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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 14th of August 1183 | EVENT | 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 Juei). |
| 14th of August 1592 | EVENT | Imjin War: Battle of Hansando Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hasan Island. |
| 14th of August 1598 | EVENT | Nine Years War: Battle of the Yellow Ford : Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal. |
| 14th of August 1816 | EVENT | the United Kingdom formally annexed the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, ruling them from the Cape Colony in South Africa. |
| 14th of August 1842 | EVENT | Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma. |
| 14th of August 1846 | EVENT | The Cape Girardeau meteorite, a 2.3 kg chondrite-type meteorite strikes near the town of Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. |
| 14th of August 1848 | EVENT | Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress. |
| 14th of August 1880 | EVENT | Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed. |
| 14th of August 1885 | EVENT | Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. |
| 14th of August 1888 | EVENT | A 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. |
| 14th of August 1893 | EVENT | France introduces motor vehicle registration. |
| 14th of August 1897 | EVENT | The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar. |
| 14th of August 1900 | EVENT | A joint European-Japanese-United States force (Eight-Nation Alliance) occupies Beijing, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China. |
| 14th of August 1901 | EVENT | The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21. |
| 14th of August 1908 | EVENT | The first beauty contest is held in Folkestone, England. |
| 14th of August 1911 | EVENT | 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. |
| 14th of August 1912 | EVENT | United States Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after Jose Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier. |
| 14th of August 1921 | EVENT | Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia). |
| 14th of August 1925 | EVENT | The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is completed and goes on line. |
| 14th of August 1933 | EVENT | Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn. It is extinguished on September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km?). |
| 14th of August 1935 | EVENT | United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired. |
| 14th of August 1936 | EVENT | Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. |
| 14th of August 1937 | EVENT | Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases. |
| 14th of August 1941 | EVENT | World War II : Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims. |
| 14th of August 1945 | EVENT | 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). |
| 14th of August 1947 | EVENT | Pakistan gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 14th of August 1948 | EVENT | Don Bradman, widely regarded as the best cricket batsman in history, makes a duck in his final Test innings. |
| 14th of August 1959 | EVENT | Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League. |
| 14th of August 1967 | EVENT | UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal. |
| 14th of August 1969 | EVENT | British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland. |
| 14th of August 1972 | EVENT | An East German Ilyushin Il-62 crashes during takeoff from East Berlin, killing 156. |
| 14th of August 1973 | EVENT | The constitution of 1973 comes into effect in Pakistan |
| 14th of August 1974 | EVENT | 126 Turkish Cypriots are massacred in the villages of Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda. |
| 14th of August 1976 | EVENT | The Senegalese political party PAI-Renovation is legally recognized. PAI-Renovation thus becomes the third legal party in the country. |
| 14th of August 1980 | EVENT | Lech Wa?esa leads strikes at the Gdansk, Poland shipyards. |
| 14th of August 1987 | EVENT | All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid. |
| 14th of August 1994 | EVENT | Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is captured. |
| 14th of August 2003 | EVENT | Widescale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada. |
| 14th of August 2006 | EVENT | Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing. |
| 14th of August 2007 | EVENT | The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people. |
| 14th of August 2010 | EVENT | 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games, first ever Youth Olympics, officially starts in Singapore. |
| 14th of August 1297 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Japan (d. 1348) |
| 14th of August 1473 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence (d. 1541) |
| 14th of August 1479 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Catherine of York (d. 1527) |
| 14th of August 1575 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hayman, English-born poet (d. 1629) |
| 14th of August 1586 | BIRTHDAY | William Hutchinson, Rhode Island colonist (d. 1642) |
| 14th of August 1599 | BIRTHDAY | Meric Casaubon, English classical scholar (d. 1671) |
| 14th of August 1625 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Harlay de Champvallon, Archbishop of Paris (d. 1695) |
| 14th of August 1642 | BIRTHDAY | Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1723) |
| 14th of August 1653 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (d. 1688) |
| 14th of August 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740) |
| 14th of August 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (d. 1789) |
| 14th of August 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Anne Henriette of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1752) |
| 14th of August 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Marie Louise Elisabeth of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1759) |
| 14th of August 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius VII (d. 1823) |
| 14th of August 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter (d. 1835) |
| 14th of August 1774 | BIRTHDAY | Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Indian freedom fighter and social reformer (d. 1833) |
| 14th of August 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Francis I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1830) |
| 14th of August 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Christian ?rsted, Danish physicist (d. 1851) |
| 14th of August 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (d. 1874) |
| 14th of August 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902) |
| 14th of August 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Comtesse, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1922) |
| 14th of August 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Doc Holliday, American gambler and dentist (d. 1887) |
| 14th of August 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922) |
| 14th of August 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Thayer, American poet (d. 1940) |
| 14th of August 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (d. 1952) |
| 14th of August 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Jean de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1962) |
| 14th of August 1867 | BIRTHDAY | John Galsworthy, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1933) |
| 14th of August 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Cupid Childs, American baseball player (d. 1912) |
| 14th of August 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Guangxu Emperor, Qing Emperor of China (d. 1908) |
| 14th of August 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandar Obrenovic, King of Serbia (d. 1903) |
| 14th of August 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Ford, American actor (d. 1953) |
| 14th of August 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Gisela Richter, British-born art historian (d. 1972) |
| 14th of August 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (d. 1988) |
| 14th of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (d. 1973) |
| 14th of August 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (d. 1998) |
| 14th of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Manos Katrakis, Greek actor (d. 1984) |
| 14th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995) |
| 14th of August 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Ronis, French photographer (d. 2009) |
| 14th of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dean, American baseball player (d. 1981) |
| 14th of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | B.A. Santamaria, Australian political activist and journalist (d. 1998) |
| 14th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Fumio Fujimura, Japanese baseball player (d. 1992) |
| 14th of August 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants (d. 2005) |
| 14th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Pretre, French conductor |
| 14th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Holger Juul Hansen, Danish actor |
| 14th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sverre Fehn, Norwegian architect (d. 2009) |
| 14th of August 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (d. 1981) |
| 14th of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Baker, American columnist |
| 14th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Ghostley, American actress (d. 2007) |
| 14th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Lina Wertmuller, Italian film director |
| 14th of August 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977) |
| 14th of August 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Tiger, Nigerian boxer (d. 1971) |
| 14th of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Weaver, American baseball manager |
| 14th of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007) |
| 14th of August 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize Laureate |
| 14th of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | John Brodie, American football player |
| 14th of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Bannister, British actor |
| 14th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dash Crofts, American musician |
| 14th of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Galen Hall, American football coach |
| 14th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | David Crosby, American musician |
| 14th of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Smith, American singer |
| 14th of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Oliver, British Formula One driver |
| 14th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Wim Wenders, German-born film director |
| 14th of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Martin, American actor and comedian |
| 14th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Fargas, American actor |
| 14th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Graham, American musician |
| 14th of August 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Saint James, American actress |
| 14th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Christian, British actor |
| 14th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Nash, American television producer |
| 14th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Danielle Steel, American novelist |
| 14th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist |
| 14th of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Maddy Prior, British folk singer |
| 14th of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Adams, American musician (NRBQ) |
| 14th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Backlund, American wrestler |
| 14th of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Morten Olsen, Danish footballer |
| 14th of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Larson, American cartoonist (The Far Side) |
| 14th of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Blegvad, American musician (Slapp Happy) |
| 14th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie Meyer, American swimmer |
| 14th of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Lumbly, American actor |
| 14th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | James Horner, American composer |
| 14th of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Cliff Johnson, American computer game author |
| 14th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley McChrystal, American general |
| 14th of August 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (d. 2009) |
| 14th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jackee Harry, American actress |
| 14th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Andy King, English footballer |
| 14th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Rusty Wallace, American race car driver |
| 14th of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Lever, Indian actor |
| 14th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Costello, Australian politician |
| 14th of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Hernandez, American professional wrestler (d. 1986) |
| 14th of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Eaton, American professional wrestler |
| 14th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Magic Johnson, American basketball player |
| 14th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Marcia Gay Harden, American actress |
| 14th of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Brickowski, American basketball player |
| 14th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Brightman, British soprano |
| 14th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Roberts, Basketball player |
| 14th of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Cecilia Gasdia, Italian soprano |
| 14th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Olsen, American actress |
| 14th of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler (d. 1995) |
| 14th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rameez Raja, Pakistani cricketer |
| 14th of August 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Gubicza, American baseball player |
| 14th of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Anderson, American football player |
| 14th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Brannon Braga, writer and executive producer of 24, Star Trek, and FlashForward |
| 14th of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuelle Beart, French actress |
| 14th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Petter L?ken, Norwegian footballer |
| 14th of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Halle Berry, American actress |
| 14th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Bell, American actress |
| 14th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer |
| 14th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Lester, British actor |
| 14th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Pravin Amre, Indian cricketer |
| 14th of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Mavreas, Greek-Canadian cartoonist |
| 14th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tracy Caldwell, American astronaut |
| 14th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Uncle Al, American hip-hop DJ (d. 2001) |
| 14th of August 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Stig T?fting, Danish footballer |
| 14th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Raoul Bova, Italian actor |
| 14th of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 14th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Jae-seok, South Korean entertainer |
| 14th of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Manuel, Canadian make-up artist |
| 14th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer |
| 14th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Daisuke Ishiwatari, Japanese game developer and composer |
| 14th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer |
| 14th of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer |
| 14th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chucky Atkins, American basketball player |
| 14th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ana Matronic, American singer (Scissor Sisters) |
| 14th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Gorham, American actor |
| 14th of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Bulloch, Scottish musician (Mogwai) |
| 14th of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Vrabel, American football player |
| 14th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Albrecht, American actor |
| 14th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer |
| 14th of August 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Braun, Canadian actor |
| 14th of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Pierre, American baseball player |
| 14th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Rawlinson, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 14th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasios Kyriakos, Greek footballer |
| 14th of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Ritchie, Australian actress |
| 14th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Burgess, Australian athlete |
| 14th of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Yoichiro Morikawa, Japanese film director |
| 14th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Estrella Morente, Spanish flamenco singer |
| 14th of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Williams, American football player |
| 14th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Barron, American basketball player |
| 14th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Jones, American football player |
| 14th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Etherington, English footballer |
| 14th of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian professional wrestler |
| 14th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American actress |
| 14th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian/British tennis player |
| 14th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Pratt,American socialite |
| 14th of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Nunez, Dominican baseball player |
| 14th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Gorges, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 14th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Clay Buchholz, American baseball player |
| 14th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Soderling, Swedish tennis player |
| 14th of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Grimshaw, British radio DJ and television presenter |
| 14th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Gentner, German footballer |
| 14th of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Shea Weber, Canadian hockey player |
| 14th of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Terin Humphrey, American gymnast |
| 14th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | James Buckley, English actor |
| 14th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Tebow, American football player and winner of 2007 Heisman trophy |
| 14th of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chrystina Sayers, American singer and dancer (Girlicious) |
| 14th of August 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Shahd Barmada, Syrian singer |
| 14th of August 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 14th of August 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer |
| 14th of August 0582 | DEATH | Tiberius II Constantine |
| 14th of August 1040 | DEATH | Duncan I of Scotland |
| 14th of August 1167 | DEATH | Rainald of Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne |
| 14th of August 1204 | DEATH | Minamoto no Yoriie, Japanese shogun (Born 1182) |
| 14th of August 1390 | DEATH | John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (Born 1364) |
| 14th of August 1430 | DEATH | Philip I, Duke of Brabant (Born 1404) |
| 14th of August 1433 | DEATH | King John I of Portugal (Born 1357) |
| 14th of August 1464 | DEATH | Pope Pius II (Born 1405) |
| 14th of August 1573 | DEATH | Saito Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (Born 1548) |
| 14th of August 1691 | DEATH | Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (Born 1630) |
| 14th of August 1704 | DEATH | Roland Laporte, French Protestant leader (Born 1675) |
| 14th of August 1727 | DEATH | William Croft, English composer (Born 1678) |
| 14th of August 1774 | DEATH | Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (Born 1716) |
| 14th of August 1784 | DEATH | Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (Born 1718) |
| 14th of August 1856 | DEATH | Constant Prevost, French geologist (Born 1787) |
| 14th of August 1860 | DEATH | Andre Marie Constant Dumeril, French zoologist (Born 1774) |
| 14th of August 1870 | DEATH | David Farragut, American officer of the United States Navy (Born 1801) |
| 14th of August 1874 | DEATH | Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American politician (Born 1821) |
| 14th of August 1905 | DEATH | Simeon Solomon, British artist (Born 1840) |
| 14th of August 1909 | DEATH | William Stanley, American inventor and engineer (Born 1829) |
| 14th of August 1926 | DEATH | John H. Moffitt, American politician (Born 1843) |
| 14th of August 1928 | DEATH | Alfred Henschke, German writer, poet (Born 1890) |
| 14th of August 1938 | DEATH | Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (Born 1876) |
| 14th of August 1941 | DEATH | Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1854) |
| 14th of August 1941 | DEATH | Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr (Born 1894) |
| 14th of August 1943 | DEATH | Joe Kelley, American baseball player (Born 1871) |
| 14th of August 1943 | DEATH | Lore Berger, Swiss writer (Born 1921) |
| 14th of August 1951 | DEATH | William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper magnate (Born 1863) |
| 14th of August 1954 | DEATH | Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek resistance figure (Born 1901) |
| 14th of August 1955 | DEATH | Herbert Putnam, American librarian (Born 1861) |
| 14th of August 1956 | DEATH | Bertolt Brecht, German writer (Born 1898) |
| 14th of August 1958 | DEATH | Frederic Joliot, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1900) |
| 14th of August 1958 | DEATH | Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat (Born 1873) |
| 14th of August 1964 | DEATH | Johnny Burnette, American Rockabilly singer (Born 1934) |
| 14th of August 1965 | DEATH | Vello Kaaristo, Estonian cross-country skier (Born 1911) |
| 14th of August 1966 | DEATH | Tip Snooke, South African cricketer (Born 1881) |
| 14th of August 1967 | DEATH | Bob Anderson, British racing driver (Born 1931) |
| 14th of August 1972 | DEATH | Jules Romains, French author (Born 1885) |
| 14th of August 1972 | DEATH | Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Born 1905) |
| 14th of August 1972 | DEATH | Oscar Levant, American actor (Born 1906) |
| 14th of August 1978 | DEATH | Nicolas Bentley, British writer (Born 1907) |
| 14th of August 1980 | DEATH | Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (Born 1960) |
| 14th of August 1981 | DEATH | Karl Bohm, Austrian conductor (Born 1894) |
| 14th of August 1981 | DEATH | Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (Born 1910) |
| 14th of August 1982 | DEATH | Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Born 1922) |
| 14th of August 1984 | DEATH | Spud Davis, American baseball player (Born 1904) |
| 14th of August 1984 | DEATH | J. B. Priestley, British playwright (Born 1894) |
| 14th of August 1985 | DEATH | Gale Sondergaard, American actress (Born 1899) |
| 14th of August 1988 | DEATH | Robert Calvert, South African singer (Hawkwind) (Born 1945) |
| 14th of August 1988 | DEATH | Roy Buchanan, American guitarist (Born 1939) |
| 14th of August 1988 | DEATH | Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (Born 1898) |
| 14th of August 1989 | DEATH | Ricky Berry, American basketball player (Born 1964) |
| 14th of August 1991 | DEATH | Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (Born 1920) |
| 14th of August 1992 | DEATH | John Sirica, American judge (Born 1904) |
| 14th of August 1992 | DEATH | Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (Born 1928) |
| 14th of August 1994 | DEATH | Elias Canetti, British-born Austrian novelist (Born 1905) |
| 14th of August 1996 | DEATH | Tom Mees, American sportscaster (Born 1949) |
| 14th of August 1999 | DEATH | Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player (Born 1918) |
| 14th of August 2000 | DEATH | Alain Fournier, French-born computer graphics researcher (Born 1943) |
| 14th of August 2000 | DEATH | Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (Born 1929) |
| 14th of August 2002 | DEATH | Dave Williams, American singer (Drowning Pool) (Born 1972) |
| 14th of August 2003 | DEATH | Helmut Rahn, German footballer (Born 1929) |
| 14th of August 2004 | DEATH | Czes?aw Mi?osz, Polish-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (Born 1911) |
| 14th of August 2004 | DEATH | Trevor Skeet, New Zealand-born British politician (Born 1918) |
| 14th of August 2005 | DEATH | Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (Born 1932) |
| 14th of August 2006 | DEATH | Bruno Kirby, American actor (Born 1949) |
| 14th of August 2007 | DEATH | Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (Born 1913) |
| 14th of August 2007 | DEATH | Pinchas Goldstein, Israeli politician (Born 1939) |
| 14th of August 2007 | DEATH | Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (Born 1940) |
| 14th of August 2010 | DEATH | Rallis Kopsidis, Greek writer (Born 1929) |
| 14th of August 2010 | DEATH | Herman Leonard, American photographer (Born 1923) |
| 14th of August 2010 | DEATH | Tahar Wattar, Algerian novelist (Born 1936) |