On this day: 14 August
Events, births and deaths on 14 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Michael Castle
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Fyvush Finkel
100 years ago1926
- Births · René Goscinny
- Births · Buddy Greco
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1040 · Deaths · Duncan I of Scotland
- 928 · Births · Qian Hongzuo
Events · 29
- 1264(Julian date)Battle of Saseno — 1264 battle in the War of Saint Sabas
- 1352(Julian date)Battle of Mauron — 1352 battle of the Breton War of Succession
- 1385Battle of Aljubarrota — 1385 battle in Portugal
- 1598Battle of the Yellow Ford — part of the Nine Years' War in Ireland (1598)
- 1784Awa'uq Massacre — 1784 massacre in Alaska
- 1790Treaty of Värälä — 1790 peace treaty between Sweden and Russia
- 1791Bois Caïman — Voodoo ceremony that started the Haitian Revolution in 1791
- 1814Convention of Moss — 1814 ceasefire agreement between Sweden and Norway
- 1900Battle of Peking — 1900 battle of the Boxer Rebellion
- 1914Battle of Lorraine — 1914 battle of World War I
- 1921Tuvan People's Republic — 1921–1944 people's republic in Asia
- 1941Atlantic Charter — 1941 Anglo-American policy statement defining the Allied goals for the post-war world
- 1945Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance — treaty signed by the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on 14 August 1945
- 1947Pakistan — sovereign state in South Asia
- 1969Operation Banner — British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland from August 1969 to July 2007
- 1971Bahrain — country in the Persian Gulf
- 1972Interflug Flight 450 — aviation accident
- 2003Northeast blackout of 2003 — major power outage in August 2003 in North America
- 2005Helios Airways Flight 522 — 2005 aviation accident in Greece
- 2006Chencholai bombing — 2006 air strike during the Sri Lankan civil war
- 20072007 Yazidi communities bombings — four coordinated suicide car bombings in northwestern Iraq
- 20102010 Summer Youth Olympics — 2010 edition of the Summer Youth Olympics
- 2011Dalian PX protest — 2011 protest in China
- 2013August 2013 Rabaa massacre — forceful dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-in in Cairo, Egypt
- 2013UPS Airlines Flight 1354 — fatal crash of cargo aircraft
- 20182018 Genoa bridge collapse — collapse of a bridge in Genoa, Italy on 14 August 2018
- 20212021 Haiti earthquake — 14 August 2021 magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake
- 20222022 Yerevan explosion — 2022 fire in Yerevan, Armenia
- 2023prosecution of Donald Trump in Georgia — pending criminal case against Donald Trump
Births · 60
- 1297(Julian date)Emperor Hanazono — 95th emperor of Japan (r. 1308–1318)
- 1530(Julian date)Giambattista Benedetti — mathematician from Italy
- 1642Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany — Grand Prince of Tuscany (1642-1723)
- 1688Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia — king of Prussia (1688-1740)
- 1714Joseph Vernet — French painter and engraver from Avignon (1714-1789)
- 1742Pius VII — head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823 (1742–1823)
- 1777Hans Christian Ørsted — Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
- 1802Letitia Elizabeth Landon — British poet and novelist (1802–1838)
- 1840Richard von Krafft-Ebing — Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and nobleman (1840–1902)
- 1842Jean Gaston Darboux — French mathematician (1842–1917)
- 1848Margaret Lindsay Huggins — Irish astronomer (1848–1915)
- 1851Doc Holliday — gambler, gunfighter, and dentist in the American West (1851–1887)
- 1860Ernest Thompson Seton — British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement (1860–1946)
- 1862Prince Henry of Prussia — Member of the House of Hohenzollern (1862–1929)
- 1867John Galsworthy — English novelist and playwright (1867–1933)
- 1871Guangxu Emperor — Chinese emperor (1871-1908)
- 1876Alexander I of Serbia — king of Serbia 1889-1903
- 1892Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji — English composer, music critic, pianist and writer (1892–1988)
- 1910Pierre Schaeffer — French composer and musicologist (1910-1995)
- 1924Sverre Fehn — Norwegian architect (1924-2009)
- 1924Georges Pretre — French orchestral and opera conductor (1924-2017)
- 1926René Goscinny — French comic book artist and author (1926-1977)
- 1928Lina Wertmüller — Italian film writer and director (1928-2021)
- 1933Richard Ernst — Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate (1933–2021)
- 1941David Crosby — American singer, guitarist and songwriter (1941–2023)
Deaths · 60
- 582(Julian date)Tiberius II Constantine — Byzantine Emperor (520-582)
- 1040(Julian date)Duncan I of Scotland — king of Scots from 1034 to 1040
- 1167(Julian date)Rainald of Dassel — archbishop of Cologne, archchancellor of Italy (1114-1167)
- 1204(Julian date)Minamoto no Yoriie — 2nd shogun of Kamakura shogunate
- 1433John I of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1385 to 1433
- 1464(Julian date)Pius II — pope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 (1405–1464)
- 1727William Croft — English composer and organist
- 1774Johann Jacob Reiske — German scholar (1716-1774)
- 1852Margaret Taylor — First Lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850
- 1858Tokugawa Iesada — Edo shogun (1824-1858)
- 1860André Marie Constant Duméril — French zoologist
- 1870David Farragut — United States Navy admiral (1801–1870)
- 1890Michael J. McGivney — American Roman Catholic priest, founder of the Knights of Columbus and blessed (1852–1890)
- 1891Sarah Childress Polk — First Lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849
- 1905Simeon Solomon — British artist (1840 – 1905)
- 1922Rebecca Cole — American physician (1846-1922)
- 1928Klabund — German writer (1890-1928)
- 1941Paul Sabatier — French chemist (1854–1941)
- 1941Maximilian Kolbe — sixsevenish Conventual Franciscan friar, martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church (1894–1941)
- 1948Eliška Misáková — Czech gymnast (1926-1948), only athlete to win an Olympic medal AFTER her death
- 1951William Randolph Hearst — American newspaper publisher (1863–1951)
- 1954Hugo Eckener — manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company (1868–1954)
- 1956Bertolt Brecht — German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
- 1956Konstantin von Neurath — German Foreign Minister, Ambassador and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, general and Nazi war criminal (1873-1956)
- 1958Frédéric Joliot-Curie — French scientist (1900-1958)
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