What happened on March 14 ?

1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)

1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)

1804 - Johann Strauÿ, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)

1813 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1892)

1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)

1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)

1844 - King Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)

1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)

1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1915)

1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1961)

1864 - Casey Jones, railroad engineer (d. 1900)

1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)

1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)

1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)

1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)

1903 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)

1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1974)

1912 - Les Brown, American band leader (d. 2001)

1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)

1914 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)

1915 - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)

1916 - Horton Foote, American writer

1920 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)

1923 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)

1925 - Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate

1925 - William Clay Ford, Sr., Ford Motor Co. Director Emeritus, Detroit Lions Football Franchise Owner

1928 - Frank Borman, astronaut and airline executive

1933 - Michael Caine, British actor

1933 - Quincy Jones, American music producer and composer

1933 - René Felber, member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1987 to 1993

1934 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut

1934 - Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army

1938 - Angus Maclise, American mystic, shaman, musician, and composer (d. 1979)

1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director

1945 - Jasper Carrott, British comedian

1946 - Steve Kanaly, American actor

1947 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian

1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet

1950 - Rick Dees, American disc jockey

1956 - Jonathan Bowen, British computer scientist

1957 - Andrew Robinson, British editor and author

1958 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco

1960 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player (d. 2006)

1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress

1963 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer

1965 - Aamir Khan, Indian actor

1965 - Catherine Dent, American actress

1965 - Kevin Brown, baseball player

1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter

1969 - Larry Johnson, former NBA basketball player

1975 - Johan Paulik (aka Daniel Feren?ík), Slovak pornographic actor

1976 - Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)

1977 - Mervyn Colley, British kabbalist and ceremonial magician

1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer

1979 - Chris Klein, American actor

1980 - Aaron Brown, English footballer

1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist

1981 - Bobby Jenks, baseball player

1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer

1983 - Taylor Hanson, American musician (Hanson)

1985 - Famous porn star Eva Angelina born March 14th.

1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor

1986 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer