October 14 - Births

Births

• 1257 – Przemysł II of Poland (d. 1296)
• 1404 – Marie of Anjou (d. 1463)
• 1493 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)
• 1542 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605)
• 1563 – Jodocus Hondius, Flemish engraver and cartographer (d. 1611)
• 1630 – Sophia of Hanover (d. 1714)
• 1633 – James II of England (d. 1701)
• 1639 – Simon van der Stel, Dutch commander and politician (d. 1712)
• 1641 – Joachim Tielke German musical instruments maker (d. 1719)
• 1643 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor (d. 1712)
• 1644 – William Penn, English businessman, founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
• 1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
• 1712 – George Grenville, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)
• 1726 – Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Scottish-English navy officer and politician (d. 1813)
• 1733 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
• 1784 – Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)
• 1790 – Thursday October Christian I, English son of Fletcher Christian (d. 1831)
• 1801 – Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)
• 1806 – Preston King, American politician (d. 1865)
• 1840 – Dmitry Pisarev, Russian author and critic (d. 1868)
• 1842 – Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)
• 1848 – Byron Edmund Walker, Canadian banker (d. 1924)
• 1853 – Ciprian Porumbescu, Romanian composer (d. 1883)
• 1861 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)
• 1869 – Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen, English art dealer (d. 1939)
• 1872 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (d. 1910)
• 1873 – Ray Ewry, American jumper (d. 1937)
• 1873 – Jules Rimet, French football administrator, 3rd President of FIFA (d. 1954)
• 1882 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician, 3rd President of Ireland (d. 1975)
• 1882 – Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)
• 1884 – Jimmy Conlin, American actor (d. 1962)
• 1888 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand author (d. 1923)
• 1890 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)
• 1892 – Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961)
• 1893 – Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1894 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)
• 1898 – Thomas William Holmes, Canadian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1950)
• 1902 – Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
• 1904 – Christian Pineau, French resistance fighter (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Hannah Arendt, German-American theorist and philosopher (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian religious leader, founded the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)
• 1907 – Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1908 – Ruth Hale, American actress and playwright (d. 2003)
• 1909 – Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1909 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938)
• 1910 – John Wooden, American basketball player and coach (d. 2010)
• 1911 – Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• 1914 – Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1914 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
• 1914 – Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
• 1915 – Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian bishop
• 1916 – C. Everett Koop, American surgeon and public health administrator, 13th United States Surgeon General
• 1918 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian politician (d. 1991)
• 1921 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean journalist and historian (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Robert Webber, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1926 – Willy Alberti, Dutch singer and actor (d. 1985)
• 1926 – Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)
• 1927 – Roger Moore, English actor
• 1928 – Frank E. Resnik, American businessman (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Robert Parker, American singer and saxophonist
• 1930 – Mobutu Sese Seko, Congolese politician, President of Zaire (d. 1997)
• 1931 – Nikhil Banerjee, Indian sitar player and composer (d. 1986)
• 1932 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Dyanne Thorne, American actress and model
• 1935 – La Monte Young, American composer
• 1936 – Hans Kraay, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1938 – John Dean, American lawyer and author, 13th White House Counsel
• 1938 – Ron Lancaster, American-Canadian football player and coach (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Farah Pahlavi, Iranian wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
• 1939 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation
• 1939 – Rocky Thompson, American golfer
• 1940 – Perrie Mans, South African snooker player
• 1940 – Cliff Richard, English singer and actor
• 1940 – Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director, and scriptwriter
• 1941 – Jerry Glanville, American football player and coach
• 1941 – Art Shamsky, American baseball player
• 1942 – Evelio Javier, Filipino politician and civil servant (d. 1986)
• 1942 – Péter Nádas, Hungarian author and playwright
• 1944 – Udo Kier, German actor
• 1945 – Colin Hodgkinson, English bass player (Whitesnake and The Spencer Davis Group)
• 1945 – Daan Jippes, Dutch cartoonist
• 1945 – Lesley Joseph, English actress
• 1946 – Justin Hayward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moody Blues)
• 1946 – Dan McCafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (Nazareth)
• 1946 – Al Oliver, American baseball player
• 1946 – Craig Venter, American biologist
• 1947 – Norman Harris, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (MFSB) (d. 1987)
• 1947 – Lukas Resetarits, Austrian actor and singer
• 1948 – Engin Arık, Turkish physicist (d. 2007)
• 1948 – Marcia Barrett, Jamaican-English singer (Boney M)
• 1948 – David Ruprecht, American game show host and actor
• 1949 – Damian Lau, Hong Kong actor, director, and producer
• 1949 – Katy Manning, English-Australian actress
• 1949 – Katha Pollitt, American poet and author
• 1949 – Dave Schultz, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1950 – Joey Travolta, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Aad van den Hoek, Dutch cyclist
• 1952 – Harry Anderson, American actor
• 1952 – Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast
• 1952 – Rick Aviles, American comedian and actor (d. 1995)
• 1953 – Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer
• 1953 – Greg Evigan, American actor
• 1954 – Carole Malone, English journalist
• 1954 – Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
• 1956 – Beth Daniel, American golfer
• 1957 – Michel Després, Canadian politician
• 1957 – Kenny Neal, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Downchild Blues Band)
• 1958 – Thomas Dolby, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1958 – Aino-Maija Luukkonen, Finnish politician
• 1959 – A. J. Pero, American drummer (Twisted Sister)
• 1960 – Steve Cram, English runner
• 1960 – Zbigniew Kruszyński, Polish footballer
• 1961 – Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer
• 1962 – Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player
• 1962 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (d. 2003)
• 1962 – Chris Thomas King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1963 – Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer (Sinawe)
• 1963 – Lori Petty, American actress
• 1963 – Alessandro Safina, Italian tenor
• 1964 – Joe Girardi, American baseball player and manager
• 1964 – David Kaye, Canadian actor
• 1964 – Olu Oguibe, Nigerian-American painter, author, and critic
• 1964 – Jim Rome, American talk show host
• 1965 – Steve Coogan, English actor
• 1965 – Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower
• 1965 – Constantine Koukias, Greek-Australian composer
• 1965 – Karyn White, American singer-songwriter
• 1966 – Mark Nyman, English Scrabble player
• 1967 – Savanna Samson, American porn actress
• 1967 – Pat Kelly, American baseball player
• 1967 – Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1967 – Jason Plato, English race car driver
• 1967 – Stephen A. Smith, American sportscaster
• 1968 – Jay Ferguson, Canadian guitarist (Sloan)
• 1968 – Johnny Goudie, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and actor (Goudie)
• 1968 – Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer
• 1968 – Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (d. 2012)
• 1969 – Christophe Agou, French photographer
• 1969 – P. J. Brown, American basketball player
• 1969 – David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1970 – Jim Jackson, American basketball player
• 1970 – Daniela Peštová, Czech model
• 1970 – Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor
• 1970 – Pär Zetterberg, Swedish football player
• 1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer
• 1973 – Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
• 1974 – Jessica Drake, American porn actress
• 1974 – Natalie Maines, American singer-songwriter (Dixie Chicks)
• 1974 – Viktor Röthlin, Swiss runner
• 1974 – Samuel José da Silva Vieira, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 – Joseph Utsler, American rapper, producer, wrestler, and actor (Insane Clown Posse, Psychopathic Rydas, and Dark Lotus)
• 1975 – Michael Duberry, English footballer
• 1975 – Floyd Landis, American cyclist
• 1975 – Shaznay Lewis, English singer-songwriter and actress (All Saints)
• 1976 – Tillakaratne Dilshan, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1976 – Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer
• 1976 – Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 – Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian model
• 1977 – Tina Dico, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 – Joey Didulica, Croatian footballer
• 1977 – Barry Ditewig, Dutch footballer
• 1977 – Jeffrey Garcia, American voice actor
• 1977 – Carl Johan Grimmark, Swedish guitarist (Narnia, Saviour Machine, Rob Rock, and Beautiful Sin)
• 1977 – Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor
• 1977 – Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player
• 1978 – Usher, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1978 – Justin Lee Brannan, American guitarist (Most Precious Blood and Indecision)
• 1978 – Ryan Church, American baseball player
• 1978 – Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
• 1978 – Jana Macurová, Czech tennis player
• 1978 – Steven Thompson, Scottish footballer
• 1978 – Javon Walker, American football player
• 1979 – Stacy Keibler, American wrestler and actress
• 1980 – Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1980 – Scott Kooistra, American football player
• 1980 – Niels Lodberg, Danish footballer
• 1980 – Terrence McGee, American football player
• 1980 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
• 1981 – Boof Bonser, American baseball player
• 1981 – Gautam Gambhir, Indian cricketer
• 1982 – Cosmin Curiman, Romanian footballer
• 1982 – Ryan Hall, American runner
• 1982 – Matt Roth, American football player
• 1983 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
• 1983 – Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
• 1983 – Vanessa Lane, American porn actress
• 1984 – Baby Fae, American baby who received a baboon heart transplant (d. 1984)
• 1984 – LaRon Landry, American football player
• 1985 – Sherlyn, Mexican actress and singer
• 1985 – Daniel Clark, American actor and singer
• 1985 – Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian race car driver
• 1986 – Peter Alcorn, Irish drummer (Alestorm and For Ruin)
• 1986 – Tom Craddock, English footballer
• 1986 – Skyler Shaye, American actress
• 1988 – Will Atkinson, English footballer
• 1988 – MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress
• 1988 – Max Thieriot, American actor
• 1988 – Mario Titone, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Pia Toscano, American singer
• 1989 – Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
• 1990 – Raquel Diaz, American wrestler
• 1990 – Alexandra Krosney, American actress
• 1991 – Shona McGarty, English actress
• 1992 – Savannah Outen, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1992 – Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
• 1999 – Daniel Roche, English Actor
• 2002 – Youssif, Iraqi burn victim