Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 14
Births
[edit]- 1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
- 1864 - Casey Jones, railroad engineer (d. 1900)
- 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
- 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) (pictured)
- 1933 - Michael Caine, British actor
- 1933 - Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
- 1948 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
- 1988 - Stephen Curry, American basketballer
- 1990 - Joe Allen, Welsh footballer
Deaths
[edit]- 1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, English author (c. 1705)
- 1883 - Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)
- 1932 - George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
- 1992 - Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
- 2018 - Stephen Hawking, British physicist and cosmologist (b. 1942)