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March 14th


- Earliest day on which Lazarus Saturday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the day before Palm Sunday. (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Constitution Day (Andorra)
- Heroes' Day (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Mother Tongue Day (Estonia)
- Nanakshahi New Year, first day of the month of Chet (Sikhism)
- Pi Day, see July 22
- Second Equirria (Roman Empire)
- Spring Day (Albania)
- White Day, complimentary day of Valentine's Day when men give gifts to women. (Japan and Korea)

March 14th


- 2005 - Cedar Revolution, where hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the government.
- 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
- 1995 - Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
- 1994 - Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
- 1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
- 1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
- 1979 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
- 1978 - The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
- 1972 - Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
- 1967 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- 1951 - Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
- 1945 - World War II – The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany.
- 1943 - World War II – The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
- 1942 - Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
- 1939 - Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
- 1915 - World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
- 1910 - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- 1903 - The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
- 1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
- 1885 - The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
- 1869 - Defeat of Titokowaru.
- 1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
- 1757 - Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
- 1647 - Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
- 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
- 1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.

March 14th


- 1992 - Jasmine Murray, American singer
- 1989 - Colby O'Donis, American musician
- 1988 - Stephen Curry, American basketball player
- 1988 - Sasha Grey, American pornographic actress
- 1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor
- 1986 - Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1986 - Andy Taylor, British/English footballer
- 1985 - Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
- 1985 - Idaira, Spanish singer
- 1985 - Brianna Love, American pornographic actress
- 1985 - Ariel Rebel, Canadian pornographic actress
- 1984 - Liesel Matthews, American former child actress
- 1983 - Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
- 1983 - Taylor Hanson, American musician, member of Hanson
- 1982 - Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
- 1982 - François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
- 1982 - Kate Maberly, British actor, singer-songwriter
- 1981 - Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
- 1981 - Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
- 1981 - George Wilson, American football player
- 1980 - Aaron Brown, British/English footballer
- 1980 - Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
- 1980 - Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- 1980 - Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
- 1979 - Love, Angolan footballer
- 1979 - Sead Ramovi?, German-born Bosnian footballer
- 1979 - Anthony Carelli, Italian-American professional wrestler
- 1979 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
- 1979 - Chris Klein, American actor
- 1978 - Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
- 1978 - Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
- 1977 - Aki Hoshino, Japanese model
- 1976 - Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1976 - Daniel Gillies, Canadian born New Zealand actor
- 1975 - Stephen Harper, British/English footballer
- 1975 - Johan Paulik, Slovak porn star
- 1975 - Wendy Rice, American actress
- 1975 - Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
- 1974 - Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 - Grace Park, Canadian actress
- 1970 - Ebru Kavakl?o?lu, Russian athlete
- 1970 - Meredith Salenger, American actress
- 1969 - Des Coleman, English actor and presenter
- 1969 - Larry Johnson, American basketball player
- 1968 - Megan Follows, Canadian actress
- 1967 - Melissa Reeves, American actress
- 1966 - Elise Neal, American actress
- 1965 - James Kevin Brown, American baseball player
- 1965 - Catherine Dent, American actress
- 1965 - Aamir Khan, Indian actor
- 1965 - Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model
- 1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
- 1964 - Dario Bisso, Italian conductor
- 1963 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
- 1962 - Narumi Tsunoda, Japanese voice actress
- 1961 - Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver
- 1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
- 1961 - Hiro Matsushita, Japanese racing driver
- 1960 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
- 1959 - Tamara Tunie, American actress
- 1959 - Brian Whitfield, former South African cricketer
- 1958 - Albert II, Prince of Monaco
- 1957 - Andrew Robinson, British author
- 1957 - Tad Williams, American author
- 1956 - Jonathan Bowen, British computer scientist
- 1956 - Colin Ayre, British football player
- 1951 - Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
- 1950 - Rick Dees, American disc jockey
- 1949 - Michael Stedman, British World War I historian and author
- 1948 - Tom Coburn, American politician, junior Senator from Oklahoma
- 1948 - Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
- 1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet
- 1947 - William J. Jefferson, American politician
- 1946 - Steve Kanaly, American actor
- 1946 - Wes Unseld, American basketball player
- 1945 - Jasper Carrott, British comedian
- 1945 - Michael Martin Murphey, American country music singer
- 1945 - Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist (Chicago)
- 1945 - Herman van Veen, Dutch singer and theatre performer
- 1944 - Bobby Smith, English professional footballer and manager
- 1944 - Vaclav Nedomansky, Czech hockey player
- 1943 - Anita Morris, American actress (d. 1994)
- 1942 - Rita Tushingham, British actress
- 1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director
- 1939 - Raymond J. Barry, American actor
- 1939 - Bertrand Blier, French film director and screenwriter
- 1939 - Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
- 1939 - Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress
- 1936 - Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
- 1934 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut
- 1934 - Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army
- 1933 - Sir Michael Caine, British actor
- 1933 - René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
- 1933 - Quincy Jones, American musician and composer
- 1932 - Naina Yeltsina, Russia's first First Lady
- 1931 - Phil Phillips, American singer and songwriter
- 1928 - Frank Borman, American astronaut and CEO
- 1928 - Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (d. 1980)
- 1925 - William Clay Ford, Sr., American owner of the Detroit Lions
- 1925 - Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004)
- 1923 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
- 1922 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d. 1996)
- 1921 - S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
- 1920 - Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
- 1918 - Dennis Patrick, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1916 - Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1915 - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
- 1914 - Lee Elhardt Hays, American folk singer (d. 1981)
- 1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
- 1914 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- 1912 - Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
- 1912 - Cliff Bastin, English footballer (d. 1991)
- 1912 - Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
- 1912 - W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator (d. 2010)
- 1908 - Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft) (d. 1991)
- 1908 - Philip Conrad Vincent, British motorcycle pioneer (Vincent Black Shadow, Vincent Rapide and Vincent Black Lightning) (d. 1979)
- 1908 - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (d. 1961)
- 1905 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1904 - Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl (d. 2010)
- 1903 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
- 1903 - Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
- 1899 - K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
- 1898 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
- 1894 - Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
- 1888 - Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970)
- 1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
- 1887 - Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (d. 1962)
- 1886 - Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
- 1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
- 1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
- 1880 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945)
- 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
- 1866 - Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
- 1863 - Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (d. 1900)
- 1862 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951)
- 1854 - Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1915)
- 1854 - Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
- 1854 - John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
- 1854 - Thomas R. Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (d. 1925)
- 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
- 1851 - John Sebastian Little, American politician and congressman (d. 1916)
- 1844 - King Umberto I of Italy, (d. 1900)
- 1837 - Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (d. 1903)
- 1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
- 1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
- 1822 - Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
- 1813 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1892)
- 1807 - Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
- 1804 - Johann Strauss, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
- 1801 - Kristjan Jaak Peterson, first Estonian poet (d. 1822)
- 1790 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
- 1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
- 1638 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)