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November 14

175 years on from Moby-Dick, November 14 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where conflict is a recurring thread.

♏ZodiacScorpio ◈BirthstoneTopaz ❀Birth flowerChrysanthemum

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

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on November 14?

November 14 is the 318th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1680 and 2012. Famous people born on November 14 include Claude Monet, Jawaharlal Nehru and Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Released on November 14

Movies, games, albums & shows

2025

  • Game Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road

2024

  • Game Mindcop
  • Game LEGO Horizon Adventures
  • Game Sorry We're Closed

2023

  • Game Backpack Hero
  • Game Coral Island

2021

  • TV Mayor of Kingstown
  • TV Yellowjackets

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1680

    Gottfried Kirch

  2. 1851

    Moby-Dick

  3. 1940

    World War II

  4. 1960

    Ruby Bridges

  5. 1967

    Theodore Maiman

  6. 1970

    Southern Airways Flight 932

  7. 1978

    France

  8. 1982

    Lech Wałęsa

  9. 1992

    Cyclone Forrest

  10. 2012

    Israel

Famous birthday twins

Born on November 14

Claude Monet

b. 1840

Jawaharlal Nehru

b. 1889

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

b. 1922

Charles Lyell

b. 1797

Samuel Umtiti

b. 1993

Park Chung Hee

b. 1917

Maria Cristina of Savoy

b. 1812

Josh Duhamel

b. 1972

Deaths

  • 1997Eddie Arcaro
  • 1831Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • 1716Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • 1391Nicholas Tavelic
  • 976Emperor Taizu of Song
  • 565Justinian I

Holidays & observances

  • —Anniversary of the Movement of Readjustment (Guinea-Bissau)
  • —Children's Day, celebrated on the birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru (previously on November 20). (India)
  • —Christian feast day: Alberic of Utrecht
  • —Christian feast day: All Saints of the Carmelites
  • —Christian feast day: All Souls of the Benedictine family
  • —Christian feast day: Barlaam of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Dubricius (Dyfrig, or Devereux)
  • —Christian feast day: Hypatius of Gangra

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