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Events on Sunday 14 August 1994 1
1905 – 1994Elias Canetti (1905-1994)Died 14 August 1994, aged 89Elias Canetti, the Bulgarian-born writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 for works including Crowds and Power, died in Zurich. He wrote in German and spent much of his life in exile in Britain and Switzerland.