August 14th (2012) was a Tuesday. It's the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 139 days left to the end of the year.
August 14th Famous Deaths for 2012
» Maja Bošković-Stulli, Croatian historian and academic (b. 1922)
» Vilasrao Deshmukh, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1945)
» Svetozar Gligorić, Serbian chess player (b. 1923)
» Sergey Kapitsa, English-Russian physicist and demographer (b. 1928)
» Zhou Kehua, Chinese murderer (b. 1970)
» Ron Palillo, American actor (b. 1949)
» Rosemary Rice, American actress and singer (b. 1925)
» Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (b. 1919)
August 14th Holidays in History
» Christian Calendar of saints named Feast Day:
» Maximilian Kolbe
» Kaj Munk (with Kolbe, Lutheran Church)
» Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church (USA))
» August 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Independence Day (Pakistan) or Independence Day, celebrates the day on which Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of British Raj e.g their rule of India in 1947. (Pakistan)