Famous People Who Died on August 14

• Childress, Alice (1994)

  The author of A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich

• Farragut, David Glasgow (1870)

  The Civil War admiral who said, "Damn the torpedoes..."

• Hearst, William Randolph (1951)

  Founder of the Hearst newspaper chain

• Manz, Linda (2020)

  The young narrator of 'Days of Heaven'

• Odets, Clifford (1963)

  The author of the play Waiting for Lefty

• Polk, Sarah Childress (1891)

  President James K. Polk's wife

• Stratten, Dorothy (1980)

  Playboy model and girlfriend of director Peter Bogdanovich

See also: Born on August 14