1914: The Year in People

The Greatest Generation · Year of the Tiger 🐅 · Born in 1914 turn 112 in 2026

The year in numbers

US president

Woodrow Wilson

In the news: World War I begins

What happened in 1914

1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1914, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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Born in 1914

84 people in our data · most viewed first

Alec Guinness

1914–2000 · April 2

English actor

Dylan Thomas

1914–1953 · October 27

Welsh poet and writer

Beatrice Straight

1914–2001 · August 2

American actress

Bill Owen (actor)

1914–1999 · March 14

English actor

Marguerite Duras

1914–1996 · April 4

French writer and film director

Edmund Muskie

1914–1996 · March 28

American statesman and politician

David Wayne

1914–1995 · January 30

American actor

Bill Finger

1914–1974 · February 8

American comics writer

Eddie Chapman

1914–1997 · November 16

Double agent for Britain during WW2

Arthur Kennedy

1914–1990 · February 17

American actor

B. R. Chopra

1914–2008 · April 22

Indian film director

Billy Tipton

1914–1989 · December 29

American jazz musician

Betty Lou Gerson

1914–1999 · April 20

American actress

J. Lee Thompson

1914–2002 · August 1

British film director

Aribert Heim

1914–1992 · June 28

Austrian SS doctor

Frances Oldham Kelsey

1914–2015 · July 24

Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist

Bill Erwin

1914–2010 · December 2

American actor

Billy Eckstine

1914–1993 · July 8

American jazz singer and bandleader

Allen Funt

1914–1999 · September 16

American television producer

Carlos Castillo Armas

1914–1957 · November 4

President of Guatemala from 1954 to 1957

Alan Cranston

1914–2000 · June 19

American politician and journalist

Bernard Malamud

1914–1986 · April 26

American writer

Budd Schulberg

1914–2009 · March 27

American writer

Begum Akhtar

1914–1974 · October 7

Indian singer and actress

Died in 1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria1863–1914 · Austrian archduke
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914 · American writer (1842 – c. 1914)
Pope Pius X1835–1914 · Head of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914
Carol I of Romania1839–1914 · Monarch of Romania from 1866 to 1914
Adlai Stevenson I1835–1914 · Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
Alfred Thayer Mahan1840–1914 · American naval officer, historian
C. W. Post1854–1914 · American businessman
Jacob Riis1849–1914 · American photographer, journalist and activist
Bertha von Suttner1843–1914 · Austrian novelist and pacifist
Georg Trakl1887–1914 · Austrian poet
Charles Péguy1873–1914 · French poet, essayist, and editor
August Macke1887–1914 · German painter