14 September: today's birthdays

• ​François Asselineau - French politician
• Malik Bendjelloul - Swedish filmmaker of Algerian descent
• Michel Butor - French poet and writer. He wrote Passage de Milan, L'emploi du temps, and La modification 
• Hicham El Guerrouj - Moroccan athlete
• Orazio Fantasia - Australian footballer of Italian descent, born Orazio Maurice Fantasia. This is the Italian pronunciation of his name 
• Robert Florey - French writer and film director
• Vítor Hugo Gomes Passos - Portuguese soccer player best known as Pelé
• Frederick Duncan Haldane - English physicist and laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics along with David James Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz 
• Dmitrij Anatol'evič Medvedev (Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev) - Russian politician
• Sam Neill - Irish-born New Zealand actor, born Nigel John Dermot Neill 
• Ivan Petrovič Pavlov (Ivan Petrovich Pavlov) - Russian physician, ethologist, and psychologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1904. He discovered the classical conditioning, also called Pavlovian conditioning, through his experiments with dogs
• Pelé - Nickname of Portuguese soccer player Vítor Hugo Gomes Passos
• Renzo Piano - Italian architect
• Ettore Sottsass - Italian architect and designer. He designed furniture, lighting, typewriters, jewellery, glass. He was married to Fernanda Pivano
• Alexander von Humboldt - German naturalist, explorer and botanist
• Amy Winehouse - English singer and songwriter