42901 | April 14 | Event | 2014 – Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Northeastern Nigeria. |
42902 | April 14 | Birth | 1126 – Averroes, Spanish physician and philosopher (d. 1198) |
42903 | April 14 | Birth | 1527 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598) |
42904 | April 14 | Birth | 1572 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1632) |
42905 | April 14 | Birth | 1578 – Philip III of Spain (d. 1621) |
42906 | April 14 | Birth | 1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1695) |
42907 | April 14 | Birth | 1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (d. 1741) |
42908 | April 14 | Birth | 1678 – Abraham Darby I, English iron master (d. 1717) |
42909 | April 14 | Birth | 1709 – Charles Collé, French playwright and songwriter (d. 1783) |
42910 | April 14 | Birth | 1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish minister and author (d. 1788) |
42911 | April 14 | Birth | 1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809) |
42912 | April 14 | Birth | 1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762) |
42913 | April 14 | Birth | 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (d. 1854) |
42914 | April 14 | Birth | 1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, 2nd Vice-President of Texas (d. 1870) |
42915 | April 14 | Birth | 1800 – John Appold, English engineer (d. 1865) |
42916 | April 14 | Birth | 1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian publicist and author (d. 1887) |
42917 | April 14 | Birth | 1818 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1909) |
42918 | April 14 | Birth | 1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (d. 1900) |
42919 | April 14 | Birth | 1854 – Martin Lipp, Estonian pastor and poet (d. 1923) |
42920 | April 14 | Birth | 1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944) |
42921 | April 14 | Birth | 1865 – Alfred Hoare Powell, English architect, and designer and painter of pottery (d. 1960) |
42922 | April 14 | Birth | 1866 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (d. 1936) |
42923 | April 14 | Birth | 1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect, designed the AEG turbine factory (d. 1940) |
42924 | April 14 | Birth | 1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter and educator (d. 1905) |
42925 | April 14 | Birth | 1870 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1929) |
42926 | April 14 | Birth | 1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (d. 1953) |
42927 | April 14 | Birth | 1881 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (d. 1948) |
42928 | April 14 | Birth | 1882 – Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1936) |
42929 | April 14 | Birth | 1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar (d. 1956) |
42930 | April 14 | Birth | 1886 – Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet and translator (d. 1928) |