List of Famous people who born in 1914

Carolina Maria de Jesus

First Name Carolina
Last Name Jesus
Born on March 14, 1914
Died on February 13, 1977 (aged 62)
Born in Brazil, Minas Gerais

Carolina Maria de Jesus was a Brazilian outskirts memorialist who lived most of her life as a slum-dweller. She is best known for her diary, published in August 1960 as Quarto de Despejo after attracting the attention of a Brazilian journalist, which became a bestseller and won international acclaim. The work remains the only document published in English by a Brazilian slum-dweller of that period. De Jesus spent a significant part of her life in the Canindé favela in North São Paulo, supporting herself and three children as a scrap collector.

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Kathryn Johnston shooting

First Name Kathryn
Born on June 26, 1914
Died on November 21, 2006 (aged 92)

Kathryn Johnston was an elderly Atlanta, Georgia, woman who was killed by undercover police officers in her home on Neal Street in northwest Atlanta on November 21, 2006, where she had lived for 17 years. Three officers had entered her home in what was later described as a 'botched' drug raid. Officers cut off burglar bars and broke down her door using a no-knock warrant. Police said Johnston fired at them and they fired in response; she fired one shot out the door over the officers' heads and they fired 39 shots, five or six of which hit her. None of the officers were injured by her gunfire, but Johnston was killed by the officers. Police injuries were later attributed to friendly fire from each other's weapons.

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Yelena Mazanik

First Name Yelena
Born on March 22, 1914
Died on April 7, 1996 (aged 82)

Yelena Grigorievna Mazanik was the Soviet partisan responsible for the assassination of General-Kommissar of Nazi-occupied Belarus Wilhelm Kube by placing a small timebomb under his bed while working for him as a housemaid. For assassinating him she and her co-conspirators were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943 by decree of the Supreme Soviet.

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Annemarie Wendl

First Name Annemarie
Born on December 26, 1914
Died on September 3, 2006 (aged 91)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Annemarie Wendl was a German actress.

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Haroun Tazieff

First Name Haroun
Last Name Tazieff
Born on May 11, 1914
Died on February 2, 1998 (aged 83)

Haroun Tazieff was a Polish, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. He was also a government adviser and Cabinet minister.

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Marcel Bich

First Name Marcel
Last Name Bich
Born on July 29, 1914
Died on May 30, 1994 (aged 79)
Born in Italy, Piedmont

Marcel Bich, baron Bich was a manufacturer and co-founder of Bic, the world's leading producer of ballpoint pens.

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Chaudhary Devi Lal

First Name Chaudhary
Last Name Lal
Died on April 6, 2001 (aged 31)
Born in India

Chaudhary Devi Lal was an Indian politician who served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 in the governments of V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. Also popularly known as Tau (uncle), Lal emerged as farmer leader from the state of Haryana, and served as the Chief Minister of Haryana first in 1977-79 and then in 1987-89.

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Ben L. Salomon

First Name Ben
Last Name Salomon
Born on September 1, 1914
Died on July 7, 1944 (aged 29)

Benjamin Lewis Salomon was a United States Army dentist during World War II, assigned as a front-line surgeon. When the Japanese started overrunning his hospital, he stood a rear-guard action in which he had no hope of personal survival, allowing the safe evacuation of the wounded, killing as many as 98 enemy troops before being killed himself during the Battle of Saipan. In 2002, Salomon posthumously received the Medal of Honor. He is one of only three dental officers to have received the medal, the others being Alexander Gordon Lyle and Weedon Osborne.

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John Kerr

First Name John
Last Name Kerr
Born on September 24, 1914
Died on March 24, 1991 (aged 76)

Sir John Robert Kerr,, was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constitutional crisis, which culminated in his decision to dismiss the incumbent prime minister Gough Whitlam and appoint Malcolm Fraser as his replacement, unprecedented actions in Australian federal politics.

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Harry Lewis

First Name Harry
Last Name Lewis
Born on November 30, 1914
Died on November 30, 1997 (aged 83)

Harry Lewis was an English saxophonist and clarinetist and the husband of singer Vera Lynn.

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