About the day » Wednesday March 11, 1914Calender converter

• Aaltje Schoorstra, Ternaard, Westdongeradeel, FRI, Nederland († 2005)
• Adrianus Albertus Meulendijks, Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Aart Martinus Cornelis Hak, Schoonhoven († 1969)
• van Holsteijn, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1914)
• Ada Pauline Swope, Pleasant Ridge, Licking Creek Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania († 1998)
• Albertus Soeter, Zevenaar († 1965)
• Aart Hak, Schoonhoven, Gemeente Krimpenerwaard, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1969)
• Klaas Gorter, Zutphen
• Adriana Cornelia Aarden, Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1997)
• Alexander Lambert Hood († 1999)

• Alfred Brower (77)
• Albert Joukes Kromkamp (68), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana van der Vlies (24), Dordrecht
• Anna S Boswell Harris (71), Marietta, Washington, Ohio
• Adriaan van Vessem (36), West Sayville, Suffolk, NY
• Agnes Irene Holmes (0), Christian, Missouri, United States
• Aris Kruiten (75), Amsterdam
• Anna S Boswell (71), Marietta, Washington, Ohio, United States
• Adrianus Marie Kooijmans (0), Delft
• Aaltje van der Woude (69)

• 1907 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer († 1981)
• 1908 » Matti Sippala, Finnish javelin thrower († 1997)
• 1910 » Robert Havemann, German chemist and academic († 1982)
• 1911 » Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet, Egyptian-Scottish general and politician († 1996)
• 1913 » Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke, German colonel and pilot († 1944)
• 1915 » J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and psychologist († 1990)
• 1915 » Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer († 2004)
• 1916 » Ezra Jack Keats, American author and illustrator († 1983)
• 1916 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)
• 1920 » Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)

• 1898 » Tigran Chukhajian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1898 » William Rosecrans, American general and politician (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Jean Casimir-Perier, French lawyer and politician, 6th President of France (b. 1847)
• 1908 » Benjamin Waugh, American minister and activist (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Edmondo De Amicis, Italian journalist and author (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Thomas Alexander Browne, English-Australian author (b. 1826)
• 1920 » Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician, and engineer (b. 1865)
• 1927 » Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport (b. 1869)
• 1931 » F. W. Murnau, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1937 » Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (b. 1860)

• 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.
• April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
• April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
• May 25 » The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
• May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
• August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
• November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.

The average temperature on March 11, 1914 was 2.3 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.