Discover the most famous people who died on April 14. The list includes people like M. Visvesvaraya, George Frideric Handel, Simone de Beauvoir, Rachel Carson, Emmy Noether. Famous personalities featured on this list, include actors, philosophers, composers and football players and from other domains of life. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Germany & Italy and many more countries.
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George Frideric Handel(German-British Composer Known for His Works: ‘Water Music’ and ‘Music for the Royal Fireworks’)
Birthdate: February 23, 1685
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Halle (Saale), Germany
Died: 1759
George Frideric Handel was a Baroque composer renowned for his oratorios, operas, anthems, and organ concertos. A great composer, Handel's works had a strong influence on popular Classical-era composers like Beethoven and Mozart. George Frideric Handel's life and work have also inspired several films, such as the 1942 British biographical film The Great Mr. Handel.
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Simone de Beauvoir(French Existentialist Philosopher, Writer, Social Theorist, and Feminist Activist)
Birthdate: January 9, 1908
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 1986
French author and existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir is best remembered for her feminist treatise The Second Sex and her novels The Mandarins and She Came to Stay. Her literary contributions also include essays, biographies, and her autobiographical works. She won the Prix Goncourt and the Jerusalem Prize.
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Burl Ives(American Musician, Actor and Folk Singer Known for His Hit 'A Little Bitty Tear')
Birthdate: June 14, 1909
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Hunt City, Illinois, United States
Died: 1995
Birthdate: May 27, 1907
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Springdale
Died: 1964
Rachel Carson was a conservationist, marine biologist, and author. She is credited with authoring an influential book titled Silent Spring, which played a significant role in advancing the global environmental movement. Carson is also remembered for her book, The Sea Around Us, which earned her a U.S. National Book Award. She was posthumously honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Ellen Corby(Actress and Screenwriter Known for Her Role in Film ‘I Remember Mama’ and the TV Series 'The Waltons')
Birthdate: June 3, 1911
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Racine, Wisconsin, United States
Died: 1999
Actress and screenwriter, Ellen Corby, is best known for her role in the TV series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. In a long and productive career that spanned over six decades, she appeared in over two hundred films and TV shows. In her later years, she also trained as a teacher of transcendental meditation.
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Emmy Noether(German Mathematician Who Made Many Important Contributions to Abstract Algebra)
Birthdate: March 23, 1882
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Died: 1935
Emmy Noether was a German mathematician best remembered for her contributions to abstract algebra. She is credited with discovering Noether's theorem, which is regarded as a fundamental theorem in mathematical physics. One of the most important mathematicians of her generation and the most important woman in mathematics history, Emmy Noether developed theories of algebras, fields, and rings.
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Fredric March(One of Hollywood's Most Celebrated, Versatile Stars of the 1930s and 1940s)
Birthdate: August 31, 1897
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Racine, Wisconsin, United States
Died: 1975
Fredric March was an American actor best remembered for his versatility. One of the most celebrated actors during the 1930s and 1940s, Fredric March won two Academy Awards for Best Actor and two Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Play; he is one of two actors to have received both the Tony Award and Academy Award twice.
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John Singer Sargent(American Expatriate Artist and One of the Leading Portrait Painters of His Generation)
Birthdate: January 12, 1856
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Died: 1925
John Singer Sargent, an artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation." Prolific in his output, he created more than 2,000 watercolors and around 900 oil paintings. He also made numerous sketches and charcoal drawings. He painted with remarkable technical acumen and was internationally known for his expertise.
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Percy Sledge(Known for the Song ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’, a No. 1 Hit in 1966)
Birthdate: November 25, 1940
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Leighton, Alabama, United States
Died: 2015
Best known for his Billboard-charting and gold-certified hit When a Man Loves a Woman, Percy Sledge began his music career with The Esquires Combo while working as a nurse. He later scored more hits such as Warm and Tender Love and received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Award.
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Don Ho(Best known for theme song Tiny Bubbles)
Birthdate: August 13, 1930
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Kaka'ako, Hawaii, United States
Died: 2007
Birthdate: September 24, 1931
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 1999
Birthdate: September 15, 1860
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Muddenahalli, Chikballapur, Kingdom of Mysore (now in Karnataka)
Died: 1962
Sir M. Visvesvaraya is remembered for his role in revolutionizing the flood-protection system in Hyderabad and worked as the chief engineer of the Krishna Raja Sagara dam near Mysore. He received the knighthood and the Bharat Ratna. His birthday is celebrated as Engineers' Day in India, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka.
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Clyde Tolson(1st Associate Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Birthdate: May 22, 1900
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Laredo, Missouri, United States
Died: 1975
Clyde Tolson was an American associate director of the FBI from 1930 to 1972. He is perhaps best remembered for his relationship with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; it has been speculated that Clyde Tolson shared an intimate relationship with Hoover.
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Vladimir Mayakovsky(Russian Poet and Playwright Who was a Prominent Figure of the Russian Futurist Movement)
Birthdate: July 19, 1893
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Baghdati, Georgia
Died: 1930
Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet playwright, poet, artist, and actor. He was a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement in the pre-Revolution period leading to 1917. He produced a large and diverse body of work during his career. He admired Vladimir Lenin and supported the ideology of the Bolsheviks. He was popular outside Russia as well.
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Aleksandr Scriabin(One of the Most Controversial Composer-Pianists of the Early 20th Century)
Birthdate: December 25, 1871
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Died: 1915
Russian composer and pianist Aleksandr Scriabin is considered one of the most innovative and controversial of early modern composers. Interested in music from an early age, he built pianos as a young man and didn’t take long to establish himself as a brilliant composer. Unfortunately, he died at the height of his career, at the age of just 43.
Birthdate: September 3, 1856
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Boston
Died: 1924
Louis Sullivan was an architect who became only the second person to be honored with a posthumous AIA Gold Medal. Dubbed thefather of modernism and the father of skyscrapers, Sullivan contributed immensely to the Chicago School of architecture. He is also credited with mentoring Frank Lloyd Wright who went on to become a respected architect in his own right.
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Jonathan Frid(Film actor)
Birthdate: December 2, 1924
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Died: 2012
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Bibi Andersson(Former Actress best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman)
Birthdate: November 11, 1935
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Died: 2019
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Trevor Gordon Bannister(Actor)
Birthdate: August 14, 1934
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Durrington, United Kingdom
Died: 2011
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
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Pete Farndon(Former English bassist and founding member of the rock band the Pretenders.)
Birthdate: June 12, 1952
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Hereford, England
Died: 1983
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Cap Anson(Baseball Player)
Birthdate: April 17, 1852
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Marshalltown, Iowa, United States
Died: 1922
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
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Gene Wolfe(Writer)
Birthdate: May 7, 1931
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 2019
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L. L. Zamenhof(Linguist, Ophthalmologist, Inventor, Poet, Translator, Esperantist, Physician, Writer, Bible translator)
Birthdate: December 15, 1859
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Białystok
Died: 1917
L. L. Zamenhof was an ophthalmologist best remembered for creating the most widely spoken international auxiliary language, Esperanto. He came up with the constructed language after being consumed by the idea of a warless world. L. L. Zamenhof received several honors for creating Esperanto, including the Légion d'honneur. He also received 12 nominations for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
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Peter Steele(Singer and bassist for the goth and metal band Type O Negative)
Birthdate: January 4, 1962
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died: 2010
Height: 6'8" (203 cm)
Birthdate: December 30, 1879
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tiruchuzhi, Virudhunagar, India
Died: 1950
Indian Hindu sage Ramana Maharshi had run away to Arunachala, a sacred mountain in Tamil Nadu, at 16, and had stayed there throughout his life. He propagated vichara, or self-enquiry, as the primary means of self-realization, instead of the study of scriptures as proposed by the Advaita Vedanta philosophy.
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Jean Genet(Writer Known for His Novels 'The Thief's Journal' & 'Our Lady of The Flowers')
Birthdate: December 19, 1910
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 1986
Jean Genet was a French playwright, novelist, essayist, poet, and political activist. Genet is best remembered for his transformation into a writer and playwright after spending his early life as a petty criminal and vagabond. His best-known works include novels, such as Our Lady of the Flowers and The Thief's Journal.
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Hal Greer(Basketball player)
Birthdate: June 26, 1936
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Huntington, West Virginia, United States
Died: 2018
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
Birthdate: March 9, 1881
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Winsford, Somerset
Died: 1951
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Guillermo Kahlo(Former Photographer who photographically documented important architectural works, churches, streets, landmarks, as well as industries and companies in Mexico)
Birthdate: October 26, 1871
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Pforzheim, Germany
Died: 1948
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Dorothy Squires(British singer)
Birthdate: March 25, 1915
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Pontyberem, Wales
Died: 1998
Born to working-class parents, in their travel trailer in Wales, singer Dorothy Squires initially worked at a tin plate factory but had started performing at age 16. Achieving phenomenal success with tracks such as I'm Walking Behind You, she later married Roger Moore but died penniless due to her multiple lawsuits.
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Arthur Marx(American Writer and Son of Entertainer Groucho Marx and His First Wife, Ruth Johnson)
Birthdate: July 21, 1921
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: 2011
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Colin Davis(English Conductor Best Remembered For His Work With The 'London Symphony Orchestra')
Birthdate: September 25, 1927
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Weybridge, England
Died: 2013
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Maurice Druon(Novelist)
Birthdate: April 23, 1918
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 2009
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Ollie Johnston(Animator)
Birthdate: October 31, 1912
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Palo Alto, California, United States
Died: 2008
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F.R. Leavis(Literature Critic)
Birthdate: July 14, 1895
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Died: 1978
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Ivan Galamian(Teacher)
Birthdate: January 23, 1903
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Tabrīz, Iran
Died: 1981
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Fulk IV, Count of Anjou(King)
Birthdate: 1043 AD
Birthplace: France
Died: 1109
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Zebulon B. Vance(Politician)
Birthdate: May 13, 1830
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Buncombe, North Carolina
Died: 1894
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Louis, Dauphin of France(Princes)
Birthdate: November 1, 1661
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Château de Fontainebleau, France
Died: 1711
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Khachatur Abovian(Writer)
Birthdate: October 15, 1809
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Yerevan, Armenia
Died: 1848
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi(Artist)
Birthdate: January 1, 1798
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Died: 1861
Nineteenth-century Japanese painter and printmaker Utagawa Kuniyoshi was one of the major figures behind the ukiyo-e style of woodwork. Born to a silk-dyer, he had started as a print designer. While he initially specialized in warrior prints, he later also worked on landscapes, such as the series Famous Sights of Edo.
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Lidwina(Christian mystic)
Birthdate: April 18, 1380
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Schiedam, County of Holland
Died: 1433
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Avvakum(Russian Priest, Old Believer, and Pioneering Literary Figure)
Birthdate: December 5, 1620
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Grigorovo, Russia
Died: 1682
Avvakum Petrovich, or Awakum, was a Russian priest and a leader of Old Believers. He drifted away from the Russian Orthodox church and supported the Old Rite, bringing in massive reforms. His memoir and letters have made him a pioneering figure of modern Russian literature, too.
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Israr Ahmed(Islamic Theologian, Philosopher and Scholar)
Birthdate: April 26, 1932
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Haryana, India
Died: 2010
Israr Ahmed was a Pakistani philosopher, Islamic theologian, and Islamic scholar. He is credited with founding an influential Islamic organization called Tanzeem-e-Islami, which has attracted followers from North America, Western Europe, and Middle East. Many of his books have been translated into various other languages. In 1981, Israr Ahmed was honored with the prestigious Sitara-i-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan.
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Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay(Russian Anthropologist Known for Being One of the First to Explore New Guinea and Oppose Slavery)
Birthdate: July 17, 1846
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Yazykovo, Russia
Died: 1888
Russian explorer and anthropologist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay was one of the first scientists to live with the indigenous community of New Guinea. Named the Moon Man by the Papuans for his ability to produce light through his lantern, he fought against slavery. He was idolized by both Russia and Australia.
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Sabicas(Guitarist)
Birthdate: March 16, 1912
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Pamplona, Spain
Died: 1990
Spanish gypsy guitarist Sabicas is remembered as one of the greatest flamenco musicians of all time. His personal and professional relationship with flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya was also part of gossip magazines. He had started playing the guitar at age 5 and began performing publicly at age 8.
Birthdate: April 4, 1908
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Brockville, Canada
Died: 1950
Canadian-American socialite Frances Ford Seymour, is best remembered as the second wife of actor Henry Fonda, and the mother of actors Peter and Jane Fonda. Henry was her second husband, and she was previously married to millionaire George Tuttle Brokaw. Seymour committed suicide shortly after her 42nd birthday.
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Rahul Sankrityayan(Indian Writer and a Polyglot Who Is Often Called the Father of Indian Travelogue)
Birthdate: April 9, 1893
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Pandaha, Uttar Pradesh , India
Died: 1963
Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian freedom fighter and writer. A polyglot, Sankrityayan loved traveling and helped develop travelogue writing as a literary form in India. Dubbed the father of Indian travelogue, Rahul Sankrityayan wrote several travelogues having spent 45 years on travels away from home. In 1963, he was honored with India's third-highest civilian honor, the Padma Bhushan.
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Émile Bouchard(Ice Hockey Player)
Birthdate: September 4, 1919
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Montreal, Canada
Died: 2012
Height: 6'2" (188 cm)
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Prince Henry, Count of Bardi(Prince)
Birthdate: February 12, 1851
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Parma, Italy
Died: 1905
