August 14
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1840 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist (d. 1902)
- 1894 - Ada "Bricktop" Smith, United States performing artist and entrepreneur (d. 1984)
- 1910 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1955)
- 1926 - René Goscinny, French comic-strip author (d. 1977)
- 1928 - Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director (d. 2021)
- 1945 - Steve Martin, American comedian
- 1945 - Wim Wenders, German-born film director
- 1946 - Larry Graham, American musician
- 1947 - Danielle Steel, American novelist
- 1950 - Gary Larson, American cartoonist
- 1952 - Alex van Warmerdam, Dutch filmmaker
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Deaths
- 1692 - Nicolas Chorier, French writer (b. 1612)
- 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (b. 1898)
- 1961 - Clark Ashton Smith United States writer (b. 1893)
- 1969 - Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf (b. 1880)
- 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905)
- 1994 - Elias Canetti, British-Austrian novelist (b. 1905)
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