The 226th day of the year, the 227th in a leap year
Born on 14 August
Every 14 August birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Leo, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- LeoFire, fixed, ruled by the Sun.
- Birthstone
- Peridot, Spinel, SardonyxThe 1912 list gave Sardonyx and Peridot.
- Birth flower
- Gladiolus, PoppyUsually taken today to mean strength of character and remembrance.
- Most common weekdays
- Sunday and Friday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 14 August in any year.
Which weekday 14 August falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 14 August falls on every day of the week: Sunday 16, Friday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Thursday 15, Wednesday 15.
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How common a birthday 14 August is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,853 babies were born on 14 August in each year of the twenty, making it the 83rd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 14 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| John Galsworthy | 1867–1933 | English novelist and playwright |
| Halle Berry | 1966– | American actress |
| Mila Kunis | 1983– | American actress |
| Hans Christian Ørsted | 1777–1851 | Danish physicist and chemist |
| Pope Pius VII | 1742–1823 | head of the Catholic Church, ruler of the Papal States from 1800 to 1823 |
| Magic Johnson | 1959– | American basketball player and entrepreneur |
| Wim Wenders | 1945– | German filmmaker |
| Giorgio Chiellini | 1984– | Italian sports executive and former association football player |
| James Horner | 1953–2015 | American film composer and conductor |
| Richard R. Ernst | 1933–2021 | Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate |
| Steve Martin | 1945– | American comedian, actor, musician and writer |
| Frederick William I of Prussia | 1688–1740 | king of Prussia |
| René Goscinny | 1926–1977 | French comics writer and editor |
| Guangxu Emperor | 1871–1908 | Chinese emperor |
| Danielle Steel | 1947– | American writer |
| Marcia Gay Harden | 1959– | American actress |
| Sarah Brightman | 1960– | British singer and actress |
| Ander Herrera | 1989– | Spanish association football player |
Died on 14 August
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898–1956 | German poet, playwright, and theatre director |
| Czesław Miłosz | 1911–2004 | Polish-American poet and Nobel laureate |
| Elias Canetti | 1905–1994 | Bulgarian-born Swiss and British Jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer |
| Pope Pius II | 1405–1464 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1458 to 1464 |
| Frédéric Joliot-Curie | 1900–1958 | French scientist |
| Enzo Ferrari | 1898–1988 | Italian racing driver and entrepreneur |
| Paul Sabatier | 1854–1941 | French chemist |
| Gena Rowlands | 1930–2024 | American actress |
| Maximilian Kolbe | 1894–1941 | Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest and Catholic saint |
| William Randolph Hearst | 1863–1951 | American newspaper publisher |
| John I of Portugal | 1357–1433 | King of Portugal from 1385 to 1433 |
| Tiberius II Constantine | died 582 | Byzantine Emperor |
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