August 14
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August 14 is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of the year.
[change] Births
- 1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence
- 1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
- 1740 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
- 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet
- 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
- 1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
- 1861 - Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress
- 1863 - Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940)
- 1867 - John Galsworthy, English author (d. 1933)
- 1882 - Gisela Richter, art historian (d. 1972)
- 1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer
- 1911 - Shri Vethathiri Maharishi, founder of World Community Service Center
- 1920 - Nehemiah Persoff, actor
- 1925 - Russell Baker, columnist
- 1926 - René Goscinny, comic-strip author
- 1926 - Lina Wertmüller, director
- 1930 - Earl Weaver, Baseball Hall of Fame manager
- 1935 - John Brodie, football player
- 1940 - Dash Crofts, musician
- 1941 - David Crosby, guitarist, songwriter
- 1943 - Jimmy Johnson, American football player and broadcaster
- 1945 - Steve Martin, comedian and actor
- 1945 - Wim Wenders, director
- 1946 - Antonio Fargas, actor
- 1946 - Susan Saint James, actress
- 1947 - Danielle Steel, novelist
- 1950 - Gary Larson, cartoonist
- 1950 - Bob Backlund, professional wrestler
- 1952 - Carl Lumbly, actor
- 1952 - Debbie Meyer, swimmer
- 1953 - James Horner, Academy Award-winning composer
- 1954 - Mark Fidrych, baseball player
- 1956 - Rusty Wallace, American race car driver
- 1959 - Marcia Gay Harden, Academy Award-winning actress
- 1959 - Earvin "Magic" Johnson, basketball player
- 1960 - Sarah Brightman, singer
- 1961 - Susan Olsen, actress
- 1964 - Brannon Braga, writer, director
- 1965 - Emmanuelle Béart, actress
- 1966 - Halle Berry, Academy Award-winning actress
- 1973 - Rana Faheem Aslam, Pakistani journalist
- 1976 - Alex Albrecht, co-host of The Screen Savers
- 1977 - Juan Pierre, baseball player
- 1977 - Philip Stamper, pro wrestler, actor
- 1983 - Mila Kunis, television actress
- 1983 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born, British tennis player
[change] Deaths
- 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)
- 1856 - Constant Prévost, French geologist (b. 1787)
- 1860 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (b. 1774)
- 1905 - Simeon Solomon, British artist (b. 1840)
- 1941 - Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1943 - Joe Kelley, 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)
- 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)
