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Born in 1914

1149 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Hedy Lamarr

    musician, model

    1914–2000 · aged 85

    November 9 · 1914

    Source: IMDb

  2. Alec Guinness

    stage actor, television actor

    1914–2000 · aged 86

    April 2 · 1914

    Source: filmportal.de

  3. Yuri Andropov

    diplomat, politician

    1914–1984 · aged 69

    June 15 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  4. Joe DiMaggio

    baseball player

    1914–1999 · aged 84

    November 25 · 1914

    Source: DiMaggio, Joe (25 November 1914–09 March 1999), baseball player

  5. William S. Burroughs

    essayist, writer

    1914–1997 · aged 83

    February 5 · 1914

    Source: Babelio

  6. Tenzing Norgay

    mountaineer, explorer

    1914–1986 · aged 71

    May 29 · 1914

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  7. Dylan Thomas

    musician, film screenwriter

    1914–1953 · aged 39

    October 27 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  8. Tyrone Power

    military officer, actor

    1914–1958 · aged 44

    May 5 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  9. Joe Louis

    boxer, professional wrestler

    1914–1981 · aged 66

    May 13 · 1914

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  10. Estelle Reiner

    singer, film actor

    1914–2008 · aged 94

    June 5 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  11. Jiang Qing

    actor, politician

    Date disputed

    March 5 · 1914

    No external source identified

  12. Jackie Coogan

    stage actor, television actor

    1914–1984 · aged 69

    October 26 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  13. Sam Manekshaw

    military officer

    1914–2008 · aged 94

    April 3 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  14. Jonas Salk

    inventor, virologist

    1914–1995 · aged 80

    October 28 · 1914

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  15. George Reeves

    stage actor, television actor

    1914–1959 · aged 45

    January 5 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  16. Richard Widmark

    television actor, stage actor

    1914–2008 · aged 93

    December 26 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  17. Tove Jansson

    author, muralist

    1914–2001 · aged 86

    August 9 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  18. Unity Mitford

    socialite

    1914–1948 · aged 33

    August 8 · 1914

    Source: The Peerage

  19. Jack LaLanne

    writer, actor

    1914–2011 · aged 96

    September 28 · 1914

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  20. Peter Townsend

    aircraft pilot, writer

    1914–1995 · aged 80

    November 22 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  21. Norman Borlaug

    forestry engineer, geneticist

    1914–2009 · aged 95

    March 25 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  22. Louis de Funès

    film actor, comedian

    1914–1983 · aged 68

    July 31 · 1914

    Source: GeneaStar

  23. Jyoti Basu

    politician

    1914–2010 · aged 95

    July 8 · 1914

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  24. Mohammed Zahir Shah

    politician

    1914–2007 · aged 92

    October 15 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  25. Desmond Llewelyn

    film actor, actor

    1914–1999 · aged 85

    September 12 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  26. Thor Heyerdahl

    marine biologist, ethnologist

    1914–2002 · aged 87

    October 6 · 1914

    Source: Roglo

  27. William Westmoreland

    politician, army officer

    1914–2005 · aged 91

    March 26 · 1914

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  28. Jack Parsons

    businessperson, fencer

    1914–1952 · aged 37

    October 2 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  29. George Bernard Dantzig

    university teacher, statistician

    1914–2005 · aged 90

    November 8 · 1914

    Source: Scientific Legacy Database

  30. Ray Walston

    actor, film actor

    1914–2001 · aged 86

    November 2 · 1914

    Source: birth certificate

  31. Jean Tatlock

    psychiatrist

    1914–1944 · aged 29

    February 21 · 1914

    No external source identified

  32. Sun Ra

    music director, pianist

    1914–1993 · aged 79

    May 22 · 1914

    Source: MusicBrainz

  33. Joan Pujol García

    merchant, spy

    1914–1988 · aged 74

    February 14 · 1914

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  34. Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

    politician, military personnel

    1914–1982 · aged 68

    July 1 · 1914

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  35. Woody Strode

    television actor, athlete

    Date disputed

    July 25 · 1914

    Source: filmportal.de

  36. Vincent J. McMahon

    entrepreneur, professional wrestling promoter

    1914–1984

    July 6 · 1914

    Source: Internet Wrestling Database

  37. Paul Vario

    mobster

    1914–1988 · aged 73

    July 9 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  38. Noor Inayat Khan

    soldier, resistance fighter

    1914–1944 · aged 30

    January 1 · 1914

    Source: the-south-asian.com

  39. Marguerite Duras

    autobiographer, playwright

    1914–1996 · aged 81

    April 4 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  40. Robert Wise

    director, trade unionist

    1914–2005 · aged 91

    September 10 · 1914

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  41. Robert Alda

    stage actor, television actor

    1914–1986 · aged 72

    February 26 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. Kenneth More

    film actor, television actor

    1914–1982 · aged 67

    September 20 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  43. Norman Lloyd

    television actor, director

    1914–2021 · aged 106

    November 8 · 1914

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  44. Julio Cortázar

    essayist, translator

    1914–1984 · aged 69

    August 26 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  45. Michael Wittmann

    soldier, military personnel

    1914–1944 · aged 30

    April 22 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  46. Kevin McCarthy

    film actor, stage actor

    1914–2010 · aged 96

    February 15 · 1914

    Source: Internet Speculative Fiction Database

  47. Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark

    aristocrat

    1914–2001 · aged 87

    June 26 · 1914

    Source: The Peerage

  48. Bill Finger

    comics writer, screenwriter

    1914–1974 · aged 59

    February 8 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  49. Ralph Ellison

    essayist, literary critic

    1914–1994 · aged 80

    March 1 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  50. E. G. Marshall

    stage actor, television actor

    Date disputed

    June 18 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  51. Thurl Ravenscroft

    voice actor, actor

    1914–2005 · aged 91

    February 6 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  52. Octavio Paz

    lyricist, diplomat

    1914–1998

    March 31 · 1914

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  53. Lilli Palmer

    singer, stage actor

    1914–1986 · aged 71

    May 24 · 1914

    Source: Discogs

  54. María Félix

    actor, singer

    1914–2002 · aged 87

    May 4 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  55. Richard Basehart

    actor, stage actor

    1914–1984 · aged 70

    August 31 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  56. Jonathan Harris

    dub actor, actor

    1914–2002 · aged 87

    November 6 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  57. Dorothy Lamour

    beauty pageant contestant, elevator operator

    1914–1996 · aged 81

    December 10 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  58. Romain Gary

    novelist, aircraft pilot

    1914–1980 · aged 66

    May 21 · 1914

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  59. Beatrice Straight

    stage actor, actor

    1914–2001 · aged 86

    August 2 · 1914

    Source: GeneaStar

  60. Harold Russell

    television actor, film actor

    1914–2002 · aged 88

    January 14 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  61. Jerry Siegel

    fanzine editor, comics writer

    1914–1996 · aged 81

    October 17 · 1914

    Source: filmportal.de

  62. Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei

    politician, sovereign

    1914–1986 · aged 71

    September 23 · 1914

    No external source identified

  63. Patrick O'Brian

    translator, writer

    1914–2000 · aged 85

    December 12 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  64. Shapour Bakhtiar

    politician

    1914–1991 · aged 77

    June 26 · 1914

    No external source identified

  65. Julia Lennon

    waiter

    1914–1958 · aged 44

    March 12 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  66. Edmund Muskie

    diplomat, governor

    1914–1996 · aged 81

    March 28 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  67. Jo Van Fleet

    stage actor, film actor

    Date disputed

    December 30 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  68. Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.

    typographer

    Date disputed

    August 4 · 1914

    Source: death-records.mooseroots.com

  69. Sarah Churchill

    graphic artist, stage actor

    1914–1982 · aged 67

    October 7 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  70. Arthur Kennedy

    actor, stage actor

    1914–1990 · aged 75

    February 17 · 1914

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  71. Viola Desmond

    civil rights advocate, business executive

    Date disputed

    July 5 · 1914

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  72. Clayton Moore

    actor, television actor

    1914–1999 · aged 85

    September 14 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  73. Creighton Abrams

    military officer

    1914–1974 · aged 59

    September 15 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  74. Ernst August, Prince of Hanover

    jurist

    1914–1987 · aged 73

    March 18 · 1914

    Source: The Peerage

  75. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.

    businessperson, lawyer

    1914–1988 · aged 74

    August 17 · 1914

    Source: Munzinger Personen

  76. Richard Denning

    actor, television actor

    1914–1998 · aged 84

    March 27 · 1914

    Source: Discogs

  77. Baldev Raj Chopra

    film director, actor

    1914–2008 · aged 94

    April 22 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  78. Charles Hawtrey

    comedian, television actor

    1914–1988 · aged 73

    November 30 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  79. Joe Shuster

    fetish artist, comics artist

    1914–1992 · aged 78

    July 10 · 1914

    Source: BD Gest'

  80. Paul Rand

    graphic designer, teacher

    Date disputed

    August 15 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  81. Louis, Prince Napoléon

    military personnel

    1914–1997 · aged 83

    January 23 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  82. Princess Dürrüşehvar Sultan

    1914–2006 · aged 92

    January 26 · 1914

    No external source identified

  83. John Ireland

    television actor, screenwriter

    1914–1992 · aged 78

    January 30 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  84. David Wayne

    actor, television actor

    1914–1995 · aged 81

    January 30 · 1914

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  85. Bill Owen

    film actor, television actor

    1914–1999 · aged 85

    March 14 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  86. Lída Baarová

    actor, film actor

    1914–2000 · aged 86

    September 7 · 1914

    Source: Česká divadelní encyklopedie

  87. Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī

    muhaddith, theologian

    1914–1999 · aged 85

    August 16 · 1914

    Source: AlKindi

  88. Santo Trafficante

    gangster

    1914–1987 · aged 72

    November 15 · 1914

    No external source identified

  89. Aniello Dellacroce

    businessperson

    1914–1985 · aged 71

    March 15 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  90. Teji Bachchan

    activist, human rights defender

    1914–2007 · aged 93

    August 12 · 1914

    No external source identified

  91. Frances Oldham Kelsey

    university teacher, pharmacologist

    1914–2015 · aged 101

    July 24 · 1914

    Source: Collective Biographies of Women

  92. Abd al-Karim Qasim

    school teacher, politician

    1914–1963 · aged 48

    November 21 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  93. Dona Drake

    actor, film actor

    1914–1989 · aged 74

    November 15 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  94. Martin Gardner

    journalist, science fiction writer

    Date disputed

    October 21 · 1914

    Source: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana

  95. Mario Bava

    producer, film director

    1914–1980 · aged 65

    July 31 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  96. Jeff Corey

    television actor, film actor

    1914–2002 · aged 88

    August 10 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  97. Aribert Heim

    physician, gynecologist

    1914–1992 · aged 78

    June 28 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  98. Wendell Corey

    television actor, actor

    1914–1968 · aged 54

    March 20 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  99. Marcos Pérez Jiménez

    politician, dictator

    1914–2001 · aged 87

    April 25 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  100. Hank Snow

    singer, composer

    1914–1999 · aged 85

    May 9 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  101. Juanita Moore

    television actor, stage actor

    1914–2014 · aged 99

    October 19 · 1914

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  102. Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn

    politician, military personnel

    1914–1943 · aged 28

    August 9 · 1914

    Source: The Peerage

  103. Zachary Scott

    film actor, television actor

    1914–1965 · aged 51

    February 21 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  104. Bill Erwin

    film actor, stage actor

    1914–2010 · aged 96

    December 2 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  105. Lakshmi Sahgal

    freedom fighter, physician

    1914–2012 · aged 97

    October 24 · 1914

    Source: Women Scientists in India: Lives, Struggles and Achievements

  106. Howard Fast

    prose writer, novelist

    1914–2003 · aged 88

    November 11 · 1914

    Source: Vegetti Catalog of Fantastic Literature

  107. John Hodiak

    actor, screenwriter

    1914–1955 · aged 41

    April 16 · 1914

    Source: Discogs

  108. William Castle

    writer, theatre director

    1914–1977 · aged 63

    April 24 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  109. Jersey Joe Walcott

    politician, boxer

    1914–1994 · aged 80

    January 31 · 1914

    Source: blackpast.org

  110. Maria Franziska von Trapp

    missionary, singer

    1914–2014 · aged 99

    September 28 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  111. Gino Bartali

    sport cyclist, athlete

    1914–2000 · aged 85

    July 18 · 1914

    Source: IMDb

  112. Eddie Chapman

    spy, double agent

    1914–1997 · aged 83

    November 16 · 1914

    Source: TracesOfWar

  113. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

    journalist, writer

    1914–1987 · aged 72

    June 7 · 1914

    Source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)

  114. Edward Andrews

    stage actor, television actor

    1914–1985 · aged 70

    October 9 · 1914

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  115. Dody Goodman

    film actor, television actor

    1914–2008 · aged 93

    October 28 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  116. John Kerr

    lawyer, politician

    1914–1991 · aged 76

    September 24 · 1914

    Source: Discogs

  117. Tito Okello

    military officer, politician

    1914–1996 · aged 81

    October 15 · 1914

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  118. J. Lee Thompson

    stage actor, film producer

    1914–2002 · aged 88

    August 1 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  119. Ernest Tubb

    musician, actor

    1914–1984

    February 9 · 1914

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  120. Hugh Trevor-Roper

    historian, opinion journalist

    1914–2003 · aged 89

    January 15 · 1914

    Source: The Peerage

  121. John Berryman

    poet, university teacher

    1914–1972 · aged 57

    October 25 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  122. Billy Tipton

    saxophonist, pianist

    1914–1989 · aged 74

    December 29 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  123. Josh White

    singer-songwriter, musician

    1914–1969 · aged 55

    February 11 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  124. Edward O'Hare

    aircraft pilot, military officer

    1914–1943

    March 13 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  125. Jan Nisar Akhtar

    poet, writer

    1914–1976 · aged 62

    February 14 · 1914

    No external source identified

  126. Bohumil Hrabal

    jurist, translator

    1914–1997 · aged 82

    March 28 · 1914

    Source: Encyclopedia of Brno History

  127. John Hersey

    novelist, journalist

    1914–1993 · aged 78

    June 17 · 1914

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  128. Viola Fletcher

    welder, refugee

    1914–2025 · aged 111

    May 5 · 1914

    No external source identified

  129. Bernard Malamud

    writer, novelist

    1914–1986 · aged 71

    April 26 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  130. Chaudhary Devi Lal

    freedom fighter, politician

    Date disputed

    September 25 · 1914

    No external source identified

  131. Adolf Diekmann

    military personnel

    1914–1944 · aged 29

    December 18 · 1914

    Source: Nazi Party Membership Database Lookup

  132. Betty Lou Gerson

    film actor, actor

    1914–1999 · aged 84

    April 20 · 1914

    Source: IMDb

  133. Martin Ritt

    stage actor, film producer

    1914–1990 · aged 76

    March 2 · 1914

    Source: filmportal.de

  134. Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr.

    lawyer, politician

    1914–1972 · aged 58

    February 15 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  135. Emilio Pucci

    fashion designer, politician

    1914–1992 · aged 78

    November 20 · 1914

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  136. Joseph Rantz

    athlete, rower

    1914–2007 · aged 93

    March 31 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  137. Laurie Lee

    autobiographer, poet

    1914–1997 · aged 82

    June 26 · 1914

    Source: IMDb

  138. Sammy Baugh

    baseball player, American football coach

    1914–2008 · aged 94

    March 17 · 1914

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  139. Pierre Balmain

    fashion designer, costume designer

    1914–1982

    May 18 · 1914

    Source: SNAC

  140. John Charles Daly

    radio personality, presenter

    1914–1991 · aged 77

    February 20 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  141. Vjekoslav Luburić

    political activist, military officer

    1914–1969 · aged 55

    March 6 · 1914

    No external source identified

  142. Etty Hillesum

    diarist, biographer

    1914–1943 · aged 29

    January 15 · 1914

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  143. Larry Parks

    film actor, actor

    1914–1975 · aged 60

    December 13 · 1914

    Source: Internet Broadway Database

  144. Susana Ferrari Billinghurst

    aircraft pilot

    1914–1999 · aged 85

    March 20 · 1914

    No external source identified

  145. Parley Baer

    actor, film actor

    1914–2002 · aged 88

    August 5 · 1914

    Source: Find a Grave

  146. Carlos Castillo Armas

    military personnel, politician

    1914–1957 · aged 42

    November 4 · 1914

    Source: BnF authorities

  147. Baba Amte

    journalist, freedom fighter

    1914–2008 · aged 93

    December 26 · 1914

    No external source identified

  148. Tatiana Okunevskaya

    stage actor, actor

    1914–2002 · aged 88

    March 3 · 1914

    Source: IMDb

  149. Adolfo Bioy Casares

    critic, translator

    1914–1999 · aged 84

    September 15 · 1914

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  150. Billy Eckstine

    recording artist, trumpeter

    1914–1993 · aged 78

    July 8 · 1914

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

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