Notable Birthdays for April 14
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, founder of the wave theory of light, in 1629
- Anne Sullivan, the miracle worker who taught a blind and deaf Helen Keller, in 1866
- English historian Arnold Toynbee in 1889
- British actor John Gielgud in 1904
- Haitian dictator Francois Papa Doc Duvalier in 1907
- actors Rod Steiger in 1925 and Bradford Dillman in 1930 (age 84)
- country singer Loretta Lynn and writer Erich von Daniken in, both in 1935 (age 79)
- crusading New York police detective Frank Serpico in 1936 (age 78)
- actor Julie Christie and Pete Rose, former baseball star and manager, both in 1941 (age 73)
- and actors Robert Carlyle in 1961 (age 53), Anthony Michael Hall in 1968 (age 46), Adrien Brody in 1973 (age 41), Sarah Michelle Gellar in 1977 (age 37) and Abigail Breslin in 1997 (age 17).
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