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July 14

4 births · 4 deaths · 2 events

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2016 Nice attack

10 years ago

Born this day

1913

Gerald Ford

Would be 113

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Philip II of France

death anniversary

Famous births4

1602 · 424 yrs

Cardinal Mazarin

Jules Mazarin (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini; 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. He was made a cardinal in 1641.

ReligionWould be 424

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1862 · 164 yrs

Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and a founding member of the Vienna Secession movement. His work helped define the Art Nouveau style in Europe.

ArtWould be 164

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1913 · 113 yrs

Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977.

PoliticsWould be 113

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1918 · 108 yrs

Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker and theatre director. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most notably as a prominent figure of both European film industry and Swedish cinema.

FilmWould be 108

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Famous deaths4

1223 · 803 yrs

Philip II of France

Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (French: Philippe Auguste), was King of France from 1180 to 1223.

RoyaltyWould be 861

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1817 · 209 yrs

Germaine de Staël

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (French:; née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël ( də-STAHL; French:), was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles.

LiteratureWould be 260

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1954 · 72 yrs

Jacinto Benavente

Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (Spanish pronunciation:; 12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".

LiteratureWould be 160

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2017 · 9 yrs

Maryam Mirzakhani

Maryam Mirzakhani (Persian: مریم میرزاخانی, pronounced; 12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research focused on hyperbolic geometry, dynamical systems, complex analysis, and topology.

ScienceWould be 49

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Events2

1789 · 237 yrs

Storming of the Bastille

The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille), also known as Fall of the Bastille, which occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, was an act of political violence by revolutionary insurgents who attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress, and political prison known as the…

Disaster

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 Nice attack

On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people and injuring 458 others. The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France.

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