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• Aaltje Doorn, Ruinen († 1995)
• Allegonda Johanna Maria Groenewegen, Bleiswijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Louise Marie Dammel, Geraldine, Chouteau County, Montana († 2013)
• andries Mauer, domburg (z)
• Albert Yvon Rousseau, Courtois-sur-Yonne, 89100, Yonne, Bourgogne, France († 1983)
• Adrianus LEEUWENBURG, Heinenoord
• Aleida Christina Bosch († 1944)
• Adolf Joseph Wilhelm Sarholz, Köln-Vingst († 1944)
• Anna Maria Antonia van den Biggelaar, Sint-Oedenrode
• Adriana Susanna Olifiers, Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)

• Adriana Wagman (76), Stompwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• August_Johan_Willem Lochmann_van_Bennekom (47), Amsterdam
• Andries Bernardus Cornelis Kemmer (11), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alonzo Frederick Sampson (82), Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Elisabeth Hubertine (Anna Elisabeth Hubertina) ZINK (79), Montzen-Plombières, Province de Liège, Belgique
• August Frederick Manche (0), S'Hertogenbosch
• Adrianus Maria Nooijen (0), Sint-Oedenrode, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Albertine Emilie Hörmann (62), Utrecht
• Carolina Anthonetta Theodora van Hunnik (0), Ede, Nederland
• Arnoldus van Gelder (60), utrecht (utrecht)

• 1910 » John Wooden, American basketball player and coach († 2010)
• 1911 » Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1990)
• 1914 » Alexis Rannit, Estonian poet and critic († 1985)
• 1914 » Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach († 2004)
• 1914 » Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2006)
• 1915 » Loris Francesco Capovilla, Italian cardinal († 2016)
• 1916 » C. Everett Koop, American admiral and surgeon, 13th United States Surgeon General († 2013)
• 1918 » Doug Ring, Australian cricketer and sportscaster († 2003)
• 1918 » Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist, journalist, and politician († 1991)
• 1918 » Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain († 2015)

• 1911 » John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1833)
• 1923 » Marcellus Emants, Dutch-Swiss author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1929 » Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader (b. 1844)
• 1930 » Samuel van Houten, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (b. 1837)
• 1942 » Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Sobibór uprising:
• 1944 » Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1953 » Émile Sarrade, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1877)
• 1953 » Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Douglas Mawson, Australian geologist, academic, and explorer (b. 1882)

• 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.
• January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
• April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
• June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
• August 15 » World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
• November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
• December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.

The temperature on October 14, 1914 was between 10.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.