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Oliver Tree Nickell was an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and record producer.
Notable Deaths on June 14
2026 — Oliver Tree
American singer and songwriter (born 1993)
June 14 has 107 recorded notable deaths across history, from 809 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
107 source records
809 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on June 14
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- 1800 The French Army of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Marengo in Northern Italy and re-conquers Italy. Source
- 1907 The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. Source
- 1807 Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition. Source
- 1775 American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Armed Forces. Source
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Arnold was planning to surrender the fort to British forces, but the plot was discovered in September 1780, whereupon he fled to the British lines.
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Melissa Anne Hortman was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 61st speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
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In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating that "she shaped an idea of objects for our time" and "shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back".
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Polk" but he had no middle name and never signed any documents as such.
More major people who died on June 14
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1801
Benedict Arnold
American general during the American Revolution later turned British spy (born 1741)
Benedict Arnold was an American-born British military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War.
2025
Melissa Hortman
American lawyer and politician (born 1970)
Melissa Anne Hortman was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 61st speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
1928
Emmeline Pankhurst
English activist and academic (born 1857)
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her role in the White…
1864
Leonidas Polk
American general and bishop (born 1806)
Leonidas Polk was a Confederate general, a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Episcopal Church of…
1837
Giacomo Leopardi
Italian poet and philosopher (born 1798)
Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, philosopher, essayist, and philologist.
2014
Isabelle Collin Dufresne
French actress (born 1935)
Isabelle Collin Dufresne, known professionally as Ultra Violet, was a French-American artist, actress, and writer.
1544
Antoine
Duke of Lorraine (born 1489)
Antoine, known as the Good, was Duke of Lorraine from 1508 until his death in 1544. Raised at the French court, Antoine would campaign in Italy twice: once under Louis XII and the other with Francis I.
1662
Henry Vane the Younger
English-American politician, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1613)
Sir Henry Vane, often referred to as Harry Vane and Henry Vane the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was an English politician and colonial administrator.
2015
Qiao Shi
Chinese politician (born 1924)
Qiao Shi was a Chinese politician and one of the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the party's top decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, from 1987 to 1997.
1999
Bernie Faloney
American-Canadian football player and sportscaster (born 1932)
Bernie Faloney was a professional football player in the Canadian Football League and an outstanding American college football player for the Maryland Terrapins.
2012
Bob Chappuis
American football player and soldier (born 1923)
Robert Richard Chappuis was an American football player who played halfback and quarterback for the University of Michigan Wolverines in 1942, 1946, and 1947. His college years were interrupted by service in the U.S.
2007
Ruth Graham
Chinese-American author, poet, and painter (born 1920)
Ruth McCue Bell Graham was an American Christian author. She was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, China, the second of five children. Her parents, Virginia Leftwich Bell and L.
1825
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. (born 1754)
Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant was a French-American artist, professor, and military engineer.
1949
Albert II
rhesus macaque, animal astronaut, and first mammal in space
Albert II was a male rhesus macaque monkey who was the first primate and first mammal to travel to outer space.
1986
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (born 1899)
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl.
1908
Frederick Stanley
16th Earl of Derby, English captain and politician, 6th Governor General of Canada (born 1841)
Frederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, known as Lord Stanley of Preston from 1886 to 1893, was a British Conservative politician and military officer who served as Colonial Secretary from 1885 to 1886 and…
1497
Giovanni Borgia
2nd Duke of Gandía, Italian son of Pope Alexander VI (born 1474)
Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía was the second child of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei and a member of the House of Borgia. He was the brother of Cesare, Gioffre, and Lucrezia Borgia.
1898
Dewitt Clinton Senter
American politician, 18th Governor of Tennessee (born 1830)
Dewitt Clinton Senter was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of Tennessee from 1869 to 1871.
1679
Guillaume Courtois
French painter and illustrator (born 1628)
Guillaume Courtois or italianized as Guglielmo Cortese, called Il Borgognone or Le Bourguignon, was a Free Burgundian-Italian painter, draughtsman and etcher.