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1914 (MCMXIV) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 914th
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 14th year of the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of
the start of 1914, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. This year saw the
beginning of what became known as World War I, after an heir to the Austrian
throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrillo Princip. It also saw the first
airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with
heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St.
Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1914 ·
January 1 – The St.
Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts
services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline
to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air
aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the
first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St.
Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the
first departure. ·
January 5 – Ford Motor Company announces
an eight-hour workday, and a daily wage of $5. ·
January 8 – A railway strike is
declared in the Transvaal and Orange Free State. ·
January 9 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded
by African American students
at Howard University,
in Washington, D.C. ·
January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt,
becoming effusive after a very large earthquake on January 13. The lava flow causes the island
which it forms to be linked to the Ōsumi Peninsula. February[edit] Main article: February 1914 ·
February 2 – Charlie Chaplin makes his film début,
in the comedy short Making a Living. ·
February 7 – Charlie Chaplin's second
film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races
at Venice, is released, in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences
(although first filmed in Mabel's Strange
Predicament, released two days later).[1][2][3] ·
February 8 – The Luxembourg
national football team has its first victory, beating France 5–4
in a friendly match, for the first and only time in football history. ·
February 10 – The film Hearts Adrift is released; the name
of Mary Pickford,
the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees. ·
February 12 – In Washington, D.C., the
first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. ·
February 13 – Copyright: In New York City, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is
established, to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members. ·
February 17 – Karl Staaff steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden, in the aftermath of the Courtyard Crisis. He is replaced by Hjalmar Hammarskjöld,
father of Dag Hammarskjöld. ·
February 26 – The ocean liner that will become HMHS Britannic, sister to
the RMS Titanic,
is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyards
in Belfast. ·
February 28 – The Autonomous
Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed by ethnic Greeks, in Northern Epirus. March[edit] Main article: March 1914 ·
March 1 – The Republic of
China joins the Universal Postal
Union. ·
March 6 – FK Vojvodina football club is founded
in Novi Sad (Serbia). ·
March 7 – Prince William
of Wied arrives in Albania,
to begin his reign. ·
March 8 – Aircraft are first
transferred to Don
Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base. ·
March 10 – Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velázquez'
painting Rokeby Venus in
London's National Gallery,
with a meat chopper. ·
March 16 – Henriette Caillaux,
wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, murders Gaston Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, fearing publication of
letters showing she and Caillaux were romantically involved during his first
marriage (she is acquitted on July 28). ·
March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day)
– Green beer is invented by Dr. Thomas H. Curtin, and displayed at the Schnorrer
Club of Morrisania in the Bronx, New York.[4] ·
March 27 – Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first
successful non-direct blood transfusion,
using anticoagulants. ·
March 29 – Katherine Routledge and
her husband arrive in Easter Island, to make the first true study
of it (they depart in August 1915). April[edit] Main article: April 1914 ·
April 4–September 27 Komagata Maru incident: The Komagata Maru sails
from India to Canada. Due to Canadian regulations designed to exclude Asian
immigrants, the boat is not permitted to dock in Vancouver, and is forced to
return to Calcutta with all
its passengers. ·
April 9 – Tampico Affair: A misunderstanding
involving United States Navy sailors
in Mexico, and army troops loyal to Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta, leads
to a breakdown in diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico. ·
April 11 ·
Canadian Margaret C.
MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian
Nursing service band, and becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of
major. ·
Alpha Rho Chi, a professional
architecture fraternity,
is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, Illinois. ·
April 14 –18 – The first International Criminal
Police Congress is held in Monaco; 24 countries are
represented, including some from Asia, Europe, and the Americas; the Dean of
the Paris Law School is president. ·
April 20 ·
Colorado Coalfield
War – Ludlow Massacre: The Colorado National
Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners
in Ludlow, Colorado,
killing 24 people. ·
President Woodrow Wilson asks the United States
Congress to use military force in Mexico, in reaction to
the Tampico Affair. ·
April 21 – United
States occupation of Veracruz: 2,300 U.S. Navy sailors and Marines
from the South Atlantic fleet land in the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, which they will occupy for
over six months. The Ypiranga incident occurs when they attempt
to enforce an arms embargo against Mexico, by preventing the German cargo
steamer SS Ypiranga from
unloading arms for the Mexican government in the port. ·
April 22 – Mexico ends diplomatic
relations with the United States for the time being. ·
April 23 – The Afrikaans language receives official
recognition, when Cornelis
Jacobus Langenhoven addresses the English caucus of the Cape Provincial
Council. May[edit] Main article: May 1914 ·
May 1 – November 1 – The Exposition
Internationale is held at Lyon, France. ·
May 5 – November 11 – The Jubilee
Exhibition (Jubilćumsutstillingen) is held at Kristiania, Norway, to mark the centennial of the
country's Constitution. ·
May 9 – J. T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3,000 first-class wickets. ·
May 14 – Woodrow Wilson signs a Mother's Day proclamation. ·
May 17 – The Protocol of Corfu provides
for the provinces of Korçë and Gjirokastër, constituting Northern Epirus, to be granted autonomy
under the nominal sovereignty of Albania. ·
May 25 – In the U.K., the House of Commons passes
the Irish Home
Rule Act. ·
May 29 – The ocean liner RMS Empress
of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence;
1,012 lives are lost. ·
May 30 – The ocean liner RMS Aquitania makes her
maiden voyage. June[edit] Main article: June 1914 ·
June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy, Edward Mandell House,
meets with Kaiser Wilhelm
II. ·
June 8 – The Brazilian
Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president.
The Brazilian
Olympic Committee is founded on the same day. ·
June 9 – Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner becomes the first baseball
player in the twentieth century with 3,000 career hits. ·
June 12 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish
irregular troops.[5] ·
June 18 – Mexican Revolution:
The Constitutionals take San Luis Potosí; Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's
surrender. ·
June 23 – After it had been closed so
that it could be deepened, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal is reopened by
the Kaiser; the British Fleet under Sir
George Warrendervisits; the Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King
George V. ·
June 24 – In Manchester, New
Hampshire, a downtown fire causes $400,000 worth of damage and
injures 19 firemen. This picture is usually associated with the
arrest of Gavrilo Princip,
although some[6][7]believe it depicts Ferdinand Behr, a bystander. ·
June 28 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria: Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, 19, assassinates Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess
Sophie, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, triggering the July Crisis and World War I. Anti-Serb
riots in Sarajevo and Zagreb break out. ·
June 29 ·
The
Secretary of the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade sends a dispatch to Vienna, suggesting Serbian complicity in the
crime of Sarajevo. Anti-Serb riots continue throughout Bosnia. ·
Khioniya Guseva attempts and fails to
assassinate Grigori Rasputin at
his hometown in Siberia. ·
The
International Exhibition opens at the "White City", Ashton Gate, Bristol, England, U.K. It closes on August
15, and the site is used as a military depot.[8] ·
June 30 – Among those addressing
the Parliament
of the United Kingdom, on the murdered Archduke,
are Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in the House of Lords, and Messrs Asquith and Law in the Commons. July[edit] Main article: July 1914 ·
July 1 – The Royal Naval Air
Service, a forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established.[9] ·
July 2 – The German Kaiser announces that he will not
attend the Archduke's funeral. ·
July 4 ·
The
Archduke's funeral takes place at Artstetten Castle,
50 miles west of Vienna, Austria-Hungary. ·
Lexington Avenue
bombing: Four people are killed in New York City, when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes
prematurely, in the conspirator's apartment. ·
July 5 – A council is held at Potsdam, powerful leaders within
Austria-Hungary and Germany meet to discuss the possibilities of war with
Serbia, Russia, and France. ·
July 7 – Austria-Hungary convenes a Council of
Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of the
General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief; the Council lasts from 11:30 am
until 6:15 pm. ·
July 9 – The Emperor of Austria-Hungary receives the report of
the Austro-Hungarian investigation, into the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austriaat
Sarajevo. The Times publishes an account of the
Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as
"pestilent rats"). ·
July 10 – Nicholas Hartwig, Russian Minister to Serbia, dies
suddenly while visiting Austrian minister Wladimir
Giesl von Gieslingen, at the Austrian Legation in Belgrade. ·
July 11 ·
Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut,
with the Boston Red Sox. ·
USS Nevada,
the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched. ·
Over
5,000 people attend a rally in Union Square,
Manhattan, called by the Anti-Militarist League to commemorate
the anarchists killed in the July 4th Lexington Avenue
bombing.[10] ·
July 13 – Reports surface of a
projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade. ·
July 14 – The Government
of Ireland Bill completes its passage through the House of Lords in the U.K. It
allows Ulster counties to vote on whether or
not they wish to participate in Home Rule from Dublin. ·
July 15 – Mexican Revolution: Victoriano Huerta resigns
from the presidency of Mexico, and leaves for Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz. ·
July 18 ·
The Signal
Corps of the United States Army is
formed, giving definite status to its air service for the first time. ·
The
British Fleet is reviewed at Spithead, by George V. ·
Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for
the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England, on board the
S.S. Kinfauns Castle. ·
July 19 – George V summons a conference to
discuss the Irish Home Rule problem.
It meets from July 21–24, without reaching consensus. ·
July 23 – July Ultimatum: Austria-Hungary presents
Serbia with an unconditional ultimatum. ·
July 25 – Austria-Hungary severs
diplomatic ties with Serbia, and
begins to mobilise its own forces. Radomir Putnik, Chief
of the Serbian General Staff, is arrested in Budapest, but subsequently allowed to return
to Serbia. ·
July 26 – Bachelor's Walk
massacre: The King's Own
Scottish Borderers of the British Army fire on Dubliners at
Bachelor's Walk, killing 3, and injuring 38 people. The central temple of the Iglesia ni Cristo ·
July 27 – Felix Ysagun Manalo registers
the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church
of Christ) with the government of
the Philippines. Map of European alliances in 1914 ·
July 28 ·
World War I: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia by
telegram. Tsar Nicholas II of
Russia orders a partial mobilisation against Austria-Hungary. ·
Henriette Caillaux,
wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, is acquitted of murder by
reason of crime passionnel. ·
July 28–August 10 – World War I: Pursuit
of Goeben and Breslau: British and
French naval forces fail to prevent the ships of the Imperial German Navy Mediterranean
Division from reaching the Dardanelles. ·
July 29 ·
World
War I: Austro-Hungarian
Navy river monitor SMS Bodrog fires the first
shots of the war, opening the bombardment of the defences of Belgrade, Serbia's capital. ·
In Massachusetts, the new Cape Cod Canal opens; it shortens the
trip between New York and Boston by 66 miles,
but also turns Cape Cod into an island. ·
July 31 ·
Russia orders full mobilisation. ·
French
anti-war socialist leader Jean Jaurčs is assassinated by a
nationalist in Paris. August[edit] Main article: August 1914 Mobilization in Germany. ·
August 1 ·
The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire, following Russia's
military mobilization in
support of Serbia; Germany also begins mobilisation. ·
France orders
general mobilisation. ·
The New York Stock
Exchange is closed due to war in Europe, whereas nearly all
stock exchanges were already closed. ·
Marcus Garvey founds the Universal
Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica. ·
August 2 ·
German
troops occupy Luxembourg, in
accordance with the Schlieffen Plan. ·
A
secret treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Germany secures Ottoman neutrality. ·
At
7:00 pm (local time) Germany issues a 12-hour ultimatum to neutral Belgium,
to allow German passage into France. ·
August 3 ·
Germany
declares war on Russia's ally, France. ·
At
7:00 am (local time) Belgium declines to accept Germany's ultimatum of August 2. ·
August 4 ·
At
the height of the July Crisis,
German troops invade Belgium at 8:02 am (local time). The
United Kingdom declares war on Germany, for this violation of
Belgian neutrality. This effectively means a declaration of war by the
whole British Empire against
the German Empire,
beginning World War I from
the British perspective. The United States declares neutrality. ·
Imperial German Navy Rear-Admiral Wilhelm Souchon bombards the French Algerian ports of Bône and Philippeville from battlecruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau.[11] ·
Gandhi is in the English Channel (en route from South
Africa) when he learns that war has been declared. Later this day he arrives
in London. ·
August 5 ·
Germany
declares war on Belgium. ·
The Kingdom of
Montenegro declares war on Austria-Hungary. ·
The
guns of Point Nepean fort
at Port Phillip Heads
in Victoria (Australia) fire
across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SS Pfalz, which is attempting to
leave the Port of Melbourne in
ignorance of the declaration of war, and she is detained; this is said to be
the first Allied shot
of the war.[12] ·
SS Königin
Luise, taken over two days earlier by the Imperial German Navy as
a minelayer, lays mines 40 miles (64 km) off the
east coast of England. She is intercepted and sunk by the British Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Amphion,
the first German naval loss of the war. The following day, Amphion strikes
mines laid by the Königin Luise and is sunk with some loss
of life, in the first British casualties of the war. ·
German zeppelins drop bombs on Ličge, Belgium, killing 9 civilians. ·
The
first electric traffic light is
installed between Euclid Avenue and East 105 Street, in Cleveland, Ohio. ·
August 5–16 – Battle of Ličge:
The German Army overruns and defeats the Belgians with the first operational
use of Big Bertha
(howitzer). ·
August 6 – World War I: ·
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia. ·
The
first engagement between ships (light cruisers) of the British Royal Navy and the Imperial German Navy occurs,
when HMS Bristol pursues
the SMS Karlsruhe (which
escapes) in the West Indies. ·
August 7 – World War I: ·
Battle of Mulhouse:
France launches its first attack of the war, in an ultimately unsuccessful
attempt to recover the province of Alsace from Germany, beginning
the Battle of the
Frontiers. ·
British
colonial troops of the British Gold Coast Regiment, entering the German
West African colony of Togoland, encounter the
German-led police force at a factory in Nuatja, near Lomé, and the police open fire on the
patrol.[13] Alhaji Grunshi returns
fire,[14] the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in
the war.[13] ·
August 8 ·
German
colonial forces execute Martin-Paul Samba,
for high treason. ·
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition sets sail on the Endurance from
England, in an attempt to cross Antarctica. ·
August 9 – World War I: British Royal
Navy light cruiser HMS Birmingham rams
and sinks German submarine U-15 off Fair Isle, the first U-boat lost in action.[15] ·
August 12 – World War I: ·
Battle of Haelen: Belgian troops repulse the
Germans. ·
The
United Kingdom formally declares war on Austria-Hungary. ·
August 13 – The Teoloyucan Treaties are
signed in the State of Mexico. ·
The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the
passage of the SS Ancon. ·
Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza's
troops under general Álvaro Obregón enter
Mexico City. ·
A
dismissed servant kills 7 people at American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's
studio and home, Taliesin in
Wisconsin (including his mistress, Mamah Borthwick), and sets it on fire. ·
August 15–24 – World War I: Battle of Cer: Serbian troops defeat the
Austro-Hungarian army, marking the first Entente victory of the War. ·
August 16 – World War I: ·
German
warships SMS Goeben and Breslau (both commissioned in
1912), which reached Constantinople on August 10, are transferred to the Ottoman Navy, Goeben becoming
its flagship, Yavuz Sultan Selim. ·
Lake Nyasa is the scene of a brief
naval battle, when Captain Edmund Rhoades, commander of the British
steamship SS Gwendolen,
hears that war has broken out, and he receives orders from the British high
command to "sink, burn, or destroy" the German Empire's only ship
on the lake, the Hermann von Wissmann, commanded by a Captain
Berndt. Rhoades's crew find the Hermann von Wissmann in a
bay near "Sphinxhaven", in German East African territorial
waters. Gwendolen disables the German vessel with a single
cannon shot from a range of about 1,800 metres (2,000 yards). This very brief
engagement is hailed by The Times in England, as the British
Empire's first naval victory of World War I. ·
August 17–September 2 – World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg begins
between German and Russian forces. ·
August 20 – World War I: German forces occupy Brussels. ·
August 22 – World War I – Battle of Rossignol:
German forces decisively defeat the French. ·
August 23 – World War I: ·
Battle of Mons: In its first major action,
the British
Expeditionary Force holds the German forces, but then begins
a month-long fighting Great Retreat to the Marne. ·
Japan declares war on Germany. ·
The Togoland Campaign ends,
when the German West African colony of Togoland (Togo from 1960)
surrenders to Britain and France. ·
Battle of Río de Oro:
British Royal Navy protected cruiser HMS Highflyer forces
the SS Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse, sailing as an auxiliary cruiser,
to scuttle. ·
August 26–27 – Battle of Le Cateau:
British, French and Belgian forces make a successful tactical retreat from
the German advance. ·
August 26–30 – Battle of Tannenberg:
The Russian Second Army is
surrounded and defeated. ·
August 28 – Battle
of Heligoland Bight: British cruisers under Admiral Beatty sink
three German cruisers. ·
August 29–30 – The Battle of
St. Quentin: French forces hold back the German advance. September[edit] Pope Benedict XV, the new pope Main article: September 1914 ·
(August
19 Old Style) Saint Petersburg in Russia changes its
name to Petrograd. ·
The
last known passenger pigeon,
a female named Martha, dies in the Cincinnati Zoo from old age. ·
September 2 – World War I: The French village of Moronvilliers is occupied by the
Germans. ·
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 – World War I: ·
London
Agreement: No member of the Triple Entente (Britain, France,
or Russia) may
seek a separate peace with the Central Powers. ·
The First Battle of
the Marne begins: Situated north-east of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Maunoury attacks
German forces near to Paris. Over 2,000,000 fight (500,000 are
killed/wounded) in the Allied victory.
A French and British counterattack at the Marne ends the German advance on Paris. ·
British Royal Navy scout cruiser HMS Pathfinder is
sunk by German submarine U-21 in
the Firth of Forth (Scotland),
the first ship ever to be sunk by a locomotive torpedo fired from a submarine. ·
September 7 – World War I: Turkey declares war on Belgium. ·
September 8 – World War I:
Private Thomas Highgate becomes
the first British soldier to be executed for deserting during the war. ·
September 10 – World War I: South
Africa declares war on Germany. ·
September 11 – World War I: ·
Battle of Rawa: Austro-Hungarian forces are
defeated by the Russians. ·
First
Battle of the Masurian Lakes: A German offensive pushes the Russian First Army back
across its entire front. ·
Battle of Bita Paka:
The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force lands
on German New Guinea and
secures a strategically significant wireless station, the first major
Australian military engagement of the War. ·
September 13 – World War I: ·
The
conclusion of the Battle of Grand
Couronné ends the Battle of the
Frontiers, with the north-east segment of the Western Front stabilising. ·
South African troops
open hostilities in German
South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia), with an assault on the Ramansdrift
police station. ·
September 14 – Royal Australian
Navy submarine HMAS AE1 vanishes while on combat patrol
near Papua New Guinea,
beginning one of Australia's longest naval mysteries; the sunken vessel will
not be discovered for another 103 years. ·
The Maritz Rebellion of disaffected Boers against
the government of the Union of South
Africa begins. ·
General Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during
the Boer War, is
shot dead after his driver fails to stop at a police roadblock. ·
World
War I: The Race to the Sea,
by opposing forces on the Western Front,
begins. ·
Andrew Fisher becomes Prime
Minister of Australia for the third time. ·
September 21 – World War I: British
Imperial police forces capture Schuckmannsburg, in the Caprivi Strip of German
South-West Africa. ·
September 22 – World War I: ·
Action of 22
September 1914: German submarine U-9 torpedoes three British Royal Navy armoured cruisers, HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, with the death of more than 1,400
men, in the North Sea. ·
Bombardment of
Papeete: German naval forces bombard Papeete, French Polynesia. ·
German
light cruiser SMS Emden bombards Madras, the only Indian city to be attacked by the Central Powers in the War.[16] ·
September 25 – World War I: The
first Battle of Albert begins
as part of the Race to the Sea. ·
September 26 – The United States Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) is established, by the Federal
Trade Commission Act. ·
September 28 – World War I: The First Battle of
the Aisne ends indecisively. ·
September 30 – The Flying
Squadron of America is established, to promote the temperance movement. October[edit] Main article: October 1914 ·
October 3 – World War I: 25,000 Canadian troops
depart for Europe. ·
The 1914 Burdur
earthquake occurs in Turkey. ·
The Manifesto
of the Ninety-Three is signed, supporting the early German war effort. ·
October 9 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp (Belgium) falls to German
troops. ·
October 14 – World War I: The Canadian
Expeditionary Force arrives on 32 ocean liners, in Plymouth Sound. ·
October 16–31– World War I: Battle of the Yser:
The Belgian army halts the German advance, but with heavy losses. ·
October 19 – World War I: ·
The First Battle of
Ypres begins. ·
The Race to the Sea effectively ends, with
the Western Front reaching
the Belgian coast. ·
October 27 – World War I: ·
British super-dreadnought battleship HMS Audacious (23,400
tons) is sunk off Tory Island,
north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German
merchant-cruiser Berlin. ·
The
Greek army occupies Northern Epirus with the approval of
the Allies. ·
October 28 – World War I: ·
Battle of Penang, Malaya: German cruiser Emden sinks a Russian cruiser and
French destroyer, before escaping. ·
Participants
in the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria are
sentenced at Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, being under 20 years of age
at the time of the assassination, cannot be given the death penalty, and is
given a 20-year prison sentence instead. ·
October 29 – World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports; Russia, France, and
Britain declare war on November 1–November 5.[17] ·
October 31 – World War I: Battle of the
Vistula River concludes in Russian victory over German and
Austro-Hungarian forces around Warsaw. November[edit] Main article: November 1914 ·
November 1 – World War I: Battle of Coronel:
A Royal Navy squadron commanded by
Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is
met in the eastern Pacific and defeated by superior German forces led by
Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee,
in the first British naval defeat of the war, resulting in the loss of HMS Good
Hopeand HMS Monmouth. ·
November 5 – World War I: ·
Britain and France declare war on Turkey.[17] The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, which it controls until Cyprus'
declaration of independence in 1960. ·
The Battle of Tanga ends, with the
British Indian Expeditionary
Force B failing to capture German East Africa defences. ·
Alpha Phi Delta is founded as a Greek
social fraternity at Syracuse University in
the United States. ·
November 7 – Siege of Tsingtao:
The Japanese and British seize Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of
the German East
Asia Squadron. ·
November 9 – World War I: Battle of Cocos: The German cruiser Emden is sunk by the Australian
cruiser 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 21 – In New Haven,
Connecticut, the new Yale Bowl officially opens; Harvard
defeats Yale 36-0 in the first American football game held here. ·
November 23 – Mexican Revolution:
The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in
response to the Tampico Affair; 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 trading. December[edit] Main article: December 1914 ·
December 2 – Serbian
Campaign (World War I): Austro-Hungarian forces occupy Belgrade,
Serbia. ·
December 8 – World War I: Battle of
the Falkland Islands: A superior British Royal Navy squadron under Doveton Sturdee defeats ships of
the Imperial German Navy under Maximilian von Spee. ·
December 12 – The New York Stock
Exchange re-opens, having been closed since August 1, except for bond trading. ·
December 15 – A gas explosion at
the Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687 people
(the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history). ·
December 16 – World War I: Raid
on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby: Imperial German Navy battlecruisers
attack English North Sea ports, resulting in 137 deaths. ·
December 17 – United States
President Woodrow Wilson signs
the Harrison
Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton
Harrison). ·
December 18 – Egypt becomes
a British protectorate.[18] ·
Serbian
Campaign (World War I): The Battle of Kolubara ends,
resulting in a decisive Serbian victory
over Austria-Hungary. ·
Mohandas Gandhi leaves England, sailing
for India on this date (accompanied by his wife Kasturba). He begins to learn the Bengali language whilst on board. ·
December 24 – World War I: ·
An
unofficial, temporary Christmas truce begins, between British
and German soldiers on the Western Front. ·
German
planes carry out an air raid on Dover, England. ·
December 25 – World War I: Cuxhaven Raid: British aircraft launched
from warships attack the German port of Cuxhaven with submarine support,
although little damage is caused. Date unknown[edit] ·
China
declares its neutrality in
World War I. ·
The
capital of the Guangxi Province of
China is moved from Guilin to Nanning. ·
Oxymorphone, a powerful narcotic analgesic
closely related to morphine, is first developed in Germany. ·
The
first everyday items made of stainless steel come into public
circulation. ·
Blaise
Diagne of Senegal becomes the first Black African
representative in the French Parliament. ·
The
Port of Orange, Texas,
is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy. ·
The United
States Power Squadrons is formed. ·
Phi
Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of
students in the Greek Department at the University of
Chicago. ·
Fashion
and perfumes company Puig is founded in Barcelona. ·
Woodman's of Essex,
the famous family-owned clam shack on Boston's North Shore, is opened. Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
January 1 – Noor Inayat Khan (aka Nora Baker),
World War II heroine (executed 1944) ·
January 2 – Vivian Stuart (aka Alex Stuart, Barbara
Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart),
British writer (d. 1986) ·
Chen Tingru, Chinese World War II army
officer (d. 2017) ·
Herman Franks, American baseball player
(d. 2009) ·
Jean-Pierre Vernant,
French historian, anthropologist (d. 2007) ·
January 5 – George Reeves, American actor (Superman)
(d. 1959) ·
January 7 – Edwin La Dell, British artist (d. 1970) ·
January 9 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and
bandleader (d. 1985) ·
January 12 – Albrecht von Goertz,
German car designer (d. 2006) ·
Osa Massen, Danish actress (d. 2006) ·
Ted Willis, British television dramatist,
author (d. 1992) ·
Magda Fedor, Hungarian sports shooter
(d. 2017) ·
Harold Russell, Canadian actor (d. 2002) ·
January 15 – Hugh Trevor-Roper,
English historian (d. 2003) ·
Anacleto Angelini,
Italian-born businessman (d. 2007) ·
William Stafford,
American poet, pacifist (d. 1993) ·
January 18 – Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979) ·
January 20 – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster,
producer, playwright and novelist (d. 1985) ·
January 22 – Syd Hartley, English professional association football player
(d. 1987) ·
January 26 – Princess Hadice
Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006) ·
January 27 – Smokey Hogg, American Texas blues and country blues musician (d. 1960) ·
John Ireland,
Canadian-born actor (d. 1992) ·
David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995) ·
Carey Loftin, American actor, stuntman
(d. 1997) ·
Daya Mata (b. Alice Faye Wright),
American president of Self-Realization
Fellowship (d. 2010) ·
Jersey Joe Walcott,
American boxer (d. 1994) February[edit] ·
George Nissen, American gymnast, inventor of
the trampoline (d. 2010) ·
Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer and
dancer (d. 2018) ·
February 4 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980) ·
William S. Burroughs,
American author (d. 1997) ·
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin,
British scientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998) ·
Thurl Ravenscroft,
American voice actor (d. 2005) ·
Arkadi Kuleshov, Soviet poet and translator
(d. 1978) ·
Silvius Magnago, Italian politician
(d. 2010) ·
Bill Justice, American Disney animator
(d. 2011) ·
Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984) ·
February 10 – Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001) ·
February 11 – Matt Dennis, American singer, songwriter
(d. 2002) ·
Tex Beneke, American bandleader (d. 2000) ·
Lazar Koliševski,
Yugoslav communist political leader (d. 2000) ·
February 15 – Kevin McCarthy,
American actor (d. 2010) ·
February 16 – Jimmy Wakely, American country-western
singer, actor (d. 1982) ·
February 17 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990) ·
February 19 – Jacques Dufilho, French comedian, actor
(d. 2005) ·
Peter Rogers, British film producer
(d. 2009) ·
John Charles Daly,
South African-born journalist, game show host (d. 1991) ·
Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965) ·
Park Su-geun, Korean painter (d. 1965) ·
Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born virologist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012) ·
Karl Otto Götz,
German painter (d. 2017) ·
February 23 – Theofiel Middelkamp,
Dutch cyclist (d. 2005) ·
February 25 – John Arlott, British journalist, author and
cricket commentator (d. 1991) ·
February 26 – Robert Alda, American-born actor, father of
actor Alan Alda (d. 1986) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Harry Caray, American baseball broadcaster
(d. 1998) ·
Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994) ·
March 2 ·
Mayo Kaan, American bodybuilder (d. 2002) ·
Hansi Knoteck, Austrian actress (d. 2014) ·
Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990) ·
March 3 ·
Julio Franco Arango,
Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1980) ·
Teofilo Camomot, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop, servant of God
(d. 1988) ·
Asger Jorn, Danish painter (d. 1973) ·
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 10 ·
Pilar Manalo Danao,
Filipino songwriter (d. 1987) ·
Leland McPhie, American centenarian track
and field athlete (d. 2015) ·
March 12 – Frank Soo, English footballer, manager
(d. 1991) ·
March 13 ·
Saroj Dutta, Indian communist leader
(d. 1971) ·
Edward "Butch" O'Hare, American
pilot (d. 1943) ·
Olaf Pooley, English actor, screenwriter
(d. 2015) ·
March 14 ·
Abdias do Nascimento,
Brazilian actor, artist and politician (d. 2011) ·
Bill Owen,
English actor (Last of the
Summer Wine's 'Compo') (d. 1999) ·
Hubert Zemke, American fighter ace (d. 1994) ·
March 17 ·
Sammy Baugh, American football player
(d. 2008) ·
Juan Carlos Onganía,
35th President of Argentina (d. 1995) ·
March 19 ·
Jay Berwanger, American football player
(d. 2002) ·
Jiang Qing, Chinese politician (d. 1991) ·
March 20 – Richard Carlyle, American actor (d. 2009) ·
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) ·
Richard Denning, American actor (d. 1998) ·
March 28 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996) ·
March 30 – Sonny Boy
Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948) ·
March 31 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat, writer,
and Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1998) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000) ·
Hans Wegner, Danish furniture designer
(d. 2007) ·
April 3 ·
Harry E. Goldsworthy,
American Air Force lieutenant general ·
Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal of the Indian
Army (d. 2008) ·
April 4 ·
David W. Goodall, Australian botanist and
ecologist (d. 2018) ·
Richard Coogan, American actor (d. 2014) ·
Marguerite Duras, French author, director
(d. 1996) ·
April 7 – Heinz Billing, German physicist, computer
scientist (d. 2017) ·
April 8 – María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002) ·
April 11 ·
Norman McLaren, Canadian animator, director
(d. 1987) ·
Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia
(d. 2003) ·
April 12 ·
Armen Alchian, American author, economist
(d. 2013) ·
Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (d. 2010) ·
Gretel Bergmann, German-Jewish athlete
(d. 2017) ·
Jan van Cauwelaert,
Belgian bishop (d. 2016) ·
April 13 – Orhan Veli, Turkish poet (d. 1950) ·
April 17 – Dovey Johnson
Roundtree, Australian botanist, ecologist (d. 2018) ·
April 18 – Claire Martin,
Canadian author (d. 2014) ·
April 20 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999) ·
April 21 – James Henry Quello,
American Federal Communications Commissioner (d. 2010) ·
April 22 ·
Baldev Raj Chopra,
Indian film director (d. 2008) ·
José Quińones
Gonzales, Peruvian aviator (d. 1941) ·
Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002) ·
Michael Wittmann, German tank commander (d. 1944) ·
April 24 ·
Moi-Yo Miller, Australian assistant to
magician Dante (d. 2018) ·
William Castle, American film director,
producer and screenwriter (d. 1977) ·
April 25 ·
Marcos Pérez Jiménez,
51st President of
Venezuela (d. 2001) ·
Ross Lockridge, Jr.,
American novelist (d. 1948) ·
April 26 ·
Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986) ·
Lilian Rolfe, French-born World War II
heroine (d. 1945) ·
April 28 – Michel Mohrt, French author, historian
(d. 2011) ·
April 30 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian songwriter
(d. 2008) May[edit] ·
May 3 ·
Georges-Emmanuel
Clancier, French poet (d. 2018) ·
Martín de Riquer,
Spanish writer and Romantic scholar (d. 2013) ·
May 5 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958) ·
May 7 – Ye Fei, Filipino-Chinese general and
politician (d. 1999) ·
May 8 – Romain Gary, Russian-born writer, 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 ·
Phil Drabble, British author, television
personality (d. 2007) ·
Joe Louis, African-American boxer (d. 1981) ·
May 14 ·
Teodor Oizerman, Soviet and Russian
philosopher, academician (d. 2017) ·
Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician
(d. 1995) ·
Anne Baker,
British writer ·
Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995) ·
Mir Gul Khan Nasir,
Pakistani Baloch politician, poet (d. 1983) ·
May 16 – Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist
(d. 2009) ·
May 18 ·
Alla Bayanova, Russian singer (d. 2011) ·
Georg von
Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist (d. 2018) ·
Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer
(d. 1993) ·
Cacilda Borges
Barbosa, Brazilian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2010) ·
Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer
(d. 1982) ·
Maxine Grimm, American religious figure
(d. 2017) ·
May 19 ·
Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular
biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry (d. 2002) ·
Alex Shibicky, Canadian hockey player
(d. 2005) ·
May 20 – Avraham Shapira, head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem and the Supreme Rabbinic
Court; rosh yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav (d. 2007) ·
May 22 ·
Howard Lawson, English cricketer (d. 2006) ·
Vance Packard, American social critic,
author (d. 1996) ·
Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993) ·
William Sperry
Beinecke, American philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Edward Arthur
Thompson, British historian (d. 1994) ·
May 24 ·
Arthur A. Link, American politician
(d. 2010) ·
Lilli Palmer, German actress (d. 1986) ·
George Tabori, Hungarian writer, director
(d. 2007) ·
May 26 ·
Irmă Dulce Pontes,
Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister (d. 1992) ·
Frankie Manning, American choreographer,
dancer (d. 2009) ·
May 28 – W. G. G. Duncan
Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996) ·
May 29 ·
Charles Mozley, British artist (d. 1991) ·
Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese/Tibetan mountaineer
(d. 1986) ·
May 31 ·
Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music,
film composer (d. 2006) ·
Hannes Schiel, Austrian actor (d. 2017) June[edit] ·
June 6 – Zhang Jingfu, Chinese politician (d. 2015) ·
June 7 – Ralph M. Holman, American attorney and judge
(d. 2013) ·
June 10 ·
Joseph DePietro, American weightlifter
(d. 1999) ·
Trammell Crow, American developer (d. 2009) ·
June 12 – Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014) ·
June 13 – Prince
Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld (d. 1988) ·
June 14 – Gisčle Casadesus,
French actress (d. 2017) ·
June 15 ·
Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (d. 1984) ·
Louis Edwards, Manchester United chairman
(1965-1980) (d. 1980) ·
Lena Kennedy, English author (d. 1986) ·
Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American
cartoonist (d. 1999) ·
June 16 – Eleanor Sokoloff, American pianist ·
June 18 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998) ·
June 19 – Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator (d. 2000) ·
June 20 – Muazzez
İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist ·
June 21 ·
Osias Tager, British businessman (d. 2005) ·
Rex Applegate, American military officer
(d. 1998) ·
William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1996) ·
June 22 – Mei Zhi, Chinese children's author, essayist
(d. 2004) ·
June 23 – Juán Landolfi, Argentine-Italian football
player ·
June 24 ·
Jan Karski, Polish World War II resistance
movement fighter (d. 2000) ·
Bernard Braine, British politician (d. 2000) ·
June 25 ·
Luz Magsaysay, 7th First Lady of the
Philippines (d. 2004) ·
Mavis Pugh, English actress (d. 2006) ·
June 26 ·
Kathryn
Johnston, elderly African-American police shooting victim from
Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2006) ·
Princess
Sophie of Greece and Denmark (d. 2001) ·
Laurie Lee, English author (d. 1997) ·
Doc Williams,
American musician (d. 2011) ·
June 27 ·
Helena Benitez, Filipina academic,
administrator (d. 2016) ·
Rose Cabat, American studio ceramicist
(d. 2015) ·
Margaret Ekpo, Nigerian women's rights
activist, social mobilizer and politician (d. 2006) ·
June 28 – Ian MacDonald,
American actor (d. 1978) ·
June 29 ·
Franz Joseph,
American artist, writer (d. 1994) ·
Rafael Kubelík,
Czech-born conductor (d. 1996) ·
June 30 ·
Agnčs-Marie Valois,
French nun and nurse (d. 2018) ·
Francisco da
Costa Gomes, 15th President of Portugal (d. 2001) ·
Bill Monti, Australian rugby union player
(d. 1977) July[edit] Michael
Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ·
July 1 ·
Thomas
Pearson, British Army officer ·
John Feenan, Irish and Northern Irish
footballer ·
Bernard B. Wolfe, American politician
(d. 2016) ·
Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (d. 2004) ·
July 2 ·
Dale DeArmond, American printmaker, and book
illustrator (d. 2006) ·
Frederick Fennell,
American conductor (d. 2004) ·
Ethelreda Leopold,
American film actress (d. 1998) ·
Bob Allen,
American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 2005) ·
Erich Topp, German commander (d. 2005) ·
July 5 ·
Ilija Monte Radlovic,
British Army officer and author (d. 2000) ·
Yitzhak Rafael, Israeli politician (d. 1999) ·
John Thomas Dunlop,
American administrator and labor scholar (d. 2003) ·
Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress (d. 2009) ·
July 6 ·
Ernest Kirkendall,
American chemist and metallurgist (d. 2005) ·
Vincent J. McMahon,
professional wrestling promoter (d. 1984) ·
Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football
manager (d. 1998) ·
July 7 ·
Erni Cabat, American artist (d. 1994) ·
Harvey B. Scribner,
American educator and administrator (d. 2002) ·
Serafim Tulikov, Russian and Soviet composer
(d. 2004) ·
July 8 ·
Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010) ·
Sarah P. Harkness,
American architect (d. 2013) ·
July 9 ·
Willi Stoph, Prime Minister (1964-1973,
1976-1989) and Chairman of the Council of State (1973-1976) of the GDR (d. 1999) ·
Mac
Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d. 2017) ·
July 10 ·
Charles Donnelly,
Irish poet (d. 1937) ·
Joe Shuster, Canadian-born comic book author
(d. 1992) ·
Rempo Urip, Indonesian director ·
July 11 ·
Mohammad Al-Abbasi,
Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1972) ·
Sven Fahlman, Swedish fencer (d. 2003) ·
Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician
(d. 1975) ·
July 13 ·
Cyril Stevenson, Bahamian politician and
newspaper publisher (d. 2006) ·
Trevor Berghan, New Zealand rugby union
player (d. 1998) ·
July 14 ·
Fred Fox,
French musician ·
Wim Hora Adema, Dutch author of children's
literature and feminist (d. 1998) ·
Béatrix Beck, French writer of Belgian
origin (d. 2008) ·
Hubert Gregg, English broadcaster, writer
and actor (d. 2004) ·
George Putnam,
American reporter and talk show host (d. 2008) ·
July 15 ·
V. K. Rao, Indian Civil Service officer
(d. 2018) ·
Akhtar Hameed Khan,
pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999) ·
Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and
author (d. 1969) ·
Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996) ·
July 16 – Herbert Nürnberg,
German boxer ·
July 17 ·
Klári Tolnay, Hungarian actress (d. 1998) ·
Alice Gore King, American entrepreneur,
educator, writer and artist (d. 2007) ·
July 18 ·
Gino Bartali, Italian road cyclist (d. 2000) ·
Jo Cals, Dutch politician and jurist, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) (d. 1970) ·
Oscar Heisserer, French footballer (d. 2004) ·
Roy Huggins, American novelist (d. 2002) ·
Mack Robinson,
American athlete (d. 2000) ·
July 19 ·
César Povolny, German-French association
footballer ·
Hans Maršálek,
Austrian typesetter, political activist, detective, and historian (d. 2011) ·
John Kenneth
Macalister, Canadian World War II hero (d. 1944) ·
Marius Russo, American baseball player
(d. 2005) ·
July 20 ·
Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and
philanthropist (d. 2018) ·
Charilaos Florakis,
Greek Communist leader (d. 2005) ·
Masa Niemi, Finnish actor (d. 1960) ·
Ersilio Tonini, Italian Cardinal (d. 2013) ·
July 21 ·
Pan Jin-yu, (d. 2010) ·
Suso Cecchi d'Amico,
Italian screenwriter and actress (d. 2010) ·
July 22 ·
Charles Régnier,
German actor, director, radio actor, and translator (d. 2001) ·
Richard Lankford, American politician
(d. 2003) ·
July 23 ·
Virgil Finlay, American artist (d. 1971) ·
Julie Mitchum, American actress (d. 2003) ·
July 24 ·
Frances Oldham
Kelsey, American Food and Drug Administration reviewer (d. 2015) ·
Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2007) ·
July 25 – Lionel Van Deerlin,
American politician (d. 2008) ·
July 27 – Gusti Huber, Austrian actress (d. 1993) ·
July 29 ·
Irwin Corey, American actor and comedian
(d. 2017) ·
Abram Games, British graphic designer
(d. 1996) ·
July 30 – Michael
Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish president of the International
Olympic Committee (d. 1999) ·
July 31 – Louis de Funčs,
French comedy actor (d. 1983) August[edit] ·
August 2 – Beatrice Straight,
American actress (d. 2001) ·
August 5 ·
Parley Baer, American actor (d. 2002) ·
David Brian, American actor (d. 1993) ·
August 9 ·
Gordon Cullen, British architect (d. 1994) ·
Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
(d. 1963) ·
Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001) ·
Ken Annakin, British film director (d. 2009) ·
Margaret Morgan
Lawrence, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst ·
Jeff Corey, American actor and drama teacher
(d. 2002) ·
August 11 – Hugh Martin, American composer (d. 2011) ·
August 16 – Frank Wilkinson, American civil liberties
activist (d. 2006) ·
August 15 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer
(d. 1996) ·
August 16 – John Lysak, American canoeist ·
Bill Downs, American broadcast journalist
and war correspondent (d. 1978) ·
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988) ·
Gabrielle Weidner,
Belgian World War II heroine (d. 1945) ·
August 19 – Maurice
Bourgčs-Maunoury, French politician, 95th Prime Minister
of France (d. 1993) ·
August 21 – Syed Jaafar Albar,
Malaysian politician (d. 1977) ·
August 26 – Julio Cortázar,
Argentine writer (d. 1984) ·
August 27 – Heidi Kabel, German actress (d. 2010) ·
August 28 – Paul, Finnish Orthodox archbishop
(d. 1988) ·
August 30 – Julie Bishop,
American actress (d. 2001) ·
Joan Barclay, American actress (d. 2002) ·
Alfredo Varelli, Italian actor September[edit] ·
September 1 – Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japanese photographer ·
September 2 – Lord
George-Brown, British politician (d. 1985) ·
Sor Isolina Ferré,
Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun
(d. 2000) ·
Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d. 2018) ·
September 7 – James Van Allen, American physicist
(d. 2006) ·
Terence O'Neill, 4th Prime Minister of
Northern Ireland (d. 1990) ·
Robert Wise, American film director and
producer (d. 2005) ·
September 11 – Serbian
Patriarch Pavle, (d. 2009) ·
Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999) ·
Janusz
Żurakowski, Polish-born pilot (d. 2004) ·
September 13 – Ralph Rapson, American architect (d. 2008) ·
September 14 – Clayton Moore, American actor (The Lone
Ranger) (d. 1999) ·
Creighton Abrams, U.S. Vietnam War general
(d. 1974) ·
Adolfo Bioy Casares,
Argentine writer (d. 1999) ·
Jens Otto Krag, Danish politician, Prime Minister
of Denmark (d. 1978) ·
Robert McCloskey, American children's
author/illustrator (d. 2003) ·
September 16 – Allen Funt, American television show host (Candid
Camera) (d. 1999) ·
Thomas J. Bata, Czech-born businessman
(d. 2008) ·
Lambert Mascarenhas,
Indian journalist, freedom activist and writer ·
Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer,
director, and photographer (d. 2009) ·
Harry Townes, American actor (d. 2001) ·
Ken Hechler, American politician (d. 2016) ·
Francis Steinmetz,
Dutch military officer (d. 2006) ·
Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982) ·
Anna Karen Morrow,
American actress (d. 2009) ·
September 21 – Bob Lido, American singer and musician
(d. 2000) ·
September 22 – Siegfried Lowitz, German television actor
(d. 1999) ·
Bethsabée de
Rothschild, English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999) ·
Omar Ali
Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986) ·
Jean-Michel Guilcher,
French ethnologist (d. 2017) ·
John Kerr,
18th Governor-General
of Australia (d. 1991) ·
Andrzej Panufnik, Polish-born British
musician and composer (d. 1991) ·
Elena Lucena, Argentine film actress
(d. 2015) ·
John Manners,
British cricketer and naval officer ·
September 26 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness, exercise and
nutritional expert (d. 2011) ·
September 27 – Sophie Sooäär,
Estonian actress and singer (d. 1996) ·
September 28 – Marian Fuks,
Polish historian October[edit] ·
Dan Eley, British chemist (d. 2015) ·
Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (d. 1998) ·
Maciej Maciejewski,
Polish screen and stage actor (d. 2018) ·
Daniel J. Boorstin,
American historian, writer, and Librarian of
Congress (d. 2004) ·
Richard Millard, American suffragan bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese of California ·
Jack
Parsons, American rocket engineer and occultist (d. 1952) ·
October 3 – Ellsworth Wareham,
American cardiothoracic surgeon ·
October 4 – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003) ·
October 6 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002) ·
Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974) ·
Alfred Drake, American actor and singer
(d. 1992) ·
October 8 – Henry C. Pearson, American abstract and
modernist painter (d. 2006) ·
October 9 – Edward Andrews, American stage, film and
television actor (d. 1985) ·
Tommy Fine, American baseball player
(d. 2005) ·
Agostino Straulino,
Italian sailor and sailboat racer (d. 2004) ·
October 14 – Raymond Davis Jr.,
American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2006) ·
October 15 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007) ·
October 16 – Leonard Litwin, American real estate
developer (d. 2017) ·
October 17 – Jerry Siegel, American comic book author
(d. 1996) ·
October 19 – Juanita Moore, American actress (d. 2014) ·
October 20 – James C. Floyd, Canadian aerospace engineer ·
October 21 – Martin Gardner, American writer (d. 2010) ·
October 23 – Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004) ·
John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972) ·
Maudie Prickett, American actress (d. 1976) ·
October 26 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984) ·
October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author
(d. 1953) ·
Glenn Robert Davis,
American congressman (d. 1988) ·
Jonas Salk, American medical scientist
(d. 1995) ·
Richard
Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1994) ·
October 29 – Ben Gage, American actor, singer, and radio
announcer (d. 1978) ·
Max Angus, Australian painter (d. 2017) ·
Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of
Lesotho (d. 1987) ·
Anna Wing, English actress, better known for
her role in EastEnders (d. 2013) ·
October 31 – Edward Allcard, British architect and
yachtsman (d. 2017) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Moshe
Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006) ·
Johnny Vander Meer,
baseball player (d. 1997) ·
Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001) ·
November 5 – Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005) ·
Jonathan Harris, American actor (Lost in
Space) (d. 2002) ·
Leonard Miall, British broadcaster and
television personality (d. 2005) ·
George Dantzig, American mathematician
(d. 2005) ·
Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer, and
director ·
November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000) ·
November 10 – Tod Andrews, American actor (d. 1972) ·
Howard Fast, American novelist and
television writer (d. 2003) ·
Yue Yiqin, Chinese flying ace (d. 1937) ·
Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director
(d. 2005) ·
Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (d. 2016) ·
November 14 – Joseph
Barnes, Irish physician (d. 2017) ·
November 18 – William
Phillips, New Zealand economist (d. 1974) ·
November 21 – Abd al-Karim Qasim,
Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of
Iraq (d. 1963) ·
November 22 – Alex Pitko, American baseball player
(d. 2011) ·
Roger Avon, English actor (d. 1998) ·
George Dunn,
American actor (d. 1982) ·
November 25 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player
(d. 1999) ·
November 26 – S. Prestley Blake,
American businessman ·
November 28 – Gertrude Jeannette,
American actress (d. 2018) ·
November 29 – Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-born British jazz
bassist (d. 2015) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Bill Erwin, American actor (d. 2010) ·
December 6 – Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and
author (d. 2013) ·
December 7 – Alberto
Castillo, Argentine tango singer and actor (d. 2002) ·
December 8 – Mary Tortorich, American voice teacher
(d. 2017) ·
December 9 – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010) ·
December 10 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer
(d. 1996) ·
December 11 – Gabriel Chiramel, Indian priest, zoologist,
and author (d. 2017) ·
December 12 – Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (d. 2000) ·
December 13 – Larry Parks, American actor (d. 1975) ·
Karl Carstens, German president (d. 1992) ·
Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and
harpsichordist (d. 2003) ·
December 15 – Anatole Abragam, French physicist (d. 2011) ·
December 16 – Renzo Franzo, Italian politician (d. 2018) ·
December 19 – Dietrich Hrabak, German World War II flying
ace (d. 1995) ·
December 20 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr.,
American politician (d. 2013) ·
December 21 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and
microbiologist (d. 2010) ·
December 23 – David
Alexander, American television director (d. 1983) ·
Herbert Reinecker,
German writer (d. 2007) ·
D. B. H. Wildish, British Royal Navy vice
admiral (d. 2017) ·
Zoya Bulgakova, Russian Soviet stage actress
(d. 2017) ·
December 25 – Abelardo Raidi, Venezuelan sportswriter and
radio broadcaster (d. 2002) ·
December 26 – Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008) ·
December 28 – Bidia Dandaron, Buddhist author and teacher
in the USSR (d. 1974) ·
December 29 – Billy Tipton, American musician (d. 1989) ·
December 30 – Bert Parks, American singer and actor (Miss
America Pageant) (d. 1992) Date unknown[edit] ·
Makhosini Dlamini,
1st Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 1978) ·
Sudha Roy, Indian radical leader (d. 1987) ·
Clint C. Wilson, Sr.,
African American editorial cartoonist (d. 2005) Deaths[edit]
January[edit] ·
January 3 – Nadezhda Rykalova,
Russian actress (b. 1824) ·
January 8 – Simon Bolivar
Buckner, American soldier and politician and Confederate soldier
(b. 1823) ·
January 10 – Leonie Aviat, French Roman Catholic religious sister and
saint (b. 1844) ·
January 11 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of
the arts (b. 1842) ·
January 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre,
Spanish composer and professor of the Madrid Royal
Conservatory (b. 1837) ·
Peter Adolf Persson,
Swedish painter (b. 1862) ·
Camilo Garcia
de Polavieja, Spanish general (b. 1838) ·
January 16 – Itō Sukeyuki, Japanese admiral
(b. 1843) ·
January 17 – Fernand Foureau, French explorer (b. 1850) ·
January 18 – Georges Picquart, French general and
politician (b. 1854) ·
Candelaria Figueredo,
Cuban patriot (b. 1852) ·
William
Turner, British Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1844) ·
Salvador
Martínez Cubells, Spanish painter (b. 1845) ·
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal,
Scottish-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1820) ·
January 26 – Jose
Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, Argentine Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1840) February[edit] ·
Alexander Dodonov,
Russian opera singer (b. 1837) ·
Albert Günther,
German-born British zoologist (b. 1830) ·
February 4 – Per Pĺlsson, Swedish criminal (b. 1828) ·
Francesc
Berenguer i Mestres, Spanish architect (b. 1866) ·
Josefa Texidor
Torres, Spanish painter (b. 1875) ·
February 15 – Giuseppe Vigoni, Italian explorer (b. 1846) ·
February 20 – Federico Degetau, Puerto Rican politician
(b. 1862) ·
February 24 – Joshua Chamberlain,
American Civil War general (b. 1828) ·
February 25 – Sir John Tenniel, English illustrator
(b. 1820) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto,
British aristocrat and politician, 2-time Governor-General
of Canada (b. 1845) ·
Carlos Felipe
Morales, Dominican Roman Catholic priest, politician and
military figure, 30th President
of the Dominican Republic (b. 1868) ·
March 6 – George
Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman (b. 1862) ·
March 9 – José Luciano de Castro,
Portuguese politician, 3-time Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1834) ·
March 12 – George Westinghouse,
American entrepreneur (b. 1846) ·
March 13 – María Tubau, Spanish actress (b. 1854) ·
March 16 – Charles Albert Gobat,
Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843) ·
March 18 – Andreas Beck,
Norwegian explorer (b. 1864) ·
March 19 ·
Thomas Cooper de
Leon, American journalist, author and playwright (b. 1839) ·
Giuseppe Mercalli,
Italian volcanologist (b. 1850) ·
March 22 – Allen Caperton
Braxton, American lawyer (b. 1862) ·
March 23 – Rafqa Pietra
Choboq Ar-Rayčs, Lebanese Maronite, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic nun and saint
(b. 1832) ·
March 25 – Frédéric Mistral,
French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1830) ·
March 28 – Robert Fraser,
British Roman Catholic bishop
(b. 1858) ·
March 31 – Christian
Morgenstern, German poet and writer (b. 1871) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player
and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1876) ·
April 2 – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1830) ·
April 4 – Henry Hallam Parr,
British army officer (b. 1847) ·
April 7 – Mohammad
Ayyub Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1855) ·
April 11 – Elena Guerra, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and
blessed (b. 1835) ·
April 14 – Antonio Frixione, Italian painter and
printmaker (b. 1843) ·
April 15 – Count Frederick of Hohenau (b. 1857) ·
April 16 – Jacinta Parejo, Venezuelan public
figure, First Lady of
Venezuela (b. 1845) ·
April 19 ·
Charles Sanders
Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1839) ·
Empress Shōken,
empress-consort of the Meiji Emperor (b. 1849) ·
April 24 – Benedict Menni, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1841) ·
April 25 – Géza Fejérváry,
16th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1833) ·
April 26 – Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (b. 1831) ·
April 28 – Philippe
Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, French botanist (b. 1839) May[edit] ·
May 2 – John
Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess
Louise of the United Kingdom (b. 1845) ·
May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur,
French Roman Catholic mystic
and servant of God (b. 1866) ·
May 8 – Seth Edulji Dinshaw,
Indian Parsi philanthropist ·
May 10 – Lillian Nordica, American opera singer
(b. 1857) ·
May 12 – Eugenio Montero Ríos,
29th Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1832) ·
May 13 – Isabella Fyvie Mayo,
British poet and novelist (b. 1843) ·
May 23 – Gustav Hamel, British pioneer aviator,
carried first airmail (b. 1889) ·
May 24 – Herman Teodor
Holmgren, Swedish architect (b. 1842) ·
May 26 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American social reformer
(b. 1849) ·
May 29 – Joseph Gérard, French Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1831) ·
May 31 – Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor (b. 1851) June[edit] Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria ·
June 10 – Abraam,
Egyptian Coptic Orthodox bishop
and saint (b. 1829) ·
June 11 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848) ·
June 12 – Béla Spányi, Hungarian painter (b. 1852) ·
June 13 – Odoardo Toscani, Italian painter (b. 1859) ·
June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson I, 23rd Vice
President of the United States (b. 1835) ·
June 15 – John
Robert Sitlington Sterrett, American classical scholar and
archeologist (b. 1851) ·
June 19 – Brandon Thomas, British actor and playwright
(Charley's Aunt)
(b. 1848) ·
June 21 – Bertha von Suttner,
Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843) ·
June 22 – Princess Phannarai (b. 1838) ·
June 25 – Georg
II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1826) ·
June 26 – Antonio Herrera Toro,
Venezuelan painter, critic and professor (b. 1857) ·
June 28 ·
Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1863) ·
Patrick James Foley,
Irish politician (b. 1836) ·
Sophie,
Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (b. 1868) July[edit] ·
July 2 – Joseph Chamberlain,
British politician (b. 1836) ·
July 9 – Prince
Gustav of Thurn and Taxis (b. 1848) ·
July 12 – Horace H. Lurton, Associate Justice of
the United States
Supreme Court (b. 1844) ·
July 17 – Luis Uribe, Chilean naval hero (b. 1847) ·
July 21 – Karl von Czyhlarz,
Czech-born Austrian jurist and politician (b. 1833) ·
July 23 – Vladimir Meshchersky,
Russian journalist and novelist (b. 1839) ·
July 29 – Pietro Pace, Maltese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1831) ·
July 31 ·
Jean Jaurčs, French pacifist (assassinated)
(b. 1859) ·
Giovanni Lugari, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1846) August[edit] ·
August 4 – Hubertine Auclert,
French feminist (b. 1848) ·
August 6 ·
Maxim Sandovich, Russian Orthodox priest,
martyr and saint (b. 1888) ·
Ellen Axson Wilson, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1860) ·
August 8 ·
Martin-Paul Samba,
Cameroonian rebel leader (executed) ·
Rudolf Duala
Manga Bell, Cameroonian resistance leader (executed) ·
August 9 ·
Henry Hadley,
British civilian (b. 1863) ·
Roque Sáenz Peńa,
16th President of
Argentina (b. 1851) ·
August 12 – John Philip Holland,
Irish developer of the submarine (b. 1840) ·
August 15 – Adolfo Carranza, Argentine lawyer (b. 1857) ·
August 16 – Mary Bird,
British Anglican missionary (b. 1859) ·
August 20 – Pope Pius X (b. 1835) ·
August 22 – Giacomo
Radini-Tedeschi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1857) ·
Prince
Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1861) ·
Robert Strange,
American Episcopal bishop
(b. 1857) ·
August 26 – Achille
Pierre Deffontaines, French general (died of wounds received in
action) (b. 1858) ·
August 27 – Eugen Böhm von
Bawerk, Austrian economist (b. 1851) ·
August 30 – Aleksander Samsonov,
Russian general (suicide) (b. 1859) September[edit] ·
September 3 – Albéric Magnard,
French composer (b. 1865) ·
September 5 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and
editor (b. 1873) ·
Mariana Cox Méndez,
Chilean writer (b. 1871) ·
Hans Leybold, German nihilist poet (b. 1892) ·
Mircea Demetriade,
Romanian poet, playwright and actor (b. 1861) ·
Ismail Gasprinski,
Crimean Tatar intellectual (b. 1851) ·
September 13 – Mostafa Fahmy Pasha,
Egyptian politician, 7th Prime Minister of
Egypt (b. 1840) ·
September 14 – Nicolás Zamora,
Filipino Methodist minister
and bishop (b. 1875) ·
September 15 – Koos de la Rey, Boer general (b. 1847) ·
September 16 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman
(b. 1843) ·
September 22 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (killed in
action) (b. 1886) ·
September 26 – August Macke, German painter (killed in
action) (b. 1887) ·
September 28 – Richard Warren Sears,
American founder of Sears, Roebuck
and Company (b. 1863) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Kitty Lange Kielland,
Norwegian painter (b. 1843) ·
King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839) ·
Domenico Ferrata, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1847) ·
October 12 – Prince
Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (b. 1892) ·
Victor
Arnold, Austrian actor (b. 1873) ·
Antonino Paternň Castello, Marchese di San Giuliano,
Italian diplomat (b. 1852) ·
Giuseppe Puzone, Italian composer (b. 1820) ·
Adolfo Saldias, Argentine historian, lawyer,
politician, soldier and diplomat (b. 1849) ·
Prince
Wolrad of Waldeck and Pyrmont (b. 1892) ·
October 19 – Julio Argentino Roca,
Argentine general and statesman, 2-Time President of
Argentina (b. 1843) ·
October 21 – Dimitrie Sturdza, 4-Time Prime Minister of
Romania (b. 1833) ·
October 22 – Thomas
Wilkinson, South African Anglican bishop (b. 1837) ·
October 23 – José Evaristo
Uriburu, Argentine politician, 12th President of
Argentina (b. 1831) ·
October 24 – Yevgeniya Mravina,
Russian soprano (b. 1864) ·
October 25 – Charles W. H.
Douglas, British Army general (b. 1850) ·
October 27 – Prince
Maurice of Battenberg (b. 1891) ·
Princess
Adelgunde of Bavaria (b. 1823) ·
Federico Peliti, Italian baker (b. 1844) November[edit] ·
Christopher Cradock,
British admiral (killed in action) (b. 1862) ·
Adna Chaffee, American Lieutenant General
(b. 1842) ·
November 2 – Heinrich Burkhardt,
German mathematician (b. 1861) ·
November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (suicide)
(b. 1887) ·
Robert Kekewich, British general (suicide)
(b. 1854) ·
August Weismann, German evolutionary
biologist (b. 1834) ·
Alessandro d'Ancona,
Italian critic and writer (b. 1835) ·
Princess
Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1836) ·
November 11 – A. E. J. Collins, British cricketer and
soldier (killed in action) (b. 1885) ·
November 12 – Augusto dos Anjos,
Brazilian poet (b. 1884) ·
November 14 – Frederick
Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British field marshal (b. 1832)[19] ·
November 16 – Nikolai Chayev, Russian writer, poet and
playwright (b. 1824) ·
November 17 – Sattar Khan, Persian pivotal figure
(b. 1866) ·
November 19 – Robert Jones
Burdette, American minister and sentimental humorist (b. 1844) ·
November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound,
American businessman and politician (b. 1833) ·
November 24 – Aristide Cavallari,
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
(b. 1849) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Alfred Thayer Mahan,
United States Navy admiral, geostrategist and historian (b. 1840) ·
December 5 – Angelo Di Pietro, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1828) ·
December 8 – Maximilian von Spee,
German admiral (killed in action) (b. 1861) ·
December 14 – Giovanni Sgambati,
Italian pianist and composer (b. 1841) ·
December 24 – John Muir, American naturalist (b. 1838) ·
December 26 – Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny,
British army general (b. 1840) ·
Alfredo D'Ambrosio,
Italian composer (b. 1871) ·
Johannes Ludwig
Janson, German scientist (b. 1849) ·
Otto Wilhelm
Lindholm, Finnish businessman (b. 1832) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Max von Laue ·
Chemistry – Theodore
William Richards ·
Literature –
not awarded ·
Peace –
not awarded References[edit] 1.
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popular culture through history (Illustrated ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood
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David (1986) [First published 1985]. Chaplin: His
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^ Chaplin, Charles (2003) [First published 1964]. My
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^ Adams, Charles Henry (1914-03-26). "New York Day By Day". The Evening Independent.
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^ The Atlanta
Constitution 1914-06-17 p. 1. 6.
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Gilbert,
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World War I External links[edit]
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