About the day » Friday May 1, 1914Calender converter

• Adriana Maria GOMMERS, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Antien Jagt, Assen († 2000)
• Anna Steltenpool, Wervershoof, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Adriana Maria Gommers, Princenhage († 1996)
• Alphonse Seegers, Maastricht († 1914)
• Anna Leijden van Amstel Franco, Koenigsstule, Germany († 1914)
• Alan V. TANGEN, Muscatine (US/IA) († 2002)
• Alphons Ludovicus Josephus Smedts, Edegem, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België († 1914)
• Aaltje Bos, Edewechterdamm, Niedersachsen, Duitsland († 1917)
• Hakkens, Duizel

• Aike Geerts Nabring (82), Zuidhorn
• Aafje KLEIJNE (33), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aike Nabring (82), Zuidhorn, Groningen, Nederland
• Alphonse Seegers (0), Maastricht
• Barbara van Vliet (82), Hillegersberg, Nederland
• Arie de Lange (73), Oudewater (UTR) The Netherlands
• Abraham van Rijn (63), Wateringen, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Schrijvers (64), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Betje Hijmans (74), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria LANGENUS (80)

• 1911 » Wilfred Watson, English-Canadian poet, playwright and educator († 1998)
• 1912 » Otto Kretschmer, German admiral († 1998)
• 1913 » Louis Nye, American actor († 2005)
• 1913 » Walter Susskind, Czech-English pianist, conductor, and educator († 1980)
• 1914 » Jaap van der Poll, Dutch javelin thrower († 2010)
• 1915 » Hanns Martin Schleyer, German businessman († 1977)
• 1916 » Antoni Bazaniak, Polish sprint canoeist († 1979)
• 1916 » Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer († 2006)
• 1917 » John Beradino, American baseball player and actor († 1996)
• 1917 » Ulric Cross, Trinidadian navigator, judge, and diplomat († 2013)

• 1873 » David Livingstone, Scottish-English missionary and explorer (b. 1813)
• 1899 » Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist and physician (b. 1824)
• 1904 » Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (b. 1841)
• 1913 » John Barclay Armstrong, American lieutenant (b. 1850)
• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
• 1953 » Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator (b. 1876)

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.
• April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
• July 23 » Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
• September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
• October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
• 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 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

The temperature on May 1, 1914 was between 3.6 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.