1914

1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)

Events

January - March

• January 4 - 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador.
• January 5 - Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
• January 9 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
• January 10 - Mexican Revolution - Pancho Villa's troops take Ojinaga in the Mexican state of Chihuahua
• February 13 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• March 1 - The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• March 10 - Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velasquez painting Rokeby Venus in London’s national gallery with a meat chopper.
• March 16 - Wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux shoots Gaston Calmet, the editor of Le Figaro because he threatened to publish Caillaux's love letters to her during his previous marriage. (She is later acquitted.)
• March 27 - Belgian surgeon A. Hustin makes the first successful blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
• March 29 - Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island to make the first true study of it (departs August 1915)

April - June

• April 11 - Alpha Rho Chi, a professional architecture fraternity, is founded in the Hotel Sherman in Chicago.
• April 14 - The city of Irving, Texas is incorporated.
• April 20 - Colorado coalfield Massacre or Ludlow Massacre. Colorado National guard attacks 1200 tent colony of striking coal miners in Ludlow - 24 people dead.
• April 21 - 3000 US marines land in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
• The American Radio Relay League is founded.
• May 9 - J.T. Hearne becomes the first bowler to take 3000 first-class wickets.
• May 14 - Woodrow Wilson signs Mother's Day proclamation.
• May 25 - The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.
• May 29 - The ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.
• June 1 - Woodrow Wilson's envoy Edward Mandell House meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
• June 18 - Constitutionals take San Luis Potosí - Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender
• June 23 - Kiel Canal reopened (having been deepened) by the Kaiser; Visit of the British Fleet under Sir G. Warrender: Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought HMS King George V.
• June 28 - Serbian terrorist Gavrilo Princip assassinates and kills Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie
• June 29
  • Austria-Hungary: Secretary of the Legation at Belgrade sends despatch to Vienna suggesting Serbian complicity in the crime of Sarajevo. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and throughout Bosnia generally.
  • Chionya Gusyeva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
• June 30 - Great Britain - Addresses in Parliament on the murdered Archduke: Lords Crewe 7 Lansdowne in House of Lords; Messrs. Asquith & Law in Commons.

July

• July 2 - Announcement that the German Kaiser will not attend the Archduke's funeral.
• July 4 - Austria-Hungary: Funeral of the Archduke at Artstetten (50 miles west of Vienna).
• July 5 - Council at Potsdam.
• July 6 - The German Kaiser leaves Kiel for a cruise in Northern waters.
• July 7 - Austria-Hungary: Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, Chief of General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief; Council lasts from 11.30 a.m. to 6.15 p.m.
• July 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 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.
• July 28 - World War I begins: Austria-Hungary 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

• August 1 - Germany declares war on Russia, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia.
• August 2
  • German troops occupy Luxembourg.
  • Secret treaty between Turkey and Germany to secure Turkish neutrality
• August 3 - Germany declares war on Russia's ally France.
• August 4 - German troops invade neutral Belgium. Britain declares war on Germany after the latter fails to respect Belgian neutrality. The United States declares neutrality.
• August 5 - USA and Panama sign the Panama Canal Treaty
• August 8 - German colonial forces execute Martin-Paul Samba for high treason.
• August 15
  • The Panama Canal opens to traffic.
  • Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Alvaro Obregon enter Mexico City
• August 17-September 2 - World War I: Battle of Tannenberg
• August 20 - World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
• August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany.
• August 26-27 - The Battle of Le Cateau.
• August 28 - The Battle of Heligoland - British cruisers under admiral Beatty sink three German cruisers.

Pope Benedict XV, the new Pope

• August 29-30 - The Battle of St. Quentin.

September-October

• September 1
  • St. Petersburg, Russia changes its name to Petrograd.
  • The last known passenger pigeon dies in the Cincinnati Zoo.
• September 2 - Moronvilliers occupied by the Germans.
• September 3 - Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds Pope Pius X as the 256th pope.
• September 5
  • London Agreement - no member of Triple Entente (Britain, France, or Russia) may seek a separate peace with Central Powers.
  • World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins - Northeast of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Michel-Joseph Maunoury attack German forces who are advancing on the capital. Over 2 million troops will fight in the battle and 500,000 will be killed or wounded in this significant Allied victory.
• September 6 - French and British counterattack at Marne ends German advance on Paris.
• September 13 - South African troops open hostilities in German South-West Africa (today Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
• September 13-28 - The First Battle of the Aisne.
• September 17 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
• September 26 - The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
• September 30 - Flying Squadron established to promote temperance movement.
• October 9 - World War I: Siege of Antwerp - Antwerp, Belgium falls to German troops.
• October 13 - Boston Braves beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-1, to win baseball's World Series.
• October 29 - World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports: Russia, France, and Britain declare war on November 1-5.

November-December

• November 1 - World War I: Battle of Coronel fought - A Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met and defeated by the superior German forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. This is the first British naval defeat of the war.
• November 4 - Britain and France declare war on Turkey.
• November 5 - The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• November 7 - The Japanese seize Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the German East Asia Squadron.
• 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 23 - US troops withdraw from Veracruz. Venustiano Carranza's troops take over and Carranza makes the town his headquarters
• November 24 - Benito Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.
• November 28 - World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
• December 7 - Federation of Oriental Jews founds the Oriental Jewish Community of New York.
• December 24 - World War I: British and German soldiers interrupted World War I to celebrate Christmas, beginning the Christmas truce.

Unknown dates

• Marcus Garvey in Jamaica founds Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
• First everyday items made of stainless steel come into public circulation.
• French Buddhist Alexandra David-Neel is the first European woman to visit Tibet (in disguise).
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returns to India from South Africa to spearhead the Indian independence movement.
• W. H. Carrier patents design of an air conditioner.
• The capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China is moved from Guilin to Nanning.
• Port of Orange, Texas dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy.
• United States Power Squadrons formed

Ongoing events

• World War I (1914-1918)
• Assyrian Genocide (1914-1922)
• Mexican Revolution

Births

January

• January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan, World War II heroine (d. 1944)
• January 4
  • Jane Wyman, American actress
  • Herman Franks, American Baseball Player
  • Jean-Pierre Vernant, French Historian and Anthropologist
• January 5 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)
• January 6 - Danny Thomas, American singer, actor, and comedian (d. 1991)
• January 12 - Albrecht von Goertz German Car Designer (d. 2006)
• January 13 - Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist & 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, Aerican poet and pacifist (d. 1993)
  • Anacleto Angelini, Italian born Chilean Businessman
  • 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)
  • Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (d. 1997)

February

• February 1 - George Nissen, American Gymnast and Inventor
• February 4
  • Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
  • Ida Lupino, English actress, director, and writer (d. 1995)
  • Silvius Magnago, Italian Politician
• February 5
  • William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997)
  • Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998)
• February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
• February 9 - Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)
• February 11 - Matt Dennis, American singer (d. 2002)
• February 12 - Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000)
• February 15 - Kevin McCarthy, American Actor
• February 19 - Jacques Dufilho, French comedian and actor (d. 2005)
• February 20 - Peter Rogers, British 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

• 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)
  • 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

• April 2
  • Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)
  • Hans Wegner, Danish furniture designer
• April 4
  • Marguerite Duras, French author and director (d. 1996)
  • Richard Coogan, American actor
  • Frances Langford, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
• April 8
  • Maria Felix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
  • Claire Martin, Canadian author
• April 9 - Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Loatian President(1992-1998)
• April 11 - Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
• April 12
  • Armen Alchian, American author and economist
  • Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer
  • Gilbert Taylor, British cinematographer
• April 21 - James Henry Quello, former FCC Commissioner
• April 22
  • Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002)
  • Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian film director
• April 25 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American writer (d. 1948)
• April 26
  • Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
  • Lilian Rolfe, French-born World War II heroine (d. 1945)
• April 28 - Michel Mohrt, French Author and Historian
• April 30 - Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian Songwriter

May

• 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)
  • Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002)
• May 13
  • Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
  • Phil Drabble, British author and TV 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
  • Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002)
• May 22
  • Vance Packard, American author (d. 1996)
  • Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
• May 24
  • Arthur A. Link, American politician
  • George Tabori, Hungarian writer and director
• May 26 - Frankie Manning, American choreographer and dancer
• May 28 - W. G. G. Duncan Smith, British World War II pilot (d. 1996)

June

• June - William Herskovic, Holocaust hero, philanthropist (d. 2006)
• 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)
  • Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (d. 1999)
• June 19
  • Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator (d. 2000)
  • Harry Lauter, American actor (d. 1990)
• June 21 - William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• June 24 - Frances Oldham Kelsey, American FDA Reviewer
• June 26 - Doc Williams, American Country Musician
• June 29 - Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (d. 1996)

July

• July 2 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (d. 2004)
• July 6 - Vincent J. McMahon, Professional Wrestling Promoter (d. 1988)
• July 8
  • Sarah P. Harkness, American architect
  • Jyoti Basu, Indian politician
• July 14 - George Putnam, American news 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)
  • Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
• July 10 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born comic book creator, co-creator of Superman (d. 1992)
• July 20 - Masa Niemi, Finnish actor, famous as Pätkä in the Pekka ja Pätkä films (d. 1960)
• July 25
  • Ed Mirvish, Canadian Businessman and philanthropist
  • Lionel Van Deerlin, American politician
• July 29 - "Professor" Irwin Corey, American Actor and Comic
• July 30 - Lord Killanin, Irish president of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999)

August

• August 2 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001)
• August 9
  • Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001)
  • Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
• August 10
  • Jeff Corey, American actor (d. 2002)
  • Ken Annakin, British Film Director
• August 11 - Hugh Martin, American Composer
• August 15 - Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996)
• August 17
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1988)
  • Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian World War II heroine (d. 1945)
• August 26 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)

September

• September 5
  • Stuart Freeborn, British make-up artist
  • Sor Isolina Ferré, Puerto Rican Catholic nun (d. 2000)
  • Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet
• September 7 - James Van Allen, American physicist (d. 2006)
• September 10 - Robert Wise, American film producer (d. 2005)
• September 11
  • Sidney Hart, British trade unionist and religious administrator (d. 2005)
  • Pavle Patriarch of Serbia Head of Serbian Orthodox Church
• September 12
  • Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999)
  • Janusz Zurakowski, Polish-born pilot (d. 2004)
• September 13 - Ralph Rapson, American Architect
• September 14 - Clayton Moore, American actor (d. 1999)
• September 15
  • Creighton Williams Abrams, U.S. general (d. 1974)
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian writer (d. 1999)
• September 16 - Allen Funt, American television show host (d. 1999)
• September 17 - Thomas J. Bata, Czech born Canadian Businessman
• September 18 - Jack Cardiff, British Cinematographer, Director and Photographer
• September 20 - Ken Hechler, American Politician
• September 21 - Bob Lido, American singer and musician, The Lawrence Welk Show (d. 2000)
• September 23 - Bethsabée de Rothschild, English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)

October

• October 1 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
• October 2 - Jack Parsons, Illuminati, Anti-Christ, American rocket engineer (d. 1952)
• 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
  • 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 25 - John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972)
• October 27 - Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (d. 1953)
• October 28
  • Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995)
  • Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
• October 28 - Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Congressman (d. 1988)

November

• November 1 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)
• 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 25 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999)

December

• December 2 - Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• December 10 - Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
• December 12 - Patrick O'Brian, British writer (d. 2000)
• December 14 - Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
• December 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)

date unknown

• Charles Donnelly, Northern Irish poet (d. 1937)
• Richard James, American inventor
• Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani pioneer in microcredit and microfinance (d. 1999)

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. 1863)
  • 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 7 - Charles Davis Lucas, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1834)
• 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)

Nobel prizes

• Physics - Max von Laue
• Chemistry- Theodore William Richards
• Medicine - Robert Bárány
• Literature - not awarded
• Peace - not awarded

Fictional references

• The 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire takes place in October 1914.
• According to The Simpsons, Mr. Burns graduated from Yale in 1914.

External links

• 1914 Coin Pictures

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