History Blog

October 14

Happy Birthday RIP David Dwight Eisenhower(1890–1969) Lillian Gish(1893–1993) Charles Everett Koop(1916–2013) Sir Roger Moore(1927–2017) Harry Anderson(1952–2018) ; Ralph Lauren(Lifschitz)–81 Gregory Evigan–67 Thomas Dolby(Robertson)–62 Isaac Mizrahi–59 Stephen Coogan–55 Karyn White–55 Usher Raymond IV–42 Maximillion Thieriot–32 ; 1926 – The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published ; 1964 – Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence