Died On August 14th

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Discover the most famous people who died on August 14. The list includes people like William Randolph Hearst, Bertolt Brecht, Oscar Levant, Enzo Ferrari, J. B. Priestley. Famous personalities featured on this list, include poets, playwrights, actors and chemists and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, Germany, United Kingdom & France and many more countries.
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 1 
Enzo Ferrari
(Italian racing driver)
Enzo Ferrari
5
Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: February 18, 1898
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Turin
Died: 1988
 2 
William Randolph Hearst
(Newspaper Baron)
William Randolph Hearst
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: April 29, 1863
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States
Died: 1951
 3 
Bertolt Brecht
(Theatre Practitioner, Playwright, and Poet Known for His Plays: ‘The Threepenny Opera’ and ‘Life of Galileo’)
Bertolt Brecht
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: February 10, 1898
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Augsburg, Germany
Died: 1956
 4 
Dorothy Stratten
(Canadian Former Actress and Model Who was Killed by Her Estranged Husband Paul Snider)
Dorothy Stratten
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Birthdate: February 28, 1960
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Vancouver, Canada
Died: 1980
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
 5 
Bruno Kirby
3
Birthdate: April 28, 1949
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2006
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
 6 
J. B. Priestley
(Novelist and Playwright)
J. B. Priestley
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: September 13, 1894
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died: 1984
 7 
Ron Palillo
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Birthdate: April 2, 1949
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Died: 2012
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
 8 
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
(Investor, Trader)
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
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Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: July 5, 1960
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Hyderabad, India
Died: 2022
 9 
Pee Wee Reese
(Baseball player)
Pee Wee Reese
2
Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: July 23, 1918
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Ekron
Died: 1999
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
 10 
David Farragut
(Military officer)
David Farragut
3
Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: July 5, 1801
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Farragut, Tennessee, United States
Died: 1870
 11 
Roy Buchanan
(Musician, Guitarist)
Roy Buchanan
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: September 23, 1939
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Ozark
Died: 1988
 12 
Oscar Levant
(American pianist)
Oscar Levant
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Birthdate: December 27, 1906
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Pittsburgh
Died: 1972
 13 
Czesław Miłosz
(One of the Great Poets of the 20th Century)
Czesław Miłosz
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Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: June 30, 1911
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Šeteniai, Lithuania
Died: 2004
 14 
John I of Portugal
(King of Portugal)
John I of Portugal
2
Birthdate: April 11, 1357
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Lisbon, Portugal
Died: 1433
 15 
Maximilian Kolbe
(Polish Catholic Priest and Conventual Franciscan Friar)
Maximilian Kolbe
4
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: January 8, 1894
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Zduńska Wola, Poland
Died: 1941
 16 
Phyllis Thaxter
1
Birthdate: November 20, 1919
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Portland, Maine, United States
Died: 2012
 17 
Linda Manz
(Actress)
Linda Manz
0
Birthdate: August 20, 1961
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: 2020
Height: 4'10" (147 cm)
 18 
Abbey Lincoln
(Singer, Songwriter, Actress, Civil Rights Activist)
Abbey Lincoln
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Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: August 6, 1930
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Chicago
Died: 2010
 19 
Frank Broyles
(American football player)
Frank Broyles
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: December 26, 1924
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Decatur, Georgia, United States
Died: 2017
 20 
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
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Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: March 19, 1900
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Paris
Died: 1958
 21 
Fyvush Finkel
(Actor known as a star of Yiddish theater and for his role as lawyer Douglas Wambaugh on the television series Picket Fences)
Fyvush Finkel
0
Birthdate: October 9, 1922
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Brownsville, New York, United States
Died: 2016
Height: 6'1" (185 cm)
 22 
Sarah Childress Polk
(U.S. First Lady)
Sarah Childress Polk
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: September 4, 1803
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States
Died: 1891
 23 
John Sirica
(Former Judge who became famous for his role in the trials stemming from the Watergate scandal)
John Sirica
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Listed In: Lawyers & Judges
Birthdate: March 19, 1904
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
Died: 1992
 24 
Sergiu Celibidache
(Greatest conductor of the 20th century)
Sergiu Celibidache
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: June 28, 1912
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Roman, Romania
Died: 1996
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
 25 
William Buckland
(English Theologian, Palaeontologist, and Geologist Who Wrote the First Full Account of a Dinosaur Fossil)
William Buckland
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Listed In: Scientists
Birthdate: March 12, 1784
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Axminster, Devon, England
Died: 1856
 26 
Larry Rivers
(American Artist, Filmmaker and Musician Who is Regarded as the Godfather of Pop Art)
Larry Rivers
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Birthdate: August 17, 1923
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: The Bronx, New York, United States
Died: 2002
 27 
Elias Canetti
(German-Language Writer Who Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981)
Elias Canetti
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 25, 1905
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Ruse, Bulgaria
Died: 1994
 28 
Yekaterina Golubeva
1
Birthdate: October 9, 1966
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Died: 2011
 29 
Johnny Burnette
(Singer, Musician)
Johnny Burnette
0
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: March 25, 1934
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Died: 1964
 30 
Tiberius II Constantine
(Was Eastern Roman emperor from 574 to 582)
Tiberius II Constantine
0
Birthdate: 0520 AD
Birthplace: Thrace
Died: 0582
 31 
Alison Smithson
(Architect)
Alison Smithson
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Listed In: Architects
Birthdate: June 22, 1928
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Died: 1993
Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde
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Listed In: Leaders
Birthdate: October 20, 1792
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Died: 1863
 33 
Svetozar Gligoric
(Serbian and Yugoslav Chess Grandmaster)
Svetozar Gligoric
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Listed In: Sportspersons
Birthdate: February 2, 1923
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Belgrade, Serbia
Died: 2012
 34 
Karl Böhm
(Conductor, Music director)
Karl Böhm
0
Birthdate: August 28, 1894
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Graz
Died: 1981
 35 
H. C. McNeile
(Soldier)
H. C. McNeile
0
Birthdate: September 28, 1888
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Bodmin, England
Died: 1937
 36 
Camilla Horn
(Actress)
Camilla Horn
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Birthdate: April 25, 1903
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Died: 1996
 37 
William Croft
(Composer)
William Croft
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Listed In: Musicians
Birthdate: December 30, 1678
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: England, Ettington
Died: 1727
 38 
Bergen
(Singer)
Bergen
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Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: July 15, 1958
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Mersin, Turkey
Died: 1989
 39 
Paul Snider
(Canadian Pimp, Nightclub Promoter, and Murderer)
Paul Snider
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Listed In: Business People
Birthdate: April 15, 1951
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Vancouver
Died: 1980
 40 
Lina Heydrich
(Former Writer, Reinhard Heydrich's wife)
Lina Heydrich
2
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: June 14, 1911
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Fehmarn, Germany
Died: 1985
 41 
Edgar Rosenberg
(Film producer)
Edgar Rosenberg
2
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: 1925 AD
Birthplace: Bremerhaven
Died: 1987
 42 
Marie Bell
(Actress, Director)
Marie Bell
0
Birthdate: December 23, 1900
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Bègles, France
Died: 1985
Duncan I of Scotland
0
Birthdate: 1001 AD
Birthplace: Scotland
Died: 1040
 44 
Alfred Harmsworth
(British publisher)
Alfred Harmsworth
0
Birthdate: July 15, 1865
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Chapelizod, Ireland
Died: 1922
Stratford Canning, 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: November 4, 1786
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 1880
 46 
Madeleine Collinson
1
Listed In: Fashion
Birthdate: July 22, 1952
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Sliema, Malta
Died: 2014
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
 47 
Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon
(American Nun Who Founded the 'New York Foundling Hospital')
Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon
0
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: May 12, 1823
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Kensington, London, England
Died: 1896
 48 
Ewa Demarczyk
0
Listed In: Singers
Birthdate: January 16, 1941
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Kraków, Poland
Died: 2020
 49 
Mahasi Sayadaw
(Buddhist Monk)
Mahasi Sayadaw
1
Listed In: Miscellaneous
Birthdate: July 29, 1904
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Seikkhun, Shwebo District, British Burma
Died: 1982
 50 
Clifford Odets
(Screenwriter, Film director, Actor, Writer, Playwright, Stage actor)
Clifford Odets
1
Listed In: Writers
Birthdate: July 18, 1906
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Philadelphia
Died: 1963