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August 14

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Haitian Revolution

235 years ago

Born this day

1867

John Galsworthy

Died aged 65

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John I of Portugal

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Famous births29

1688 · 338 yrs

Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia

Frederick William I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm I.; 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740), known as the Soldier King (German: Soldatenkönig), was King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg from 1713 until his death in 1740, as well as Prince of Neuchâtel.

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RoyaltyDied aged 51

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1742 · 284 yrs

Pius VII

Pope Pius VII (Italian: Pio VII; born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823) was head of the Catholic Church from 14 March 1800 to his death in August 1823. He was the leader of the Papal States from June 1800 to 17 May 1809 and again from 1814 to his death.

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ReligionDied aged 81

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1777 · 249 yrs

Hans Christian Ørsted

Hans Christian Ørsted (Danish:; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851), sometimes transliterated as Oersted ( UR-sted), was a Danish chemist and physicist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields. This phenomenon is known as Oersted's law.

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ScienceDied aged 73

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1867 · 159 yrs

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is best known for his trilogy of novels collectively called The Forsyte Saga (1906, 1920, 1921), and two later trilogies, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter.

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1871 · 155 yrs

Guangxu Emperor

The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), also known by his temple name Emperor Dezong of Qing, personal name Zaitian, was the tenth and penultimate emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

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RoyaltyDied aged 37

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1926 · 100 yrs

René Goscinny

René Goscinny (French:; Polish:; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the Asterix comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo.

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1928 · 98 yrs

Lina Wertmüller

Arcangela Felice Assunta "Lina" Wertmüller (Italian:; 14 August 1928 – 9 December 2021) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her 1970s art house films Seven Beauties, The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away.

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LiteratureWould be 98

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1933 · 93 yrs

Stanley Milgram

Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist who conducted controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale University.

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1933 · 93 yrs

Richard Ernst

Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy while at Varian Associates and ETH Zurich.

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ScienceWould be 93

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1941 · 85 yrs

David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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MusicWould be 85

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1945 · 81 yrs

Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.

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FilmAge 81

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1945 · 81 yrs

Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders (German:; born Wilhelm Ernst Wenders; 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and photographer.

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FilmAge 81

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Famous deaths16

1433 · 593 yrs

John I of Portugal

John I (Portuguese: João; 11 April 1357 – 14 August 1433), also called John of Aviz, was King of Portugal from 1385 until his death in 1433.

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RoyaltyDied aged 76

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1464 · 562 yrs

Pius II

Pope Pius II (Latin: Pius PP. II, Italian: Pio II), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (Latin: Aeneas Silvius Bartholomeus; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death in 1464.

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ReligionDied aged 58

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1841 · 185 yrs

Johann Friedrich Herbart

Johann Friedrich Herbart (German:; 4 May 1776 – 14 August 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline. Herbart is now remembered amongst the post-Kantian philosophers mostly as making the greatest contrast to Hegel—in particular in relation to aesthetics.

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PhilosophyDied aged 65

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1856 · 170 yrs

William Buckland

William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist. His work in the early 1820s proved that Kirkdale Cave in North Yorkshire had been a prehistoric hyena den, for which he was awarded the Copley Medal.

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ReligionDied aged 72

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1941 · 85 yrs

Paul Sabatier

Paul Sabatier (French:; 5 November 1854 – 14 August 1941) was a French chemist, born in Carcassonne. In 1912, Sabatier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Victor Grignard.

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ScienceDied aged 86

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1941 · 85 yrs

Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian Maria Kolbe, OFM Conv. (born Raymund Kolbe; Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941) was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, missionary, and martyr.

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1956 · 70 yrs

Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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LiteratureWould be 128

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1956 · 70 yrs

Konstantin von Neurath

Konstantin Hermann Karl Freiherr von Neurath (2 February 1873 – 14 August 1956) was a German politician, diplomat and convicted Nazi war criminal who served as Foreign Minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938. Born to a Swabian noble family, Neurath began his diplomatic career in 1901.

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MilitaryDied aged 83

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1958 · 68 yrs

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie (French:; né Joliot; 19 March 1900 – 14 August 1958) was a French chemist and physicist who received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his wife, Irène Joliot-Curie, for their discovery of induced radioactivity.

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1973 · 53 yrs

Pau Casals

Pablo Casals (29 December 1876 – 22 October 1973), also known by his birth name, Pau Casals i Defilló (Catalan:), was a Catalan cellist, composer, and conductor, born in Spain.

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1975 · 51 yrs

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975) was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist, and diarist who was the founding president of Bangladesh.

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1988 · 38 yrs

Enzo Ferrari

Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (Italian:; 18 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of Scuderia Ferrari in Grand Prix motor racing, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque.

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Events5

1791 · 235 yrs

Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.

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War

1971 · 55 yrs

Stanford prison experiment

The Stanford prison experiment (SPE), also referred to as the Zimbardo prison experiment (ZPE), was a controversial psychological experiment performed in August 1971 at Stanford University.

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Science

1992 · 34 yrs

War in Abkhazia

The War in Abkhazia was fought between Georgian government and paramilitary forces, and a coalition of Abkhaz separatist forces and North Caucasian militants between 1992 and 1993. Ethnic Georgians who lived in Abkhazia fought largely on the side of Georgian government forces.

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War

2010 · 16 yrs

2010 Summer Youth Olympics

The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, officially known as the I Summer Youth Olympic Games, and commonly known as Singapore 2010, were the inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), an Olympic Games-based event for young athletes.

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Sports

2021 · 5 yrs

2021 Haiti earthquake

At 08:29:09 EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula of southern Haiti. It had a 10-kilometre-deep (6.2 mi) hypocenter near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

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