List of Famous people who died in 1914
George Crum
George Speck was an American chef. He was known for his role in popularizing potato chips in Upstate New York and was later mythologized as their creator.
Edmond Wodehouse
Edmond Robert Wodehouse was an English Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.
Angelo Di Pietro
Angelo Di Pietro was a cardinal of the Catholic Church and prefect of the Congregation of the Council.
Evan Henry Llewellyn
Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1906.
Francis Annesley, 6th Earl Annesley
Francis Annesley, 6th Earl of Annesley, styled Viscount Glerawly between 1884 and 1908, was an Anglo-Irish peer, Royal Navy officer and pioneer aviator who died in a plane crash at sea.
Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther, was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist with more than 340 reptile species described.
Francis Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss
Francis Richard Charteris, 10th Earl of Wemyss GCVO DL GCVO, styled as Lord Elcho between 1853 and 1883, was a British Whig politician. He founded the Liberty and Property Defence League.
G. S. Carr
George Shoobridge Carr (1837–1914) was a British mathematician. He wrote Synopsis of Pure Mathematics (1886). This book, first published in England in 1880, was read and studied closely by mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan when he was a teenager. Ramanujan had already produced many theorem by the age of 15.
George William Ross
Sir George William Ross was an educator and politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He was the fifth Premier of Ontario from 1899 to 1905.
Dimitrie Sturdza
Dimitrie Sturdza was a Romanian statesman and author of the late 19th century, and president of the Romanian Academy between 1882 and 1884.