August 14 - wikipedia August 14 This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 August 2018. < < August > > Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2018 August 14 in recent years 2018 ( Tuesday ) 2017 ( Monday ) 2016 ( Sunday ) 2015 ( Friday ) 2014 ( Thursday ) 2013 ( Wednesday ) 2012 ( Tuesday ) 2011 ( Sunday ) 2010 ( Saturday ) 2009 ( Friday ) Date August 14 is the 226th day of the year ( 227th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days remaining until the end of the year. Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 References 6 External links Events 29 BC -- Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes. 1040 -- King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland. 1183 -- Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan ( Traditional Japanese date : Twenty - fifth day of the seventh month of the second year of the Juei ( 寿 永 ) era ). 1288 -- Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel. 1352 -- War of the Breton Succession : Anglo - Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron. 1370 -- Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him. 1385 -- Portuguese Crisis of 1383 -- 85 : Battle of Aljubarrota : Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I. 1457 -- Publication of the Mainz Psalter, the first book to feature a printed date of publication and printed colophon 1480 -- Battle of Otranto : Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam ; they are later honored in the Church. 1592 -- The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis. 1598 -- Nine Years ' War : Battle of the Yellow Ford : Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal. 1720 -- The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present - day Columbus, Nebraska. 1791 -- Slaves from plantations in Saint - Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony lead by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution. 1814 -- A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the Swedish -- Norwegian War. 1816 -- The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa. 1842 -- American Indian Wars : Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma. 1848 -- Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress. 1880 -- Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed. 1885 -- Japan 's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust - proof paint. 1888 -- An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan 's `` The Lost Chord '', one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison 's phonograph in London, England. 1893 -- France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. 1900 -- The Eight - Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China. 1901 -- The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. 1911 -- United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye 's death. 1912 -- U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S. - backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier. 1914 -- World War I : Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany. 1916 -- Romania declares war on Austria - Hungary. 1921 -- Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People 's Republic is established as a completely independent country ( which is supported by Soviet Russia ). 1933 -- Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn ; it is not fully extinguished until September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres ( 970 km ). 1935 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. 1936 -- Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States. 1937 -- The beginning of air - to - air combat of the Second Sino - Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases. 1941 -- World War II : Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. 1945 -- Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ). 1945 -- The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam. 1947 -- Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1959 -- Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. 1967 -- UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. 1969 -- Operation Banner : British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland. 1971 -- Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain. 1972 -- An Ilyushin Il - 62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, due to an in - flight fire, killing 156. 1973 -- The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect. 1975 -- The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest - running release in film history, opens in London. 1980 -- Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. 1994 -- Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as `` Carlos the Jackal '', is captured. 1996 -- Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus. 2003 -- A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada. 2003 -- Project Thread, an operation launched by CSIS and other Canadian law enforcement agencies, saw the arrest and incarceration of 24 innocent Muslim men, most of them young Pakistani students. 2005 -- Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew. 2006 -- Sixty - one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike. 2007 -- The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 334 people. 2013 -- Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi. 2015 -- The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba -- United States relations were broken off 2018 -- Thirty - five people die when a bridge connecting Genoa with Liguria in northern Italy collapses. 2018 -- A Colombian - registered bus hit another vehicle at high speed in Ecuador killing at least 24 people and injuring 19. Births 928 -- Qian Hongzuo, king of Wuyue ( d. 947 ) 1297 -- Emperor Hanazono of Japan ( d. 1348 ) 1473 -- Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ( d. 1541 ) 1479 -- Catherine of York ( d. 1527 ) 1499 -- John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain ( d. 1526 ) 1502 -- Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter ( d. 1550 ) 1530 -- Giambattista Benedetti, Italian mathematician and physicist ( d. 1590 ) 1552 -- Paolo Sarpi, Italian writer ( d. 1623 ) 1561 -- Christopher Heydon, English politician ( d. 1623 ) 1575 -- Robert Hayman, English - Canadian poet and politician ( d. 1629 ) 1586 -- William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island ( d. 1642 ) 1599 -- Méric Casaubon, Swiss - English scholar and author ( d. 1671 ) 1625 -- François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop ( d. 1695 ) 1642 -- Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1723 ) 1645 -- Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican secular priest, scientist, and savant ( d. 1700 ) 1653 -- Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ( d. 1688 ) 1688 -- Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 ) 1714 -- Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter ( d. 1789 ) 1738 -- Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor ( d. 1793 ) 1740 -- Pope Pius VII ( d. 1823 ) 1758 -- Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer ( d. 1835 ) 1777 -- Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist ( d. 1851 ) 1817 -- Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician ( d. 1874 ) 1840 -- Richard von Krafft - Ebing, German - Austrian psychologist and author ( d. 1902 ) 1847 -- Robert Comtesse, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council ( d. 1922 ) 1848 -- Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo - Irish astronomer and author ( d. 1915 ) 1851 -- Yannoulis Chalepas, Greek sculptor ( d. 1938 ) 1851 -- Doc Holliday, American dentist and gambler ( d. 1887 ) 1857 -- Max Wagenknecht, German organist, composer, and educator ( d. 1922 ) 1863 -- Ernest Thayer, American poet and author ( d. 1940 ) 1865 -- Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic ( d. 1952 ) 1866 -- Charles Jean de la Vallée - Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic ( d. 1962 ) 1867 -- Cupid Childs, American baseball player ( d. 1912 ) 1867 -- John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1933 ) 1870 -- Nelson McDowell, American actor ( d. 1947 ) 1871 -- Guangxu Emperor of China ( d. 1908 ) 1875 -- Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian - Lithuanian - American painter and illustrator ( d. 1957 ) 1876 -- Alexander I of Serbia ( d. 1903 ) 1880 -- Fred Alexander, American tennis player ( d. 1969 ) 1881 -- Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ( d. 1953 ) 1886 -- Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian - American physicist and academic ( d. 1950 ) 1887 -- Marija Leiko, Latvian actress ( d. 1937 ) 1889 -- Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia ( d. 1976 ) 1890 -- Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman ( d. 1946 ) 1892 -- Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic ( d. 1988 ) 1893 -- Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic ( d. 1975 ) 1895 -- Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer ( d. 1973 ) 1895 -- Amaza Lee Meredith, American architect ( d. 1984 ) 1896 -- Albert Ball, English fighter pilot ( d. 1917 ) 1896 -- Theodor Luts, Estonian director and cinematographer ( d. 1980 ) 1900 -- Margret Boveri, German journalist, recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ( d. 1975 ) 1901 -- Alice Rivaz, Swiss pianist and author ( d. 1998 ) 1903 -- Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter and illustrator ( d. 1995 ) 1907 -- Skinnay Ennis, American bandleader and singer ( d. 1963 ) 1910 -- Willy Ronis, French photographer ( d. 2009 ) 1910 -- Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and producer ( d. 1995 ) 1911 -- Jan Koetsier, Dutch composer and conductor ( d. 2006 ) 1911 -- Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian spiritual leader, philosopher, and author ( d. 2006 ) 1912 -- Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic ( d. 1985 ) 1913 -- Hector Crawford, Australian director and producer ( d. 1991 ) 1913 -- Paul Dean, American baseball player ( d. 1981 ) 1914 -- Herman Branson, African - American physicist, chemist, and academic ( d. 1995 ) 1915 -- B.A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and publisher ( d. 1998 ) 1916 -- Frank and John Craighead, American naturalists ( twins, Frank d. 2001, John d. 2016 ) 1916 -- Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player and manager ( d. 1992 ) 1916 -- Wellington Mara, American businessman ( d. 2005 ) 1918 -- Patsy Smart, English actress ( d. 1996 ) 1922 -- Leslie Marr, English race car driver 1923 -- Patriarch Diodoros of Jerusalem ( d. 2000 ) 1923 -- Alice Ghostley, American actress ( d. 2007 ) 1924 -- Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect, designed the Hedmark Museum ( d. 2009 ) 1924 -- Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor ( d. 2013 ) 1924 -- Georges Prêtre, French conductor ( d. 2017 ) 1924 -- Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader ( d. 1981 ) 1925 -- Russell Baker, American critic and essayist 1926 -- René Goscinny, French author and illustrator ( d. 1977 ) 1926 -- Buddy Greco, American singer and pianist ( d. 2017 ) 1928 -- Lina Wertmüller, Italian director and screenwriter 1929 -- Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral ( d. 2013 ) 1929 -- Gene Scott, American pastor and broadcaster ( d. 2005 ) 1929 -- Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer ( d. 1971 ) 1930 -- Earl Weaver, American baseball player and manager ( d. 2013 ) 1931 -- Frederic Raphael, American journalist, author, and screenwriter 1932 -- Lee Hoffman, American author ( d. 2007 ) 1933 -- Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1935 -- John Brodie, American football player and golfer 1940 -- Darrell `` Dash '' Crofts, American singer - songwriter and musician 1940 -- Galen Hall, American football player and coach 1941 -- David Crosby, American singer - songwriter and guitarist 1941 -- Connie Smith, American country music singer - songwriter and guitarist 1941 -- Ernest Everett Just, African - American biologist and academic ( d. 1941 ) 1942 -- Willie Dunn, Canadian singer - songwriter and producer ( d. 2013 ) 1942 -- Lionel Morton, English singer - songwriter, guitarist and television presenter 1943 -- Ronnie Campbell, English miner and politician 1943 -- Ben Sidran, American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer 1944 -- John Dunt, English admiral 1945 -- Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter 1945 -- Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter 1946 -- Larry Graham, American soul / funk bass player and singer - songwriter 1946 -- Susan Saint James, American actress 1946 -- Tom Walkinshaw, Scottish race car driver and businessman ( d. 2010 ) 1947 -- Bruce Nash, American director, producer, and screenwriter 1947 -- Maddy Prior, English folk singer 1947 -- Danielle Steel, American author 1947 -- Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese author and illustrator 1947 -- Joop van Daele, Dutch footballer and manager 1948 -- Terry Adams, American pianist and composer 1948 -- Bruce Thomas, English bass player and author 1949 -- Morten Olsen, Danish footballer and coach 1950 -- Gary Larson, American cartoonist 1951 -- Slim Dunlap, American singer - songwriter and guitarist 1951 -- Norbert Hofmann, German footballer and manager 1952 -- John McCutcheon, American folksinger 1952 -- Debbie Meyer, American swimmer 1953 -- James Horner, American composer and conductor ( d. 2015 ) 1954 -- Mark Fidrych, American baseball player and sportscaster ( d. 2009 ) 1954 -- Stanley A. McChrystal, American general 1956 -- Sharon Bryant, American R&B singer 1956 -- Jackée Harry, American actress and television personality 1956 -- Andy King, English footballer and manager ( d. 2015 ) 1956 -- Rusty Wallace, American race car driver and sportscaster 1956 -- Erica Flapan, American mathematician 1957 -- Peter Costello, Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Treasurer of Australia 1958 -- Philip Dunne, English farmer and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology 1958 -- Bobby Eaton, American wrestler and trainer 1959 -- Frank Brickowski, American basketball player 1959 -- Marcia Gay Harden, American actress 1959 -- Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach 1960 -- Sarah Brightman, English singer - songwriter and actress 1960 -- Fred Roberts, American basketball player and educator 1961 -- Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler and manager ( d. 1995 ) 1962 -- Mark Gubicza, American baseball player and sportscaster 1962 -- Kevin Harris, Canadian skateboarder 1962 -- Andres Herkel, Estonian academic and politician 1962 -- Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer and sportscaster 1963 -- Emmanuelle Béart, French actress 1963 -- José Cóceres, Argentinian golfer 1964 -- Neal Anderson, American football player and coach 1964 -- Jason Dunstall, Australian footballer and sportscaster 1965 -- Brannon Braga, American producer, director, and screenwriter 1965 -- Paul Broadhurst, English golfer 1965 -- Terry Richardson, American photographer and director 1966 -- Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986 1966 -- Karl Petter Løken, Swedish - Norwegian footballer and sportscaster 1966 -- Tuncay Özkan, Turkish journalist and politician 1967 -- Erik Gandini, Italian - Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter 1968 -- Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer and coach 1968 -- Catherine Bell, English - American actress and producer 1968 -- Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer 1968 -- Jason Leonard, English rugby player 1968 -- Medy van der Laan, Dutch politician 1969 -- Tracy Caldwell Dyson, American chemist and astronaut 1969 -- Stig Tøfting, Danish footballer and manager 1970 -- Kevin Cadogan, American rock singer - songwriter, guitarist, and producer ( Third Eye Blind ) 1971 -- Raoul Bova, Italian actor, producer, and screenwriter 1971 -- Mark Loretta, American baseball player and coach 1971 -- Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer 1972 -- Tamer El Said, Egyptian director, producer, and screenwriter 1972 -- Laurent Lamothe, Haitian businessman and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Haiti 1973 -- Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer 1973 -- Jay - Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer 1973 -- Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer and sportscaster 1973 -- Paddy McGuinness, English comedian and television presenter 1974 -- Chucky Atkins, American basketball player and coach 1975 -- Mike Vrabel, American football player and coach 1976 -- Fabrizio Donato, Italian triple jumper 1977 -- Ed Harcourt, English singer - songwriter and producer 1977 -- Juan Pierre, American baseball player 1978 -- Randika Galhenage, Sri Lankan cricketer 1978 -- Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer 1978 -- Greg Rawlinson, South African - New Zealand rugby player 1979 -- Jérémie Bréchet, French footballer 1979 -- Paul Burgess, Australian pole vaulter 1979 -- Yōichirō Morikawa, Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter 1980 -- Aydın Toscalı, Turkish footballer 1980 -- Roy Williams, American football player 1981 -- Earl Barron, American basketball player 1981 -- Matthew Etherington, English footballer 1981 -- Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league player 1981 -- Julius Jones, American football player 1981 -- Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian - American wrestler 1982 -- Simon Andrews, English motorcycle racer ( d. 2014 ) 1983 -- Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian - Scottish tennis player ( d. 2014 ) 1983 -- Mila Kunis, Ukrainian - born American actress 1983 -- Juan Oviedo, Dominican baseball player 1983 -- Spencer Pratt, American television personality 1983 -- Sunidhi Chauhan, Indian playback singer 1984 -- Eva Birnerová, Czech tennis player 1984 -- Clay Buchholz, American baseball player 1984 -- Giorgio Chiellini, Italian footballer 1984 -- Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player 1984 -- Nick Grimshaw, English radio and television host 1984 -- Nicola Slater, Scottish tennis player 1984 -- Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player 1985 -- Christian Gentner, German footballer 1985 -- Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player 1986 -- Cameron Jerome, English footballer 1986 -- Sam Moa, Tongan - New Zealand rugby league player 1986 -- Braian Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer 1987 -- Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster 1989 -- Florian Abel, German footballer 1989 -- Ander Herrera, Spanish footballer 1989 -- Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player 1991 -- Richard Freitag, German ski jumper Deaths 582 -- Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor ( b. 535 ) 902 -- Badr al - Mu'tadidi, commander - in - chief of the Abbasid Caliphate under al - Mu'tadid 1040 -- Duncan I of Scotland ( b. 1001 ) 1167 -- Rainald of Dassel, Italian archbishop ( b. 1120 ) 1204 -- Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun ( b. 1182 ) 1297 -- Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg ( b.c. 1220 ) 1319 -- Waldemar, Margrave of Brandenburg - Stendal ( b.c. 1280 ) 1388 -- James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas 1390 -- John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier ( b. 1364 ) 1433 -- John I of Portugal ( b. 1357 ) 1464 -- Pope Pius II ( b. 1405 ) 1573 -- Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese daimyo ( b. 1548 ) 1657 -- Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. 1560 ) 1691 -- Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ( b. 1630 ) 1727 -- William Croft, English organist and composer ( b. 1678 ) 1774 -- Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar ( b. 1716 ) 1784 -- Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish - born English painter and academic ( b. 1718 ) 1856 -- Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic ( b. 1787 ) 1860 -- André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist ( b. 1774 ) 1870 -- David Farragut, American admiral ( b. 1801 ) 1874 -- Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician ( b. 1821 ) 1890 -- Michael J. McGivney, American priest, founded the Knights of Columbus ( b. 1852 ) 1905 -- Simeon Solomon, English soldier and painter ( b. 1840 ) 1909 -- William Stanley, American engineer and philanthropist ( b. 1829 ) 1926 -- John H. Moffitt, American sergeant and politician, Medal of Honor recipient ( b. 1843 ) 1928 -- Klabund, German author and poet ( b. 1890 ) 1938 -- Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant ( b. 1876 ) 1941 -- Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint ( b. 1894 ) 1941 -- Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1854 ) 1943 -- Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator ( b. 1921 ) 1943 -- Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager ( b. 1871 ) 1951 -- William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation ( b. 1863 ) 1954 -- Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer ( b. 1868 ) 1954 -- Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist ( b. 1901 ) 1955 -- Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress ( b. 1861 ) 1956 -- Bertolt Brecht, German poet, playwright, and director ( b. 1898 ) 1958 -- Frédéric Joliot - Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1900 ) 1958 -- Konstantin von Neurath, German lawyer and politician, Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs ( b. 1873 ) 1963 -- Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter ( b. 1906 ) 1964 -- Johnny Burnette, American singer - songwriter ( b. 1934 ) 1965 -- Vello Kaaristo, Estonian skier ( b. 1911 ) 1966 -- Tip Snooke, South African cricketer ( b. 1881 ) 1967 -- Bob Anderson, English motorcycle racer and race car driver ( b. 1931 ) 1972 -- Oscar Levant, American actor, pianist, and composer ( b. 1906 ) 1972 -- Jules Romains, French author and poet ( b. 1885 ) 1973 -- Fred Gipson, American journalist and author ( b. 1908 ) 1978 -- Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator ( b. 1907 ) 1980 -- Dorothy Stratten, Canadian - American model and actress ( b. 1960 ) 1981 -- Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor and director ( b. 1894 ) 1981 -- Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer ( b. 1910 ) 1982 -- Mahasi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher ( b. 1904 ) 1984 -- Spud Davis, American baseball player, coach, and manager ( b. 1904 ) 1984 -- J.B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright ( b. 1894 ) 1985 -- Gale Sondergaard, American actress ( b. 1899 ) 1988 -- Roy Buchanan, American singer - songwriter and guitarist ( b. 1939 ) 1988 -- Robert Calvert, South African - English singer - songwriter and playwright ( b. 1945 ) 1988 -- Enzo Ferrari, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari ( b. 1898 ) 1989 -- Ricky Berry, American basketball player ( b. 1964 ) 1991 -- Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver ( b. 1920 ) 1992 -- John Sirica, American lawyer and judge ( b. 1904 ) 1994 -- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian - Swiss novelist, playwright, memoirist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1905 ) 1994 -- Alice Childress, American actress, playwright, and author ( b. 1912 ) 1996 -- Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor and composer ( b. 1912 ) 1999 -- Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster ( b. 1918 ) 2000 -- Alain Fournier, French - Canadian computer scientist and academic ( b. 1943 ) 2002 -- Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor ( b. 1923 ) 2003 -- Helmut Rahn, German footballer ( b. 1929 ) 2004 -- Czesław Miłosz, Polish - born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1911 ) 2004 -- Trevor Skeet, New Zealand - English lawyer and politician ( b. 1918 ) 2006 -- Adriaan de Groot, Dutch psychologist and chess player ( b. 1914 ) 2006 -- Bruno Kirby, American actor ( b. 1949 ) 2007 -- Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician ( b. 1939 ) 2007 -- Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer ( b. 1913 ) 2007 -- Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna ( b. 1940 ) 2010 -- Rallis Kopsidis, Greek painter and author ( b. 1929 ) 2010 -- Herman Leonard, American soldier and photographer ( b. 1923 ) 2011 -- Fritz Korbach, German footballer and manager ( b. 1945 ) 2012 -- Maja Bošković - Stulli, Croatian historian and academic ( b. 1922 ) 2012 -- Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra ( b. 1945 ) 2012 -- Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player and theoretician ( b. 1923 ) 2012 -- Sergey Kapitsa, English - Russian physicist and demographer ( b. 1928 ) 2012 -- Phyllis Thaxter, American actress ( b. 1919 ) 2013 -- Jack Garfinkel, American basketball player and coach ( b. 1918 ) 2013 -- Jack Germond, American journalist and author ( b. 1928 ) 2013 -- Paddy Power, Irish educator and politician, 22nd Irish Minister for Defence ( b. 1928 ) 2014 -- Leonard Fein, American journalist and academic, co-founded Moment Magazine ( b. 1934 ) 2014 -- George V. Hansen, American soldier and politician ( b. 1930 ) 2015 -- Agustín Cejas, Argentinian footballer ( b. 1945 ) 2015 -- Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell 's Ice Cream Parlour ( b. 1927 ) 2015 -- Bob Johnston, American songwriter and producer ( b. 1932 ) 2016 -- Philip `` Fyuvsh '' Finkel, American actor ( b. 1922 ) 2018 -- Jill Janus, American singer ( b. 1975 ) Holidays and observances Christian feast day : Arnold of Soissons Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia Eusebius of Rome Jonathan Myrick Daniels ( Episcopal Church ) Kaj Munk ( with Kolbe, Lutheran Church ) Martyrs of Otranto Maximilian Kolbe August 14 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics ) Anniversary Day ( Tristan da Cunha ) Commemoration of Wadi al - Dahab ( Morocco ) Engineer 's Day ( Dominican Republic ) Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland ( Abkhazia ) ( state is not fully recognized ) Independence Day, celebrates the day when Pakistan was declared a sovereign nation following the end of the British Raj in 1947. 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Question: when does august 14 fall on a saturday
Answer: 2010