August 14
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August 14 is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1297 – Emperor Hanazano of Japan (d. 1348)
- 1337 – Robert III of Scotland (d. 1406)
- 1473 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541)
- 1479 – Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527)
- 1552 – Paolo Sarpi, Italian church reformer and historian (d. 1623)
- 1642 – Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
- 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740)
- 1727 – Princess Marie Louise Elisabeth of France (d. 1759)
- 1727 – Princess Anne Henriette of France (d. 1752)
- 1738 – Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer (d. 1793)
- 1740 – Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
- 1758 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
- 1777 – Hans Christian Orsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851)
- 1777 – Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830)
- 1814 – Adolph Tidemand, Norwegian painter (d. 1876)
- 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
- 1847 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1922)
- 1851 – Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
- 1857 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922)
- 1863 – Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
- 1865 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952)
- 1867 – John Galsworthy, English author (d. 1933)
- 1871 – Quangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908)
- 1876 – Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (d. 1903)
- 1878 – Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and Prime Minister (d. 1936)
- 1881 – Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953)
- 1882 – Gisela Richter, British-born art historian (d. 1972)
- 1910 – Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009)
- 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
- 1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American particle physicist (d. 1985)
- 1916 – Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player (d. 1992)
- 1924 – Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Georges Pretre, French conductor
- 1925 – Russell Baker, columnist
- 1926 – René Goscinny, comic-strip author (d. 1977)
- 1926 – Lina Wertmüller, Italian director
- 1930 – Earl Weaver, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager
- 1933 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist
- 1935 – John Brodie, American football player
- 1940 – Dash Crofts, musician
- 1940 – Aristides Royo, 36th President of Panama
- 1941 – David Crosby, guitarist, songwriter
- 1941 – Lynne Cheney, American political figure
- 1943 – Jimmy Johnson, American football player and broadcaster
- 1945 – Steve Martin, American comedian and actor
- 1945 – Wim Wenders, German director
- 1946 – Antonio Fargas, actor
- 1946 – Susan Saint James, actress
- 1947 – Danielle Steel, novelist
- 1949 – Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and coach
- 1950 – Gary Larson, American cartoonist
- 1950 – Bob Backlund, American professional wrestler
- 1952 – Carl Lumbly, actor
- 1952 – Debbie Meyer, swimmer
- 1953 – James Horner, American Academy Award-winning composer
- 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
- 1954 – Stanley McChrystal, American general
- 1954 – Christian Gross, Swiss football coach
- 1956 – Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
- 1957 – Peter Costello, Australian politician
- 1959 – Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award-winning actress
- 1959 – Magic Johnson, American basketball player
- 1960 – Sarah Brightman, singer
- 1961 – Susan Olsen, actress
- 1964 – Brannon Braga, writer, director
- 1965 – Emmanuelle Béart, actress
- 1966 – Halle Berry, American Academy Award-winning actress
- 1968 – Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer
- 1968 – Adrian Lester, English actor
- 1971 – Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1972 – Laurent Lamothe, Haitian politician
- 1973 – Rana Faheem Aslam, Pakistani journalist
- 1973 – Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
- 1973 – Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
- 1974 – Ana Matronic, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
- 1976 – Alex Albrecht, co-host of The Screen Savers
- 1977 – Juan Pierre, American baseball player
- 1977 – Philip Stamper, American pro wrestler, actor
- 1978 – Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer
- 1981 – Matthew Etherington, English footballer
- 1983 – Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American television actress
- 1983 – Heiko Westermann, German footballer
- 1983 – Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born, British tennis player
- 1984 – Nick Grimshaw, British radio DJ and television presenter
- 1984 – Robin Soderling, Swedish tennis player
- 1984 – Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Christian Gentner, German footballer
- 1986 – Cameron Jerome, English footballer
- 1990 – Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer
Deaths [change]
- 1040 – Duncan I of Scotland
- 1167 – Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne
- 1204 – Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (b. 1182)
- 1390 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (b. 1364)
- 1430 – Philip I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1404)
- 1433 – King John I of Portugal (b. 1357)
- 1464 – Pope Pius II (b. 1405)
- 1573 – Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
- 1691 – Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)
- 1704 – Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (b. 1675)
- 1727 – William Croft, English composer (b. 1678)
- 1774 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (b. 1716)
- 1784 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (b. 1718)
- 1852 – Margaret Taylor, First Lady of the United States (b. 1788)
- 1856 – Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
- 1860 – André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
- 1891 – Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (b. 1803)
- 1905 – Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
- 1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1943 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player (b. 1871)
- 1951 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
- 1955 – Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)
- 1956 – Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1958 – Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1900)
- 1972 – Oscar Levant, American actor, composer, and musician (b. 1906)
- 1980 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
- 1981 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
- 1984 – J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
- 1985 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1988 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
- 2000 – Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (b. 1943)
- 2002 – Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (b. 1972)
- 2003 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 2005 – Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Abbey Lincoln, American singer (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1931)
- 2012 – Svetozar Gligoric, Serbian chess player (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Sergey Kapitsa, Russian physicist (b. 1928)
Events [change]
- 1040 – Macbeth kills King Duncan I of Scotland, and crowns himself King of Scotland.
- 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands in present-day Honduras; this is the first time he sets foot on the mainland of the Americas.
- 1816 – The United Kingdom annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago in the South Atlantic.
- 1842 – Seminole Native Americans are forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
- 1848 – The Oregon territory is created by an act of the United States Congress.
- 1880 – After taking more than 600 years, the construction of Cologne Cathedral is completed.
- 1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of rust-proof paint.
- 1893 – France introduces motor vehicle registration.
- 1900 – The Eight-Nation Alliance occupy Beijing, China, in an attempt to end of the Boxer Rebellion.
- 1912 – US marines land in Nicaragua to support the US-backed government installed there after Jose Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- 1914 – The Big Hole Diamond mine in South Africa is closed.
- 1916 – World War I: Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1917 – World War I: China declares war on Germany.
- 1921 – Tannu Uriankhai, later the Tuvan People's Republic, is established as a completely independent country, supported by Soviet Russia.
- 1933 – Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later becoming known as the forest fire of Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5.
- 1935 – The Social Security Act creates a government pension for retired people in the United States.
- 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public execution in the United States.
- 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of War, stating postwar aims.
- 1945 – World War II: Japan accepts Allied terms of surrender and the Emperor, Hirohito, records the Imperial Rescription surrender.
- 1945 – Philippe Petain, leader of VIchy France, is sentenced to death.
- 1947 – Partition of India: Pakistan, a new Islamic state, becomes independent from the United Kingdom, and consists of West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh).
- 1959 – The American Football League is founded.
- 1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed to Northern Ireland.
- 1972 – A plane crash, of an Ilyushin II-62, in East Berlin kills 156 people.
- 1973 – The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 goes into effect.
- 1974 – The Second Turkish invasion of Cyprus begins. 140,000 to 200,000 Greek Cypriots become refugees. 6,000 are killed and 1,619 are missing.
- 1980 – The Gdansk shipyard strike in Poland occurs, as an uprising against Communist rule, and leads to the foundation of the Solidarity movement led by Lech Walesa.
- 1992 – Georgian troops enter Abkhazia, which had declared independence.
- 1994 – Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal is arrested.
- 2003 – A wide scale power blackout affects parts of Canada and the northeastern United States.
- 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522, travelling from Larnaca in Cyprus, crashes near Grammatiko in Greece, killing all 121 people on board, after the air conditioning fails.
- 2006 – Chencholai bombing: 61 Tamil girls are killed in a bombing by the Sri Lankan Air Force.
- 2007 – Bomb attacks across Northern Iraq kill a total of 796 people. 1,500 are injured.
- 2010 – The first ever Summer Youth Olympic Games begin in Singapore. 3,531 athletes aged 14 to 18, from 204 National Olympic Committees take part.
Observances [change]
- Independence Day (Pakistan)
