About the day » Saturday October 24, 1914Calender converter

• Alida Wilhelmina Rietbroek, Den Haag, Nederland († 1915)
• Aart van de MEER, bruchem († 1981)
• "Gonzalo" Manuel María Bernardo Narciso Alfonso Mauricio de Borbón, Madrid († 1934)
• Albertus Emilius Van Uffel, Oostmalle (B)
• Albertus Sijken, Beilen
• Aleida Anthonia van Binsbergen († 1997)
• Anna Jane Louise Marie van Vredenburch, Tholen,Gemeente Tholen,Zeeland,Netherlands,huis Buitenzorg
• Adriana Antonia le Ruet (Leruet), 's-Hertogenbosch († 2007)
• Adriana Maria Catharina Mol, Oudenbosch (Halderberge) (Noord-Brabant) († 1915)
• Adriana Hekkert, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1992)

• Albertus Kamerling (68), Almelo
• * Arendina Paulussen (Arendje) Dijkshoorn (80), Schiedam
• Antonia Zuijderveldt (89), Heusden
• AART BERKOUWER (78), NIEUW-LEKKERLAND
• Anna Theresia HANNES (77), Mol Belgie
• Arend Tuinema (19), Slochteren
• Aaltien Bathoorn (69), Zuidlaren, Nederland
• Amanda Harrison Britton (74), Brownwood, Brown County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Anna ter Voor (72), Groningen
• Aaltien Bathoorn (69), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1912 » Murray Golden, American television director († 1991)
• 1912 » Peter Gellhorn, German conductor (music) († 2004)
• 1912 » Silviu Bindea, Romanian footballer († 1992)
• 1913 » Tito Gobbi, Italian actor and singer († 1984)
• 1914 » Charles Craig Cannon, American colonel († 1992)
• 1914 » František Čapek, Czechoslovakian canoeist († 2008)
• 1914 » Lakshmi Sahgal, Indian Independence movement revolutionary and Officer of Indian National Army († 2012)
• 1915 » Bob Kane, American author and illustrator († 1998)
• 1915 » Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author († 1988)
• 1916 » Anne Sharp, Scottish soprano and actress († 2011)

• 1898 » Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 » James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1922 » George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 » Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 » Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)

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. Adriana
9. Catharina
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.
• August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
• August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
• October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
• November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
• November 1 » World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific, with the loss of HMSGood Hope and HMSMonmouth.
• November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

The temperature on October 24, 1914 was between 6.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.