December 14 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 14, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#229 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 14 birthdays
Morihei Ueshiba · Japanese aikidoka1883
George VI · King of the United Kingdom from 1936 to 19521895
Paul Éluard · French poet1895
Karl Carstens · President of the Federal Republic of Germany1914
Shirley Jackson · American writer1916
Nikolay Basov · Soviet physicist1922
Raj Kapoor · Indian actor and filmmaker1924
Lee Remick · American actress1935
Patty Duke · American actress1946
Jane Birkin · British-French actress and singer1946
Dilma Rousseff · 36th President of Brazil, 3rd President of the New Development Bank1947
John Mearsheimer · American political scientist1947
Ebrahim Raisi · President of Iran from 2021 to 20241960
James Comey · American lawyer and 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation1960
Helle Thorning-Schmidt · Danish retired politician, former Prime Minister of Denmark1966
Anna Maria Jopek · Polish musician and singer1970
Michael Owen · English association football player1979
Jackson Rathbone · American actor and musician1984
Jakub Błaszczykowski · Polish association football player1985
Vanessa Hudgens · American actress and singer1988
On this day in history
1863American Civil War: The Battle of Bean's Station, the final battle of the Knoxville campaign, was fought in Grainger County, Tennessee.
1918Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
1948American physicists Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann were awarded a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the first interactive electronic game.
1972Upon completing the third extra-vehicular activity of Apollo 17, American astronaut Gene Cernan became the last person to date to walk on the Moon.
1940Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1960Australian cricketer Ian Meckiff was run out on the last day of the first Test match between Australia and the West Indies, resulting in the first tied Test in cricket history.
1962NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
1998Kosovo War: Yugoslav forces ambushed a group of Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle weapons into Yugoslavia from Albania.
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