Anniversaries 14 August

Birth

Hans Christian Ørsted1

Danish physicist and chemist 1777–1851

Letitia Elizabeth Landon785

English poet and novelist 1802–1838

Edward Norris Kirk5

American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist … 1802–1874

Park Benjamin, Sr.9

American journalist 1809–1864

Walter Besant5

English novelist and historian 1836–1901

W. W. Rouse Ball3

English mathematician 1850–1925

Ernest Thompson Seton2

British/ American author, artist, and a founder of the scou… 1860–1946

Ernest Thayer4

American poet 1863–1940

John Galsworthy48

English novelist and playwright 1867–1933

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji3

English composer, music critic, pianist and writer 1892–1988

Léon Rosenfeld1

Belgian physicist 1904–1974

Pierre Schaeffer8

French musicologist 1910–1995

Derek Prince1

British missionary 1915–2003

Robert Adair (physicist)11

Physicist and author 1924

Russell Baker40

writer and satirst from the United States 1925–2019

Frederic Raphael6

British writer 1931

Bryce Courtenay15

Australian novelist 1933–2012

Barbara Sher3

American writer 1935

Johan Olsen2

Norwegian political scientist 1939

Alexei Panshin13

American writer and critic 1940

Arthur Laffer1

American economist 1940

Lynne Cheney1

Second Lady of the United States 2001–2009, writer and pund… 1941

Stephanie Laurens5

Australian writer 1943

Steve Martin81

American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and… 1945

Susan Saint James1

American actress and activist 1946

Danielle Steel36

American author of romance novels 1947

Kevin Kelly141

American author and editor 1952

Stanley A. McChrystal26

American general 1954

Mary E. Pearson58

young-adult fiction writer 1955

Joan Slonczewski15

American writer 1956

Dani Rodrik1

Turkish Economist 1957

Magic Johnson1

American basketball player 1959

Sarah Brightman9

British soprano, musical theatre actress, and dancer 1960

Steven Heighton1

Canadian writer 1961

Henri-Marie Dondra1

prime Minister of the Central African Republic 1966

Halle Berry23

American actress 1966

Vijay Prashad2

Indian historian and journalist 1967

Artur Balder2

Spanish film director 1974

Ed Harcourt29

British musician 1977

Barrett Brown14

American journalist, essayist and satirist 1981

Boris Epshteyn2

1982

Mila Kunis10

American actress 1983

Tim Tebow2

American football player, Heisman Trophy winner, quarterback 1987

Łukasz Pawlikowski3

Polish cellist 1997

Death

Pope Pius II2

pope 1405–1464

Johann Friedrich Herbart2

German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy a… 1776–1841

William Buckland5

English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist 1784–1856

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams4

English poet, hymnwriter 1805–1848

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford5

American author 1835–1921

William Randolph Hearst12

American newspaper publisher 1863–1951

Leonard Woolf1

English political theorist, author, publisher and civil ser… 1880–1969

Clark Ashton Smith5

American author 1893–1961

Maximilian Kolbe2

Polish Conventual Franciscan friar 1894–1941

J.B. Priestley35

English writer 1894–1984

Percy Cerutty1

Australian athletics coach 1895–1975

Bertolt Brecht102

German poet, playwright, theatre director 1898–1956

Frederic Joliot-Curie1

French scientist 1900–1958

Mahasi Sayadaw13

Burmese Buddhist philosopher 1904–1982

Elias Canetti43

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,… 1905–1994

Oscar Levant42

American comedian, composer, pianist and actor 1906–1972

Clifford Odets6

Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor 1906–1963

William Ian Beardmore Beveridge3

British zoologist 1908–2006

Czeslaw Milosz106

Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004

Alice Childress1

American playwright and author 1916–1994

Lane Kirkland2

American labor leader 1922–1999