Anniversaries 14 July

Birth

Poliziano1

Italian writer 1454–1494

Pasquier Quesnel3

French theologian 1634–1719

William Paley15

Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian 1743–1805

John Gibson Lockhart7

Scottish writer and editor 1794–1854

James Aldrich3

American editor and minor poet 1810–1856

Daniel Clement Colesworthy1

American writer 1810–1893

Owen Wister5

American writer 1860–1938

Ossip Zadkine31

French sculptor 1890–1967

Richard Walther Darré4

Nazi SS General 1895–1953

F. R. Leavis8

British literary critic 1895–1978

Buenaventura Durruti15

Spanish anarchist 1896–1936

Narada Maha Thera11

Sri Lankan monk and missionary 1898–1983

Irving Stone21

American writer 1903–1989

G. L. S. Shackle8

British economist 1903–1992

Zita Johann3

actress 1904–1993

Erwin Griswold1

American lawyer 1904–1994

Helen Schucman4

Clinical Psychologist 1909–1981

Woody Guthrie33

American singer-songwriter and folk musician 1912–1967

Northrop Frye137

Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991

Gerald Ford90

American politician, 38th President of the United States (i… 1913–2006

Jerome Lawrence2

American playwright 1915–2004

Jay Wright Forrester7

American operations researcher 1918–2016

Ingmar Bergman75

Swedish filmmaker 1918–2007

Harry Dean Stanton4

American actor, musician, and singer 1926–2017

John Chancellor1

American journalist 1927–1996

Rosey Grier1

Player of American football 1932

Pema Chödron30

American philosopher 1936

Yoshirō Mori4

86th Prime Minister of Japan 1937

Herb Goldberg22

American psychologist 1937–2019

James Matisoff3

linguist 1937

Moshe Safdie2

Israeli-Canadian architect 1938

Susan Howatch36

British writer 1940

Maulana Karenga9

Political activist 1941

Christopher Priest1

British speculative fiction writer 1943

Michael T. Hannan12

US-American sociologist of Stanford University 1943

Alexander Melamid4

Russian artist 1945

Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel1

Ethiopian Catholic Archbishop of Addis Abeba 1948

Nick Bantock2

British artist 1949

Graydon Carter1

Canadian-born American journalist 1949

Jeff Lindsay58

American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich 1952

Dora Akunyili3

Pharmacist and Government Official 1954–2014

Cornelia Parker3

English artist 1956

Christina Dodd5

American writer 1957

Wafa Sultan7

American psychistrist 1958

Jane Espenson15

American television writer and producer 1964

Brian Selznick17

American children's illustrator and writer 1966

Matthew Fox1

American actor 1966

Kohta Hirano3

Japanese manga artist 1973

Cathy Newman3

journalist 1974

David Reich (geneticist)6

American geneticist, Professor of Genetics 1974

Loredana Cannata1

Italian actress 1975

Mohammed Ali al-Houthi1

Yemeni official 1979

Дэн Рейнольдс1

1987

Conor McGregor25

Irish mixed martial artist and boxer 1988

Death

Richard Bentley4

English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Ca… 1662–1742

Little Turtle2

Chief of the Miami people (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812) 1752–1812

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël42

Swiss author 1766–1817

Augustin-Jean Fresnel4

French engineer and physicist 1788–1827

Joshua Girling Fitch6

British educationalist 1824–1903

Paul Kruger3

President of the South African Republic 1825–1904

Karl Heinrich Ulrichs6

German jurist, writer and pioneer of LGBT human rights 1825–1895

Billy the Kid3

American cattle rustler, gambler, horse thief, outlaw, cowb… 1859–1881

Richard von Mises20

Austrian physicist and mathematician 1883–1953

Swami Sivananda41

Indian philosopher 1887–1963

Raymond Loewy7

industrial designer 1893–1986

Adlai Stevenson131

mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the… 1900–1965

Mark Oliphant6

Governor of South Australia (1971-76) 1901–2000

Joachim Peiper6

SS officer 1915–1976

Igor Ansoff8

American mathematician 1918–2001

William Roscoe Estep1

American theologian 1920–2000

Rajendra Singh1

formerly Professor of Physics later Chief of RSS 1921–2003

Christian Boltanski1

French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker 1944–2021

Maryam Mirzakhani4

Iranian mathematician 1977–2017

Айзак Голдберг1

Исаак Голдберг1