About the day » Tuesday March 24, 1914Calender converter

• Andre Nikola-Smith, Kingston, Surrey († 2010)
• Alida B.J. Nöhr, 's-Gravenhage († 2001)
• Alonzo Joseph Holmes, Michigan († 1958)
• Abraham Anthonie de Winter, 's-Gravenhage
• Anna Elizabeth Julianna Hanekamp, Veendam († 2000)
• Albertha Hindrikje { Bertha } Zuidema, Bellingwolde († 1941)
• Alida Johanna Koopmanschap, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Alga Ward Taylor, Missouri († 2001)
• Aart Beijer, Goudswaard († 1993)
• Bethlehem, Hemrik, Friesland, Nederland († 1914)

• Anna Gardina Bensink (76), Spankeren (Rheden)
• Anna Gerardina de Kret (88), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Gerdina Bensink (76), Spankeren (Rheden)
• Albert Mulder (57), Banda Neira, Indonesië
• Adriaan van den Bosch (84), Sint-Michielsgestel, NL
• Anna Gerdina Bensink (76), Spankeren
• Abelina van der Laan (0), Nieuw Buinen
• Anna Arink (55), Oegstgeest
• Antonia Grada Frieling (1), Rheden, Nederland
• Bethlehem (0), Hemrik, Friesland, Nederland

• 1909 » Clyde Barrow, American criminal († 1934)
• 1909 » Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Pastor and Evangelist († 2001)
• 1910 » Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director († 1975)
• 1911 » Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera († 2006)
• 1912 » Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist († 2010)
• 1915 » Eugène Martin, French racing driver († 2006)
• 1916 » Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author († 2006)
• 1916 » Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic († 2010)
• 1917 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1997)
• 1919 » Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore

• 1887 » Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 » Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
• 1909 » John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
• 1915 » Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1915 » Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1944 » Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)

• 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.
• May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
• 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 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
• August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
• November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
• December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

The temperature on March 24, 1914 was between 5.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.