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| March 14th, 2008 (March 14 2008) | Death | Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (born in 1920) | |
| March 14th, 2008 (March 14 2008) | Death | Anthony Minghella, English Oscar winning film director (born in 1954) | |
| March 14th, 2007 (March 14 2007) | Death | Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (born in 1912) | |
| March 14th, 2007 (March 14 2007) | Death | Gareth Hunt, English actor (born in 1943) | |
| March 14th, 2006 (March 14 2006) | Death | Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (born in 1929) | |
| March 14th, 2006 (March 14 2006) | Death | Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (born in 1929) | |
| March 14th, 2005 (March 14 2005) | Event | Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. | |
| March 14th, 2003 (March 14 2003) | Death | Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (born in 1945) | |
| March 14th, 2003 (March 14 2003) | Death | Jean-Luc Lagardere, French publisher (born in 1928) | |
| March 14th, 2002 (March 14 2002) | Death | Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (born in 1900) | Philo Quotes |
| March 14th, 2002 (March 14 2002) | Death | Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (born in 1930) | |
| March 14th, 1999 (March 14 1999) | Death | Kirk Alyn, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| March 14th, 1998 (March 14 1998) | Event | An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran. | |
| March 14th, 1997 (March 14 1997) | Event | The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality. | |
| March 14th, 1997 (March 14 1997) | Death | Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (born in 1907) | |
| March 14th, 1995 (March 14 1995) | Event | Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. | |
| March 14th, 1995 (March 14 1995) | Death | William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1911) | Alfred Nobel Quotes |
| March 14th, 1994 (March 14 1994) | Event | Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released. | |
| March 14th, 1992 (March 14 1992) | Death | Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (born in 1926) | |
| March 14th, 1991 (March 14 1991) | Death | Howard Ashman, American lyricist and playwright (born in 1950) | |
| March 14th, 1991 (March 14 1991) | Death | Doc Pomus, American composer (born in 1925) | |
| March 14th, 1991 (March 14 1991) | Death | Margery Sharp, children s author (born in 1905) | |
| March 14th, 1989 (March 14 1989) | Death | Edward Abbey, American author and environmental activist (born in 1927) | Edward Abbey Quotes |
| March 14th, 1986 (March 14 1986) | Birth | Jamie Bell, British actor | |
| March 14th, 1986 (March 14 1986) | Birth | Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer | |
| March 14th, 1986 (March 14 1986) | Birth | Andy Taylor, British/English footballer | |
| March 14th, 1985 (March 14 1985) | Birth | Eva Angelina, American porn star | |
| March 14th, 1985 (March 14 1985) | Birth | Idaira, Spanish singer | |
| March 14th, 1985 (March 14 1985) | Birth | Brianna Love, American porn Star | |
| March 14th, 1984 (March 14 1984) | Event | Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast. | |
| March 14th, 1983 (March 14 1983) | Birth | Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer | |
| March 14th, 1983 (March 14 1983) | Birth | Taylor Hanson, American musician, member of Hanson | |
| March 14th, 1983 (March 14 1983) | Death | Maurice Ronet, French film actor (born in 1927) | |
| March 14th, 1982 (March 14 1982) | Birth | Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer | |
| March 14th, 1982 (March 14 1982) | Birth | Kate Maberly, British actor, Singer Songwriter | |
| March 14th, 1981 (March 14 1981) | Birth | Bobby Jenks, American baseball player | |
| March 14th, 1981 (March 14 1981) | Birth | Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist | |
| March 14th, 1980 (March 14 1980) | Event | In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. | |
| March 14th, 1980 (March 14 1980) | Birth | Aaron Brown, British/English footballer | |
| March 14th, 1980 (March 14 1980) | Birth | Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver | |
| March 14th, 1980 (March 14 1980) | Birth | Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer | |
| March 14th, 1980 (March 14 1980) | Birth | Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress | |
| March 14th, 1980 (March 14 1980) | Death | Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (born in 1902) | |
| March 14th, 1979 (March 14 1979) | Event | In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200. | |
| March 14th, 1979 (March 14 1979) | Birth | Nicolas Anelka, French footballer | |
| March 14th, 1979 (March 14 1979) | Birth | Chris Klein, American actor | |
| March 14th, 1979 (March 14 1979) | Birth | Love, Angolan footballer | |
| March 14th, 1979 (March 14 1979) | Birth | Sead Ramovic, German-born Bosnian footballer | |
| March 14th, 1978 (March 14 1978) | Event | The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani. | |
| March 14th, 1978 (March 14 1978) | Birth | Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer | |
| March 14th, 1977 (March 14 1977) | Birth | Aki Hoshino, Japanese model | |
| March 14th, 1977 (March 14 1977) | Death | Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (born in 1917) | Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes |
| March 14th, 1976 (March 14 1976) | Birth | Merlin Santana, American actor (died in 2002) | |
| March 14th, 1976 (March 14 1976) | Death | Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (born in 1895) | |
| March 14th, 1975 (March 14 1975) | Birth | Stephen Harper, British/English footballer | |
| March 14th, 1975 (March 14 1975) | Birth | Johan Paulik, Slovak porn star | |
| March 14th, 1975 (March 14 1975) | Birth | Wendy Rice, American actress | |
| March 14th, 1975 (March 14 1975) | Birth | Rico Yan, Filipino actor (died in 2002) | |
| March 14th, 1975 (March 14 1975) | Death | Susan Hayward, American actress (born in 1917) | |
| March 14th, 1974 (March 14 1974) | Birth | Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 14th, 1973 (March 14 1973) | Death | Howard Aiken, American engineer (born in 1900) | |
| March 14th, 1973 (March 14 1973) | Death | Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (born in 1907) | |
| March 14th, 1973 (March 14 1973) | Death | Chic Young, American cartoonist (born in 1901) | |
| March 14th, 1970 (March 14 1970) | Birth | Ebru Kavakl?oglu, Russian athlete | |
| March 14th, 1970 (March 14 1970) | Birth | Meredith Salenger, American actress | |
| March 14th, 1969 (March 14 1969) | Birth | Larry Johnson, American basketball player | |
| March 14th, 1968 (March 14 1968) | Birth | Megan Follows, Canadian actress | |
| March 14th, 1967 (March 14 1967) | Event | The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| March 14th, 1966 (March 14 1966) | Birth | Elise Neal, American actress | |
| March 14th, 1965 (March 14 1965) | Birth | James Kevin Brown, American baseball player | Kevin James Quotes |
| March 14th, 1965 (March 14 1965) | Birth | Catherine Dent, American actress | |
| March 14th, 1965 (March 14 1965) | Birth | Aamir Khan, Indian actor | |
| March 14th, 1965 (March 14 1965) | Birth | Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model | |
| March 14th, 1965 (March 14 1965) | Birth | Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter | |
| March 14th, 1964 (March 14 1964) | Event | A jury in Dallas, Texas find Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of John F. Kennedy. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| March 14th, 1963 (March 14 1963) | Birth | Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer | |
| March 14th, 1961 (March 14 1961) | Birth | Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver | |
| March 14th, 1961 (March 14 1961) | Birth | Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress | |
| March 14th, 1961 (March 14 1961) | Birth | Hiro Matsushita, Japanese racing driver | |
| March 14th, 1960 (March 14 1960) | Birth | Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (died in 2006) | |
| March 14th, 1959 (March 14 1959) | Birth | Tamara Tunie, American actress | |
| March 14th, 1958 (March 14 1958) | Birth | Albert II, Prince of Monaco | |
| March 14th, 1957 (March 14 1957) | Birth | Andrew Robinson, British author | |
| March 14th, 1957 (March 14 1957) | Birth | Tad Williams, American author | |
| March 14th, 1957 (March 14 1957) | Death | Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (born in 1938) | |
| March 14th, 1956 (March 14 1956) | Birth | Jonathan Bowen, British computer scientist | |
| March 14th, 1956 (March 14 1956) | Birth | Colin Ayre, British football player | |
| March 14th, 1951 (March 14 1951) | Event | Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul. | |
| March 14th, 1951 (March 14 1951) | Birth | Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry s ice cream | |
| March 14th, 1950 (March 14 1950) | Birth | Rick Dees, American disc jockey | |
| March 14th, 1949 (March 14 1949) | Birth | Michael Stedman, British World War I Historian and Author | |
| March 14th, 1949 (March 14 1949) | Death | John Callan O Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (born in 1873) | |
| March 14th, 1948 (March 14 1948) | Birth | Tom Coburn, American politician, junior senator from Oklahoma | |
| March 14th, 1948 (March 14 1948) | Birth | Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian | |
| March 14th, 1947 (March 14 1947) | Birth | Pam Ayres, British poet | Pam Ayres Quotes |
| March 14th, 1947 (March 14 1947) | Birth | William J. Jefferson, American politician | |
| March 14th, 1946 (March 14 1946) | Birth | Steve Kanaly, American actor | |
| March 14th, 1946 (March 14 1946) | Death | Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (born in 1878) | Werner von Blomberg Quotes |
| March 14th, 1945 (March 14 1945) | Event | World WarThe R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany. | |
| March 14th, 1945 (March 14 1945) | Birth | Jasper Carrott, British comedian | |
| March 14th, 1945 (March 14 1945) | Birth | Michael Martin Murphey, American country music singer | |
| March 14th, 1945 (March 14 1945) | Birth | Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist Chicago | |
| March 14th, 1944 (March 14 1944) | Birth | Vaclav Nedomansky, Czech hockey player | |
| March 14th, 1943 (March 14 1943) | Event | World WarThe Krakow Ghetto is liquidated . | |
| March 14th, 1943 (March 14 1943) | Birth | Anita Morris, American actress (died in 1994) | |
| March 14th, 1942 (March 14 1942) | Event | John Bumstead and Orvan Hess became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin. | |
| March 14th, 1942 (March 14 1942) | Birth | Rita Tushingham, British actress | |
| March 14th, 1941 (March 14 1941) | Birth | Wolfgang Petersen, German director | |
| March 14th, 1939 (March 14 1939) | Event | German troops fully occupy the Czechoslovak provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. | |
| March 14th, 1939 (March 14 1939) | Birth | Raymond J. Barry, American actor | |
| March 14th, 1939 (March 14 1939) | Birth | Bertrand Blier, French film director and screenwriter | |
| March 14th, 1939 (March 14 1939) | Birth | Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer | |
| March 14th, 1939 (March 14 1939) | Birth | Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress | |
| March 14th, 1937 (March 14 1937) | Event | Pope Pius XI officially issued the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge to Nazi Germany. | |
| March 14th, 1936 (March 14 1936) | Birth | Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer | |
| March 14th, 1934 (March 14 1934) | Birth | Eugene Cernan, American astronaut | |
| March 14th, 1934 (March 14 1934) | Birth | Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army | |
| March 14th, 1933 (March 14 1933) | Birth | Sir Michael Caine, British actor | Michael Caine Quotes |
| March 14th, 1933 (March 14 1933) | Birth | Rene Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council | |
| March 14th, 1933 (March 14 1933) | Birth | Quincy Jones, American musician and composer | |
| March 14th, 1933 (March 14 1933) | Death | Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925 | |
| March 14th, 1932 (March 14 1932) | Birth | Naina Yeltsina, Russia s first First Lady | |
| March 14th, 1932 (March 14 1932) | Death | George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (born in 1854) | |
| March 14th, 1931 (March 14 1931) | Birth | Phil Phillips, American singer and songwriter | |
| March 14th, 1928 (March 14 1928) | Birth | Frank Borman, American astronaut and CEO | |
| March 14th, 1926 (March 14 1926) | Event | A train in Costa Rica falls into the Rio Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93. | |
| March 14th, 1925 (March 14 1925) | Birth | William Clay Ford, Sr., American owner of the Detroit Lions | |
| March 14th, 1925 (March 14 1925) | Birth | Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (died in 2004) | |
| March 14th, 1923 (March 14 1923) | Birth | Diane Arbus, American photographer (died in 1971) | |
| March 14th, 1922 (March 14 1922) | Birth | Les Baxter, American musician and composer (died in 1996) | |
| March 14th, 1921 (March 14 1921) | Birth | S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A | |
| March 14th, 1920 (March 14 1920) | Birth | Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (died in 2001) | |
| March 14th, 1918 (March 14 1918) | Birth | Dennis Patrick, American actor (died in 2002) | |
| March 14th, 1916 (March 14 1916) | Birth | Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter | |
| March 14th, 1915 (March 14 1915) | Event | 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. | |
| March 14th, 1915 (March 14 1915) | Birth | Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (died in 2005) | |
| March 14th, 1914 (March 14 1914) | Birth | Lee Elhardt Hays, American folksinger (died in 1981) | |
| March 14th, 1914 (March 14 1914) | Birth | Bill Owen, British actor (died in 1999) | |
| March 14th, 1914 (March 14 1914) | Birth | Lee Petty, American race car driver (died in 2000) | |
| March 14th, 1912 (March 14 1912) | Birth | Les Brown, American bandleader (died in 2001) | |
| March 14th, 1912 (March 14 1912) | Birth | Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (died in 1998) | |
| March 14th, 1910 (March 14 1910) | Event | Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere. | |
| March 14th, 1908 (March 14 1908) | Birth | Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft; died in 1991) | |
| March 14th, 1908 (March 14 1908) | Birth | Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (died in 1961) | Philo Quotes |
| March 14th, 1905 (March 14 1905) | Birth | Raymond Aron, French philosopher (died in 1983) | Philo Quotes |
| March 14th, 1904 (March 14 1904) | Birth | Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl | |
| March 14th, 1903 (March 14 1903) | Event | 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. | |
| March 14th, 1903 (March 14 1903) | Birth | Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (died in 1979) | |
| March 14th, 1903 (March 14 1903) | Birth | Adolph Gottlieb American painter (died in 1974) | |
| March 14th, 1900 (March 14 1900) | Event | The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard. | |
| March 14th, 1899 (March 14 1899) | Birth | K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (died in 1992) | |
| March 14th, 1898 (March 14 1898) | Birth | Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (died in 1985) | |
| March 14th, 1894 (March 14 1894) | Birth | Osa Johnson, American explorer (died in 1953) | |
| March 14th, 1889 (March 14 1889) | Event | German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon" | |
| March 14th, 1888 (March 14 1888) | Birth | Marc-Aurele Fortin, Quebec painter (died in 1970) | |
| March 14th, 1887 (March 14 1887) | Birth | Sylvia Beach, American publisher (died in 1962) | |
| March 14th, 1887 (March 14 1887) | Birth | Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (died in 1962) | |
| March 14th, 1886 (March 14 1886) | Birth | Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (died in 1964) | |
| March 14th, 1885 (March 14 1885) | Birth | Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (died in 1918) | |
| March 14th, 1884 (March 14 1884) | Death | Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (born in 1827) | |
| March 14th, 1883 (March 14 1883) | Death | Karl Marx, German philosopher and political theorist (born in 1818) | Karl Marx Quotes |
| March 14th, 1882 (March 14 1882) | Birth | Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (died in 1969) | |
| March 14th, 1880 (March 14 1880) | Birth | Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (died in 1945) | |
| March 14th, 1879 (March 14 1879) | Birth | Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1955) | Albert Einstein Quotes |
| March 14th, 1869 (March 14 1869) | Event | Defeat of Titokowaru. | |
| March 14th, 1869 (March 14 1869) | Birth | Algernon Blackwood, British writer (died in 1951) | |
| March 14th, 1866 (March 14 1866) | Birth | Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (died in 1942) | |
| March 14th, 1863 (March 14 1863) | Birth | Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (died in 1900) | |
| March 14th, 1862 (March 14 1862) | Birth | Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (died in 1961) | |
| March 14th, 1854 (March 14 1854) | Birth | Paul Ehrlich, German scientist, Nobel laureate (died in 1915) | |
| March 14th, 1854 (March 14 1854) | Birth | Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (died in 1920) | |
| March 14th, 1854 (March 14 1854) | Birth | John Lane, British publisher (died in 1925) | |
| March 14th, 1853 (March 14 1853) | Birth | Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died in 1918) | |
| March 14th, 1844 (March 14 1844) | Birth | King Umberto I of Italy (died in 1900) | |
| March 14th, 1835 (March 14 1835) | Birth | Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (died in 1910) | |
| March 14th, 1823 (March 14 1823) | Birth | Theodore de Banville, French writer (died in 1891) | |
| March 14th, 1823 (March 14 1823) | Death | Charles Francois Dumouriez, French general (born in 1739) | |
| March 14th, 1822 (March 14 1822) | Birth | Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (died in 1889) | |
| March 14th, 1813 (March 14 1813) | Birth | Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (died in 1892) | Bradley Joseph Quotes |
| March 14th, 1811 (March 14 1811) | Death | Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born in 1735) | |
| March 14th, 1807 (March 14 1807) | Birth | Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (died in 1876) | |
| March 14th, 1805 (March 14 1805) | Death | Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki, Russian general (born in 1753) | |
| March 14th, 1804 (March 14 1804) | Birth | Johann Strau?, Sr., Austrian composer (died in 1849) | |
| March 14th, 1803 (March 14 1803) | Death | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (born in 1724) | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Quotes |
| March 14th, 1794 (March 14 1794) | Event | Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. | |
| March 14th, 1791 (March 14 1791) | Death | Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (born in 1725) | |
| March 14th, 1790 (March 14 1790) | Birth | Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (died in 1863) | |
| March 14th, 1757 (March 14 1757) | Event | On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty. | |
| March 14th, 1757 (March 14 1757) | Death | John Byng, British admiral (executed) (born in 1704) | |
| March 14th, 1748 (March 14 1748) | Death | George Wade, British military leader (born in 1673) | George Ade Quotes |
| March 14th, 1698 (March 14 1698) | Death | Claes Ralamb, Swedish statesman (born in 1622) | |
| March 14th, 1696 (March 14 1696) | Death | Jean Domat, French jurist (born in 1625) | |
| March 14th, 1682 (March 14 1682) | Death | Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (born in 1628) | |
| March 14th, 1681 (March 14 1681) | Birth | Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (died in 1767) | |
| March 14th, 1680 (March 14 1680) | Death | Rene Le Bossu, French critic (born in 1631) | |
| March 14th, 1648 (March 14 1648) | Death | Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (born in 1584) | |
| March 14th, 1647 (March 14 1647) | Event | Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. | |
| March 14th, 1647 (March 14 1647) | Death | Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (born in 1584) | |
| March 14th, 1638 (March 14 1638) | Birth | Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (died in 1710) | |
| March 14th, 1590 (March 14 1590) | Event | 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. | |
| March 14th, 1489 (March 14 1489) | Event | The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice. | |
| March 14th, 1471 (March 14 1471) | Death | Sir Thomas Malory, English author (born in 1405) | Thomas Malory Quotes |
| March 14th, 1457 (March 14 1457) | Death | Jingtai Emperor of China (born in 1428) | |
| March 14th, 0968 (March 14 0968) | Death | Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (c. 895) | |
| March 14th, 0752 (March 14 0752) | Death | Pope Zachary | |
