About the day » Saturday May 23, 1914Calender converter

• Age Klaas Theodorus Zijlemaker, Amsterdam († 1976)
• A.P. Kuijer, Soest († 1998)
• * Jeanette van Naamen, Rotterdam († 1997)
• Albert Dick, Holt, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• Alphons Hermanus Antonius Segers, Gilze en Rijen († 1962)
• Antje Miedema, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1984)
• Aleida Suzanna Schütz, Borbeck (D) († 2008)
• Achiel SEGERS, Wetteren,9230,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1973)
• "Gilberte" Hélène Marie Jeanne Boulard de Gatellier, château de Béost, Vonnas, Ain, France († 1993)
• Alexander Gigmanovsky, Tbilissi, Géorgie († 1987)

• Albertus Johannes Zalm (61), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Johanna Maria Petronella Kruijssen (1), Tilburg
• Andrew Cumming (56), Cape Province, South Africa
• Adriaantje van der Waal, Zuid-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Adolf LANGKEMPER (65), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Alida Huizing (15), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andelia Rodriguez (0), Monclova, Coahuila, México
• Alida Eikelenboom (65), Langerak, 7917, Nederland
• Aartje Hoedemaker (39), Abcoude-Proosdij,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Hoekstra (71), Bennebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1911 » Betty Nuthall, English tennis player († 1983)
• 1911 » Lou Brouillard, Canadian boxer († 1984)
• 1911 » Paul Augustin Mayer, German cardinal († 2010)
• 1912 » Jean Françaix, French pianist and composer († 1997)
• 1912 » John Payne, American actor († 1989)
• 1914 » Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson († 1981)
• 1914 » Celestine Sibley, American journalist and author († 1999)
• 1914 » Harold Hitchcock, English visionary landscape artist († 2009)
• 1915 » S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare († 2014)
• 1917 » Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist († 2008)

• 1893 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 » Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1906 » Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian director, playwright, and poet (b. 1828)
• 1908 » François Coppée, French poet and author (b. 1842)
• 1920 » Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1856)
• 1921 » August Nilsson, Swedish shot putter and tug of war competitor (b. 1872)
• 1934 » Bonnie Parker, American criminal (b. 1910)
• 1934 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909)
• 1934 » Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1860)
• 1937 » John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (b. 1839)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Adrianus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Wilhelmus
15. Arie
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• 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.
• June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
• August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
• October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
• October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.
• December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

The temperature on May 23, 1914 was between 11.1 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.