1914#Births

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This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo 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.

Events

= 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.{{cite book|title=FAA Aviation News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bNwTRCakOIC&pg=RA1-PA12|year=1967|publisher=Office of Public Affairs, Federal Aviation Agency|page=12}}
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.{{cite book |title=The Associated Press Library of Disasters: Volcanoes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ccOAQAAMAAJ|date=September 1997|publisher=Grolier Educational|isbn=978-0-7172-9172-4|page=27 |volume=3}}
The Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, sinks after being crushed by ice.{{cite book|author-link= Robert Bartlett (explorer)|last= Bartlett|first= Robert|author2=Ralph Hale |url= https://archive.org/details/lastvoyageofkarl00bartuoft|title= The Last Voyage of the Karluk|publisher= McLelland, Goodchild and Stewart|location= Toronto|year= 1916 |pages=90–91}}
January 29 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia dismisses his 4th Prime Minister, Vladimir Kokovtsov due to his "lack of control over the press", he is succeeded by Ivan Goremykin for his second term

= February =

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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 12 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.{{cite book|author=United States Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital |editor-first=Edward Franklin |editor-last=Concklin |title=The Lincoln Memorial, Washington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YlnnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA466|year=1927|publisher=United States Government Printing Office|page=466}}
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.{{cite book|first=Richard Synyer |last=Hill |editor-first1=Carol June |editor-last1=Bradley |editor-first2=James |editor-last2=Coover|title=Richard S. Hill--Tributes from Friends| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2n8XAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Information Coordinators|isbn=978-0-89990-035-3|page=366}}
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.{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4UPAQAAIAAJ|year=1922|publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica Company|page=632}}
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.{{Cite web |title=HMHS Britannic (II) - White Star Line History Website (White Star History) |url=https://www.whitestarhistory.com/britannic2 |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.whitestarhistory.com}}
February 28 – The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed by ethnic Greeks, in Northern Epirus.{{cite book|first=Gordana |last=Filipović|title=Kosovo: Past and Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1TC5AAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Review of International Affairs|page=75}}

= March =

March 7 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania, to begin his reign.{{cite book|editor-first=Herbert Francis |editor-last=Wright|title=The Constitutions of the States at War, 1914-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6mvpxwpPRsC&pg=PA1|year=1919|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=1}}
March 10 – Suffragette Mary Richardson damages Velázquez's painting Rokeby Venus in London's National Gallery, with a meat chopper.{{cite book|first=Dario |last=Gamboni|title=The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=60ba0VmXVM8C&pg=PA94|year=1997|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-0-948462-94-8|page=94}}
March 17 (Saint Patrick's Day) – Green beer is invented by Thomas H. Curtin, and displayed at the Schnorrer Club of Morrisania in the Bronx, New York.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19140326&id=rYgLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-1MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1999,162635|first=Charles Henry|last=Adams|title=New York Day By Day|newspaper=The Evening Independent|location=St. Petersburg, Florida|date=1914-03-26|page=7|access-date=2014-07-14|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224230137/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19140326&id=rYgLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-1MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1999,162635|url-status=live}}
March 20
Curragh incident: British Army officers stationed in Ireland at the Curragh Camp resign their commissions rather than be ordered to resist action by Unionist Ulster Volunteers if the Government of Ireland Act ("Third Home Rule Bill") is passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Cottrell|title=The War for Ireland, 1913–1923|url=https://archive.org/details/warforirelandgen00cott|url-access=limited|location=Oxford|publisher=Osprey|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84603-9966|pages=[https://archive.org/details/warforirelandgen00cott/page/n14 14]–15}}{{dead link|date=November 2024}} The government backs down and they are reinstated.
Film Tess of the Storm Country is released, propelling its star Mary Pickford to new levels of fame, marking the rise of the modern celebrity.{{Cite web |title=Tess of the Storm Country |url=https://marypickford.org/filmography/tess-of-the-storm-country/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Mary Pickford Foundation |language=en-US}}
March 27 – Belgian surgeon Albert Hustin makes the first successful non-direct blood transfusion, using anticoagulants.{{cite book|editor-first1=Richard Stuart |editor-last1=Atkinson|editor-first2=T. B. |editor-last2=Boulton|title=The History of Anaesthesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OftqAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Royal Society of Medicine Services|isbn=978-0-929858-18-0|pages=436–440}}
March 29 – Katherine Routledge and her husband arrive on Easter Island, to make the first true study of it (they depart in August 1915).{{cite book|first=JoAnne |last=Van Tilburg|title=Easter Island: Archaeology, Ecology and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rLEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16|year=1994|publisher=Smithsonion Institution Press|isbn=978-1-56098-510-5|page=16}}

= April =

April 4–September 27 – Komagata Maru incident: The {{SS|Komagata Maru}} sails from India to Canada. Canadian regulations, designed to exclude Asian immigrants, prevent the boat from docking in Vancouver, and it is forced to return to Calcutta with all its passengers.{{cite web |last1=Johnston |first1=Hugh |title=Komagata Maru; The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |access-date=5 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405043204/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/komagata-maru |archive-date=5 April 2021 |date=7 February 2006}}
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.{{cite journal|journal=Military Review |title=Militant April |first=John A. |last=Reichely|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mPMHKFB0O6oC&pg=PA77|year=1979|publisher=Command and General Staff School |volume=59 |edition=7 |page=77}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=645|title=Parks Canada - Archives|website=www.pc.gc.ca|language=en|access-date=February 4, 2018|archive-date=February 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220151856/https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=645|url-status=dead}}
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.{{Cite web |title=1923 – how our history started |url=https://www.interpol.int/en/Who-we-are/Our-history/How-our-history-started |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.interpol.int |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=International collaboration / Security / Policy & Practice / Portail du Gouvernement - Monaco |url=https://en.gouv.mc/Policy-Practice/Security/International-collaboration |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=en.gouv.mc}}
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 21 people.{{Cite web |title=War in the Coalfields: The "Ludlow Massacre" and its Impact on the Eight-hour workday (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/war-in-the-coalfields-the-ludlow-massacre-and-its-impact-on-the-eight-hour-workday.htm |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}
President Woodrow Wilson asks the United States Congress to use military force in Mexico, in reaction to the Tampico Affair.{{Cite web |date=2016-10-20 |title=April 20, 1914: Message Regarding Tampico Incident {{!}} Miller Center |url=https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/april-20-1914-message-regarding-tampico-incident |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=millercenter.org |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |last=admin |date=2023-04-20 |title=The Ypiranga Incident: A Pivotal Episode in U.S.-Mexican Relations during the Mexican Revolution |url=https://mainemilitarymuseum.org/the-ypiranga-incident-a-pivotal-episode-in-u-s-mexican-relations-during-the-mexican-revolution/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Maine Military Museum |language=en-US}}
April 22 – Mexico ends diplomatic relations with the United States for the time being.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 23
The Afrikaans language receives official recognition, when Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven addresses the English caucus of the Cape Provincial Council.{{cite book|title=South African Panorama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LdMwAQAAIAAJ|year=1956|publisher=South African Information Service |volume=18|page=19}}
MLB Chicago Federals host the Kansas City Packers in the 1st game played at Weeghman Park (the later Wrigley Field).{{cite news|title=Seminary gave way to Cub faithful|first=William|last=Hageman|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=March 30, 2014|location=A|page=14}}
April 24–25 – Larne Gun Running: 35,000 rifles and over 3 million rounds of ammunition from a German dealer are landed at Larne, Bangor and Donaghadee in Ulster for the Unionist Ulster Volunteers.

= May =

May 1–November 1 – The Exposition Internationale is held at Lyon, France.{{cite book|first1=Anita |last1=Hopmans|first2=Kees|last2=van Dongen|author3=Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen|title=The Van Dongen Nobody Knows: Early and Fauvist Drawings 1895-1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVJQAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum|isbn=978-90-6918-170-7|page=312|access-date=2021-04-26|archive-date=2023-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123517/https://books.google.com/books?id=XVJQAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
May 5–October 11 – The Jubilee Exhibition (Jubilæumsutstillingen) is held at Kristiania, Norway, to mark the centennial of the country's constitution.{{cite web|url=http://www.artemisia.no/arc/historisk/oslo/bygninger/jubileumsutst.1914.html|title=Jubileumsutstillingen i Kristiania, 1914|work=arc|first=Geir Tandberg|last=Steigan|language=no|access-date=2024-12-02}}
May 8 – Paramount Pictures is created by W. W. Hodkinson as a national film distributor in the United States.{{cite web|last=Aberdeen|first=J. A.|title=W. W. Hodkinson: The Man Who Invented Hollywood|url=https://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/hodkinson_system.htm|publisher=Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers|access-date=2022-01-10|archive-date=2022-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110115321/https://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/hodkinson_system.htm|url-status=live}}
May 9 – J. T. Hearne in England becomes the first bowler to take 3,000 first-class wickets.{{cite web|title=Jack Hearne|work=cricinfo|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/jack-hearne-14133|accessdate=2024-12-02}}
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.{{cite book|first=Edward |last=Capps |author-link=Edward Capps |title=Greece, Albania, and Northern Epirus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5VpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14|year=1963|publisher=Argonaut|page=14|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123642/https://books.google.com/books?id=F5VpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA14#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
May 25 – The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Government of Ireland Act 1914, the "Irish Home Rule Bill".{{cite book|first=Jessie |last=Blackbourn|title=Anti-Terrorism Law and Normalising Northern Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI89BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|date=7 August 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-96419-3|page=13|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123552/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZI89BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
May 29 – Ocean liner {{RMS|Empress of Ireland}} sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence following a collision; 1,012 lives are lost.{{cite book |first=M. D. |last=Dewar|title=Collisions at Sea - How?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NIgTAAAAYAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Brown, Son & Ferguson|isbn=978-0-85174-561-9|page=375|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123627/https://books.google.com/books?id=NIgTAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}
May 30 – Ocean liner {{RMS|Aquitania}} makes her maiden voyage.{{cite book|first=Neil |last=McCart|title=Atlantic Liners of the Cunard Line |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ttBPAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-1-85260-065-5|page=98|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123540/https://books.google.com/books?id=ttBPAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

= June =

c. June – Blaise Diagne of Senegal becomes the first Black African representative in the French Parliament.{{Cite web |last=Toure |first=Maelenn-Kegni |date=2009-02-27 |title=Blaise Diagne (1872-1934) |url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/diagne-blaise-1872-1934/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=BlackPast.org |language=en-US}}
June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy, Edward Mandell House, meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II.{{cite book|title=The Living Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Qc4AQAAIAAJ|year=1918|publisher=The Living Age Company |page=664|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123542/https://books.google.com/books?id=7Qc4AQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 9 – Pittsburgh Pirate Honus Wagner becomes the first baseball player in the twentieth century with 3,000 career hits.{{Cite web |title=Wagner made history with 3,000th hit {{!}} Baseball Hall of Fame |url=https://baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/wagner-makes-history-with-3000th-hit |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=baseballhall.org}}
June 12–18 – Greek genocide: Ottoman Greeks in Phocaea are massacred by Turkish irregular troops.The Atlanta Constitution. 17 June 1914. p. 1.{{missing title|date=November 2024}}
June 18 – Mexican Revolution: The Constitutionals take San Luis Potosí; Venustiano Carranza demands Victoriano Huerta's surrender.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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 HMS King George V.{{cite book|author=Society for Psychical Research |title=Proceedings |volume=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thXWAAAAIAAJ|year=1923|page=600|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123518/https://books.google.com/books?id=thXWAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
June 24 – In Manchester, New Hampshire, a downtown fire causes $400,000 worth of damage and injures 19 firemen.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Image:Ferdinand Behr arrested in Sarajevo 1914.jpg is usually associated with the arrest of Gavrilo Princip, although some{{cite book|author1=Finestone, Jeffrey|author2=Massie, Robert K.|title=The Last Courts of Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1cvAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Dent|page=247|isbn=978-0-460-04519-3|access-date=September 27, 2016|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207123552/https://books.google.com/books?id=-1cvAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}{{cite book|author=Smith, David James|title=One Morning In Sarajevo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GzsnSU9J5sAC|year=2010|publisher=Hachette UK|isbn=978-0-297-85608-5|quote=He was photographed on the way to the station and the photograph has been reproduced many times in books and articles, claiming to depict the arrest of Gavrilo Princip. But there is no photograph of Princip's arrest – this photograph shows the arrest of Behr.|access-date=September 27, 2016|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124130/https://books.google.com/books?id=GzsnSU9J5sAC|url-status=live}} 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 overnight and eventually World War I. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and Zagreb break out.{{Cite web |title=June 28, 1914 |url=https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/june-28-1914 |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=National WWI Museum and Memorial |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Vojinovic |first=Milos |date=2024-06-28 |title=A Violent Desire for Justice: Gavrilo Princip's Motives for the Sarajevo Assassination |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2024/06/28/a-violent-desire-for-justice-gavrilo-princips-motives-for-the-sarajevo-assassination/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Balkan Insight |language=en-US}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Austrians Are Furious Over Assassination of Ferdinand and Wife - UPI Archives |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1914/06/29/Austrians-Are-Furious-Over-Assassination-of-Ferdinand-and-Wife/6738911845310/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=UPI |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=On the Brink |url=https://www.theworldwar.org/exhibitions/brink |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=National WWI Museum and Memorial |language=en}}
Khioniya Guseva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his hometown in Siberia.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{cite news|title=International exhibition became known as a city |url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/International-exhibition-known-city/story-19493585-detail/story.html |newspaper=Bristol Post |date=2013-07-09 |access-date=2014-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201192130/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/International-exhibition-known-city/story-19493585-detail/story.html |archive-date=February 1, 2014 }}
June 30 – Among those addressing the Parliament of the United Kingdom on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand are Lords Crewe and Lansdowne in the House of Lords, and Messrs Asquith and Law in the Commons.{{Cite web |title=ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND AND HIS CONSORT. (Hansard, 30 June 1914) |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/jun/30/assassination-of-archduke-francis |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=api.parliament.uk}}{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}}

= July =

July 1 – The Royal Naval Air Service, a forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.Admiralty Circular CW.13963/14, 1 July 1914: "Royal Naval Air Service – Organisation"
July 2 – The German Kaiser announces that he will not attend the funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 4
The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria takes place at Artstetten Castle, 50 miles west of Vienna, Austria-Hungary.{{Cite web |title=Family Crypt |url=https://www.schloss-artstetten.at/en/artstetten-castle/family-crypt/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Artstetten Castle |language=en-GB}}
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.{{Citation |title=N.Y. house wrecked by Caron bomb |date=1914-01-01 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2014696452/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |others=Bain News Service |language=english}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 9 – 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 of London publishes an account of the Austro-Hungarian press campaign against the Serbians (who are described as "pestilent rats").{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 10 – Nicholas Hartwig, Russian Minister to Serbia, dies of a heart attack while visiting Austrian minister Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen at the Austrian Legation in Belgrade.{{Cite web |title=WWI: The Death of Peace- VI. The Untimely Demise of Ambassador Hartwig |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/22/1849536/-WWI-The-Death-of-Peace-VI-The-Untimely-Demise-of-Ambassador-Hartwig |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Daily Kos |language=en}}
July 11
Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut, with the Boston Red Sox.{{Cite web |title=Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox against the Cleveland Naps – This Day In Baseball |url=https://thisdayinbaseball.com/babe-ruth-makes-his-major-league-debut-with-the-boston-red-sox-against-the-cleveland-naps/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=thisdayinbaseball.com}}
{{USS|Nevada|BB-36|6}}, the United States Navy's first "super-dreadnought" battleship, is launched.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{cite news|title=Plan Big Meeting For Dead Bomb Men: Demonstration in Union Square by Anti-Militarist League Announced for Tomorrow|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/07/05/archives/exploded-in-apartment-occupied-by-tarrytown-disturbers-only-one.html |newspaper=The New York Times|page=1|date=1914-07-10|access-date=2008-07-13|archive-date=June 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620154925/https://www.nytimes.com/1914/07/05/archives/exploded-in-apartment-occupied-by-tarrytown-disturbers-only-one.html|url-status=live |url-access=limited}}
July 13 – Reports surface of a projected Serbian attack upon the Austro-Hungarian Legation at Belgrade.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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. Because of the outbreak of war in Europe and later developments in Ireland, the Act is never implemented in its original form.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 15 – Mexican Revolution: Victoriano Huerta resigns from the presidency of Mexico and leaves for Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz.{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Huerta, Victoriano |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/huerta-victoriano |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}
July 18
The Signal Corps of the United States Army establishes an Aviation Section, giving definite status to its air service for the first time.{{cite book|title=Army Information Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uf4sAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PP1|publisher=U.S. Department of the Army|page=4|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124149/https://books.google.com/books?id=uf4sAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
The British Fleet is reviewed at Spithead, by George V.{{Cite web |last=charis |date=2015-10-26 |title=Origins of Fleet Reviews |url=https://navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-themes/customs-and-traditions/origins-of-fleet-reviews-and-man-and-cheer-ship/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy |language=en-GB}}
Mahatma Gandhi leaves South Africa for the last time, sailing out of Cape Town for England, on board the S.S. Kinfauns Castle.{{Cite web |title=Gandhi's Biography through Stories |url=https://gandhistory.in/biography-through-stories.php |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=gandhistory.in}}
July 19 – George V summons a conference to discuss the Irish Home Rule problem. It meets from July 21–24, without reaching consensus.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 23 – July Ultimatum: Austria-Hungary presents Serbia with an unconditional ultimatum.{{Cite web |last=Mutschlechner |first=Martin |date=2014-03-03 |title=The ultimatum |url=https://ww1.habsburger.net/en/chapters/ultimatum |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Der Erste Weltkrieg |language=en}}
July 25 – Serbia responds to the ultimatum from the 23rd accepting some but not all of Austria-Hungary's demands. In response 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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 26 – Howth gun-running: former British civil servant and novelist Erskine Childers and his wife Molly sail into Howth in Ireland in his yacht {{ship||Asgard|yacht|2}} and land 2,500 guns for the nationalist Irish Volunteers from a German dealer. British Army troops of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, returning to Dublin having been called out to assist police in attempting to prevent the Volunteers from moving the arms to the city, perpetrate the Bachelor's Walk massacre, firing on a crowd of protestors at Bachelors Walk, killing three; a fourth man dies later from bayonet wounds and more than 37 others are injured.{{cite book|editor=Connolly, S. J.|title=Oxford Companion to Irish History|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=2nd|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-923483-7}}{{cite book|editor-first1=Theodore William |editor-last1=Moody |editor-link1=Theodore William Moody |editor-first2=Francis X. |editor-last2=Martin|editor-first3=Francis John |editor-last3=Byrne |editor-link3=Francis John Byrne|title=A New History of Ireland: Ireland, 1921-84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYNeAQAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|year=1976|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-958374-4|page=142|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124104/https://books.google.com/books?id=pYNeAQAAQBAJ&pg=PR11#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
July 27 – Felix Ysagun Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) with the government of the Philippines.{{cite book|editor-first=Tsuneo |editor-last=Ayabe|title=Nation-state, Identity, and Religion in Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uQXXAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Singapore Society of Asian Studies|isbn=978-9971-9903-5-0|page=127|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124150/https://books.google.com/books?id=uQXXAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

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July 28
The official start of World War I when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia by telegram. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia orders a partial mobilization against Austria-Hungary.{{Cite web |date=2009-10-28 |title=Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia {{!}} July 28, 1914 |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/july-28/austria-hungary-declares-war-on-serbia |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}
Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, is acquitted of the murder of Gaston Calmette by reason of crime passionnel.{{cite book|title=The Guide to American Law: Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8mVAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=West Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-314-73224-8|page=209|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124152/https://books.google.com/books?id=j8mVAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
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.{{Cite web |last=Lauterborn |first=David |date=2015-10-01 |title=The Man Who Let Goeben Escape |url=https://www.historynet.com/the-man-who-let-goeben-escape/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=HistoryNet |language=en-US}}
July 29
World War I: Austro-Hungarian Navy river monitor {{SMS|Bodrog}} fires the first shots of the war, opening the bombardment of the defenses of Belgrade, Serbia's capital.{{Cite web |last=Yeoman |title=Sava |url=https://museumships.us/serbia/sava |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=museumships.us |language=en-GB}}
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.{{cite book|title=Interstate Port Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raVIAAAAYAAJ |year=1976|publisher=Vance Publishing Corporation|page=15|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124152/https://books.google.com/books?id=raVIAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}
July 31 – Russia orders full mobilisation.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= August =

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August 1
The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire, following Russia's military mobilization in support of Serbia; Germany also begins mobilisation.{{Cite web |title=How The World Went To War In 1914 |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-the-world-went-to-war-in-1914 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Imperial War Museums |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Germany Mobilizes for War {{!}} UW-Madison Libraries Exhibits |url=https://exhibits.library.wisc.edu/wwi/germany-mobilizes-for-war/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=exhibits.library.wisc.edu |language=en-US}}
France orders general mobilisation.
The New York Stock Exchange is closed because of the outbreak of the war in Europe, where nearly all stock exchanges are already closed.{{cite book|title=Financial World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=giZKAQAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=Financial World Partners|page=9|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124112/https://books.google.com/books?id=giZKAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
Marcus Garvey founds the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Jamaica.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 2
German troops occupy Luxembourg, in accordance with the Schlieffen Plan.{{Cite web |date=2024-01-09 |title=First World War |url=https://luxembourg.public.lu/en/society-and-culture/history/premire-guerre-mondiale.html |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=luxembourg.public.lu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=What was The Schlieffen Plan? |url=https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/what-was-the-schlieffen-plan |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Open Learning |language=en}}
A secret treaty between the Ottoman Empire and German Empires secures Ottoman neutrality.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
At 19:00 (local time) Germany issues a 12-hour ultimatum to neutral Belgium, to allow German passage into France.{{cite book|first=Volker Rolf |last=Berghahn |author-link=Volker Berghahn |title=Germany and the Approach of War in 1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECJoAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-333-10696-9|page=221|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124148/https://books.google.com/books?id=ECJoAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
August 3
Germany declares war on Russia's ally, France.{{Cite web |last=Saelee |first=Mike |title=Research Guides: World War I Declarations: Topics in Chronicling America: Introduction |url=https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-wwi-declarations |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=guides.loc.gov |language=en}}
At 07:00 (local time) Belgium declines to accept Germany's ultimatum of August 2.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

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August 4
World War I: German invasion of Belgium – At 08:02 (local time) Imperial German Army troops enter Belgium, bringing the July Crisis to a climax. At 23:00 (GMT) the British entry into World War I takes place when King George V in London declares war on Germany for this violation of Belgian neutrality (protected by the Treaty of London (1839)) and especially to defend France. This means a declaration of war by the whole British Empire against the German Empire. The United States declares neutrality.{{Cite web |title=President Woodrow Wilson's Proclamation of Neutrality, 8/4/1914 |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/publications/documentary-histories/wwi/1914/ttl-president-woodro.html |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=public1.nhhcaws.local |language=en-US}}
World War I: Imperial German Navy Rear-Admiral Wilhelm Souchon bombards the French Algerian ports of Bône and Philippeville from battlecruiser {{SMS|Goeben||2}} and light cruiser {{SMS|Breslau||2}}.{{cite web|title=August 1914|work=WarChron|url=http://warchron.com/russianWarCommand.htm|year=2007|access-date=2014-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030702/http://warchron.com/russianWarCommand.htm|archive-date=March 4, 2016|df=mdy-all}}
Ittihad Alexandria sports club is founded in Alexandria, Egypt.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 5
Germany declares war on Belgium.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The Kingdom of Montenegro declares war on Austria-Hungary.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer {{SS|Pfalz|1913|6}}, 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.{{cite web|title=The First Shot of World War I|work=Coastal Defences of Colonial Victoria|year=1997|url=http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/coastal.html|access-date=2012-10-21|archive-date=April 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411031604/http://users.netconnect.com.au/~ianmac/coastal.html}}
SS Königin Luise, taken over two days earlier by the Imperial German Navy as a minelayer, lays mines {{convert|40|mi|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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
German zeppelins drop bombs on Liège, Belgium, killing 9 civilians.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The first electric traffic light is installed between Euclid Avenue and East 105 Street, in Cleveland, Ohio.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-05 |title=1914: An Enlightening Milestone for Traffic Safety |url=https://transportationhistory.org/2024/08/05/1914-an-enlightening-milestone-for-traffic-safety/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Transportation History |language=en}}
August 5–16 – Battle of Liège: The German Army overruns and defeats the Belgians with the first operational use of Big Bertha.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-05 |title=The First Battle of World War I |url=https://dirkdeklein.net/2024/08/05/the-first-battle-of-world-war-1/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=History of Sorts |language=en}}
August 6 – World War I:
Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
The first engagement between capital 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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{cite book|first=Marilène Patten |last=Henry|title=Monumental Accusations: The Monuments Aux Morts as Expressions of Popular Resentment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ed1mAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-2807-9|page=47|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207124735/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ed1mAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
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.{{cite news|newspaper=The Times|location=London|title=The Gold Coast Mobilized, A Proud Record: The case of Sergeant Grunshi|date=1940-03-25|page=7|issue=48572}} Alhaji Grunshi returns fire,{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=J. Lee|title=Forgotten Patriot: A Life of Alfred, Viscount Milner of St. James's and Cape Town, 1854-1925|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|location=Madison, NJ|year=2007|page=311|isbn=978-0-8386-4121-7}} 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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition sets sail on the Endurance from Britain, in an attempt to cross Antarctica.{{Cite web |title=Learn about the history of Shackleton's Endurance - FMHT |url=https://fmht.co.uk/education/history-of-shackletons-endurance/ |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust |language=en-GB}}
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.{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
August 12 – World War I:
Battle of Halen: Belgian troops defeat German cavalry, but the battle does little to delay the German invasion of Belgium.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Formal declaration of war by the United Kingdom on Austria-Hungary.{{cite book|author=United States Department of State|title=Declarations of War: Severances of Diplomatic Relations 1914-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=orY6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA33|year=1974|publisher=Scholarly Resources|isbn=978-0-8420-1798-5|page=33}}
August 13 – The Teoloyucan Treaties are signed in the State of Mexico.{{cite book|author=Claims Commission United States and Mexico |title=Opinions of Commissioners Under the Convention Concluded September 8, 1923, Between the U.S. and Mexico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TxdJAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA143|year=1929|page=143}}
August 15
The Panama Canal is inaugurated with the passage of the {{SS|Ancon|1901|6}}.{{cite book|title=Army Information Digest|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShH04Dn2GN0C&pg=RA2-PA18|publisher=U.S. Department of the Army|page=18}}
Mexican Revolution: Venustiano Carranza's troops under general Álvaro Obregón enter Mexico City.{{cite book|first=Richard A. |last=Bányai|title=Money and Finance in Mexico During the Constitutionalist Revolution, 1913-1917|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGqmAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Tai Wan Enterprises Company|page=28}}
August 15–24 – World War I: Battle of Cer – Serbian troops defeat the Austro-Hungarian army, marking the first Entente victory of the War.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 16 – World War I:
German warships {{SMS|Goeben}} and {{SMS|Breslau||2}} (both commissioned in 1912), which reached Constantinople on August 10, are transferred to the Ottoman Navy, Goeben becoming its flagship, Yavuz Sultan Selim.{{Cite web |title=SMS Goeben in Ottoman service |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/sms-goeben-ottoman-service |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=nzhistory.govt.nz}}
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 finds 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 meters (2,000 yards). This very brief engagement is hailed by The Times in London as the British Empire's first naval victory of World War I.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 17–September 2 – World War I: The Battle of Tannenberg begins between German and Russian forces.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 20
World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.{{Cite web |title=WW1 in Belgium |url=https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/WW1.BELGIUM.htm |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=pages.uoregon.edu}}
Pope Pius X dies.{{Cite web |title="Pope Pius X Died Early this Morning" {{!}} Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |url=https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/33559 |access-date=2025-04-07 |website=www.gardnermuseum.org |language=en}}File:British recruits August 1914 Q53234.jpg]]
August 22 – World War I: Battle of Rossignol – German forces decisively defeat the French.{{cite book|title=Military Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vWx3BO7cMQC&pg=PA57|year=1934|page=57|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125333/https://books.google.com/books?id=1vWx3BO7cMQC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Japan declares war on Germany.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 26 – World War I:
The Togoland Campaign ends with the German West African colony of Togoland (Togo from 1960) surrendering to Britain and France.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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 off northwest Africa.{{cite book|editor-first1=Richard Brandon |editor-last1=Morris|editor-first2=Graham W. |editor-last2=Irwin|title=Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LFmAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Harper & Row|page=397|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125345/https://books.google.com/books?id=_LFmAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
August 26–27 – Battle of Le Cateau: British, French, and Belgian forces make a successful tactical retreat from the German advance.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 26–30 – Battle of Tannenberg: The Russian Second Army is surrounded and defeated.{{cite book|title=Military Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qDAoAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA15|year=1940|pages=15–16|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125338/https://books.google.com/books?id=qDAoAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA15#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
August 28 – Battle of Heligoland Bight: British cruisers under Admiral Beatty sink three German cruisers.{{cite book|first=Antony |last=Preston |author-link=Anthony Preston (naval historian) |title=Battleships of World War I: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Battleships of All Nations, 1914-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ishAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Galahad Books|isbn=978-0-88365-300-5|page=93|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125818/https://books.google.com/books?id=0ishAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
August 29–30 – The Battle of St. Quentin: French forces hold back the German advance.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= September =

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September 1
(August 19 Old Style) Saint Petersburg in Russia changes its name to Petrograd.{{cite book|title=The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONPjAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=M.B. Lamar Library|page=30|access-date=April 22, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125817/https://books.google.com/books?id=ONPjAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in the Cincinnati Zoo from old age.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 2 – World War I: The French village of Moronvilliers is occupied by the Germans.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 3 – World War I:
The Austro-Hungarian city and fortress of Lemberg falls to Russian troops.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds Pope Pius X, becoming the 258th pope.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months, due to opposition to his rule.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The First Battle of the Marne begins: Situated north-east of Paris, the French 6th Army under General Maunoury attacks German forces near 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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 6–8 – French Army troops are rushed from Paris to join the First Battle of the Marne using Renault Type AG taxicabs.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 7 – World War I: Turkey declares war on Belgium.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 10 – World War I: South Africa declares war on Germany.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 11 – World War I:
The Battle of Rawa ends in the defeat of Austro-Hungarian forces by the Russians.{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQRMAAAAMAAJ|year=1965|publisher=Americana Corporation|page=277|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125858/https://books.google.com/books?id=LQRMAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes: A German offensive pushes the Russian First Army back across its entire front.{{cite book|author=United States Military Academy, Department of Military Art and Engineering|title=Summaries of Selected Military Campaigns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DiKlUzyHAVoC|year=1953|publisher=The Academy|page=89|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125902/https://books.google.com/books?id=DiKlUzyHAVoC|url-status=live}}
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.{{cite book|title=Papua New Guinea: A Travel Survival Kit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7TiAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Lonely Planet Publications|isbn=978-0-86442-402-0|page=299}}
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.{{cite book |title=The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle that Changed the World |last=Herwig |first=H. |year=2009 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4000-6671-1|pages=217–219}}
South African troops open hostilities in German South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia), with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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 associated with the leaders of the rebellion, is shot dead after his driver fails to stop at a police roadblock.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 17
World War I: The Race to the Sea, by opposing forces on the Western Front, begins.{{cite book|title=Military Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6D6McXAnzMkC&pg=PA137|year=1933|page=137|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125907/https://books.google.com/books?id=6D6McXAnzMkC&pg=PA137#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.{{cite book|first=Paul |last=Henderson|title=Parliament and Politics in Australia: Political Institutions and Foreign Relations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAUlAQAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Heinemann Educational Australia|isbn=978-0-85859-381-7|page=333}}
September 21 – World War I: British Imperial police forces capture Schuckmannsburg, in the Caprivi Strip of German South-West Africa.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 22 – World War I:
Action of 22 September 1914: German submarine U-9 torpedoes three British Royal Navy armoured cruisers, {{HMS|Aboukir|1900|6}}, {{HMS|Cressy|1899|2}} and {{HMS|Hogue|1900|2}}, with the death of more than 1,400 men, in the North Sea.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Bombardment of Papeete: German naval forces bombard Papeete, French Polynesia.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
German light cruiser SMS Emden bombards Madras, the only Indian city to be attacked by the Central Powers in the War.{{cite book|first=Geoffrey|last=Bennet|title=Naval Battles of the First World War|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2001}}{{page needed|date=November 2024}}
September 25 – World War I: The first Battle of Albert begins as part of the Race to the Sea.{{cite book|first=Gerald |last=Herman|title=The Pivotal Conflict: A Comprehensive Chronology of the First World War, 1914-1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAMMAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-22793-6|page=45|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=November 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125170853/https://books.google.com/books?id=KAMMAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
September 26 – The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established, by the Federal Trade Commission Act.{{cite book|author=United States Federal Trade Commission |title=Statutes and Court Decisions, Federal Trade Commission |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eJfAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA467|year=1930|page=467}}
September 28 – World War I: The First Battle of the Aisne ends indecisively.{{cite book|author=United States Military Academy, Department of Military Art and Engineering|title=Summaries of Selected Military Campaigns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DiKlUzyHAVoC|year=1953|publisher=The Academy|pages=80–85|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207125902/https://books.google.com/books?id=DiKlUzyHAVoC|url-status=live}}
September 30
World War I: British Indian Army Expeditionary Force A arrives at Marseille for service in the Ypres Salient of the Western Front.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The Flying Squadron of America is established to promote the temperance movement.{{cite book|first=Dennis |last=Gordon|title=The Lafayette Flying Corps: The American Volunteers in the French Air Service in World War One|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yLTvAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Schiffer Publishing |isbn=978-0-7643-1108-6|page=436|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140305/https://books.google.com/books?id=yLTvAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

= October =

October 3 – World War I: 25,000 Canadian troops depart for Europe.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 4
The 1914 Burdur earthquake occurs in Turkey.{{cite book|title=New Perspectives on Turkey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTotAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Simon's Rock of Bard College|page=28}}
The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three is signed by prominent academics supporting the early German war effort.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 9 – World War I: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp (Belgium) falls to German troops.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 14 – World War I: The Canadian Expeditionary Force arrives on 32 ocean liners in Plymouth Sound.{{cite book|first1=Armine John |last1=Kerry|first2=W. A. |last2=McDill|title=The History of the Corps of Royal Canadian Engineers |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X33fAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Military Engineers Association of Canada|isbn=978-0-9682063-0-0|page=78|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130357/https://books.google.com/books?id=X33fAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
October 16–31 – World War I: Battle of the Yser: The Belgian army halts the German advance, but with heavy losses.{{cite book|author=Belgium. Ministère de la justice|title=Reply to the German White Book of the 10th May, 1915, "Die Völkerrechtswidrige Führung Des Belgischen Volkskriegs."|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_jSAAAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=H. M. Stationery Office - Sir J. Causton & sons, Limited, printers|page=77|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130359/https://books.google.com/books?id=G_jSAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
October 19 – World War I:
The First Battle of Ypres begins.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The Race to the Sea effectively ends, with the Western Front reaching the Belgian coast.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 27 – World War I:
British super-dreadnought battleship {{HMS|Audacious|1912|6}} (23,400 tons) is sunk off Tory Island, north-west of Ireland, by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The Greek army occupies Northern Epirus with the approval of the Allies.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 28 – World War I:
Battle of Penang, Malaya: German cruiser Emden sinks a Russian cruiser and French destroyer, before escaping.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 29 – World War I: Ottoman warships shell Russian Black Sea ports; Russia, France and Britain declare war on the Ottoman Empire, November 1–5.{{cite book|first=Selcuk Aksin |last=Somel |title=The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBoyoNNKh78C&pg=PA324|year=2010|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-7579-1|page=324}}
October 31 – World War I: Battle of the Vistula River concludes in a Russian victory over German and Austro-Hungarian forces around Warsaw.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= November =

November 1 – World War I: Battle of Coronel – A British 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 Hope and HMS Monmouth.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 5 – World War I:
Britain and France declare war on the Ottoman Empire. The United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, which it controls until the island's declaration of independence in 1960.
The Battle of Tanga ends, with the British Indian Expeditionary Force B failing to capture German East Africa defences.{{cite book|first=Ross |last=Anderson|title=The Battle of Tanga 1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bMhAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Tempus|isbn=978-0-7524-2349-4|chapter=8|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140258/https://books.google.com/books?id=0bMhAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
Alpha Phi Delta is founded as a social fraternity at Syracuse University in the United States.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 7 – Siege of Tsingtao: The Japanese and British seize Jiaozhou Bay in China, the base of the German East Asia Squadron.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 9 – World War I: Battle of Cocos – The German cruiser Emden, the last active warship of the Central Powers in the Indian Ocean, is sunk by the Australian cruiser Sydney.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 11 – With the 1914 Ottoman jihad proclamation, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V proclaimed holy war.{{cite web |last1=Lüdke |first1=Tilman |title=Jihad, Holy War (Ottoman Empire) |url=https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/jihad_holy_war_ottoman_empire |website=International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1) |access-date=19 June 2021 |date=17 December 2018 |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003135438/https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/jihad_holy_war_ottoman_empire |url-status=live }}
November 13 – Zaian War: Battle of El Herri – Zayanes (Berbers) in Morocco overpower French forces.{{cite book|first=Robert |last=Brasillach|title=A Translation of Notre Avant-guerre/Before the War by Robert Brasillach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pUwpAQAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Mellen Press|isbn=978-0-7734-7158-0|page=172|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140258/https://books.google.com/books?id=pUwpAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
November 14 – The Joensuu Town Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, is inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland.[http://digikoivikko.vaarakirjastot.fi/items/show/452 Digikoivikko: Joensuun uuden kaupungintalon vihkijuhlat – Vaarakirjastot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181739/http://digikoivikko.vaarakirjastot.fi/items/show/452 |date=July 9, 2021 }} (in Finnish)
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{cite book|author=Michelin Travel Publications|title=Yale University and New Haven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z8XAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Michelin Travel Publications/Michelin North America|isbn=978-2-06-155201-8|page=51|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130402/https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z8XAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
November 23 – Mexican Revolution: The last 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.{{cite book|first=Joel H. |last=Silbey|title=Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System: Legislatures and public policy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onEYAAAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=C. Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-19600-8|page=1428|access-date=April 29, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130345/https://books.google.com/books?id=onEYAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
November 24 – Benito Mussolini is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party.{{cite book|first=Richard |last=Collier|title=Duce!: A Biography of Benito Mussolini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9CAAAAAIAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Viking Press|isbn=978-0-670-28603-4|page=47|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130403/https://books.google.com/books?id=t9CAAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
November 28 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= December =

December 2 – Serbian Campaign (World War I): Austro-Hungarian forces occupy Belgrade, Serbia.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 5 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition begins its attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.{{cite book

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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 (who goes down with his ship).{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 12 – The New York Stock Exchange re-opens fully, having been closed since August 1, except for bond trading.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 15 – Hōjō Coal Mine Disaster: A gas explosion at the Mitsubishi Hōjō mine in Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687 people (the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history).{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 16 – World War I: Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby: Imperial German Navy battlecruisers bombard British North Sea ports, resulting in 137 deaths, mostly civilians.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 17 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton Harrison). This begins the ongoing international war on drugs.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 18 – Egypt becomes a British protectorate.{{cite magazine|title=Egypt: a constitution|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880574,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015203757/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,880574,00.html|archive-date=October 15, 2007|magazine=Time|date=1923-04-28|access-date=2012-08-24}}
December 19
Serbian Campaign (World War I): The Battle of Kolubara ends, resulting in a decisive Serbian victory over Austria-Hungary.{{cite book|title=The Journal of Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sugMAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Virginia Military Institute and the George C. Marshall Foundation|page=481}}
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.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 20 – Tokyo Station officially opens in Japan, replacing Shinbashi Station as Tokyo's main terminal.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
December 24 – World War I: An unofficial and temporary Christmas truce begins between British and German soldiers on the Western Front.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
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.{{cite book|first=R. D. |last=Layman|title=Naval Aviation in the First World War: Its Impact and Influence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwRnAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Chatham|isbn=978-1-86176-007-4|page=83}}

= Date unknown =

The capital of the Guangxi Province of China is moved from Guilin to Nanning.{{cite book|first=Charis |last=Chan|title=China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYpScWalpZwC|year=1999|publisher=Odyssey|isbn=978-962-217-604-1|page=157}}
Oxymorphone, a powerful narcotic analgesic closely related to morphine, is first developed in Germany.{{cite book|first1=Ronald D. |last1=Miller|first2=Roy F. |last2=Cucchiara|title=Anesthesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wCM_ODQc4bsC|year=1994|publisher=Churchill Livingstone|isbn=978-0-443-08906-0|page=346}}
The first everyday items made of stainless steel come into public circulation.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
The Port of Orange, Texas, is dredged for the fabrication of vessels for the United States Navy.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Phi Sigma, a local undergraduate classical club, is founded by a group of students in the Greek Department at the University of Chicago.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Watchmaker Glycine Watch SA is founded by Eugène Meylan in Switzerland.{{Cite book |last=Stikkers |first=Andre |title=Glycine Airman Book - Play it again Sam! Airman History and Overview |publisher=Adr. Heinen |year=2014 |isbn=978-90-8680-157-2 |edition=3rd |location=The Netherlands |pages=15, 66 |language=en}}
Fashion and perfumes company Puig is founded in Barcelona.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Woodman's of Essex, the famous family-owned clam shack on Boston's North Shore, is opened.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Births

= January =

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January 1
Noor Inayat Khan (aka Nora Baker), World War II heroine (executed 1944){{cite book|first1=Linda |last1=Schmittroth|first2=Mary Kay |last2=Rosteck|title=People of the Holocaust|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZQnAQAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=UXL|isbn=978-0-7876-1745-5|page=259}}
Anita Mackey, American social worker (d. 2024){{cite news |last1=Jeffrey |first1=Connie |date=January 2, 2019 |title=Teacher, Traveler, Social Worker, Friend: Anita Johnson Mackey Turns 105 |website=Southern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists |url=https://scc.adventist.org/stories/teacher-traveler-social-worker-friend-anita-johnson-mackey-turns-105 |access-date=November 8, 2022}}
January 4 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French historian and anthropologist (d. 2007){{cite book|first1=Lawrence D. |last1=Kritzman|first2=Brian J. |last2=Reilly|first3=M. B. |last3=DeBevoise|title=The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bREQibN9i-sC&pg=PA673|year=2006|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-10790-7|page=673|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131020/https://books.google.com/books?id=bREQibN9i-sC&pg=PA673#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
January 5 – George Reeves, American actor (Superman) (d. 1959){{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2020: The Ultimate Go-to Guide for Special Days, Weeks and Months|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73|date=24 September 2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-64143-316-7|page=73|access-date=April 29, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207130952/https://books.google.com/books?id=6dKpDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
January 9 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1985){{cite book|first=Mike |last=Hennessey|title=Klook: The Story of Kenny Clarke|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ak85AQAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|isbn=978-0-8229-5809-3|page=6|access-date=April 29, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131002/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ak85AQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
January 10 – Yu Kuo-hwa, Chinese politician, 23rd Premier of the Republic of China (d. 2000){{cite book|title=Current World Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uX4hAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=International Academy|page=236|access-date=April 30, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131219/https://books.google.com/books?id=uX4hAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
January 14
Magda Fedor, Hungarian sports shooter (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Harold Russell, Canadian actor (d. 2002){{cite book|author=United States. Congress. House Appropriations|title=Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1968: Hearings ... 90th Congress, 1st Session|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rx9lj9S2c0UC&pg=PA468|year=1967|page=468|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131033/https://books.google.com/books?id=rx9lj9S2c0UC&pg=PA468#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
January 15 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (d. 2003){{cite book|title=Dod's Parliamentary Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yaGIAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Limited|isbn=978-0-905702-36-0|page=520|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131034/https://books.google.com/books?id=yaGIAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
January 18 – Arno Schmidt, German author (d. 1979){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 26 – Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 30 – John Ireland, Canadian-born actor (d. 1992){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 31 – Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (d. 1994){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= February =

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February 3
Mary Carlisle, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2018){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
George Nissen, American gymnast, inventor of the trampoline (d. 2010){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 4 – Alfred Andersch, German writer (d. 1980){{cite book|first=Margaret |last=Littler|title=Alfred Andersch (1914-1980) and the Reception of French Thought in the Federal Republic of Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csxbAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|isbn=978-0-7734-9679-8|page=346|publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131001/https://books.google.com/books?id=csxbAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
February 5
William S. Burroughs, American author (d. 1997){{cite book|first1=Joan |last1=Hawkins|first2=Alex |last2=Wermer-Colan|title=William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-SWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=17 May 2019|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-04136-4|page=11|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131221/https://books.google.com/books?id=8-SWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR11#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1998){{cite book|first=Neil |last=Schlager|title=Science and Its Times: 1950-present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1o5FAAAAYAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-3939-6|page=153|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131501/https://books.google.com/books?id=1o5FAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}
February 6
Silvius Magnago, Italian politician (d. 2010){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Roza Papo, Yugoslav physician and general (d. 1984){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 10 – Larry Adler, American musician (d. 2001){{cite book |title=The new Grove dictionary of jazz |volume=1 |year=2002 |publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc. |location=New York |isbn=1-56159-284-6 |edition=2nd |editor-first=Barry |editor-last=Kernfeld |page=16 |chapter=Adler, Larry}}
February 12 – Lazar Koliševski, Yugoslav communist political leader (d. 2000){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 15 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (d. 2010){{cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kevin-mccarthy-20100913,0,7898882.story?track=rss |title=Kevin McCarthy obituary: 'Body Snatchers' actor McCarthy dies |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1914-02-15 |access-date=2010-09-12 |archive-date=October 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111029100343/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kevin-mccarthy-20100913,0,7898882.story?track=rss |url-status=live }}
February 17 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 1990){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 18 – Mahmoud Zulfikar, Egyptian film director (d. 1970){{Cite web |title=Mahmoud Zulfikar {{!}} Director, Actor, Writer |url=https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0958575/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}
February 19 – Jacques Dufilho, French comedian, actor (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 22
Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2012){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Liu Chi-Sheng, Chinese pilot that fought in WWII, the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War (d. 1991){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 23 – Theofiel Middelkamp, Dutch cyclist (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 26 – Robert Alda, American-born actor, father of actor Alan Alda (d. 1986){{cite book|first1=Patricia |last1=Burgess|first2=Trish |last2=Burgess|title=Annual Obituary, 1986|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZPZBuqy_SYC|date=August 1989|publisher=Saint James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-013-1|page=287|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131529/https://books.google.com/books?id=oZPZBuqy_SYC|url-status=live}}

= March =

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March 1 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (d. 1994){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 2
Hansi Knoteck, Austrian actress (d. 2014){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Martin Ritt, American director (d. 1990){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 3
Julio Franco Arango, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1980){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Asger Jorn, Danish painter (d. 1973){{cite book|first1=Guy |last1=Atkins|first2=Troels |last2=Andersen|title=Asger Jorn, the Crucial Years, 1954-1964|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=axLrAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Lund Humphries|isbn=978-0-85331-398-4|page=13|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131545/https://books.google.com/books?id=axLrAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
March 4 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 6 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981){{cite book|first=Daniel |last=Jaffé|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=65ZrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183|date=8 March 2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7980-5|page=183|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131554/https://books.google.com/books?id=65ZrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
March 8 – Yakov Zeldovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 13 – Saroj Dutta, Indian communist leader (d. 1971){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 14 – Frederick Samuel Modise, Leader of IPHC (d. 1998) {{Cite web|url=http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aanderson/Publications/frederick_modise_and_the_interna.htm|title=FREDERICK MODISE AND THE INTERNATIONAL PENTECOST CHURCH|date=October 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002090423/http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aanderson/Publications/frederick_modise_and_the_interna.htm |archive-date=October 2, 2014 }}
March 17 – Juan Carlos Onganía, 35th President of Argentina (d. 1995){{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VScaAAAAYAAJ|year=1969|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=292|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131507/https://books.google.com/books?id=VScaAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}
March 19 – Jiang Qing, Chinese politician (d. 1991){{cite book|author=Britannica Educational Publishing|title=The 100 Most Influential Women of All Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yb2cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA292|date=1 October 2009|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing|isbn=978-1-61530-058-7|page=292|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131539/https://books.google.com/books?id=yb2cAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA292#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
March 21 – Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (d. 1990){{cite book|title=The Strad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2w9AQAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Orpheus|page=201|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131509/https://books.google.com/books?id=X2w9AQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
March 23 – Wendell Smith, African American sportswriter (d. 1972){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 25 – Norman Borlaug, American agricultural scientist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2009){{cite book|first1=Peggy |last1=Saari|first2=Stephen |last2=Allison|first3=Marie C. |last3=Ellavich|title=Scientists: A-F|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtkHAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=U-X-L|isbn=978-0-7876-0960-3|page=105|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131514/https://books.google.com/books?id=wtkHAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
March 26 – William Westmoreland, American Vietnam War general (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 28 – Edmund Muskie, American politician (d. 1996){{cite book|author=United States Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities|title=Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, Senate Resolution 60: Watergate and Related Activities: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocxFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4865|year=1973|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=4865–|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131953/https://books.google.com/books?id=ocxFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA4865#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
March 30 – Sonny Boy Williamson I, American musician (d. 1948){{cite book|first1=Henry |last1=Townsend|first2=Bill |last2=Greensmith|title=A Blues Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HaeDzHuXhooC&pg=RA2-PA123|year=1999|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-02526-6|page=2|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132019/https://books.google.com/books?id=HaeDzHuXhooC&pg=RA2-PA123#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
March 31 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat, writer, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998){{cite book|first1=Jose |last1=Quiroga |first2=James |last2=Hardin|title=Understanding Octavio Paz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kJOqj6Sm2p8C&pg=PA2|year=1999|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-263-9|page=2|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132108/https://books.google.com/books?id=kJOqj6Sm2p8C&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}

= April =

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April 2
Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000){{cite book|first=Piers Paul |last=Read|title=Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyp2RoHMam0C&pg=PA16|date=21 June 2005|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-7432-4498-5|page=16|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132000/https://books.google.com/books?id=hyp2RoHMam0C&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Hans Wegner, Danish furniture designer (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 3 – Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal of the Indian Army (d. 2008){{cite book|title=Field Marshal KM Kariappa Memorial Lectures, 1995-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eux31FCNj8MC&pg=PA21|year=2001|publisher=Lancer Publishers|isbn=978-81-7062-119-5|page=21|access-date=April 22, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132001/https://books.google.com/books?id=Eux31FCNj8MC&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
April 4
David W. Goodall, Australian botanist and ecologist (d. 2018){{cite journal|last1=Mucina|first1=Ladislav|last2=Podani|first2=Janos|last3=Feoli|first3=Enrico|title=David W. Goodall (1914-2018): An ecologist of the century|journal=Community Ecology|date=2018|volume=19|issue=1|pages=93–101|doi=10.1556/168.2018.19.1.10|doi-access=free|bibcode=2018ComEc..19...93M |hdl=10831/67075|hdl-access=free}}
Marguerite Duras, French author, director (d. 1996){{cite book|first=Renate |last=Gunther|title=Marguerite Duras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MZhsT4W7KcC&pg=PA2|date=5 July 2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5757-1|page=2|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132001/https://books.google.com/books?id=_MZhsT4W7KcC&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
April 8 – María Félix, Mexican actress (d. April 8, 2002){{cite web|url=https://de10.com.mx/top-10/maria-felix-10-datos-intimos-de-la-diva-del-cine-mexicano|title=Maria Feliz: 10 datos intimos de la diva del cine mexicano|last=Mejia|first=Carolina|date=April 8, 2019|publisher=El Universal de10.mx|language=es|trans-title=Maria Feliz: 10 intimate facts about the diva of Mexican Cinema|access-date=June 2, 2019|archive-date=June 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601144721/https://de10.com.mx/top-10/maria-felix-10-datos-intimos-de-la-diva-del-cine-mexicano|url-status=live}}
April 11
Norman McLaren, Scots-born Canadian animator and director (d. 1987){{cite book|first=Maurice |last=Horn|title=The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O7kzAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Chelsea House|isbn=978-0-7910-5187-0|page=461}}
Robert Stanfield, Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003){{cite book|first1=Maxine |last1=Block |first2=Anna Herthe |last2=Rothe |first3=Marjorie Dent |last3=Candee|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5osYAAAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=H.W. Wilson|page=673}}
April 12
Armen Alchian, American economist (d. 2013){{cite book|first=Susan M. |last=Trosky|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=osRkDmhT8EMC|date=August 1989|publisher=Gale Research International, Limited|isbn=978-0-8103-1952-3|page=8|access-date=April 22, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131952/https://books.google.com/books?id=osRkDmhT8EMC|url-status=live}}
Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (d. 2010){{cite web | url = http://www.rug.nl/sterrenkunde/onderzoek/Blaauw/blaauwLeven | title = Professor dr. Adriaan Blaauw turns ninety | date = 1 April 2004 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110515002945/http://www.rug.nl/sterrenkunde/onderzoek/Blaauw/blaauwLeven | archive-date = 15 May 2011 }}
Gretel Bergmann, German-Jewish athlete (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Jan van Cauwelaert, Belgian bishop (d. 2016){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 13 – Orhan Veli, Turkish poet (d. 1950){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 18 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 22
Baldev Raj Chopra, Indian film director (d. 2008){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Jan de Hartog, Dutch writer (d. 2002){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Michael Wittmann, German tank commander (d. 1944){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 24 – Jan Karski, Polish World War II resistance movement fighter (d. 2000){{cite book|title=Facts on File World News Digest Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AsMwAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Facts on File News Services|page=512|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132039/https://books.google.com/books?id=AsMwAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
April 25 – Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 51st President of Venezuela (d. 2001){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 26
Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986){{cite book|first=Philip |last=Davis|title=Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yLaSNbbKRUC&pg=PT27|date=13 September 2007|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-160843-8|page=27|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=_yLaSNbbKRUC&pg=PT27#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Lilian Rolfe, French-born World War II heroine (d. 1945){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 28 – Yakov Novichenko, Soviet military officer (d. 1994){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 30 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian songwriter (d. 2008){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= May =

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May 5 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958){{cite book|first1=James E. |last1=Wise |first2=Anne Collier |last2=Rehill|title=Stars in the Corps: Movie Actors in the United States Marines|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_J5ZAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Naval Institute Press|isbn=978-1-55750-949-9|page=167|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132048/https://books.google.com/books?id=_J5ZAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
May 7 – Ye Fei, Filipino-Chinese general and politician (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 8 – Romain Gary, Russian-born writer, diplomat (d. 1980){{cite book|first=Ralph |last=Schoolcraft|title=Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3y_1x4gdGUC&pg=PA1|date=26 May 2012|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-0320-2|page=1|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207131959/https://books.google.com/books?id=E3y_1x4gdGUC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
May 9
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor (d. 2005){{cite book|title=Gramophone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rBFMAAAAYAAJ|year=2005|publisher=General Gramophone Publications Limited|page=19|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132440/https://books.google.com/books?id=rBFMAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}
Hank Snow, Canadian country musician (d. 1999){{cite book|first=Peter |last=Krampert |title=The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164|date=23 March 2016|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-1-61911-577-4|page=164|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132558/https://books.google.com/books?id=YRsxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
May 12 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 13 – Joe Louis, African-American boxer (d. 1981){{cite book|first=Ian |last=Morrison|title=Boxing: The Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CDQPNiql0lMC|year=1988|publisher=Guinness Books|isbn=978-0-85112-345-5|page=85|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132559/https://books.google.com/books?id=CDQPNiql0lMC|url-status=live}}
May 14
Teodor Oizerman, Soviet and Russian philosopher and academician (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Corneliu Coposu, Romanian politician (d. 1995){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995){{cite web |url=https://www.olympic.org/hideko-maehata |title=Hideko Maehata |website=Olympic.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422050715/https://www.olympic.org/hideko-maehata |archive-date=2021-04-22}}
May 16 – Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist (d. 2009){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 18
Georg von Tiesenhausen, German-American rocket scientist (d. 2018){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer (d. 1993){{cite book|first=Atanas |last=Bozhkov|title=Boris Christoff: An Authorized Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pny0AAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Robson|isbn=978-0-86051-731-3|page=14|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132447/https://books.google.com/books?id=Pny0AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer (d. 1982){{cite book|first=Ed |last=Martin|title=Contemporary Fashion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dWIjAQAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-173-2|page=35|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132533/https://books.google.com/books?id=dWIjAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
May 19
Max Perutz, Austrian-born molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 2002){{cite book|title=Manchester Memoirs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx8oAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=The Society|page=113|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132451/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx8oAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
Alex Shibicky, Canadian hockey player (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 20 – Avraham Shapira, head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem and the Supreme Rabbinic Court; rosh yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 22
Vance Packard, American social critic and author (d. 1996){{cite book|first=Daniel |last=Horowitz|title=Vance Packard and American Social Criticism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PFECQAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|date=9 November 2000|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-6211-7|page=11|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132609/https://books.google.com/books?id=9PFECQAAQBAJ&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 24
Lilli Palmer, German actress (d. 1986){{cite book|first1=Hal |last1=May|first2=Ann |last2=Evory|title=Contemporary Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GgE_udhTxMgC|date=February 1986|publisher=Gale Research International, Limited|isbn=978-0-8103-1916-5|page=369|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207132551/https://books.google.com/books?id=GgE_udhTxMgC|url-status=live}}
George Tabori, Hungarian writer and director (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 26 – Irmã Dulce Pontes, Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister (d. 1992){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 31 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music, film composer (d. 2006){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= June =

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June 6 – Zhang Jingfu, Chinese politician (d. 2015){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 10 – Joseph DePietro, American weightlifter (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 12 – Go Seigen, Japanese Go player (d. 2014){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 14
Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Ruthven Todd, Scottish poet, artist and novelist (d. 1978){{cite book|title=Poets of Tomorrow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=01wPAAAAMAAJ|year=1939|publisher=Hogarth Press|page=45|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133119/https://books.google.com/books?id=01wPAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
June 15
Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (d. 1984){{cite book|title=Soviet Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wrBWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PP9|year=1984|publisher=Embassy of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA|page=3|access-date=April 30, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133125/https://books.google.com/books?id=wrBWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Saul Steinberg, Romanian-born American cartoonist (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 18 – E. G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 20 – Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Turkish archaeologist (d. 2024)
June 21 – William Vickrey, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996){{cite book|title=Friends Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PnEmAQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Friends Publishing Corporation|page=18}}
June 22 – Mei Zhi, Chinese children's author, essayist (d. 2004){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 23 – Juán Landolfi, Argentine-Italian football player (d. unknown){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 25 – Luz Magsaysay, 7th First Lady of the Philippines (d. 2004){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 26
Laurie Lee, English author (d. 1997){{Cite ODNB|id=77340|title=Lee, (Wilfred) Jack Raymond}}
Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and teacher (d. 1997){{Cite book |last1=Ahmadullah |first1=Hafez |title=মাশায়েখে চাটগাম |last2=Qadir |first2=Ridwanul |publisher=Ahmad Publication |year=2018 |isbn=978-984-92106-4-1 |location=Dhaka |pages=162–185|language=bn |trans-title=Mashayekh-e Chatgam}}
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (d. 2001)
June 27 – Margaret Ekpo, Nigerian women's rights activist, social mobilizer and politician (d. 2006){{Cite web|title=Chief Mrs. Margaret Affiong Ekpo (27th June 1914-21st September 2006)|url=https://sheroes.ng/tributes/2018/02/11/chief-mrs-margaret-affiong-ekpo-27th-june-1914-21st-september-2006/|last=Nigeria|first=Sheroes|date=2018-02-10|website=Sheroes Nigeria|language=en-US|access-date=April 30, 2021|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430122428/https://sheroes.ng/tributes/2018/02/11/chief-mrs-margaret-affiong-ekpo-27th-june-1914-21st-september-2006/|url-status=live}}
June 29 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (d. 1996){{cite book|first=Guy A. |last=Marco|title=Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lvj0AAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-4782-5|page=377|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133120/https://books.google.com/books?id=Lvj0AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
June 30 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, 15th President of Portugal (d. 2001){{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRg5AAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=15|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133115/https://books.google.com/books?id=hRg5AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

= July =

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July 1 – Christl Cranz, German alpine skier (d. 2004){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 2 – Erich Topp, German commander (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 5 – Yitzhak Rafael, Israeli politician (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 6
Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (d. 1998){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Vincent J. McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter (d. 1984){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 8
Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (d. 2010){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Billy Eckstine, American jazz musician and singer (d. 1993){{cite book|first=Everett |last=Jenkins|title=Pan-African Chronology: 1914-1929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zU0UAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-0835-1|page=12|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133130/https://books.google.com/books?id=zU0UAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
July 9 – Willi Stoph, Prime Minister (1964-1973, 1976–1989) and Chairman of the Council of State (1973-1976) of the GDR (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 10
Joe Shuster, Canadian-born comic book author (d. 1992){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Rempo Urip, Indonesian director (d. 2001){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 11
Mohammad Al-Abbasi, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1972){{citation needed|date=April 2021}}
Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician (d. 1975){{cite web |title=Buscan convertir en museo la casa de Troilo |url=http://www.parlamentario.com/noticia-8591.html |publisher=parlamentario.com |date=17 May 2007 |access-date=2 October 2019 |language=es |trans-title=They seek to turn the house of Troilo into a museum |archive-date=October 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002193251/http://www.parlamentario.com/noticia-8591.html |url-status=live }}
July 13
Cyril Stevenson, Bahamian politician and newspaper publisher (d. 2006){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Trevor Berghan, New Zealand rugby union player (d. 1998){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 15
Birabongse Bhanudej, Siamese prince, racing driver, sailor and pilot (d. 1985){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/46344810|title=The Prince And I: The story of the last Thai F1 driver|first=Ben|last=Sutherland|date=2018-11-27|access-date=2021-03-13|publisher=BBC|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209141527/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/46344810|url-status=live}}
Akhtar Hameed Khan, Indian-born pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 16 – Herbert Nürnberg, German boxer (d. 1995){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 17 – Klári Tolnay, Hungarian actress (d. 1998){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 18
Gino Bartali, Italian road cyclist (d. 2000){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Jo Cals, Dutch politician and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) (d. 1971){{cite web|url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/b/bwn2/bwn1/cals|title=Cals, Jozef Maria Laurens Theo (1914–1971)|publisher=Huygens ING|date=12 November 2013|access-date=24 May 2019|language=nl|archive-date=May 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502135058/http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/b/bwn2/bwn1/cals|url-status=live}}
July 19
César Povolny, German-French association footballer (d. unknown){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Hans Maršálek, Austrian typesetter, political activist, detective and historian (d. 2011){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
John Kenneth Macalister, Canadian World War II hero (d. 1944){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 20
Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist (d. 2018){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Charilaos Florakis, Greek Communist leader (d. 2005){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Ersilio Tonini, Italian Cardinal (d. 2013){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 21
Pan Jin-yu, last remaining speaker of the Pazeh language of Taiwan (d. 2010){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Italian screenwriter and actress (d. 2010){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 22 – Charles Régnier, German actor, director, radio actor and translator (d. 2001){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 24
Frances Oldham Kelsey, American Food and Drug Administration reviewer (d. 2015){{cite book|title=American Men of Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yhtrAAAAMAAJ|year=1961|publisher=The Institute|page=357|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133122/https://books.google.com/books?id=yhtrAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
Ed Mirvish, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2007){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 27 – Gusti Huber, Austrian actress (d. 1993){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 30 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish president of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1999){{cite book|title=Who's who in European Institutions and Organizations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SsNgAAAAIAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Who's Who, the International Red Series Verlag GmbH|page=390|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133138/https://books.google.com/books?id=SsNgAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
July 31 – Louis de Funès, French comedy actor (d. 1983){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

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= August =

August 2 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (d. 2001){{cite news |first=Mel |last=Gussow |title=Beatrice Straight, Versatile Star, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/11/arts/beatrice-straight-versatile-star-dies-at-86.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 11, 2001 |access-date=2015-01-21 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413100117/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/11/arts/beatrice-straight-versatile-star-dies-at-86.html |url-status=live }}
August 8 – Yabing Masalon Dulo, Filipino textile master weaver and dyer (d. 2021){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 9
Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Tove Jansson, Finnish author (d. 2001){{cite book|author=St James Press|title=Reference Guide to Short Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6IRAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-334-7|page=276|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207133133/https://books.google.com/books?id=p6IRAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
August 10 – Ken Annakin, British film director (d. 2009){{cite news|title=Ken Annakin, 'Magnificent' Director, Dies at 94|first=Dennis|last=Hevesi|date=24 April 2009|access-date=27 April 2009|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/24annakin.html|archive-date=April 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417163706/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/24annakin.html|url-status=live}}
August 15 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer (d. 1996){{cite magazine |last=Behrens |first=Roy R. |title=Paul Rand |magazine=Print |date=September–October 1999 |page=68 ff}}
August 17 – Gabrielle Weidner, Belgian World War II heroine (d. 1945){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 19
Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, French politician, 95th Prime Minister of France (d. 1993){{cite book|title=NATO Letter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55EgAAAAMAAJ|year=1957|publisher=North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Information Division|page=3|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134117/https://books.google.com/books?id=55EgAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
Margaret Morgan Lawrence, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 2019){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 26 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984){{cite book|first=Ilan |last=Stavans|title=Julio Cortázar: A Study of the Short Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t91eAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-8293-6|page=7|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134130/https://books.google.com/books?id=t91eAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
August 30 – Julie Bishop, American actress (d. 2001){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= September =

September 1 – Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japanese photographer (d. 2022){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 5
Sor Isolina Ferré, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic nun (d. 2000){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Gail Kubik, American composer (d. 1984){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (d. 2018){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 7 – James Van Allen, American physicist (d. 2006){{cite book|first=Roger D. |last=Launius |title=Frontiers of Space Exploration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=evUP4glYmvEC&pg=PA113|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32524-3|page=113|access-date=April 19, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134600/https://books.google.com/books?id=evUP4glYmvEC&pg=PA113|url-status=live}}
September 10
Terence O'Neill, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 1990){{cite book|first=Jürgen |last=Elvert|title=Nordirland in Geschichte und Gegenwart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=29nrLLarIM0C&pg=PA184|year=1994|publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag|isbn=978-3-515-06102-5|page=184|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134641/https://books.google.com/books?id=29nrLLarIM0C&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Robert Wise, American film director and producer (d. 2005){{cite book|title=Chase's Calendar of Events 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRTJo8ptwDgC|date=September 2005|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=978-0-07-146110-8|page=469|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134642/https://books.google.com/books?id=sRTJo8ptwDgC|url-status=live}}
September 11 – Serbian Patriarch Pavle, (d. 2009){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 12
Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Janusz Żurakowski, Polish-born pilot (d. 2004){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 14 – Clayton Moore, American actor (The Lone Ranger) (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 15
Creighton Abrams, U.S. Vietnam War general (d. 1974){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Subandrio, Indonesian politician (d. 2004){{cite book|title=Tapol|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LH-6AAAAIAAJ|year=2004|publisher=Tapol, the British Campaign for the Release of Indonesian Political Prisoners|page=23|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134637/https://books.google.com/books?id=LH-6AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Jens Otto Krag, Danish politician, 18th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 1978){{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PoZAAAAYAAJ|year=1979|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=471|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134643/https://books.google.com/books?id=5PoZAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}
September 17 – Lambert Mascarenhas, Indian journalist (d. 2021){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 18
Jack Cardiff, British cinematographer, director and photographer (d. 2009){{cite book|first=Robert |last=Murphy|title=Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kgn8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT260|date=25 July 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-83871-532-8|page=260|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134645/https://books.google.com/books?id=Kgn8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT260#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
September 20 – Kenneth More, English actor (d. 1982){{cite book|first=Paul |last=Donnelley|title=Fade to Black: A Book of Movie Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7984-0|page=117|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134646/https://books.google.com/books?id=EmYcAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
September 23 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunei (d. 1986){{cite book|title=Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWkaAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=The Branch|page=27|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134605/https://books.google.com/books?id=CWkaAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
September 24 – John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991){{cite book|first=Richard |last=Hall|title=The Real John Kerr: His Brilliant Career|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iUYBAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Angus & Robertson|isbn=978-0-207-13791-4|page=13|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134637/https://books.google.com/books?id=iUYBAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
September 25 – Elena Lucena, Argentine film actress (d. 2015){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 26 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness, exercise and nutritional expert (d. 2011){{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124,0,5507436,full.story|title=Jack LaLanne obituary: Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement|last=Luther|first=Claudia|date=23 January 2011|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=24 January 2011|archive-date=March 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328010100/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124,0,5507436,full.story}}
September 27 – Sophie Sooäär, Estonian actress and singer (d. 1996){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= October =

October 1 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004){{cite book|author=United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration|title=Nomination of Daniel J. Boorstin of the District of Columbia to be Librarian of Congress: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1xkxPqahdooC&pg=PA24|year=1975|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=24|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134642/https://books.google.com/books?id=1xkxPqahdooC&pg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
October 6 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002){{cite book|author=United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oceans and Atmosphere|title=International Conference on Ocean Pollution: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HiUQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA42|year=1972|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=42|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134644/https://books.google.com/books?id=HiUQAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA42#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
October 7 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (d. 1974){{cite book|title=The Illustrated Weekly of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DaiaY75n24sC|year=1975|publisher=Published for the proprietors, Bennett, Coleman & Company, Limited, at the Times of India Press|page=39|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134621/https://books.google.com/books?id=DaiaY75n24sC|url-status=live}}
October 9 – Guy Charmot, French resistance fighter and doctor (d. 2019){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 10 – Agostino Straulino, Italian sailor and sailboat racer (d. 2004){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 14 – Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006){{cite book|first1=Robyn V. |last1=Young |first2=Suzanne |last2=Sessine|title=World of Chemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imU6AQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-3650-0|page=295|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134642/https://books.google.com/books?id=imU6AQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
October 15 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan (d. 2007){{cite book|title=Official Associated Press Almanac|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dVMnAQAAIAAJ|year=1970|publisher=New York Times, Book & Educational Division|page=544|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134644/https://books.google.com/books?id=dVMnAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
October 17 – Jerry Siegel, American comic book author (d. 1996){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 19 – Juanita Moore, African-American actress (d. 2014){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 20 – James C. Floyd, Canadian aerospace engineer{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 21 – Martin Gardner, American writer (d. 2010){{cite book|first=Clifford |last=Thompson|title=Current Biography Yearbook: 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aVpu5WHJxvsC|date=December 1999|publisher=Hw Wilson Company|isbn=978-0-8242-0988-9|page=217|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134608/https://books.google.com/books?id=aVpu5WHJxvsC|url-status=live}}
October 24 – František Čapek, Czechoslovakian canoeist (d. 2008){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 25 – John Berryman, American poet (d. 1972){{cite book|first=Thomas J. |last=Travisano|title=Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jY6TuWwWyk0C&pg=PA73|date=29 December 1999|publisher=University of Virginia Press|isbn=978-0-8139-2918-7|page=73|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207134603/https://books.google.com/books?id=jY6TuWwWyk0C&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
October 26 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (d. 1984){{cite book|first=Robyn |last=Karney|title=The Movie Stars Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKGeUPmWIlkC|year=1984|publisher=Crescent Books|isbn=978-0-517-43736-0|page=54|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135215/https://books.google.com/books?id=MKGeUPmWIlkC|url-status=live}}
October 27 – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (d. 1953){{cite book|first=Derek Cyril |last=Perkins|title=Dylan Thomas and His World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIBbAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Domino Books (Wales)|isbn=978-1-85772-160-7|page=13|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135105/https://books.google.com/books?id=rIBbAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
October 28
Jonas Salk, American medical scientist (d. 1995){{cite book|first1=Oren |last1=Harman|first2=Michael R. |last2=Dietrich|title=Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9A1uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83|date=20 July 2018|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-56990-1|page=83|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135104/https://books.google.com/books?id=9A1uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Richard Laurence Millington Synge, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994){{cite book |last=Shetty |first=Prabhakara H. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEy67gEvIuMC&pg=PA356 |title=Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, 1901-1992 |date=30 October 1993 |publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation |isbn=978-0-8412-2690-6 |editor-last=James |editor-first=Laylin K. |page=356 |chapter=Richard Laurence Millington Synge |access-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135104/https://books.google.com/books?id=jEy67gEvIuMC&pg=PA356#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}
October 30 – Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (d. 1987){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= November =

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November 1 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (d. 2006){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 2 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 8
George Dantzig, Polish-born American mathematician (d. 2005){{cite book|first=Michael |last=Olinick|title=An Introduction to Mathematical Models in the Social and Life Sciences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rgWPAAAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Addison-Wesley Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-201-05448-4|page=164|access-date=April 26, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135147/https://books.google.com/books?id=rgWPAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
Norman Lloyd, American actor, producer and director (d. 2021){{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2021/film/people-news/norman-lloyd-dead-st-elsewhere-saboteur-1234970920/|title=Norman Lloyd, Actor in 'St. Elsewhere' and Hitchcock's 'Saboteur,' Dies at 106|first1=Laura|last1=Haefner|date=May 11, 2021|access-date=May 12, 2021|archive-date=May 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511230407/https://variety.com/2021/film/people-news/norman-lloyd-dead-st-elsewhere-saboteur-1234970920/|url-status=live}}
Eileen Kramer, Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer (d. 2024){{Cite news |last=Nichols |first=Sam |date=2024-11-15 |title=Dance 'trailblazer', believed to be the oldest woman in NSW, dies aged 110 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-15/nsw-dancer-dies-age-110-eileen-kramer/104608440 |access-date=2024-11-15 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}
November 9 – Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (d. 2000){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 11
Howard Fast, American novelist and television writer (d. 2003){{cite book|first=Cleveland |last=Amory |title=International Celebrity Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bivTAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Celebrity Register|page=248}}
Yue Yiqin, Chinese flying ace (d. 1937){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 13
Alberto Lattuada, Italian film director (d. 2005){{cite book|first=Gian Luigi |last=Rondi|title=Italian Cinema Today: 1952-1965|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A39ZAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Dobson|page=120|access-date=May 2, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135108/https://books.google.com/books?id=A39ZAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (d. 2016){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 18 – William Phillips, New Zealand economist (d. 1975){{Cite web |last=Williams |first=C. J. |date=2017-06-09 |title=Bill Phillips, World-Changing Economist |url=https://www.nzedge.com/legends/bill-phillips/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=NZEDGE |language=en-US}}
November 21 – Abd al-Karim Qasim, Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of Iraq (d. 1963){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 25 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (d. 1999){{cite book|first=Lois |last=Sakany|title=Joe DiMaggio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rm4DGvZDovgC&pg=PA11|date=November 2002|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8239-3779-0|page=11|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135155/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rm4DGvZDovgC&pg=PA11|url-status=live}}

= December =

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December 9 – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 10 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d. 1996){{cite book|first=Cleveland |last=Amory|title=International Celebrity Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bivTAAAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Celebrity Register|page=420}}
December 11 – Gabriel Chiramel, Indian priest, zoologist and author (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 12 – Patrick O'Brian, British novelist (d. 2000){{cite book|author=Staff of The New York Public Library|title=The New York Public Library Literature Companion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BD2P-Yb-m3wC&pg=PT551|date=6 November 2001|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4391-3721-5|page=551|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135121/https://books.google.com/books?id=BD2P-Yb-m3wC&pg=PT551#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
December 13 – Larry Parks, American actor (d. 1975){{cite book|first1=Frank |last1=Cullen|first2=Florence |last2=Hackman|first3=Donald |last3=McNeilly|title=Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performances in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA432|year=2007|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-93853-2|page=432|access-date=April 16, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135618/https://books.google.com/books?id=XFnfnKg6BcAC&pg=PA432#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
December 14
Karl Carstens, German president (d. 1992){{cite book|first=Harris M. |last=Lentz|title=Heads of States and Governments Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA311|date=4 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26490-2|page=311|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135603/https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA311#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
Frane Milčinski, Slovene poet, satirist, comedian, actor, children's writer and director (d. 1988){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003){{cite book|first=Murray |last=Polner|title=American Jewish Biographies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gIl2AAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Facts on File, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-87196-462-5|page=445}}
December 15 – Anatole Abragam, French physicist (d. 2011){{cite book|title=Science Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AqkEAAAAIAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research|page=67|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135603/https://books.google.com/books?id=AqkEAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
December 20 – Charles McKimson, American animator (d. 1999){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 21 – Frank Fenner, Australian virologist and microbiologist (d. 2010){{cite book|title=The Australian Journal of Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_I7yAAAAMAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Australian National Research Council|page=254|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135619/https://books.google.com/books?id=_I7yAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
December 24 – Zoya Bulgakova, Russian Soviet stage actress (d. 2017){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
December 26 – Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008){{cite book|first1=Cleveland |last1=Amory|first2=Earl |last2=Blackwell|title=Celebrity Register|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CvTAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Simon and Schuster|page=656|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135701/https://books.google.com/books?id=3CvTAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
December 28 – Bidia Dandaron, Buddhist author and teacher in the USSR (d. 1974){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

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Makhosini Dlamini, 1st Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 1978){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Deaths

= January =

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January 8 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American soldier and politician, 30th governor of Kentucky (b. 1823){{cite book|author=Sons of the American Revolution|title=National Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ul8_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA98|year=1914|publisher=Sons of the American Revolution|page=98|access-date=April 20, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135704/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ul8_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA98#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
January 10 – Leonie Aviat, French Roman Catholic religious sister and saint (b. 1844){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 11 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer and patron of the arts (b. 1842){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 15 – Camilo Garcia de Polavieja, Spanish general (b. 1838){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 16 – Itō Sukeyuki, Japanese admiral (b. 1843){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 17 – Fernand Foureau, French explorer (b. 1850){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 19
Candelaria Figueredo, Cuban patriot (b. 1852){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Georges Picquart, French general and politician (b. 1854){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
January 26 – Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, Argentine Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1840){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= February =

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February 1 – Albert Günther, German-born British zoologist (b. 1830){{cite journal|author=M, WC|title=Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased. A. C. L. G. Günther, 1830–1914|volume=88|issue=608|year=1915|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B|pages=xi–xxvi|doi=10.1098/rspb.1915.0016|doi-access=free}}
February 4 – Per Pålsson, Swedish criminal (b. 1828){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 13 – Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer and forensic scientist (b. 1853){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 20 – Federico Degetau, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1862){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 24 – Joshua Chamberlain, American Civil War general (b. 1828){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
February 25 – Sir John Tenniel, English illustrator (b. 1820){{cite book|first=Diane |last=Telgen|title=Something about the Author|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a8nmnqDY_SkC|year=1993|publisher=Cengage Gale|isbn=978-0-8103-2284-4|page=232|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135710/https://books.google.com/books?id=a8nmnqDY_SkC|url-status=live}}

= March =

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March 1
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, British aristocrat and politician, 2-time Governor-General of Canada (b. 1845){{cite book|author=Grolier Incorporated|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFANAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7172-0130-3|page=213|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207135708/https://books.google.com/books?id=RFANAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
Carlos Felipe Morales, Dominican Roman Catholic priest, politician and military figure, 30th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1867){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 9 – José Luciano de Castro, Portuguese politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1834){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 12 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur (b. 1846){{cite book|author=American Society of Mechanical Engineers|title=Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cWdbAAAAMAAJ|year=1927|publisher=The Society|page=xcv}}
March 13
Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Indian Muslim scholar (b. 1841){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
María Tubau, Spanish actress (b. 1854){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 16
Gaston Calmette, French journalist, editor of Le Figaro (b. 1858){{cite book|first=Rudyard |last=Kipling |author-link=Rudyard Kipling|title=The Letters of Rudyard Kipling: 1911-19|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qC9wJMG0OBwC&pg=PA223|year=1990|publisher=University of Iowa Press|isbn=978-0-87745-657-5|page=223}}
Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843){{cite book|author=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|title=Minutes of the Meetings of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWstAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=The Endowment|page=176}}
March 18 – Andreas Beck, Norwegian explorer (b. 1864){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 19 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850){{cite news|title=Prof. G. Mercalli Burned To Death; Famous Director of Vesuvian Observatory Upsets Oil Lamp Upon Himself|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B16FD3A5B13738DDDA90A94DB405B848DF1D3|date=March 20, 1914|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-date=January 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200124051647/https://www.nytimes.com/1914/03/20/archives/prof-g-mercalli-burned-to-death-famous-director-of-vesuvian.html|url-status=live}}
March 22 – Allen Caperton Braxton, American lawyer (b. 1862){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 23 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese Maronite, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic nun and saint (b. 1832){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830){{cite book|title=Atlantic Brief Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hozoywf3AlEC|year=1971|page=532|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140715/https://books.google.com/books?id=Hozoywf3AlEC|url-status=live}}
March 31 – Christian Morgenstern, German poet and writer (b. 1871){{cite book|first=Guenther |last=Wachsmuth|title=The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner from the Turn of the Century to His Death|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWrYAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Whittier Books|isbn=978-0-89345-249-0|page=221|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140721/https://books.google.com/books?id=mWrYAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

= April =

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April 1 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1876){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 2 – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830){{cite book|author=John Parker|title=Who's who in the Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Pitman|page=1640|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207150922/https://books.google.com/books?id=M7tZAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}
April 7
Mohammad Ayyub Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1855){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Sui Sin Far, English-born writer (b. 1865){{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/eaton_edith_maud_14E.html|encyclopedia=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|access-date=30 July 2021|title=Eaton, Edith Maud|archive-date=July 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731003530/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/eaton_edith_maud_14E.html|url-status=live}}
April 9 – Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji of Japan (b. 1849){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 11 – Elena Guerra, Italian Roman Catholic religious professed and blessed (b. 1835){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 15 – Count Frederick of Hohenau (b. 1857){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 16
George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Jacinta Parejo, Venezuelan public figure, First Lady of Venezuela (b. 1845){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 19 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher (b. 1839){{cite journal |doi=10.1002/1520-6696(197407)10:3<291::AID-JHBS2300100304>3.0.CO;2-N |pmid=11609224 |title=Charles S. Peirce (1839–1914): The first American experimental psychologist |year=1974 |last=Cadwallader |first=Thomas C. |journal=Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=291–8 }}
April 24 – Benedict Menni, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1841){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 25 – Géza Fejérváry, 16th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1833){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 26 – Eduard Suess, Austrian geologist (b. 1831){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
April 28 – Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, French botanist (b. 1839){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= May =

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May 2 – John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, husband of Princess Louise of the United Kingdom (b. 1845){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 3 – Élisabeth Leseur, French Roman Catholic mystic and servant of God (b. 1866){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 8 – Seth Edulji Dinshaw, Indian Parsi philanthropist (b. 1842){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 9 – C. W. Post, American cereal manufacturer (b. 1854){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 10 – Lillian Nordica, American opera singer (b. 1857){{cite book|title=The Bay View Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VIkqAQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=J. M. Hall|page=467|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140823/https://books.google.com/books?id=VIkqAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
May 12 – Eugenio Montero Ríos, 29th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1832){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 15 – Ida Freund, Austrian-born British chemist and educator (b. 1863){{cite book|first1=Marelene F. |last1=Rayner-Canham|first2=Geoffrey |last2=Rayner-Canham|title=Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_NJ7AubQIcC&pg=PA61|year=1998|publisher=Chemical Heritage Foundation|isbn=978-0-941901-27-7|page=61|access-date=April 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140719/https://books.google.com/books?id=S_NJ7AubQIcC&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}
May 23 – William O'Connell Bradley, American politician from Kentucky (b. 1847){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 26 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American social reformer (b. 1849){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
May 27 – Sir Joseph Swan, British scientist (b. 1828){{cite book|author=Institution of Electrical Engineers|title=Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oshNdpQ3MrIC|year=1915|publisher=Institution of Electrical Engineers|page=722|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140719/https://books.google.com/books?id=oshNdpQ3MrIC|url-status=live}}
May 29 – Joseph Gérard, French Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1831){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= June =

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June 10 – Abraam, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox bishop and saint (b. 1829){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 11 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 14 – Adlai E. Stevenson I, 23rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1835){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 15 – John Robert Sitlington Sterrett, American classical scholar and archeologist (b. 1851){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 19 – Brandon Thomas, British actor and playwright (Charley's Aunt) (b. 1848){{cite book|first=Sir John Alexander |last=Hammerton|title=Concise Universal Biography: A Dictionary of the Famous Men and Women of All Countries and All Times...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BsXAQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-4209-5|page=1288}}
June 21 – Bertha von Suttner, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843){{cite book|title=New Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EclAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Information Centre of the World Peace Council|page=31|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140732/https://books.google.com/books?id=1EclAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
June 22 – Princess Phannarai, Thai princess consort (b. 1838){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 25 – Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1826){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
June 28 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand (b. 1863) and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (b. 1868), both assassinated{{cite book |last1=Snyder |first1=Timothy |title=The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe |date=27 May 2009 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4070-2080-8 |page=284 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jhHeeyp4d84C&pg=PA284 |language=en |access-date=March 18, 2023 |archive-date=October 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018232507/https://books.google.com/books?id=jhHeeyp4d84C&pg=PA284 |url-status=live }}

= July =

July 2 – Joseph Chamberlain, British politician (b. 1836){{cite book|first=Cuthbert William |last=Hill|title=Joseph Chamberlain: An Illustrated Life of Joseph Chamberlain, 1836-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_2UJAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Shire Publications|isbn=978-0-85263-174-4|page=45|access-date=April 17, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207140724/https://books.google.com/books?id=_2UJAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
July 6 – Georges Legagneux, pioneer French aviator (b. 1882){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 9 – Prince Gustav of Thurn and Taxis (b. 1848){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 12 – Horace Harmon Lurton, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1844){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 17 – Luis Uribe, Chilean naval hero (b. 1847){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 21 – Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-born Austrian jurist and politician (b. 1833){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 23 – Vladimir Meshchersky, Russian journalist and novelist (b. 1839){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 29 – Pietro Pace, Maltese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1831){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
July 31 – Jean Jaurès, French pacifist (assassinated) (b. 1859){{cite book|first=Hsi-Huey |last=Liang|title=The Rise of Modern Police and the European State System from Metternich to the Second World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lM1kTJKKa4oC&pg=PA205|date=11 July 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52287-8|page=205}}

= August =

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August 4 – Hubertine Auclert, French feminist (b. 1848){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 6
Maxim Sandovich, Russian Orthodox priest, martyr and saint (b. 1888){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady of the United States (b. 1860){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 8
Martin-Paul Samba, Cameroonian rebel leader (executed)
Rudolf Duala Manga Bell, Cameroonian resistance leader (executed){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 9 – Roque Sáenz Peña, 16th President of Argentina (b. 1851){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 12 – John Philip Holland, Irish developer of the submarine (b. 1840){{cite book|author=United States. Naval History Division|title=Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-hHAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA346|page=346}}
August 15 – Adolfo Carranza, Argentine lawyer (b. 1857){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 19 – Franz Xavier Wernz, Superior general of the Society of Jesus, (b. 1842){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 20 – Pope Pius X (b. 1835){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 22 – Daniel Mercier, French footballer and soldier (b. 1892){{Cite web |date=2025 |title=Fédération Française de Football: Daniel Mercier |url=https://www.fff.fr/equipe-nationale/joueur/7709-mercier-daniel/fiche.html |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.fff.fr}}
August 23
Prince Friedrich of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1861){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Robert Strange, American Episcopal bishop (b. 1857){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 26 – Achille Pierre Deffontaines, French general (died of wounds received in action) (b. 1858){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 27 – Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Austrian economist (b. 1851){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 28 – Leberecht Maass, German admiral (killed in action) (b. 1863){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
August 30 – Alexander Samsonov, Russian general (suicide) (b. 1859){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= September =

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September 3 – Albéric Magnard, French composer (b. 1865)
September 5 – Charles Péguy, French poet, essayist and editor (b. 1873){{cite book|title=PN Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bImRAAAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Department of English, University of Manchester|page=12}}
September 11
Mircea Demetriade, Romanian poet, playwright and actor (b. 1861)Rodica Zafiu, "Demetriade Mircea", in Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române, Vol. I, p. 471. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. {{ISBN|973-697-758-7}}
Ismail Gasprinski, Crimean Tatar intellectual (b. 1851){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 13 – Mostafa Fahmy Pasha, Egyptian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1840){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 14 – Nicolás Zamora, Filipino Methodist minister and bishop (b. 1875){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 15 – Koos de la Rey, Boer general (b. 1847){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 16 – C. X. Larrabee, American businessman (b. 1843){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 22 – Alain-Fournier, French writer (killed in action) (b. 1886){{cite book|first=Frank Northen |last=Magill|title=Cyclopedia of World Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMg3AAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-435-3|page=31}}
September 26 – August Macke, German painter (killed in action) (b. 1887){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
September 28 – Richard Warren Sears, American founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company (b. 1863){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= October =

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October 1 – Kitty Lange Kielland, Norwegian painter (b. 1843){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 10 – King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839){{cite book|first=Glenn E. |last=Torrey|title=Romania and World War I: A Collection of Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gDpnAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Center for Romanian Studies|isbn=978-973-98391-6-7|page=65}}
October 12 – Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia (b. 1892){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 16
Victor Arnold, Austrian actor (b. 1873){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Antonino Paternò Castello, Marchese di San Giuliano, Italian diplomat (b. 1852){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 17
Adolfo Saldias, Argentine historian, lawyer, politician, soldier and diplomat (b. 1849){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Prince Wolrad of Waldeck and Pyrmont (b. 1892){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 19 – Julio Argentino Roca, Argentine general and statesman, 2-Time President of Argentina (b. 1843){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 21 – Dimitrie Sturdza, 4-time Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1833){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 23 – José Evaristo Uriburu, Argentine politician, 12th President of Argentina (b. 1831){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 24 – Yevgeniya Mravina, Russian soprano (b. 1864){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 27 – Prince Maurice of Battenberg (b. 1891){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
October 28
Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (b. 1823){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
Federico Peliti, Italian baker (b. 1844){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

= November =

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November 1 – Sir Christopher Cradock, British admiral (killed in action) (b. 1862){{cite ODNB |last1=Halpern |first1=Paul G. |title=Cradock, Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice (1862–1914), naval officer {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32607 |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32607 |access-date=29 June 2019 |language=en}}
November 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (suicide) (b. 1887){{Cite book |title=Austrian Information |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YC4iAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA2 |year=1987 |publisher=Information Department of the Austrian Consulate General |page=6}}
November 5 – August Weismann, German evolutionary biologist (b. 1834){{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuFGAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA19-PA28|year=1915|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=19}}
November 9 – Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1836){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 14 – Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British field marshal (b. 1832){{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/580/ |title = Rugby Union Footballers are Doing their Duty. Over 90% Have Enlisted. British Athletes! Will You Follow this Glorious Example? |website = World Digital Library |year = 1915 |access-date = 2013-10-27 |archive-date = October 29, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191926/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/580/ |url-status = live }}
November 17 – Sattar Khan, Iranian constitutional reformer and national hero (b. 1866){{cite book |first=Houri |last=Berberian |title=Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911: 'The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland' |publisher=Westview Press |year=2001 |page=154}}
November 21 – Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician (b. 1832){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
November 28 – Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, German physicist (b. 1824){{cite book|author=Chemical Society (Great Britain)|title=Journal of the Chemical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FO44AAAAMAAJ|year=1915|publisher=The Society|page=582|access-date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207141253/https://books.google.com/books?id=FO44AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

= December =

December 1 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, United States Navy admiral, geostrategist and historian (b. 1840){{cite book|first=Theodore |last=Roosevelt |author-link=Theodore Roosevelt |title=1914-1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1euAAAAIAAJ|year=1954|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=861|access-date=May 1, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207141254/https://books.google.com/books?id=y1euAAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}
December 8 – Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (killed in action) (b. 1861){{cite book|first1=Adolf |last1=Hitler |author-link1=Adolf Hitler |first2=Max |last2=Domarus|title=Speeches and Proclamations, 1932-1945: The years 1939 to 1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GF4TAQAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Bolchazy-Carducci|isbn=978-0-86516-230-3|page=2285|access-date=May 1, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207141307/https://books.google.com/books?id=GF4TAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
December 14 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1841){{cite book|title=Modern Music and Musicians for Vocalists: Opera and oratorio excerpts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qV_kAAAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=University Society|page=653|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207141254/https://books.google.com/books?id=qV_kAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
December 16 – Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (b. 1832){{cite book|title=New Zealand Slavonic Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vfTAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Department of Russian, Victoria University of Wellington|page=7|access-date=April 15, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207141309/https://books.google.com/books?id=2vfTAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
December 24 – John Muir, American naturalist (b. 1838){{cite news| title=Obituary: John Muir| url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0421.html| author=this Day| access-date=April 23, 2007| work=The New York Times| archive-date=May 9, 2006| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060509011222/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0421.html| url-status=live}}

= Date unknown =

Jehandad Khan, Afghan emir (executed){{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

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References

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[https://archive.org/details/NewInternationalYearBookFor1914 New International Year Book 1914], Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 913pp

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[http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers/search?query=&decade=1910-1919&year=1914 European newspapers from 1914]

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