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Octavio Paz
Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
Yuri Andropov
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1914–1984)
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
Louis de Funès
French actor and comedian (1914–1983)
Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer (1914–1984)
Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914-2002)
Tove Jansson
Finnish children's writer and illustrator (1914–2001)
Norman Borlaug
American biologist (1914–2009)
Marguerite Duras
French writer and film director (1914-1996)
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)
Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
Mohammed Zahir Shah
King of Afghanistan (1933-1973)
Jack LaLanne
American exercise instructor (1914–2011)
Romain Gary
French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)
Karl Carstens
president of the Federal Republic of Germany (1914-1992)
Joe Louis
American boxer (1914-1981)
Max Perutz
Austrian-born British molecular biologist (1914-2002)
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-born American virologist (1914-2012)
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
physiologist and biophysicist (1914-1998)
Richard Laurence Millington Synge
British biochemist (1914–1994)
Robert Wise
American film director, film producer and film editor (1914–2005)
Jiang Qing
Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914–1991)
Bohumil Hrabal
Czech writer (1914–1997)
William Vickrey
Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (1914-1996)
Taizo Kawamoto
Japanese association football player and manager (1914–1985)
Yakov Zeldovich
Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Iraqi president (1914–1982)
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
James A. Van Allen
American astrophysicist (1914–2006)
Gino Bartali
Italian road cyclist (1914–2000)
Tyrone Power
American actor (1914-1958)
Boris Christoff
Bulgarian bass singer (1914–1993)
Joe DiMaggio
American baseball player (1914–1999)
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentine novelist (1914-1999)
Abd al-Karim Qasim
Iraqi Army brigadier, nationalist and first prime minister of Iraq after the fall of the monarchy
Richard Widmark
American actor and producer (1914–2008)
Noor Inayat Khan
WW2 SOE British agent (1914–1944)
Nicanor Parra
Chilean writer, poet, mathematician, and physicist (1914-2018)
Bernard Malamud
American author (1914–1986)
Willi Stoph
German politician (1914–1999)
William Westmoreland
United States Army general (1914-2005)
George Bernard Dantzig
American mathematician (1914-2005)
Dorothy Lamour
American actress and singer (1914-1996)
Jackie Coogan
American actor (1914–1984)
Beatrice Straight
American actress (1914-2001)
Michael Wittmann
German Waffen-SS tank commander
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist (1914–1987)
Edmund Muskie
American politician (1914–1996)
Arthur Kennedy
American actor (1914–1990)
Sun Ra
American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)
María de los Angeles Felix Güereña
Mexican actress (1914-2002)
Lilli Palmer
German actress (1914–1986)
Desmond Llewelyn
British actor (1914-1999)
Pietro Germi
Italian screenwriter, director, actor (1914–1974)
Bill Finger
American comic strip and comic book writer (1914-1974)
Harold Russell
film and television actor (1914-2002)
Howard Fast
American novelist (1914–2003)
Ray Walston
American actor (1914–2001)
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)