August 14th, 1959

Born on August 14th, 1959

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What happened on August 14th, 1959?

August 14th, 1959

Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Football_League

What else happened on August 14th?

August 14th, 2018

The Ponte Morandi bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy, killing 43 people.

August 14th, 2013

Security forces raided two camps of supporters of the ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo, leading to the deaths of at least 595 civilians.

August 14th, 2010

The inaugural edition of the Youth Olympic Games opened in Singapore for athletes aged between 14 and 18.

August 14th, 2007

Four coordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi communities of Qahtaniya and Jazeera, Iraq, killing a 796 people and wounding 1,562 others.

August 14th, 2005

Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed into a mountain north of Marathon, Greece, killing all 121 people on board.

August 14th, 1975

The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in limited release.

August 14th, 1971

The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, the group's only album to top the UK charts.

August 14th, 1941

After a secret meeting in Newfoundland, British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (both pictured) issued the Atlantic Charter, establishing a vision for a post–World War II world.

August 14th, 1888

One of the first recordings of music, of Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord" , was played at a press conference in London to introduce Thomas Edison's phonograph.

August 14th, 1720

The Spanish Villasur expedition, intended to slow the progress of French influence on the Great Plains of North America, ended in failure when it was ambushed by Pawnee and Otoe forces.

August 14th, 1264

War of Saint Sabas: A Genoese fleet captured or sank most of the ships of a Venetian trade convoy off the Albanian coast.

August 14th, 2023

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is charged in Georgia along with 18 others in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state, his fourth indictment of 2023.

August 14th, 2022

An explosion destroys a market in Armenia, killing six people and injuring dozens.

August 14th, 2021

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes southwestern Haiti, killing at least 2,248 people and causing a humanitarian crisis.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on August 14th

Born on August 14th, 1959

64

Marcia Gay Harden

American actress

*August 14th, 1959, La Jolla

64

Magic Johnson

American basketball player

*August 14th, 1959, Lansing

64

Peter Shor

American professor of applied mathematics at MIT

*August 14th, 1959, New York City

64

Henriette Fröschl

Ice dancer

*August 14th, 1959, Munich

64

Steve Guengerich

Businessperson

*August 14th, 1959, Wichita

64

Willy Carbo

Dutch football player

*August 14th, 1959, Utrecht

64

Christian Maria Goebel

German actor

*August 14th, 1959, Bochum

64

Heather Hunte

British athlete

*August 14th, 1959, London

64

Frank Brickowski

American basketball player

*August 14th, 1959, Bayville

64

Ryszard Komornicki

Polish footballer

*August 14th, 1959, Gmina Ścinawa

55

Alberto Valdiri

Colombian actor (1959-2014)

*August 14th, 1959, Bogotá †December 20th, 2014, Bogotá

64

Olivier Grunewald

French photographer

*August 14th, 1959, Paris

64

Elsa Murano

President, Texas A&M University

*August 14th, 1959, Havana

64

Bill Hagerty

United States Senator from Tennessee since 2021

*August 14th, 1959, Nashville

64

Trent Bryant

American football player

*August 14th, 1959, Arkadelphia

64

Milson Jones

Canadian footballer

*August 14th, 1959, Linstead

64

Mark Plantery

Canadian ice hockey defenceman

*August 14th, 1959, St. Catharines

64

Gerri Willis

American television news journalist and former host

*August 14th, 1959, Spruce Pine

64

Don Carman

American baseball player

*August 14th, 1959, Oklahoma City

64

Dale Scott

American baseball umpire

*August 14th, 1959, Eugene

64

Jacqueline Pusey

Jamaican athletics competitor

*August 14th, 1959, Saint Mary Parish

64

Charlie Egan

Australian soccer player

*August 14th, 1959, Kilsyth

64

A. H. M Khairuzzaman Liton

Bangladeshi politician

*August 14th, 1959, Rajshahi District

64

Marek Matuszewski

Polish politician

*August 14th, 1959, Zgierz

64

Queen Zarith Sofiah of Johor

Queen Consort of Johor (2010) and Queen Consort of Malaysia (2024)

*August 14th, 1959, Batu Gajah

64

Francisco Javier Murillo Flores

Mexican politician

*August 14th, 1959, Guanajuato

64

Ana Bettz

Italian singer

*August 14th, 1959, Olbia

64

Cha Myong-jin

South Korean politician

*August 14th, 1959, Seoul

64

James Byron Huggins

U.S. writer

*August 14th, 1959, Madison

64

David Huggins

British writer

*August 14th, 1959, Greater London

64

Russell Hodgkinson

American actor

*August 14th, 1959, Homestead Air Reserve Base

45

Rio Diaz

Filipino actress and model

*August 14th, 1959, Manila †October 4th, 2004, Daly City

Same Day
Who's birthday is on August 14th?

63

Sarah Brightman

British singer and actress

*August 14th, 1960, Berkhamsted

33

Kim Ki-jung

South Korean badminton player

*August 14th, 1990, Dangjin

36

Rosalie Thomass

German actress

*August 14th, 1987, Munich

60

Emmanuelle Béart

French film actress

*August 14th, 1963, Gassin

54

Maj Helen Sorkmo

Norwegian cross-country skier

*August 14th, 1969, Os Municipality

52

Raoul Bova

Italian actor

*August 14th, 1971, Rome

42

Anna Carina

Peruvian musician

*August 14th, 1981, Lima

35

Mariana Agathangelou

English badminton player

*August 14th, 1988, Jersey

40

Mila Kunis

Ukrainian-American actress

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

74

Atik Jauhari

Badminton player and trainer

*August 14th, 1949, Tangerang City

57

Halle Berry

American actress

*August 14th, 1966, Cleveland

31

Rezo

German YouTube personality, columnist, musician and entrepreneur

*August 14th, 1992, Wuppertal

38

Alesia Zaitsava

Badminton player

*August 14th, 1985, Pružany

66

Dani Rodrik

Turkish economist

*August 14th, 1957, Istanbul

61

James Horner

American film composer and conductor (1953-2015)

*August 14th, 1953, Los Angeles †June 22nd, 2015, Los Padres National Forest

31

Chris Coles

Badminton player

*August 14th, 1992, Bristol

28

Takuro Hoki

Badminton player

*August 14th, 1995, Yamaguchi Prefecture

43

Annegret Dietrich

German-Swiss bobsledder

*August 14th, 1980, Zwickau

56

Erik Gandini

Film director

*August 14th, 1967, Bergamo

Same year
Born in 1959

64

Jim Kerr

Scottish singer

*July 9th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Andrew Eldritch

British singer

*May 15th, 1959, Ely

56

Nahed Hattar

Jordanian writer

*November 30th, 1959, Amman †September 25th, 2016, Amman

64

Wolfgang Rolff

German association football player and manager

*December 26th, 1959, Lamstedt

64

Mike Pence

Vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021

*June 7th, 1959, Columbus

64

Morten Andreas Meyer

Norwegian politician

*October 20th, 1959, Sarpsborg Municipality

64

Jon Fosse

Norwegian writer, theater writer and translator

*September 29th, 1959, Haugesund Municipality

64

Donna Strickland

Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel laurate

*May 27th, 1959, Guelph

64

Dave Ball

English producer and electronic musician

*May 3rd, 1959, Blackpool

64

Charlie Burchill

Scottish musician and composer

*November 27th, 1959, Glasgow

64

Rolf Mützenich

German politician (SPD)

*June 25th, 1959, Cologne

64

Martin Atkins

English musician

*August 3rd, 1959, Coventry

64

Bryan Adams

Canadian guitarist

*November 5th, 1959, Kingston

64

Steve Alten

American writer

*August 21st, 1959, Philadelphia

64

Carla Antonelli

Spanish actress and activist

*July 12th, 1959, Güímar

64

Johannes Röring

German politician

*May 16th, 1959, Vreden

64

Peter Enders

German politician (1959–)

*May 10th, 1959, Eichen

64

Allison Janney

American actress

*November 19th, 1959, Boston

65

Luc Besson

French film director, writer, and producer

*March 18th, 1959, Paris

64

Stephen Harper

22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015

*April 30th, 1959, Toronto

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No: With 365 days 1959 is a normal year and no leap year.

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