On This Day — August 14
4019 noted people were born and 1893 died on August 14 in our archive, including Hans Christian Ørsted, Alexander Medvedev and Alexander Panyushkin.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on August 14
Hans Christian Ørsted
1777 – 1851
Alexander Medvedev
b. 1955
Alexander Panyushkin
1905 – 1974
Amotz Zahavi
1928 – 2017
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster
1886 – 1950
Arístides Royo
b. 1940
Charles Hutton
1737 – 1823
David H. Bailey
b. 1948
Dennis Trewin
b. 1946
Dieter Planck
1944 – 2025
Elsa Murano
b. 1959
Ernest Everett Just
1883 – 1941
Francis Dvornik
1893 – 1975
Giorgio Strehler
1921 – 1997
Guido Castelnuovo
1865 – 1952
Güler Sabancı
b. 1955
Henry de Lumley
b. 1934
Herzl Rosenblum
1903 – 1991
Imre Simon
1943 – 2009
Isaac C. Kidd, Jr.
1919 – 1999
James Pitman
1901 – 1985
Jean Gaston Darboux
1842 – 1917
Jill Morris
b. 1967
Joan Slonczewski
b. 1956
Julio Rey Pastor
1888 – 1962
Léon Rosenfeld
1904 – 1974
Mary Pickford
1902 – 2002
Natalya Kotova
b. 1965
Paul Bartsch
1871 – 1960
Peter Costello
b. 1957
Philip Parham
b. 1960
Pierre Schaeffer
1910 – 1995
Poul Hartling
1914 – 2000
Richard Ernst
1933 – 2021
Saiful Islam
b. 1963
Tiruppattur Venkatachalamurti Ramakrishnan
b. 1941
Tom Campbell
b. 1952
W. W. Rouse Ball
1850 – 1925
Wim Wenders
b. 1945
Winnie Laban
b. 1955
Yuri Kholopov
1932 – 2003
Ada Hayden
1884 – 1950
Adam D'Angelo
b. 1984
Agenor, duc de Gramont
1819 – 1880
Aina Moll Marquès
1930 – 2019
Alena Kupchyna
b. 1965
Alexander Souter
1873 – 1949
Andres Herkel
b. 1962
Arthur Hobrecht
1824 – 1912
Arthur Laffer
b. 1940
Arthur Lawrence Alarcón
1925 – 2015
Barry Dickson
b. 1962
Bertrand Collomb
1942 – 2019
Bill Grant
b. 1951
Bill Hagerty
b. 1959
Boris Evseevitch Bychowsky
1908 – 1974
Byeon Chang-heum
b. 1964
Carl Aarsleff
1852 – 1918
Carlos Tavares
b. 1958
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
1645 – 1700
Charles Courtenay, 19th Earl of Devon
b. 1975
Charles Thorn
b. 1946
Charles-Jean de la Vallée Poussin
1866 – 1962
Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle
1653 – 1688
Claude-France Arnould
b. 1953
Clément Beaune
b. 1981
Dani Rodrik
b. 1957
Darya Mitina
b. 1973
David Aldrich Nelson
1932 – 2010
Dino Staffa
1906 – 1977
Dominique-Marie Gauchet
1853 – 1931
Elisa Carrillo Cabrera
b. 1981
Ellen Charlotte Higgins
1871 – 1951
Erkki Leikola
1900 – 1986
Erlan Qoshanov
b. 1962
Erlan Turgymbaev
b. 1962
Ernest Thompson Seton
1860 – 1946
Euan MacDonald
1974 – 2024
Eugene Lukacs
1906 – 1987
Eugene Scalia
b. 1963
Francisco Santos
b. 1961
Frank Oppenheimer
1912 – 1985
François de Harlay de Champvallon
1625 – 1695
Frederik Holst
1791 – 1871
Gareth Jones
1905 – 1935
Giovanni De Gennaro
b. 1948
Gisela Richter
1882 – 1972
Golam Dastagir Gazi
b. 1948
Hassan Bubacar Jallow
b. 1951
Heidi Hartmann
b. 1945
Henning Bødtker
1891 – 1975
Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle
1694 – 1758
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
1742 – 1817
James Furman Kemp
1859 – 1926
James Pinson Labulo Davies
1828 – 1906
Jamie Parker
b. 1979
Jamila Ksiksi
1968 – 2022
Jan Bialostocki
1921 – 1988
Jan Peters
b. 1976
Jean Hall Lloyd-Jones
b. 1929
Jean-Christophe Cambadélis
b. 1951
Jean-Marc Lhermet
b. 1967
Joannes Malderus
1563 – 1633
Johan Fredrik Wallenius
1765 – 1836
John Bremer
1927 – 2015
John Galsworthy
1867 – 1933
John Hardress Lloyd
1874 – 1952
John J. Craighead
1916 – 2016
John Ringling North
1903 – 1985
Jon McBride
1943 – 2024
Jonathan Powell
b. 1956
Joseph Klausner
1874 – 1958
Joseph Lee
b. 1959
Julien Denormandie
b. 1980
Józef Rostafiński
1850 – 1928
Karen Karapetyan
b. 1963
Karl Oskar Medin
1847 – 1927
Katrin Bennhold
b. 1974
Klára Ungár
b. 1958
Krzysztof Gadowski
b. 1962
Kuldip Nayar
1923 – 2018
Leo de Block
1904 – 1988
Lucrezia Reichlin
b. 1954
Maksim Purkayev
1894 – 1953
Margareta Gröwel
1899 – 1979
Maria de Lourdes Abadia
b. 1944
Mark C. Lee
b. 1952
Mark Villar
b. 1978
Massimo Mila
1910 – 1988
Matsuoka Yasutake
1846 – 1923
Maurice Failevic
1933 – 2016
Michaël Ferrier
b. 1967
Mirfatıyx Zäkief
1928 – 2023
Molefi Kete Asante
b. 1942
Natalya Sats
1903 – 1993
Nikos Kitsikis
1887 – 1978
Paul Doughty Bartlett
1907 – 1997
Paul Shrivastava
b. 1951
Pavel Sorokin
b. 1963
Percival Molson
1880 – 1917
Peter Buell Porter
1773 – 1844
Peter Fonagy
b. 1952
Peter Malinauskas
b. 1980
Peter Shor
b. 1959
Philippe Naillet
b. 1960
Rafael Rangel Sostmann
b. 1941
Rashid Bashir
b. 1967
Ray Wu
1928 – 2008
Raynell Andreychuk
b. 1944
René Goscinny
1926 – 1977
Richard Threlfall
1861 – 1932
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
1840 – 1902
Robert Grier Stephens, Jr.
1913 – 2003
Sergey Kovalchuk
b. 1968
Sibylle Hamann
b. 1966
Steve Burke
b. 1958
Susan Saint James
b. 1946
Sverre Fehn
1924 – 2009
Taguhi Tovmasyan
b. 1982
Tracy Caldwell Dyson
b. 1969
Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly
1856 – 1933
Valerii Shmarov
1945 – 2018
Vida Ognjenović
b. 1941
Vijay Prashad
b. 1967
Vito Alessio Robles
1879 – 1957
Vivian Bartley Green Armytage
1882 – 1961
Vladimir Bobrov
b. 1953
Vladimir Litvinenko
b. 1955
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Lebedev
1943 – 2024
William Bialek
b. 1960
William Bourdon
b. 1956
Yaakov Katz
b. 1979
Yukio Sakurauchi
1880 – 1947
Yuko Ohtsubaki
b. 1973
Yuri Trushin
b. 1945
Żanna Kormanowa
1900 – 1988
Abdullah Hussain
1931 – 2015
Adam Goldman
b. 1973
Adam Rayski
1913 – 2008
Adolf Schiffer
1873 – 1950
Adolph Tidemand
1814 – 1876
Adrian Lester
b. 1968
Afzal Ansari
b. 1953
Aimar-Charles-Marie de Nicolaï
1747 – 1794
Akbar Mohammadi
b. 1975
Akbar Tanjung
b. 1945
Albert Ball
1896 – 1917
Alberta M. W. Mennega
1912 – 2009
Aleksander Zelwerowicz
1877 – 1955
Alex van Warmerdam
b. 1952
Alexander H. Bailey
1817 – 1874
Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff
1870 – 1949
Alexander Soifer
b. 1948
Alfred Suenson-Taylor, 1st Baron Grantchester
1893 – 1976
Alfred William Pollard
1859 – 1944
Alfredo Lagmay
1919 – 2005
Ali III ibn al-Husayn
1817 – 1902
Alice Ghostley
1923 – 2007
Alim Qasimov
b. 1957
Amos Quick
b. 1968
… and 3,819 more
Died on August 14
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
1900 – 1958
Norman Feather
1904 – 1978
André Marie Constant Duméril
1774 – 1860
Carl Christian Hall
1812 – 1888
Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer
1765 – 1844
Czesław Miłosz
1911 – 2004
David Stratton
1939 – 2025
Edmond Laguerre
1834 – 1886
Frans Michael Franzén
1772 – 1847
Frithiof Holmgren
1831 – 1897
Herbert Putnam
1861 – 1955
Hermann Haken
1927 – 2024
James Bartleman
1939 – 2023
Jean Escarra
1885 – 1955
Louis Constant Prévost
1787 – 1856
Mary Pickford
1902 – 2002
Mykhailo Vaschenko-Zakharchenko
1825 – 1912
Paul Sabatier
1854 – 1941
Pauls Stradiņš
1896 – 1958
Sergey Kapitsa
1928 – 2012
Sophie Bryant
1850 – 1922
Stanisław Głąbiński
1862 – 1941
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
1786 – 1880
Taslim Olawale Elias
1914 – 1991
Theodor Frølich
1870 – 1947
Tikhon Khrennikov
1913 – 2007
William Buckland
1784 – 1856
Zdzisław Kaczmarczyk
1911 – 1980
Adriaan de Groot
1914 – 2006
Ahmet Reşit Rey
1870 – 1955
Albert Neuberger
1908 – 1996
Alceu Amoroso Lima
1893 – 1983
Aleksander Gintowt-Dziewałtowski
1821 – 1889
Aleksandr Ilyich Leypunskiy
1903 – 1972
Alexander Luria
1902 – 1977
Alexander Strauch
1832 – 1893
Alfredo Solf y Muro
1872 – 1969
Andrei Nikolayev
1938 – 2023
Anton Giulio Barrili
1836 – 1908
Arnulf Klett
1905 – 1974
Auguste Creuzé de Lesser
1771 – 1839
Baltaş Tursymbaev
1962 – 2022
Bernard Lecache
1895 – 1968
Bo Varenius
1918 – 1996
Charles Pollard Olivier
1884 – 1975
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
1792 – 1863
Edmund Law
1703 – 1787
Eduard von Martens
1831 – 1904
Enzo Ferrari
1898 – 1988
Erik Acharius
1757 – 1819
Eugenia Kalnay
1942 – 2024
Ezekiel Stone Wiggins
1839 – 1910
Fleetwood Edwards
1842 – 1910
Francesco Alberoni
1929 – 2023
Francisco de Aguiar y Sejas
1632 – 1698
Günther van Well
1922 – 1993
H. R. Fox
1889 – 1951
Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
1921 – 1998
Hansō Sōshitsu
1923 – 2025
Henri Breuil
1877 – 1961
Henry Francis Cary
1772 – 1844
Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne
1861 – 1929
Hermann Kant
1926 – 2016
Hmayak Siras
1902 – 1983
Howard J. McMurray
1901 – 1961
Igor Oistrakh
1931 – 2021
Ivo Malec
1925 – 2019
Jacob Theodoor Cremer
1847 – 1923
Jacques Fournier
1929 – 2021
James Cockburn
1819 – 1883
Jan Wasilkowski
1898 – 1977
Johann Jacob Reiske
1716 – 1774
John Howard Raymond
1814 – 1878
John Lansing
1957 – 2024
John Sirica
1904 – 1992
John William Fletcher
1729 – 1785
Joseph A. Wolf
1936 – 2023
Joseph Caffarelli
1760 – 1845
Jules Liégeois
1833 – 1908
Jules Romains
1885 – 1972
Julian Bream
1933 – 2020
Karen Bakker
1971 – 2023
Kenneth Kunen
1943 – 2020
Konstantin von Neurath
1873 – 1956
Lane Kirkland
1922 – 1999
Lev Kerbel
1917 – 2003
Liu Ta-Chung
1914 – 1975
Louis Mexandeau
1931 – 2023
Louis Wolowski
1810 – 1876
Lugenia Burns Hope
1871 – 1947
Michael Castle
1939 – 2025
Moshe Lewin
1921 – 2010
Mykhailo Holubets
1930 – 2016
Nina Garsoyan
1923 – 2022
Paolo Giobbe
1880 – 1972
Paul Reeves
1932 – 2011
Pius II
1405 – 1464
R. Murray Schafer
1933 – 2021
Rivka Bertisch Meir
1941 – 2014
Robert B. Anderson
1910 – 1989
Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley
1926 – 2016
Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet
1757 – 1831
Stanisław Gucwa
1919 – 1994
Thomas L. Saaty
1926 – 2017
Vladimir Zorich
1937 – 2023
William Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst
1836 – 1910
William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman
1864 – 1935
William David Ford
1927 – 2004
William McFadden Orr
1866 – 1934
Xie Jiarong
1898 – 1966
Adolf Abicht
1793 – 1860
Adolf Pansch
1841 – 1887
Adolph Dattan
1854 – 1924
Aiono Fanaafi Le Tagaloa
1932 – 2014
Alan Lees
1895 – 1973
Alexander Gibson
1819 – 1913
Alfons Karny
1901 – 1989
Alfonso Pérez Sánchez
1935 – 2010
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
1865 – 1922
Alfred Malherbe
1804 – 1865
Allan Hay
1929 – 2017
Andrzej Blumenfeld
1951 – 2017
Aniceto Arce
1824 – 1906
Arnon Sofer
1935 – 2026
Aziza Mammadova
1892 – 1961
Bernard de Castanet
1240 – 1317
Bernhard Rathke
1840 – 1923
Bertolt Brecht
1898 – 1956
Bobby Baun
1936 – 2023
Bruce Smith
1851 – 1937
Carl Balsgaard
1812 – 1893
Carl Brühl
1820 – 1899
Carleton Hunt
1836 – 1921
Chalmers Wylie
1920 – 1998
Charles Bryant Drake
1872 – 1956
Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart
1721 – 1776
Charles L. Armstrong
1948 – 2011
Charles Matteson
1840 – 1925
Charles McDonnell
1841 – 1888
Charles Plosser
1948 – 2025
Chemmanam Chacko
1926 – 2018
Christian Georg Schmorl
1861 – 1932
Clive Follmer
1931 – 2016
Cyril Baptiste
1949 – 2006
Cyril Edward Cain
1883 – 1963
Cyril Gordon Martin
1891 – 1980
David F. Wilber
1859 – 1928
David-Zvi Pinkas
1895 – 1952
Devol Brett
1923 – 2010
Dick Helander
1896 – 1978
Diego Fabbri
1911 – 1980
Domenico Capranica
1400 – 1458
Dorothy Stratten
1960 – 1980
Dorothy Whitelock
1901 – 1982
Eduard Uspensky
1937 – 2018
Edward Copleston
1776 – 1849
Edward H. Gillette
1840 – 1918
Edward Hicks
1843 – 1919
Edward Lyman Abbott
1891 – 1918
Elias Canetti
1905 – 1994
Elie Martel
1934 – 2025
Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt
1860 – 1894
Ellsworth Brewer Buck
1892 – 1970
Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany
1674 – 1728
Ethel Tobach
1921 – 2015
Ewa Demarczyk
1941 – 2020
Franklin Cleckley
1940 – 2017
Frederick Starr
1858 – 1933
Frederick Ward Putnam
1839 – 1915
Fredrik Ludvig Konow
1864 – 1953
Friederike Nadig
1897 – 1970
Friedrich Paulsen
1846 – 1908
Friedrich Wilhelm Rüstow
1821 – 1878
Fritz Bach
1934 – 2011
Gary E. Luck
1937 – 2024
Gena Rowlands
1930 – 2024
Geoffrey Scott
1884 – 1929
George Combe
1788 – 1858
George Oprescu
1881 – 1969
George V. Hansen
1930 – 2014
George Washington Shonk
1850 – 1900
Georges Corm
1940 – 2024
Gerald Heard
1889 – 1971
Ghassem Khan Vali, Sardar Homayoun
1874 – 1933
Giacomo Colonna
1250 – 1318
Gouverneur Morris IV
1876 – 1953
Günter Schmahl
1936 – 2018
H. C. McNeile
1888 – 1937
Hans Hamburger
1889 – 1956
Hans Joachim Moser
1889 – 1967
Henri Coquand
1811 – 1881
Henri de Gondi
1572 – 1622
Herbert H. Hoover
1912 – 1952
Hollis Dow Hedberg
1903 – 1988
Howell Binkley
1956 – 2020
Hugh Cortazzi
1924 – 2018
Husni al-Za'im
1897 – 1949
Ignacy Skorupka
1893 – 1920
Isaak Brodsky
1883 – 1939
Ivan Radović
1894 – 1973
… and 1,693 more