October 14 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including authors, entrepreneurs, politicians and actors, and 3 of them are billionaires.
Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for founding the brand Ralph Lauren, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise.
$7.7Breported estimate as of September 2026 · Forbes
Paolo Rocca is an Argentine-Italian businessman, CEO of the Techint Group, which owns Tenaris, Ternium and other companies in the engineering, construction and energy sectors. He is also chairman and CEO of Tenaris, and chairman of Ternium.
Karen Gail Miller is an American businesswoman who is the head of the Larry H. Miller Company. She assumed the role upon the death of her husband Larry H. Miller in 2009. From 2009 until 2020, Miller was the owner of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Stephen Speckman, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Authors27% (12 people)
Entrepreneurs22% (10 people)
Actors20% (9 people)
Politicians20% (9 people)
Creators18% (8 people)
Musicians16% (7 people)
Athletes13% (6 people)
Countries
23 countries, most often United States
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
United States13 (13 people)
United Kingdom4 (4 people)
Japan3 (3 people)
Germany2 (2 people)
Ireland2 (2 people)
Russia2 (2 people)
Russian Empire2 (2 people)
Life timeline
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Charles James Kirk was an American right-wing political activist, entrepreneur, and media personality. He co‑founded the conservative student organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) in 2012 and served as its executive director until his assassination in 2025.
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020.
Lê Đức Thọ, born Phan Đình Khải in Nam Dinh Province, was a Vietnamese revolutionary, diplomat, and politician. He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973, but refused the award.
Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lucy Guo is an American serial entrepreneur, social media influencer and engineer who co-founded Scale AI in 2016 before being fired in 2018. In 2022, she founded an OnlyFans competitor known as Passes. Guo was the youngest self-made female billionaire until late 2025.
Sir Cliff Richard is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and as of 2026, is the third-top-selling artist in UK singles chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Harry Laverne Anderson was an American actor, comedian, and magician. He is best known for his role as Judge Harold "Harry" T. Stone on the NBC sitcom Night Court (1984–1992). He later played Dave Barry on the CBS sitcom Dave's World (1993–1997).
John Craig Venter was an American scientist, businessman, and genomics researcher. He is known for having led one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and led the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome.
Sir Run Run Shaw, also known as Shao Yifu and Siu Yat-fu, was a Hong Kong businessman, filmmaker, and philanthropist. He was one of the foremost influential movie moguls in the East Asian and Hong Kong entertainment industry.
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Udo Kierspe, known professionally as Udo Kier, was a German actor. Known primarily as a character actor who often portrayed eccentric and deviant figures, he appeared in more than 200 films in both leading and supporting roles throughout Europe and the Americas.
Stephen John Coogan is a British actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. His accolades include six BAFTA Awards and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
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Benjamin John Whishaw is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including three British Academy Television Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.
Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, often shortened to Mobutu Sese Seko or Mobutu and also known by his initials MSS, was a Congolese politician and military officer who was the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
Farah Pahlavi is a member of the Pahlavi dynasty. She is the last queen and empress of Iran, and is the third wife and widow of the last shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress best known for her work in movies of the silent era. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987.
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Mohammad Khatami is an Iranian politician and Shia cleric who served as the fifth president of Iran from 3 August 1997 to 3 August 2005. He also served as Iran's Minister of Culture from 1982 to 1992.
Farzad Khorasani, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been published in 25 languages.
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Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 3 in women's singles and world No. 5 in women's doubles by the WTA.
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Lev Nikolayevich Gumilev was a Soviet and Russian historian, ethnologist, anthropologist, and translator. He had a reputation for his highly unorthodox theories of ethnogenesis and historiosophy. He was an exponent of Eurasianism.
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Heinrich Schütz was a German early Baroque composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of the 17th century.
Christoph Spätner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Masaoka Shiki, pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during his short life.
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Raymond Davis Jr. was an American chemist and physicist. He is best known as the leader of the Homestake experiment in the 1960s-1980s, which was the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun; for this he shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics.
National Science Foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Iveta Roberti Mukuchyan is an Armenian singer. Born in Yerevan, she moved to Hamburg, Germany, in 1992. Mukuchyan returned to Armenia in 2009 and placed fifth in the fourth season of the talent competition Hay Superstar.
Kira Oleksandrivna Rudik is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the proportional list of the Holos party. She is additionally the party's leader, and vice president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
Taras Bezpalyi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image.
Albert Callisto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Stefan Żeromski was a Polish novelist and dramatist belonging to the Young Poland movement at the turn of the 20th century. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature".
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Magdalena Franciszka Wierzycka is a Polish-South African billionaire businesswoman. She is the co-founder and CEO of Sygnia, a Cape Town-based investment and asset management company.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev was a Russian literary critic and philosopher who was a central figure of Russian nihilism. He is noted as a forerunner of Nietzschean philosophy, and for the impact his advocacy of liberation movements and natural science had on Russian history.
Collection: George Kennan Papers (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Sir Edward Sabine was an Irish physicist, geodesist,astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, polar explorer, soldier, and the 30th president of the Royal Society.
Maull and Fox photographers, London. Upload, stitch and restoration by Jebulon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on October 14, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 3 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 September 2026. 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 October 14. Read the full methodology.
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