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سنة 1914 (MCMXIV) كانت سنة بسيطة تبدأ يوم الخميس (الرابط يعرض التقويم كاملاً) التقويم الگريگوري، السنة 1914 بعد الميلاد (م)، السنة 914 في الألفية 2، السنة 14 في القرن 20، والسنة خمسة في عقد 1910 بين 1583 و1929 ومع فارق 1914 is 13 يوم عن التقويم اليوليوسي، والذين ظلوا مستخدمين حتى التحول الكامل إلى التقويم الگريگوري في 1929. This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after an heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. 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.

أحداث

January

• 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.
• Januaryخمسة – Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday, and a daily wage of $5.
• Januaryثمانية – A railway strike is declared in the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
• Januaryتسعة – 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

• February 2 – Charlie Chaplin makes his film début, in the comedy short Making a Living.
• Februaryسبعة – 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).
• Februaryثمانية – 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.
• Februaryعشرة – 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 , sister to the , is launched at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.
• February 28 &ndah; The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed by ethnic Greeks, in Northern Epirus.

March

• March 1 – The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
• Marchستة – FK Vojvodina football club is founded in Novi Sad (Serbia).
• Marchسبعة – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania, to begin his reign.
• Marchثمانية – Aircraft are first transferred to Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base.
• Marchعشرة – 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.
• March 27 – Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.
• March 29 &ndah; Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive in Easter Island, to make the first true study of it (they depart in August 1915).

April

• April 4–September 27 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.
• Aprilتسعة – 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 incident occurs when they attempt to enforce an arms embargo against Mexico, by preventing the German cargo steamer 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

• May 1 – November 1 – The Exposition Internationale is held at Lyon, France.
• Mayخمسة – November 11 – The Jubilee Exhibition (Jubilæumsutstillingen) is held at Kristiania, Norway, to mark the centennial of the country's Constitution.
• Mayتسعة – 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 sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,012 lives are lost.
• May 30 – The ocean liner makes her maiden voyage.

June

• June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy, Edward Mandell House, meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.
• Juneثمانية – The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.
• Juneتسعة – 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.
• 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 Warrender visits; the Kaiser inspects the Dreadnought .
• June 24 – In Manchester, New Hampshire, a downtown fire causes $400,000 worth of damage and injures 19 firemen.

• 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.
• 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

• July 1 – The Royal Naval Air Service, a forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established.
• 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.
• Julyخمسة – 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.
• Julyسبعة – 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.
• Julyتسعة – The Emperor of Austria-Hungary receives the report of the Austro-Hungarian investigation, into the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria at Sarajevo. The Times publishes an account of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").
• Julyعشرة – 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.
  • , 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.
• 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–[July 24|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.

• July 27 – Brother Felix Ysagun Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) with the government of the Philippines.

• 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–Augustعشرة – World War I: : 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 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 Jaurès is assassinated by a nationalist in Paris.

August

• 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
  • German troops invade Belgium at 8:02 am (local time). Great Britain 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 and light cruiser .
  • 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 , 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.
  • , taken over two days earlier by the Imperial German Navy as a minelayer, lays mines 40 ميلs (64 kم) off the east coast of England. She is intercepted and sunk by the British Royal Navy light cruiser , 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 Liège, Belgium, killingتسعة civilians.
  • The first electric traffic light is installed between Euclid Avenue and East 105 Street, in Cleveland, Ohio.
• August 5–16 – Battle of Liège: The German Army overruns and defeats the Belgians with the first operational use of Big Bertha (howitzer).
• Augustستة – 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 pursues the (which escapes) in the West Indies.
• Augustسبعة – 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.Alhaji Grunshi returns fire, the first soldier in British service to fire a shot in the war.
• 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.
• Augustتسعة – World War I: British Royal Navy light cruiser rams and sinks German submarine U-15 off Fair Isle, the first U-boat lost in action.
• 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.
• August 15
  • The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the .
  • Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Álvaro Obregón enter Mexico City.
  • A dismissed servant killsسبعة 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 and (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 , 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.
• August 26 – World War I:
  • 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 forces the , 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

• September 1
  • 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.
• September 3
  • 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.
• Septemberخمسة – 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 is sunk by in the Firth of Forth (Scotland), the first ship ever to be sunk by a locomotive torpedo fired from a submarine.
• Septemberسبعة – World War I: هجريا declares war on Belgium.
• Septemberثمانية – World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for deserting during the war.
• Septemberعشرة – World War I: South Africa declares war on Germany.
• 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 &ndah; 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.
• September 15
  • 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.
• September 17
  • 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, , and , 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 bombards Madras, the only Indian city to be attacked by the Central Powers in the War.
• 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

• October ثلاثة – World War I: 25,000 Canadian troops depart for Europe.
• October 4
  • The 1914 Burdur earthquake occurs in هجريا.
  • The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three is signed, supporting the early German war effort.
• Octoberتسعة – 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 (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 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.
• October 31 &ndah; World War I: Battle of the Vistula River concludes in Russian victory over German and Austro-Hungarian forces around Warsaw.

November

• 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 and .
• Novemberخمسة – World War I:
  • Britain and France declare war on Turkey. 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.
• Novemberسبعة &ndah; Siege of Tsingtao: The Japanese and British seize Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the German East Asia Squadron.
• Novemberتسعة – 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

• December 2 – Serbian Campaign (World War I): Austro-Hungarian forces occupy Belgrade, Serbia.
• Decemberثمانية – 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.
• December 19
  • 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.

مجهولة التاريخ

• 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

January

• January 2
  • Kenny Clarke, American jazz musician (d. 1985)
  • Noor Inayat Khan, World War II heroine (d. 1944)
  • Vivian Stuart (aka Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V.A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart), British writer (d. 1986)
• January 4
  • 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)
• Januaryخمسة – George Reeves, American actor (Superman) (d. 1959)
• Januaryسبعة – Edwin La Dell, British artist (d. 1970)
• January 12 – Albrecht von Goertz, German car designer (d. 2006)
• January 13
  • Osa Massen, Danish actress (d. 2006)
  • Ted Willis, British television dramatist, author (d. 1992)
• January 14
  • Harold Russell, Canadian actor (d. 2002)
  • Magda Fedor, Hungarian sports shooter (d. 2017)
• January 15 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d. 2003)
• January 17
  • 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)
• January 30
  • John Ireland, Canadian-born actor (d. 1992)
  • David Wayne, American actor (d. 1995)
• January 31
  • Carey Loftin, American actor, stuntman (d. 1997)
  • Daya Mata (و. Alice Faye Wright), American president of Self-Realization Fellowship (d. 2010)
  • Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994)

February

• February 3
  • George Nissen, American gymnast, inventor of the trampoline (d. 2010)
  • Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer and dancer (or 1912)
• February أربعة – Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980)
• 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)
  • Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (d. 2010)
• Februaryستة – Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
• February 9
  • Bill Justice, American Disney animator (d. 2011)
  • Ernest Tubb, American singer (d. 1984)
• Februaryعشرة – Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001)
• February 11 – Matt Dennis, American singer, songwriter (d. 2002)
• February 12 – Tex Beneke, American bandleader (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)
• February 20
  • Peter Rogers, British film producer (d. 2009)
  • John Charles Daly, South African-born journalist, game show host (d. 1991)
• February 21
  • Zachary Scott, American actor (d. 1965)
  • Park Su-geun, Korean painter (d. 1965)
• February 22
  • 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

• 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)
• Marchستة – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
• Marchثمانية – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
• Marchعشرة – 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

• 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
  • Richard Coogan, American actor (d. 2014)
  • Marguerite Duras, French author, director (d. 1996)
• Aprilسبعة – Heinz Billing, German physicist, computer scientist (d. 2017)
• Aprilثمانية – María Félix, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
• April 11
  • Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)
  • Norman McLaren, Canadian animator, director (d. 1987)
• 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
• April 18 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014)
• April 20 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
• April 21 &ndah; James Henry Quello, American Federal Communications Commissioner (d. 2010)
• April 22
  • Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian film director (d. 2008)
  • José Quiñones 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
  • William Castle, American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• April 25
  • Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 51th 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

• May 3
  • Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French poet
  • Martín de Riquer, Spanish writer and Romantic scholar (d. 2013)
• Mayخمسة – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
• Mayثمانية – Romain Gary, Russian-born writer, diplomat (d. 1980)
• Mayتسعة – 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
  • 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
  • Irmã Dulce Pontes, Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister (d. 1992)
  • Frankie Manning, American choreographer, dancer (d. 2009)
• May 28 &ndah; 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

• Juneستة – Zhang Jingfu, Chinese politician (d. 2015)
• Juneعشرة – 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 &ndah; Gisèle 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 29
  • Franz Joseph, American artist, writer (d. 1994)
  • Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (d. 1996)
• June 30
  • Agnès-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

• 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
  • Mac Wilson, Australian rules footballer (d. 2017)
  • Willi Stoph, Prime Minister (1964-1973, 1976-1989) and Chairman of the Council of State (1973-1976) of the GDR (d. 1999)
• 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
  • 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
  • Oscar Heisserer, French footballer (d. 2004)
  • Roy Huggins, American novelist (d. 2002)
  • Mack Robinson, American athlete (d. 2000)
  • Gino Bartali, Italian road cyclist (d. 2000)
  • Jo Cals, Dutch politician and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) (d. 1970)
• 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)
• 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 Funès, French actor (d. 1983)

August

• 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)
• August 10
  • 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
• August 17
  • 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 Bourgès-Maunoury, French politician, 95th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993)
• 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)
• August 31 – Joan Barclay, American actress (d. 2002)

September

• September 1 – Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japanese photographer
• September 2 – Lord George-Brown, British politician (d. 1985)
• September 5
  • Sor Isolina Ferré, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (d. 2000)
  • Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d. 2018)
• Septemberسبعة – James Van Allen, American physicist (d. 2006)
• September 10
  • 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)
• September 12
  • 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)
• September 15
  • 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)
• September 17
  • Thomas J. Bata, Czech-born businessman (d. 2008)
  • Lambert Mascarenhas, Indian journalist, freedom activist and writer
• September 18
  • Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director, and photographer (d. 2009)
  • Harry Townes, American actor (d. 2001)
• September 20
  • 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)
• September 23
  • Bethsabée de Rothschild, English philanthropist and patron of dance (d. 1999)
  • Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986)
• September 24
  • John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
  • Andrzej Panufnik, Polish-born British musician and composer (d. 1991)
  • Jean-Michel Guilcher, French ethnologist (d. 2017)
• September 25
  • 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

• October 1
  • Dan Eley, British chemist (d. 2015)
  • Maciej Maciejewski, Polish screen and stage actor
  • Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
• October 2
  • Richard Millard, American suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California
  • Jack Parsons, American rocket engineer and occultist (d. 1952)
• October ثلاثة – Ellsworth Wareham, American cardiothoracic surgeon
• October أربعة – Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
• Octoberستة – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
• Octoberسبعة – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974)
• Octoberثمانية – Henry C. Pearson, American abstract and modernist painter (d. 2006)
• Octoberتسعة – Edward Andrews, American stage, film and television actor (d. 1985)
• October 10
  • 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)
• October 25
  • 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)
• October 28
  • 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)
• October 30
  • 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

• November 1 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006)
• November 2
  • Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (d. 1997)
  • Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
• Novemberخمسة – Alton Tobey, American artist (d. 2005)
• November 6
  • Jonathan Harris, American actor (Lost in Space) (d. 2002)
  • Leonard Miall, British broadcaster and television personality (d. 2005)
• November 8
  • George Dantzig, American mathematician (d. 2005)
  • Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer, and director (d. 2017)
• Novemberتسعة – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
• Novemberعشرة – Tod Andrews, American actor (d. 1972)
• November 11 – Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer (d. 2003)
• November 13
  • 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 (و. 1963)
• November 22 – Alex Pitko, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• November 23
  • 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

• December 2 – Bill Erwin, American actor (d. 2010)
• Decemberستة – Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (d. 2013)
• Decemberسبعة – Alberto Castillo, Argentine tango singer and actor (d. 2002)
• Decemberثمانية – Mary Tortorich, American voice teacher (d. 2017)
• Decemberتسعة – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010)
• Decemberعشرة – 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)
• December 14
  • 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)
• December 24
  • 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)

مجهولة التاريخ

• 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

January

• January ثلاثة – Nadezhda Rykalova, Russian actress (و. 1824)
• Januaryثمانية – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier and politician and Confederate soldier (و. 1823)
• Januaryعشرة – Leonie Aviat, French Roman Catholic religious sister and saint (و. 1844)
• January 11 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts (و. 1842)
• January 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer and professor of the Madrid Royal Conservatory (و. 1837)
• January 15
  • Peter Adolf Persson, Swedish painter (و. 1862)
  • Camilo Garcia de Polavieja, Spanish general (و. 1838)
• January 16 – Itō Sukeyuki, Japanese admiral (و. 1843)
• January 17 – Fernand Foureau, French explorer (و. 1850)
• January 18 – Georges Picquart, French general and politician (و. 1854)
• January 19
  • Candelaria Figueredo, Cuban patriot (و. 1852)
  • William Turner, British Roman Catholic clergyman (و. 1844)
• January 21 – Salvador Martínez Cubells, Spanish painter (و. 1845)
• January 26 – Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, Argentine Roman Catholic priest and saint (و. 1840)

February

• February 1
  • Alexander Dodonov, Russian opera singer (و. 1837)
  • Albert Günther, German-born British zoologist (و. 1830)
• February أربعة – Per Pålsson, Swedish criminal (و. 1828)
• February 8
  • Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, Spanish architect (و. 1866)
  • Josefa Texidor Torres, Spanish painter (و. 1875)
• February 15 – Giuseppe Vigoni, Italian explorer (و. 1846)
• February 20 – Federico Degetau, Puerto Rican politician (و. 1862)
• February 24 – Joshua Chamberlain, American Civil War general (و. 1828)
• February 25 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (و. 1820)

March

• March 1
  • Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, British aristocrat and politician, 2-time Governor-General of Canada (و. 1845)
  • Carlos Felipe Morales, Dominican Roman Catholic priest, politician and military figure, 30th President of the Dominican Republic (و. 1868)
• Marchستة – George Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman (و. 1862)
• Marchتسعة – José Luciano de Castro, Portuguese politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (و. 1834)
• March 12 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur (و. 1846)
• March 13 – María Tubau, Spanish actress (و. 1854)
• March 16 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (و. 1843)
• March 18 – Andreas Beck, Norwegian explorer (و. 1864)
• March 19
  • Thomas Cooper de Leon, American journalist, author and playwright (و. 1839)
  • Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (و. 1850)
• March 22 – Allen Caperton Braxton, American lawyer (و. 1862)
• March 23 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese Maronite, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic nun and saint (و. 1832)
• March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1830)
• March 28 – Robert Fraser, British Roman Catholic bishop (و. 1858)
• March 31 – Christian Morgenstern, German poet and writer (و. 1871)

April

• April 1 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (و. 1876)
• April 2 – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (و. 1830)
• April أربعة – Henry Hallam Parr, British army officer (و. 1847)
• Aprilسبعة – Mohammad Ayyub Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (و. 1855)
• April 11 – Elena Guerra, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (و. 1835)
• April 14 – Antonio Frixione, Italian painter and printmaker (و. 1843)
• April 15 – Count Frederick of Hohenau (و. 1857)
• April 16 – Jacinta Parejo, Venezuelan public figure, First Lady of Venezuela (و. 1845)
• April 19
  • Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (و. 1839)
  • Empress Shōken, empress-consort of the Meiji Emperor (و. 1849)
• April 24 – Benedict Menni, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (و. 1841)
• April 25 – Géza Fejérváry, 16th Prime Minister of Hungary (و. 1833)
• April 26 – Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (و. 1831)
• April 28 – Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, French botanist (و. 1839)

May

• May 2 – John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise of the United Kingdom (و. 1845)
• May ثلاثة – Élisabeth Leseur, French Roman Catholic mystic and servant of God (و. 1866)
• Mayثمانية – Seth Edulji Dinshaw, Indian Parsi philanthropist
• Mayعشرة – Lillian Nordica, American opera singer (و. 1857)
• May 12 – Eugenio Montero Ríos, 29th Prime Minister of Spain (و. 1832)
• May 13 – Isabella Fyvie Mayo, British poet and novelist (و. 1843)
• May 23 – Gustav Hamel, British pioneer aviator, carried first airmail (و. 1889)
• May 24 – Herman Teodor Holmgren, Swedish architect (و. 1842)
• May 26 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American social reformer (و. 1849)
• May 29 – Joseph Gérard, French Roman Catholic priest and blessed (و. 1831)
• May 31 – Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor (و. 1851)

June

• Juneعشرة – Abraam, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox bishop and saint (و. 1829)
• June 11 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (و. 1848)
• June 12 – Béla Spányi, Hungarian painter (و. 1852)
• June 13 – Odoardo Toscani, Italian painter (و. 1859)
• June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States (و. 1835)
• June 15 – John Robert Sitlington Sterrett, American classical scholar and archeologist (و. 1851)
• June 19 – Brandon Thomas, British actor and playwright (Charley's Aunt) (و. 1848)
• June 21 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (و. 1843)
• June 22 – Princess Phannarai (و. 1838)
• June 25 – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (و. 1826)
• June 26 – Antonio Herrera Toro, Venezuelan painter, critic and professor (و. 1857)
• June 28
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (و. 1863)
  • Patrick James Foley, Irish politician (و. 1836)
  • Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (assassinated) (و. 1868)

July

• July 2 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (و. 1836)
• Julyتسعة – Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis (و. 1848)
• July 12 – Horace H. Lurton, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (و. 1844)
• July 17 – Luis Uribe, Chilean naval hero (و. 1847)
• July 21 – Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-born Austrian jurist and politician (و. 1833)
• July 23 – Vladimir Meshchersky, Russian journalist and novelist (و. 1839)
• July 29 – Pietro Pace, Maltese Roman Catholic bishop (و. 1831)
• July 31
  • Jean Jaurès, French pacifist (assassinated) (و. 1859)
  • Giovanni Lugari, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (و. 1846)

August

• August أربعة – Hubertine Auclert, French feminist (و. 1848)
• August 6
  • Maxim Sandovich, Russian Orthodox priest, martyr and saint (و. 1888)
  • Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the United States (و. 1860)
• August 8
  • Martin-Paul Samba, Cameroonian rebel leader (executed)
  • Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, Cameroonian resistance leader (executed)
• August 9
  • Henry Hadley, British civilian (و. 1863)
  • Roque Sáenz Peña, 16th President of Argentina (و. 1851)
• August 12 – John Philip Holland, Irish developer of the submarine (و. 1840)
• August 15 – Adolfo Carranza, Argentine lawyer (و. 1857)
• August 16 – Mary Bird, British Anglican missionary (و. 1859)
• August 20 – Pope Pius X (و. 1835)
• August 22 – Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (و. 1857)
• August 23
  • Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (و. 1861)
  • Robert Strange, American Episcopal bishop (و. 1857)
• August 26 – Achille Pierre Deffontaines, French general (died of wounds received in action) (و. 1858)
• August 27 – Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Austrian economist (و. 1851)
• August 30 – Aleksander Samsonov, Russian general (suicide) (و. 1859)

September

• September ثلاثة – Albéric Magnard, French composer (و. 1865)
• Septemberخمسة – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (و. 1873)
• September 8
  • Mariana Cox Méndez, Chilean writer (و. 1871)
  • Hans Leybold, German nihilist poet (و. 1892)
• September 11
  • Mircea Demetriade, Romanian poet, playwright and actor (و. 1861)
  • Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar intellectual (و. 1851)
• September 13 – Mostafa Fahmy Pasha, Egyptian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Egypt (و. 1840)
• September 14 – Nicolás Zamora, Filipino Methodist minister and bishop (و. 1875)
• September 15 – Koos de la Rey, Boer general (و. 1847)
• September 16 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (و. 1843)
• September 22 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (killed in action) (و. 1886)
• September 26 – August Macke, German painter (killed in action) (و. 1887)
• September 28 – Richard Warren Sears, American founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company (و. 1863)

October

• October 1 – Kitty Lange Kielland, Norwegian painter (و. 1843)
• October 10
  • King Carol I of Romania (و. 1839)
  • Domenico Ferrata, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (و. 1847)
• October 12 – Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (و. 1892)
• October 16
  • Victor Arnold, Austrian actor (و. 1873)
  • Antonino Paternò Castello, Marchese di San Giuliano, Italian diplomat (و. 1852)
• October 17
  • Giuseppe Puzone, Italian composer (و. 1820)
  • Adolfo Saldias, Argentine historian, lawyer, politician, soldier and diplomat (و. 1849)
  • Prince Wolrad of Waldeck and Pyrmont (و. 1892)
• October 19 – Julio Argentino Roca, Argentine general and statesman, 2-Time President of Argentina (و. 1843)
• October 21 – Dimitrie Sturdza, 4-Time Prime Minister of Romania (و. 1833)
• October 22 – Thomas Wilkinson, South African Anglican bishop (و. 1837)
• October 23 – José Evaristo Uriburu, Argentine politician, 12th President of Argentina (و. 1831)
• October 24 – Yevgeniya Mravina, Russian soprano (و. 1864)
• October 25 – Charles W. H. Douglas, British Army general (و. 1850)
• October 27 – Prince Maurice of Battenberg (و. 1891)
• October 28
  • Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (و. 1823)
  • Federico Peliti, Italian baker (و. 1844)

November

• November 1
  • Christopher Cradock, British admiral (killed in action) (و. 1862)
  • Adna Chaffee, American Lieutenant General (و. 1842)
• November 2 – Heinrich Burkhardt, German mathematician (و. 1861)
• November ثلاثة – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (suicide) (و. 1887)
• November 5
  • Robert Kekewich, British general (suicide) (و. 1854)
  • August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (و. 1834)
• November 9
  • Alessandro d'Ancona, Italian critic and writer (و. 1835)
  • Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (و. 1836)
• November 11 – A. E. J. Collins, British cricketer and soldier (killed in action) (و. 1885)
• November 12 – Augusto dos Anjos, Brazilian poet (و. 1884)
• November 14 – Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British field marshal (و. 1832)
• November 16 – Nikolai Chayev, Russian writer, poet and playwright (و. 1824)
• November 17 – Sattar Khan, Persian pivotal figure (و. 1866)
• November 19 – Robert Jones Burdette, American minister and sentimental humorist (و. 1844)
• November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (و. 1833)
• November 24 – Aristide Cavallari, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (و. 1849)

December

• December 1 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States Navy admiral, geostrategist and historian (و. 1840)
• Decemberخمسة – Angelo Di Pietro, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (و. 1828)
• Decemberثمانية – Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (killed in action) (و. 1861)
• December 14 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer (و. 1841)
• December 24 – John Muir, American naturalist (و. 1838)
• December 29
  • Alfredo D'Ambrosio, Italian composer (و. 1871)
  • Johannes Ludwig Janson, German scientist (و. 1849)
  • Otto Wilhelm Lindholm, Finnish businessman (و. 1832)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Max von Laue
• Chemistry – Theodore William Richards
• Medicine – Róbert Bárány
• Literature – not awarded
• Peace – not awarded

References

Primary sources and year books

• , Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 913pp

للاستزادة

• Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 297–349; emphasis on World War I

وصلات خارجية

• European newspapers from 1914
• 1914 Coin Pictures

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