About the day » Monday August 3, 1914Calender converter

• Alice McCaughey, Ballymacan, Fivemiletown, Clogher, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland
• Agatha, Johanna, Leontine VERNELE, Langdorp,3201,Vlaams-Brabant,Bra, België († 2003)
• Anna Angela Koop († 1972)
• Alice Rose Mount, New York City (New York County) (New York Colony) († 1994)
• Adriaan Kop, Sliedrecht († 1999)
• Alida Boele, Bergambacht
• Amy Georgina Franklin, Poplar, London († 2002)
• Anna Catharina Cornelissen, Helden
• Adriana Maria van Gils, Halsteren
• Albert Lindsey Sims, Jasper County,MS († 1915)

• Charles Antoine Quirin Gerken (55), Rozendaal,Gemeente Rozendaal,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Charles Gillitt (65), Northampshire, England
• Spelbrink (0), Muntendam, 9649, Netherlands
• Anna Fredrika (A) Deetlefs (65), East London, South Africa
• Clyde Bennett (2), Brunswick County, North Carolina
• Anna Maria Vanmechelen (71), Zepperen, België
• Baukje Hendriks Slofstra (85), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Booijink (77), Mander
• Shupe (59), Welland, Niagara, Ontario, Canada
• Anna Suijkerbuijk (76), Roosendaal en Nispen

• 1911 » Alex McCrindle, Scottish actor and producer († 1990)
• 1912 » Fritz Hellwig, German politician († 2017)
• 1913 » Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-American screenwriter and producer († 2007)
• 1916 » José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager († 1978)
• 1916 » Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and songwriter († 1970)
• 1917 » Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader († 1995)
• 1918 » Eddie Jefferson, American singer-songwriter († 1979)
• 1918 » James MacGregor Burns, American historian, political scientist, and author († 2014)
• 1918 » Larry Haines, American actor († 2008)
• 1918 » Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist († 1999)

• 1894 » George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)
• 1913 » William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)

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. Catharina
9. Adriana
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.
• January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
• April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
• June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
• September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
• 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.

The temperature on August 3, 1914 was between 11.0 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.