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
• Lina Wertmüller - Italian film director and screenwriter of Swiss descent, born Arcangela Felice Assunta Wertmüller von Elgg Spanol von Braueich. In 1977, she became the first female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for her film Seven Beauties. 
• Hans Christian Ørsted - Danish physicist and chemist