Who was born in May 1914

Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who, with Edmund Hillary, was the first confirmed to reach the summit of Mount Everest

The only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, Romain Gary was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and military aviator, also known by his pen name Émile Ajar

Austrian-born British molecular biologist and Nobel laureate recognized for unraveling the structures of hemoglobin and myoglobin, and for founding the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology