gbirthday software package provides birthday reminder applet, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gbirthday
gbirthday is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gbirthday package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gbirthday *
You will get with gbirthday package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | GNOME |
| Package | gbirthday |
| Version | 0.6.6-2ubuntu1 |
| Description | birthday reminder applet |
| Sub Section | GNOME |