14 August: today's birthdays

• Sibilla Aleramo - Italian writer and poet, born Marta Felicina Faccio. She wrote the novel Una Donna (A Woman)
• John Logie Baird - Scottish engineer and inventor who was one of the pioneers of television
• Emmanuelle Béart - French actress. She was married to French actor Daniel Auteuil
• Halle Berry - American actress. She won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2002 for her role in the film Monster's Ball 
• Gianroberto Casaleggio - Italian entrepreneur and politician. He was the founder of the political party Movimento 5 Stelle along with Italian comedian Beppe Grillo
• Giorgio Chiellini - Italian footballer
• Sverre Fehn - Norwegian architect
• John Galsworthy - English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. He wrote The Forsyte Saga
• René Goscinny - French comics editor and author
• Earvin Johnson Jr. - Former American basketball player, known as Magic Johnson
• Magic Johnson - Nickname of former basketball player Earvin Johnson Jr.
• Debbie Meyer - Former American swimmer
• Michael Piore - American economist and professor of Economics and Political Science, born Michael Joseph Piore
• Terry Richardson - American photographer, born Terrence Richardson
• Willy Ronis - French photographer. 
• Trey Spruance - American composer, producer, and musician, born Preston Lea Spruance III
• Danielle Steel - American writer, born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel. She is one of the best selling author worldwide
• Alex van Warmerdam - Dutch screenwriter, film director and actor. He is married to Dutch actress Annet Malherbe
• Wim Wenders - Pseudonym of German film director, screenwriter, author and photographer Ernst Wilhelm Wenders
• Hans Christian Ørsted - Danish physicist and chemist