Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 14
Births
[edit]- 1473 - Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, (pictured) (d. 1541)
- 1642 - Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723)
- 1714 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789)
- 1758 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835)
- 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist (d. 1832)
- 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
- 1851 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (d. 1887)
- 1867 - John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933)
- 1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
- 1950 - Gary Larson, American cartoonist
- 1959 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
- 1966 - Halle Berry, American actress
Deaths
[edit]- 1951 - William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (b. 1863)
- 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1958 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1900)
- 1984 - J. B. Priestley, English playwright (b. 1894)
- 1988 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)