Happy Birthday wishes of July 14 goes out to Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, late Dora Akunyili, Ben Enwonwu, Hafsat Idris, Farida Waziri, Nduka Obaigbena, Tim Omotoso, Ambruse Vanzekin, Ibrahim Saminu Turaki, Christopher Sapara Williams and Kenneth Ikechukwu. Other birthdays in Nigerian history includes Abubakar Shekau (dangerous militant/Boko Haram leader), Ugonna Onyekwe (British-Nigerian former professional basketball player), Niki Tobi (Nigerian judge), and Franklin Egobi (Nigerian boxer). We will not forget to mention Jesse Sekidika who’s an Nigerian association football player, Collins Nweke who’s now a Belgian politician, Kola Onadipe a well known Nigerian writer, Emmanuel Uzochukwu, a football player and Mary Durojaye a British basketball player.
14 July Birthday celebrations are currently ongoing today in United Kingdom for Eddie Hall, Tulisa, Craig Bellamy, Danny Williams (boxer), Gareth Edwards (director), and Ian Hislop.
Birthdays, Today, Ghana Celebrity Birthdays includes Jonathan Mensah, Bridget Boakye, Daniel Owusu, W. Paatii Ofosu-Amaah (Ghanaian lawyer, international civil servant and diplomat) and all the other famous 100 people and celebrities with birthdays today. Gen. Henry Kwami Anyidoho, a Ghanaian Army officer and Louis Casely-Hayford Ghanaian engineer who was born in the year 1936 at Sekondi-Takoradi also has birthdays today July 14 in history. In Ghana history, Kwame Addo-Kufuor, Charles Asampong Taylor, Kow Nkensen Arkaah, Rashid Tetteh and James Klutse Avedzi all have their birthdays today.
You can scroll down to browse through and see photos of famous people in history and other popular celebrities turning a year older on July 14th. From there, you can additionally learn an interesting fact about each of them, their age and their profession.
Top Famous Birthdays on July, 14 2024
Ebuka Uchendu turns 42 years
Ebuka Uchendu was born on 14 July 1982 at Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, with the Cancer Birth sign. He is Nigerian lawyer and media personality originally from Okija in Anambra State, Nigeria. He is recognized for hosting the reality show Big Brother Naija and the long-running talk show Rubbin’ Minds on Channels TV. Additionally, he co-hosts The Spot and Men’s Corner on Ebonylife Television. Obi-Uchendu has garnered multiple award nominations and won the award for Outstanding TV Presenter of the Year at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards for his work on Rubbin’ Minds.
Dora Akunyili (1954 – 2014) Remembrance
Dora Akunyili was born on 14 July 1954 at a city in Makurdi town, Benue State, Nigeria, with the Cancer Birth sign. She is married to J.C. Akunyili and gave birth to three children; Ijeoma Akunyili, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and Edozie Akunyili. In her early career, she was a university teacher, pharmacologist (pharmacist) and a Government Official. She was the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008 under the All Progressives Grand Alliance political party. Additionally, she wrote a books titled “The War Against Counterfeit Medicine: My Story”. Sadly, she passed away on 7 June 2014 (age 59 years), from uterine cancer in an India hospital.
Abubakar Shekau (1974 – 2021) Remembrance
Abubakar Shekau is a Kanuri man born on July 14 1974 at a community in Niger Republic, a country shearing international border with Nigeria through Katsina state. His was born with the Cancer Birth sign. He was an unofficial military personnel, partisan, jihadist and leader of a Nigerian militant group. Shekau was know so multiple alias including Abu Mohammed Abubakar bin Mohammad al-Sheikawi, Darul Akeem wa Zamunda Tawheed, or Darul Tawheed (“the abode of monotheism”). He was the leader of Boko Haram, a Nigerian militant group that has declared loyalty to the Islamist militant group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). He also works with ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Nigerians has a very negative memory of him because he executed hundreds of people in the northern part of the country. He died in 19 May 2021.
Ben Enwonwu (1917 – 1994)
Mr. Ben Enwonwu (MBE) was born on 14 July 1921 in the city of Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, with the Cancer Birth sign. His full name is Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria. He is a Nigerian painter and sculptor. History has it that one of the best African artist of the 20th century. It says that his early career paved the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of modern art in Nigeria and Africa at large. He won the critical acclaim, having exhibited in august exhibition spaces in Europe and the United States Due to his success story in the 90’s, he was celebrated as “Africa’s Greatest Artist” by the international media back then.
Hafsat Idris turns 37 years
Hafsat Idris was born on 14 July 1989 at Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria with the Cancer Birth sign. First, she is originally from Kano state, the largest part of northern Nigeria but raised in Ogun. She is a Nigerian actress in the Kannywood Film industry. Hafsat Idris gained recognition for her debut and lead role in the movie Barauniya, which marked a turning point in her acting career. In 2017, she was nominated as the most promising Kannywood actress of the year by the City People Movie Awards.
Christopher Sapara Williams (1855 – 1915)
Christopher Williams was born on 14 July 1855 at Lagos State, Nigeria with the Cancer Birth sign. His full name is Chief Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams. He was the first indigenous Nigerian lawyer, called to the English bar on 17 November 1879. Apart from his legal practice as an attorney, he was known for his political activity in the politics of Nigeria during the colonial era. Later, he became a traditional chieftaincy title holder as the Lodifi of Ilesha. Chief Sapara Williams was the elder brother of Oguntola Sapara, who became a prominent physician. He died on 15 March 1915 at the age of 59 years old.
Infamous People with birthdays today July 14 in Nigeria and Ghana
Birthdays in 14 July for infamous people in Nigeria and its neighbor, Ghana includes Taiwo Tomilola Addy, Adeniji Abosede, Clara Jacinta, Lois Ekeh, Mary Nyanduko, Marie N. Didi and Balogun Adebimpe. Madam Alao Adenike, AYEESHA SHOMORIN AKINTIMEHIN, Albert Jessica Adaobi (from Port Harcourt), Ifeoma Grace (Abuja), olayinka beauty, and Sandra Sambo from Jos.
Others includes Cynthia Chioma, Udeogu Pamela Mma, Khadijha Samirah Kleopatra, Adekunle AyobamiStephanie Solomon, Rose Chijioke as well as Linda Chinyere Nwafor. There’s also Adun Olatoyosi, Christianah Seyifunm Olugbaiye, Toluwa Oluwatoyin A., Obah Fumnanya, Patsy John, funmilola ajide, Kehinde Abdulsalam, Christabel simeon together with Achua Blessing.
Celebrities with birthdays today July 14 in United States of America
There is a short list of Famous People’s Birthdays, for July 14, in United States. These Celebrity Birthdays is expected to come with birthday wishes too for people like Dan Reynolds a American singer and songwriter born in 1987 at Okemah, Ryan Sweeting, an American tennis player born in 1987 at Nassau and Scott Porter, an American actor and occasional singer born in 1979 at Omaha.
In United states history, other birthday remembrance includes; Gerald Ford 1913, an American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977), Jane Lynch 1960, American actress, singer, and comedian born in Dolton, Bebe Buell 1953, American model and singer born in Portsmouth, Jackie Earle Haley 1961, an American actor born in Northridge. We still have Harry Dean Stanton 1926, an American actor, musician, and singer born in Irvine, Tommy Mottola 1949, an American music executive born in The Bronx.
More Famous People with birthdays today July 14 in USA
- Dagmara Domińczyk (Polish-American actress), born in 1976 at Kielce
- Sid Haig (American actor), born in 1939 at Fresno
- Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter and folk musician), born in 1912 at Okemah
- Matthew Fox (American actor) born in 1966 at Abington Township
- Tameka Cottle (singer-songwriter) born in 1975 at College Park
- Vincent Pastore (American actor) born in 1946 at The Bronx
- Kyle Gass (American musician) born in 1960 at Walnut Creek
- Bubba Ray Dudley (American professional wrestler) born in 1971 at Queens
- Taboo (rapper), an American singer, actor, and rapper born in 1975 at Los Angeles
- Franklin Graham (American Pundit) born in 1952 at Asheville
- William Hanna (American animator and cartoonist) born in 1910 at Belrose
Famous Birthdays for July 14 United Kingdom
Below are the Famous People’s Birthdays, July 14, United Kingdom Celebrity Birthdays we are sending birthday wishes to Phoebe Waller-Bridge 1985, a British actress, producer and writer born in London, David Mitchel 1974, a British actor, comedian and writer and Adam Johnson 1987, an English association football player.
Let us not forget to send a heart warming happy birthday celebration messages to Dan Smith (an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist), James Vaughan (footballer, born 1988) and Lee Mead a British actor born in Southend-on-Sea. Salute other birthday celebrants of 14 July including Maxine Peake an English television actress born 1974 at Westhoughton.
List of Historical Birthdays on 14 July in UK
- James Vaughan (footballer, born 1988) an English association football player
- F. R. Leavis born (Jul 14, 1895 at Cambridge) an British literary critic
- Sue Lawley British broadcaster, born 1946 at Sedgley
- Bill Millin, a Canadian musician born at Regina in 1922
- Christopher Priest (novelist), a British speculative fiction writer born at Manchester in 1943
Other popular or historical birthdays on July 14th
- Robert Stephens 1931, English actor born in Bristol
- Gertrude Bell Jul 14, 1868, an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy born in County Durham in the UK
- William Rees-Mogg 1928, British journalist born in Bristol
- Anne Hegerty 1958, Television personality born in the City of Westminster
- Maxine Peake 1974, English television actress, born in Westhoughton
- Lee Mead 1981, British actor born in Southend-on-Sea
- Cathy Newman 1974, journalist born in Guildford
- Dan Smith (singer) 1986, English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist bornin London
- Pui Fan Lee 1971, British actress born in Nottingham
- William Paley 1743, Christian apologist, natural theologian, utilitarian born in Peterborough
- Simon Merrells 1966, British actor born in Epping
- Howard Webb 1971, English professional football referee born in Rotherham
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