137,892 People
Natural disasters in 1979
* Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado
People who died on May 14 (various years)
* 2007 - Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter
* 2006 - Eva Norvind, Mexican actress
* 2006 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet
* 2006 - Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader
* 2004 - Anna Lee, British actress
* 2003 - Robert Stack, American actor
* 2003 - Wendy Hiller, British actress
* 2003 - Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player
* 2000 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan
* 1998 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist
* 1998 - Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor
* 1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician
* 1995 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate
* 1993 - William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate
* 1993 - Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal
* 1992 - Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader
* 1992 - Lyle Alzado, American football player
* 1991 - Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong
* 1988 - Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
* 1987 - Rita Hayworth, American actress
* 1985 - Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress
* 1984 - Walter Rauff, German colonel
* 1983 - Miguel Alemán Valdés, President of Mexico
* 1983 - Roger J. Traynor, American judge
* 1982 - Hugh Beaumont, American actor
* 1978 - Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia
* 1976 - Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds)
* 1973 - Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet
* 1970 - Billie Burke, American actress
* 1969 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer
* 1968 - Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral
* 1962 - Florence Auer, American actress
* 1959 - Sidney Bechet, American musician
* 1957 - Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist
* 1954 - Heinz Guderian, German General
* 1945 - Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* 1943 - Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate
* 1940 - Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist
* 1936 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general
* 1934 - Lou Criger, American baseball player
* 1931 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter
* 1931 - David Belasco, American theatrical producer
* 1925 - H. Rider Haggard, English author
* 1923 - Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister
* 1919 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company
* 1918 - James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher
* 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish author
* 1912 - Frederick VIII of Denmark
* 1906 - Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman
* 1893 - Ernst Kummer, German mathematician
* 1889 - Volney E. Howard, American politician
* 1887 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher
* 1878 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration
* 1873 - Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer
* 1860 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer
* 1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist
* 1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist
* 1761 - Thomas Simpson, British mathematician
* 1754 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer
* 1688 - Antoine Furetière, French writer
* 1669 - Georges de Scudéry, French writer
* 1649 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian
* 1643 - Louis XIII of France
* 1610 - Henry IV of France
* 1608 - Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
* 1574 - Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru
* 1470 - Charles VIII of Sweden
* 964 - Pope John XII
