What happened on July 14 ?

1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)

1602 - Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)

1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)

1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)

1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)

1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)

1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)

1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)

1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)

1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)

1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)

1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)

1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)

1829 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)

1857 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)

1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)

1860 - Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)

1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)

1868 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)

1874 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)

1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)

1891 - Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)

1896 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)

1898 - Happy Chandler, Governor of Kentucky, U.S. senator and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)

1901 - Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956)

1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d. 1991)

1906 - Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (d. 1990)

1910 - William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)

1911 - Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990)

1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)

1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)

1913 - Gerald Ford, President of the United States

1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director

1918 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director

1919 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)

1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)

1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1923 - Dale Robertson, American actor

1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor

1927 - John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996)

1928 - Nancy Olson, American actress

1930 - Polly Bergen, American actress, singer, and entrepreneur

1932 - Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, and minister

1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician

1938 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)

1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer

1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer

1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist

1941 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician

1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief

1946 - John Wood, Australian actor

1947 - Claudia Kennedy, retired U.S. Army lieutenant general

1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)

1951 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)

1956 - Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor

1961 - Jackie Earle Haley, American actor

1965 - Igor Khoroshev, Russian keyboard player (Yes)

1966 - Charles Edward Ambler, British noble

1966 - Matthew Fox, American actor

1967 - Robin Ventura, baseball player

1971 - Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestler

1971 - Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator

1975 - Taboo, American rapper

1976 - Geraint Jones, English cricketer

1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

1986 - Spongebob Squarepants (fictional)

1988 - James Vaughan, English footballer

1989 - Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor