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2014 (MMXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of
the Gregorian calendar, the 2014th year of
the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
14th year of the 3rd millennium, the 14th year of
the 21st century, and the 5th year of
the 2010s decade. 2014
was designated as: ·
International Year of Crystallography[1] ·
International Year of Family Farming[1] ·
International Year of Solidarity with the
Palestinian People[1][2] ·
International Year of Small Island Developing
States[1] Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
January[edit]
·
January 1 – Latvia officially
adopts the euro as
its currency and becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.[3] ·
January 5 –
A launch of the communication satellite GSAT-14 aboard
the GSLV Mk.II D5 marks
the first successful flight of an Indian cryogenic rocket engine. ·
January 19 – 2014 Bannu bombing: a Taliban vehicle
bomb attack on a Pakistani military convoy in the city of Bannu kills
at least 26 soldiers and injures 38 others. February[edit]
·
February –
The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa begins,
infecting at least 28,616 people and killing at least 11,310 people, the most
severe both in terms of numbers of infections and casualties.[4][5] ·
February 7–23 –
The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held
in Sochi, Russia.[6] Slopestyle events
are introduced for the first time. ·
February 13 –
Belgium becomes the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia for
terminally ill patients of any age.[7] ·
February 22 – 2014 Ukrainian revolution: The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian
parliament) votes to remove PresidentViktor Yanukovych from office, replacing
him with Oleksandr Turchynov, after days of civil
unrest leaving around 100 people dead in Kiev.[8] March[edit]
·
March 5 – Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela,
severs diplomatic and political ties with Panama,
accusing Panama of being involved in a conspiracy against the Venezuelan government.[9] ·
March 8 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner
en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur,
disappears over the Gulf of
Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed
to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.[10] ·
March 16 ·
Crimean status referendum, 2014:
A referendum on the status of the Crimean
Peninsula is held.[11] ·
The fifth ICC T20 World Cup is held in Bangladesh. ·
March 21 –
Russia formally annexes Crimea after President Vladimir Putin signs
a bill finalizing the process.[12] ·
March 24 –
During an emergency meeting, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy,
Germany, France, Japan, and Canada temporarily suspend Russia from the G8.[13] ·
March 27 –
The United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution
68/262, recognizing Crimea within
Ukraine’s international borders and rejecting the validity of the 2014 Crimean referendum.[14] ·
March 31 –
The United Nations International Court of Justice rules
that Japan's Antarctic whaling program
is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants of further permits.[15] April[edit]
·
April 7 –
The Donetsk People's Republic unilaterally
declares its independence from Ukraine.[16] ·
April 10 –
In response to the 2014 Crimean crisis, the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passes a resolution
to temporarily strip Russia of its voting rights; its rights to be
represented in the Bureau of the Assembly, the PACE Presidential Committee,
and the PACE Standing Committee; and its right to participate in
election-observation missions.[17] ·
April 14 –
An estimated 276 girls and women are abducted and held hostage from a
school in Nigeria.[18] ·
April 16 –
Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after
an unmanageable cargo shift, killing 304 people, mostly high school students.[19] ·
April 27 –
The Catholic Church simultaneously canonizes Popes John XXIII and John Paul II.[20] ·
April 28 – United States President Barack Obama's
new economic sanctions against Russia go into effect,
targeting companies and individuals close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.[21] May[edit]
·
May 5 ·
The World Health Organization identifies
the spread of poliomyelitis in at least 10 countries
as a major worldwide health emergency.[22] ·
Boko Haram militants
kill approximately 300 people in a night attack on Gamboru Ngala.[23] ·
May 12 –
The Luhansk People's Republic unilaterally
declares its independence from Ukraine.[24] ·
May 22 ·
The Royal Thai
Army overthrows the caretaker government
of Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan after
a failure to resolve the political unrest in Thailand.[25] ·
The Donetsk People's Republic and
the Luhansk People's Republic declare
the formation of Novorossiya, also referred to as the
Union of People's Republics.[26][27] June[edit]
·
June 5 –
A Sunni militant
group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant (also known as the ISIS or ISIL) begins an offensive through northern Iraq,
aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiitegovernment
led by Prime Minister Nouri
al-Maliki.[28] ·
June 12 – July 13 –
The 2014 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil,[29] and
is won by Germany.[30] ·
June 13 –
The military intervention against ISIL begins.[31] ·
June 19 – Felipe VI becomes King of Spain upon the abdication
of Juan Carlos I. ·
June 29 –
The Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant declares itself a caliphate.[32] July[edit]
·
July 8 – August 26 –
Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following
the kidnapping and
murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian
teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge against Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip starting
with numerous missile strikes,[33] followed
by a ground offensive a week later.[34] In
seven weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed. ·
July 17 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777,
crashes in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile. All 298
people on board are killed.[35] ·
July 21 –
The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution
2166 in response to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight
17.[36] ·
July 23 – August 3 –
The 2014 Commonwealth Games takes place
in Glasgow,
Scotland. ·
July 24 – Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashes
in Mali,
killing all 116 people on board.[37] August[edit]
·
August 7 – Khmer Rouge leaders Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan are
found guilty of crimes against humanity and are
sentenced to life imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge Tribunal.[38] ·
August 8 –
The United States military begins
an air campaign in
northern Iraq to
stem the influx of ISIL militants.[39] ·
August 9 –
The shooting of Michael Brown occurs
in Ferguson, Missouri.[40] September[edit]
·
September 18 – Scotland holds
a referendum on
whether to leave the United Kingdom,
and a majority votes to remain part of the union.[41][42] ·
September 22 –
The United States and several Arab partners begin their airstrike campaign in Syria.[43][44] ·
September 26 –
The 2014 World Summit of Nobel Peace
Laureates, to be held in Cape Town from
13 to 15 October, is suspended after a boycott of Nobel Laureates to protest
the third time refusal of a visa to
the 14th Dalai Lama by a South African
Government "kowtowing to China".[45][46] ·
September 28 – Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai Yiu-ting announces that Occupy
Central is launched as Hong Kong's government headquarters is being occupied
by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse
protesters but thousands remain. October[edit]
·
October 3 – Stefan Löfvén replaces Fredrik Reinfeldt as Prime Minister of Sweden ·
October 19 –
The Roman Catholic Church beatifies Pope Paul VI.[47] ·
October 24 – Alan Eustace,
an American computer scientist, set the current world
record highest and longest free fall jump from 135,908 feet (41.425 km)
over Roswell, New Mexico, United States, breaking
the sound barrier without any machine
assistance during a record space dive out
of a massive helium-filled balloon. His descent to Earth
lasted 4 minutes 27 seconds and stretched nearly 26 miles (42 km) with
peak speeds exceeding 822 miles per hour (1,323 km/h), setting new world
records for the highest free-fall jump and total free-fall distance 123,414
feet (37,617 m).[48] [49][50][51] ·
October 31 –
Longtime Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré resigns after widespread protests in response to
his attempts to abolish presidential term limits.[52] November[edit]
·
November 2 –
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) releases the final part of its Fifth Assessment Report, warning that
the world faces "severe, pervasive and irreversible" damage from
global emissions of CO2.[53] ·
November 3 –
The tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, the One World Trade Center opens. ·
November 12 –
The unmanned Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands
on Comet 67P, the first time in history
that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.[54] December[edit]
·
December 3 –
The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches unmanned spaceprobe Hayabusa2 from
the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year
round trip mission to Ryugu to
collect rock samples. ·
December 16 –
The Pakistani Taliban carry out a mass shooting at
an army school in Peshawar, Pakistan,
killing at least 145 people, mostly schoolchildren.[55] ·
December 17 –
U.S. President Barack Obama announces the resumption of
normal relations between the U.S.
and Cuba.[56] ·
December 28 – Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore crashes
into the Java Sea just southwest of Borneo,
killing all 162 people on board.[57] Births[edit]
·
February 20 – Princess Leonore, Duchess of
Gotland ·
Princess Gabriella, Countess of
Carladès ·
Jacques, Hereditary Prince of
Monaco Deaths[edit]
Main
article: Deaths in 2014 Further
information: Category:2014 deaths
January[edit]
·
January 5 – Eusébio,
Portuguese footballer (b. 1942) ·
January 6 – Mónica Spear,
Venezuelan actress, Miss Venezuela 2004 (b. 1984) ·
January 7 – Run Run Shaw,
Hong Kong filmmaker and entrepreneur (b. 1907) ·
Amiri Baraka,
American poet (b. 1934) ·
Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist
(b. 1939) ·
January 10 – Zbigniew
Messner, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland
(b. 1929) ·
Garamond Sharon,
11th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1928) ·
Vugar Gashimov,
Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (b. 1986) ·
January 13 – Ronny Jordan,
English guitarist (b. 1962) ·
January 14 – Mae Young,
American professional wrestler (b. 1923) ·
John Dobson, American
amateur astronomer (b. 1915) ·
Roger
Lloyd-Pack, British actor (b. 1944) ·
Dave Madden,
Canadian-American actor (b. 1932) ·
Hiroo Onoda,
Japanese army officer (b. 1922) ·
January 20 – Claudio Abbado,
Italian conductor (b. 1933) ·
January 23 – Riz Ortolani,
Italian film composer (b. 1926) ·
January 25 – Gyula Sax,
Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1951) ·
January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and writer
(b. 1939) ·
January 27 – Pete Seeger,
American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist (b. 1919) ·
Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somali diplomat
and politician and 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1924) ·
Miklós Jancsó, Hungarian film director
(b. 1921) February[edit]
·
Luis Aragonés,
Spanish football player and coach (b. 1938) ·
Maximilian Schell, Austrian-Swiss actor
(b. 1930) ·
February 2 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
(b. 1967) ·
February 3 – Louise Brough,
American tennis player (b. 1923) ·
February 6 – Ralph Kiner,
American baseball player and broadcaster (b. [1922]]) ·
Stuart Hall,
Jamaican-British sociologist (b. 1932) ·
Shirley Temple,
American actress, dancer, and diplomat (b. 1928) ·
February 11 – Alice Babs,
Swedish singer (b. 1924) ·
February 12 – Sid Caesar,
American actor (b. 1922) ·
Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish football
player and coach (b. 1937) ·
Ralph Waite,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
February 14 – Tom Finney,
English footballer (b. 1922) ·
February 18 – Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional
wrestler (b. 1971) ·
February 19 – Valeri Kubasov,
Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935) ·
February 23 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-British pianist
(b. 1903) ·
February 24 – Harold Ramis,
American film director, writer, and actor (b. 1944) ·
February 25 – Mário Coluna,
Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1935) ·
February 26 – Paco de Lucía,
Spanish guitarist (b. 1947) March[edit]
·
March 1 – Alain Resnais,
French film director (b. 1922) ·
March 9 – Mohammed Fahim,
Vice President of Afghanistan (b. c. 1957) ·
March 12 – Věra Chytilová, Czech film director
(b. 1929) ·
March 13 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra
Leone (b. 1932) ·
March 14 – Tony Benn,
British politician and diarist (b. 1925) ·
March 15 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef
and television personality (b. 1947) ·
March 18 ·
Jorge Arvizu,
Mexican voice actor (b. 1932) ·
Lucius Shepard,
American writer (b. 1942) ·
March 19 – Fred Phelps,
American pastor (b. 1929) ·
March 20 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer
(b. 1930) ·
March 21 ·
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 122nd Syriac
Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1933) ·
James Rebhorn,
American actor (b. 1948) ·
March 23 – Adolfo Suárez,
138th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932) ·
March 27 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and
politician (b. 1929) ·
March 31 – Frankie
Knuckles, American disk jockey and record producer (b. 1955) April[edit]
·
April 1 – Jacques Le
Goff, French historian (b. 1924) ·
April 4 – Kumba Ialá,
President of Guinea-Bissau (2000–2003) (b. 1953) ·
April 6 – Mickey Rooney,
American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1920) ·
April 8 ·
The Ultimate Warrior, American professional
wrestler (b. 1959) ·
Karlheinz Deschner, German activist and
writer (b. 1924) ·
April 9 – A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President of Trinidad
and Tobago (b. 1926) ·
April 10 – Sue Townsend,
British novelist and playwright (b. 1946) ·
April 13 – Ernesto Laclau,
Argentine political theorist (b. 1935) ·
April 16 – Gyude Bryant,
Liberian politician (b. 1949) ·
April 17 ·
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian Nobel
writer (b. 1927) ·
Raul Bragança Neto, 8th Prime Minister of São
Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1946) ·
April 18 – Ramon Malla
Call, 63rd Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1922) ·
April 20 – Rubin Carter,
American boxer (b. 1937) ·
April 24 ·
Hans Hollein,
Austrian architect (b. 1934) ·
Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and
playwright (b. 1921) ·
April 25 – Tito Vilanova,
Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1968) ·
April 27 – Vujadin Boškov, Serbian football player and
coach (b. 1931) ·
April 29 – Bob Hoskins,
British actor (b. 1942) ·
April 30 – Ian Ross, Australian newsreader
(b. 1940) May[edit]
·
May 2 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor (b. 1918) ·
May 3 – Gary Becker,
American Nobel economist (b. 1930) ·
May 4 ·
Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Prime Minister of the
Central African Republic (b. 1948) ·
Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (b. 1934) ·
May 6 ·
Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (b. 1940) ·
Farley Mowat,
Canadian author (b. 1921) ·
May 12 ·
Marco Cé,
Italian cardinal (b. 1925) ·
H. R. Giger,
Swiss artist (b. 1940) ·
May 15 – Jean-Luc
Dehaene, 63rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1940) ·
May 17 – Gerald Edelman,
American Nobel biologist (b. 1929) ·
May 18 ·
Dobrica Ćosić, Serbian writer
and politician, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (b. 1921) ·
Wubbo Ockels,
Dutch astronaut and physicist (b. 1946) ·
Gordon Willis,
American cinematographer (b. 1931) ·
May 19 – Jack Brabham,
Australian race car driver (b. 1926) ·
May 21 ·
Jaime Lusinchi,
President of Venezuela (b. 1924) ·
Alireza Soleimani, Iranian heavyweight
freestyle wrestler (b. 1956) ·
May 25 ·
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Communist leader of Poland
(b. 1923) ·
Toaripi Lauti,
1st Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1928) ·
May 28 ·
Maya Angelou,
American poet and author (b. 1928) ·
Malcolm Glazer,
American businessman (b. 1928) ·
May 29 – Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian actor (b. 1928) ·
May 31 ·
Marinho Chagas,
Brazilian footballer (b. 1952) ·
Martha Hyer,
American actress (b. 1924) June[edit]
·
June 1 – Valentin
Mankin, Ukrainian sailor, Olympic triple champion and silver
medalist (b. 1938) ·
June 2 ·
Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian
cardinal (b. 1924) ·
Alexander Shulgin, American pharmacologist
and chemist (b. 1925) ·
June 7 – Fernandão,
Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1978) ·
June 9 ·
Bernard Agré,
Ivorian cardinal (b. 1926) ·
Rik Mayall,
British comedian, writer and actor (b. 1958) ·
June 11 ·
Ruby Dee,
American actress, poet, and playwright (b. 1922) ·
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Spanish
conductor and composer (b. 1933) ·
June 13 – Gyula Grosics,
Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1926) ·
June 15 ·
Casey Kasem,
American radio host and voice actor (b. 1932) ·
Daniel Keyes,
American author (b. 1927) ·
June 16 ·
Cándido Muatetema Rivas, 4th Prime
Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1960) ·
Tony Gwynn,
American baseball player (b. 1960) ·
June 18 ·
Stephanie
Kwolek, American chemist (b. 1923) ·
Horace Silver,
American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1928) ·
June 23 – Steve Viksten,
American voice actor and television writer (b. 1960) ·
June 24 ·
Eli Wallach,
American actor (b. 1915) ·
Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan historian,
journalist and politician (b. 1916) ·
June 25 – Ana María Matute, Spanish author (b. 1925) ·
June 26 – Howard Baker,
American politician and diplomat (b. 1925) ·
June 27 ·
Leslie Manigat,
43rd President of Haiti (b. 1930) ·
Violet
Milstead, Canadian World War II aviator
and bush pilot (b. 1919) ·
Rachid Solh,
2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926) ·
Bobby Womack,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1944) ·
June 28 – Meshach Taylor,
American actor (b. 1947) ·
June 30 ·
Paul Mazursky,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
Željko Šturanović, Prime Minister
of Montenegro (b. 1960) July[edit]
·
July 1 – Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, 1st Prime
Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1925) ·
July 7 ·
Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentine-Spanish
footballer (b. 1926) ·
Eduard Shevardnadze, 2nd President of Georgia
(b. 1928) ·
July 10 – Zohra Sehgal,
Indian actress and dancer (b. 1912) ·
July 11 ·
Charlie Haden,
American jazz bassist (b. 1937) ·
Tommy Ramone,
Hungarian-American drummer and producer (b. 1949) ·
John Seigenthaler, American journalist
(b. 1927) ·
July 13 ·
Lorin Maazel,
French-American conductor and violinist (b. 1930) ·
Nadine
Gordimer, South African Nobel writer (b. 1923) ·
July 14 – Alice Coachman,
American athlete (b. 1923) ·
July 16 – Johnny Winter,
American singer and guitarist (b. 1944) ·
July 17 ·
Liam Davison,
Australian author (b. 1957) ·
Henry
Hartsfield, American colonel and astronaut (b. 1933) ·
Joep Lange,
former president of the International AIDS Society (b. 1954) ·
Elaine Stritch,
American actress and singer (b. 1925) ·
Willem
Witteveen, Dutch senator (b. 1952) ·
July 19 ·
David Easton,
Canadian-American political scientist (b. 1917) ·
James Garner,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
Skye McCole Bartusiak, American actress
(b. 1992) ·
July 25 – Carlo Bergonzi,
Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924) ·
July 27 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal
(b. 1929) ·
July 30 – Julio Grondona,
Argentinian football authority (b. 1931) August[edit]
·
August 1 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian
footballer and manager (b. 1973) ·
August 3 – Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal
(b. 1923) ·
August 8 ·
Menahem Golan,
Israeli filmmaker (b. 1929) ·
Peter
Sculthorpe, Australian composer (b. 1929) ·
August 9 – Andriy Bal,
Ukrainian football player and coach (b. 1958) ·
Vladimir Beara,
Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1928) ·
Pierre Ryckmans, Belgian diplomat and
author (b. 1935) ·
Robin Williams,
American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 1951) ·
August 12 – Lauren Bacall,
American actress (b. 1924) ·
August 13 – Frans Brüggen,
Dutch musician (b. 1934) ·
August 15 – Licia Albanese,
Italian-American soprano (b. 1909) ·
August 19 – Simin
Behbahani, Iranian poet (b. 1927) ·
B. K. S.
Iyengar, Indian yoga teacher and author (b. 1918) ·
Edmund Szoka,
American cardinal (b. 1927) ·
August 21 – Albert
Reynolds, Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) (b. 1932) ·
August 24 – Richard Attenborough, British actor and film
director (b. 1923) ·
August 27 – Peret,
Spanish Romani musician (b. 1935) ·
August 28 – Glenn Cornick,
British bass guitarist (b. 1947) ·
August 29 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver
(b. 1943) September[edit]
·
September 1 – Gottfried John,
German actor (b. 1942) ·
Donatas
Banionis, Lithuanian actor (b. 1924) ·
Joan Rivers,
American writer, comedian, actress, and television host (b. 1933) ·
Gustavo Cerati,
Argentinian singer (b. 1959) ·
Simone Battle,
American actress and singer (b. 1989) ·
Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian
(b. 1928) ·
September 6 – Kira Zvorykina,
Belarusian chess player (b. 1919) ·
September 7 – Kwon Ri-se,
South Korean singer (b. 1991) ·
September 8 – Magda Olivero,
Italian soprano (b. 1910) ·
Emilio Botín,
Spanish banker (b. 1934) ·
Richard Kiel,
American actor (b. 1939) ·
Atef Ebeid,
Egyptian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1932) ·
Ian Paisley,
British politician and First Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1926) ·
Joe Sample,
American pianist and composer (b. 1939) ·
Yitzhak Hofi,
Israeli general (b. 1927) ·
Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (b. 1922) ·
September 17 – Andriy Husin,
Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972) ·
Anatoly Berezovoy, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1942) ·
Polly Bergen,
American actress (b. 1930) ·
September 24 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor,
writer, and musicologist (b. 1941) ·
Sulejman Tihić, Bosnian politician
(b. 1951) ·
Dorothy Tyler-Odam, British athlete (b. 1920) ·
September 28 – Dannie Abse,
British poet (b. 1923) ·
September 30 – Martin Lewis Perl, American Nobel physicist
(b. 1927) October[edit]
·
October 2 – György Lázár, Hungarian politician, Chairman
of the Council of Ministers (b. 1924) ·
Fyodor
Cherenkov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1959) ·
Jean-Claude Duvalier, 41st President of Haiti
(b. 1951) ·
Andrea de Cesaris, Italian race car driver
(b. 1959) ·
Yuri Lyubimov,
Russian actor and director (b. 1917) ·
Igor Mitoraj,
Polish sculptor (b. 1944) ·
Marian Seldes,
American actress (b. 1928) ·
October 7 – Siegfried Lenz,
German writer (b. 1926) ·
October 9 – Jan Hooks,
American actress and comedian (b. 1957) ·
October 14 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959) ·
October 16 – John
Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer and
educator (b. 1926) ·
October 17 – Masaru Emoto,
Japanese author (b. 1943) ·
October 20 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion
designer (b. 1932) ·
Ben Bradlee,
American journalist (b. 1921) ·
Gough Whitlam,
21st Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1916) ·
October 23 – Tullio Regge,
Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931) ·
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South African
middle-distance runner (b. 1980) ·
Marcia
Strassman, American actress and singer (b. 1948) ·
October 25 – Jack Bruce,
British rock bassist (b. 1943) ·
October 26 – Oscar Taveras,
professional baseball player (b. 1992) ·
October 28 – Michael Sata,
5th President of Zambia (b. 1937) ·
Rainer Hasler,
Liechtensteiner footballer (b. 1958) ·
Klas Ingesson,
Swedish footballer (b. 1968) ·
October 30 – Thomas Menino,
American politician (b. 1942) November[edit]
·
November 1 – Wayne Static,
American guitarist and vocalist (b. 1965) ·
Acker Bilk,
British jazz clarinetist (b. 1929) ·
Veljko Kadijević, Yugoslavian
general (b. 1925) ·
Gordon Tullock,
American economist and academic (b. 1922) ·
Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor (b. 1950) ·
November 10 – Ken Takakura,
Japanese actor (b. 1931) ·
November 12 – Warren Clarke,
English actor (b. 1947) ·
November 13 – Alexander Grothendieck, German-French
mathematician (b. 1928) ·
Eugene Dynkin,
Russian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924) ·
Glen A. Larson,
American television producer and writer (b. 1937) ·
November 16 – Serge
Moscovici, Romanian-French psychologist (b. 1925) ·
November 18 – Ahmad Lozi,
48th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925) ·
November 19 – Mike Nichols,
German-born American film and stage director (b. 1931) ·
November 20 – Cayetana
Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat
(b. 1926) ·
November 22 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916) ·
November 24 – Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet
ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930) ·
November 26 – Sabah,
Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927) ·
P. D. James,
English writer and life peer (b. 1920) ·
Phillip Hughes,
Australian cricketer (b. 1988) ·
November 28 – Roberto Gómez
Bolaños, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1929) ·
November 30 – Go Seigen,
Chinese-born Japanese Go player (b. 1914) December[edit]
·
December 2 – Jean Béliveau,
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931) ·
Jacques Barrot,
French politician (b. 1937) ·
Ian McLagan,
British musician (b. 1945) ·
December 5 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium (b. 1928) ·
December 6 – Ralph H. Baer,
American video game pioneer (b. 1922) ·
December 8 – Knut Nystedt,
Norwegian composer (b. 1915) ·
December 9 – Jorge María Mejía, Argentine cardinal
(b. 1923) ·
December 12 – Norman
Bridwell, American cartoonist (b. 1928) ·
December 16 – Ernie Terrell,
American boxer (b. 1939) ·
December 18 – Virna Lisi,
Italian actress (b. 1936) ·
Åke Johansson,
Swedish footballer (b. 1928) ·
Udo Jürgens,
Austrian composer and singer (b. 1934) ·
Billie
Whitelaw, English actress (b. 1932) ·
Joe Cocker,
English singer (b. 1944) ·
Abdel Aziz Mohamed Hegazy, 38th Prime
Minister of Egypt (b. 1923) ·
Joseph Sargent,
American film director (b. 1925) ·
December 26 – Leo Tindemans,
43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922) ·
December 27 – Tomaž Šalamun, Slovenian poet (b. 1941) ·
December 30 – Luise Rainer,
German-born American actress (b. 1910) ·
Edward
Herrmann, American television and film actor (b. 1943) ·
Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of
Wellington (b. 1915) Nobel Prizes[edit]
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Chemistry – Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and W. E. Moerner ·
Economics – Jean Tirole ·
Literature – Patrick
Modiano ·
Peace – Kailash Satyarthi and Malala
Yousafzai ·
Physics – Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura ·
Physiology or Medicine – John O'Keefe, May-Britt
Moser and Edvard Moser New English words[edit]
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ICO ·
initial coin offering ·
manspreading[58] |
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