 14

Q: What is Tudor Arghezi known for?

Tudor Arghezi, Romanian author and poet (born 1880)

59 people 664 – 2025

July 14 has seen 59 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 664 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1967 — Tudor Arghezi

Romanian author and poet (born 1880)

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From 1910, his social poetry and leftist journalism became widely read, allowing him to return as a professional writer and art columnist

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Arghezi renounced this career to study theology in Switzerland, but never graduated, training instead as a watchmaker and typographer

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He debuted in the 1890s as an affiliate of the Symbolist movement, being welcomed as an outstanding poet

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Arghezi stayed behind in occupied Bucharest after the Romanian Debacle of 1916, collaborating with the German Empire in a manner that was judged as treasonous

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Tudor Arghezi was a Romanian writer and political figure, widely considered one of his country's greatest poets

Eorcenberht

king of Kent

Eorcenberht of Kent was king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent from 640 until his death, succeeding his father Eadbald.

664

Otomo no Otomaro

Japanese general and Shogun (born 731)

Ōtomo no Otomaro was a Japanese general of the Nara period and of the early Heian period. He was the first to hold the title of sei-i taishōgun. The title of Shōgun was bestowed by Emperor Kanmu in 794. Some believe he…

809

Wei Fu

chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

Wei Fu, courtesy name Xiangzhi (相之), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuānzong.

850

Arnulf I

duke of Bavaria

Arnulf II, also known as the Bad, the Evil or the Wicked, a member of the Luitpolding dynasty, held the title of Duke of Bavaria from about 907 until his death in 937. He is numbered in succession to Arnulf of…

937

Philip II

king of France (born 1165)

Philip II, also known as Philip Augustus, was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks, but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French monarch to style himself "King…

1223

Richard de Clare

6th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (born 1222)

Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, 6th Earl of Gloucester, 2nd Lord of Glamorgan, 8th Lord of Clare was the son of Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, and Isabel Marshal. He was also a powerful Marcher Lord in…

1262

Margaret of Denmark

daughter of Christian I of Denmark (born 1456)

Margaret of Denmark was Queen of Scots from 1469 to 1486 by marriage to King James III. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Dorothea of Brandenburg.

1486

John de Vere

14th Earl of Oxford, English peer, landowner, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England (born 1499)

John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford was an English peer and landowner.

1526

Richard Taverner

English translator (born 1505)

Richard Taverner was an English author and religious reformer.

1575

Camillus de Lellis

Italian priest and saint (born 1550)

Camillus de Lellis, M.I., was an Italian Catholic priest who founded the Camillians, a religious order dedicated to the care of the sick. He was beatified by Pope Benedict XIV in the year 1742, and canonized by him four…

1614

Claude Fleury

French historian and author (born 1640)

Claude Fleury, was a French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian.

1723

Richard Bentley

English scholar and theologian (born 1662)

Richard Bentley FRS was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A.…

1742

James O'Hara

2nd Baron Tyrawley, Irish field marshal (born 1682)

Field Marshal James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and 1st Baron Kilmaine, PC was a British army officer. After serving as a junior officer in Spain and the Low Countries during the War of the Spanish Succession, he went on…

1774

Charles Batteux

French philosopher and academic (born 1713)

Charles Batteux was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics.

1780

Jacques de Flesselles

French politician (born 1721)

Jacques de Flesselles was a French official and one of the early victims of the French Revolution.

1789

Bernard-René de Launay

French politician (born 1740)

Bernard René Jourdan, marquis de Launay was a French Royal Army officer who served as the governor of the Bastille. He was the son of a previous governor, and commander of the Bastille's garrison when it was stormed on…

1789

Ernst Gideon von Laudon

Austrian field marshal (born 1717)

Ernst Gideon von Laudon, since 1759 Freiherr von Laudon, was an Austrian military officer of Baltic German descent and one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Great.

1790

Nicodemus the Hagiorite

Greek monk and saint (born 1749)

Nicodemus the Hagiorite or Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain was a Greek ascetic monk, mystic, theologian, and philosopher, venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His life's work was a revival of traditional…

1809

Francisco de Miranda

Venezuelan general (born 1750)

Sebastián Francisco de Miranda y Rodríguez de Espinoza, commonly known as Francisco de Miranda, was a Venezuelan military leader and revolutionary who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and…

1816

Germaine de Staël

French philosopher and author (born 1766)

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles. She…

1817

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

French physicist and engineer, reviver of wave theory of light, inventor of catadioptric lighthouse lens (born 1788)

Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late…

1827

Edmond-Charles Genêt

French-American diplomat (born 1763)

Edmond-Charles Genêt, also known as Citizen Genêt, was the French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution. His actions on arriving in the United States led to a major political…

1834

Sir George Pocock

1st Baronet, English politician and peer (died 1840)

Sir George Pocock, 1st Baronet was an English politician and peer who served as MP for Bridgwater from 1796 till 1806 and 1807 till 1820.

1840

August Neander

German historian and theologian (born 1789)

Johann August Wilhelm Neander was a German theologian and church historian.

1850

Edward Vernon Utterson

English lawyer and historian (born 1775)

Edward Vernon Utterson was a British lawyer, literary antiquary, collector and editor. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, one of the original members of the Roxburghe Club, a member of the Athenaeum Club,…

1856

John Buckley

English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1813)

Major John Buckley VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was the 115th recipient of the award and the first of 182 awarded during the Indian Mutiny.

1876

William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid

American gunfighter and outlaw (born 1859 or 1860)

Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who was linked to nine murders. He was solely responsible for four of them, and he may have…

1881

Paul Kruger

South African politician, 5th President of the South African Republic (born 1824)

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and State President of the South African Republic from 1883 to…

1904

William Henry Perkin

English chemist and academic (born 1838)

Sir William Henry Perkin was an English chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first commercial synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline. Though he failed in trying to…

1907

Marius Petipa

French dancer and choreographer (born 1818)

Marius Ivanovich Petipa was a French and Russian ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. He is considered one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history.

1910

Octave Lapize

French cyclist (born 1887)

Octave Lapize was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.

1917

Quentin Roosevelt

American lieutenant and pilot (born 1897)

Quentin Roosevelt I was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during…

1918

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Indian-American author and scholar (born 1890)

Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and won a Newbery Medal in 1928. He studied at Duff School, and at Duff College, both within the University of Calcutta in India, at…

1936

Julius Meier

American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (born 1874)

Julius L. Meier was an American businessman, civic leader, and politician in the state of Oregon. The son of the Meier & Frank department store founder, he would become a lawyer before entering the family business in…

1937

Alphonse Mucha

Czech painter and illustrator (born 1860)

Alfons Maria Mucha, known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylised and…

1939

Jacinto Benavente

Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)

Jacinto Benavente y Martínez was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions…

1954

Adlai Stevenson II

American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (born 1900)

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was an American politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965. He previously served as the 31st governor of Illinois from…

1965

Julie Manet

French painter and art collector (born 1878)

Eugénie Julie Manet was a French painter, model, diarist, and art collector.

1966

Konstantin Paustovsky

Russian author and poet (born 1892)

Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1968.

1968

Preston Foster

American actor (born 1900)

Preston Stratton Foster, was an American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades. He also had a career as a vocalist.

1970

Carl Spaatz

American World War II general; commander of the Strategic Air Forces in Europe (born 1891)

Carl Andrew Spaatz, nicknamed "Tooey", was an American World War II general. As commander of Strategic Air Forces in Europe in 1944, he successfully pressed for the bombing of the enemy's oil production facilities as a…

1974

Carlos López Moctezuma

Mexican actor (born 1909).

Carlos López Moctezuma Pineda was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in more than 210 films between 1938 and 1980. He starred in the film Happiness, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.

1980

Ernest Tidyman

American author and screenwriter; Academy Award winner for The French Connection (born 1928)

Ernest Ralph Tidyman was an American author and screenwriter, best known for his novels featuring the African-American detective John Shaft. His screenplay for The French Connection garnered him an Academy Award for…

1984

Philippe Wynne

American soul singer (The Spinners) (born 1941)

Philippé Wynne was an American singer, best known for his role as a lead vocalist of The Spinners. Wynne scored notable hits such as "How Could I Let You Get Away", "The Rubberband Man", and "One of a Kind ". After…

1984

Raymond Loewy

French-American industrial designer (born 1893)

Raymond Loewy was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his design efforts across a variety of industries. He was recognized for this by Time magazine and featured on its…

1986

Constance Stokes

Australian painter (born 1906)

Constance Stokes was an Australian modernist painter who worked in Victoria. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School until 1929, winning a scholarship to continue her study at London's Royal Academy…

1991

Léo Ferré

Monacan singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet (born 1916)

Léo Ferré was a Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit…

1993

Richard McDonald

American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (born 1909)

Richard James McDonald and Maurice James "Mac" McDonald, known as the McDonald brothers, were American entrepreneurs who founded the fast food company McDonald's.

1998

Pepo

Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (born 1911)

René Ríos Boettiger, also known as Pepo, was a Chilean cartoonist, creator of the famous character Condorito. He has been credited as the most prominent Chilean graphic humorist of the 20th century.

2000

Cicely Saunders

English hospice founder (born 1918)

Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders was an English nurse, social worker, physician and writer. She is noted for her work in terminal care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasising the…

2005

Maryam Mirzakhani

Iranian mathematician (born 1977)

Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13…

2017

Rosa

Spanish-born cow on French television (born 2001)

Rosa was a Spanish-born Landes cow known for her participation in the French game show Intervilles. She became a popular part of the programme due to her intelligence and aggressiveness. She died in 2020 of a gastric…

2020

Ivana Trump

Czech-American socialite and model (born 1949)

Ivana Marie Trump was a Czech and American businesswoman, socialite, and model. She lived in Canada in the 1970s, before relocating to the United States and marrying Donald Trump in 1977. She held key managerial…

2022

Jacoby Jones

American football player (born 1984)

Jacoby Rashi'd Jones was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). Selected in the third round of the 2007 NFL draft by the Houston…

2024

B. Saroja Devi

Indian actress (born 1938)

B. Saroja Devi was an Indian actress who appeared in 200 Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films over seven decades. She was one of the most successful actresses in the history of Indian cinema. She is regarded as the…

2025

Andrea Gibson

American poet and activist (born 1975)

Andrea Faye Gibson was an American poet and activist. Their poetry focused on gender norms, politics, social justice, LGBTQ topics, life, and mortality. Gibson was appointed as the Poet Laureate of Colorado in 2023.

2025

John MacArthur

American evangelical preacher (born 1939)

John Fullerton MacArthur Jr. was an American Calvinistic Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and broadcaster. He was the founder of Grace to You, a nationally syndicated radio and television Bible teaching program. He…

2025

Fauja Singh

British-Indian centenarian marathon runner

Fauja Singh was a British Indian marathon runner. At the time of his birth in Punjab province in British India, birth certificates were not typically issued, so his age could not be verified by third parties. Later in…

2025

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Who died on July 14?

Tudor Arghezi — Romanian writer and political figure (1880–1967)

FeaturedTudor Arghezi

Death year1967

Known forAn illegitimate, part-Hungarian child who was purposely vague about his roots, he had a troubled youth during which he held a variety of jobs—including a stint as a hierodeacon of the Romanian Orthodox Church, from which he gathered his extreme anti-clericalism

Deaths on this date59 (664 – 2025)

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