On This Day: April 14

Updated April 14, 2014, 8:54 am

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On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He died the next day.

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On April 14, 1866, Anne Sullivan Macy, the American teacher who helped educate the blind, deaf and mute Helen Keller, was born. Following her death on Oct. 20, 1936, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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Historic Birthdays

 Anne Sullivan Macy 4/14/1866 - 10/20/1936American teacher of Helen Keller.Go to obituary »

64	Francois Duvalier 4/14/1907 - 4/21/1971 Haitian president (1957-1971)
70	Juan Belmonte 4/14/1892 - 4/8/1962 Spanish bullfighter
86	Arnold Toynbee 4/14/1889 - 10/22/1975 English historian; wrote 12-volume "Study of History"
79	James Branch Cabell 4/14/1879 - 5/5/1958 American novelist; wrote "Jurgen"
72	Adna R. Chaffee 4/14/1842 - 11/1/1914 American army officer; chief of staff (1904-06)
65	Gerhard Rohlfs 4/14/1831 - 6/2/1896 German explorer; journeyed across deserts of North Africa
73	Augustus Pitt-Rivers 4/14/1827 - 5/4/1900 English archaeologist called the "father of British archaeology"
74	Horace Bushnell 4/14/1802 - 2/17/1876 American Congregational minister and controversial theologian
66	Christiaan Huygens 4/14/1629 - 7/8/1695 Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist