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<html> <head> <title>Died in 1914</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Died in 1914 LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_grunk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/861/000082615/">George Frederick Baer</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Sep-1842</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td>Social Darwinist railroad baron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/356/000163864/">Adolph Bandelier</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td>Native cultures of the American southwest</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/736/000031643/">Ambrose Bierce</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-1842</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1914</tt></td> <td>The Devil's Dictionary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/470/000092194/">Joseph Chamberlain</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jul-1836</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jul-1914</tt></td> <td>British pol revered in Birmingham</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/405/000206784/">Shelby M. Cullom</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Nov-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td>Governor and Senator from Illinois</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/757/000113418/">Franz Ferdinand</a></td> <td><center>Royalty</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Dec-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jun-1914</tt></td> <td>Assassination touched off WWI</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/845/000091572/">Albert Gobat</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-1843</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td>International Peace Bureau</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/355/000174830/">F. Augustus Heinze</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1869</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1914</tt></td> <td>Copper baron, went broke in the Panic of 1907</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/891/000103582/">Paul von Heyse</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Mar-1830</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td>L'Arrabbiata</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/350/000169840/">George W. Hill</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Mar-1838</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td>A New Theorie of Jupiter and Saturn</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/397/000169887/">Johann Hittorf</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-1824</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Nov-1914</tt></td> <td>Fluorescence in vacuum tubes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/424/000169914/">Edwin J. Houston</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jul-1847</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td>Thomson-Houston Electric Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/820/000101517/">Jean Jaurès</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Jul-1914</tt></td> <td>French socialist leader</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/879/000180339/">Horace Harmon Lurton</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Feb-1844</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-1914</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1910-14</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/107/000173585/">Alfred Thayer Mahan</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Sep-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Dec-1914</tt></td> <td>The Influence of Sea Power upon History</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000113687/">Frédéric Mistral</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Sep-1830</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td>Provençal poet and ethnographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/041/000114696/">S. Weir Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Feb-1829</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Jan-1914</tt></td> <td>The Case of George Dedlow</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/473/000108149/">John Muir</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Apr-1838</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Dec-1914</tt></td> <td>Patron saint of Yosemite National Park</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/517/000179977/">Charles Sanders Peirce</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1839</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td>Founder of Pragmatism</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/331/000088067/">Pope Pius X</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1835</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1914</tt></td> <td>Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1903-14</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/566/000165071/">C. W. Post</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Oct-1854</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-May-1914</tt></td> <td>Invented Postum and Grape-Nuts</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/062/000206441/">James D. Richardson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Mar-1843</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jul-1914</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Tennessee, 1885-1905</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/663/000114321/">Jacob A. Riis</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-May-1849</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1914</tt></td> <td>How the Other Half Lives</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/838/000043709/">Richard W. Sears</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Dec-1863</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Sep-1914</tt></td> <td>Sears, Roebuck founder</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/249/000093967/">Adlai E. Stevenson</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1835</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jun-1914</tt></td> <td>Vice President under Cleveland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/266/000097972/">Eduard Suess</a></td> <td><center>Geologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Aug-1831</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td>Das Antlitz der Erde</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/336/000098042/">Sir Joseph Wilson Swan</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1828</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-May-1914</tt></td> <td>Light bulb, photographic printing</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/496/000098202/">Sir John Tenniel</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1820</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1914</tt></td> <td>Illustrator for Punch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/843/000091570/">Bertha von Suttner</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1843</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Jun-1914</tt></td> <td>Pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/747/000091474/">August Weismann</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1914</tt></td> <td>Theory of Germ Plasm</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000060628/">George Westinghouse</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1846</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Mar-1914</tt></td> <td>Air brake and A/C power</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/566/000179029/">Frederick Weyerhaeuser</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Nov-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Apr-1914</tt></td> <td>Founder of Weyerhaeuser Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/837/000128453/">Ellen Wilson</a></td> <td><center>First Lady</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-May-1860</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1914</tt></td> <td>First wife of US President Woodrow Wilson</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=106106" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/660/000001657/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/660/1657/s1657.jpg" width=128> From JFK to 9-11 </a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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