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1914 (''' MCMXIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday . (see link for calendar)
Events
January - March
April - June
July
- July 2 - Announcement that the German Kaiser will not attend the Archduke's funeral.
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- 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 8 - Count Tisza makes a grave statement in the Hungarian Chamber concerning the murder of the Archduke.
- 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 12 - Demonstrations in Ulster suggesting Civil War .
- July 13 - Reports of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade . Grave article in Times on "Failure of Recruiting." France.-Revelations in Senate (continued on Tuesday, 14th) of deficinces in French military equipment. Heavy selling of Canadian Pacific Railway shares in Berlin (continued on Thursday, 16th).
- 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 17 - Victoriano Huerta leaves for exile in Spain. Austria-Hungary.-Report that Serbia has called up 70,000 reservists and is preparing for war. President Poincaré leaves Paris on a visit to Tsar Nicolas II of Russia.
- 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.
- declares war on Serbia after it fails to meet the conditions of an ultimatum it set on July 23 following the Sarajevo assassination.
- July 31 - French pacifist Jean Jaures is assassinated.
August
September-October
November-December
Unknown dates
Ongoing events
Births
January-February
- January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan , World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
- January 4 - Jane Wyman , American actress
- January 5 - George Reeves , American actor (d. 1959 )
- January 6 - Danny Thomas , American singer, actor, and comedian (d. 1991 )
- 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 , Aerican poet and pacifist (d. 1993 )
- 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 )
- January 31 - Carey Loftin , American actor and stuntman (d. 1997 )
- February 4 - Alfred Andersch , German writer (d. 1980 )
- February 4 - Ida Lupino , English actress, director, and writer (d. 1995 )
- February 5 - William S. Burroughs , American author (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 11 - Matt Dennis , American singer (d. 2002 )
- February 12 - Tex Beneke , American musician and band leader (d. 2000 )
- February 19 - Jacques Dufilho , French comedian and actor (d. 2005 )
- 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-April
- March 1 - Ralph Ellison , American writer (d. 1994 )
- March 2 - Martin Ritt , American director (d. 1990 )
- 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 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 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 laureate (d. 1998 )
- April 2 - Alec Guinness , English actor (d. 2000 )
- April 4 - Marguerite Duras , French author and director (d. 1996 )
- April 4 - Frances Langford , American singer and actress (d. 2005 )
- April 11 - Robert Stanfield , Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003 )
- April 22 - Jan De Hartog , Dutch writer (d. 2002 )
- 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. 1945 )
May-June
- May - Arnold Gerschwiler , Swiss figure skating trainer (d. 2003 )
- 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 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 22 - Vance Packard , American author (d. 1996 )
- May 22 - Sun Ra , American musician (d. 1993 )
- May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith , British World War II pilot (d. 1996 )
- June - William Herskovic , Holocaust hero, philanthropist (d. 2006 )
- June 3 - Roy Glenn , American actor (d. 1971 )
- June 15 - Yuri Andropov , Soviet politician (d. 1984 )
- June 15 - Saul Steinberg , Romanian-American cartoonist (d. 1999 )
- June 19 - Alan Cranston , U.S. Senator (d. 2000 )
- June 19 - Harry Lauter , American actor (d. 1990 )
- June 21 - William Vickrey , Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- June 29 - Rafael Kubelik , Czech-born conductor (d. 1996 )
July-September
- July 2 - Frederick Fennell , American conductor (d. 2004 )
- July 8 - Sarah P. Harkness , American architect.
- July 15 - Hammond Innes , English author (d. 1998 )
- July 19 - John Kenneth Macalister , Canadian World War II hero (d. 1944 )
- July 19 - Marius Russo , baseball player (d. 2005 )
- July 10 - Joe Shuster , Canadian-born comic book creator, Co-creator of Superman (d. 1992 )
- July 30 - Lord Killanin , Irish president of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999 )
- August 2 - Beatrice Straight , American actress (d. 2001 )
- August 9 - Tove Jansson , Finnish author (d. 2001 )
- August 10 - Jeff Corey , American actor (d. 2002 )
- 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 )
- September 5 - Sor Isolina Ferré , Puerto Rican Catholic nun (d. 2000 )
- September 10 - Robert Wise , American film producer (d. 2005 )
- September 11 - Sidney Hart , British trade unionist and religious administrator (d. 2005 )
- September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn , Welsh actor (d. 1999 )
- September 12 - Janusz Zurakowski , Polish-born pilot (d. 2004 )
- September 14 - Clayton Moore , American actor (d. 1999 )
- September 15 - Creighton Williams Abrams , U.S. general (d. 1974 )
- September 15 - Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentinian writer (d. 1999 )
- September 16 - Allen Funt , American television show host (d. 1999 )
- September 23 - Bethsabée De Rothschild , English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999 )
October-December
- October 1 - Daniel J. Boorstin , American historian, writer, and Librarian Of Congress (d. 2004 )
- 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 laureate
- October 14 - Dick Durrance , American skier (d. 2004 )
- October 16 - Zahir Shah , King of Afghanistan
- October 17 - Jerry Siegel , American comic book creator, Co-creator of Superman (d. 1996 )
- October 21 - Martin Gardner , American writer on mathematics and games
- October 27 - Dylan Thomas , Welsh poet and author (d. 1953 )
- October 28 - Jonas Salk , American medical scientist (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 )
- November 1 - Moshe Teitelbaum , Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006 )
- 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 25 - Joe DiMaggio , American baseball player (d. 1999 )
- 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 24 - Herbert Reinecker , German writer
- December 26 - Richard Widmark , American actor
- December 29 - Billy Tipton , American musician (d. 1989 )
- December 30 - Bert Parks , American singer and actor (d. 1992 )
Unknown dates
Deaths
- January 18 - Georges Picquart , French general and Minister of war (b. 1854 )
- 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 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 , baseball player (b. 1876 )
- April 2 - Paul Von Heyse , German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830 )
- April 7 - Ayub Khan , Afghan military leader (b. 1857 )
- April 19 - Empress Shoken , 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 )
- 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 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1873 )
- June 28 - Sophie, Duchess Of Hohenberg , wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868 )
- July 2 - Joseph Chamberlain , British politician (b. 1836 )
- 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 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 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 14 - Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts Of Kandahar , British field marshal (b. 1832 )
- December 24 - John Muir , American naturalist (b. 1838 )
Nobel prizes
Fictional references
- The takes place in October 1914.
- According to The Simpsons , Mr. Burns graduated from Yale in 1914.
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