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Paul Schell was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 50th mayor of Seattle, Washington, from 1998 to 2002.
Paul Schell, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Seattle (born 1937)
Alexander Rooney Forbes was a Scottish football player and manager.
Alex Forbes, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1925)
Alakbar Mammadov was a Soviet and Azerbaijani footballer best known as a striker for FC Dynamo Moscow in the 1950s and later as the first manager of the independent Azerbaijan nati…
Alakbar Mammadov, Azerbaijani footballer and manager (born 1930)
Manley Caldwell Butler was an American lawyer and politician widely admired for his integrity, bipartisanship and courage. A native of Roanoke, Butler served his hometown and wider…
M. Caldwell Butler, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1925)
Jonathan Robert Cavaiani was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in the Vietnam War…
Jon R. Cavaiani, English-American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1943)
Giorgio Gaslini was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor.
Giorgio Gaslini, Italian pianist and composer (born 1929)
María Antonia Iglesias González was a Spanish writer and journalist.
María Antonia Iglesias, Spanish journalist and author (born 1945)
Péter Kiss was a Hungarian Socialist politician. In Bajnai's government, he was a minister without portfolio. He was one of the candidates to succeed Péter Medgyessy as prime minis…
Péter Kiss, Hungarian engineer and politician (born 1959)
Idris Muhammad was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He had an extensive career performing jazz, funk, R&B, and soul music and recorded with musicians such as Ahmad Jamal, L…
Idris Muhammad, American drummer and composer (born 1939)
Thomas R. St. George was an American author, World War II veteran, reporter, editor, columnist and screenwriter. He was born in Simpson, Minnesota.
Thomas R. St. George, American soldier and author (born 1919)
Robert Lincoln Drew was an American documentary filmmaker known as a pioneer—and sometimes called the father—of cinéma vérité, or direct cinema, in the United States. Two of his fi…
Robert Drew, American director and producer (born 1924)
Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.
Harun Farocki, German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)
Julio Humberto Grondona was an Argentine football executive. He served as president of the Argentine Football Association from 1979 until his death in 2014. He also served as Senio…
Julio Grondona, Argentinian businessman (born 1931)
Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall was an English town planner, urbanist and geographer. He was the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London …
Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (born 1932)
Richard Emerson Smith was an American special make-up effects artist and author, known for his work on such films as Little Big Man (1970), The Godfather (1972), The Exorcist (1973…
Dick Smith, American make-up artist (born 1922)
Richard Allen Wagner was an American rock guitarist, songwriter and author best known for his work with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, and Kiss. He also fronted his own Michigan-based ban…
Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1942)
MV Sewol was a South Korean vehicle-passenger ferry, built and previously operated in Japan. She operated between Incheon and Jeju. On 16 April 2014, Sewol capsized and sank with t…
The ferry MV Sewol capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High
The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2025 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Leg…
A water crisis began when officials in Flint, Michigan, switched the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to
On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist attack killed 3 people, and injured 79 others. The attack coincided with t…
A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China, killed three people and injured 79 others
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program and for research in…
NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habi
Flint is a city in and the county seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. The city's population was 81,252 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 79,735 in 2024, maki…
The city of Flint, Michigan, U
The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russ…
Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrain
On 2 May 2014, a pair of mudslides occurred in Argo District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. The death toll is uncertain, the number of deaths is believed to be at least 350 and…
Two mudslides in Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan, killed at least 350 people
On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May. In total, 301 people were killed, making it the wor…
The worst mining disaster in Turkish history took place when an explosion caused an underground mine fire at a coal mine