14 April: today's birthdays

• Josias Basso Lisboa - Brazilian soccer player
• Peter Behrens - German architect and designer
• Olivier Besancenot - French politician
• Otto Friedrich Bollnow - German philosopher
• Adrien Brody - American actor. He won an Oscar for Best Actor starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002)
• Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo - Spanish politician
• Robert Carlyle - Scottish actor. He starred in Trainspotting and The Full Monty
• Georgina Chapman - English fashion designer and actress, born Georgina Rose Chapman. She is the co-founder, along with English fashion designer and former model Keren Craig, of the fashion label Marchesa. She is currently married to American film producer Harvey Weinstein
• Julie Christie - English actress born in India. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1966
• Abraham Darby - English entrepreneur
• Robert Doisneau - French photographer, best-known for his image Le baiser de l'hôtel de ville (Kiss by the Town Hall)
• Péter Esterházy - Hungarian writer. His main work is the novel Harmonia Caelestis
• Arianna Fontana - Italian ice speed skater
• Sigfried Giedion - Swiss historian and architecture critic
• John Gielgud - English actor, film director and screenwriter
• Erwin Hoffer - Austrian soccer player
• Christiaan Huygens - Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist
• Kaori Muraji - Japanese classical guitarist
  
• Moritz Schlick - German philosopher
• Rod Steiger - American actor
• Arnold J. Toynbee - English historian and philosopher of history, born Arnold Joseph Toynbee. He wrote A Study of History