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August 14

August 14's record stretches 301 years, from 1720 to 2021. Its center of gravity is the 21st century, and politics and nation-building recur.

♌ZodiacLeo ◈BirthstonePeridot ❀Birth flowerGladiolus

Leo is the sign for August 14 — read more on the Leo page, or see August's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on August 14?

August 14 is the 226th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1720 and 2021. Famous people born on August 14 include Fabrizio Donato, Steve Martin and Tracy Caldwell Dyson.

Released on August 14

Movies, games, albums & shows

2026

  • Game Grave Seasons

2025

  • Game Madden NFL 26
  • Game Drag x Drive
  • Game Midnight Murder Club

2024

  • Game Desvelado
  • Game Crime Scene Cleaner

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1720

    Villasur expedition

  2. 1816

    Tristan da Cunha

  3. 1914

    World War I

  4. 1941

    World War II

  5. 1971

    Bahrain

  6. 1980

    Lech Wałęsa

  7. 2005

    Helios Airways Flight 522

  8. 2007

    Qahtaniyah bombings

  9. 2013

    Egypt

  10. 2021

    2021 Haiti earthquake

Famous birthday twins

Born on August 14

Fabrizio Donato

b. 1976

Steve Martin

b. 1945

Tracy Caldwell Dyson

b. 1969

Mila Kunis

b. 1983

Kofi Kingston

b. 1981

Hans Christian Ørsted

b. 1777

Doc Holliday

b. 1851

Cosimo III de' Medici

b. 1642

Deaths

  • 2004Czesław Miłosz
  • 2003Helmut Rahn
  • 1956Bertolt Brecht
  • 1167Rainald of Dassel
  • 1040Duncan I of Scotland
  • 582Tiberius II Constantine

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Arnold of Soissons
  • —Christian feast day: Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
  • —Christian feast day: Eusebius of Rome
  • —Christian feast day: Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Maximilian Kolbe
  • —National Navajo Code Talkers Day is a holiday in the United States honoring Navajo code talkers in the military.
  • —Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.
  • —Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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