April 14 is the 104th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (105th in leap years). There are 261 days remaining.
- 1629 - Christiaan Huygens, mathematician (+ 1695)
- 1827 - Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers[?], archaeologist (+ 1900)
- 1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs[?], scientist (+ 1896)
- 1886 - Ernst Robert Curtis[?], romanist (+ 1956)
- 1891 - Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, politician (+ 1956)
- 1904 - Sir John Gielgud, actor (+ 2000)
- 1908 - Hermann Stahl[?], writer
- 1925 - Rod Steiger, actor (+ 2002)
- 1936 - Kenneth Mars[?], actor
- 1940 - Loretta Lynn, country music singer
- 1941 - Pete Rose, baseball player
- 1941 - Julie Christie, actress
- 1942 - Valeri Brumel[?], athlete (+ 2003)
- 1945 - Ritchie Blackmore, rock music guitarist
- 1951 - Julian Lloyd Webber, musician
- 1968 - Anthony Michael Hall, actor
- 1973 - Adrien Brody, actor
- 1974 - Da Brat, rap musician
- 1977 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress
- 1759 - Georg Friedrich Handel, composer (* 1685)
- 1917 - Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof[?], creator of Esperanto (* 1859)
- 1925 - John Singer Sargent, artist (* 1856)
- 1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, mathematician (* 1882)
- 1964 - Rachel Carson, writer, ecologist (* 1907)
- 1975 - Fredric March, actor
- 1978 - Sophia Lyon Fahs[?], educator and religious theorist, dies at 101
- 1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (* 1908)
- 1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer, actor
- 1999 - Anthony Newley[?], actor, singer
- 2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara[?], director (* 1927)
See Also: January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December
April 13 - April 15 - March 14 - May 14 - more historical anniversaries