deaths
August 14, 1978
Nicolas Bentley, English author and illustrator (born 1907)
Nicolas Bentley
Nicolas Clerihew Bentley was a British writer and illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. The son of Edmund Clerihew Bentley, he was given the name Nicholas, but opted to change the spelling.
August 14
August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 139 days remain until the end of the year.