List of Famous people who died in 1914
Roque Sáenz Peña
Roque José Antonio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Sáenz Peña Lahitte was President of Argentina, serving from October 12, 1910, to his death in office on August 9, 1914.
Winifred Sturt, Baroness Hardinge of Penshurst
Winifred Selina Sturt, Baroness Hardinge of Penshurst, CI was a British courtier and Vicereine of India.
Ivan Borgman
Ivan Ivanovich Borgman was a Russian physicist who first demonstrated in 1897 that X-rays and radioactive materials induced thermoluminescence.
Hugh Dawnay
Frédéric Mistral
Frederic Mistral was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. Mistral received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist". He was a founding member of the Félibrige and a member of l'Académie de Marseille.
Eben Sumner Draper
Eben Sumner Draper was an American businessman and politician from Massachusetts. He was for many years a leading figure in what later became the Draper Corporation, the dominant manufacturer of cotton textile process machinery in the world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He served as the 44th Governor of Massachusetts from 1909 to 1911.
Donato Jaja
Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford
Henry Thurstan Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford,, known as Sir Henry Holland, Bt, from 1873 to 1888 and as The Lord Knutsford from 1888 to 1895, was a British Conservative politician, best known for serving as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1887 to 1892.
Johann Friedrich von Schulte
Johann Friedrich von Schulte was a German legal historian and professor of canon law who was born in Winterberg, Westphalia. He was a leading authority on Catholic canon law.