Year (''' 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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- the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- 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 11 - Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the 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 . Grave article in Times on "Failure of Recruiting." France.-Revelations in Senate (continued on Tuesday, 14th) of deficiencies 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.
- July 27 - Felix Manalo restablishes The First Century Church Iglesia Ni Cristo .
- ''' 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 Jaurès is assassinated.
- January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan , World War II heroine (d. 1944 )
- January 4 - Jane Wyman , American actress
- January 4 - Herman Franks , baseball player
- January 4 - 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 9 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. founded at Howard University in Washington,D.C.
- 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
- January 17 - Irving Brecher , American screenwriter
- 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 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 (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 (d. 2000 )
- February 15 - Kevin McCarthy , American actor
- 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 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
- 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 laureate (d. 1998 )
- April 2 - Alec Guinness , English actor (d. 2000 )
- April 2 - Hans Wegner , Danish furniture designer (d. 2007 )
- 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
- 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 12 - Gilbert Taylor , British cinematographer
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (d. 1996 )
- May 22 - Sun Ra , American musician (d. 1993 )
- May 24 - Arthur A. Link , American politician
- May 24 - George Tabori , Hungarian writer and director
- May 26 - Frankie Manning , American choreographer and dancer
- May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith , British World War II pilot (d. 1996 )
- June 3 - Roy Glenn , American actor (d. 1971 )
- June 11 - Trammell Crow , American developer
- June 13 - Freddie Franklin , British ballet dancer and choreographer
- June 15 - Yuri Andropov , Soviet politician (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 19 - Harry Lauter , American actor (d. 1990 )
- 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 6 - Vincent J. McMahon , professional wrestling promoter (d. 1988 )
- July 8 - Sarah P. Harkness , American architect
- July 8 - Jyoti Basu , Indian politician
- July 14 - George Putnam , American reporter and talk show host
- July 15 - Akhtar Hameed Khan , pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999 )
- 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 - Charles Donnelly , Irish poet (d. 1937 )
- July 10 - Joe Shuster , Canadian-born comic book author (d. 1992 )
- July 15 - Akhtar Hameed Khan , Pakistani pioneer in microcredit (d. 1999 )
- July 20 - Masa Niemi , Finnish actor (d. 1960 )
- July 25 - 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 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
- 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
- September 5 - Stuart Freeborn , British make-up artist
- 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
- 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 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 )
- September 23 - Bethsabée De Rothschild , English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999 )
- September 26 - Jack LaLanne , American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert
- 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 (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 (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 )
- 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 5 - Alton Tobey , American artist
- November 6 - Jonathan Harris , American actor (d. 2002 )
- November 7 - Billy Graham , American evangelist (d. 1934 )
- November 2 - Johnny Vander Meer , baseball player (d. 1997 )
- 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 - Roger Avon , Durham actor (d. 1998 )
- November 25 - Joe DiMaggio , baseball player (d. 1999 )
- January 11 - Carl Jacobsen , Danish brewer and patron of the arts (b. 1842 )
- January 18 - Georges Picquart , French general and politician (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 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 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 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 )
- 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. 1863 )
- 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 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 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 )
- December 24 - John Muir , American naturalist (b. 1838 )
The following are references to year 1914 in fiction:
- The 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.
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