August 14th, 1979

Born on August 14th, 1979

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What 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.

August 14th, 2015

The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.

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

Born on August 14th, 1979

44

Jamie Parker

British actor

*August 14th, 1979, Middlesbrough

44

Jérémie Bréchet

French association football player

*August 14th, 1979, Lyon

44

Raül Tortosa

Spanish actor

*August 14th, 1979, Tortosa

44

Denis Lebedev

Russian boxer

*August 14th, 1979, Stary Oskol

44

Karen Martínez

Colombian actress

*August 14th, 1979, Cartagena de Indias

44

Tony Wragge

American football player

*August 14th, 1979, Creighton

44

Michal Masný

Slovak volleyball player and coach

*August 14th, 1979, Žilina

44

Freddy

Angolan footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Malanje

44

Paul Burgess

Australian pole vaulter

*August 14th, 1979, Perth

44

Diego Cochas

Argentine footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Saldán

44

Cristian Urbistondo López

Spanish footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Barcelona

44

Séverine Brémond Beltrame

French tennis player

*August 14th, 1979, Montpellier

44

Alejandro Escalona

Chilean footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Santiago

44

Chris Piechocki

Australian actor

*August 14th, 1979, Gdańsk

44

Rumiko Tani

Japanese singer

*August 14th, 1979, Tokyo

44

Lalit Dalmia

Indian fashion designer

*August 14th, 1979, Delhi

44

Sandra McCoy

American actress

*August 14th, 1979, San Jose

44

Ángel Santos

American baseball player

*August 14th, 1979, Río Piedras

44

Wenceslao Fernández

Footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Lima

44

Ulish Booker

American football player

*August 14th, 1979, West Haven

44

Tobias Clemens

Tennis player

*August 14th, 1979, Bonn

44

Shane Waldron

American football coach

*August 14th, 1979, Portland

44

Svetlana Tarasevich

Belarusian gymnast

*August 14th, 1979, Hrodna

44

Lee Myong-seung

South Korean marathon runner

*August 14th, 1979, Seoul

44

Ionuț Stănescu

Romanian handball player

*August 14th, 1979, Brașov

44

Emir Alečković

Football referee

*August 14th, 1979, Bosnia and Herzegovina

44

Davor Burcsa

Croatian footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Osijek

44

Eduard Gikayev

Russian footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Tbilisi

44

Yōichirō Morikawa

Japanese actor and director

*August 14th, 1979, Fukui

44

David Obuya

Kenyan cricketer

*August 14th, 1979, Nairobi

44

Rubens Donizete

Brazilian bicyclist

*August 14th, 1979, Monte Santo de Minas

44

Kim Hyun-woo

South Korean reporter and news anchor

*August 14th, 1979, Seoul

44

Frederico Tavares

Portuguese footballer

*August 14th, 1979, Estarreja

44

Sayaka Murata

Japanese writer

*August 14th, 1979, Inzai

44

Vonny Cornellya

Indonesian actress

*August 14th, 1979, Bogor City

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33

Kim Ki-jung

South Korean badminton player

*August 14th, 1990, Dangjin

42

Anna Carina

Peruvian musician

*August 14th, 1981, Lima

36

Rosalie Thomass

German actress

*August 14th, 1987, Munich

40

Mila Kunis

Ukrainian-American actress

*August 14th, 1983, Chernivtsi

43

Annegret Dietrich

German-Swiss bobsledder

*August 14th, 1980, Zwickau

35

Mariana Agathangelou

English badminton player

*August 14th, 1988, Jersey

52

Raoul Bova

Italian actor

*August 14th, 1971, Rome

38

Alesia Zaitsava

Badminton player

*August 14th, 1985, Pružany

54

Maj Helen Sorkmo

Norwegian cross-country skier

*August 14th, 1969, Os Municipality

31

Rezo

German YouTube personality, columnist, musician and entrepreneur

*August 14th, 1992, Wuppertal

42

Yoan Audrin

French rugby union player

*August 14th, 1981, Pézenas

31

Chris Coles

Badminton player

*August 14th, 1992, Bristol

28

Takuro Hoki

Badminton player

*August 14th, 1995, Yamaguchi Prefecture

43

Julien Denormandie

French politician

*August 14th, 1980, Cahors

34

Ander Herrera

Spanish association football player

*August 14th, 1989, Bilbao

60

Emmanuelle Béart

French film actress

*August 14th, 1963, Gassin

47

Manuel Calvente

Road bicycle racer

*August 14th, 1976, Huétor Vega

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

64

Marcia Gay Harden

American actress

*August 14th, 1959, La Jolla

63

Sarah Brightman

British singer and actress

*August 14th, 1960, Berkhamsted

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Born in 1979

45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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