Birthday twins

Who Was Born on April 14?

April 14 is the birthday of 49 notable people we've found so far, including authors, politicians, entrepreneurs and scientists, and 1 of them is a billionaire.

1
billionaires
joint #241 of 366 birthdays
10
founders & entrepreneurs
joint #180 of 366 birthdays
49
notable people
joint #176 of 366 birthdays
$9.7B
combined wealth
joint #215 of 366 birthdays

What the data says

Your birthday has some company.

  • The people we list for this date were born across 1783 years, from 216 to 1999.
  • People born on this day come from 24 countries, most often United States (12 of 49).
  • Viktor Vekselberg is the wealthiest person we list for April 14, with an estimated $9.7B reported as of 2021.
  • April 14 birthdays span at least four well-represented fields, including entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and authors.
  • 49% of the people we list for this date are historical figures who are no longer living.
  • 4 Nobel laureates were born on April 14, including Erich von Däniken and Thomas Schelling.
  • 3 of them had founded a company, won a major award or taken a top job before turning 30.

💰 Richest person born on April 14

Viktor Vekselberg
Original uploader was Aleshru (Митя Алешковский) at ru.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
billionaire

Viktor Vekselberg

Entrepreneur

1957 · Russia

$9.7Bolder estimate, as of 2021 · Forbes

Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg is a Russian-Israeli businessman and oligarch. He is the founder and chairman of Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate.

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Reported estimate as of 2021: $9.7B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.

Against the other 365

How April 14 ranks

Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every April birthday · battle April 14 against another date · all rankings

Who shares April 14

What kind of people are born on April 14?

Share of the 49 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.

  • Authors22% (11 people)
  • Politicians22% (11 people)
  • Actors20% (10 people)
  • Entrepreneurs20% (10 people)
  • Scientists20% (10 people)
  • Athletes14% (7 people)
  • Creators14% (7 people)

Countries

24 countries, most often United States

Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.

  • United States12 (12 people)
  • United Kingdom7 (7 people)
  • Japan4 (4 people)
  • France2 (2 people)
  • Italy2 (2 people)
  • Russia2 (2 people)
  • Slovakia2 (2 people)

Life timeline

What were people born on April 14 doing at your age?

Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.

By 25

  1. ~22Sarah Michelle GellarNotable work: Cruel Intentions (1999)
  2. 19Mattéo GuendouziJoined Arsenal F.C. (2018)
  3. ~21Roberto AyalaJoined Argentina men's national football team (1994)
  4. ~18Martín MontoyaJoined FC Barcelona Atlètic (2009)

26 to 30

  1. 29Adrien BrodyReceived the Academy Award for Best Actor (2003)
  2. 26Julie ChristieReceived the Academy Award for Best Actress (1966)
  3. 29Charlie CojuangcoBecame mayor (1992)
  4. ~26Yuji SuganoJoined Nagoya Grampus (1987)

31 to 40

  1. 36Peter CapaldiReceived the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (1995)
  2. ~38Rudolf HrubýFounded ESET (1992)
  3. ~39Rod SteigerNamed Silver Bear for Best Actor (1964)
  4. ~35Fredric JamesonNamed Guggenheim Fellowship (1969)

41 to 50

  1. 42Rod SteigerReceived the Academy Award for Best Actor (1968)
  2. ~46B. R. AmbedkarBecame Leader of the Opposition (1937)
  3. 50Emilio ColomboBecame Prime Minister of Italy (1970)
  4. ~42Yuri OganessianReceived the USSR State Prize (1975)

After 50

  1. ~78Loretta LynnReceived the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)
  2. 77John GielgudReceived the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (1982)
  3. ~56Erich von DänikenReceived the Ig Nobel Prize (1991)
  4. ~84Thomas SchellingReceived the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (2005)

The standouts

The most successful people born on April 14

Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.

B. R. Ambedkar
scientist

B. R. Ambedkar

Top tier

Politician

1891–1956 · India

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau.

Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Adrien Brody
actor

Adrien Brody

Top tier

Actor

1973 · United States

Adrien Nicholas Brody is an American actor. Prolific in both independent films and blockbusters, he has received various accolades including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award with nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award.

PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Rob McElhenney
entrepreneur

Rob McElhenney

Top tier

Entrepreneur

1977 · United States

Robert McElhenney III, also known professionally as Rob Mac, is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, director, and businessman.

Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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artist

Erich von Däniken

Top tier

Author

1935–2026 · Switzerland

Erich Anton Paul von Däniken was a Swiss author of several pseudoscientific books which made claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968.

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Thomas Schelling
scientist

Thomas Schelling

Top tier

Scientist

1921–2016 · United States

Thomas Crombie Schelling was an American economist and professor of foreign policy, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Alvaro conde, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Builders

Entrepreneurs born on April 14

Binod Chaudhary
entrepreneur

Binod Chaudhary

Entrepreneur

1955 · Nepal

Binod Chaudhary is a Nepalese billionaire businessman, politician and philanthropist. He is the chairman and president of the Chaudhary Group (CG).

Richter Frank-Jurgen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Visvaldas Matijošaitis
entrepreneur

Visvaldas Matijošaitis

Entrepreneur

1957 · Lithuania

Visvaldas Matijošaitis is a Lithuanian politician, leader, founder, and chairman of Vieningas Kaunas, chairman for Mentor Lietuva Asociacija, president at Žalgirio Fondas Asociacija. He founded Vičiūnų grupė in Vičiūnai.

Augustas Didžgalvis, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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founder

Rudolf Hrubý

Entrepreneur · ESET · software

1954–2023 · Slovakia

Rudolf Hrubý was a Slovak businessman and investor. He was a co-founder and long-term CFO of the software company ESET.

Sources (2)
entrepreneur

Jack C. Taylor

Entrepreneur

1922–2016 · United States

Jack Crawford Taylor was an American businessman and billionaire who founded the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company. Taylor also was a fighter pilot for the United States Navy during World War II.

Sources (2)
entrepreneur

Ivan Kmotrík

Entrepreneur

1959 · Slovakia

Ivan Kmotrík is a Slovak businessman, mostly known for his involvement in the ŠK Slovan Bratislava football club. He is also owner of Grafobal group, TV channel TA3, OMS Lighting, and university Stredoeurópska vysoká škola v Skalici.

Sources (2)
entrepreneur

Turki bin Nasser

Entrepreneur

1948–2021 · Saudi Arabia

Turki bin Nasser Al Saud was a Saudi military officer, who served as the head of the presidency of meteorology and environment as well as state minister for environmental issues in Saudi Arabia.

Sources (2)

April 14 in history

What else happened on April 14

  1. -43Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
  2. 1816Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion, for which he is remembered as the country's first national hero.
  3. 1908Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1 m) high downstream.
  4. 1978Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
  5. 2001Series of bombings at Ramna Park in Dhaka during the Bengali New Year celebrations leave 10 people dead and dozens other injured.

Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

More birthday twins

Famous people born on April 14

Abigail Breslin
actor

Abigail Breslin

Actor

1996 · United States

Abigail Breslin is an American actress. Following a string of film parts as a young child, she rose to prominence at age 10 after playing Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which Breslin received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Peter Capaldi
actor

Peter Capaldi

Actor

1958 · Italy

Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist.

Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Robert Carlyle
actor

Robert Carlyle

Actor

1961 · United Kingdom

Robert Carlyle is a Scottish actor.

rach, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Julie Christie
actor

Julie Christie

Actor

1940 · United Kingdom

Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

news service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Loretta Lynn
musician

Loretta Lynn

Musician

1932–2022 · United States

Loretta Lynn was an American country music singer and songwriter. In a career spanning six decades, Lynn released multiple gold albums.

Anna Hanks from Austin, Texas, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Ritchie Blackmore
musician

Ritchie Blackmore

Musician

1945 · United Kingdom

Richard Hugh Blackmore is an English guitarist, who was a co-founding member of Deep Purple, Rainbow and Blackmore's Night.

kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Rod Steiger
actor

Rod Steiger

Actor

1925–2002 · United States

Rodney Stephen Steiger was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters.

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John Gielgud
actor

John Gielgud

Actor

1904–2000 · United Kingdom

Sir Arthur John Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director. With his contemporaries Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson, he made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

John_Gielgud_Allan_Warren_cropped.png: *John_Gielgud_Allan_Warren.jpg: Allan warren derivative work: Morn (talk) derivat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Christiaan Huygens
inventor

Christiaan Huygens

Inventor

1629–1695 · Dutch Republic

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

Bernard Vaillant, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Mani
author

Mani

Author

0216–0274 · Sasanian Empire

Mani was an Iranian prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a religion most prevalent in late antiquity.

Mladifilozof, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources (2)
Roberto Ayala
athlete

Roberto Ayala

Athlete

1973 · Argentina

Roberto Fabián Ayala, nicknamed El Ratón, is an Argentine former footballer who played as a centre-back for the Argentina national football team, as well as Valencia and Real Zaragoza in Spain, Milan and Napoli in Italy, and Ferro Carril, River Plate and Racing Club in his native Argentina.

Juan Kulichevsky from Argentina, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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author

Arnold J. Toynbee

Politician

1889–1975 · United Kingdom

Arnold Joseph Toynbee was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.

Sources (2)
Fredric Jameson
author

Fredric Jameson

Politician

1934–2024 · United States

Fredric Ruff Jameson was an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist. He was best known for his analysis of contemporary cultural trends, particularly his analysis of postmodernity and capitalism.

Fronteiras do Pensamento, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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scientist

Yuri Oganessian

Scientist

1933 · Russia

Yuri Tsolakovich Oganessian is a Russian and Armenian nuclear physicist who is best known as a researcher of superheavy elements. He has led the discovery of multiple chemical elements.

Sources (2)
Moritz Schlick
scientist

Moritz Schlick

Author

1882–1936 · Germany

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.

Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Peter Behrens
artist

Peter Behrens

Artist

1868–1940 · Hamburg

Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s.

Rudolf Dührkoop, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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artist

Robert Doisneau

Artist

1912–1994 · France

Robert Doisneau was a French photographer. From the 1930s, he photographed the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and, with Henri Cartier-Bresson, a pioneer of photojournalism.

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actor

Anthony Dod Mantle

Actor

1955 · United Kingdom

Anthony Dod Mantle is an English cinematographer, known as a pioneer of digital filmmaking through his collaborations with directors Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Danny Boyle, and Kevin Macdonald.

Sources (2)
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi
scientist

Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi

Politician

1945 · Samoa

Susuga Tuilaʻepa Lupesoliai Neioti Aiono Saʻilele Malielegaoi is a Samoan politician and economist who is the current Leader of the Opposition of Samoa. A leader of the Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP), he served as the sixth prime minister of Samoa from 1998 to 2021.

DFAT, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Greg Winter
scientist

Greg Winter

Scientist

1951 · United Kingdom

Sir Gregory Paul Winter is a Nobel Prize–winning British molecular biologist best known for his work on the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies.

Aga Machaj, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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musician

Péter Esterházy

Musician

1950–2016 · Hungary

Péter Esterházy was a Hungarian writer. He was one of the best known Hungarian and Central European writers of his era. He was called a "leading figure of 20th century Hungarian literature", and his books were considered to be significant contributions to post-war literature.

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politician

Emilio Colombo

Politician

1920–2013 · Italy

Emilio Colombo was an Italian politician. A member of the Christian Democracy party, he served as Prime Minister of Italy from August 1970 to February 1972. In 2003, he was appointed senator for life, a seat he held until his death.

Sources (2)
politician

Charlie Cojuangco

Politician

1963–2022 · Philippines

Carlos "Charlie" Oppen Cojuangco was a Filipino politician who served in the Philippine House of Representatives for two different districts: Tarlac's 1st district and Negros Occidental's 4th district.

Sources (2)
Denis Fonvizin
author

Denis Fonvizin

Author

1745–1792 · Russian Empire

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin was a Russian playwright during the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the founders of literary comedy in Russia. His main works are two satirical comedies—including The Minor, which mocks contemporary Russian gentry—which are still staged today.

Armand-Charles Caraffe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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entrepreneur

James T. Stephens

Entrepreneur

1939 · United States

American businessman and philanthropist

Sources (1)
athlete

Mitsuru Komaeda

Athlete

1950 · Japan

Mitsuru Komaeda is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

Sources (2)

Sources and method for this page

This page lists 49 people born on April 14, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2021. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on April 14. Read the full methodology.

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