Famous people born in 1914

The best-known people born in 1914, ranked by how many languages Wikipedia covers them in.

Best known

Octavio Paz
Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
March 31 · d. 1998
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Pintorpereza~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
Yuri Andropov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
June 15 · d. 1984
Photo: TASS, Public domain
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
November 9 · d. 2000
Photo: Employee(s) of MGM, Public domain
Louis de Funès
French actor and comedian (1914–1983)
July 31 · d. 1983
Photo: Marisa Rastellini (Mondadori Publisher), Public domain
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
May 29 · d. 1986
Photo: original : OeiJamling Tenzing Norgay, CC BY-SA 3.0
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
August 26 · d. 1984
Photo: Sara Facio, Public domain
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)
October 6 · d. 2002
Photo: uncredited, Public domain
Jonas Salk
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine (1914–1995)
October 28 · d. 1995
Photo: SAS Scandinavian Airlines, Public domain
Tove Jansson
Finnish children's writer and illustrator (1914–2001)
August 9 · d. 2001
Photo: Per Olov Jansson, CC BY 3.0
Alec Guinness
British actor (1914–2000)
April 2 · d. 2000
Photo: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0
Norman Borlaug
American biologist (1914–2009)
March 25 · d. 2009
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Marguerite Duras
French writer and film director (1914-1996)
April 4 · d. 1996
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
February 5 · d. 1997
Photo: Revista Panorama Número 297 de Enero, 1973., Public domain
Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
October 27 · d. 1953
Photo: Nora Summers, Public domain
Mohammed Zahir Shah
King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
October 15 · d. 2007
Photo: Voice of America, Public domain
Jack LaLanne
American exercise instructor (1914–2011)
September 28 · d. 2011
Photo: Nathan Cremisino from Ventura, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Romain Gary
French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)
May 21 · d. 1980
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
October 14 · d. 2006
Photo: National Science Foundation, Public domain
Karl Carstens
president of the Federal Republic of Germany (1914-1992)
December 14 · d. 1992
Photo: Ulrich Wienke, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Joe Louis
American boxer (1914-1981)
May 13 · d. 1981
Photo: Associated Press, Public domain
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
May 19 · d. 2002
Photo: Associated Press, Public domain
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012)
February 22 · d. 2012
Photo: Renato_Dulbecco.jpg : Unknown, gift Dr. Dulbecco derivative work: Materialscientist, Public domain
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
February 5 · d. 1998
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
British biochemist (1914–1994)
October 28 · d. 1994
Robert Wise
American film director, film producer and film editor (1914–2005)
September 10 · d. 2005
Photo: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0
Karl Malden
American actor (1912–2009)
March 22 · d. 2009
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures, Public domain
Bohumil Hrabal
Czech writer (1914–1997)
March 28 · d. 1997
Photo: Hana Hamplova, CC BY-SA 3.0
William Vickrey
Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (1914-1996)
June 21 · d. 1996
Photo: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain
Yakov Zeldovich
Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
March 8 · d. 1987
Photo: Rights NRAO/AUI/NSF Photographer Woodruff T. Sullivan III Photo Credit NRAO/AUI Archives, Sullivan C, CC BY 4.0
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
October 21 · d. 2010
Photo: RobertoTenore, CC BY-SA 3.0

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Month by month

January

January 1 · Noor Inayat Khan, WW2 SOE British agent (1914–1944)
January 5 · George Reeves, American actor (1914–1959)
January 9 · Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer (1914–1985)
January 14 · Harold Russell, film and television actor (1914-2002)
January 15 · Etty Hillesum, Jewish diarist (1914-1943)
January 17 · Taizo Kawamoto, Japanese association football player and manager (1914–1985)

February

February 3 · Mary Carlisle, American actress (1914–2018)
February 4 · Alfred Andersch, prosaist, short story writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914-1980)
February 8 · Bill Finger, American comic strip and comic book writer (1914-1974)
February 14 · Joan Pujol García, Spanish spy, double agent for the British in World War II
February 15 · Kevin McCarthy, American actor (1914–2010)
February 17 · Arthur Kennedy, American actor (1914–1990)

March

March 1 · Ralph Ellison, American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer (1914-1994)
March 2 · Martin Ritt, American film director (1914–1990)
March 4 · Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (1914-1991)
March 17 · Juan Carlos Onganía, President of Argentina from 1966 to 1970
March 26 · William Westmoreland, United States Army general (1914-2005)
March 28 · Edmund Muskie, American politician (1914–1996)

April

April 5 · Felice Borel, Italian footballer (1914-1993)
April 9 · Koichi Oita, Japanese association football player (1914-1996)
April 13 · Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet (1914–1950)
April 24 · William Castle, American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (1914–1977)
April 25 · Marcos Pérez Jiménez, president of Venezuela (1952-1958)
April 26 · Bernard Malamud, American author (1914–1986)

May

May 4 · María Félix, Mexican actress (1914-2002)
May 5 · Tyrone Power, American actor (1914-1958)
May 18 · Boris Christoff, Bulgarian bass singer (1914–1993)
May 22 · Sun Ra, American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)
May 24 · Lilli Palmer, German actress (1914–1986)
May 24 · George Tabori, Hungarian writer and theatre director (1914–2007)

June

June 5 · Estelle Reiner, American actress and singer (1914–2008)
June 7 · Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist (1914–1987)
June 26 · Lyman Spitzer, American astronomer (1914–1997)
June 26 · Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Greek princess (1914-2001); elder sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
June 30 · Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese military officer and politician (1914–2001)
June 30 · Vladimir Chelomey, Soviey scientist and engineer (1914-1984)

July

July 1 · Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Iraqi president (1914–1982)
July 9 · Willi Stoph, German politician (1914–1999)
July 10 · Joe Shuster, Canadian-American comic book artist, co-creator of Superman (1914–1992)
July 18 · Gino Bartali, Italian road cyclist (1914–2000)
July 24 · Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)
July 31 · Mario Bava, Italian filmmaker, screenwriter, special effects artist and cinematographer (1914–1980)

August

August 1 · J. Lee Thompson, British film director (1914-2002)
August 2 · Beatrice Straight, American actress (1914-2001)
August 10 · Ken Annakin, English film director (1914–2009)
August 14 · Poul Hartling, Danish politician and diplomat (1914-2000)
August 16 · Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Albanian Islamic scholar (1914–1999)
August 31 · Richard Basehart, American actor (1914–1984)

September

September 5 · Nicanor Parra, Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist (1914-2018)
September 7 · James A. Van Allen, American astrophysicist (1914–2006)
September 14 · Pietro Germi, Italian screenwriter, director, actor (1914–1974)
September 15 · Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine novelist (1914-1999)
September 21 · Akira Matsunaga, Japanese association football player (1914–1943)
September 22 · Martha Scott, American actress (1912–2003)

October

October 2 · Yuri Levitan, Soviet radio announcer (1914–1983)
October 11 · Reuben Fine, American chess player and psychologist (1914–1993)
October 17 · Jerry Siegel, American co-creator of Superman
October 24 · Lakshmi Sahgal, officer in the Indian National Army (INA) and former presidential candidate of India
October 25 · John Berryman, American poet and scholar (1914–1972)
October 26 · Jackie Coogan, American actor (1914–1984)

November

November 2 · Ray Walston, American actor (1914–2001)
November 8 · George Bernard Dantzig, American mathematician (1914-2005)
November 11 · Howard Fast, American novelist (1914–2003)
November 12 · Edward Schillebeeckx, Belgian theologian (1914-2009)
November 21 · Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraqi Army brigadier, nationalist and first prime minister of Iraq after the fall of the monarchy
November 25 · Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (1914–1999)

December

December 10 · Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (1914-1996)
December 12 · Patrick O'Brian, English novelist (1914–2000)
December 13 · Larry Parks, American stage and movie actor (1914-1975)
December 26 · Richard Widmark, American actor and producer (1914–2008)
December 26 · Baba Amte, Indian freedom fighter, social worker (1914–2008)
December 30 · Jo Van Fleet, American actress (1915-1996)

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