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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 14th of July 1223 | EVENT | Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II of France. |
| 14th of July 1698 | EVENT | The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama. |
| 14th of July 1769 | EVENT | An expedition led by Gaspar de Portola establishes a base in California and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California). |
| 14th of July 1771 | EVENT | Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junipero Serra. |
| 14th of July 1789 | EVENT | French Revolution: citizens of Paris storm the Bastille. |
| 14th of July 1790 | EVENT | French Revolution: citizens of Paris celebrate the constitutional monarchy and national reconciliation in the Fete de la Federation. |
| 14th of July 1791 | EVENT | The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England. |
| 14th of July 1798 | EVENT | The Sedition Act becomes law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. |
| 14th of July 1865 | EVENT | First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent. |
| 14th of July 1881 | EVENT | Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner. |
| 14th of July 1900 | EVENT | Armies of the Eight-Nation Alliance capture Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion. |
| 14th of July 1902 | EVENT | The Campanile in St. Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta. |
| 14th of July 1916 | EVENT | Start of the Battle of Delville Wood as an action within the Battle of the Somme, which was to last until 3 September 1916. |
| 14th of July 1933 | EVENT | Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party. |
| 14th of July 1943 | EVENT | In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American. |
| 14th of July 1948 | EVENT | Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament. |
| 14th of July 1950 | EVENT | Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon. |
| 14th of July 1957 | EVENT | Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world. |
| 14th of July 1958 | EVENT | Iraqi Revolution: in Iraq the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abdul Karim Kassem, who becomes the nation's new leader. |
| 14th of July 1960 | EVENT | Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild. |
| 14th of July 1965 | EVENT | The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. |
| 14th of July 1969 | EVENT | The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation. |
| 14th of July 1969 | EVENT | Football War: after Honduras loses a soccer match against El Salvador, riots break out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. |
| 14th of July 1992 | EVENT | 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards. |
| 14th of July 2000 | EVENT | A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth. |
| 14th of July 2002 | EVENT | French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille Day celebrations. |
| 14th of July 2003 | EVENT | The United States Government admits to the existence of "Area 51". |
| 14th of July 1454 | BIRTHDAY | Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494) |
| 14th of July 1602 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661) |
| 14th of July 1608 | BIRTHDAY | George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657) |
| 14th of July 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670) |
| 14th of July 1634 | BIRTHDAY | Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719) |
| 14th of July 1671 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732) |
| 14th of July 1675 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747) |
| 14th of July 1676 | BIRTHDAY | Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet (d. 1763) |
| 14th of July 1696 | BIRTHDAY | William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761) |
| 14th of July 1721 | BIRTHDAY | John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807) |
| 14th of July 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816) |
| 14th of July 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Michel de Beaupuy, French general of the Revolution (d. 1796) |
| 14th of July 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer and journalist (d. 1851) |
| 14th of July 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Peter Muller, German physiologist (d. 1858) |
| 14th of July 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882) |
| 14th of July 1829 | BIRTHDAY | Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896) |
| 14th of July 1834 | BIRTHDAY | James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American painter (d. 1903) |
| 14th of July 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928) |
| 14th of July 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928) |
| 14th of July 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Wister, American novelist (d. 1938) |
| 14th of July 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918) |
| 14th of July 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Capper, American newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951) |
| 14th of July 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy and administrator (d. 1926) |
| 14th of July 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939) |
| 14th of July 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Khedive Abbas II of Egypt and Sudan (d. 1944) |
| 14th of July 1885 | BIRTHDAY | King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959) |
| 14th of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Scipio Slataper, Italian writer and essayist (d. 1915) |
| 14th of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Ante Pavelic, Croatian fascist leader (d. 1959) |
| 14th of July 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977) |
| 14th of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965) |
| 14th of July 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936) |
| 14th of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991) |
| 14th of July 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956) |
| 14th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989) |
| 14th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Carvel, Greek-born American businessman and inventor (d. 1990) |
| 14th of July 1910 | BIRTHDAY | William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001) |
| 14th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990) |
| 14th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991) |
| 14th of July 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967) |
| 14th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006) |
| 14th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director |
| 14th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director (d. 2007) |
| 14th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Lino Ventura, Italian-born French actor (d. 1987) |
| 14th of July 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 2004) |
| 14th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996) |
| 14th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996) |
| 14th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007) |
| 14th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Elfriede Rinkel, German Nazi concentration camp guard |
| 14th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Steele, American long jumper (d. 1989) |
| 14th of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Robertson, American actor |
| 14th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Dean Stanton, American actor |
| 14th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996) |
| 14th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Olson, American actress |
| 14th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Polly Bergen, American actress |
| 14th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline de Ribes, French fashion designer |
| 14th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Roosevelt Grier, American football player and actor |
| 14th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Franz, Duke of Bavaria, Heir to the House of Stuart |
| 14th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bourassa, Quebec politician (d. 1996) |
| 14th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Pema Chodron, American-born Buddhist nun and author |
| 14th of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician |
| 14th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Rubin, American social activist and businessman (d. 1994) |
| 14th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Rust, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 14th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Karel Gott, Czech Schlager singer |
| 14th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Haig, American actor |
| 14th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer |
| 14th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Howatch, English novelist |
| 14th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Maulana Karenga, American writer and political activist, the creator of Kwanzaa |
| 14th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Khol, Austrian politician |
| 14th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Solana, Spanish politician, Secretary General of NATO and European Union High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy |
| 14th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Priest, English novelist |
| 14th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Billy McCool, American baseball player |
| 14th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Pastore, American actor |
| 14th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Wood, Australian actor |
| 14th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Navin Ramgoolam, Mauritius politician, 3rd and 6th Prime Minister of Mauritius |
| 14th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer |
| 14th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king |
| 14th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Mottola, American music executive |
| 14th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003) |
| 14th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Laneuville, American director, actor and producer |
| 14th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Silver, American film producer |
| 14th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Franklin Graham, American evangelist |
| 14th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Casale ("Bob 2"), American guitarist (Devo) |
| 14th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bebe Buell, American model |
| 14th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Coakley, American politician |
| 14th of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | L. Brent Bozell III, American writer and pundit |
| 14th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Chavez, Argentinian actor |
| 14th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor |
| 14th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist |
| 14th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Jensen, American journalist and activist |
| 14th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Bligh, Australian politician |
| 14th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Lynch, American actress, comedian and singer |
| 14th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle Gass, American guitarist, singer and actor (Tenacious D) |
| 14th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Angelique Kidjo, Beninese singer |
| 14th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Earle Haley, American actor |
| 14th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Olson, American percussionist (Trouble) |
| 14th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist |
| 14th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Juliet Cesario, American actress |
| 14th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tanya Donelly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses, Belly) |
| 14th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Fox, American actor |
| 14th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Coyle, Scottish-born Irish football player and manager |
| 14th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Reid, Canadian pianist and vocalist (Crash Test Dummies) |
| 14th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator |
| 14th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler |
| 14th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick J. Kennedy, American politician |
| 14th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Ventura, American baseball player |
| 14th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Hernandez, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 14th of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler |
| 14th of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Siemaszko, American actress |
| 14th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nick McCabe, British guitarist (The Verve) |
| 14th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Madhu Sapre, Former Indian Model and Miss Universe Contestant |
| 14th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mark LoMonaco (Bubba Ray Dudley), American professional wrestler |
| 14th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator |
| 14th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Chantal Toupin, Canadian singer |
| 14th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Webb, English football referee |
| 14th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Deborah Mailman, Australian actress |
| 14th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Methric, American rapper |
| 14th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Halil Mutlu, Turkish weightlifter |
| 14th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tani Fuga, Samoan rugby player |
| 14th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Quinn, American bagpipes player |
| 14th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Candela Pena, Spanish actress |
| 14th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Erick Dampier, American basketball player |
| 14th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | David Mitchell, English comedian and actor |
| 14th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Hudson, American baseball player |
| 14th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jamey Johnson, American country music artist |
| 14th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Taboo, American rapper |
| 14th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ranj Dhaliwal, Canadian novelist |
| 14th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Geraint Jones, England cricketer |
| 14th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsten Sheridan, Irish film director and screenwriter |
| 14th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden |
| 14th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player |
| 14th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier |
| 14th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | George Smith, Australian rugby union player |
| 14th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jed Madela, Filipino singer |
| 14th of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Mead, English actor |
| 14th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitry Chaplin, Russian-born American dancer, So You Think You Can Dance finalist |
| 14th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Dening, Australian TV personality |
| 14th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Renaldo Balkman, American basketball player |
| 14th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nansy Stergiopoulou, Greek singer (Hi-5) |
| 14th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Erica Blasberg, American golfer (d. 2010) |
| 14th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nilmar, Brazilian footballer |
| 14th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Celeski, Australian footballer |
| 14th of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Darrelle Revis, American football player |
| 14th of July 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Johnson, English footballer |
| 14th of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | James Vaughan, English footballer |
| 14th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Flynn, American actor |
| 14th of July 0664 | DEATH | Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury (birth year unknown) |
| 14th of July 0937 | DEATH | Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria (birth year unknown) |
| 14th of July 1223 | DEATH | King Philip II of France (Born 1165) |
| 14th of July 1575 | DEATH | Richard Taverner, English translator of the Bible (Born c. 1505) |
| 14th of July 1614 | DEATH | Camillus de Lellis, Italian saint (Born 1550) |
| 14th of July 1671 | DEATH | Meric Casaubon, English classical scholar (Born 1599) |
| 14th of July 1723 | DEATH | Claude Fleury, French historian (Born 1640) |
| 14th of July 1742 | DEATH | Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (Born 1662) |
| 14th of July 1766 | DEATH | Frantisek Maxmilian Kanka, Czech architect (Born 1674) |
| 14th of July 1774 | DEATH | James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (Born 1682) |
| 14th of July 1780 | DEATH | Charles Batteux, French philosopher (Born 1713) |
| 14th of July 1789 | DEATH | Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (Born 1721) |
| 14th of July 1789 | DEATH | Bernard-Rene de Launay, French Governor of the Bastille (Born 1740) |
| 14th of July 1790 | DEATH | Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (Born 1717) |
| 14th of July 1816 | DEATH | Francisco de Miranda, Venezuelan revolutionary (Born 1750) |
| 14th of July 1817 | DEATH | Madame de Stael, Swiss writer (Born 1766) |
| 14th of July 1827 | DEATH | Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (Born 1788) |
| 14th of July 1834 | DEATH | Edmond Charles Genet, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (Born 1763) |
| 14th of July 1850 | DEATH | August Neander, German theologian (Born 1789) |
| 14th of July 1876 | DEATH | Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (Born 1816) |
| 14th of July 1881 | DEATH | Billy the Kid, American outlaw (Born 1859) |
| 14th of July 1904 | DEATH | Paul Kruger, South African Boer resistance leader, 5th President of the South African Republic (Born 1824) |
| 14th of July 1907 | DEATH | William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (Born 1838) |
| 14th of July 1910 | DEATH | Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (Born 1818) |
| 14th of July 1917 | DEATH | Octave Lapize, French cyclist (Born 1887) |
| 14th of July 1918 | DEATH | Quentin Roosevelt, American aviator, son of Theodore Roosevelt (Born 1897) |
| 14th of July 1924 | DEATH | Isabella Ford, English socialist, feminist, trade unionist and writer (Born 1855) |
| 14th of July 1925 | DEATH | Pancho Villa, Filipino boxer (Born 1901) |
| 14th of July 1939 | DEATH | Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and decorative artist (Born 1860) |
| 14th of July 1954 | DEATH | Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1866) |
| 14th of July 1954 | DEATH | Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (Born 1892) |
| 14th of July 1965 | DEATH | Adlai Stevenson, United States politician and Presidential candidate (Born 1900) |
| 14th of July 1966 | DEATH | Julie Manet, French painter (Born 1878) |
| 14th of July 1967 | DEATH | Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (Born 1880) |
| 14th of July 1968 | DEATH | Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (Born 1892) |
| 14th of July 1968 | DEATH | Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, 164th Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1907) |
| 14th of July 1970 | DEATH | Preston Foster, American stage and film actor (Born 1900) |
| 14th of July 1974 | DEATH | Carl Spaatz, American Air Force general (Born 1891) |
| 14th of July 1975 | DEATH | Madan Mohan, Indian film music director (Born 1924) |
| 14th of July 1984 | DEATH | Ernest Tidyman, American writer (Born 1928) |
| 14th of July 1989 | DEATH | Frank Bell, British educator (Born 1916) |
| 14th of July 1990 | DEATH | Walter Sedlmayr, German actor (Born 1926) |
| 14th of July 1993 | DEATH | Leo Ferre, French singer and songwriter (Born 1916) |
| 14th of July 1994 | DEATH | Cesar Tovar, Venezuelan baseball player (Born 1940) |
| 14th of July 1996 | DEATH | Jeff Krosnoff, American racing driver (Born 1964) |
| 14th of July 1998 | DEATH | Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (Born 1909) |
| 14th of July 2000 | DEATH | Rene Rios Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (Born 1911) |
| 14th of July 2000 | DEATH | William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (Born 1920) |
| 14th of July 2000 | DEATH | Meredith MacRae, American actress (Born 1944) |
| 14th of July 2002 | DEATH | Joaquin Balaguer, Dominican politician, 41st, 45th and 49th President of the Dominican Republic (Born 1906) |
| 14th of July 2003 | DEATH | Eva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (Born 1926) |
| 14th of July 2003 | DEATH | Francois-Albert Angers, French-Canadian economist (Born 1909) |
| 14th of July 2005 | DEATH | Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (Born 1924) |
| 14th of July 2005 | DEATH | Cicely Saunders, English nurse, physician and writer (Born 1918) |
| 14th of July 2007 | DEATH | John Ferguson, Sr., Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1938) |
| 14th of July 2008 | DEATH | Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (Born 1915) |
| 14th of July 2009 | DEATH | Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (Born 1934) |
| 14th of July 2010 | DEATH | Madalina Manole, Romanian pop recording artist (Born 1967) |
| 14th of July 2010 | DEATH | Gene Ludwig, American jazz organist (Born 1937) |