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Year '''1914''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Wednesday]] of the 13-day-slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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[[Image:AssemblyLine.jpg|thumb|200px|right| [[January 5]]: [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] [[eight-hour workday|8-hour workday]].]]
===January-February===
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* [[January 5]] - [[Ford Motor Company]] announces an [[eight-hour workday]] and a [[minimum wage]] of $5 for a day's labor.
* [[January 9]] - [[Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.]] founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
* [[January 10]] - [[Mexican Revolution]] - [[Pancho Villa]]'s troops take [[Ojinaga]] in the [[Mexico|Mexican]] state of [[Chihuahua]].
* [[February 13]] - [[Copyright]]: In [[New York City]] the [[ASCAP]] (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
* [[February 26]] - [[HMHS Britannic]], sister to the [[RMS Titanic]], is launched at [[Harland & Wolff]], [[Belfast]].
===March-April===
* [[March 1]] - The [[Republic of China]] joins the [[Universal Postal Union]].
* [[March 7]] - [[William, Prince of Albania|Prince William of Wied]] arrives in [[Albania]] to begin his reign.
* [[March 10]] - [[Suffragette]] [[Mary Richardson]] damages [[Diego Velázquez|Velázquez]] painting ''Rokeby Venus'' in London's National Gallery with a meat chopper.
* [[March 16]] - Wife of French minister [[Joseph Caillaux]] shoots [[Gaston Calmette]], the editor of ''[[Le Figaro]]'' because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage. (She is later acquitted.)
* [[March 27]] - Belgian surgeon [[Albert Hustin]] makes the first successful non-direct [[blood transfusion]], using [[anticoagulant]]s.
* [[March 29]] - [[Katherine Routledge]] and her husband arrive in [[Easter Island]] to make the first true study of it (departs August 1915)
* [[April 9]] - The [[Tampico Affair]] results in the occupation of the [[Mexican]] port city of [[Veracruz, Veracruz|Veracruz]] for over six months.
* [[April 11]] - [[Alpha Rho Chi]], a professional architecture [[Fraternal and service organizations|fraternity]], is founded in the Hotel Sherman in [[Chicago]].
* [[April 14]] - The city of [[Irving, Texas]] is incorporated.
* [[April 20]] - [[Colorado coalfield Massacre]] or [[Ludlow Massacre]]. Colorado [[United States National Guard|National guard]] attacks 1200 tent colony of striking coal miners in Ludlow - 24 people dead.
* [[April 21]] - 3000 US marines land in [[Veracruz, Veracruz|Vera Cruz]], [[Mexico]].
* The [[American Radio Relay League]] is founded.
===May-June===
* [[May 9]] - [[Jack Hearne (John Thomas Hearne)|J.T. Hearne]] becomes the first [[bowler (cricket)|bowler]] to take 3000 [[first-class cricket|first-class]] wickets.
* [[May 14]] - [[Woodrow Wilson]] signs [[Mother's Day]] proclamation.
* [[May 25]] - The [[United Kingdom]]'s [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] passes [[Home Rule Act 1914|Irish Home Rule]].
* [[May 29]] - The [[ocean liner]] [[RMS Empress of Ireland (1906)|RMS ''Empress of Ireland'']] sinks in [[Gulf of St. Lawrence]]; 1,012 lives lost.
* [[June 1]] - [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s envoy [[Edward Mandell House]] meets with [[Wilhelm II of Germany|Kaiser Wilhelm II]].
* [[June 18]] - Constitutionals take [[San Luis Potosí]] - [[Venustiano Carranza]] demands [[Victoriano Huerta]]'s surrender
* [[June 23]] - [[Kiel Canal]] reopened (having been deepened) by the [[Kaiser]]; Visit of the British Fleet under [[Sir G. Warrender]]: Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought {{HMS|King George V|1911|6}}.
* [[June 28]] - Serb nationalist [[Gavrilo Princip]] assassinates Austrian [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]] and his wife [[Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg|Duchess Sophie]]
* [[June 29]]
**[[Austria-Hungary]]: Secretary of the Legation at [[Belgrade]] sends despatch to [[Vienna]] suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of Sarajevo. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and throughout Bosnia generally.
**[[Chionya Gusyeva]] attempts and fails to assassinate [[Grigori Rasputin]] at his home town in [[Siberia]].
* [[June 30]] - Great Britain - Addresses in Parliament on the murdered Archduke: Lords Crewe & Lansdowne in House of Lords; Messrs. Asquith & Law in Commons.
===July===
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* [[July 2]] - Announcement that the German [[Kaiser]] will not attend the Archduke's funeral.
* [[July 4]] - [[Austria-Hungary]]: Funeral of the Archduke at Artstetten (50 miles west of [[Vienna]]).
* [[July 5]] - Council at [[Potsdam]].
* [[July 6]] - The German Kaiser leaves [[Kiel]] for a cruise in Northern waters.
* [[July 7]] - [[Austria-Hungary]]: Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, Chief of General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief; Council lasts from 11.30 a.m. to 6.15 p.m.
* [[July 9]]
** The [[House of Lords]] completed the recasting of the Amendment Bill.
** [[Austria-Hungary]] - Emperor receives report of Austro-Hungarian investigation into the Sarajevo crime. The Times publishes account of Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").
* [[July 10]] - Mr.Hartwig, Russian Minister to [[Serbia]], dies suddenly at Austrian Legation in [[Belgrade]].
* [[July 11]] - [[Major League Baseball|Baseball]] legend [[Babe Ruth]] makes his major league debut with the [[Boston Red Sox|Red Sox]]
* [[July 12]] - Demonstrations in [[Ulster]] suggesting [[civil war]].
* [[July 13]] - Reports of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at [[Belgrade]].
* [[July 14]] - Government of Ireland Amending Bill passed by House of Lords.
* [[July 15]]
**[[Victoriano Huerta]] resigns and leaves for [[Colón]].
**Count Tisza makes statement in Hungarian chamber relations with Serbia: " they must be cleared up."
* [[July 18]] - The [[Signal Corps]] of the [[United States Army]] is formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time. British Fleet at Spithead: reviewed by the King.
* [[July 19]] - [[Austria-Hungary]] - Press scare concerning alleged "Greater Serbia" conspiracy. The King summons a Conference to discuss the Home Rule Problem.
* [[July 27]] - [[Felix Manalo]] registers the [[Iglesia ni Cristo]] with the [[Philippines|Filipino]] government.
* '''[[July 28]] - [[The Great War]] begins''': [[Austria-Hungary]] declares war on [[Serbia]].
===August===
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* [[August 1]] - [[Marcus Garvey]] in [[Jamaica]] founds [[Universal Negro Improvement Association]] (UNIA).
* [[August 1]] - [[Germany]] declares war on [[Russia]], following Russia's military [[mobilization]] in support of Serbia.
* [[August 2]]
**German troops occupy [[Luxembourg]].
**Secret treaty between [[Turkey]] and [[Germany]] to secure Turkish neutrality.
* [[August 3]] - Germany declares war on Russia's ally [[France]].
* [[August 4]] - German troops invade neutral [[Belgium]]. [[United Kingdom|Britain]] declares war on Germany. The [[United States]] declares neutrality.
* [[August 5]] -[[August 16|16]] - The [[Battle of Liège]]
* [[August 8]] - German colonial forces execute [[Martin-Paul Samba]] for [[high treason]].
* [[August 12]] - The [[Battle of Haelen]]
* [[August 15]]
**The [[Panama Canal]] is inaugurated with the passage of the steamship SS Ancon.
**[[Venustiano Carranza]]'s troops under general [[Alvaro Obregon]] enter [[Mexico City]].
**[[Edward Elgar]]'s [[Sospiri]], a moving adagio for strings and harp, first performed in [[London]]
* [[August 16]]-[[August 19|19]] - The [[Battle of Cer]], first Entente victory in [[World War I]]
* [[August 17]]-[[September 2]] - [[World War I]]: [[Battle of Tannenberg (1914)|Battle of Tannenberg]].
* [[August 20]] - [[World War I]]: [[Germany|German]] forces occupy [[Brussels]]. [[Pope Pius X]] dies.
* [[August 23]] - [[Japan]] declares war on Germany.
* [[August 26]]-[[August 27|27]] - The [[Battle of Le Cateau]].
* [[August 28]] - The [[Battle of Heligoland Bight|Battle of Heligoland]] - British cruisers under admiral Beatty sink three German cruisers.
[[Image:Benedictus XV.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Pope Benedict XV]], the new [[Pope]]]]
* [[August 29]]-[[August 30|30]] - The [[Battle of St. Quentin (1914)|Battle of St. Quentin]].
===September===
*[[September 1]] - [[St. Petersburg, Russia]] changes its name to "Petrograd."
**The last known [[passenger pigeon]] dies in the [[Cincinnati]] [[Zoo]].
*[[September 2]] - [[Moronvilliers]] occupied by the Germans.
*[[September 3]]
**[[Pope Benedict XV]] (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds [[Pope Pius X]] as the 258th [[pope]].
**[[William, Prince of Albania]] leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
*[[September 5]]
**[[London Agreement (1914)|London Agreement]]: no member of [[Triple Entente]] ([[United Kingdom|Britain]], [[France]], or [[Russia]]) may seek a separate peace with [[Central Powers]].
**In [[World War I]], [[First Battle of the Marne]] begins: Northeast of [[Paris]], the [[France|French]] 6th Army under [[Michel-Joseph Maunoury|General Maunoury]] attacks [[Germany|German]] forces nearing Paris. Over 2 million fight (500,000 killed/wounded) in the [[Allies|Allied]] victory.
*[[September 6]] - French and British counterattack at [[Marne]] ends German advance on [[Paris]].
*[[September 13]] - [[South Africa]]n troops open hostilities in [[German South-West Africa]] (today [[Namibia]]) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
*[[September 13]]-[[September 28|28]] - The [[First Battle of the Aisne]].
*[[September 17]] - [[Andrew Fisher]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Australia]] for the third time.
*[[September 26]] - The US [[Federal Trade Commission]] (FTC) established by the [[Federal Trade Commission Act]].
*[[September 30]] - [[Flying Squadron]] established to promote [[temperance movement]].
===October===
*[[October 7]] - Marriage of [[Rose Fitzgerald]] to [[Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr]] in Boston.
*[[October 9]] - [[World War I]]: [[Siege of Antwerp]] - [[Antwerp]], [[Belgium]] falls to [[Germany|German]] troops.
*[[October 13]] - [[Atlanta Braves|Boston Braves]] beat the [[Philadelphia Athletics]] 3-1, to win baseball's [[World Series]].
*[[October 28]] - World War I: [[Battle of Penang]], [[British Malaya|Malaya]]: [[Germany|German]] cruiser ''[[SMS Emden (1906)|Emden]]'' sinks [[Russia]]n cruiser and [[France|French]] destroyer before escaping.
*[[October 29]] - World War I: [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] warships shell [[Russia]]n [[Black Sea]] ports: Russia, France, and Britain declare war on [[November 1]]-5.
===November===
* [[November 1]] - World War I: [[Battle of Coronel]] fought - A [[Royal Navy]] squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir [[Christopher Cradock]] is met and defeated by the superior [[Germany|German]] forces led by Vice-Admiral [[Graf Maximilian von Spee]]. This is the first [[United Kingdom|British]] naval defeat of the war.
* [[November 4]] - [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[France]] [[declaration of war|declare war]] on [[Turkey]].
* [[November 5]] - The [[United Kingdom]] annexes [[Cyprus]], and together with [[France]] declares war on the [[Ottoman Empire]].
* [[November 7]] - The [[Japan]]ese seize [[Jiaozhou Bay]] in China, the base of the [[German East Asia Squadron]].
* [[November 9]] - World War I: [[Battle of Cocos]]: [[Germany|German]] cruiser ''[[SMS Emden (1906)|Emden]]'' sunk by [[Australian]] cruiser ''[[HMAS Sydney (1912)|Sydney]]''.
* [[November 16]] - A year after being created by passage of the [[Federal Reserve Act of 1913]], the [[Federal Reserve Bank]] of the [[United States]] officially opens for business.
* [[November 16]] - World War I: The [[Battle of Kolubara]] begins: [[Serbia]]n forces engaged by [[Austro-Hungarian]] forces.
* [[November 23]] - US troops withdraw from [[Veracruz]]. [[Venustiano Carranza]]'s troops take over and Carranza makes the town his headquarters
* [[November 24]] - [[Benito Mussolini]] is expelled from the [[Italian Socialist Party]].
* [[November 28]] - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the [[New York Stock Exchange]] re-opens for [[bond (finance)|bond]] trading.
===December===
* [[December 5]] - The [[Toronto Argonauts]] win their first Grey Cup at [[Varsity Stadium]]
* [[December 15]] - Gas explosion at [[Mitsubishi]] Hojyo coal mine, [[Kyūshū]], [[Japan]], 687 killed. This accident is the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history.
* [[December 19]] - The [[Battle of Kolubara]] ends, resulting in decisive [[Serbia]]n victory over [[Austria-Hungary]].
* [[December 24]] - World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the [[Christmas truce]].
===Undated===
* [[Blaise Diagne]] of [[Senegal]] becomes the first black African representative in the French parliament.
* The first everyday items made of [[stainless steel]] come into public circulation.
* [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] returns to [[India]] from [[South Africa]] to spearhead the [[Indian independence movement]].
* The capital of [[Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region]] of [[China]] is moved from [[Guilin]] to [[Nanning]].
* Port of [[Orange, Texas]] dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the [[United States Navy]].
* The [[United States Power Squadrons]] formed.
* Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Department of Greek at the [[University of Chicago]].
*[[Norway]] gives the vote to most women.
===Ongoing===
* [[World War I]] (1914-[[1918]]).
* [[Assyrian Genocide]] (1914-1922).
* [[Mexican Revolution]].
* [[The Partition of Africa]] ended (1880-1914).
==Births==
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===January===
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*[[January 1]] - [[Noor Inayat Khan]], World War II heroine (d. 1944)
*[[January 4]]
**[[Herman Franks]], baseball player
**[[Jean-Pierre Vernant]], French historian and anthropologist (d. 2007)
*[[January 5]] - [[George Reeves]], American actor (d. 1959)
*[[January 6]] - [[Danny Thomas]], American singer, actor, and comedian (d. 1991)
*[[January 12]] - [[Albrecht von Goertz]], German car designer (d. 2006)
*[[January 13]] - [[Ted Willis]], British television dramatist and author (d. 1992)
*[[January 14]] - [[Harold Russell]], Canadian actor (d. 2002)
*[[January 15]] - [[Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton]], English historian (d. 2003)
*[[January 17]]
**[[William Stafford]], American poet and pacifist (d. 1993)
**[[Anacleto Angelini]], Italian-born businessman (d. 2007)
*[[January 18]] - [[Arno Schmidt]], German author (d. 1979)
*[[January 26]] - Princess [[Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar]] (d. 2006)
*[[January 30]]
**[[John Ireland (actor)|John Ireland]], Canadian-born actor (d. 1992)
**[[David Wayne]], American actor (d. 1995)
*[[January 31]] - [[Jersey Joe Walcott]], American boxer (d. 1994)
===February===
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*[[February 1]] - [[George Nissen]], American gymnast and inventor
*[[February 4]]
**[[Alfred Andersch]], German writer (d. 1980)
**[[Ida Lupino]], English actress, director, and writer (d. 1995)
*[[February 5]]
**[[Silvius Magnago]], Italian politician
**[[William S. Burroughs]], American author (d. 1997)
**[[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]], British scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. 1998)
*[[February 6]] - [[Thurl Ravenscroft]], American voice actor (d. 2005)
*[[February 9]] - [[Ernest Tubb]], American singer (d. 1984)
*[[February 11]] - [[Matt Dennis]], American singer (d. 2002)
*[[February 12]] - [[Tex Beneke]], American musician (d. 2000)
*[[February 15]] - [[Kevin McCarthy (actor)|Kevin McCarthy]], American actor
*[[February 16]] - [[Jimmy Wakely]], American Country-Western singer and actor (d. 1982)
*[[February 19]] - [[Jacques Dufilho]], French comedian and actor (d. 2005)
*[[February 20]] - [[Peter Rogers]], British film producer
*[[February 22]] - [[Renato Dulbecco]], Italian-born virologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
*[[February 23]] - [[Theofiel Middelkamp]], Dutch cyclist (d. 2005)
*[[February 24]] - [[Zachary Scott]], American actor (d. 1965)
===March===
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*[[March 1]] - [[Ralph Ellison]], American writer (d. 1994)
*[[March 2]] - [[Martin Ritt]], American director (d. 1990)
*[[March 4]]
**[[Ward Kimball]], American cartoonist (d. 2002)
**[[Robert R. Wilson]], American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
*[[March 6]] - [[Kiril Kondrashin]], Russian conductor (d. 1981)
*[[March 8]] - [[Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich]], Russian physicist (d. 1987)
*[[March 13]] - [[Edward O'Hare]], American pilot (d. 1943)
*[[March 14]]
**[[Bill Owen]], English actor (d. 1999)
**[[Abdias do Nascimento]], Brazilian actor, artist and politician
*[[March 17]] - [[Sammy Baugh]], American football player
*[[March 19]] - [[Jay Berwanger]], American football player (d. 2002)
*[[March 25]] - [[Norman Borlaug]], American agricultural scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
*[[March 26]] - [[William Westmoreland]], U.S. general (d. 2005)
*[[March 27]] - [[Budd Schulberg]], American screenwriter
*[[March 28]] - [[Edmund Muskie]], American politician (d. 1996)
*[[March 30]] - [[Sonny Boy Williamson]], American musician (d. 1948)
*[[March 31]] - [[Octavio Paz]], Mexican diplomat and writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1998)
===April===
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*[[April 2]]
**[[Alec Guinness]], English actor (d. 2000)
**[[Hans Wegner]], Danish furniture designer (d. 2007)
*[[April 4]]
**[[Marguerite Duras]], French author and director (d. 1996)
**[[Richard Coogan]], American actor
**[[Frances Langford]], American singer and actress (d. 2005)
*[[April 8]]
**[[Maria Felix]], Mexican actress (d. 2002)
**[[Claire Martin (author)|Claire Martin]], Canadian author
*[[April 9]] - [[Nouhak Phoumsavanh]], [[President of Laos]]
*[[April 11]] - [[Robert Stanfield]], Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
*[[April 12]]
**[[Armen Alchian]], American author and economist
**[[Adriaan Blaauw]], Dutch astronomer
*[[April 13]] - [[Orhan Veli]], Turkish poet (d. 1950)
*[[April 21]] - [[James Henry Quello]], American Federal Communications Commissioner
*[[April 22]]
**[[Jan de Hartog]], Dutch writer (d. 2002)
**[[Baldev Raj Chopra]], Indian film director
*[[April 25]] - [[Ross Lockridge, Jr.]], American writer (d. 1948)
*[[April 26]]
**[[Bernard Malamud]], American author (d. 1986)
**[[Lilian Rolfe]], French-born World War II heroine (d. 1941)
*[[April 28]] - [[Michel Mohrt]], French author and historian
*[[April 30]] - [[Dorival Caymmi]], Brazilian songwriter
===May===
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*[[May 8]] - [[Romain Gary]], Russian-born writer and diplomat (d. 1980)
*[[May 9]] - [[Hank Snow]], Canadian country musician (d. 1999)
*[[May 12]]
**[[Bertus Aafjes]], Dutch poet (d. 1993)
**[[Howard K. Smith]], American journalist (d. 2002)
*[[May 13]]
**[[Joe Louis]], American boxer (d. 1981)
**[[Phil Drabble]], British author and television personality (d. 2007)
*[[May 14]]
**[[Hideko Maehata]], Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
**[[Corneliu Coposu]], Romanian politician (d. 1995)
*[[May 15]] - [[Leo Beranek]], American acoustic scientist
*[[May 16]] - [[Edward T. Hall]], American anthropologist
*[[May 18]] - [[Boris Christoff]], Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)
*[[May 19]]
**[[Go Seigen]], Japanese Go player
**[[Max Perutz]], Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (d. 2002)
**[[Alex Shibicky]], Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
*[[May 22]]
**[[Vance Packard]], American author (d. 1996)
**[[Sun Ra]], American musician (d. 1993)
*[[May 24]]
**[[Arthur A. Link]], American politician
**[[George Tabori]], Hungarian writer and director (d. 2007)
*[[May 26]] - [[Frankie Manning]], American choreographer and dancer
*[[May 28]] - [[W. G. G. Duncan Smith]], British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
===June===
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*[[June 11]] - [[Trammell Crow]], American developer
*[[June 13]] - [[Freddie Franklin]], British ballet dancer and choreographer
*[[June 15]]
**[[Yuri Andropov]], Soviet politician (d. 1984)
**[[Lena Kennedy]], English author (d. 1986)
**[[Saul Steinberg]], Romanian-born cartoonist (d. 1999)
*[[June 18]] - [[E. G. Marshall]], American actor (d. 1998)
*[[June 19]] - [[Alan Cranston]], U.S. Senator (d. 2000)
*[[June 21]] - [[William Vickrey]], Canadian economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1996)
*[[June 24]] - [[Frances Oldham Kelsey]], American Food and Drug Administration reviewer
*[[June 26]] - [[Doc Williams]], American musician
*[[June 29]] - [[Rafael Kubelík]], Czech-born conductor (d. 1996)
===July===
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*[[July 2]] - [[Frederick Fennell]], American conductor (d. 2004)
*[[July 6]] - [[Vincent J. McMahon]], professional wrestling promoter (d. 1988)
*[[July 8]]
**[[Sarah P. Harkness]], American architect
**[[Jyoti Basu]], Indian politician
*[[July 10]]
**[[Charles Donnelly]], Irish poet (d. 1937)
**[[Joe Shuster]], Canadian-born comic book author (d. 1992)
*[[July 14]] - [[George Putnam (newsman)|George Putnam]], American reporter and talk show host
*[[July 15]]
**[[Akhtar Hameed Khan]], pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
**[[Hammond Innes]], English author (d. 1998)
*[[July 19]]
**[[John Kenneth Macalister]], Canadian World War II hero (d. 1944)
**[[Marius Russo]], baseball player (d. 2005)
*[[July 20]] - [[Masa Niemi]], Finnish actor (d. 1960)
*[[July 24]] - [[Ed Mirvish]], Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007)
*[[July 25]] - [[Lionel Van Deerlin]], American politician
*[[July 29]] - [[Irwin Corey]], American actor and comic
*[[July 30]] - [[Lord Killanin]], Irish president of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999)
===August===
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*[[August 2]] - [[Beatrice Straight]], American actress (d. 2001)
*[[August 9]]
**[[Tove Jansson]], Finnish author (d. 2001)
**[[Ferenc Fricsay]], Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
*[[August 10]]
**[[Jeff Corey]], American actor (d. 2002)
**[[Ken Annakin]], British film director
*[[August 11]] - [[Hugh Martin]], American composer
*[[August 15]] - [[Paul Rand]], American graphic designer (d. 1996)
*[[August 17]]
**[[Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr.]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1988)
**[[Gabrielle Weidner]], Belgian World War II heroine (d. 1945)
*[[August 26]] - [[Julio Cortázar]], Argentine writer (d. 1984)
*[[August 27]] - [[Heidi Kabel]], German actress
===September===
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*[[September 5]]
**[[Sor Isolina Ferré]], Puerto Rican Catholic nun (d. 2000)
**[[Nicanor Parra]], Chilean poet
*[[September 7]] - [[James Van Allen]], American physicist (d. 2006)
*[[September 10]] - [[Robert Wise]], American film producer (d. 2005)
*[[September 11]]
**[[Sidney Hart]], British trade unionist and religious administrator (d. 2005)
**[[Pavle Patriarch of Serbia]], Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church
*[[September 12]]
**[[Desmond Llewelyn]], Welsh actor (d. 1999)
**[[Janusz Zurakowski]], Polish-born pilot (d. 2004)
*[[September 13]] - [[Ralph Rapson]], American architect
*[[September 14]] - [[Clayton Moore]], American actor (d. 1999)
*[[September 15]]
**[[Creighton Williams Abrams]], U.S. general (d. 1974)
**[[Adolfo Bioy Casares]], Argentinian writer (d. 1999)
*[[September 16]] - [[Allen Funt]], American television show host (d. 1999)
*[[September 17]] - [[Thomas J. Bata]], Czech-born businessman
*[[September 18]] - [[Jack Cardiff]], British cinematographer, director, and photographer
*[[September 20]] - [[Ken Hechler]], American politician
*[[September 21]] - [[Bob Lido]], American singer and musician (d. 2000)
*[[September 23]]
**[[Omar Ali Saifuddin III]], Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
**[[Bethsabée de Rothschild]], English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)
*[[September 26]] - [[Jack LaLanne]], American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert
===October===
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*[[October 1]] - [[Daniel J. Boorstin]], American historian, writer, and [[Librarian of Congress]] (d. 2004)
*[[October 2]]
**[[Jack Parsons]], American rocket engineer (d. 1952)
**[[Bernarr Rainbow]], historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d. 1998)
*[[October 4]] - [[Jim Cairns]], Australian politician (d. 2003)
*[[October 6]] - [[Thor Heyerdahl]], Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
*[[October 10]] - [[Tommy Fine]], baseball player (d. 2005)
*[[October 14]]
**[[Raymond Davis Jr.]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2006)
**[[Dick Durrance]], American skier (d. 2004)
*[[October 16]] - [[Zahir Shah]], [[King of Afghanistan]] (d. 2007)
*[[October 17]] - [[Jerry Siegel]], American comic book author (d. 1996)
*[[October 21]] - [[Martin Gardner]], American writer
*[[October 25]] - [[John Berryman]], American poet (d. 1972)
*[[October 27]] - [[Dylan Thomas]], Welsh poet and author (d. 1953)
*[[October 28]]
**[[Jonas Salk]], American medical scientist (d. 1995)
**[[Richard Laurence Millington Synge]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1994)
**[[Glenn Robert Davis]], U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
===November===
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*[[November 1]] - [[Moshe Teitelbaum]], [[Hassidic]] [[rabbi]] (d. 2006)
*[[November 2]] - [[Johnny Vander Meer]], baseball player (d. 1997)
*[[November 5]] - [[Alton Tobey]], American artist (d. 2005)
*[[November 6]] - [[Jonathan Harris]], American actor (d. 2002)
*[[November 11]] - [[Howard Fast]], American novelist and television writer (d. 2003)
*[[November 13]] - [[Alberto Lattuada]], Italian film director (d. 2005)
*[[November 20]] - [[Charles Berlitz]], American author (d. 2003)
*[[November 23]]
**[[Michael Gough]], English actor
**[[Roger Avon]], Durham actor (d. 1998)
*[[November 25]] - [[Joe DiMaggio]], baseball player (d. 1999)
===December===
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*[[December 2]] - [[Ray Walston]], American actor (d. 2001)
*[[December 10]] - [[Dorothy Lamour]], American actress (d. 1996)
*[[December 12]] - [[Patrick O'Brian]], British writer (d. 2000)
*[[December 14]] - [[Rosalyn Tureck]], American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
*[[December 15]] - [[Anatole Abragam]], French physicist
*[[December 19]] - [[Dietrich Hrabak]], German World War II flying ace (d. 1995)
*[[December 24]] - [[Herbert Reinecker]], German writer (d. 2007)
*[[December 26]] - [[Richard Widmark]], American actor (d. 2008)
*[[December 29]] - [[Billy Tipton]], American musician (d. 1989)
*[[December 30]] - [[Bert Parks]], American singer and actor (d. 1992)
==Deaths==
===January - June===
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*[[January 11]] - [[Carl Jacobsen]], Danish brewer and patron of the arts (b. 1842)
*[[January 18]] - [[Georges Picquart]], French general and politician (b. 1854)
*[[January 20]] - [[Federico Degetau]], Puerto Rican politician (b. 1862)
*[[February 24]] - [[Joshua Chamberlain]], American Civil War general (b. 1828)
*[[March 1]] - [[Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto]] (b. 1845)
*[[March 6]] - [[George Washington Vanderbilt II]], American businessman (b. 1862)
*[[March 12]] - [[George Westinghouse]], American entrepreneur (b. 1846)
*[[March 15]] - [[Jalaleddin Ali Mir Abolfazl Angha]], 39th master of [[Oveyssi]] [[Sufi]] order (b. 1849)
*[[March 16]] - [[Charles Albert Gobat]], Swiss politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. 1843)
*[[March 19]] - [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
*[[March 25]] - [[Frédéric Mistral]], French writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1830)
*[[April 1]] - [[Rube Waddell]], baseball player (b. 1876)
*[[April 2]] - [[Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse|Paul von Heyse]], German writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1830)
*[[April 7]] - [[Ayub Khan (Afghan commander)|Mohammad Ayyub Khan]], Emir of Herat, Emir of Kandahar, Afghan military leader (b. 1855)
*[[April 19]] - [[Empress Shōken]], empress-consort of the [[Emperor Meiji|Meiji Emperor]] (b. 1849)
*[[May 2]] - [[John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll]], husband of [[Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll|Princess Louise of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1845)
*[[June 11]] - [[Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (b. 1848)
*[[June 14]] - [[Adlai E. Stevenson I|Adlai E. Stevenson]], [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. 1835)
*[[June 21]] - [[Bertha von Suttner]], Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. 1843)
*[[June 28]]
**[[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]] (assassinated) (b. 1863)
**[[Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg]], wife of [[Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria]] (assassinated) (b. 1868)
===July - December===
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*[[July 2]] - [[Joseph Chamberlain]], British politician (b. 1836)
*[[July 17]] - [[Luis Uribe]], Chilean naval hero (b. 1847)
*[[July 31]] - [[Jean Jaurès]], French pacifist (assassinated) (b. 1859)
*[[August 4]] - [[Hubertine Auclert]], French feminist (b. 1848)
*[[August 6]] - [[Ellen Louise Wilson]], [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. 1860)
*[[August 8]] - [[Martin-Paul Samba]], Cameroonian rebel leader
*[[August 12]] - [[John Philip Holland]], Irish developer of the submarine (b. 1840)
*[[August 20]] - [[Pope Pius X]] (b. 1835)
*[[August 30]] - [[Aleksander Samsonov]], Russian general (b. 1859)
*[[September 3]] - [[Albéric Magnard]], French composer (b. 1865)
*[[September 8]] - [[Hans Leybold]], German nihilist poet (b. 1892)
*[[September 26]] - [[August Macke]], German painter (b. 1887)
*[[October 10]] - King [[Carol I of Romania]] (b. 1839)
*[[November 3]] - [[Georg Trakl]], Austrian poet (b. 1887)
*[[November 11]] - [[A. E. J. Collins]], British cricketer and soldier (b. 1885)
*[[November 12]] - [[Augusto dos Anjos]], Brazilian poet (b. 1884)
*[[November 14]] - [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar]], British field marshal (b. 1832)
*[[November 21]] - [[Thaddeus C. Pound]], American businessman and politician (b. 1833)
*[[December 24]] - [[John Muir]], American naturalist (b. 1838)
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Max von Laue]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]]- [[Theodore William Richards]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Robert Bárány]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - not awarded
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - not awarded
==Fictional==
The following are references to year 1914 in fiction:
* The [[2001]] animated film [[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]] takes place in October 1914.
* According to [[The Simpsons]], Mr. Burns graduated from [[Yale]] in 1914.
* The Last known CAS Build (1914) was created by Wayne.
* The [[1997]] [[Science Fantasy]] film [[The Fifth Element]] opens in 1914
==Other uses==
* [[1914 (game)]]
==See also==
* 20th century
==Notes==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{commonscat}}
*[http://www.coinpage.com/1914-pictures.html 1914 Coin Pictures]
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