August 14 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 14, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#46 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 14 birthdays
John Galsworthy · English novelist and playwright1867
Guangxu Emperor · Chinese emperor1871
René Goscinny · French comic book artist and author1926
Richard R. Ernst · Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate1933
David Crosby · American singer, guitarist and songwriter1941
Steve Martin · American comedian, actor, musician and writer1945
Wim Wenders · German filmmaker1945
James Horner · American film composer and conductor1953
Dani Rodrik · Turkish economist and publicist1957
Magic Johnson · American basketball player and entrepreneur1959
Marcia Gay Harden · American actress1959
Sarah Brightman · British singer and actress1960
Emmanuelle Béart · French film actress1963
Halle Berry · American actress1966
Tracy Caldwell Dyson · American chemist and NASA astronaut1969
Kofi Kingston · Ghanaian-American professional wrestler1981
Ray William Johnson · American YouTuber1981
Mila Kunis · American actress1983
Giorgio Chiellini · Italian sports executive and former association football player1984
Ander Herrera · Spanish association football player1989
On this day in history
2003A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
2010The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.
2015The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.
2023Former U.S. president Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.
1888One of the first recordings of music, of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", was played at a press conference in London to introduce Thomas Edison's phonograph.
1945Kenji Hatanaka and other Japanese military officers launched an attempted coup d'état to prevent the surrender of Japan.
1959Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
1975The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in limited release.
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