The Birthday Gazette

Born on January 14

January 14 birthdays & history

If you were born on January 14, you share a birthday with Frank Cowper, Albert Schweitzer and Yukio Mishima. January 14 babies are Capricorn, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 14 is the 14th day of the year in leap years.

Famous people born on January 14

  • 1849Frank Cowper, English yachtsman, author and illustrator
  • 1875Albert Schweitzer, French-German physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1925Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, poet, and playwright
  • 1969Jason Bateman, American actor, director, and producer
  • 1919Giulio Andreotti, Italian journalist and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Italy
  • 1841Berthe Morisot, French painter
  • 1963Steven Soderbergh, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1969Dave Grohl, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
  • 1892Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian
  • 1941Faye Dunaway, American actress and producer

What happened on January 14

  • 1814Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
  • 1899RMS Oceanic, the largest ship afloat since SS Great Eastern, is launched.
  • 1900Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
  • 1911Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
  • 1939Norway claimed Queen Maud Land, a 2.7-million km2 (1.0-million sq mi) region of Antarctica, as a dependent territory.
  • 1952NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
  • 1953Josip Broz Tito is elected the first President of Yugoslavia.
  • 1954The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
  • 1957Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
  • 1967Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
  • 1973Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was broadcast live to audiences in Asia and Oceania.
  • 2018In the "Minneapolis Miracle", American football player Stefon Diggs caught a 61-yard (56 m) touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota Vikings' victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game.

Also observed on January 14

  • Defender of the Motherland Day (Uzbekistan)
  • Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity)
  • Flag Day (Georgia)
  • National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)
  • Old New Year, and its related observance: Azhyrnykhua (Abkhazia)
  • Old New Year, and its related observance: Yennayer (Berbers)

Questions, answered

What star sign is January 14?

People born on January 14 are Capricorn. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.

Which famous people were born on January 14?

Frank Cowper (1849), Albert Schweitzer (1875), Yukio Mishima (1925), Jason Bateman (1969), Giulio Andreotti (1919), Berthe Morisot (1841) were all born on January 14.

What happened on January 14 in history?

Among other things: in 1967, Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love; in 1973, Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite was broadcast live to audiences in Asia and Oceania; in 2018, In the "Minneapolis Miracle", American football player Stefon Diggs caught a 61-yard (56 m) touchdown pass that secured the Minnesota Vikings' victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game.

Can I get a newspaper front page from January 14?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 14 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 14”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.