1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year which started on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or on Wednesday of the Julian calendar). It was the year that saw the start of what became known as World War I. [edit] Events [edit] January [edit] February [edit] August [edit] September [edit] October [edit] November [edit] December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing [edit] Births [edit] January - January 1 – Noor Inayat Khan, World War II heroine (d. 1944)
- January 2 – Violet Vivian Finlay Stuart Mann (aka Vivian Stuart, Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart), British writer (d. 1986)
- January 4 – Herman Franks, American baseball player (d. 2009)
- January 4 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (d. 2007)
- January 5 – George Reeves, American actor (Superman) (d. 1959)
- January 6 – Danny Thomas, American singer, actor, and comedian (Make Room For Daddy) (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)
- January 17 – 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, Canadian-born actor (d. 1992)
- January 30 – David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
- January 31 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)
[edit] February - February 1 – George Nissen, American gymnast and inventor
- February 4 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
- February 4 – Ida Lupino, English actress, director, and writer (d. 1995)
- February 5 – Silvius Magnago, Italian politician
- February 5 – William S. Burroughs, American author (The Naked Lunch) (d. 1997)
- February 5 – 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 9 – Bill Justice, American Disney animator
- February 11 – Matt Dennis, American singer (d. 2002)
- February 12 – Tex Beneke, American musician (d. 2000)
- February 15 – 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 (d. 2009)
- 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 1 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994)
- March 2 – Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990)
- March 4 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
- March 4 – 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)
- March 14 – Abdias do Nascimento, Brazilian actor, artist and politician
- March 17 – Sammy Baugh, American football player (d. 2008)
- March 19 – Jay Berwanger, American football player (d. 2002)
- March 25 – Norman Borlaug, American agricultural scientist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009)
- March 26 – William Westmoreland, American Vietnam War general (d. 2005)
- March 27 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (d. 2009)
- March 28 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996)
- March 30 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948)
- March 31 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
- April 2 – Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
- April 2 – Hans Wegner, Danish furniture designer (d. 2007)
- April 3 – Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshall of Indian Army (d.2008)
- April 4 – Marguerite Duras, French author and director (d. 1996)
- April 4 – Richard Coogan, American actor
- April 4 – Frances Langford, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
- April 8 – Maria Felix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
- April 8 – Claire Martin, Canadian author
- April 9 – Nouhak Phoumsavanh, President of Laos (d. 2008)
- April 11 – Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
- April 12 – Armen Alchian, American author and economist
- April 12 – 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)
- April 22 – Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian film director (d. 2008)
- April 25 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
- April 26 – Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
- April 26 – Lilian Rolfe, French-born World War II heroine (d. 1941)
- April 28 – Michel Mohrt, French author and historian
- April 30 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian songwriter (d. 2008)
- 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)
- May 12 – Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002)
- May 13 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
- May 13 – Phil Drabble, British author and television personality (d. 2007)
- May 14 – Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
- May 14 – Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995)
- May 15 – Leo Beranek, American acoustic scientist
- May 16 – Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist (d. 2009)
- May 18 – Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993)
- May 19 – Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
- May 19 – Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
- May 19 – Alex Shibicky, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005)
- May 22 – Vance Packard, American author (The Hidden Persuaders) (d. 1996)
- May 22 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
- May 22 – Edward Arthur Thompson, British historian (d. 1994)
- May 24 – Arthur A. Link, American politician
- May 24 – George Tabori, Hungarian writer and director (d. 2007)
- May 26 – Frankie Manning, American choreographer and dancer (d. 2009)
- May 28 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)
- Late May, exact date unknown – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese/Tibetan mountaineer (d. 1986)
- June 11 – Trammell Crow, American developer (d. 2009)
- June 13 – Freddie Franklin, British ballet dancer and choreographer
- June 15 – Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (d. 1984)
- June 15 – Lena Kennedy, English author (d. 1986)
- June 15 – 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 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 2 – Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
- July 5 – Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009)
- July 6 – Vincent J. McMahon, professional wrestling promoter (d. 1988)
- July 8 – Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
- July 8 – Sarah P. Harkness, American architect
- July 10 – Charles Donnelly, Irish poet (d. 1937)
- July 10 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-born comic book author (Superman) (d. 1992)
- July 14 – George Putnam, American reporter and talk show host (d. 2008)
- July 15 – Hammond Innes, English author (d. 1998)
- July 15 – Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
- July 15 – Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author (d. 1969)
- July 19 – John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian World War II hero (d. 1944)
- July 19 – Marius Russo, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- July 20 – Charilaos Florakis, Greek Communist Leader (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 (d. 2008)
- July 29 – Irwin Corey, American actor and comic
- July 30 – Lord Killanin, Irish president of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999)
[edit] August - August 2 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
- August 9 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001)
- August 9 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
- August 10 – Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
- August 10 – Ken Annakin, British film director (d. 2009)
- 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)
- August 17 – Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian World War II heroine (d. 1945)
- August 26 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
- August 27 – Heidi Kabel, German actress
[edit] September - September 5 – Sor Isolina Ferré, Puerto Rican Catholic nun (d. 2000)
- September 5 – 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)
- September 11 – Pavle Patriarch of Serbia, Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church
- September 12 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
- September 12 – Janusz Zurakowski, Polish-born pilot (d. 2004)
- September 13 – Ralph Rapson, American architect (d. 2008)
- September 14 – Clayton Moore, American actor (The Lone Ranger) (d. 1999)
- September 15 – Creighton Williams Abrams, U.S. Vietnam War general (d. 1974)
- September 15 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian writer (d. 1999)
- September 15 – Jens Otto Krag, Danish politician (d. 1978)
- September 16 – Allen Funt, American television show host (Candid Camera) (d. 1999)
- September 17 – Thomas J. Bata, Czech-born businessman (d. 2008)
- September 18 – Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director, and photographer (d. 2009)
- 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)
- September 23 – Bethsabée de Rothschild, English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)
- September 26 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert
[edit] October - October 1 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
- October 2 – Jack Parsons, American rocket engineer (d. 1952)
- October 2 – 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 (Kon-Tiki) (d. 2002)
- October 10 – Tommy Fine, baseball player (d. 2005)
- October 14 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
- October 14 – Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)
- October 16 – Mohammed 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 (polio vaccine) (d. 1995)
- October 28 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
- October 28 – Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)
[edit] November [edit] December - December 2 – Ray Walston, American actor (My Favorite Martian) (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 18 – Charles Chan, father of actor Jackie Chan (d. 2008)
- 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 (Miss America Pageant) (d. 1992)
[edit] Deaths [edit] January–June - ca. January – Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist (disappeared while traveling with Pancho Villa documenting the Mexican Civil War) (b. 1842)
- 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)
- February 25 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (b. 1820)
- 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 the 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 laureate (b. 1830)
- April 1 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
- April 2 – Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
- April 7 – Mohammad Ayyub Khan, Emir of Herat, Emir of Kandahar, Afghan military leader (b. 1855)
- April 19 – Empress Shōken, empress-consort of the Meiji Emperor (b. 1849)
- May 2 – John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise of the United Kingdom (b. 1845)
- May 23 – Gustav Hamel, pioneer aviator, carried first airlmail (b. 1889)
- May 26 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American social reformer (b. 1849)
- June 11 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
- June 14 – 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
[edit] July–December - 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 22 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (b. 1886)
- September 26 – August Macke, German painter (b. 1887)
- September 28 – Richard Warren Sears, American founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company (b. 1863)
- 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 19 – Robert Jones Burdette, American minister and sentimental humorist (b. 1844)
- November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (b. 1833)
- December 24 – John Muir, American naturalist (b. 1838)
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