October 14 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 14, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#242 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 14 birthdays
Éamon de Valera · Irish statesman1882
Katherine Mansfield · New Zealand author1888
Dwight D. Eisenhower · President of the United States from 1953 to 19611890
Lillian Gish · American actor1893
E. E. Cummings · American author1894
Heinrich Lübke · German politician1894
Hannah Arendt · German-American political theorist and philosopher1906
Lê Đức Thọ · Vietnamese diplomat1911
Raymond Davis Jr. · American scientist1914
Roger Moore · English actor1927
Mobutu Sese Seko · Congolese politician and military officer1930
Farah Pahlavi · Queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 19791938
Ralph Lauren · American fashion designer1939
Mohammad Khatami · President of Iran from 1997 to 20051943
J. Craig Venter · American biotechnologist and businessman1946
George Floyd · African American man1973
Floyd Landis · American road racing cyclist1975
Usher · American R&B singer1978
Charlie Kirk · American political activist1993
Rowan Blanchard · American actress2001
On this day in history
1949The first of the Smith Act trials concluded in New York City, with eleven leaders of the Communist Party of the United States found guilty of violating the Smith Act.
1979At least 75,000 people attended the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., to demand equal civil rights for LGBT people.
1980The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party concluded, having anointed North Korean president Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.
2021Approximately 10,000 John Deere employees went on strike in one of the largest private-sector strikes in the United States.
1943World War II: During the second raid on Schweinfurt, the U.S. 8th Air Force suffered so many losses that it lost air supremacy over Germany for several months.
1947American test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier, reaching Mach 1.06 on board the Bell X-1, an experimental rocket-powered aircraft.
1982U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a war on drugs.
2012Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon in the stratosphere to become the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.
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