Anniversaries 14 August
Birth
![Hans Christian Ørsted photo]()
Danish physicist and chemist
1777–1851
![Letitia Elizabeth Landon photo]()
English poet and novelist
1802–1838
![Edward Norris Kirk photo]()
American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist …
1802–1874
![Park Benjamin, Sr. photo]()
American journalist
1809–1864
![Walter Besant photo]()
English novelist and historian
1836–1901
![W. W. Rouse Ball photo]()
English mathematician
1850–1925
![Ernest Thompson Seton photo]()
British/ American author, artist, and a founder of the scou…
1860–1946
![John Galsworthy photo]()
English novelist and playwright
1867–1933
![Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji photo]()
English composer, music critic, pianist and writer
1892–1988
![Léon Rosenfeld photo]()
Belgian physicist
1904–1974
![Pierre Schaeffer photo]()
French musicologist
1910–1995
![Derek Prince photo]()
British missionary
1915–2003
![Robert Adair (physicist) photo]()
Physicist and author
1924
![Russell Baker photo]()
writer and satirst from the United States
1925–2019
![Bryce Courtenay photo]()
Australian novelist
1933–2012
![Johan Olsen photo]()
Norwegian political scientist
1939
![Alexei Panshin photo]()
American writer and critic
1940
![Lynne Cheney photo]()
Second Lady of the United States 2001–2009, writer and pund…
1941
![Steve Martin photo]()
American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and…
1945
![Susan Saint James photo]()
American actress and activist
1946
![Danielle Steel photo]()
American author of romance novels
1947
![Kevin Kelly photo]()
American author and editor
1952
![Mary E. Pearson photo]()
young-adult fiction writer
1955
![Magic Johnson photo]()
American basketball player
1959
![Sarah Brightman photo]()
British soprano, musical theatre actress, and dancer
1960
![Henri-Marie Dondra photo]()
prime Minister of the Central African Republic
1966
![Vijay Prashad photo]()
Indian historian and journalist
1967
![Artur Balder photo]()
Spanish film director
1974
![Barrett Brown photo]()
American journalist, essayist and satirist
1981
![Tim Tebow photo]()
American football player, Heisman Trophy winner, quarterback
1987
Death
![Johann Friedrich Herbart photo]()
German philosopher, psychologist, and founder of pedagogy a…
1776–1841
![William Buckland photo]()
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist
1784–1856
![Sarah Fuller Flower Adams photo]()
English poet, hymnwriter
1805–1848
![Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford photo]()
American author
1835–1921
![William Randolph Hearst photo]()
American newspaper publisher
1863–1951
![Leonard Woolf photo]()
English political theorist, author, publisher and civil ser…
1880–1969
![Clark Ashton Smith photo]()
American author
1893–1961
![Maximilian Kolbe photo]()
Polish Conventual Franciscan friar
1894–1941
![Percy Cerutty photo]()
Australian athletics coach
1895–1975
![Bertolt Brecht photo]()
German poet, playwright, theatre director
1898–1956
![Frederic Joliot-Curie photo]()
French scientist
1900–1958
![Mahasi Sayadaw photo]()
Burmese Buddhist philosopher
1904–1982
![Elias Canetti photo]()
Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,…
1905–1994
![Oscar Levant photo]()
American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
1906–1972
![Clifford Odets photo]()
Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor
1906–1963
![William Ian Beardmore Beveridge photo]()
British zoologist
1908–2006
![Czeslaw Milosz photo]()
Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
1911–2004
![Alice Childress photo]()
American playwright and author
1916–1994
![Lane Kirkland photo]()
American labor leader
1922–1999
